These books are incorporated in our Changemaker Library. All of the books used are the choices of Changemaker without solicitation from any author or publisher. We include the title of the book, the author, the ISBN number, and an Amazon link if you choose to order the books yourself.

The following books are about personal development:

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9

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Adult Children of Alcoholics

Janet Geringer Woititz

ISBN 1-55874-112-7

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Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips From a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life

Talane Miedaner

ISBN 0-8092-2537-9

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Journal to the Self: Twenty-two Paths to Personal Growth

Kathleen Adams

ISBN 0-446-39038-0

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Keep Your Paycheck, Live Your Passion

Erika Welz Prafder and Carole Sovocool

ISBN 1-59337-264-7

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The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-day Program to

Cleanse Your Mind, Life Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

Hugh Prather

ISBN 157324-503-8

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Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Jeff Jay and Debra Jay

ISBN 1-56838-521-8

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More Language of Letting Go

Melody Beattie

ISBN 978-1-56838-558-7

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Naomi’s Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life

Naomi Judd

ISBN 0-7432-3663

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The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart (Companion to The Artist’s Way)

Julia Cameron

ISBN 0-87477-836-0

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What to Do With the Rest of Your Life: America’s Top Career Coach Shows You How to Find or Create the Job You’ll Love

Robin Ryan

ISBN 0-7432-2450-7

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What to Do With the Rest of Your Life: America’s Top Career Coach Shows You How to Find or Create the Job You’ll Love

Robin Ryan

ISBN 0-7432-2450-7

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In the preface, Robin Ryan write that she has worked with thousands of clients during her years as a career coach and she saw them experience a lot of circumstances or reasons for wanting things better.

The contents of this book are:

Part 1 Figuring It Out

Chapter 1 Define your passion

Why change?

The hottest, fastest growing career fields

Our identities and our careers

Chapter 2 Identify your best skills, values, and interests

Skills identification

Values assessment

Blending your career with a family

Interests

Creating your professional profile and new direction

Chapter 3 Determine your ideal job and workplace

Is business ownership for you?

Your future

Define your ideal job look before you leap

Putting it all together

Career killers to avoid

Part 2 Moving On

Chapter 4 Hire me—strategic ways to land a great job

Know where to look

Job-hunting strategies

Tapping into the hidden job market

Is a company’s culture the right fit for you?

Relocation—how to find a job when you tag along

Summary

Chapter 5 Launching a business

Key mistakes to avoid in running a business

Start-up options

How to start a business while you still work full-time

Turn a hobby into a career

Where does the start-up money come from?

Running a business

Now it’s your turn

Chapter 6 Getting paid well for what you do

Salary negotiations

Why women are still paid less than men

Determine your competitive salary worth

Conclusion

Part 3 Staying Put

Chapter 7 CEOS and top executives reveal how to get promoted

Survey results

Technical competence and more

Network…network…network

CEOS reveal what it takes to get to the top

Increase your competitive advantage with these tools

Moving into management

When the best way to get ahead is to move on

Making the most of your current job

Summary

Chapter 8 Get that raise!

Worst ways of asking for a raise

Where the biggest raises come from

The secrets for getting that raise

When the answer is no

Chapter 9 Moving your business to the next level

Getting business to come to you

More effective marketing strategies

On becoming an authority

Make money off your website

Publicity—how to get your name in the news

Free up time to make more

Strategies for setting business fees and prices for products or services

Learn business skills from business experts

Summary

Part 4 Conclusion: Go for It!

Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips From a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life

Talane Miedaner

ISBN 0-8092-2537-9

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“Coach Yourself to Success is divided into ten parts that build on each other in natural progression. Each part contains 10 tips that you don’t necessarily have to do in order.”

“In Part I you will learn to increase your natural power by getting rid of the major energy frains in your life and putting in some positive energy boosters”

“In Part II you will learn to make space for the new things you want in your life. Excess “stuff” reduces your ability to attract success. Nature abhors a vacuum so if you want something new in your life, you have to create the space for it.”

“In Part III addresses money. Why work for money when you can learn to make money work for you? This is where you will begin to tell the truth about money, plug the money drain in your life, and get on the path toward financial independence so that within ten to twenty years you won’t have to work for a living. Most people get by on just enough money. If you want to be effortlessly successful you need more than enough money.”

“In Part IV, Talane shares some secrets of creating time. You will learn to focus on what is truly important and eliminate the chronic time wasters that devour our lives before we know it. This creates a sense of balance and control in your life.”

In Part V you will learn how to develop a supportive network of friends, colleagues, and mentors. You will also identify and find ways to satisfy emotional needs that may have been unconsciously driving your behavior and choice of friends.

In Part VI you will discover what really turns you on in life and learn how to make the smooth transition to doing exactly that without financial risk.

In Part VII you will learn how to become exceptionally efficient, productive, and effective.

In Part VIII you will learn the art of listening profoundly. Successful people usually have one key trait in common: they have learned how to communicate with power, grace, and style.

In Part IX you will be ready to start care of your number one asset: YOU. Here you will learn how to eliminate unnecessary stress, banish burnout, and surround yourself with luxury. Now is the time to pamper yourself and surround yourself with luxury.

In Part X you will strengthen the key characteristics of success. This part is not about doing things; it is about a way of being.