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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A Soulworker’s Companion: A Year of Spirituality Discovery

Betty Clare Moffatt

ISBN 1-885171-11-0

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From Using Soulwork:
“This book is meant to be a companion to you along your soul’s journey. The heartfelt personal stories are designed to help you access your own inner story, your own connections to Spirit. It is your book. These are your soul qualities. You can approach it in an orderly fashion, working through each week of the year. Or you can dip into this book at random, allowing your inner self to guide you to what you need next in your soul’s progress. You can write it, question it, ruminate in it, and memorize its passages. You can use it as a daybook, or start all over with it the following year. This book is a gentle companion, a fellow traveler, a friendly explorer.”

The main body of the book is divided into 52 weeks. Each week uses one of the following subjects for the year.

Acceptance, action, balance, clarity, cleanliness, compassion, congruency, courage, creativity,devotion, endurance, enthusiasm, faith, fidelity, flexibility, forgiveness, frugality, generosity, gentleness, goodness, gratitude, harmony, honesty,

hope, integrity, intuition, joy, kindness, learning, love, nobility, patience, peace, perseverance, power, receiving, resilience, respectfulness, responsibility,

self-discipline, self-reliance, serenity, service, simplicity, solitude, talents, tenderness, tolerance, trust, will, wisdom.

A part of one of the chapters: from the chapter about forgiveness:

“Seven Steps to Forgiveness:

1) Recognition and acknowledgment

We recognize a problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that alerts us to the need to forgive. We acknowledge the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that needs forgiveness.

2) Desire, definition, and decision

We desire to forgive. We define the parameters of the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion. We then make a clear and conscious decision to forgive.

3) Meditation and prayer

We go within and with prayerful inquiry and an open, receptive mind, we ask for truth, help, and guidance in the forgiveness situation. We ask how best to proceed to heal the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion requiring forgiveness.

4) Inner and outer action

We act on the guidance we have received in prayer and meditation. We do what needs to be done to clear up the problem, (etc) that requires forgiveness.

5) Surrender and release

After taking appropriate action in the outer world, we release the

Entire the entire situation into the hands of our Creator. We ask for

Highest good of all concerned. We ask, “Thy will, not mine, be

done.”

6) Understanding and awareness

We look for an increased understanding of the dynamics that led to the problem, (etc) that required our forgiveness. We look for the spiritual lesson. We determine to go forward in forgiveness with

Increased awareness.

7) Healing and change

We accept that the situation has now changed. We accept that the lesson has been learned. We choose to look at the situation, and the world differently. We welcome healing and change through the process of forgiveness. We allow the energy of healing and change to spill over into other areas of our lives. We are changed. We give thanks.

Then, several questions for this subject are given. Also a quotation relating to the subject is included:

“Allow yourself to pray. Just as the many times human beings find themselves in circumstances where the hurt or the pain is so great that on their own power they cannot forgive, it is enough that they pray to be given the grace, the perception, the elevated Light that will allow them to forgive.” Gary Zukav (Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul)

Keep Your Paycheck, Live Your Passion

Erika Welz Prafder and Carole Sovocool

The subtitle for this book, “how to fulfill your dream without having to quit your day job”, defines the premise of this book. Few of us can afford to live without steady income.

According to the authors: “First of all, if you don’t believe in yourself, your talent, your dreams, then forget about it. The person who believes has no questions. The person who doesn’t believe has no answers. The alternative to not keeping your creativity alive is to have your soul slowly disintegrate with time. It may take a fair amount of soul searching to identify the obstacles that prevent you from realizing your dreams. Some people coast through life with one finger on the snooze button. It takes less work to suppress your innermost creative aspirations and dreams than it doe to respond to a wake-up call from your heart.”

The book has many short passages about people who have had the courage to live their dreams. Most of the passages include the defining moment from the person’s life that influenced him/her to follow the dream. These passages are entitled “Living the Dream”.

In chapter 10, “Discovering Your True Calling”, the authors use the John Holland codes to define choice of vocation to match individual interests. Definitions for each of the 6 Holland types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional are given.

A short survey to find traits is included. The authors suggest having others close to you give suggestions also to how they see you.