Recommended Books:
Careers, Changing Careers and Work
Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector by Laura Gassner Otting
Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
Falling Awake: Creating the Life of Your Dreams by Dave Ellis
In Transition: From the Harvard Business School Club of New York’s Career Management Seminar by Mary Lindley Burton, Richard A. Wedemeyer
Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest by Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan
A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do by Thomas Moore
Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction by Laura Berman Fortgang
Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1Million +: Your Insider’s Lifetime Guide to Executive Job-Changing and Faster Career Progress in the 21st Century, by John Lucht.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles
What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want by Barbara Sher
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra
Job Loss
The Job-Loss Recovery Guide: A Proven Program for getting Back to Work—Fast! By Lynn Joseph, PH.D.
Leadership
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins
Leader Effectiveness Training L.E.T.: The Proven People Skills for Today’s Leaders Tomorrow by Dr. Thomas Gordon.
Nuts! Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg
Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Resonant Leadership by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.
Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys in Work and Life by Linda K. Stroh, Ph.D.
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Became Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors that Can Derail Your Climb to the Top-and How to Manage Them by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo.
Getting out of Your Own Way
Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss
The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters by Peter Block
Authentic Happiness by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Anthony Robbins
Face Your Fear: Living with Courage in an Age of Caution by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money by Ted Klontz, Ph.D.; Rick Kahler, CFP; and Brad Klontz, Psy.D.
The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman
Living Your Best Life: 10 Strategies for Getting From Where You are to Where You’re Meant to Be by Laura Berman Fortgang
Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change your Life by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell
Making Your Dreams Come True by Marcia Wieder
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within by Byron Brown
Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly simple Method for Getting out of Your Own Way by Rick Carson
The Third Age: Six Principles for Personal Growth and Rejuvenation after Forty by William A. Sadler, Ph.D.
The Trance of Scarcity by Victoria Castle.
When I say No, I Feel Guilty by Manuel J. Smith, Ph.D.
MBTI
The Art of SpeedReading People: How to Size People Up and Speak their Language by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers
Meditation and Consciousness
Five Good Minutes in Your Body: 100 Mindful practices to help you accept yourself and feel at home in your body by Jeffrey Brantley, MD and Wendy Millstine, NC
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less by Guy Claxton
Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation for Energy, Clarity, Peace, Joy and Inner Power by Puran Khan Bair
Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley; with a Foreward by the Dalai Lama and Preface by Daniel Goleman
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Visualizations
30 Scripts for Relaxation Imagery & Inner Healing, edited by Julie T. Lusk.
Guided Imagery for Groups: Fifty Visualizations that Promote Relaxation, Problem-Solving, Creativity, and Well-Being by Andrew E. Schwartz.
