Life-Changing Books To Re-Invent Yourself
There comes a time when you just know in your gut that you’re ready for a change, or you may even find yourself at a point when you’re ready for a complete reinvention. But whether you’re pivoting your course or leaping into a greater version of yourself, you also likely want a push, clarity, or a clearer sense of direction before making that change.
The truth is that the thing you’re looking for can often be found in the pages of a life-altering book. Many times, there’s a particular author, a specific chapter, or even a singular paragraph that gives you the nudge you need to change, well, everything. In the below list, you will find a selection of these books and authors. Full disclaimer: your life may improve upon reading one of these.
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Add to BookshelfThe Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz
In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that may be robbing you of joy and creating needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, Ruiz’s book offers a simple (yet powerful!) code of conduct that can rapidly transform your life into a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. This transformational book has even helped Oprah make “a tremendous difference in how I think and act in every encounter” and has been translated into 50 languages worldwide. Needless to say, your life could very well be altered by taking in the enlightening perspectives within these 160 pages.
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Atomic Habits
by James Clear
It’d be foolish to have a list of life-changing books without including James Clear’s Atomic Habits. This bestseller has sold more than 4 million copies (and changed millions of lives in the process). In the book, you’ll uncover practical strategies to help you understand how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. From learning how to get back on track when you fall off course, to making time for new habits (even when life gets crazy), to overcoming a lack of willpower, this book gives you a proven system that can take you — and your life — to new heights.
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The Book of Alchemy
by Suleika Jaouad
From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life’s biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. In The Book of Alchemy, Suleika explores the art of journaling and shares everything she’s learned about how this life-altering practice can help us tap into that mystical trait that exists in every human: creativity. She has gathered wisdom from one hundred writers, artists, and thinkers in the form of essays and writing prompts. Their insights invite us to inhabit a more inspired life.
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The Gift of Forgiveness
by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Sometimes, the very thing stopping you from changing your life is forgiving someone in your life. The Gift of Forgiveness will guide you to learn how to forgive, with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find inner peace. Upon reading, you may discover that forgiveness can lead to great things, which is why the Associated Press believes “the world would be a far better place if we practiced more of what the people Pratt profiles have discovered.” So if you want things to change for you, peering into these stories of forgiveness may open you up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility.
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I Am Worthy
by Christine Gutierrez
In I Am Worthy, licensed therapist Christine Gutierrez blends modern psychology with ancient wisdom to help you untangle the web of unworthiness. As you read, you’ll explore pivotal areas of your life like rest, abundance, and community, decolonizing your spirituality, and embracing pleasure in revolutionary new ways. You’ll also put these concepts into action with the rituals, ceremonies, and reflection prompts in each chapter, which include affirmations, manifestations, and healing meditations. Unearth the buried truth that lives within you, waiting for your rediscovery: You are worthy.
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Untamed: Reese’s Book Club
by Glennon Doyle
Untamed is a memoir and the wake-up call that you’re looking for. This book — which is so easy to get engrossed in — explores the joy and peace you, too, can discover when you stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within you. Within these pages is Doyle’s story of reinvention, but it’s also a roadmap for how to begin to trust yourself enough to set boundaries, make peace with your body, honor your anger and heartbreak, and unleash your truest, wildest instincts so that you become the woman who can finally look at yourself and say: There She Is. So, pick up Untamed if you want to discover how you can bring your whole self to the table and finally break free from the status quo.
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You Owe You
by Eric Thomas, PhD
If you’ve ever felt that success is for others or that only certain people get to fulfill their dreams, then Eric Thomas’s You Owe You is the wake-up call you’ve been looking for. His book is an urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and to take control of your life. His revolutionary guidance has already helped hundreds of thousands, and now his book lays out the critical steps you need to deeply understand yourself and the world around you, find your why, accept that you may have to give up something good for something great and constantly stretch toward your potential. (Even Michael B. Jordan said this book is “full of insight and guidance for those seeking their inner selves.”)
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Full of Myself
by Austin Channing Brown
As an antiracism educator and writer leading through America’s cycles of racial unrest, Austin Channing Brown reached a crossroads. “I love my work,” she writes, “and I am tired. We are tired. Tired of protesting. Tired of ‘saving democracy.’ Tired of educating and explaining.” She began to ask, “What do I deserve, not just as a citizen but as a human?” Full of Myself answers that question. Weaving personal narrative with perceptive social commentary, Brown offers a look at the mechanisms that limit who Black women are allowed to be and seeks to understand the true roots of their burnout, or for anyone wondering what it means to live joyfully in a hostile world, Full of Myself is a breath of fresh air and an invitation to full humanity.
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The Sleep Revolution
by Arianna Huffington
If there’s a straightforward thing that can change your life for the better, it’s sleep. Yet, in our fast-paced, always-connected world, many of us face sleep deprivation — and this deprivation can easily result in negative consequences for our health, job performance, relationships, and happiness. So, if you’re looking to radically change your life, you may want to renew your relationship with sleep first so that you can take back control of your life. In her book, Huffington shares various helpful recommendations and tips from leading scientists on getting better and more restorative sleep and harnessing its incredible power. After all, chasing your dreams in real life will be more manageable when you’re well-rested.
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The Artist’s Way
by Julia Cameron
Since its first publication decades ago, The Artist’s Way has inspired millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron’s unique approach will undoubtedly guide you to uncover problem areas and pressure points that could be restricting your creative flow and provide you with techniques to free up wherever you feel stuck. By learning The Artist’s Way (which is not only for artists!), you open yourself up to opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery. Noted as a revolutionary program for personal renewal, this deeply transformational book will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and ultimately change your life’s course.
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How to Love Better
by Yung Pueblo
Love enters our lives in many forms: friends, family, intimate partners. But all of these relationships are deeply influenced by the love we have for ourselves. If we see our relationships as opportunities to be fully present in our healing and growth, then, Yung Pueblo assures us, we can transform and meet one another with compassion instead of judgment. Yung Pueblo’s insights on embracing change, building a foundation of honesty, and learning to listen selflessly will resonate regardless of where you are in your healing journey. And his unique combination of poetry, personal experience, and thoughtful advice will help you grow and strengthen all of your relationships.
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We Can Do Hard Things
by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle
Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? The harder life gets, the less likely she is to remember the answers she’s spent her life learning. Glennon’s compasses are her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby. They turned toward the only thing that’s ever helped them find their way: deep, honest conversations with other brave, kind, wise people. They asked 118 of the world’s most brilliant wayfinders: As you’ve traveled these roads — marriage, parenting, work, recovery, heartbreak, aging, new beginnings — have you collected any wisdom that might help us find our way? They put all of that wisdom in one place: We Can Do Hard Things — a place to turn when you feel clueless and alone, when you need clarity in the chaos, or when you want wise company on the path of life.
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Designing Your Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
If you really want to reshape your life, then Bill Burnett and Dave Evans have the guide you need. In Designing Your Life, the duo shows you how design thinking can help you create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where you are, what you do or have done for a living, or how young or old you are. If you think about it, everything in your life was designed by someone, and every design began with a problem that a designer or team of designers sought to solve. What if you took the same approach with your life? Or, as The New York Times put it, “Life has questions. They have answers.” So get your questions answered.
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Personality Isn’t Permanent
by Benjamin Hardy
Perhaps you’ve found yourself feeling like your personality could be getting in the way of the reinvention or pivot you seek. What if you could break free from that thinking? In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy pulls from psychological research to demolish the ever-popular misconception that personality — aka your consistent attitudes and behaviors — is innate and unchanging. According to Hardy, you can intentionally create your desired self and achieve amazing goals while breaking free from your limiting beliefs. In his book (which is also full of real stories of intentional self-transformation), Hardy offers practical, science-based advice for personal reinvention so you can reframe your past and design your future.
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Get Good with Money
by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
Let’s be honest, money can sometimes feel like a barrier when it comes to reinvention and self-fulfillment. But what if your relationship with money could be different? In Get Good with Money, you gain access to Aliche’s powerful ten-step process for building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. By cultivating good financial habits and learning how to make your money work for you, you can start to make some of the changes you previously felt were out of reach — financially. And with Aliche’s advice, your reinvention can be made easier as you discover how to make your life rich in every way.
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The Let Them Theory
by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins
What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words? If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words — Let Them — will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands. Within a few pages, you’ll realize how much energy and time you’ve been wasting trying to control the wrong things and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.
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