Inspiration to Transform Your Life
An Inspirational Book to Transform Your LIFE
A good book can be like having a motivational speaker and wise guru at arms reach, whenever you need to be inspired or guided.
Here are my top five favorite inspirational books of all time:
Mans’ Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
Unlike with the advice of a well-meaning friend or relative, if you don’t like the opinion of a self-help book, you can toss it aside or delete it from your Kindle. But if the advice resonates with you, then you can integrate it right away into your life.
The difference between ‘push’ versus ‘pull.’ When you pull the wisdom toward you, you are in a frame of mind to accept change and leverage momentum of will. If someone pushes advice at you when you’re not in the optimum frame of mind, it can be down-right irritating or alienating.
So, if you are in an open mind-frame, read on to learn the top seven most life-changing tips I discovered from all the self-help books I’ve read over the years.
Top 7 Most Life-Changing Tips
The moment you wake up in the morning do 5 minutes of strength-building exercise.
Wake up 30 minutes earlier and use that time toward a long-term goal.
Focus every morning on working toward accomplishing long-term projects or goals.
Get Healthier by:
fasting 12-14 hours per 24 hours
eating six different types of vegetables & fruit before instead of in place of treats
only drinking water and unsweetened drinks
walking twenty minutes a day
Take 5 minutes to contemplate something beautiful
Designate the same 30-60 minutes daily to get clean/organized.
Tell one person every day how wonderful you think they are, or how thankful you are that they are in your life. (right after you brush your teeth, just before bedtime.)
The moment you wake up in the morning do 5 minutes of strength-building exercise. Try fifty pushups, and thirty-five leg lifts in one quick tone and glow effort. Perhaps you want to hang upside down and do five minutes of gravity crunches, or another strength exercise.
Enter the NOW by focusing on your breath, meditating, going out into nature, feeling into your body, or doing some yoga.
Release the past. Creativity, love, and joy occur in the present moment.
*PS. If you have a great strength exercise idea, please let me know in the comments section.
Have this five minutes be a promise to yourself you always keep. It doesn’t matter if you go out for a run afterward, or do an hour of yoga, or hit the gym after work: always do the five minutes when you first open your eyes. That way, if life gets in the way of your run, or gym session (like a throwing-up a toddler or an unexpected late evening in the office), you have some fitness in for the day.
Wake up 30 minutes earlier and use that time toward a long-term goal.
Perhaps you want to write a book, train for a marathon, complete a world-travel trip, learn a new language, improve critical relationships, learn a new skill, read a hundred books in the next year, or (insert bucket list goal here.)
If you sit down, resonate inward, and reflect: what is a long-term goal that will enrich your life, a sense of purpose, joy, or vitality? Do you have it in mind? Perfect.
Now create a basic Excel sheet, or take out a blank piece of paper. Write the date and log your thirty minutes (start and stop time) and what you accomplished. For instance, I always write how many words I wrote at that time. You could write how many miles you ran, how far you came with your world-trip research, or how many sections of within Babbel –French you finished.
Start tomorrow morning toward your goal. Thirty minutes at a time. Track your progress daily.
Focus every morning on working toward accomplishing long-term projects or goals.
What is the first thing most people do in the morning?
Check out their e-mail. Don’t do this!
I believe the most potent energy we have is in the morning, which means you should use the first hour in the office to work on the long-term project, especially if it requires concentration and creativity. So, don’t schedule any meeting for the first hour of your workday either.
But Heather, you may say, I have a big project that is due tomorrow. I can’t work on that long-term project today. My question is, could you stay one more hour at work today, or get into the office one hour earlier tomorrow to compensate?