 | Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.19 This book is why I'm getting a Masters degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Applied Positive Psychology.
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 | Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It by Henriette Anne Klauser
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $5.00 I recommend this book to everyone. The title says it all.
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 | The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.78 I spent a few days in the Florida center that this book is about. If you can harness and manage your energy better, you can manage your life.
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 | Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.88 Great, inspiring book with lots of anecdotes that will help you achieve your goals.
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 | How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael J. Gelb
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.95 Leonardo da Vinci thought and worked in ways that still inspire people to study and emulate him. You'll love this book.
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 | Live and Be Free Through Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Buy used from: $3.40 My swim coach recommended this book to me when I was a teenager. The premise is that your mind is heat-seeking missile, and whatever you program your mind to see is what you'll get. Terrific!
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 | The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles by Karen Reivich
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.48 Resilience can lead to greater happiness and optimism, and this books tells you how and why. Worth every penny.
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 | How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.81 Is there anyone who hasn't read this book or heard about it? Its must reading in every house and office.
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| My Name is Caroline by Caroline Miller
Buy used from: $0.39 I wrote the first book by a survivor of bulimia, and I'm proud of the message of recovery and hope that it imparted, and still imparts, to people who need support, love and inspiration.
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 | Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $2.69 The Gallup Organization's work on how to find your strengths and build on them in work settings is very important for everyone to read.
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 | How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.49 A Penn classmate of mine, Tom Rath, has written a wonderful book about why it's so important to "fill someone's bucket" instead of dipping into it, and how we can all fill our own buckets.
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 | What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 This is a terrific book that shows how we end up doing something when we intended to do something else with our lives, and how we must be open to the journey.
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 | Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.23 An eye-opener that helps you understand what type of explanatory style you have, and what you can do to change it.
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 | Strong Women Stay Young (Revised Edition) by Miriam Nelson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Everyone should lift weights -- now! -- especially all women. Must reading.
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 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy used from: $3.16 This book explains why time stands still when you are engaged in certain activities, and why this is good for you. Wonderful book!
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 | A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.44 Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy, tells you how to stop allowing your beliefs to ruin your life. Makes sense.
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 | Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life (Gawain, Shakti) by Shakti Gawain
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.96 I read this book in the 1980's and its message has stayed with me since then -- if you see what you want, you can get it!
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 | The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $5.45 You'll never debate over four toasters or five cars again in your life!
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 | The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
Buy used from: $8.97 Jon Haidt's writing is thoughtful and sensible about job and where to find it in life
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 | Second Sight by Judith Orloff
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 This unusual woman blends intuition and healing in her work
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 | Do It Now!: Break the Procrastination Habit by William J. Knaus
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $0.87 If you suffer from procrastination, this is the only book you ever need to read.
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 | Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson
Buy new: $63.60 / Used from: $52.87 This is a big, rich, wonderful book that describes 24 universal strengths, and helps you understand how you can use them wisely and well in your own life.
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