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The month of January is a time for new beginnings and to become the best possible version of yourself. A better you than the year before. And I have a plan on how to accomplish that: Self-help books.
For people who love to read, reading words written by experts explaining how to better yourself seems like an intelligent way to gain some needed inspiration and insight. An expedited life lesson. An abridged guide to self-discovery. An accelerated journey towards greatness.
by Gary Chapman
This book is a game changer for relationships. Dr. Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language; quality time, words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, or gifts. This book teaches you how to effectively communicate love. And what I love most is that it applies to more than just your spouse or significant other, it also works wonders for sibling and parent relationships as well.
by Stephen Covey
This business and self-help book isn’t new by any means but it is still one of the best ones out there. The author contends that individuals need to approach life from an abundance mentality and not a scarcity mentality, which suggests there are enough resources and successes for everyone to share. The seven habits help individuals learn self-mastery, interdependence (working with others), and continuous improvement.
by Shefali Tsabary
While this book isn’t the easiest read, I find that it really helps parents reassess their parenting. The main premise is that children serve as mirrors of the parent’s own forgotten self. The parent who is willing to reflect and look into the mirror has an opportunity to create a relationship with their own inner state of wholeness. Once they can achieve this, they can then enter into communion with their children in which the parental ego crumbles and they can parent in a state of presence.
by Dr. Wayne Dyer
You can’t complete a self-help book list without including a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer. This one, in particular, is a favourite to many and in it, Dr. Dyer has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of the Lao-Tzu to today’s society. The Lao-Tzu is an ancient God-realized being who dictated 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching (the Great Way). The classic text of these verses offers advice and guidance that is moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good of all. Dr. Dyer spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-Tzu’s messages, practicing them each day, and ultimately writing down these essays as he believed Lao-Tzu wanted you to understand them.
by Bruce Lipton
This book will change the way you think about thinking. Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind, body, and the processes by which cells receive information. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology but rather, DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Dr. Lipton demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and how it effects our personal lives.
Gurpreet fell in love, got married, had a darling baby girl, and is now rocking another pregnant belly. She’s more brown than blonde with blue eyes but can still appreciate hockey (kind of) and beer (not really).
She is self-employed, self-motivated, self-declared neurotic, and thankfully, self-aware. Her cooking skills are subpar at best but her cleaning skills would win gold at the Olympics if that were a sport. Which it really sorta should be considering how hard some stains can be (grape juice, I’m looking at you) to get out of a pristine white chair.
Gurpreet once received a Citizen of Distinction medal from the Queen of England and she likes to casually throw that into any conversation quite randomly. She's working on somehow getting a royal title next. She is Indo-Canadian, which really means nothing to most Canadians and usually means Mexican to most Americans.
She is basically just trying to manage her life as best she can, one catastrophe at a time. She plans to one day conquer the world but for right now, she’d settle for winning the war against diapers and morning sickness. Bollywood Babies promises to take you along for the ride and maybe we can all figure it out together.
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