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Confidence

Show up fully — in work, in relationships, in life.

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Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Bento C. Leal III

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication

Listen to understand, not to respond.

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Steve Harvey

Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

Success favors people who keep promises to themselves when nobody is watching.

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Jeff Keller · 1999

Attitude Is Everything

Your attitude is your window to the world.

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Susan Jeffers · 1987

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

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Rachel Hollis · 2018

Girl, Wash Your Face

You do not wash your face to become someone else. You do it so the woman already there can finally see clearly.

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Ellen Hendriksen · 2018

How to Be Yourself

Being yourself is not a grand reveal. It is the quiet decision to stop outsourcing your worth to the room.

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Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday — and all is well.

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Maxwell Maltz · 1960

Psycho-Cybernetics

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

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T. Harv Eker · 2005

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

The size of your outer wealth rarely outruns the size of your inner permission.

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Simon Sinek

Start with Why

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.

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Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

The world is dangerous and enemies are everywhere — everyone has to protect themselves. A person who has mastered the arts of indirection has risen to power.

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Mel Robbins · 2017

The 5 Second Rule

The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal, you must physically move within five seconds or your brain will kill it.

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Gay Hendricks · 2009

The Big Leap

The leap begins when you stop treating joy as a ceiling and start treating it as instructions.

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Katty Kay, Claire Shipman · 2014

The Confidence Code

Confidence is not the absence of doubt. It is the decision to let action have the final word.

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Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

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Gavin de Becker · 1997

The Gift of Fear

The best defense is a simple, easily stated fact: violence is a process, not an event.

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Marti Olsen Laney · 2002

The Introvert Advantage

Introversion is not a smaller life. It is a different power source that works best when the world stops draining it by default.

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Napoleon Hill

The Law of Success

First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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Mel Robbins · 2024

The Let Them Theory

Let them do what they are going to do, so you can do what you are meant to do.

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David J. Schwartz · 1959

The Magic of Thinking Big

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.

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Norman Vincent Peale · 1952

The Power of Positive Thinking

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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Jack Canfield · 2005

The Success Principles

Success leaves clues, but only the person willing to ask, act, listen, and keep going can turn those clues into a life.

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Glennon Doyle · 2020

Untamed

The cage opens when pleasing stops feeling safer than telling the truth.

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Mehdi Hasan

Win Every Argument

The point of an argument should not be to win. It should be to advance.

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Shonda Rhimes · 2015

Year of Yes

Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.

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Jen Sincero · 2013

You Are a Badass

Your greatness does not need another permission slip. It needs a decision, a new story, and one visible move.

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Jen Sincero · 2017

You Are a Badass at Making Money

Money gets less mysterious when you stop auditioning for worthiness and start acting like someone who can receive.

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