Last Updated on June 29, 2022 by Ray
Many people want to make fundamental changes to their lives to help enhance their overall health, happiness, and satisfaction, but making said changes is often much easier said than done. Even with access to plenty of great resources, it’s hard to know where to start changing your behaviors and perceptions. Thankfully, you don’t have to tackle the journey alone, and we’re here to help you take your first significant steps towards a better, brighter, and more meaningful future.
Below, our dedicated wellness coach from Ray of Solace will explore five of the best, most inspirational books to help motivate your journey towards change in your life. Please continue to learn more about these great books and why you need to add them to your cart today. Also, please consider browsing our wide selection of other great wellness resources.
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Best Inspirational Books to Motivate Fundamental Life Changes
A beloved classic—the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence, you can't help feeling happier.
Hundreds of thousands of books are currently on the market dedicated to helping people change themselves for the better. Because of the sheer amount of books available, it can be a legitimate challenge to pick only a small handful of them to delve into. To help make this choice more manageable, we’re here to point you in the direction of five of the best inspirational books we have come to love over the past several years. If you’re looking for a great source of motivation for profound, life-long changes, these are the next great books you need in your library.
Written by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness is a fantastic piece of motivational and educational literature packed with philosophical, scientific, and spiritual explanations of how compassion for others can serve as the ultimate key to personal fulfillment. According to the Dalai Lama, “the very motif of our life is towards happiness,” though achieving that happiness can be a struggle, especially when we’re consumed by the demands of an increasingly individualistic world.
The humbling central message behind this book is sure to help motivate those who read it towards profound changes through the knowledge that happiness is not a temporary state but an art form that requires practice and dedication.
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A groundbreaking New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller that is
captivating readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, The Power of Habit, and Quiet
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.
Yet another fantastic piece of change-motivating literature, Give and Take, by Adam Grant, encourages readers to take a big step back from the individual drivers of success that much of society has focused on for generations. Despite the constant messages people receive to look out for themselves before others within the workplace, mountains of research and scientific evidence show that helping others and working together improves career trajectories.
This collection of charitable case studies will show you a new perspective of the working world and motivate you to change the way you go about your working life by showing you that there is legitimate proof behind acts of goodwill on the path toward success.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN
Widely recognized as the most famous tidying expert in the world thanks to her Netflix TV series, Marie Kondo first made her debut thanks to her highly inspiring, #1 New York Times bestselling motivational book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. This straightforward, charismatic text is guaranteed to help you spark joy in your life by helping you organize it.
By leveraging the same skills and techniques as Kondo, you won’t only clean up your home; you’ll transform your mindset for the better and start to see some tremendous changes in your daily life. Millions of people worldwide swear by her methods, and you’re more than likely to become one of them.
Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Written by Navy Seal Admiral William McRaven, Make Your Bed is essentially a manual of hard-won lessons this commencement speaker and bestselling author picked up during his experience overseas. The text helps you take on a new perspective of self-care and puts you into a mindset that focuses on the importance of service within the world.
Its core principles are based on ten Navy Seal life lessons that helped keep this esteemed author afloat while helping him resist everything from bullying and the urge to quit to outright failure. Once you’ve made it to the book’s last page, you’ll know everything you need to about how the simplest shifts in personal behavior can change your outlook on life forever.
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Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast, On Being, has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage.
The final book we recommend on this list is Becoming Wise, by quintessential thought leader Krista Tippett. After sixteen years as a radio host, Tippett became an expert on the nuances of inspirational speech and gathered the most profound kernels of wisdom she’s collected from countless scholars, scientists, theologians, and poets alike in the pages of this book.
The text addresses many of the issues faced within our fractured world and how people can manage them with educated hope, grace, and acceptance via what she calls the “moral imagination.” She pushes profound thoughts and encourages us to lean on our empathy, creativity, and one another to create a better world for justice and social good.
Final Thoughts About Inspirational Books
Our wellness experts at Ray of Solace sincerely hope you’ll consider adding these five fantastic books to your library today. They will help encourage and motivate you to take the first fundamental steps toward several positive life changes. Please consider reaching out to us today to learn about our top-quality life, relationship, wellness, and career coaching services.
Also, don’t forget to explore our other article covering five of the best books to promote healing after a breakup. We understand how complicated ending a relationship can be. Still, we also know that there’s never a better time to focus on improving yourself, loving who you are, and learning how to recover in the face of heartbreak.
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