PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS by Maxwell Maltz

The first book that I want to share with you is Psycho-Cybernetics. Honestly, you probably don’t even need to read the rest of this these books if you implemented everything in psycho cybernetics, your entire life will change. I believe that psycho-cybernetics actually paved the way for a lot of different personal development work that so many people put out there these days. But essentially, Psycho-Cybernetics is how you see yourself, or it’s the process of changing how you see yourself. 

In a nutshell, it basically says that we have an internal mechanism that is guiding us in life, just like the autopilot system on a plane. If a plan is set to achieve reach a destination, even if, let’s say, the wind knocks it off course a little bit, it will naturally correct itself back to where it was originally programmed to go. What Psycho-Cybernetics is saying is that what we believe to be true and the goals that we set for ourselves are essentially like our guiding system. And even if certain failures or environmental disruptions happen, we are able to naturally get ourselves back on course to our goals. However, even if you set a goal like “I want to make more money,” but internally, you don’t actually believe that it’s possible for you. Your internal guidance system isn’t to make more money; it’s that you’re supposed to live a life without money. And so that internal guidance system will naturally gravitate you towards that belief. 

So what Psycho-Cybernetics helps you to do is change your internal blueprint, change how you see yourself change what you believe is possible for you so that you don’t have to hustle your way towards anything you will naturally guide yourself there through the actions that you take anyway. And even when you get knocked off course, you will be guided back towards that goal and to that belief.

101 ESSAYS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK by Brianna Wiest

I think that, as humans, we have a natural tendency to over-catastrophize things. I feel like this book really helps you to see the world in a calmer way, you know, rather than over-catastrophizing all the possibilities of what could go wrong, this book will literally change the way you think by changing the way that you see yourself and changing the way that you see the world. 

It’s just like a collection of essays, so it’s really easy to read over a long period of time. It’s one that you can pick up and put down and just come back to at any stage you don’t have to sit there and read the whole thing in one go. But honestly, this is like a poetry book of self-development, it’s so beautifully written, and it’s so beautiful to listen to as well. 

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU by Brianna Wiest

One of the main things that hold you back from having positive beliefs about yourself and about the world is your limiting beliefs. What The Mountain is You helps you to work through and overcome your limiting beliefs, your self-sabotage, the way that you see yourself and what’s possible for you. 

In this book, she basically describes all of the different ways all of the different scenarios in which in life, we actually self-sabotage because of our limiting beliefs and our fears and the stories we tell ourselves, and she helps you to identify where you might be sabotaging. And when you identify where you might be sabotaging, then you realize, holy crap, I’ve got a limiting belief in this particular area. And then, she tells you how to overcome those limiting beliefs. Because when you overcome the limiting belief, then you can replace it with a more positive one. And like I said, remember, the goal here is to have positive beliefs. So we take positive actions towards getting heart, getting rich and achieving all of our goals. 

So overcoming limiting beliefs is crucial. But most of us don’t even realize the limiting beliefs that are holding us back in life. But when we can actually monitor where we’re sabotaging, that will help us excavate towards what those limiting beliefs are, that was a cat’s tail, what those limiting beliefs are, so that then we can work on replacing those. 

TRUST YOUR VIBES By Sonia Choquette

So a big part of being able to manifest anything, being able to attract anything, your dream body, a crap ton of cash, is that you need to be able to trust your internal guide, you need to be able to trust your intuition. And you need to be able to follow that towards the path that is going to achieve those goals for you specifically. Where so many people go wrong is they’re always trying to implement somebody else’s strategy. They’re always trying to follow exact step-by-step formulas, whether it be for a diet or whether it be for a business that is going to help you make more money. And quite often, this can lead us down paths that just don’t feel good for us and are, therefore, unsustainable. 

Trust Your Vibes is not some pseudo-manifestation book; I feel like there are so many of those out on the internet. This is like truly teaching you how to trust your own intuition and how to trust your internal guidance so that you can take more sustainable actions towards these goals.

To achieve these goals, learning to trust your vibes, as the title implies, is something that you should be working on. 

THE SIX PILLARS OF SELF-ESTEEM By Nathanial Branden

So many of us, when we think of self-esteem, we think externally — we think we need to change our appearance or our style, we need to act more confidently. These are like the true internal pillars of self-esteem that you need to be working on in order to just feel better about yourself in general and therefore be able to take different actions and achieve different results. 

The Six Pillars of self-esteem are 

1. living consciously 

2. self-acceptance

3. self-responsibility

4. self-assertiveness

5. living purposefully

6. personal integrity 

If you are trying to become hotter, if you are trying to make more money, you have to be focusing on yourself, you have to take responsibility for your action. You could change your beliefs and therefore change your thoughts. But if you aren’t taking responsibility for you being the one that needs to take action, you’re not going to get anywhere. Again, you can go read all of the finance books, but you have to take responsibility for the actions that are going to make you more money. 

You have to take responsibility for your destiny.