Timeless Wisdom: 9 Self-Improvement Books That Will Help You Turn Your Life Around.

Are you looking for self-improvement books that can have a positive impact on your life? Self-improvement is a genre of writing that encompasses spirituality, financial success, physical health, healthy relationships, and a fulfilled life. These are books that offer timeless wisdom and evergreen life lessons and can help us turn our lives around. Here is our handpicked list of 9 self-help books that can have a tremendous and lasting impact on your life.

1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements was first published in 1997 and became a bestseller over the years, selling more than 8.2 million copies worldwide. The book has been translated to 46 languages and has been recommended by Oprah Winfrey on her show. Rooted in ancient Toltec wisdom, this book offers a code of 4 essential steps we must take to transform our lives and find freedom from self-limiting beliefs that cause suffering in our lives. Miguel Ruiz shows us how we can escape this suffering and find true happiness and love by revealing the true source of self-limiting beliefs that cause pain and suffering.

2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

One of the most influential self-help books of all time, Man’s Search for Meaning are the riveting memoirs of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl that chronicle his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The book describes the psychotherapeutic method Frankl employed to find purpose and meaning in the depths of darkness and explains how we can cope with suffering and find meaning and renewed purpose in it. The book has been translated to over 24 languages and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher who stresses the importance of living in the present moment and escaping the worries of the future and the past in this enlightening self-help book. The book takes the readers on a journey to discover their true selves and find genuine happiness and peace by reaching the true potential of their personal development and spirituality.

4. The Power of Intention by Wayne W. Dyer

What is intention? This is a book that explores intention in an unconventional way and views it, not as something you do, but an energy you’re part of. Dr. Dyer sees intention as an inner awareness and demonstrates the link between the creative power of the universe and our intention, suggesting that that power to change the world resides within each of us.

5. What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by Dr. Shad Helmstetter

This book is one of the best self-help books out there if you’re struggling with self-doubt and insecurity. Negative thinking prevents all of us from realizing our dreams and becoming exactly who we want to become. This transformational self-help book explains how to turn all that negativity into positivity using a simple and effective trick, i.e. the art of positive self-discourse. Dr. Helmstetter demonstrates a unique way of achieving success and turning our life around by telling ourselves the right things and having the right conversations with ourselves in our heads.

6. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is one of the most influential and popular motivational speakers of our time. Robbins has penned several best-selling self-help books. In Awaken the Giant, Robbins reveals the methods and strategies that can help you unshackle yourself from self-doubt and take control of your confidence, emotions, health, relationships, finances, and your overall life through an easy step-by-step approach. The main takeaway of the book and its main theme is this: Your enormous potential is a giant that is locked within you, limited only by low self-esteem, and you have the chance to awaken the giant by changing the way you think.

7. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

Daring Greatly is penned by Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston. The book offers a transformative and ground-breaking new view of how vulnerability isn’t about weakness at all. Dr. Brown shows us how opening up ourselves to fear, grief, pain, and disappointment can help us experience the true meaning of love, belonging, joy, empathy, and creativity and can help us find courage and a true sense of purpose.

8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

First published in 1989, this deeply insightful self-help book by Stephen Covey has become one of the best-selling non-fiction books of all time. Covey’s masterpiece presents a comprehensive and holistic approach to solving the problems in our professional and personal life. It explains the 7 principles that can make us more effective and can help us strike the perfect balance between attaining desirable results, becoming a better human being, and living a wholesome and contented life.

9. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a more practical kind of a self-help book that deals with the importance of financial literacy and advocates financial independence. The book teaches the basics of investing, entrepreneurship and attempts to increase your financial intelligence and aptitude by presenting you with a set of practical principles on how to handle your personal finances. Rich Dad Poor Dad is a seminal work in the self-help and personal-finance genre and has influenced countless subsequent authors and titles; the book has sold 32 million copies worldwide and was on the New York Times Best-Seller list for over six years.