Ryan Lee

I’ve always found 10 to be too many so here’s my top 4:

1. Creating Money by Roman and Packer
Following your inner guidance and doing what really turns you ON! It’s a simple principle – learn to listen to your heart, your inner guidance, what you really want. Learn to differentiate between true guidance and ego-based thinking. Then follow it. Don’t do stuff you hate doing - find what you love and stick to it. However, I would add, there’s no use visualising or ‘magnetising’ what you want if you have a powerful, negating and undermining beliefs in place. You’ll find great strategies for dealing with those in ‘Sacred Choices’ below.

2. Sacred Choices by Christel Nani
Like a subtle counterpoint to the now huge industry of self-development through visualisation, this book reminds us that all of our imaginings are likely to come to nothing if our fundamental beliefs about ourselves, others and the world are negative and limiting. Nani guides us through the torrid waters of self-exploration with practical explorations and exercises so that we can identify and shed those pounds of the past.

2. Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now, which provides a profound rationale and excellent strategies for going beyond the limited thinking of ego, is condensed in this short, concise summary of the main points and key strategies. A must pocketbook for everyday, authentic living. Completely readable and comprehensive on its own.

3. Many Mansions – The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation by Gina Cerminara
A roadmap for understanding the bigger picture and the healing power of the difficulties and adverse life events we all experience but often can’t understand. For those without a religious orientation, or with one, read and then decide. I’m not of a religious persuasion, and I don’t completely understand the metaphysics, but there’s a BIG truth running through this book that I can identify with.

Terry

Out of the hundreds of books I have on my shelves, here goes:

1. e-myth
2. e-myth revisited
3. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4. Trump Entrepreneurship
5. Masters of Success
6. The High Performance Entrepreneur: 12 Essential Strategies to Supercharge Your Startup Business
7. The Power of Focus
8. Good to Great
9.Getting past no
10. The Bible

Ryan,
Thanks for motivating us to do more with 'less'. This is my first post on the site...heck great topic to join in for the first time!

Top Ten Books (random order)

1) Freakonomics-Steven Levitt
2) How the Mind Works-Steven Pinker
3) Tipping Point-Malcom Gladwell
4) Mindless Eating-Brian Wansink
4) Small Giants-Bo Burlingham
5) The Chomsky Reader-Noam Chomsky
6) Rich Dad, Poor Dad-Robert Kiyosaki
7) The Selfish Gene-Richard Dawkins
8) Getting Past No-Willam Ury
9) Your Money & Your Brain-Jason Zweig
10) Anything by Uwe Reinhardt at Princeton...

10 books by Dan Kennedy! (Sorry Ryan)

Ryan, it's good that you had a blast for your vacation. As for myself I'm going away in two weeks as well, and can't wait to have a blast and let free of the computer and the e-mails. I truly think it's one of the best way to debug your mind, and look at things in a different perspective.

As for the book, "The Power of Less" thanks for recommending. I will definitely read it. Ummm..! I have so many books here that I love and changed my life so much. Here are the top 10 that I will always keep on my shelf;

1) The Holly Bible
2) The Seat of The Soul - Gary Zukav
3) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
4) Think and Grow Rich - Napoelon Hill
5) Think Big - Ben Carson
6) How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
7) Coming Up For Air - Beth Sawi
8) Tuesday With Morrie - Mitch Albom
9) Wealth Attraction - Dan Kennedy

Great theme Ryan .. it's something I'm in the process of doing!

Here are mine:

1. The 8th Habit - S Covey
2. The Answer - J Asaraf
3. Think & Grow Rich - N Hill
4. Simplicity - E Bono
5. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - T Eker
6. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind - D Cophra
7. As a Man Thinketh - J Allen
8. Coaching Evoking Excellence in Others - J Flaherty
9. The Sedona Method - H Dwoskin
10. The Power of Intention - W Dyer

Noel Lyons

This is a difficult exercise for me as I love books!
Here is what I came up with...

1) The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
2) When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
3) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
4) Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
5) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
6) Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
7) E Myth Mastery by Michael Gerber
8) The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
9) Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
10) How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

1) It's not about the bike by Lance Armstrong - not exactly a business book but you can take a lot of things out of Lance's approach and put them into your business
2) 4 hr workweek
3) Influence by Cialdini
4) Think and Grow Rich (although i have this on audio)
5) How to Win friends and influence people (ditto for audio)
6) Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazi
7) Made to Stick - Chip n Dan Heath
8) Business stripped bare - Richard Branson
9) Ultimate Sales Letter - Dan Kennedy
10) Tribes - Seth Godin (another audio)

Ryan:

Ryan:

To me it's about the soul - mixing the arts, the spirit, the $$$, the knowledge, with the dream...

My Top Ten

1.) Tuesday with Morrie - Mitch Albom
2.) Blue Ocean Strategies - W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
3.) The Bible
4.) The Art of War - Sun Tzu
5.) Time Flies - Bill Cosby
6.) Bruce Lee's Fighting Method - Bruce Lee
7.) The Success Principles - Jack Canfield
8.) Ben Franklin - Edmund Morgan
9.) Hung Jury - Nick Savage my pen name Edward Norris (my unpublished action adventure went pretty far - a long story...just to keep me dreamin')
10.) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - John Bartlett

Sorry Ryan you make my top 20...Regards,

Nick

Good stuff Ryan!

I try to read a new book on business and personal development every week and "The Power of Less" is next on my Amazon wish list.

Here are my top 10 books:

1. Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
2. What Clients Love by Harry Beckwith
3. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
5. The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
6. The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
7. Trump-Think Big by Donald Trump
8. Harmonic Wealth by James Ray
9. Psychology Influence of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
10. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (great nutrition book)

Sean Barker
http://www.DadFitness.com

Hi Ryan:

I treasure all my books even though I am not a rich man yet. I am still struggling and now I have decided to teach online and eventually do speaking engagements like you on the business of boxing, MMA and traditional.

I have gotten so much information from you, I had to decide what I wanted to do first. I decided on online publishing and teaching fitness. I hope to finish my career in publishing and speaking! At 55, I am getting tired of teaching martial arts and boxing.

Here is my top ten:

1. Better Homes & Garden New Complete Guide to Home Repair & Improvement
2. Newsletter Sourcebook by Beach and Floyd
3. Business Plans That Work by Susan Jacksack
4. The Holy Bible by God
5. Organize Yourself by Esienburg & Kelly
6. Investors in Your Backyard by Asheesh Advani
7. Combat Strategy by Hanho
8. Idiots Guide to Total Nutrition by Joy Bauer
9. Idiots Guide To Fitness Boxing Illustrated by Tom Seabourne
10. Black Belt Magazine

Mike

Great tip about the email, also glad you have good times with the family.

The book that I'm reading right now that is really changing how I think and the way I'm developing my businesses is "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.

Ego is the number one limiting factor to success. A great read thus far.

-Rob "The Kinetic Guru" Williams

Ok, here is my top ten list, the books taht someway left a strong mark in my heart, in my head or simply changed my life.

1) Think and grow rich.
2) The 4 hour workweek.
3) As a man thinketh.
4) A new earth, by Eckart Tolle.
5) Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse.
6) Awaken the giant within, by A. Robbins.
7) Psycocybernetics, by M. Maltz.
8) You can be happy no matter what, by Richard Carlson.
9) The sword of the truth, by T. Goodkind
10) Burn the fat and feed the muscle, by T. Venuto

(Not exactly in this order)

Hey Ryan, glad you got a little Mellow Yellow time on the cruise.

My 10 Books Left Standing would be:

1) The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
2) The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
3) The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4) Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
5) Influence by Robert Cialdini
6) Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
7) How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
8) Winning by Jack Welch
9) Good To Great by Jim Collins
10) The Secret Code Of Success by Noah St. John