Below you will find a list of 31 recommended books on setting goals and achieving personal success. They are categorized into separate list, with some focusing on goal-setting. And others focus on the psychology behind the process. To books focused on creating happiness for yourself.
Setting Personal Goals
Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide
– Caroline Adams Miller and Dr. Michael Frisch
Filled with interactive exercises and quizzes, it helps readers set and accomplish life list goals. And understand the link between goal accomplishment and happiness. Also known as Positive Psychology. In a step-by-step fashion, the book teaches readers how to coach themselves on how to set goals in 16 life domains. And to take control of their environment to maximize their chances of success.
Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
– Brian Tracy
You’ll discover how to determine your own strengths, what you truly value in life, and what you really want to accomplish in the years ahead. Tracy shows how to build your self-esteem and self-confidence, approach every problem or obstacle effectively, overcome difficulties, respond to challenges, and continue forward toward your goals, no matter what happens. Most importantly, you’ll learn a system for achievement that you will use for the rest of your life.
Your Best Year Ever
– Michael Hyatt
In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals. Readers learn how to design their best year ever in just five hours
– three simple ways to triple the likelihood of achieving their goals
– how to quit-proof their goals
– what to do when they feel stuck
– and much more
The Book of Mistakes
– Skip Prichard
In this self-help tale wrapped in fiction, you’ll learn the nine mistakes that prevent many from achieving their goals. You’ll learn how to overcome these hurdles and reinvent your life.
This success parable is packed with wisdom that will help you discover and follow your personal purpose. Push beyond your perceived capabilities. And achieve more than you ever dreamed possible. You’ll find yourself returning again and again to a deceptively simple story that teaches actionable insights and enduring truths.
9 Things Successful People Do Differently
– Heidi Grant Halvorson
Take your cues from the short, powerful 9 Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display — backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a hint: accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not just who they are.
Big Potential
– Shawn Achor
Small Potential is the limited success we can attain alone. BIG Potential is what we can achieve together. As a result, Achor offers five strategies – the SEEDS of Big Potential–for lifting the ceiling on what we can achieve while returning happiness and meaning to our lives.
Hard Goals: The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
– Mark Murphy
People set goals all the time. But the majority end up unfulfilled or abandoned. With all the challenges facing us today, we could use a little more achievement. Hard Goals can help us get there by offering the hard science and practical techniques to conquer procrastination and unlock your brain’s potential for realizing your goals.
The soul of money
– Lynne Twist
The Soul of Money asks us to step back, to examine our relationship with money. To assess our connection with core human values, and to change this relationship and, in so doing, to transform our lives.
Achieving Personal Goal Success
How to Win Friends and Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you:
– Six ways to make people like you
– Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
– Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
The ONE Thing
– Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
In The ONE Thing, you’ll learn to:
– cut through the clutter
– achieve better results in less time
– build momentum toward your goal
– dial down the stress
– overcome that overwhelmed feeling
– revive your energy
– stay on track
– master what matters to you
Getting Things Done
– David Allen
From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
The Science of Meditation
– Daniel Coleman & Richard Davidson
Drawing on cutting-edge research, friends and Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson expertly reveal what we can learn from a one-of-a-kind data pool that includes world-class meditators. They share for the first time remarkable findings that show how meditation cultivate qualities such as selflessness, equanimity, love and compassion, and redesign our neural circuitry.
The 10X Rule
– Grant Cardone
Extreme success is outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with the 10 X Rule. And remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.
The Compound Effect
– Darren Hardy
No gimmicks, no hyperbole, no magic bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire.
Who Moved My Cheese?
– Spencer Johnson
Discover the secret of the writing on the wall for yourself and enjoy less stress and more success in your work and life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights will last a lifetime.
Skills and Habits
The Practicing Mind
– Thomas M. Sterner
In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain. In this enticing and practical book, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to learn skills for any aspect of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to love the process.
The Miracle Morning
– Hal Elrod
What’s being widely regarded as “one of the most life changing books ever written” may be the simplest approach to achieving everything you’ve ever wanted. Faster than you ever thought possible.
Essentialism
– Greg McKeown
Being an Essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. It means challenging the core assumption of ‘We can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’.
Superhuman by Habit
– Tynan
Superhuman by Habit examines habit building in depth. It covers the principles and philosophies of habit building. As well as the practical nuts and bolts implementing those habits. The second half of the book is dedicated to specific habits in every major area of life, covering the pros and cons of each, the path to implementing them, and specific notes about each one.
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
– Marshall Goldsmith
Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That something may just be one of your own annoying habits. Perhaps one small flaw – a behavior you barely even recognize – is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be.
Happiness
The Art of Possibility
– Rosamund Zander and Benjamin Zander
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander’s experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander’s genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
10% Happier
– Dan Harris
10% Happier takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual scene and leaves them with a takeaway that could change their lives.
Psychology
Influence
– Robert Cialdini
In this highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini—the seminal expert in the field of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these principles ethically in business and everyday situations.
Stumbling on Happiness
– Daniel Gilbert
In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
The Source
– Dr. Tara Swart
The truth is, most of the things we want—health, happiness, wealth, love—are governed by our ability to think, feel, and act—in other words, by our brain. Dr. Swart combines the insights and inspiration of The Secret with the practical lessons of The Master Key System to help a new generation fulfill their dreams. The Source is a rigorous, proven toolkit for unlocking our minds—and reaching our fullest potential.
The Power of When
– Dr. Michael Breus
As Dr. Michael Breus proves in The Power of When, working with your body’s inner clock for maximum health, happiness, and productivity is easy, exciting, and fun. Above all, The Power of When presents a groundbreaking program for getting back in sync with your natural rhythm by making minor changes to your daily routine.
Goals in a Business Setting
Start with Why
– Simon Sinek
START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way — and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
The practice of management
– Peter Drucker
The Practice of Management created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
High Output Management
– Andrew Grove
High Output Management is a practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.
Measure what matters
– John Doerr
In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies. With narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.