The Soup of Possibilities Bookshelf!
This is a great collection of books that fit the high-vibration, abundance mindset, inspirational theme of Soup of Possibilities. Many of them have been recommended by friends and associates. Coming soon: search by category. Or just browse through the list – you’re sure to find your best next read! You can also use the below search tool.
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart Of A Buddha
Amazon Links:
- Amazon link: Paperback
Recommended by Catherine Mulvihill of My Happy Insides
Cat spoke of the story about the tiger in a cage, who was given a new habitat. When the tiger was placed in the new habitat, it still just paced in the same 12×12 space as it was used to – it never took advantage of the newer, bigger space. That’s the discomfort we feel when we are presented with a new, greater possibility.
From Amazon’s description:
Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.
I’ve forgotten where I came across this book recommendation.
From Amazon’s description:
The first book of its kind, The Art of the Sale is the result of a pilgrimage to learn the secrets of the world’s foremost sales gurus. Bestselling author Philip Delves Broughton tracked down anyone who could help him understand what it took to achieve greatness in sales, from technology billionaires to the most successful saleswoman in Japan to a cannily observant rug merchant in Morocco. The wisdom and experience Broughton acquired, revealed in this outstanding book, demonstrates as never before the complex alchemy of effective selling and the power it has to overcome challenges we face every day.
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The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better
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- Amazon Link: Paperback
Recommended by Catherine Mulvihill of My Happy Insides
Catherine mentioned this book in several conversations:
From the Amazon description:
In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life.
During her multibook investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively.
More than 600,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors, teachers, spouses, and parents already use the framework to help people make significant, lasting change.
The Four Tendencies hold practical answers if you’ve ever thought:
• People can rely on me, but I can’t rely on myself.
• How can I help someone to follow good advice?
• People say I ask too many questions.
• How do I work with someone who refuses to do what I ask—or who keeps telling me what to do?
With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. It’s far easier to succeed when you know what works for you.
This book is on Paul’s reading list.
From Amazons description:
With the words, “Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change,” Goddard invites us to resist the temptation toward judgment and to look at ourselves for the change we want to see in the world an in others. “God’s promise is unconditional; God’s law is conditional, and comes in its own good time. If you do not experience it in this life,” he said, “You pass through a door, that’s all that death is, and you are restored to life instantly in a world like this, and you go on there with the same problems you had here with no loss of identity.”
This book is on Paul’s reading list. It was recommended by Teresa Kenny of Flawless Beauty of Charlottesville:
From Amazons description:
Using the science of habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a “push moment.” Then, she’ll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self.
This book is a must-read, must-have book. As I say, “It’s on the required reading list.”
This is one of my all-time favorites, from an all-time favorite author. I’ve been a fan of Shel Silverstein’s books “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light In The Attic” which are filled with wonderfully wacky poems like Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout and My Mother Said I’d Lose My Head. I raised my son on these two books – among others like Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy five-book trilogy, Asimov, Heinlein and more.
You will find The Missing Piece Meets The Big O in the children’s section along with the other Silverstein books. Make no mistake, this is not a children’s book! It would be appropriate and entertaining to a child, and if consistently read to the child until those awkward teen years when the hormones start kicking in it would be immensely helpful to them.
No, this book is about healthy relationships.
It’s a little book, only a few pages, maybe a 15 minute read. It’s couched in simple line drawings and plain language typical of Shel Silverstein. But, it has a profound message for what it takes to have a healthy relationship; for what it means to have a healthy relationship. This book solidified for me the observation that I call the great irony in life – that you cannot HAVE a healthy relationship until you don’t NEED it. You cannot truly love another until you truly love yourself. The reality, if not the implementation, is as simple as that.
Buy this book. Read this book, again and again. If you have kids, read it to your kids, again and again – not so that they’ll get it but so that YOU’LL “get it.” All the while, contemplate what it means to be “whole.”
By the way, watch the “Relationships” video on this page (click here), which is along the same lines…