Three Great Self-Help/Development Audiobooks

I am addicted to learning. When it comes to reading, I can’t say that I’m addicted to that process, because usually my eyeballs are busy with something else. But I can lend you my ears for a few while I’m doing some exercises or some menial tasks like cleaning.
I started reading audiobooks again, a few months ago, using my library’s app hoopla. It is a free app, and the books are free tomorrow, too. I looked in the self help category, as I am always on a never ending quest to improve myself. I’m not much for fiction, except if it’s a movie or something easy to digest.
The best book I have borrowed by far from my local library, is atomic habits, by James clear. I was looking for a book on the New York Times bestseller list, and this one came up on top over and over again. I couldn’t believe it was a free offering since I could download it on Kindle for a price, or listen to it on Audible for a credit.
The book gave me a way to really refined my processes, and how I live my life by breaking it down to the simplest habits. I definitely recommend this one.
One of the books that I borrowed was the more of less. I needed a way to de-clutter, and organize my life, and I really like the minimalist view, the more of less. It always seemed that I had so much abundance, and the less I cleaned it seemed the more appeared. The issue was a problem of safety, because I would need to get something under a pile of stuff that I didn’t need hoping to find whatever it was I was looking for in the first place. And safety because sometimes they were just things piled up on my floor, that I can trip over.
The author of the book speaks from the point of view of somebody who is a devout Christian and pastor. Because I am Jewish, I really wasn’t looking to convert, I was looking informationally for what he had to say. Because at times he was preachy, it interrupted flow a bit for me. Maybe if I was Catholic, it would’ve been different. The information, nevertheless was exactly what I was looking for
He gives great sight into how to just get rid of your stuff and realize that you have an over abundance of things. Then he offers ways to go through everything and get rid of stuff, donate stuff or just plain get rid of it. It changed my life and get me started on my first quest to organize my life.
The third book that I have to recommend today is by Sean Webb, Mind Hacking Happiness. This is volume one of a two volume set. I read the second, and it was definitely different than the first and that it was more about spiritual enlightenment. If you want a book that just touches the surface on being happy and how you can control your mind to get you more happiness, I definitely recommend the first in the volumes, mind hacking happiness, volume one:
Where he gives a lot of great examples, and proof in the pudding as to where he got the research from to validate the points he makes on the mind, and how it controls our body. I think the biggest take away is that you control your own happiness. Nobody makes you angry, only you can make you angry. You are the controller of your own suck. It is when I realize this, that I was able to find the world differently. Now I don’t let things aggravate me as much, I kind of take a Birdseye view. I am able to have more control over my situations that I go through every day, getting around is very frustrating on crutches, with the loss of the use of your hands to carry things. Now I just figure out how to control it better and maybe ask for a little bit more help, and just think of somebody who isn’t able to walk up right on their feet what is confined to a chair. I really learned that you can have control over the way you view your life. And you are in the controller seat. It is your brain.
So those are three grade books to start with if you want to change your mindset on controlling your environment, and just being a better person overall. More to come in the coming weeks, especially since my next week is working on my learning virtual. I will be really refine in the way that I learned, and am on a never ending quest to learn more to empower myself.