I’ve curated for you my favorite books, podcasts, and other goodies to help you get motivated, get organized and get your goals.
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Introducing Slay the Day Coaching
Got clutter and don’t know how to start tackling it? Have old systems that aren’t working anymore? Need to downsize, repurpose a space or move? Just have too much crap but are paralyzed about how to get rid of it?
Mel Robbins
Mel is one of the leading self-improvement gurus and is 100% fun, genuine and imperfect, like we all should be. She does extensive research on goal setting and accomplishing, motivation and self-sabotaging thoughts and beliefs. If you don’t know who she is, you need to dig in and be prepared to laugh and learn with her.
Visit www.melrobbins.com for more resources, including free workshops to help you identify how happy you are in different areas of your life and how to set goals to improve them.
BOOKS
The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
This book is incredible to motivate you to waste less time and get moving by making some very small changes.
The 5 Second Journal: The Best Daily Journal and Fastest Way to Slow Down, Power Up, and Get Sh*t Done
An accompaniment to her book “The 5 Second Rule” that allows you to write sh*t down while you are ideating and coming up with the actions you want to take towards your goal.
The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
Mel’s High 5 Habit instills in you a daily practice of self-appreciation, gratitude, motivation and all-around kick-assery, backed by some hard-to-refute science.
The High 5 Daily Journal
An accompaniment to her book “The High 5 Habit”, the journal allows you to respond to prompts and keep track of your progress.
Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game
We may not realize that fear is behind most of our inaction and excuses. In this audiobook, Mel can help you become more aware of what you tell yourself and how to push past the fear and do things anyway.
Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You
“Fine” doesn’t really mean fine, let’s face it. It’s what you tell people you feel when you really feel bored, lost, stuck, frustrated and clueless about what to do about it all. Check out Mel’s podcast to turn “fine” into fabulous.
Paperback (slightly different title)
PODCASTS
The Mel Robbins Podcast
This free podcast covers a wide range of topics to help you improve any aspect of your life. Mel often talks with experts in their fields and answers her community’s questions in raw, candid and awakening conversations that you will learn from.
You can also find this podcast by searching for it in your preferred podcast app.
Reinvent Your Life With Mel Robbins
This Audible podcast guides you through making a major change or transition in your life. Ready to reinvent yourself? Let’s go.
Here's Exactly What To Do: Simple Tools For A Happier You
This 14-episode podcast will help you clean out your mental, psychological and emotional closet of the gremlins that are holding you back from achieving what you want.
Work It Out: The New Rules for Women to Get Ahead at Work
Stuck, frustrated or lacking motivation at work? Not sure how to move up or out? Check out Mel’s revolutionary insights into how to make work work for women. Check it out here.
Kick Ass with Mel Robbins
This time, Mel has candid conversations with eight women who expose their problems and get coached by Mel to dig deeper to reveal and address the real issues behind the issues. Check it out here.
Francine Jay
Francine is a leading expert on downsizing, minimalist living and purging things. I read her book years ago and it transformed how I viewed my things, helped me purge with a different mindset and release the guilt that forced me to keep things.
Check her out at www.missminimalist.com.
BOOKS
The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify
This was her book that revolutionized my own mindset about my possessions and my home.
Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene & Stress-Free Life
In this book, Francine tackles more than just cleaning out your closet. She covers releasing all sorts of things: tasks taking up your time, guilt weighing you down, and of course, the stuff that could be suffocating you. It’s a new way of thinking and living that can change your life.
Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify
Francine lives a minimalist life with just enough and in this book, she provides advice and insight into identifying how many things you actually need or want and how to pair down.
Marie Kondo
I think most of us have heard of Marie by now, but her innovative ways to view and get rid of possessions are 100% valid.
Check her out at konmari.com. She even has an online Tidy Course.
BOOKS
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie’s first book which catapulted her to fame approaches organizing in a fresh, new way that takes the brain out of the equation, leading to faster, easier decisions about your stuff and a more pleasing home environment.
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
This is an expanded accompaniment to Marie’s first book and includes step-by-step illustrations of her signature techniques for folding different types of clothes.
Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
In this book, Marie takes her “spark joy” philosophy to all areas of life, encouraging you to set up routines and practices that help you pause, take stock of what you’re doing and why and make changes that grant you more happiness and freedom.
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life
With a work focus, Marie walks you through ideas for tidying up your digital and physical work environments.
Jen Sincero
Jen is a serious badass life coach who has transformed her life from living in a garage with no money to an internationally successful coach and author. Her books are hilarious, snarky, refreshing and on point. She calls you out to stop whining and start living your dreams.
BOOKS
You Are a Badass® (Ultimate Collector's Edition): How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
This book is a must read to reframe your mindset around your circumstances, your goals and your life. A swift kick in the pants, it is, and so highly recommended for everyone.
Audible audio book: https://a.co/d/i1eVGDP
Hardcover: https://a.co/d/iarvhlW
Paperback: https://a.co/d/1Xtk53y
Kindle ebook: https://a.co/d/5z72pBz
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Focusing in on making more money, this is more of Jen’s sass and blunt truths, along with great exercises at the end of each chapter to help you release negative money mindsets and beliefs and form a clearer path to making more money, whether that’s through a promotion, a new job or a new business venture.
Audible audio book: https://a.co/d/j6kAX4M
Hardcover: https://a.co/d/15O8P9X
Paperback: https://a.co/d/93j1sVE
Kindle ebook: https://a.co/d/dDNhpqt
You Are a Badass Every Day: How to Keep Your Motivation Strong, Your Vibe High, and Your Quest for Transformation Unstoppable
OK, so you’re on your way to becoming a badass. This book will keep your motivation blazing strong with reflections, exercises and witty reminders to badass on.
Audible audio book: https://a.co/d/8cyaMPP
Hardcover: https://a.co/d/08Exbqo
Paperback: https://a.co/d/j9SUARj
Kindle ebook: https://a.co/d/ccGC6eZ
Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick
We all have habits we started with the best of intentions and didn’t keep for long. Rather than restart the same old same old, get this book and dig deeper. Chances are, there are deep-seeded reasons why you can’t keep those habits, and realizing and releasing them is the trick to craft new habits that will stick.
Audible audio book: https://a.co/d/fSZqPDm
Hardcover: https://a.co/d/j2O6XJX
Paperback: https://a.co/d/hTOmxZ9
Kindle ebook: https://a.co/d/dnuN9o0