Kim's Picks

Here are some of my favorite books I use for personal inspiration as well as those that I recommend to my clients. Just click on the book link to purchase directly from Amazon.com and take a step toward improving your life!

Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Merilee Adams
This super-easy read will teach you how, by changing the questions you ask yourself each day, you can improve your self-esteem, relationships and career. Learn about Question Thinking and transform your life!
Changing for Good, James Prochaska
A MUST read for anyone who is serious about changing a behavior. Written by three psychologists who identified the stages of change a person must move through in order to succesfully and permamently alter their behavior. This book helps you determine the stage you are in and how to create an environment for successfully moving through each stage toward success! I recommend this one to everyone.
Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Anne Klauser
Henriette Klauser's book will help turn your dreams into reality. She explains how writing down your goals is the first step toward achieving them. Her tips and exercises will help even the non-writer "write their ticket to success!"
The Right Questions, Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford offers ten profound questions that will change the choices you make on a daily basis thus propelling you forward toward achieving your life-goals. This book will enlighten you as to why you have made the choices you have in the past and will teach you how to make your future choices with intention.
Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction, Laura Berman Fortgang
In this book Berman Fortgang shares the process she has used to help hundreds of people make major changes in their lives. Now What? will guide you day by day through a process that will increase your life satisfaction and fulfillment.
Taming Your Gremlin, Rick Carson
This book, first introduced in 1983, will teach you how to gain freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs and move toward greater personal and professional fulfillment. This book is great fun, lots of pictures of gremlins (you might see your own among the pages!), with great exercises to help you tame your gremlin and move forward in your life.
Wishcraft, Barbara Sher
This is another oldie but goodie. First written in 1979, Sher presents effective strategies for making real changes in your life. Full of exercises to help you clarify your goals and identify your strengths and skills; this book will help you create your path to a new life.
The Success Principles, Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup series books provides you with 64 life and business principles to inspire you to create change in your life and attain your goals. I also purchased this book in audio form so I can listen to the principles as I exercise.
Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman
Seligman's latest book introducing the concept of Positive Psychology. This approach focuses on a person's strengths rather than their weaknesses and teaches you how to cultivate happiness by using your signature strengths and traits. You will learn how to shift your life to a more positive plane and to experience greater fulfillment and joy.
Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman
In this classic, Seligman outlines easy-to-follow techniques to help you rise above the pessimism that accompanies negative thoughts. People who apporach life from optimism experience better health, better relationships and greater life satisfaction--read this book and join this healthy and happy group of folks!
Younger Next Year for Women, Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD
Younger Next Year (for Men), Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD
Although aging is inevitable, how we age is well within our control according to the authors of this entertaining and enlightening book.  Although I have not read the version for men, I would imagine the sound advice is the same.  If you are a person who wants to age as gracefully as possible (and avoid going under the surgeon's scalpel) this is the book for you.  Plenty of tips and suggestions for improving your health and well-being, Crowley and Lodge feel that it is possible to experience an active, healthy lifestyle for at least 30 years beyond menopause.  Count me in as one who wants to live as young as possible for as long as possible!
You, The Owner's Manual, Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz.
This book is my absolute FAVORITE book on health. These authors were the first to coin the term "live younger" and the book is full of information and tips to help you live a longer, stronger and healthier life. It's a fun read and full of whimsical drawings about how the body works that will keep you entertained while you learn.