Five Books For Living A Life You’ll Love

recommended by Jayden Gould

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    The Flourishing Code!: Living The Life You Love
    by Mynoo Maryel

    Unlock the power of the flourishing code. This book presents 121 unique codes, each designed to help you fully understand yourself and guide you towards living the life you desire and love. By identifying and embracing the codes that resonate with you, you'll find a clear path to personal growth, fulfilling relationships, and lasting prosperity. These codes cover all aspects of life, offering practical and intuitive guidance that serves as your roadmap to success. The Flourishing Code! is more than a set of principals; it's your key to a vibrant, purposeful, and joyful experiences that make you feel ALIVE. Dive into these powerful insights and start transforming your life today.

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    Create a Life You Love: How to Quiet Outside Voices So You Can Finally Hear Your Own
    by Stephanie May Wilson

    As women, we're often told that we're entitled or unrealistic when we want to create a life we love. We start hearing this message from a very early age, and by the time we're old enough to know what we want, we've also been taught to doubt our instincts and to see selfishness in all our longings. This book is the antidote to those voices. . .and the way forward. Writer, speaker, and podcaster Stephanie May Wilson has helped thousands of women shrug off the pressure of what they think their lives are supposed to look like and take on the next big decision or life transition with intentionality and confidence. Create a Life You Love is a warm, passionate guide on how you can rediscover your own authority and build a life you're finally excited to live. You'll learn how to: Define yourself on your own terms by setting aside societal pressures that tell you who you're supposed to be. Feel empowered to make your next big decisions with confidence and clarity. Build security and peace in both who you are and the season you're in. Through stories, exercises, and hard-won wisdom, Create a Life You Love will help you untangle your own expectations from the expectations of others and get inspired to at last pursue a life that you're excited to wake up to each day.

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    Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life
    by Susan Kaiser Greenland

    50 practical tools from mindfulness, psychology, science, and time-honored traditions to help you ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress. Beloved mindfulness teacher, best-selling author, and longtime Buddhist practitioner Susan Kaiser Greenland explores time-honored themes that tap into the enduring sense of love, connection, and well-being that is with us regardless of our circumstances. These universal themes—including Change, Humility, Interdependence, Concentration, Joy, Kindness, and Discernment, among many others—help us find emotional and psychological freedom by lessening our reactivity, broadening our perspectives, and deepening our relationships. Drawing from science, psychology, Buddhism, wisdom traditions, and personal stories, Kaiser Greenland gives us strategies to shift from a narrow survival-driven frame of mind to one that is grounded and expansive. She offers valuable methods to apply these themes daily, including: Robust tools to manage stress and develop attention, like tapping into sensory pleasures or focusing on a single image or phrase. Catchy slogans that promote emotional balance when you feel overwhelmed, like “drop the baggage,” or “don’t play the scene before you get there.” These and other phrases can interrupt spiraling thoughts and move you back into your comfort zone. Accessible meditations to experience greater equanimity, slow down your thinking process, and heighten awareness of the natural movement of your mind. Time-tested life hacks to care for yourself and others with greater kindness and compassion. Strategies that bring greater ease and effortlessness into your life and relationships by helping you remain flexible and creative, even in challenging situations. And much more.

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    The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
    by Bonnie Wan

    ife is a creative act. Start living a meaningful life with this soul-shaking, “brilliant companion on the road to more aliveness” (Dave Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life) to identify your core values and create the life you want. We all have moments when we doubt the path we’re on. Am I in the right relationship? Is this the career for me? Is this as good as it gets? These questions can feel uncomfortable without a method for uncovering the answers. Enter the USA TODAY bestseller, The Life Brief, a simple yet effective playbook for navigating life’s decisions, crossroads, and curveballs. Modeled after the creative brief, a tool used by the most innovative companies in the world to unlock clarity and unleash action, The Life Brief carves a path for living with intention and imagination. Designed by award-winning brand strategist Bonnie Wan, The Life Brief is a practice in three parts: The first phase, Get Messy, is a set of open-ended writing prompts that cut through limiting beliefs and false assumptions about what’s possible. The second phase, Get Clear, guides you to crystal clarity so you can declare what you truly, deeply want. The third phase, Get Active, catapults you into the steps to making your desires real.

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    A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
    by The School of Life & Alain de Botton

    This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. We live in a complicated, frenzied, and noisy world, filled with too much information, too many products, ideas, and opinions. As a result, many of us long for simplicity: a pared down, more peaceful, and less cluttered life. This book is a guide to the simpler lives we crave and deserve. In it, we learn about Zen Buddhism, modernist architecture, monasteries, psychoanalysis, and why three good friends and a few treasured belongings are enough. Taking a psychological approach, the book also guides us toward inner simplicity. For too long we've been drowning in excess, clutter, and confusion. A Simpler Life helps us tune out the static and focus on what really matters. DECLUTTER YOUR LIFE practical ways to get rid of physical and psychological clutter. HOW TO BE DIRECT advice on adopting a simpler, more straight-forward mindset. THE APPEAL OF MINIMALISM looks at why more of us are drawn to a pared down existence. HOW TO SIMPLIFY everything from relationships, social life, lifestyle, and work.

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