TED Talk + Reading List

Goal Setting + Personal Development

 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, 1989.  The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul, Danielle LaPorte, 2014.  The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms, Danielle LaPorte, 2014.  Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others, Art Markman, PhD, 2014.  The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, 2006.  How the World Sees You, Sally Hogshead, 2014.

Nutrition/Diets/Cookbooks

 The 3-Season Diet: Eat the Way Nature Intended, John Douillard, 2001.  Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian Wansink, 2010.  The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow From the Inside Out, Angela Liddon, 2014.  The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, Vasant Lad, 1999.  Eat, Taste, Heal: An Ayurvedic Cookbook for Modern Living, Thomas Yarema, Daniel Rhoda, Johnny Brannigan, 2006.  Eating Well for Optimal Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating, Dr. Andrew Weil, 2001.  How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, Mark Bittman, 2006.  Salad Samurai: 100 Cutting-Edge, Ultra-Hearty, Easy-to-Make Salads You Don’t Have to Be Vegan to Love, Terry Hope Romero, 2014.  The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, David A. Kessler, MD, 2009.

Productivity/Time Management/Personal Finance

 I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Ramit Sethi, 2009.  The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp, 2006.  The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, 2014.  Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom, Tony Robbins, 2014.

Yoga/Meditation

 Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison, 2002.  Yoga to the Rescue: Remedies for Real Girls, Amy Luwis, 2007.  The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff, 1982.  Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John J. Ratey, MD and Eric Hagerman, 2008.  The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

Recommended TED Talks:

 Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+, January 2010.  Dean Ornish: Healing through diet, October 2008; Your genes are not your fate, June 2008; The killer American diet that’s sweeping the planet, December 2006.  Mick Cornett: How an obese town lost a million pounds, January 2014.  Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes, January 2013.  Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness, October 2007.  Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat, May 2008.  Rishi Manchandra: What makes us sick? Look upstream, September 2014.  Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn’t usually work, June 2013.  Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are, June 2012.  Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder, October, 2014.  Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, February 2006.