Book #10:
"Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell

In the year 1843 a man was born who was to have a profound effect on the lives of millions of people.

His name was Russell Herman Conwell. Dr. Conwell raised several million dollars with which he founded Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, today one of the country's leading schools.

He raised the money by giving more than 6,000 lectures all over the country. And in each one of them he told the story “Acres of Diamonds.”

It was a true story which had effected him very deeply and it had the same effect on his audiences. The money he needed to build the college came pouring in.

Book #11:
"Your Word is Your Wand" by Florence Schovel Shinn

This great little book by Shinn is jam packed full of affirmations for all sorts of different life situations such as business, relationships, money, forgiveness, deby, happiness etc.

It is designed to be an additional resource for you to use along with the power principles in her other two books here: The Game of Life and How to Play it and The Secret Door to Success.

This book will give you a whole new slant on the transforming power that affirmations can have in your life

Book #12:
"The Game of Life and How To Play it" by Florence Schovel Shinn

Most of us have forgotten that "life is a game that can only be played not won" as Bagger Vance said in the movie of the same name.

He Must have read Shinn's book! Here are a couple of paragraphs from her opening chapter:

Most people consider life a battle -- but it is not a battle, it is a game.

It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law.

The imagination has been called, "The Scissors of The Mind," and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said: "Know Thyself."

There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious, is simply power, without direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is directed to do; it has no power of induction.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Shinn is one of what were called the "new thought movement" from around the turn of the century and promotes the "Metaphysics" of the bible as opposed to the religious dogma that most people know it for today.

Here's what you'll learn:

Chapter 1: The Game
Chapter 2: The Law of Prosperity
Chapter 3: The Power of the Word
Chapter 4: The Law of Nonresistance
Chapter 5: The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness
Chapter 6: Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)
Chapter 7: Love
Chapter 8: Intuition or Guidance
Chapter 9: Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
Chapter 10: Denials and Affirmations

Book #13:
"The Secret Door to Success" by Florence Schovel Shinn

Here is another thought-provoking book from Shinn. She says:

A successful man is always asked - "What is the secret of your success?"

People never ask a man who is a failure, "What is the secret of your failure?"

It is quite easy to see and they are not interested. People all want to know how to open the secret door to success. For each man there is success, but it seems to be behind a door or wall.

This book is packed with great success stories like this one:

A number of years ago I went to California to speak at the different centers, by way of the Panama Canal, and on the boat I met a man named Jim Tully.

For years he had been a tramp. He called himself “The King of the Hoboes”.He was ambitious and picked up an education. He had a vivid imagination and commenced writing stories about his experiences.

He dramatized tramp life, he enjoyed what he was doing, and became a very successful author.

I remember one book called "Outside Looking In." It was made into a motion picture.He is now famous and prosperous and lives in Hollywood.

What opened the secret door to success for Jim Tully?

Read this book.

Book #14:
"Character-Building Thought Power" by Ralph Waldo Trine

This is a very short book, only 20 or so pages, but it is absolutely packed with the wisdoms of success.

He says:

Unconsciously we are forming habits every moment of our lives.

Some are habits of a desirable nature; some are those of a most undesirable nature.

Some, though not so bad in themselves, are exceedingly bad in their cumulative effects, and cause us at times much loss, much pain and anguish, while their opposites would, on the contrary, bring as much peace and joy, as well as a continually increasing power.

One of the things I like about the old classics is the way that the authors could pack such proufound truths into so few pages and in ways that almost anyone can understand them.

Book #15:
"Attaining Your Desires by letting your subconscious mind work for you" by Genevieve Behrend

"I would say this is the clearest, most comprehensive, most practical and indeed most do-able explanation of how the Creative Process works in real life that I've ever read."
-David Garfinkle

Behrend wrote her book as a complete seven-lesson course.

The writing is in dialogue form, between a "Sage" and a "Pupil." The Sage is a famous author and teacher; the Pupil is you. It is very easy reading, very tightly written, and very enlightening. Here are a few of the lesson/chapter titles:

Lesson 2: How to Get What You Want
Lesson 3. How to Overcome Adverse conditions Lesson 5. Making Your Subjective Mind Work for you Lesson 7. Putting Your Lessons Into Practice

Within these lessons is pure compressed dynamite. I mean it.

Here are a few sub-headings to give you a sense of the staggering power of this rare material:
"The Secret of Controlling Your Life Forces"
"Don't Look for Coincidences In Your Life"
"How to Drive Anxiety Out of Your Mind"
"How You Can Control Circumstances"
"How Your Mind Is Related to The Universal Mind"
"How to Develop Health and Harmony"

Book #16:
"Above Life's Turmoil" by James Allen

ames Allen is one of those authors I find I can read again and again and again and each time get so much out of his writings.

He says:
To maintain an unchangeable sweetness of disposition, to think only thoughts that are pure and gentle, and to be happy under all circumstances,- such blessed conditions and such beauty of character and life should be the aim of all, and particularly so of those who wish to lessen the misery of the world.

Same lesson, different author.
Control your thoughts and create you life.

Book #17:
"Byways to Blessedness" by James Allen

Along the highways of Burma there is placed, at regular distances away from the dust of the road, and under the cool shade of a group of trees, a small wooden building called a "rest-house", where the weary traveller may rest a while, and allay his thirst and assuage his hunger and fatigue by partaking of the food and water which the kindly inhabitants place there as a religious duty.

Along the great highway of life there are such resting places; away from the heat of passion and the dust of disappointment, under the cool and refreshing shade of lowly Wisdom, are the humble, unimposing "rest-houses" of peace, and the little, almost unnoticed, byways of blessedness, where alone the weary and footsore can find strength and healing.

In this book James shows you how taking the time to rest and go within will help you to create what you want "without".

Book #18:
"Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tse

"The Tao is one of the shortest books on philosopy of life ever written "

The best thing is the Tao doesnt tell you what to do. There are simply 80 or so small verses some no longer that a line or two, which could get you thinking for years. The idea however with the Tao is that you experience what they say as opposed just intellectually understand it, which I would say is the KEY to all personal development.

Have a read of this, there is such beauty in it's simplicity and truth.