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Books

General

Donnellan, L. (2009). Born to do: the practical guide to loving your work. Austin, TX: Bright Livelihoods. Download first twenty pages here.

Robinson, K. (2009).The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.New York: Viking Penguin Group.

Casnocha, Ben and Hoffman, Reid. The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career.

Bibliography

The Path to BL: Part One

Cameron, J. (1992). The Artist’s way. New York: Penguin Putnam.

Dali Lama. (2001). An Open heart: practicing compassion in everyday life. An Online Publication (www.ipublish.com): Time Warner Trade Publishing.

Jacobson, M. (2000). Hand me down dreams. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.

Lozoff, B. (2000). It’s a meaningful life: it just takes practice. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam.

The Path to BL: Part Two

Carter, J. (1998). The Virtues of aging. New York, NY: Random House.

Bolles, R. (2000). What Color is your parachute? Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.

Bryan, M. (1999). Codes of love: hoe to rethink your family and remake your life. New York, NY: Atria Publishing.

Goldberg, N., & Guest, N. (1986). Writing down the bones. Boston, MA: Shambhala Press.

Robinson, K. (2009). The Element. New York: Viking Penguin Group.

Krieger, L. (2002). Bicycle made easy. New York, NY: Vitesse Press.

Leider, R. (2001). Whistle while you work. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishing.

Levoy, G. (1998). Calling: living and following an authentic life. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.

Mahoney, D. (1998). The Longevity strategy, how to live to 100 using the brain-body connection. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

McGraw, P. (2000). Relationship rescue: a seven step strategy for reconnecting with your partner. New York, NY: Hyperion Publishing.

Mundis, J. (1990). Getting out of debt, staying out of debt and living prosperously. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

Porot, D. (1996). The Pie method for career success. Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, Inc.

Sark. (2002). Prosperity pie. New York, NY: Fireside Publishing.

The Path to BL: Part Three

Bronson, P. (2003). What should I do with my life? Stories from people who asked and answered the question. New York, NY: Random House.

Capacchione, L. (2000). Visioning: 10 steps to designing the life of your dreams. New York, NY: JP Tarcher.

Covey, S. (1994). First things first. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Covey, S. (1989). The Seven habits of highly effective people. New York, NY: Fireside Publishing.

Goldberg, N. (1984). Long quite highway: waking up in America. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing.

Hudson, F. (1999). The Adult years. New York, NY: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Hudson, F. & McLean, P. (1996). Life launch, a passionate guide to the rest of your life. Santa Barbara, CA: Hudson Institute Press.

Jarow, R. (1995). Creating the work you love: courage, commitment and career. San Diego, CA: Inner Traditions International Limited.

Leider, R. (1997). The Power of purpose. San Francisco, CA: Barrett-Koeler Publishers.

Sark. (1992). Inspiration sandwich. Berkley, CA: Celestial Arts.

Leadership

Collins, J. (2001). Good to great: why some companies take the leap. New York: Harper Collins.

Collins, J. & Pores, J. (2002). Built to last. New York: Harper Collins.

Zander, B. & Zander, R. (2000). The art of possibility. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Positive Psychology Books

Aspinwall, L. & Staudinger, U. (2002). A psychology of human strengths: fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology. Washington, DC. American Psychological Association.

Frankl, V. (1946). Mans search for meaning. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Peterson, C. & Seligman, M. (2004). Character strengths and virtues; a handbook and classification. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Seligman, M. (2003). Authentic happiness. Boston, MA: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Snyder, C.R. & Lopez, S. (2002). Handbook of positive psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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