This section is called core resources and we have used a picture of an apple core, I mean, the level of sophistication we are working at here is mind blowing. Joking aside, these seven books have been chosen very specifically. Not only is each book phenomenal and effective as a stand-alone book, but between the seven books, the knowledge and strategy they impart will set any diligent reader up for a life of success, health and happiness.

This core resource section is different from the other resources sections in that these books are essential for everyone, regardless of what you are trying to achieve. All the other sections are recommendations for people trying to improve a specific area of their life e.g. health and fitness  or career etc.

These core resources can be read in any order, however for maximum impact, they are best read in the order we have listed them below.

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Most of the tried and tested techniques that bring people success, health and happiness have been around for a long time, some even for millennia. This book provides a model that makes sense of the human condition, of how our minds are put together and how society is put together. It helps us use this model to navigate you from where you are now to having the life you want.

This book helps readers understand why the three primary threads of success, health and happiness are so interconnected and why working on one of those threads in isolation is more challenging and less effective than working on all three in conjunction.

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This book will either give you a shift in mind frame or it will be meaningless. It is a collection of concepts and metaphors.

Based on the musings and analysis of a Cambridge academic turned Eastern philosopher and general spiritual hippy type, I didn’t expect this to be my kind of book and I understand people’s scepticism when hearing about this book. But for me, and thousands of other people, by practising what it teaches, it has changed my life significantly and for the better, more than I thought possible. It’s practices have brought happiness, peace and meaning to every level of my conscious and subconscious mind. It has also given me a very functional model of how the human mind works.

If for whatever reason this book does not have a transformational effect for you then we have other resources in our Presence section that take different approaches.

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This heartfelt and powerful book will give you a much better understanding of how people think and interact. It will help you to get what you want from other people and be able to give them what they want in return.

Well-structured and insightful, this book will guide you through the stages of people interaction in an order that will benefit those around you and yourself.

This book has stood the test of time, it is nearly a hundred years old. Originally published in 1936, and then revised in 1981. I’m thinking, they wouldn’t have needed to have revised it if they had just got it right the first time.

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This is one of the most successful books of all time at helping people to become successful at their jobs, in business, in organisations and in their personal life.

It takes a structured approach to the fundamentals of being effective. Whilst most of the books on this list have been bestsellers at some point due to the powerful impact they have on people’s lives, this book has sold more than 40 million copies and has been translated into 40 languages

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Are we recommending people only work 4 hours a week? No, we are not. This book focuses on people selling products, are we recommending everyone sells products? No, we are not. However, the backdrop of reducing work hours and running an effective business provides an awesome petri dish where the author explores the following:

• Outside the box strategies
• Effective experiments to help ascertain what will and won’t work
• To be laser focused on what is actually important to you
• Adding in automation
• Very practical tips and blueprints for using time effectively
• Real life examples

And like several of these 7 Core books, it is interlaced with the authors own personal journey.

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This book is less of a casual read and more of a manual. It's not written to entertain - its written to be effective. And it is. The author lays out a deeply practical, highly structured system for organizing your tasks, your priorities, and your brain. It's the kind of system that, once implemented, gives you back the mental clarity and space you didn't even realise you'd lost.

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We are in part the product of our habits and for most people good habit-forming is the backbone of success, health and happiness

Let's get some advice from the world leader in helping people maintain the habits they want to and phase out the habits they don't want

I would like to break my habit of licking shop windows, it's just hard when they look so tasty