Whether you’re looking to learn new skills and implement better habits or get fit and focused, these audiobooks will tap into your motivation and get you making plans to level up your life. Find your new favourite book from our list of inspirational titles that speak to listeners of all ages, backgrounds, and ambitions in audio format. You don’t have to be reading books every day to get the tools for self-development. You can reap the rewards and lessons by listening to the most life-changing books as audiobooks. The best time to start is now—so add these powerful and poignant titles to your listening library on Audible.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Positive thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. That’s the lesson superstar blogger Mark Manson wants you to walk away with in his number one New York Times bestseller. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F-ck is a guide to living a contented, grounded life by being honest to yourself, facing your fears and accepting your limitations.
If you feel like rolling your eyes into the back of your head when someone tells you to “look on the bright side,” this is the thought-provoking audiobook you’ve been looking for—honest, raw, and unafraid to tell the truth about happiness.
Losing weight isn’t easy. You start off motivated, but sometimes you’re just one bad day away from giving in.
While so many weight loss diets focus on what you can or can’t eat, fasting is about changing how you eat. In Life in the Fasting Lane, Dr. Jason Fung explains the life-changing benefits of fasting and provides a practical guide for introducing fasting into your life, including meal planning that fits fasting into your work, exercise and social routines. This great book is transformed into an even better audiobook that will resonate with listeners, wherever they are with their weight and fitness goals.
Are you feeling trapped by your job or stuck in a relationship? Do you feel like you could finally come into your own and live your best life if you could make a change, but you’re paralysed by fear of diving into the unknown? This is the Audible Original that can change your mindset.
Mel Robbins is here to shake you out of your old ways of thinking with her life-coaching lessons to help you discover your purpose and reach for your dreams. If you’ve ever felt like worry, anxiety or imposter syndrome has kept you from making the leap of faith that could change your life, you need to listen to Take Control of Your Life.
Everyone’s broken a New Year’s resolution in their lifetime. You gave up on that diet, you stopped working out by February, you never did sign up for those Spanish classes. We’ve all been there. According to James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habits and how we form them, it’s not you. More often than not, when we try to make changes, we’re going in without the right tools.
Atomic Habits is your essential guide to developing new habits. Writer and narrator James Clear lays out a straightforward framework for making good habits stick by making tiny changes in your behaviour. It’s a blueprint for building systems that make real-life changes. Changing everyday habits can help you reach new heights. Whether your goals are personal or professional, starting small leads to big improvements.
Atomic Habits teaches you how to make time for manageable changes. No matter how busy life gets, you never have to set aside your goals for self-improvement. With Clear’s help, you will overcome those days when you feel like you just don’t have it in you and keep moving towards making your goals a reality.
When life gets busy, you have to make tough choices about what you do with your time. You can move into a bigger home, but your commute will get longer. You can take that new job, but there are going to be more overtime hours. They may be the right choices, but they can mean cutting back on the things that bring you joy and you start to lose an important part of the balance that makes for a happy life.
Habits for Happiness is an Audible Original Podcast that will teach you 10 daily habits to develop a “growth mindset”: a belief that you can change your own life and grow through small, daily increments. In 11 episodes, you learn the building blocks for personal happiness that you can apply and practice every day. Dr. Tim Sharp shows you how to fit happiness into any routine, no matter how busy life gets in one of the best books about happiness and self-improvement.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling books of all time—and for a good reason. Written by American writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie, this groundbreaking self-help book was first published in 1936. Many influential figures and business people across the world have named this title their bible for developing communication and life skills. The basis of this audiobook is that you can get someone to do what you want them to by viewing the situation from their point of view. This insightful non-fiction book continues to inspire and teach listeners in audio format, narrated by Andrew MacMillan.
After years of being held prisoner by the Nazis during World War II, Viktor E. Frankl went on to become an influential neurologist and psychologist who developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy. In Man’s Search for Meaning, listeners will hear harrowing details about Frankl’s heartbreaking experiences in four concentration camps before learning about the origins of logotherapy, which centres around a core belief that our primary motivation is a search for meaning in life. A life-changing audiobook, Man’s Search for Meaning encourages listeners to understand Frankl’s suffering whilst acknowledging his world-changing research. Simon Vance narrates this powerful and essential listen.
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has written numerous titles in his extensive career, but The Alchemist stands out from the rest. This slow starter was almost dropped by its publisher, but became an international literary sensation, spending years on the New York Times bestseller list. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream inspires listeners to explore life from a different perspective.
In this poignant listen, a young shepherd boy named Santiago sets off on a breathtaking journey, spanning different places and time frames, with plenty of challenges and obstacles along the way. Narrated by renowned actor Jeremy Irons, this uplifting coming-of-age story is packed with life lessons, fables and pearls of wisdom that resonate with any listener.
Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is one of the most popular life-changing books of a generation. But this listen is dedicated to much more than personal development. It is full of self-reflective questions and answers that allow the listener to dive deep into their self-discovery journey. Eckhart Tolle breaks down the walls of difficult language that sometimes puts people off the deep work it takes to become a present and mindful person. A gifted author and spiritual teacher, Tolle narrates this moving reminder of the beauty of living in the present moment in a way that will transform listeners.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo is a Japanese organizing consultant and star of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, she provides listeners with the tools to declutter their homes and maintain a clean and calm environment. Kondo believes if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Her approach is tried and tested by her many clients. So why not get started this year by adding this life-changing listen to your audio library and transform your living space into a tidy and tranquil sanctuary?
This New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist earns a spot on our list of the most life-changing audiobooks. In this spectacular memoir, the late neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi sets out to answer the question: What makes a life worth living?
During the final stages of training as a neurosurgeon, 36-year-old Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. His diagnosis and coming face to face with his own mortality provoked him to embark on this journey to discover what makes a meaningful life. This stunning listen offers an unforgettable and life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death that truly puts life into perspective.
Change Is Waiting for You
Ready to make a change? It can be starting a new career, becoming a healthier you, losing weight or just feeling better about yourself. The first step is finding the motivation to change. The second is learning practical ways to remove the obstacles that are getting in your way. Start your transformation with these motivational self development titles.
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