5 Must Read Books To Achieve Success in Life, No Matter What Your Goals!

As the title suggests, this post is about, in my opinion, the 5 best books ever written to do with achieving success in life. Now success is relative to each individual, but no matter you want to achieve in life, reading the following 5 books will get you there. Obviously if you want to successful in a particular field you have to read up on that specific subject also, but the books I cover here are for generic success and starting points.

So I am going to quickly summarise all the books in one paragraph, so you can decide if you wish to read on or not. Then I will summarise each book and then towards the end of the post there is a special gift for you.

In the first paragraph I stated that success is relative to each individual. This is because it depends on what your goal in life is. Now if you need no money to achieve this goal, and are a lone wolf and need no people skills then you need not read these books. Just go into the forest or something (you could probably still benefit from the first and third and fifth books). For everyone else, money and the ability to handle people are 2 out of the 3 most important subjects when it comes to life. The 3rd (and perhaps the most important) is mind and body ie effective thinking and maintaining health.

Note: None of these books cover maintaining health to any great extent, and I am yet to come across a great overall book on the subject but you should check out my post on Living a Healthy Lifestyle.

I was going to write a summary of each book, but after doing the first 2 I realised
a) It was taking a long time (not an effective use of my time )
b) All the summaries really were was a copy of the contents page and most of it you wouldn’t get any advantage from anyway
c) it is far better for you to just read (or listen) to the damn books yourself as you will gain a much greater understanding that way and
d) If you click on the cover of each book it will take you to amazon.com and you can read the summaries there.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey

The E-myth Revisited by Michael E Gerber

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael Gelb

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

So those are the 5 books. You can click on the titles and it will take you to amazon.com where you can opt to purchase, if not just read their summaries. If you want them for free and don’t mind them in pdf, or even better, as audio books (I love audio books) then you can get them from the Friends Free Stuff section. Sorry but I couldn’t find E-myth on audio book.

For further reading on the subject of money Robert T. Kiyosaki is brilliant. I recommend Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing and Cash Flow Quadrant.

So that’s it. Revisit these books often. I like to listen to audio books cause I can do so while doing other things, and these five books are in constant rotation (in between other one offs). I probably listen to each one every 3-4 months.

To all the succes in your life, whatever that may be for you,

Travelling Jeeves.