These books will help you achieve your goals no matter what you want in life. What is holding you back from the life of your dreams? Are you fulfilled in the life you are currently living? Do you feel as though you have reached your creative potential and found happiness in life? Often, we get sucked into self-depricating thoughts, fear and anxieties that stop us from reaching our goals and finding the happiness we deserve. You’re your own worst enemy when you don’t allow yourself to achieve your goals from fear of failing.

I love these books. Whether you’re trying to achieve your goals this year or changing the things you value in your life, these books will help you achieve your goals and move in the right direction. It isn’t enough to want the life of your dreams; you have to work for it. For many of us, it’s our own self-doubt and fears of failure that stop us from reaching our potential.

Four of My Favorite Books to Achieve Your Goals

1. Your Next Big Thing: Ten Small Steps to Get Moving and Get Happy by Ben Michaelis PhD
   You deserve to lead your life fulfilled, and isn’t going to happen on its own. You need to work on the life you desire, and that’s where Dr. Ben Michaelis comes in. Dr. Michaelis gives you amazing wisdom and tools to help you fulfill your goals and find your purpose. This amazing books will guide you on your life-changing journey to live the life you want. Through this ten- step plan, Dr. Michaelis teaches you how to find that passion and joy your life is lacking, and to go out and fight for it. Your Next Big Thing is exactly the book you need to get up, find your purpose and take a chance.
2. Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love and Life by Christine Hassler
   This book helped me a lot! One of my clients who was dreading her job decision look this book and changed her life (Okay I may have helped a little too). Sometimes our expectations don’t workout and we get disappointed, it sucks. Christine Hassler calls this the expectation hangover: when our desires aren’t met or something unexpected happens and we do not get the feelings of accomplishment and control we were hoping for. In this how-to, Hassler teaches you how to emotionally and spiritually deal with the inevitable disappointments in life through meditations and exercises designed to help with current and prevent future disappointments in your life.

• May Cause Miracles: 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness by Gabrielle Bernstein
  You know I love me some Gabby. She has helped me in so many ways and when I was working with her in NYC she work shopped this book with my group before she finalized the manuscript. It is LIFE CHANGING STUFF you guys! This book will help you achieve your goals inside and out. Gabrielle Bernstein, author of Miracles Now, bring you the amazing 40-day guide to finding unlimited happiness. This New York Times bestseller teaches you how shifting your thoughts and actions can lead to happier and more fulfilling lives. From body image to relationships and money, positive outlooks can lead to positive results. Fear holds us back from many of the goals we set for ourselves and leading the happy lives we hope for. Start this 40-day challenge and learn how to accept and appreciate the life you’ve been given, and find happiness along the way.

• The Artist’s Way Starter Kit by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan
  I’m reading this awesome guide right now and I can tell you, Julia Cameron’s Starter Kit is not just for artist’s; it’s for anyone who is blocked from feelings of creative expression. Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to help you find and recover your creativity. Whether your creative blocks come from limiting beliefs, fear, guilt or self-sabotage, this kit will help you replace them with confidence and creativity. Use this journal to uncover your inner artistic creativity and inspiration for the life you want to lead. Have your own journal? No prob just get the book, I promise you’ll feel validated, motivated and feeling your creative spark after just a few pages.

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Emily Roberts MA, LPC is The Guidance Girl. Her goal is to help YOU become the most confident person you know! Emily is an award-winning author Express Yourself: A Teen Girls Guide to Speaking Up and Becoming Who You Are, Psychotherapist, TV & Media Contributor, Educational Speaker, and parenting consultant. She travels around the country educating girls, women, and parents. Express Yourself is available at bookstores nationwide and on Amazon. To learn more about Emily click here.