6 Upcoming Self-Help Books You Don't Want to Miss

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Self-help is one of the best-selling categories of books, and for good reason: they add value to readers’ lives. In a world obsessed with productivity, efficiency, and growth, books that help us achieve these things are hot commodities. These books do things like help us manage our time better, increase our earning potential, and achieve happier, healthier lives.

These books are numerous—anyone with a platform seems to be publishing a self-help book these days. This makes choosing the right ones a challenge. With so many being published each year, how can you choose where to invest your precious time? How can you separate the great authors from the stinkers and charlatans?

Well, fear not, because you’re about to read up on the best. These are the self-help books that promise to tackle the most vexing problems of our busy, modern lives, and that are written by experts who know their respective fields like no one else. Just as importantly, these are authors who know how to convey their complex knowledge in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way.

So to help guide you through a year of personal growth, let’s take a look at 6 upcoming self-help books that you don’t want to miss.

The Weekend Effect

HarperCollins

Written by Katrina Onstad, an award-winning journalist who has been published in The Guardian, The Globe, and The New York Times, “The Weekend Effect” addresses for one of the worst problems of modern American life: the “all-work-no-play” mentality.

Consider this: when someone asks how you’re doing, how often has “Oh, I’m keeping busy,” been your response? This common refrain is one of many indicators that “busyness” is considered a virtue in American culture. We very nearly worship the idea of filling up every nook and crevice of our day with productivity.

But what if that struggle is making us less productive? What if it’s hurting us? What if our brains need downtime?

“The Weekend Effect” is a heavily-researched work that follows people, cultures, and companies that successfully embrace the idea of time off in order to allow room for adventure and the search for personal purpose.

If you’re tired of working through your evenings and weekends, this might just be the push you need to restructure your life.

Waking Energy

HarperCollins

Jennifer Kries is an integrated wellness and fitness expert and an internationally renowned mind-body spirit innovator whose The Method Series, which synthesizes Pilates, Yoga, and Dance, has sold around 15 million units worldwide.

So, when it comes to wellness through movement, this is a woman who knows what she’s talking about.

Her upcoming book, “Waking Energy,” combines the best of Eastern philosophy, Western athletics, and a host of other traditions in order to help you master your energy level. She promises to help you not only develop your body, but your mind and spirit, as well, through her techniques—this is a guide to developing yourself as a whole person, not just a brain or a set of muscles or a collection of positive traits.

Each chapter of her book focuses on a unique wellness tradition, giving readers the chance to take the best and most effective strategies from various cultures. If you’ve been lacking energy and focus, Kries’ book may be just what you need to reboot your life and discover your true potential.

Stick With It

HarperCollins

Face it—we all have difficulty changing our bad habits. Try as we might, it always seems that we eventually find our way right back to things like our cigarettes, junk food, and overspending.

Dr. Sean D. Young aims to change that. Permanently.

Dr. Young, an award-winning psychology and director of the UCLA center for Digital Behavior, shows readers how to make real, lasting change in their lives through his upcoming book, “Stick With It.”

This is one well-researched read, pulling from Young’s experience, from clinical trials, and from in-depth studies, all carefully and thoughtfully arranged for easy reading. Reading “Stick With It” is a study in complexity made simple through great presentation and organization.

Dr. Young’s book is also full of practical exercises you can do right there in your home, as well as real-world examples of how people changed their habits. With his book, you’ll soon realize that it is possible to change, and that this change can truly be forever.

Body Love

HarperCollins

Celebrities, whose jobs often depend on how great they look, trust Lelly LeVeque with their diets. That says something.

LeVeque is a holistic nutritionist, wellness expert, and celebrity health coach who operates out of Los Angeles, California. She has a serious passion about the science of human nutrition, and is a regular contributor to numerous health and wellness publications.

Her upcoming book, “Body Love,” is a practical work aimed at healing readers escape the “food drama” of cyclical fad diets by offering a better way: a four-step “Food Freedom” program. Instead of taking your body through the roller-coaster of yo-yo dieting, LeVeque advocates a healthier, more balanced approach that can be sustained over a lifetime.

These dietary improvements will leave readers with better-functioning and more beautiful bodies, and best of all, LeVeque promises to help her readers escape food cravings, mood swings, and all of the other unpleasant symptoms usually associated with dieting.

If you’re tired of your own food drama, pick up “Body Love” when it comes out, and enjoy a new way of eating.

Stress-Proof

TarcherPerigee

Dr. Mithu Storoni knows, perhaps more than anyone, the effects of stress on the human body and brain. With a PhD in Neuro-ophthalmology, and a history of research in Perceptual Neuroscience, she is uniquely qualified on the subject.

“Stress Proof” is a practical guide that reveals seven ways of fighting the effects of stress, all of which result in the strengthening of the body and mind, as well as in the development of resilience.

Each chapter delves into a common stressor, including cortisol levels, emotional triggers, and inflammation, and shows readers simple ways to reduce their effects. Dr. Storoni recommends things like dietary changes, exercise, and changes in daily habits that include surprisingly effective biological hacks that will give you greater control over your mind and body than you ever thought possible.

“Stress Proof” translates the latest research in stress relief into everyday language and simple exercises you can do at home. Try it when it comes out!

How to Own Your Own Mind

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The first thing that you should know about Napoleon Hill, author of “How to Own Your Own Mind,” is that he was born in 1883. But despite growing up in the Victorian age, Hill has some very relevant things to say about how to successfully use what you know. He is, after all, the author of “Think and Grow Rich,” one of the greatest guides to success ever written.

A journalist, Hill interviewed the greatest industrialists of his era in order to discover the secrets of success, working for more than twenty years to collect knowledge of the greatest minds of his time.

“How to Own Your Own Mind” was locked in a vault in 1941, and is now being brought to the public by TarcherPerigee.

In the book, Hill shows readers how to not only gather knowledge, but how to properly apply it, and how to know what knowledge is worth your time. In an age when we suffer beneath a constant information overload, Hill’s advice has never been more needed.