Life is change. Here are some tools for creating the change you want in life.
Sites
Zen Habits: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Offers articles with great advice for living.
Tim Ferriss's Blog: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Tim is an entrepreneur-cum-vagabond who loves learning and living well. He lives fascinating experiments, and then writes them up so we can all learn from them.
Books and other media
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
, by Sam Kaner and others: [recommended by Nathaniel White] This book should be on every facilitator's book shelf. It is full of sophisticated ideas, clearly expressed, with excellent diagrams on almost every page. It works as an introductory text-book and a reminder for sophisticated practitioners.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
, by Eckhart Tolle: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Tolle writes of his experience of letting go of suffering, and he gives clear directions for how you can do the same. The tools work.
Conscious Loving
, by Drs Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks; and
The Conscious Heart: Seven Soul-Choices That Inspire Creative Partnership
by the same: Excellent transformational books leading the way to satisfying, creative, co-committed relationships. [recommended by Charlotte Stone]
Radical Honesty, the New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
, by Brad Blanton: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Brad is marvellously blunt. He prescribes honesty as the solution for our over-medicated, anxious, image-obsessed civilization -- and he tells his readers exactly how to go about making changes. He lives his advice, both on the page and (in my experience) in person.
Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life
, by Marshall Rosenberg: [recommended by Nathaniel White] This is an excellent complement to Radical Honesty -- where Brad is rough, Marshall is gentle. Rosenberg focuses on listening deeply to people, and communicating without attacking. These are some great skills to master, and although I have a reservation about how some NVC trainees use the word "need", I strongly recommend this book.
Loving What is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life
, by Byron Katie: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Katie's book offers a very simple method for learning about the relationships and situations which we find challenging. As with other tools, this one isn't perfect for every situation, but wherever we may be getting stuck in blaming ourselves, others, or the world, it is very useful.
Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
, By Barbara Sher: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Sher has been helping people invent the lives they most want for several decades, and she is very good at what she does. I love the simple techniques and excellent advice she offers. While it is possible to go much deeper, Sher covers the basics very well -- and so many authors and career guidance professionals do not cover the basics at all.
Conscious Living: Finding Joy in the Real World
, by Gay Hendricks: [recommended by Nathaniel White] Although Gay covers some of the same territory here as he and his wife do in Conscious Living and Conscious Heart, he gives special attention to manifesting and life design. The manifesting material, particularly the "three levels of manifestation", is worth the price of the book -- and it doesn't hurt to be reminded of the other information. Where Barbara Sher spends her whole book on what Gay would call "the first level of manifestation", Dr. Hendricks goes much deeper to touch on emotional shifts and the practice of integrity.
People & Companies
The Hendricks Institute: [recommended by Nathaniel White] I trained with these folks for two and a half years; using their tools I transformed my life.