Self-Improvement audiobooks

The Perfect Sales Presentation - Abridged

By: Robert L. Shook

Narrated by: Robert L. Shook

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America’s best salespeople, from businesses spanning IBM to Mary Kay Cosmetics, take you along on the perfect sales presentation.
 
There’s much more to superselling than just showing a great product. Sales presentations that consistently get results are subtle blends of skill, performance, and manipulation. It’s a craft that’s almost... Read more

It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now - Abridged

By: Barbara Sher

Narrated by: Barbara Sher

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Sher has transformed the lives of millions with her phenomenally successful books, workshops, and television appearances.  Now, in a work that explores and demystifies one of life's most challenging and bewildering passages, she shatters the myth that turns midlife into a crisis and offers a bold new... Read more

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Abridged

By: Peter M. Senge

Narrated by: Peter M. Senge

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own. Read more

Getting Past No - Abridged

By: William Ury

Narrated by: William Ury

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We all want to get to yes, but what happens when the other person keeps saying no?

How can you negotiate successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate customer, or a deceitful coworker?

In Getting Past No, William Ury of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation offers a proven breakthrough strategy for turning adversaries into negotiating... Read more

Money Magnetism

By: J. Donald Walters

Narrated by: J. Donald Walters

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This book can change your life by changing how you think and feel about money. Offering simple, powerful techniques for attracting material and spiritual success, Money Magnetism is a practical, easy-to-understand guide that will help you quickly realize results. With its fresh, new insights Money Magnetism goes far beyond the scope of other... Read more

Solitude and Service: Spiritual Activism

By: Sister Helen Prejean, Jonathan Montaldo & Bless...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program highlights interviews and public presentations inspired by the life and legacy of the renowned spiritual practitioner and contemplative, the late Thomas Merton. Gathered together in a unique forum sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center Foundation, the presenters represent many cultures, vocations, and spiritual faiths. Read more

Spiritual Insights into the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

By: Deepak Chopra & Michael J. Gelb

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Michael J. Gelb

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engaging audio program, the spiritual insights and genius of Leonardo da Vinci make for a lively dialogue between Michael J. Gelb and Deepak Chopra, M.D. Chopra and Gelb discuss da Vinci's achievements as a great scientist, mathematician, artist, and magnificent seer; and Gelb presents seven principles that enable us to "think like... Read more

ReInventing Yourself - Abridged

By: Steve Chandler

Narrated by: Steve Chandler

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you're self-employed, a middle manager, or a Fortune 500 executive, it's easy to get stuck in a humdrum life and only fantasize about "what could have been."

Motivational speaker Steve Chandler helps you turn that way of thinking into "what will be." Reinventing Yourself is filled with techniques for breaking down negative barriers and... Read more

Harry Hoxsey, Healer Before His Time

By: Kenny Ausubel

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenny Ausubel presents cutting edge data about an unsung hero: Harry Hoxsey, who was an ex-coal miner who claimed a cure for cancer back in 1924, using herbal remedies inherited from his great grandfather. Read more

Still Here - Abridged

By: Ram Dass

Narrated by: Steve Susskind

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying is Ram Dass’ reflection on the joys, pains and opportunities that appear as we age. Read more

Coaching, Compassion and Making A Difference

By: Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Clinical psychologist Maria Nemeth has discovered that while therapy is a great place to air your feelings and gain an understanding of your problems, coaching provides a different level: "In coaching, people observe their psychological process without getting caught up in it, and instead turn their attention toward what they truly want to... Read more

Pathways to God

By: Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Joan Borysenko

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this insightful dialogue between Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., and Deepak Chopra, M.D., Borysenko reveals the seven pathways to God that are characteristic of the modern mystic: Path 1: Involves the root chakra, which grounds us, and has to do with our relationship to the earth as a living being. Path 2: The inner union of male and female and what... Read more

Soul Stories

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Gary Zukav

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing with profound psychological and spiritual insight, prize-winning author Gary Zukav has had a major impact on the consciousness of our entire generation. His number-one national bestseller. The Seat of the Soul, has been a life-changing experience for millions of Americans.
In Soul Stories, Gary Zukav shows how this new understanding of... Read more

A Guided Meditation

By: Glenn Harrold

Narrated by: Glenn Harrold

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Experience deep inner peace and calm when you listen to this superb high quality guided meditation MP3 download by Glenn Harrold the UK's best-selling self-help audio author. Glenn's highly acclaimed techniques and state of the art production will help you achieve a deep state of relaxation and meditation in a safe and natural way.

A Guided... Read more

Complete Relaxation

By: Glenn Harrold

Narrated by: Glenn Harrold

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This superb, high-quality hypnotherapy program by the UK's best-selling hypnotherapist, Glenn Harrold, combines powerful clinical hypnotherapy techniques with state-of-the-art digital recording technology. Designed to guide the listener into a wonderful deep state of complete mental and physical relaxation. You will also learn valuable... Read more

Practice Makes Perfect

By: Bo Lozoff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following your bliss is not always easy.  In fact according to Bo Lozoff, there's only one thing more difficult:  not following your bliss.  Lozoff is following his at the Human Kindness Foundation he co-founded, where he gets to "see people in some of the most profound changes of their lives." Read more

Eating Wisdom

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of life's greatest pleasures is eating, according to Weil, who cuts through the national obsession with diet and weight like a knife through an overripe papaya. Dr. Andrew Weil believes there doesn't have to be a distinction between healthy food and pleasurable food. His sensible advice stems from a belief in a natural, balanced approach to... Read more

The Adventure Toward the Sacred

By: Elizabeth Lesser

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as America is the melting pot of race and culture, so too does it provide a fertile breeding ground of diverse spiritual and religious paths.  Elizabeth Lesser performs the magic of synthesizing the rich blends of the world's wisdom traditions, focusing on our right to individual choice. Read more

Appreciating Your Originality

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As former monk Thomas Moore points out many of us are working overtime to "build and manufacture a self, just as we build and manufacture the world."  Moore explores how and why we cover up who we really are and offers a vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and creativity through following the lead of your authentic self. Read more

Recipes for Sustainability

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki Robin discusses the multiple dimensions of freedom, including paradox, and how this relates to sustainability—both personal and planetary.  "If we make certain choices—personally, socially, politically, culturally—there is an emergent, practical, beautiful, delicious and fun reality that is waiting for us to step into." Read more

Success God's Way - Abridged

By: Charles F. Stanley

Narrated by: Charles Stanley

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Success is defined by a continuing desire to be the person God called you to be and to achieve those goals that God helps you to set," says Charles Stanley. In Success God's Way, Stanley teaches God's principles for success, including ten steps to help you reach God's goals in your life, and what to do about the seven success blockers that... Read more

The Wisdom of the Sufis

By: Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Hidayat Inayat-Khan

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkable dialogue between Hidayat Inayat-Khan and Deepak Chopra, M.D., the wisdom of the Sufis is appraised. Hidayat defines the word Sufi as "wisdom and purity." He explains that "any person whose heart is attuned to the Divine presence is a Sufi, because Sufism means purifying oneself and one's mind from preconceived ideas." These... Read more

The Corporate Athlete - Abridged

By: Jack Groppel & Bob Andelman

Narrated by: Jack Groppel

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Today's corporate world is much like the world of professional sports -- fiercely competitive, mentally and physically demanding, and requiring constant, vigilant, training. More than ever, to maintain health, happiness, and career success, executives and employees must become Corporate Athletes.
Based on the latest scientific and medical... Read more

The Path to Enlightenment

By: Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Robert Thurman Ph.D.

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating dialogue between Robert Thurman, Ph.D., and Deepak Chopra, M.D., many concepts relating to compassion, enlightenment, and Buddhism are examined in depth. Some of the conclusions that Thurman and Chopra make include the following: -The heart of the teaching of the Buddha is that enlightenment is getting to that level of... Read more