Self-Improvement audiobooks

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living

By: Dale Carnegie

Narrated by: Andrew Macmillan

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

With Dale Carnegie’s expert advice, you’ll learn the proven, time-tested principles to breaking free of worry and anxiety so that you can start living your best life today.

Thanks to Dale Carnegie’s classic work of practical advice, more than six million people have already discovered happier, more fulfilling lives. How to Stop Worrying and Start... Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 3: Deep Questioning: The Eight Principles of Deep Ecology

By: Arne Naess, George Sessions, Doug Tompkins, Fri...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we begin to look at the deeper social, economic and spiritual questions behind the environmental crisis? In this program, Fritjof Capra, Arne Naess, and other environmentalists expand on the radical nature of Deep Ecology. Read more

Stop Screaming At the Microwave! - Abridged

By: Mary LoVerde

Narrated by: Mary LoVerde

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN OVERFLOWING IN-BOX...AN OVERFLOWING SINK FULL OF DIRTY BREAKFAST DISHES...IS THIS WHAT THE EXPERTS MEAN BY "HAVING IT ALL"?
You've organized, prioritized, delegated, and simplified, and you still don't have enough time for your family, your spouse, your friends, your boss -- much less yourself! You're a veteran of the time-management wars,... Read more

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens - Abridged

By: Sean Covey

Narrated by: Sean Covey

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over 3 million copies sold.

Adapted from the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is the ultimate teenage success guide—now updated for the digital age.

Imagine you had a roadmap—a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where you want to be in the future.... Read more

The Enneagram in Life and Work

By: Helen Palmer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"What stands between me and God?" This is the provocative question to which the Enneagram system offers a sophisticated answer. There are nine basic personality types, explains Helen Palmer, a foremost authority on the Enneagram. Each type has its own "emotional survival strategy" developed to help us cope in life-but this strategy can also be... Read more

Intelligence With a Heart

By: Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Emotional Intelligence (Bantam 1995) fundamentally changed our understanding of what qualities enable people to excel in real life.  The phenomenal response from the business community to the book prompted author Daniel Goleman to apply his insights to the workplace. Read more

Happiness Is a Choice - Abridged

By: Barry Kaufman

Narrated by: Susan Clark

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Happiness Is a Choice is a blueprint of simple, concrete methods to empower one's decision to be happy. Barry Kaufman presents a clear and strong statement on the care and feeding of the human spirit. He explores the belief that the secret to happiness lies within each of us, no matter what happens— or doesn't happen— in... Read more

Winning With the P&G 99 - Abridged

By: Charles L. Decker

Narrated by: Charles L. Decker

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Instantly recognizable as the company behind such familiar products as Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is admired as one of the world's best managed companies. Marketing training at P&G rivals that of an MBA degree, and Harvard Business School teaches P&G's brand-management system. Now, a former... Read more

Small Miracles II - Abridged

By: Yitta Halberstam & Judith Leventhal

Narrated by: Yitta Halberstam & Judith Leventhal

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With over half a million copies sold, Small Miracles opened the hearts of people all over the world with real life stories of remarkable coincidences.
Now, authors Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal have assembled a collection of new stories, each recalling a coincidence that is moving, heartwarming, and inspirational.
These wonderful... Read more

Bringing Music To Life: A Gathering of Sound Healers

By: Don Campbell, Pat Moffit Cook, Jeff Volk, John ...

Narrated by: Jeff Wessman & Jeff Volk

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it about sound, rhythm and music that affect us so powerfully?  In this program, presenters from the Sixth International Sound Colloquium, held in Colorado in 1998, discuss the many ways drums, voice, and music are used to change our physical, mental, and emotional states in positive, healing ways. Read more

Healing Your Body Mind and Soul

By: Sylvia Browne

Narrated by: Sylvia Browne

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On this fascinating, inspirational, and often humorous audio program-recorded live-the incomparable Sylvia Browne explains how you can heal your body, mind, and soul by reprogramming your cell memory, virtually eliminating your physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges. Sylvia talks about how you can take an active role in healing and... Read more

The Portable Coach - Abridged

By: Thomas J. Leonard

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement, as well as the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries.

Now, in The Portable Coach, Leonard presents his 28-step Principles of Attraction program -- an exciting, profoundly... Read more

Spiritual Literacy - Abridged

By: Frederic Brussat

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson & Howard McGillin

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from contemporary books and movies, they tutor us... Read more

Being in the Zone

By: Chungliang Al Huang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Creating meaning out of our lives gives us a purpose in being alive.  But in all our pondering, sometimes we forget to actually live. Chungliang Al Huang believes that “being alive is more important than the meaning of life.” Read more

Metamorphosis

By: Ralph Metzner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Metzner has been a pioneer in the continuing consciousness revolution.  “The only way to change consciousness is to change your own consciousness,” according to Metzner.  “Then, by example, it will carry over to other people.” Read more

The Ultimate Vision Quest

By: Carol Adrienne, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you get excited about the idea of finding your true purpose in life, you will enjoy this fascinating dialogue with Carol Adrienne.  She says, "Our life purpose is like a magnetic field that draws us toward a particular experience that we need at that time to develop a characteristic or change a point of view." Read more

The Art of Eating

By: Deborah Kesten

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Kesten explores the connection between a loving consciousness and food--how food affects our moods, the history of some of our eating habits, and how “spiritual nutrition” enables us to establish a healthier relationship with food, combining ritual, intention, spirit and love. Read more

Thinking Like a River

By: David Brower

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Still an activist at the age of eighty-six, Brower’s dedication stemmed from his ever-constant wonder and love of the natural world and his belief that all its elements have the same rights people do. Read more

Living in the Solution - Abridged

By: James A., John W. & Shadoe Stevens

Narrated by: Dan Lauria

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The meeting rooms are the focus of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous— a place where members share stories, enjoy a sense of fellowship, and begin healing. Living in the Solution: Understanding and Using the Wisdom of the Rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous will give those interested in the recovery process profound insight and a sense of... Read more

Towards A New Eco-Ethic

By: Doug Tompkins

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1990, Tompkins sold his half of his business and began purchasing wildlands in Chile.  He and his spouse Kris McDivitt Tompkins have worked tirelessly to acquire more lands and build a world-class nature reserve entirely through private means. Read more

Longevity: The True Wealth of Nations

By: Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Centenarians are the fastest-growing age group in the industrial world, and the founding members of history’s first senior-dominant society. Rather than seeing the aging population as a burden on society, Roszak views it as a precious spiritual resource. He’s the author of America the Wise: Longevity and the Culture of Compassion. Read more

The Way Of Wisdom

By: John Broomfield

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Examining alternative and complementary ways of learning about reality is a wondrous way to enlarge your perspective and become a more whole human being.  Rediscovering sacred traditions, ancient cultures and your own intuition, as well as communing with nature and discovering the more holistic explanations of how things happen are some of the... Read more

The Artist's Way at Work - Abridged

By: Mark Bryan & Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Mark Bryan & Julia Cameron

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The groundbreaking book The Artist's Way has helped more than a million people access their creativity and realize their dreams. Now, authors Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron, and Catherine Allen extend and expand the original Artist's Way tools in an all-new program specifically designed to encompass the world of the workplace.

The authors asked... Read more

The Art Of Leadership

By: James Autry & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on the wisdom of the world's oldest leadership manual, the Tao Te Ching, James Autry and Stephen Mitchell discuss how to transform the workplace.  Says Autry, "Where does leadership begin?  On the inside.  The transition from management--knowing what to do--to leadership--knowing how to be--is a transition from the external to the... Read more