Self-Improvement audiobooks

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade

By: Guy Browning

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death—they're all terrifically exciting, but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges?

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Aging And Saging

By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our culture is bent on avoiding aging. The problem with that is every one of us is aging every day. Arrien points to the enormous possibilities for cultural change as we come into our wisdom years. She opens a gateway to personal possibility and an affirmation that we truly can look ahead to the best years of our lives. Read more

Making a Good Brain Great - Abridged

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do—learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days!

You probably run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep your body in great shape; you put on sunscreen and lotions... Read more

RealAge - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Remember your high school reunion? Even though everyone was the same chronological age, people no longer looked the same. Some stayed young and exuberant, whereas others looked as if they had aged ten years more than everyone else. Did you know that: Financial stress can make your RealAge two to thirty-two years older? A tablet of aspirin a day... Read more

Spook

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Bernadette Quigley

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary... Read more

Beyond Reason

By: Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro

Narrated by: Daniel Shapiro

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Getting to Yes, renowned educator and negotiator Roger Fisher presented a universally applicable method for effectively negotiating personal and professional disputes. Building on his work as director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher now teams with Harvard psychologist Daniel Shapiro, an expert on the emotional dimension of... Read more

Often Wrong, Never in Doubt - Abridged

By: Donny Deutsch

Narrated by: Peter Knobler

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Often Wrong, Never in Doubt is an inspirational book from one of America’s most colorful and exciting entrepreneurs. Donny Deutsch lays out the core principles that propelled him to create tremendous wealth, build a huge and influential business, and become a national personality. Using inside stories of the media, the advertising industry, and... Read more

Su mejor vida ahora - Abridged

By: Joel Osteen

Narrated by: Gustavo Rex

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lo que crea de sí mismo hoy puede determinar lo que será mañana...para bien o para mal. Bajo esta premisa, el pastor Osteen reta a los cristianos en su libro Tu mejor vida ahora, a cambiar sus inseguridades por la imagen propia de Dios. Descubra las fuerzas y habilidades innatas y cómo avanzar para obtener salud, abundancia, importancia y éxito.... Read more

The Majesty Calmness

By: William George Jordan

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1900, this meditation on the importance of mindfulness and stress management may sound ahead of its time, but the need to slow down is eternal. Read more

The Greatest Thing in the World

By: Henry Drummond

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Scottish evangelist in the late 19th century, Drummond is best remembered for this 1880 meditation on the empowering message of Corinthians, as timeless as it is life-affirming. Read more

The Power of Resilience

By: Sam Goldstein & Dr. Robert Brooks

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHORS OF THE LANDMARK RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN COMES A GUIDE TO RESILIENT LIVING FOR ADULTS "Brooks and Goldstein have created a uniquely wise guide summarizing a vast amount of research into a practical set of strategies to overcome adversity and live a stress-hardy life."--Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul® ... Read more

As A Man Thinketh

By: James Allen

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely, though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who... Read more

Sarah Laughed

By: Vanessa Ochs

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lessons and rituals from the women of the Bible, connecting contemporary women with their sacred stories In this vivid collection, Judaic scholar Vanessa Ochs brings the legends of the biblical matriarchs to new life. Intimate, familiar, and wise, the heroines in Sarah Laughed are revealed to be inspiring role models for women today. From Eve's... Read more

The Disease to Please

By: Harriet Braiker

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are people pleasers? They are the people who say yes, when they want to say no—the perennial nice person whose resentment is concealed behind their public “happy face.” Now best-selling author and frequent Oprah guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers help for anyone who has ever felt the resentment of giving 100% of themselves to others and... Read more

The Magic Story

By: Frederic Van Rensselaer Day

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious fable-within-a-story, this simple tale of one man's transformation caused a sensation when it was published in Success magazine in 1900; it endures as an inspiring parable of perseverance and possibility that speaks to the seeker and striver in all of us. Read more

Attunement to Higher Vibrational Living

By: Sonia Choquette

Narrated by: Sonia Choquette

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable audio download has been channeled by six-sensory revolutionary teach and healer Sonia Choquette and singer/songwriter/sound healer Mark Stanton Welch to help you align your internal energetic vibration with your greatest desires. Listening to this program will immediately raise your personal vibration to a higher level, connect... Read more

True Coming of Age

By: John Chirban

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

RECONNECT WITH THE PERSON YOU'RE MEANT TO BE A four-step process that opens the door to a meaningful life... Life's authentic moments provide the groundwork for connection to ourselves, others, and God, allowing us to assess what is most important in our lives and uncover the True Self. Such moments of clarity often result from crises, such as... Read more

Who's Pulling Your Strings?

By: Harriet Braiker

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A self-empowering plan for anyone who wants to stop being manipulated by others In Who's Pulling Your Strings?, Dr. Harriet B. Braiker,New York Times bestselling author of The Disease to Please, explains how depression, low self-esteem, chronic anger, and feelings of helplessness are often the result of being caught in relationships with... Read more

Character Building Through Power

By: Ralph Waldo Trine

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark in the New Thought movement that spawned much of the 20th century's self-help writing, this 1899 classic inspires us to create the healthy habits we need to develop the effective character we want. Read more

Über den Umgang unter Freunden - Abridged

By: Adolph Freiherr von Knigge

Narrated by: Anette Daugardt

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Über den Umgang unter Freunden" lautet das Kapitel aus seinem großen Werk über den Umgang mit Menschen, das hier zu hören ist. Knigge schreibt auch hier wohlmeinend, ratschlagend, und ohne besserwisserisch zu wirken, wie sich Freunde gegenseitig zu verhalten haben. "Hast Du einen treuen Freund gefunden, so bewahre ihn auch! Halte ihn in Ehren,... Read more

Vom Umgang mit Menschen - Abridged

By: Adolph Freiherr von Knigge

Narrated by: Anette Daugardt

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wohlmeinend, ratschlagend, hilfsbereit, aber nie besserwisserisch - das ist der Stil, in dem Knigge sein berühmtes Buch geschrieben hat, und deshalb macht es immer noch so viel Spaß, seinen Ausführungen zu lauschen. Dabei ist Knigge in jeder Frage sicher in der Einschätzung, und zu recht ist sein Name heute synonym mit gepflegten Umgangsformen.... Read more

Two Opponents, One Flag

By: Deidre Combs

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Deidre Combs explains how to recognize the larger lessons available to both parties in a conflict, and unearth the real fears and failings hiding behind the anger and harsh words. Read more

Making Work Work - Abridged

By: Julie Morgenstern

Narrated by: Julie Morgenstern

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author, Oprah’s favorite organizing expert, and America’s #1 problem solver, presents a groundbreaking manual for anyone who wants to enhance performance and efficiency in today’s downsized work world The New York Times bestselling author of Organizing From the Inside Out, Oprah’s favorite organizing expert, and... Read more

Live Strong

By: The Lance Armstrong Foundation

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day.

Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped... Read more