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One is ‘The Magic’, as I’m sure you’ve all heard of The Secret sequels. Fortunately you don’t have to believe in the law of attraction to find this one useful as its all about gratitude and perspective. Doing the daily tasks really helped me in low or worrying times to see how much good there was to my life, and often, there was more than I thought there was.

Another was ‘What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School’. I purchased this book because the title really drew me in and the teaching of a real leader of such a successful company sounded like it’d be interesting. At the time, I had no involvement in corporate companies at all, and in fact, was training at a ballet school but wanted to better my knowledge on handling situations, how to talk to my director and how to conduct myself in an appropriate way when negotiating contracts for jobs I was offered. It proved useful in so many ways and fed my interest if nothing else. There are some really useful lessons and real examples in the book that pop into my mind frequently all these years later.

‘Ego is the enemy’ was recommended to me by a friend who thought it changed their thinking. I could’ve seen it as an insult, but that’d be my ego talking. I learned that ego shows itself in less obvious but equally as destructive ways and have done so much to control the way I now think and react after reading this book.