Books like Design the life you love by Ayse Birsel

A guide that celebrates curiosity, offering practical ideas to enhance personal growth, relationships, and leadership.

Women, Food, and Desire guides readers to listen to their cravings for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, and inspiration, using those cues to achieve healthier, fuller, and more joyful lives.

Thoughts Are Things guides readers through the science of how our inner dialogue shapes success, drawing on research and interviews with experts in neuroscience, medicine, and business.

Rod Judkins draws on moments from art, literature, and innovation to illustrate how creativity can be cultivated and applied to everyday life.

A practical guide offering activities and exercises designed to enhance readers’ creative skills and foster personal growth.

Barnet Bain’s guide, The Book of Doing and Being, offers practical exercises and insights to unlock creativity, combine inspiration and action, and transform personal and professional projects.

"Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes-- like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration - to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives."-- "Based on the authors' wildly popular article in the Huffington Post called "18 Things That Creative People Do Differently" (which generated 5 million views and 500,000 Facebook shares in one week), this well-researched and engaging book reveals what we know about creativity, and what anyone can do to enhance this essential aspect of their lives and work"--

Life coach Lauren Handel Zander guides readers through a step‑by‑step method to transform setbacks into strengths, offering practical exercises, real client examples, and personal lessons for self‑actualization, motivation, and change.