One of my favorite books is "Unlimited Power" by Anthony Robbins. It is a non-fiction, self-help book that presents dozens of practical techniques for using your mind to change the way you feel. This is the only book I have ever read from cover to cover and then immediately started it again and read it through a second time.

I have used many of the techniques Tony presents to make my life better. The book is not about hype or "pop psychology", but is more of a systematic approach to changing your thinking, your emotions, and your life. And the amazing thing is, Tony's techniques work -- if you will persistently do them.

Here are some samples:

"If you adopt a vital, dynamic, excited physiology, you automatically adopt the same kind of (mental/emotional) state. It works so fast and it works without fail." --Tony Robbins

"The level of success you experience internally -- the happiness, joy, ecstasy, love, or anything else you desire -- is the direct result of how you communicate to yourself. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life -- it is (the result of) your interpretation of what is happening." Tony Robbins

"No matter how terrible a situation is, you can represent it in a way that empowers you." --Tony Robbins

"You can let your brain run you. You can let it flash you any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want." --Tony Robbins

If you want a happier, more effective life, read and do the things taught in "Unlimited Power".

"Be someone who inspires the people around you by the way you live your life and the way you treat others." --Deanna Beisser

"For those who are willing to believe in their dreams and in themselves, life is a precious gift in which anything is possible." --Deanna Beisser

"Every day remind yourself to think positively about things, to take whatever happens and find something good in it, to be hopeful." --Deanna Beisser

"Positive thinking allows the song in your heart to make beautiful sounds for everyone to enjoy." --Deanna Beisser

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." --Eldridge Cleaver

"The majority of men do not usually act in accord with reason, but follow social pressures, inherited customs, and long established, often subconscious, patterns of action." --W.E.B. DuBois

"No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin." --Whitney Moore Young

"I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform." --Marva Nettles Collins

"Silence is the door of consent." --Berber proverb

"Only false prophets shun criticism, because they do not want their real motive revealed." --James Cone

"If someone is bringing out your most self-destructive tendencies, acknowledge that person is not a friend." --Ellis Cose

I just read a book called "I Knew William Booth". It is a collection of short articles and writings by people who knew William Booth, the cofounder of The Salvation Army, personally. Booth was an awesome man -- deeply committed to living right and to helping others get saved. His idea of "salvation" wasn't just a religions experience, but a radical turn around in a person's lifestyle from sin and self-destruction to living a high moral life of service to God and others.

He loved God above all. Several people said that in the middle of a conversation he would suddenly begin to talk to God. To Booth God was more real than his physical surroundings.

These stories about William Booth are very inspiring and challenging. They literally gave me goose bumps and made me cry out of a desire to see God work more powerfully in my own life. How we need some people like William Booth in our world today! Oh God, give us some real men and women of God in our day!

The Christians Secret of a Happy Life was written in the late 1800's by Hannah Whitall Smith. Read it, you'll like it. Do what it says and you will begin to experience wonderful happiness.

"Very few people realize the effect of thought upon the condition of the soul. If we think low and corrupt thoughts, we bring diseases upon our soul." --Hannah Whitall Smith

"Temptation cannot be sin; and the truth is, its is no mare a sin to hear whispers and suggestions of evil in our souls than it is for us to hear the wicked-talk of bad men as we pass along the street. The sin comes, in either case, only by our stopping and joining in with them." --Hannah Whitall Smith