Why am I passionate about this?

I have a passion for helping people realize they are only limited by their imagination. By dreaming wildly and acting on one’s dreams, a person can achieve highly unlikely outcomes. People are born to be free and pursue the things in life that make them happy and fulfilled. However, people need education, training, and mentoring. I am driven to do each of these to help others live fulfilling and purposeful lives. My expertise arises from my formal training and applied life lessons acquired from modeling highly-gifted teachers and friends.


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Stop Anxiety In Its Tracks

By Xolani Kacela,

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What is my book about?

Stop Anxiety In Its Tracks shows you the path of positive self-talk by teaching techniques you can practice at home.…

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The books I picked & why

Book cover of The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Xolani Kacela Why did I love this book?

This book was foundational to me finding a workable definition of love and the key to finding happiness and peace in life.

It contains abiding truths that steer the reader into a life of honesty and right relationship with people. Most importantly, the book taught me the importance of paying attention and persevering through difficult patches. As a result, very few problems stop me from achieving what I set my mind to accomplish.

By M. Scott Peck,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Road Less Traveled as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Now featuring a new introduction by Dr. M. Scott Peck, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic bestseller The Road Less Traveled, celebrated by The Washington Post as “not just a book but a spontaneous act of generosity.”

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on the New York Times bestseller list.

Written…


Book cover of The Vanishing Half

Xolani Kacela Why did I love this book?

Bennet’s style of storytelling warmed my heart from the first paragraph. Her prose tickles the reader’s brain and soul as she explores themes common to humanity, regardless of people’s origins.

This book helped me understand human motivation and how people from the same parentage and household can have such different perspectives about who they are and the world. The book also demonstrates the human need for love and grace.

By Brit Bennett,

Why should I read it?

11 authors picked The Vanishing Half as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE

'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019

'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine

'Favourite book [of the] year' Issa Rae

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years…


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Xolani Kacela Why did I love this book?

This book is so special in its depiction of human beings striving for survival.

It is the only book that shows African American as slaveholders. The charm is the clarity with which Jones writes. His gift is the ability to say complex things simply. He made me strive to be a better writer. His story helped me feel deeply in ways I had not previously known I could feel.

By Edward P. Jones,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked The Known World as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American literature.

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, becomes proprietor of his own plantation - as well as his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery…


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Xolani Kacela Why did I love this book?

No one understands people and the African American experience and can make it come alive like poetry like Toni Morrison. I felt I was living in a different world as I read Jazz.

The book taught me how deep pain can run in one’s spirit and how some dreams for some people will always be a dream. I came to understand what internalized oppression looks like and how racism perpetuates such pain in people’s lives. The book made me want to work harder to dismantle white supremacy culture.

By Toni Morrison,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked Jazz as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.

“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.” —Glamour

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra…


Book cover of Pulling Your Own Strings: Dynamic Techniques for Dealing with Other People and Living Your Life As You Choose

Xolani Kacela Why did I love this book?

I read this book when I was a teenager and it set me on a path of assertiveness and self-determination.

He had memorable content, such as “A clerk is a jerk,” that helped me put life in a different perspective. After reading the book, I was empowered and free to do as I felt was right in the world. The book taught me not to put up with other people’s BS.

By Wayne Dyer,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Pulling Your Own Strings as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD

From the #1 bestselling author of Your Erroneous Zones, a directed and practical book that shows you how to stop being manipulated by others and start taking charge of your own life.

Wayne Dyer reveals how we all can prevent ourselves from being victimized by others and begin to operate from a position of power at the center of our own lives. Asserting that we alone are responsible for how much we will be controlled by others, Dyer offers his practical plan for developing new attitudes toward the most common sources…


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Stop Anxiety In Its Tracks

By Xolani Kacela,

Book cover of Stop Anxiety In Its Tracks

What is my book about?

Stop Anxiety In Its Tracks shows you the path of positive self-talk by teaching techniques you can practice at home. You’ll find the ultimate ways to fend off anxiety. The author guides you through 22 strategies to stop anxiety before it starts. While reading the book you will find yourself motivated, cheerful, hopeful, and confident to face down stress everyday like it’s nothing.

This book will change how you experience stress. After reading this book, you will find stress and anxiety a blessing to the human lifestyle. You’ll learn how you can benefit from stress. The book will turn your biggest enemy into your strongest ally. People with anxiety, medical professionals, educators, counselors, and millennials should read this book.

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