The best self-help books on personal development

Why am I passionate about this?

Ever since I was 12 years old, I told my mom I would figure out this thing called, “life.” It wasn't until 7 years later that I started my journey to dive deep to find the deep profound truths of this world, our life, and how it all works. I've read over 1,000 books on many topics that span from mindset, psychology, neuroscience, near-death experiences, spirituality, universal laws, and much more. I wanted to find out how this all works so I can help myself which in return, can help the ones I love and help the world. Since then, I've written 3 books that have been the accumulation of this journey so far.


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Decoding the Matrix: Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Potential and Accelerating Your Spiritual Awakening

By Vic Manzo Jr.,

Book cover of Decoding the Matrix: Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Potential and Accelerating Your Spiritual Awakening

What is my book about?

In this empowering self-discovery guide, you will learn: what the matrix is, and why it holds back 95% of people from achieving their potential; how to break out of the matrix and find spiritual awakening by developing your life vision; how the Law of Attraction can be used to manifest happiness and success; how the collective consciousness of society makes up the Matrix and how to utilize your understanding of the law of vibration to overachieve and thrive outside the Matrix; and how to overcome unconscious association and neural conditioning to allow yourself to achieve goals that you thought were unattainable.

Decoding the Matrix is a groundbreaking, but real-world spiritual growth book that anybody can use to empower themselves to overcome self-imposed limitations and start living life to its fullest.

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The books I picked & why

Book cover of Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

Vic Manzo Jr. Why did I love this book?

It transformed my life and shared concepts, ideas, wisdom and so much more that I had felt for so many years. It is what I call this book, “My Spiritual Bible.” It is my guide in this lifetime and helps me see the spiritual side of life and how to be a positive influence in this world and not allow for the little things to get in the way of my big vision for myself.

By Neale Donald Walsch,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Conversations with God as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Conversations with God Book 1 began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny (The Pink Panther and Clear and Present Danger) and Ingrid Boulting (The Last Tycoon). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fox Home Entertainment, the theatrical release is set for October 27, 2006. The movie is the true account of Walsch (played by Cierny), who went from an unemployed homeless man to an…


Book cover of Power vs. Force

Vic Manzo Jr. Why did I love this book?

This book transformed my world to understand all the inner workings of this world. Although he shares the concepts of this book as conscious technology or consciousness levels, I call it vibrations or frequencies of where we are. It helped me understand the depths of how we are all vibration and like-attracts-like.


By David R. Hawkins,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

This classic text explores how we as individuals can move towards our ultimate potential through understanding human behaviour and enhancing our level of consciousness.

Building on the accumulated wisdom of applied kinesiology (diagnostic muscle-testing to determine the causes of allergies and ailments) and behavioural kinesiology (muscle-testing to determine emotional responses to stimuli), David R. Hawkins MD, PhD has taken muscle-testing to the next level, in an effort to determine what makes people and systems strong, healthy, effective and spiritually sound.

Power vs. Force has become a spiritual classic and massively influential across the world. Now, Dr Hawkins reflects on his…


Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning

Vic Manzo Jr. Why did I love this book?

He who has a why can bear any how has played a profound quote in my life. In this book, you learn about the importance of having a vision, holding on to that vision, feeling immensely positive, and seeing it happen. This is something I have been teaching my clients for the past 3 years due to this having a profound effect on me in my own.

By Viktor Frankl,

Why should I read it?

41 authors picked Man’s Search for Meaning as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.


Book cover of The Yoga of Jesus - Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

Vic Manzo Jr. Why did I love this book?

This book was what I needed at the time of my life at 19. It shared the teachings of Jesus in such a simple way that is well beyond what I was ever taught for 18 years being a Catholic and had me see Jesus more in the human form than how he is normally perceived.  

By Paramahansa Yogananda,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Yoga of Jesus - Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In this remarkable book, Paramahansa Yogananda reveals the hidden yoga of the Gospels and confirms that Jesus, like the ancient sages and masters of the East, not only knew yoga but taught this universal science of God-realization to his closest disciples. Compiled from the author's highly praised two-volume work, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, this insightful and compact book transcends the centuries of dogma and misunderstanding that have obscured the original teachings of Jesus, showing that he taught a unifying path by which seekers of all faiths can enter the kingdom of God.…


Book cover of Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

Vic Manzo Jr. Why did I love this book?

This book truly helped me grasp another viewpoint on how the Universe works, how life works and how we are all interconnected. The concepts of biocentrism are built from quantum physics and the information shared within this book, it truly helped me grasp a bigger picture of how we, life, are creating and helping expand the Universe and so much more.

By Robert Lanza, Bob Berman,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a "genius" and a "renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the…


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By Beth C. Greenberg,

Book cover of Tiny Tales: A Year of Daily Prompted Stories

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What is my book about?

Tiny Tales is a collection of 365 bite-sized stories and poems, written each day of 2023 to a one-word prompt created by one of the official #vss365 (very short story, 365 days a year) ambassadors on Twitter ("X").

Tweet-sized (280 characters or fewer) storytelling (aka "Twitterature") inspires experimentation and variety, and that is exactly what you'll find in this collection of compositions ranging from true stories to playful limericks, romantic fiction to war-inspired tales, wistful observations from a long-ago childhood to fantastical imaginings of a distant future.

Whether you want to read a story a day or use the prompts (included in their original order at the end of the book) as a springboard to jumpstart your own writing, Tiny Tales will keep you entertained and inspired throughout the year. It is a perfect gift to yourself or for any aspiring or avid writer in your life.

Tiny Tales: A Year of Daily Prompted Stories

By Beth C. Greenberg,

What is this book about?

Tiny Tales is a collection of 365 bite-sized stories and poems, written each day of 2023 to a one-word prompt created by one of the official #vss365 (very short story, 365 days a year) ambassadors on Twitter ("X"). Tweet-sized (280 characters or fewer) storytelling (aka "Twitterature") inspires experimentation and variety, and that is exactly what you'll find in this collection of compositions ranging from true stories to playful limericks, romantic fiction to war-inspired tales, wistful observations from a long-ago childhood to fantastical imaginings of a distant future.

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