Hey, Miles here, milesbecker.com. In this
video you are going to learn my top 10 self
help books that have helped me personally
go from having a poverty consciousness to
an abundance consciousness. I don't care if
you call it self-help or personal development.
Ultimately these are the books that have helped
me go from just one generation before. My
father grew up on a farm in North Dakota.
He had no running water. He had no electricity,
he had no indoor plumbing. Again, in North
Dakota too. Now one generation away, I've
generated millions of dollars online and it's
not exactly the tactics that have been the
change, right? It was changing the scripts
that were playing up here in my head, changing
the mindset that ultimately has done most
of the heavy lifting because our external
world is actually a reflection of what's going
on with this internal conversation. So how
do you fix that internal conversation?
It's these books right here. Here's how this
video is going to work. I'm going to list
off the books. Now, some of them are better
to be purchased as a book. Other ones I've
found where you can get them for free. Other
ones yet I recommend in audio book format.
For me personally, taking advantage of plugging
in headphones and listening to audio while
driving while commuting, while doing dishes,
while making coffee in the morning while mowing
the lawn, literally constantly feeding my
brain with these types of books is ultimately
how I've built the mindset that is kind of
a creating the reality that I'm enjoying today.
And that's what I want to share with you.
Um, on all of the old books, there's a lot
of reproductions of them. You always want
to get the original version, the unabridged
version, the one that no one else has fiddled
with because publishing companies have remade
and remastered books and, and they often take
out parts that are key to understanding.
So number one, we're going to jump right into
it. It's think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.
This is one that there is dozens of variations
of in the description you're gonna find links
to all of these books. Some are affiliate
links. I fully admit that and I get a kickback
if you purchase through them, but that's not
why I'm doing this. But the one I've linked
to on Napoleon hill is the absolute original
untouched variation. I do believe it's best
to go through that first original version.
Now a couple of these, I have some or options.
Okay cause you may have read, think and grow
rich. So thinking, grow rich is one or the
success system that never fails. That's w
Clement stone. If you know about Napoleon
Hill's a path through life, he actually worked
with a w Clement stone later in life. I like
the success system that never fails because
it focuses more on the system than it does
on thinking, right?
People think that think and grow rich. All
you have to do is just think. And that is
a fallacy. Um, it is a way of thinking, but
he talks a lot about applying that activity
in the world. Ultimately you need to build
systems in your life. That's why I like w
Clement stones to success system that never
fails. And the other, or for number one, you
know, we've got like three on number one here
is grow rich with peace of mind. This was
Napoleon Hill's last work and it kind of takes
all of his ideas he learned on his process
and really simmers it down in the most cohesive,
coherent way. Um, all of them I think are
a great idea, but choose one of those three
to get started and that will get you on the
path. This is timeless information from the
1930s, right.
This is old information that is still extremely
true and relevant today. Um, then onto number
two, you were born rich by Bob proctor. Now
this is a seminar and a book that Bob proctor
put out and I believe the 1980s, he might've
wrote the book in the Seventies. Um, Bob proctor
has studied Napoleon hill, think and grow
rich and a lot of what he shares in this seminar
or series is actually straight from thinking
grow rich. It's his variation, it's his take
on it and it's absolutely brilliant. Now in
the description below, you're going to find
that I've actually linked you for free to
a playlist that has the entire, you were born
rich seminar right there, but oftentimes it's
difficult to sit there and watch a seminar.
I mean, it's a two day fricking seminar, right?
It's a lot of time. It's like eight hours,
I think it's six DVDs, so it is available
free, but I purchased this on audible and
I have it on audio book and I listened to
it because I can get through it more quickly
and I've actually listened to this probably
three times and I'm absolutely gonna listen
to it a fourth time.
Repetition is so key with everything in life.
Most of these books, at least 75% of these
books I've listened to at least two times
or more, and the other ones I will absolutely
listen to them. Again, repetition of these
ideas into your conscious mind is how you
implant your subconscious mind to really start
to build a different reality for you. Because
if you realize it or not, your subconscious
mind is running the show. That's what all
these books will teach you and help you understand
what's going on and how to fix it. So the,
you were born rich seminar again, Youtube,
you can get it for free. Um, audio book is
on audible. He talks about the workbook, the
companion workbook. If you're going through
that, just Google it, just Google Bob Proctor,
you were born rich seminar workbook and you'll
get the workbook. So when he's talking about
it in the audio book, you can go glance at
it.
Um, the images is not that important. I went
and found it and went through and was like,
God, that didn't really do that much. Um,
but they talk about it. So I just felt like
it was lacking. But you can go find that there.
Um, highly recommend that that from Bob Proctor,
I would not go into Bob Proctor's funnels.
He is notorious for selling at this point,
a $15,000. Learn how to be a life coach programs.
I would not buy into anything of his beyond
this one seminar personally. That's my take
on it. Number three, science of getting rich.
Now, this is by Wallace wattles and I believe
it was written in the late 18 hundreds. This
is probably one of the kind of origin points
of the modern law of attraction. So if you've
heard of the DVD, the secret or Esther Hicks
or Abraham Hicks, the law of attraction, it's
become quite a buzzword since the eighties
and now into the, you know, 20 teens and whatnot.
Uh, they, they're all regurgitating what Wallace
wattles taught in his original book from the
18 hundreds. And since it's so old, that means
it's in the public domain, which means it's
free, there's no copyright on it. So for this
one, the link down below will take you to
the Gutenberg website where you can get the,
can get the kindle version. If you've got
a Nook, you can get the nook version. If you
want a pdf, you can get the pdf version. You
can also go on Youtube and find audio books.
People reading this out because there's no
copyright infringement. You can just go get
this one for free. Highly, highly, highly
recommend. This one. A lot of what I've taught
in my, uh, law of attraction videos, which
I'll have a link pop up above. I highly recommend
watching those is kind of my take on what
he taught.
And it's always so good to go back to the
original source of the information. I highly
recommend the science of getting rich by Wallace
wattles. That was number three. Number four
is psychic, excuse me, psycho cybernetics.
Now this was written by Maxwell Malt, I believe
this was in the 1970s. It is all about the
power of the subconscious mind. This is a
theme that you will hear nonstop in all of
these first books, right? The first four that
I've mentioned, which maybe actually was like
six, um, all of them are talking a lot about
the power of the subconscious mind. And that's
been my big Aha realization on my path through
kind of personal development, through self
discovery, through a self help materials,
is that my father growing up in, you know,
like on a farm with no electricity running.
Like that's poverty conditions, right? So
at a young age, we all get programmed by the
age of six so whatever was going on in your
household when you were one, two, three, four,
five, six is ultimately the subconscious programming
that you've had.
And then we subconsciously program our children
with that. So that was the kind of programming
that I received at a subconscious level. So
when I was in my twenties I was constantly
bouncing checks, losing jobs, wasting money
at money just disappeared. I just, I had no
idea and I thought the world was against me,
but it was actually the programs that were
running all subconscious, Maxwell malts, book
psycho-cybernetics is probably the absolute
best summary of everything that has to do
with your subconscious mind, how it works,
how it's a goal, achieving how you are actually
a goal achieving being and how to program
yourself and your subconscious mind to go
after different goals to create a different
reality for yourself. Highly recommend that
book. I think it's absolutely fantastic. The
audible versions, I don't love the person
who read them. I've been through them. It's
very dry.
He's very monotone. So that might be one to
pick up on an actual book. Number five is
prosperity consciousness by Fredric Lehrman.
This is going really, really, really focused
on money, on your relationship with money
and it teaches a system of how to manage money
because the theory is when you get to the
point where you're able to manage your money,
even if you ain't got none, right, you manage
the budget and you manage what little you
have coherently. Then the magic of the universe
is that when we prove we can manage some,
we will get more. It's amazing and how it
works. When I was younger and I was bouncing
checks all the time and I was overdrafting
accounts and I was just borrowing money to
live and just living in that kind of poverty
cycle, um, this audio book taught me a system
that I implemented and it's absolutely changed
my life.
I originally implemented this system over
10 years ago. Hadn't thought about the book
for literally about 10 years. Last summer
I kind of had a flash. I just remembered it.
I was like, Oh man, what was that book prosperity
that that was good. I went and found it. It's
on audible, downloaded it, listen to it, and
I was like, oh my goodness. All of my habits,
my banking system that I still use to this
day is all based on that. My affirmations
around money are all straight out of that
piece of content. Um, that has worked wonders
for me. Now if you look on audible directly
through the link in the description for prosperity
consciousness, you're going to see that it's
like $45. Audible has a subscription option.
You can buy a six credits, you could buy one
a month. I'm on a credit a month program,
and essentially you get a credit for $15 and
you can exchange a credit for this one.
So any of the ones on audible that say they're,
you know, $40 $30 $50 if you're on their credit
system, you'll get it for 15 bucks. Um, to
me that's a required one. My sister and I
are currently trying to help her build a new,
a relationship with money. This is the book,
right? Prosperity consciousness by Fredric
Lehrman. It's an audio only. Somebody created
an actual book with that name, but you got
to go through the link and get the right one
or else you won't get the right system to
go with. Um, number six is another or right?
There's two options. They communicate the
same big idea from very, very different standpoints.
It's big magic by Elizabeth Gilbert or it's
the war of art by Steven Pressfield. Now,
this is for creators. Big Time. When somebody
wants to start a blog, a youtube channel,
a podcast, this is an absolute must read,
but you are a creator.
Whether you're actively creating in the digital
world or not, you are a creator. You have
art that you're bringing out to the world.
Now, this art meet might be how you make patients
feel in the operating room because you're
an anesthesiologist, right? It doesn't have
to be painting on canvases and they both look
at this and they both kind of look at the
process of creation, the process of identifying
your arch in the world, the process of cultivating
it, harnessing it, and sharing it with the
world. Um, both are beautiful books. I recommend
both to be perfectly honest. I've listened
to both of them at least three or four times
each. No joke. Um, Elizabeth Gilbert narrates
her own on audible. Uh, the, the narration.
I like audible for both of those. They're
fantastic books, especially if you're a creator.
Um, listening to the previews, choose the
one whose voice you like better.
I love that Elizabeth Gilbert narrates her
own because it's just, it's just fantastic.
So that was number six. We're on a number
seven. Number seven is the 10 x rule by grant
Cardone. Grant Cardone is a sales trainer.
Um, he's a wealth coach, not really wealth
coaching. So he teaches real estate investing
and he teaches sales and he is like massive
on social media. They do publishes like crazy
and even on search engines, youtube and whatnot.
Um, this is the only thing of his I I've bought
personally and it's the only thing that his
I ever will buy. I know that he has a huge
sales staff. I know that he makes hundreds
of millions of dollars selling extremely high
ticket sales training. I don't want nothing
to do with any of that. All I care about is
this one big idea of the 10 x rule. Melanie
and I have both gone through this.
He's a little intense. He comes at you with
an intensity but damn sometimes we just need
somebody to like tell us how it is. Straight
shooter, no BS. Like get your shit together,
get on the path, go like hustle it up, do
the work, like step up. And if you're at a
point where you just need that kind of like,
I don't want to say drill sergeant level approach
cause it's not that bad. But boy it's probably
the closest to that off of this whole list.
And every once in a while we need somebody
to just tell us to get off our do it right.
Like, we just need that at some point in personal
development. It is not all rose petals and
lavender oil and and butterflies, uh, in,
in self help. Right? You've got to get off
your ass and do things and change what you're
doing and, and work harder and work smarter
at the same time.
So great book. Uh, I do like the, he narrated
that one. Um, I'm audiobook on that one all
the way cause it's just like I need an annual
dose of grant Cardone to just really keep
me fired up because as you reach new levels,
as you get comfortable at certain points in
life, the hunger and desire to to go to that
next level seems to subside. Right. I've got
a friend that says luxury breeds complacency.
It's so true. This book will get you out of
that space if that's where you are. Number
eight is an either or as well. My Man Tony
Robins had to hit the list. Right. So you,
I don't recommend getting these on audible
on audible. They have like really short abridged
versions. You want to get the full book. You
might be able to find the original audio cds
on Ebay or somewhere else.
But on audible they're just these like 50
minute hyper edited versions. But the like
real ones, like six hours. There's like, it's
a full book, right? These are both full books.
So unlimited power and awaken the giant within
are the two books. Now these are his old books.
I don't go to Tony robins events. I won't
watch his Netflix thing cause that's just
a sales video on Netflix trying to sell his
event. I have a friend who has spent over
$70,000 with Tony Robbins projects in one
year to go all the way to the end and hang
out in Fiji. The dude is a master salesman,
so I say that up front as in you don't have
to go to his multi-thousand. He got salespeople,
they will track you down. They will call you,
don't stop. They will convince you you need
his events. I've never been to one of the
events and I'm growing and living a beautiful
life.
The information is in the books. What books
again? Awaken the giant within an unlimited
power are the two books. Get the book themselves,
don't listen to this one on audible. And ultimately
I really think that um, you might be able
to find the old audio CD. So if you've got
a CD player in your car, this is a great one
to go at. Tony brings the energy when he delivers
via audio as well, but even the written book
is Great. Um, the next one, number nine, the
millionaire next door by Stanley and Danko
two authors. It was an academic study. This
one is, man, this one possibly shifted my
mindset the most, um, about what is wealth?
What do wealthy people do? What do millionaires
do? Especially man, like I read this pre social
media days. I, okay, Facebook was like a college
thing when I read this first.
Um, today on Instagram with the World Youtube,
you get a lot of people flashing a lot of
symbols and a lot of those symbols like Lamborghinis
and a lot of those symbols are actually liabilities.
They're not assets. Wealthy people, you know,
the difference between an asset and a liability.
Wealthy people focus on growing and building
and purchasing assets, not liabilities. And
they spend very little money on the liabilities.
What's a liability? Your car is a liability,
your vehicle, right? Your House, the house
you live in is absolutely a liability at the
clothes that you're wearing. 100% liability.
You got watches, you got rings, you got a
brand new, fancy iPhone. All those things
are liabilities, right? So what this book
did was an academic study of a thousand millionaires
and they went and looked at like, where do
they shop? What do they buy? What kind of
vehicle do they drive?
Blew me away because I always thought growing
up right? Grew up in a kind of a poor family.
My Dad had to go to the pawn shop to pond
things to pay rent several times growing up.
Um, so that's where I came from. I always
thought that people that lived in that neighborhood
with a couple of that brand cars, right? The
Mercedes and the beamer, and they had the
big house in the other neighborhood. I always
thought they were wealthy. It turns out most
of the time, at least 80 90% of the time those
people are broke. Those people are earning
$300,000 a year and they're spending $300,000
a year and they might end up the year net
with five grand in the bank. Whereas you earning
50 grand, 60 grand a year could probably create
a greater savings rate. You probably could
start stashing away more money at the end
of the year if you focus on the ideas that
were translated from this book.
You see our society and this stems out of
the the TV culture, the Hollywood culture
now, the Instagram and social media culture,
people flashing things trying to look wealthier
than they are. It's peacocking. It goes on
all the time and those who flaunt it ain't
got it. That's been my philosophy since I
learned what goes on in this book and man
once I, it just, it just, it like was like
eye opening and this is a scientific academic
study, right? The peer reviewed stuff. This
is like real, this ain't like a fictional
tale. This is actually a study. They actually
did a survey of a thousand millionaire families.
It'll blow you away. And what happens is it
starts to just change the mindset. Be Like,
oh damn. So that's what wealthy looks like.
Wealthy's incognito, people flashing stuff,
they're broke, they're living cash flow, negative
lights, they're on a treadmill, they're on
a $30,000 a month treadmill, and at the end
of the year, they ain't got nothing left sitting
in savings.
They ain't got no assets. They're generating
cashflow. They ain't got no assets that are
appreciating. Hmm, which way do I want to
go? I want the assets so I know how to live
my life in accordance with what worked for
others. Is that idea of modeling, right? We've
got to, if you want to become an actual millionaire,
like a real actual millionaire, it's probably
a wise thing to do to go model what actual
real millionaires do. Not to follow flash
kid, a Lambeau boy flexing on Youtube, showing
off his lambo, because that is absolutely
a symbol of a liability that that, but I digress.
Uh, go through the millionaire next door.
Brilliant book. Totally opened my eyes, really
blew me away. Men, number 10 is the 80, 20
principle by coke. Um, I went through the
audio book on this one. Now I've known about
the 80 20 principle forever.
It's an easy principle to understand. I've
done videos on the 80 20 principle. Uh, when
I started the book I was like, Ah, am I really
going to go through this? And first of all,
it's on the list because I think most people
don't understand what the 80 20 principle
is and how it works in their lives. But even
for me, knowing what it was and having kind
of practiced it and focused on it for several
years, it gave me new ideas and new understanding
to the depth of how this worked in different
areas of my life. And it got me to look at
my world different. And again, when you, when
you change the way you look at things, the
things you look at change. So Wayne Dyer quote,
can't believe I didn't get a Wayne Dyer book
on this list. I mean, I could, I could put
60 books on here.
Um, but the 80 20 principle by Koch, it really,
there is an 80 20 principle that works and
he broke it down in a way that gave me so
many new ideas of how to apply it. It's revolutionized
my business and this is within the last six
months. I just listened to that book maybe
three months ago and I'm already looking at
my business different and I'm building new
things based on kind of the ideas and the
Aha moments I got from his book. So that's
it. That's my top 10 list. There's probably
like 14, maybe 15 on there. Um, I just have
to remind you that the most successful people
in the world are avid readers. The CEOs who
often earn thousands of percent more than
the factory floor workers. They are known
to read an average of five books per month.
The average CEO in America reads 60 books
per year and they make a whole lot more than
those who don't.
Most people, the last book they read was the
last book they were assigned by a teacher
whenever it was. They were in the classroom
last. If you want to change your life, you
need to change your mindset. You need to go
on a path of self education and the cool part
is with your cell phone, right? I got this
thing always near me. Earbuds are right here
always every morning, first thing I do I pop
it on. I listen for 15 to 20 minutes why I
make my coffee and I take time to fill my
mind with positive information. Generally
I'm real listening to something that I've
listened to before. Just we went through Bob
Proctor's you were born rich seminar yet again.
Then when I'm cleaning, doing the dishes,
doing the yard work, washing the car, working
out, doing whatever I can when I'm driving
in and out, plug it into the car on listening
to this kind of stuff.
You have the ability to go through a self
guided audio university and if you go through
these books that I have referenced here and
you really truly take in the information,
you don't just listen to them skim over once
you actually go through them again and again.
What will happen is your conscious mind will
start to take in new ideas that will program
your subconscious mind with these new ideas
from some of the foremost wealth experts in
the world and ultimately you will come out
the other side with a wealth and abundance
mindset that just looks at the world different
and when you get that going for you, there's
nothing but opportunity that shows up. Every
dollar you spend ends up coming back to you
multiplied and magic can happen in your life.
The biggest key of all of it is taking action.
Some point you've got to find that action
to take that thing in this world that you're
bringing through that you're willing to make
videos on podcasts, on, blog about write about
create.
Maybe you make soap, maybe you're all into
making soap and you just start going down
on the farm from you at some point. Need to
figure out a way to create and do things.
It's all about action, but it's the right
actions and it's the right actions. Run through
the right filter or the right kind of philosophy
of looking at the world. When you build this
philosophy in the right way, all of these
books, what's gonna happen if you go through
all these books in your, first of all, your
life will absolutely change. I guarantee you
that for sure. No doubt about it. But what's
going to happen is you are going to ultimately
hear the same basic ideas said 10 20 different
ways. All of them are talking about these
core principles. These are truths of the world.
These are truths of the universe that you
live in.
The problem is most of our parents didn't
know that, and when we were three, four, five,
six years old and we all got programmed, we
got programmed with ideas like money doesn't
grow on trees. I was family favorite, right?
Uh, we can't afford. That was a very, very
common one. Not enough month. At the end of
the money was one my dad liked to go to all
the time. Uh, there are piles of bill's everywhere,
right? Versus piles of, of abundance or symbols
of abundance everywhere. So there's these
little things we can do and you'll learn to
do. How do you learn to do them? Study the
greats. Study these people on these books.
A lot of these books will all the way back
to the 18 hundreds. Why? Because it's timeless
information that's still hyper-relevant today.
Find the original versions. Find the unabridged
versions.
Commit to it. If you want to create a different
reality, you've got to start up here. The
real estate, the four inches between your
two ears is the most valuable real estate
in the world. Most people are just letting
that go to weeds. They're letting it go to
what the mass media tells them. They're letting
it go to what social media tells them. They'd
rather binge watch Netflix, drink a bunch
of beer, play some video games, and numb themselves
to the shit life they've created for themselves
instead of going into it and making a commitment
to change their lives. Most people who read
self help books don't do anything different.
That's why they just keep buying more self
help books and it is a multibillion dollar
industry, but I can tell you beyond absolute
truth, I grew up in a poor household. I grew
up with a poverty consciousness and I rewired
that consciously on purpose because I was
determined.
It required me to say, no, I can't go out
for drinks on Thursday night for happy hour.
It required me to say, no, I can't go to this
barbecue. I have things to do. I'm studying
things that are going to help me create a
different life for myself. It took sacrifices
and then it took a lot of action, but ultimately
I've been able to create a magical life for
myself that has just keeps getting more interesting
because I'm playing with these things going
on and when you're ready to build something
online, now that I've taught everything I
know about digital marketing and how to grow
a successful business online, it's all here
on my channel. So subscribe, thumbs up, hit
that bell if you want new videos when they
come out, but ultimately nothing will replace
you doing the hard work of reprogramming your
mind because if you want a new external world,
you need to build a new internal world and
that external world will become a reflection
of that.
The secret is in every single one of these
books, the secret is repeated throughout each
one of these books. And when you hear it over
and over from authors from the 18 hundreds
in the 1930s in the 1920s and the 50s in the
70s and the 60s and even today and you hear
that same theme running through all of it
and you get these all these super successful
people telling you exactly how it is. Eventually
you're just like, that's how it is. You just
get it and then your world changes. That's
how it works. I appreciate you. I hope this
has been helpful for you. If you have any
questions, get at me in the comments or if
you have a favorite self help book or personal
development personal development book that
I did not cover in this list, feel free to
give it a shout out in the comments below.
I love learning about new books. I'm an avid
reader. I'm always going. I'm literally about
to finish up here. I got 20 acres here that
I got to go mow a little section of, uh, headphones
are going on. I'm getting right back into
my next audio book and I recommend you do
too. Thank you very much for your time. I
will connect with you on the next video to
meet again. Be well. I appreciate you and
I know you can do it. You just got to take
the right actions. Cheers.
