What Books to Read in 2024 to Improve Your Health, Wealth, Relationships and Life in for 2024
Most of us set goals to improve our health, wealth, relationships and other areas of our lives every year.
Yet, more often than not, within a month of the new year, we’ve stopped it all.
Instead of trying to tackle it all at once, why not try a book a month about the areas of life you want to improve in and apply what you learn?
This way, you focus on one specific thing, make some changes and hopefully stick to it long-term.
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The Thrifty Issue Books to Improve Your Health, Wealth, Relationships and Life in 2024
Below are the 12 books we have on my list for this year.
They are in no particular order and include health, money, trauma, relationships and more.
At the end, we included some books we recommend to everyone or a few extras we plan to read this year too.
Health/Trauma
More and more people are realising that some of the things they struggle with are a result of trauma. As such, here are some to help you process that and work on your health.
1. How To Meet Yourself
How To Do The Work and the workbook How To Meet Yourself, both by Nicole LePera.
This isn’t a book you only read, you need to complete the tasks, allocate proper time to doing it and be authentic with it.
Learning about yourself and healing your trauma (whatever trauma it is you live with), improves every area of your life.
The flow on effect of your overall health, relationships and finances is huge.
How To Be The Love You Seek is the next one by her.
2. The Body Keeps The Score
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk is quite popular for those healing trauma.
It will help you understand yourself and others better, why we do what we do and how to heal.
The Body Keeps The Score is thicker than most of the books on this list but is well worth the read.
3. What Happened To You?
When we approach life with the question, What Happened To You? Instead of “What’s wrong with you?” life is quite different.
Our perspectives of others will change, we are more compassionate and life is easier.
In the book, What Happened To You? by Dr Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey, you will learn about yourself and others.
Mindset
While the health/trauma books help with mindset as well, the next few books focus on it specifically.
4. The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
Self-sabotage is all too easy and something many are gulty of..
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest is a fantastic read to help you shift your thinking, change your habits and improve your life.
Reading this and The Big Leap which is also about self-sabotage and mindset can change how you think and react.
When we are in control of our emotions and reactions we make better choices.
Making better choices leads to improvement in every area of our life.
5. The Greatness Mindset
Lewis Howes wrote The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today.
To give some context about him:
“When a career-ending injury left elite athlete and professional football player Lewis Howes out of work and living on his sister’s couch, he decided he needed to make a change for the better. He started by reaching out to people he admired, searching for mentors, and applying his past coaches’ advice from sports to life off the field. Lewis did more than bounce back: He built a multimillion-dollar online business and is now a sought-after business coach, speaker, and podcast host.”
He has interviewed some incredible people and runs a popular podcast.
6. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
CThe Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity inspired Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to find their purpose and a better, more creative way to do it.
You’ll be guided to uncover the problems and pressures that may be restricting your creative flow, then there are techniques to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.
7. Level Up: Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating and Upgrade Your Life
The advice from Rob Dial was so great on a podcast so we recommend reading his book.
Level Up: Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating and Upgrade Your Life is about revolutionising life, how you approach it and your goals.
If you liked Atomic Habits then you will find Level Up useful.
Business and Money
Whether you want to start a business, improve one you have or focus on your personal finances, these books all have something that will help.
8. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
We no longer recommend this author due to some problematic comments on his podcast.
9. The Power of One More
Ed Mylett will inspire you to do better through The Power of One More.
It’s a simple concept and used by many to overcome addiction e.g. stay sober for one more day) or to increase your workout e.g. do one more rep etc.
Yet, despite its simplicity, many of us don’t implement this concept.
The Power of One More covers numerous ways in which we can implement this concept in all areas of life to improve it.
10. The Richest Man In Babylon
A budgeting classic, The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason has a few simple principles that if applied, will make you wealthy.
The “Biblical” tone isn’t for everyone, but there is a modern version now.
Along with The Richest Man In Babylon, read Money With Jess to go deeper into budgeting and applying those concepts to their income now.
Quit Like A Millionaire and The Simple Path to Wealth are two more good financial books.
11. We Should All Be Millionaires
We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power by Rachel Rogers.
Sharing real statistics about women, women in business and especially women of colour.
Reading and discussing We Should All Be Millionaires helps create a solid foundation for business and life.
Often we think small and therefore achieve less than we could.
12. Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
If you have a business or plan to have one, read and implement Profit First.
For many business owners, they fail in the first few years because business takes so much from them and they don’t have a good system in places for finances.
Profit First is incredibly easy to understand and implement, making success in business significantly more likely.
Extra Books
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams
Possibly one of the smallest books we have ever read, yet extremely profound and life-changing.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams will do exactly what it says if you implement them.
Be Useful: 7 Tools For Life
While we are not a fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger typically, he has achieved some phenomenal things and the advice in this book is solid.
We’ve enjoyed some of the interviews he’s done regarding his life, visualization and actions he took to achieve all he did.
Be Useful: 7 Tools For Life is one of the many books on our list but we feel it is important to read after we’d done some of the healing and learning from the books earlier in this article.
Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done – Today!
If you struggle with procrastination or feel things aren’t moving as fast as you want them to, read and implement Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done – Today!
Fast Like A Girl
If you want to try intermittent fasting, this is the way to do it.
Fast Like A Girl takes into consideration your cycle and other female health matters.
Unf*ck Yourself by Gary John Bishop
Unf*ck Yourself is a brilliant book to kick you up the butt and make changes.
It is best listened to as well because the Scottish accent lends a special something to the advice.
He is direct, full of great advice and follow it up with Do the Work: The Official Unrepentant, Ass-Kicking, No-Kidding, Change-Your-Life Sidekick to Unf*ck Yourself to actually do all the things he recommends and make genuine changes.
You are a Badass With Money
If you struggle with self-worth, feel you have not reached your full potential, have a bad relationship with money, then this is for you.
Imposter syndrome, trauma issues and self-sabotage kept you stuck.
Learning more about this, healing and being a better example for everyone is powerful.
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life and You Are a Badass at making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth are two books you can read to help.
Previously Reading Lists
Find the 52 books I read in 2020 here, or the 13 books every mum should read.
What books do you recommend or are you reading?
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