“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realise that you control your own destiny”
Albert Ellis, American psychologist and psychotherapist, founder of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
Resources
Recommended Reading
Career/Life Change/Personal development
- The Work We Were Born to Do – Nick Williams
- Living Your Best Life – Laura Berman Fortgang
- What Color is Your Parachute – Richard Bolles
- Authentic Happiness – Martin Seligman
- The 7 Rules of Success – Fiona Harrold
Transition
- New Passages – Gail Sheehey
- The Path of Least Resistance – Robert Fritz
Confidence and Self-esteem
- Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway – Susan Jeffers
- Taming your Gremlin – Richard Carson
- Now, Discover your Strengths – Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- Working with Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- Emotional Capitalists – Martyn Newman
Sport & Performance Psychology
- Inside Sports Psychology – Costas I. Karageorghis & Peter C. Terry
- Mid Games – Annie Vernon
- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in Sports & Excercise – Edited by Martin Turner and Richard Bennett
- The Brave Athlete – Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion – Simon Marshall, PhD and Leslie Paterson
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance – W. Timothy Gallwey & Pete Carroll
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The Inner Game of Golf – W. Timothy Gallwey
Stress management and Resilience
General/Motivational
“Fight or Flight’ by Keith Earls