CHAYA’S 101
Most Life-Changing Books
Many years ago, I adopted the practice of reading at least one book per month. Often, I now go through phases where I read a new book each week.
It is widely known that you become who you are by the books you read, the people you associate with, and the arenas in which you invest your time.
There is another famous piece of wisdom that says you become like the five people you hang around the most.

THOUGH BOOKS, WE HAVE THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO
pick anyone in the world
AS OUr INNER CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE
Many of my biggest mentors and most life-changing influencers have never even known my name.
But because I have become their student, read their works, and applied their wisdom, I can still have the privilege of standing on the shoulders of giants.
From all of the books I’ve read over the years, I’m giving you here my Top 101 Most Life Changing Picks, divided into my Eight Lanes of Life.
Watch the video for a brief description on my 8 Lanes of Success™. >>>
CHAYA’S TOP 101 MOST
life changing picks
Click on each category to revel the list of books.
- The Monk who Sold his Ferrari, Robin Sharma
- A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
- Toward a Meaningful Life, Simon Jacobson
- The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Steven K. Scott
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Depak Chopra
Note: I have only included books in this segment that transcend individual religious beliefs. Because varying religious beliefs are so deeply personal, I have not included “religious books” in this list.
- Family Wisdom by the Monk who Sold his Ferrari, Robin Sharma
- Lost at School, Ross W. Greene
- The Explosive Child, Ross W. Greene
- Born to Serve, Sarah Teleshevsky
- The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
- Radical Unschooling, Dayna Martin
- Conscious Parenting, Shefali Tsabary
- Out of Control, Shefali Tsabary
- Transforming the Difficult Child, Howard Glasser
- The Empowered Wife, Laura Doyle
- The Surrendered Wife, Laura Doyle
- Raising Children to Care, Miriam Adahan
- The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy, Vicki Lovine
- The Five Love Languages of Children, Chapman and Campbell
- Glow Kids, Nicholas Kardaras
- Growing Up Social, Pellicane and Chapman
- Boy Mom, Monica Swanson
- Woman’s Wisdom, Shalom Arush
- In Forest Fields Shalom Arush
- Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice, Sarah Chana Radcliffe
- Happy Child, Happy Home, Lou Harvey-Zahra
- The Baby Sleep Solution, Lisa Abidin and Suzy Giordano
- The Garden of Emunah, Shalom Arush
- Conscious Discipline, Becky Bailey
- Managing Emotional Mayhem, Becky Bailey
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
- Smart Money, Smart Kids, Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell
- Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh
- Secrets of Closing the Sale, Zig Ziglar
- The Success Principles, Jack Canfield
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell
- Developing the Leaders Around You, John Maxwell
- The Oz Principle, Hickman, Connors, and Smith
- Tribal Leadership, Logan and King
- See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek
- The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
- How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Betcher
- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Seth Godin
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
- The eMyth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber
- Swim with the Sharks w/o Being Eaten Alive, Harvey Mackay
- Copycat Marketing 101, Burke Hedges
- The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino
- Inner Engineering, Sadhguru
- The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz
- Becoming Supernatural, Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss
- Becoming a Person of Influence, John C. Maxwell
- Game Changers, Dave Asprey
- Zero Limits, Joe Vitale
- The Answer, Murray Smith and John Assaraf
- Success through a Positive Mental Attitude, Napoleon Hill
- You Can if You Think you Can, Norman Vincent Peale
- Managing Evolutionary Growth, Bill Harris
- Today Matters, John C. Maxwell
- Thinking for a Change, John C. Maxwell
- The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell
- Outwitting the Devil, Napoleon Hill
- General Patton’s Principles for Life and Leadership, Porter B. Williamson
- The Grace to Race: Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun, Evans and Buder
- Thresholds of the Mind, Bill Harris
- You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
- The Winning Attitude, John C. Maxwell
- David & Goliath, Malcom Gladwell
- The Aladdin Factor, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen
- The Four-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins
- The Mamba Mentality: How I Play, Kobe Bryant
- The Four-Hour Body, Tim Ferris
- You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Sleep Smarter, Shawn Stevenson
- Quantum Touch 2.0: The New Human, Gordan, Duffield, and Wickhorst
- Business Plan for the Body, Jim Karas
- Miracle of Fasting, Paul Bragg
- Healing the Gerson Way, Charlotte Gerson
- The Gerson Therapy, Charlotte Gerson
- I Guarantee, Meira Levi
- The Holistic Dental Matrix, Nicholas Meyer
- Her Best Kept Secret, Gabrielle Glaser
- The Pleasure Trap, Goldhamer and Lisle
- How Not to Die, Michael Gregor
- The Microbiome Diet, Raphael Kellman
- Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey
- Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins
- The Next Millionaires, Paul Zane Pilsner
- Smart Women Finish Rich, David Bach
- Smart Couples Finish Rich, David Bach
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Ekher
- Priceless, Dave Ramsey
- Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
- Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
A Note from Chaya:
The final 2 categories of our 8 Lanes of Success™ are not reflected in this reading list. I never felt a need for outside experts to guide me on my desires for my Social life/Adventures and Community Involvement. Now that I’ve launched a philanthropy, I’ve had to up-skill myself quite heavily in the education industry, but I’ve lumped those particular books into “Family Health” for the sake of our general audience. If you find that you need to up-skill yourself in specific areas for your last two lanes, please take the initiative to do so.