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  • Hey everyone!

  • Welcome back to Lavendaire.

  • It's Aileen.

  • Today I want to share six books that have changed my life.

  • And I'm really excited because, looking at these books,

  • they each represent a time period of my life.

  • Each book is kind of part of a chapter of my life.

  • It really is kind of like a time capsule.

  • The first book is Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

  • This was a book that I read in college, maybe my junior year of college.

  • I don't know if you guys are familiar with this book

  • but it's basically a memoir of Elizabeth Gilbert's life

  • when she was getting out of a divorce and going soul searching.

  • Anyway, one of the countries that she goes to is Italy,

  • and she talks about eating a pizza in Naples.

  • And reading this book really, really made me want to go to Italy.

  • So when it was time for me to choose what my choice study abroad program was,

  • I put Milan as my first choice.

  • So that's what happened:

  • My senior year of college, I went to Milan to study international business.

  • I really went there to soul search myself.

  • This book basically gave me an introduction to what soul searching was.

  • I don't even think I realized that people did this:

  • quit their life, travel the world to find themselves.

  • So anyway, I kind of had that dream myself,

  • that I needed to get out of my life in LA, travel, and find myself.

  • So that is what I did, and when I went to Italy, that's when I felt so free.

  • I had more time to start reading self help books.

  • That was the period of my life where I was figuring out what to do with my life, very lost.

  • I've talked about this before in my videos.

  • But this was the book that started that whole journey.

  • The second book that changed my life is called The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

  • It's a pretty short book.

  • It's an easy read.

  • And I think I just consider it a book that changed my life

  • because it was one of the first self help books that I read,

  • and it was the first time that I was learning about these concepts.

  • The concept that really blew my mind in this book was:

  • Don't Take Anything Personally, because everything that happens,

  • what people say to you is not really about you.

  • It's a mirror of themselves.

  • I did not know about this concept until I read this book,

  • and this book really taught me how to stop caring about what other people think of you.

  • The Four Agreements he shares in this book are so simple.

  • I mean, there's only four.

  • But if you can remember those four and live them in your life,

  • then you're already going to be so happy, so amazing.

  • You'll be fine.

  • What this book did was it taught me to look at the world in a different way,

  • in a way that I never considered before.

  • It really taught me about other people and society.

  • How we see things might not be the way that they actually are, to not make assumptions.

  • Maybe it was because I read it early on that it was so mind-blowing,

  • and also because it's such an easy read

  • that I really consider this an amazing and important book in my life.

  • The next book that changed my life is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

  • I almost want to say that Eckhart Tolle, as an author,

  • changed my life because I love his other books too.

  • A New Earth was amazing as well.

  • But I chose this one because I'd probably recommend this to more people than A New Earth,

  • because this is more foundational and important.

  • So if you want to pick up a book, definitely pick up this one.

  • This is probably the hardest book to read out of all of the books that I chose today,

  • just because it is dense and it's one of those books

  • where you're going to reread the passage again and again to fully understand.

  • And you might not be able to fully understand the first time you read it through.

  • Anyway, it's just a book about how to be present,

  • how to detach yourself from your ego mind, to recognize that you are the awareness,

  • you are the consciousness behind all of your observations.

  • And I've seen Eckhart Tolle speak in person at Super Soul Sunday, Oprah Winfrey's event.

  • And he is a modern day monk.

  • He is so calm, he is so present.

  • Everything for him is happening in the now.

  • He's really mastered that, and that is something that is not easy to master.

  • I'm still working on it.

  • It says "A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment", and I truly believe that this is that book.

  • The next book that changed my life is this one: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.

  • I know this is a crowd favorite among all of us, but this literally changed my life.

  • I loved the book when I was reading it because Marie Kondo is so convincing that,

  • once you declutter your things and go through all your stuff, then your life will literally change.

  • I was reading this book in 2015.

  • This was after I just started Lavendaire, but things did not pick up yet.

  • I felt confused on my path like,

  • "Is this even worth it? What am I doing with my life? Do I look stupid to all my peers?"

  • My bedroom, my closet, my house was cluttered and messy.

  • We just had a lot of stuff.

  • And listening to this woman give you a step-by-step process on how to declutter your stuff,

  • how that will change your life for sure, she was so convincing that I was like,

  • "You know what? My life kinda sucks right now and I have nothing to lose.

  • Let's go through this book.

  • Let's follow the steps here and see what happens."

  • And so that's what I did.

  • I documented my journey on YouTube.

  • And after decluttering my stuff, I guess simultaneously,

  • life started to pick up and I really felt a fresh energy in my life.

  • It changed my mindset.

  • I learned how to be more intentional about the things that I keep in my life,

  • whether it's physical things, but also people or tasks and projects.

  • I truly believe that decluttering using the KonMari way

  • because I went through the whole processit changed my life from the outside-in.

  • You can change your life from the outside-in or the inside-out.

  • So it was just really cool that switching up my space, clearing out all the junk,

  • really helped me clear out the old energy in me and in my life as well.

  • The next book that changed my life that I've talked about many times before is:

  • The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson.

  • This is the book that teaches you how to be consistent,

  • how to take consistent action, how to stay in the game for the long haul.

  • You just have to read through the book because it really convinces you

  • that you have to be consistent, you have to make it a habit.

  • I think before I was just a very inconsistent person.

  • It was hard for me to stay motivated on one thing for that long.

  • I've never been able to finish things all the way through.

  • I was doing music, I created an album that I worked really hard on creating,

  • but I was having a really hard time building that habit of

  • showing up to make music every day, showing up to write a song every day.

  • So I was really frustrated at myself

  • for not being able to stick to one thing long enough for the results to show.

  • Reading this book really helped me develop that habit of consistency.

  • It really is a practice, it's a muscle that you have to work out.

  • It's not easy and it's still not easy to this day.

  • But I really attribute my consistency with growing the YouTube for Lavendaire to this book

  • because without this book, I'd probably have given up in the first year or two.

  • The last book that changed my life that I think will help a lot of you out there is:

  • You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero.

  • This is a book to help you fix your money mindset.

  • I know a lot of us won't admit it, but we have a problem with our money mindsets.

  • A lot of us are taught that money equals bad, money equals greed,

  • it's not good to have too much money.

  • Whether you grew up with or without money, you can still have that negative money mindset.

  • For example, someone who grew up without money might judge people with money

  • and think that it's a bad thing or they're so greedy, blah blah blah.

  • By that, plus all of the negative money mindsets that were probably ingrained through their parents,

  • they create a reality where they won't have a lot of money.

  • They'll just stay the same because their mindset perpetuates that reality for them.

  • Even if you grew up with money, you might still have money mindset issues.

  • You might have seen money create a lot of problems.

  • You know, "More money, more problems."

  • So that might be in your mindset as well, which might block you

  • from earning more money in your life because you don't want to have those problems.

  • There's just a lot of issues that you could have with your mindset regarding money,

  • with your relationship with money,

  • and this book basically helps you debunk and work through all of those issues.

  • It was so helpful for me.

  • I feel like after reading this book – I used to have kind of a distant relationship

  • or a negative, cautious relationship with money because I always associated

  • "I don't want to seem like I want to make money because that seems insincere."

  • Or "I want to help people. And if you want to help people then you shouldn't care about making money."

  • I used to think that things were mutually exclusive like that.

  • Or also "If I make a lot of money, people might see me differently.

  • My friends might treat me differently, so I'm scared of that."

  • In that way, you're blocking yourself from a higher level of success

  • and you're blocking more money from coming into your life

  • because of all those personal beliefs and limitations.

  • Anyway, after reading this book and doing the exercises in this book,

  • I rewrote new, money positive affirmations for myself.

  • I would repeat it to myself.

  • I listened to the audiobook version in my car, so it was really going on.

  • I feel like, after that, I released a lot of those money mindset issues.

  • And funny enough, my career has been picking up and I'm making more money now.

  • My life is financially abundant now and I'm so thankful for it.

  • So yeah, if you guys want to step it up with your money game

  • and who doesn't? – check out this book.

  • By the way, if you're curious about the money affirmation

  • I wrote for myself after reading this book, it's this:

  • I love money and money loves me.

  • Making money is badass and empowering.

  • The more money I make, the more good I can create in the world.

  • Feel free to use that or edit it to whatever you like.

  • But it was something that I had to ingrain and change in myself,

  • because even the first couple sentences, "I love money and money loves me,"

  • that felt weird to say in the beginning because I guess I didn't want to admit that I love money.

  • But money is just a tool, it's just a resource.

  • What was really key was detaching the emotions

  • and the negative connotations from money, seeing it as just a resource.

  • And who doesn't enjoy having more resources?

  • Anyway, I hope that that made sense

  • and I hope that helped you a little bit, but definitely check out the book.

  • Alright, so those are six books that have changed my life.

  • If you want to learn more about the books that I read,

  • I'll post a link down below to my webpage which has my favorite books and such.

  • Let me know what your book recommendations are, specifically audiobooks,

  • because I felt like I've been in a dry spell with books so far.

  • The latest book that I read was The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest, a book on astrology.

  • After that, I haven't dove into another astrology book yet.

  • And audiobook-wise, I just haven't found a book that really inspired me.

  • So let me know if you have anything that's really good that you recommend,

  • something really fun to listen to or really inspiring and something that will change your mind.

  • Anyway that's it for today.

  • Thanks so much for watching.

  • Love you all.

  • Bye!

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