1. Get a Life by Rick Hughes

If you feel like your life interferes with your work and your work with your life, then this book is for you. Counsellor, coach, and wellbeing consultant Rick Hughes lays out workload management, managing relationships at the workplace and the home, considering professional and personal development, and creativity and self-worth. This practical handbook full of advice, case studies, and action plans is especially relevant as living in the “new normal” entails work from home for the foreseeable future.

2. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

“The days are long but the years are short”, Rubin observed on a rainy afternoon in a bus. She then decided to figure out what actions result in happiness. This book will show you how to change your life to be happier, with evidence from experiments with ideas from ancient history, modern science, and popular culture. It’ll teach you things like both mental and physical clutter weigh you down, the principles on which happy relationships are based, and why money is like health.

3. No Limits by Mukesh Bansal

What does it take to transcend limitations and achieve your true potential? IIT Kanpur graduate, technology entrepreneur, and Myntra founder Bansal has worked with high performers across business, sports, and entertainment to find that the answer lies in plasticity: the ability of the human brian to rewire as we develop new skills. He’s realised that high achievers rely on tools that are present in ancient wisdom and are validated by modern science. Bansal shows that we can always improve- our success is less influenced by genetics, and more on deliberate mindset, habit, willpower and learning.

4. Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal

If you feel constantly distracted by a notification on your phone or the screaming anchors on television- then this book is for you. Research shows the ability to stay focused is crucial, but in our fast-paced world where we’re constantly bombarded with content, paying attention to what’s relevant is becoming increasingly difficult. Eyal will show you that the solution isn’t as simple as resolving not to use your devices, and he’ll teach you how to get your life back. Using a four-step, research-backed novel, you’ll learn how to get the best out of technology without having it control your life.

5. Illuminate by Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez

This book reveals that the people who change the world are the people who truly believe they are able to. Steve Jobs believed in his vision so strongly that others started believing in it too, and so Apple began. Duarte and Sanchez provide you with the powerful communication tools that are necessary for leaders to imagine the future with their inventions and inspire others to support their dreams. This guidebook shows that through learn skills like persuasive communication, you can turn an idea into a movement.