But it doesn’t have to be the new year to kick off the big changes you want to make in your business and your life. Start where you are.  Start today.

If you are ready to bring a new spark to your business and life, look no further. I’ve got all the inspiration you can handle right here.

Get started with my personalized video message to you. Then scroll down to find each day’s slideshow and links to all of the resources highlighted in each day of the 12 Days of Transformation.

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DAY 12:  Life-Transforming Books

Book List:

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Author: Brene Brown

The Artist’s Way Starter Kit
Author: Julia Cameron

If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path
Author: Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life
Author: Trevor Blake

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Author: Timothy Ferriss

The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Authors: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels

This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Author: Augusten Burroughs

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Author: Martha Beck

The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho

The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Author: Mark Nepo

Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
Author: Henry Cloud

Mastery
Author: Robert Greene

DAY 11: Transformational TED Talks

Matt Cutts

Brene Brown

Elizabeth Gilbert

Ben Zander

Steve Jobs

Jill Bolte Taylor

Dan Pink

J.K. Rowling

Tony Robbins

Dan Gilbert

Richard St. John

And here’s a powerful BONUS video – not a TED Talk, technically speaking, but still not to be missed:

Seth Godin

DAY 10: Transformation Teachers to Follow on Twitter

Click on the ‘@’ names below to follow these teachers on Twitter:

Martha Beck
@MarthaBeck

Simon Sinek
@simonsinek

Julia Cameron
@J_CameronLive

Byron Katie
@ByronKatie

Dalai Lama
@DalaiLama

Danielle LaPorte
@DanielleLaPorte

Judy Martin
@JudyMartin8

Elisha Goldstein
@Mindful_Living

Tiny Buddha
@TinyBuddha

Deepak Chopra
@DeepakChopra

DAY 9: Business-Changing Books

Book List

The Pumpkin Plan
Author: Mike Michalowicz

The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Author: Jim Huling

The 3 Laws of Performance
Author: Steve Zaffron

Culturematic
Author: Grant David McCracken

E-Myth Mastery
Author: Michael E. Gerber

Lean Startup
Author: Eric Ries

Linchpin
Author: Seth Godin

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Authors: Al Ries and Jack Trout

The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
Author: Danielle LaPorte

DAY 8: Possibility-Expanding Books and Blogs

Art of Nonconformity
Author: Tim Ferriss

Weekly Sermons and Daily Truth Bombs
Danielle LaPorte

The Charge
Author: Brendon Burchard

Who Would You Be Without Your Story? The Work of Byron Katie
Author: Byron Katie

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author: David Allen

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Author: Rosamund Stone Zander

Fear.less Magazine

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Author: Deepak Chopra

DAY 7: Habit-Changing Books and Blogs

Sivers.org
Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone.
Author: Derek Sivers

The Blog of Tim Ferriss
Practical Tactics for Dealing with Haters
Author: Tim Ferriss

Oprah.com
10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn
Author: Martha Beck

Charles Duhigg Blog
Infographics! (Or, a flowchart for changing a habit)
Author: Charles Duhigg

Harvard Business Review
Throw Your Life a Curve Ball
Author: Whitney Johnson and Juan Carlos Méndez-García

Seth’s Blog
Reject the tyranny of being picked: pick yourself
Author: Seth Godin

DAY 5: Life Hackers to Follow On Online

Chris Guillebeau
@ChrisGuillebeau

Tim Ferriss
@TFerriss

Gretchen Rubin
@gretchenrubin

Leo Babauta
@zen_habits

Louise Hay
@LouiseHay

DAY 4: Manifestos for Work and Life

The Holstee Manifesto

The LuluLemon Manifesto

The Cult of Done Manifesto

The RETHINK Manifesto

DAY 3: Body and Health Changing Books and Blogs

Books

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Author: Rich Roll

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Author: Geneen Roth

Blog

Whole 9 Life

DAY 2: Money Books and Blogs

Book + Blog

The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of “Enough”
Author: Julia Cameron

Bari Tessler Linden’s Blog

DAY 1: App To Power Change (and a bonus)

This is the final day of the 12 Days of Transformation – now you’re equipped to get into motion on your change efforts.

Transformational App of 2012

Everest

Bonus App!

Unstuck