Ten most influential personal development authors
Published by Geronimo on 2010-01-05 06:32:41
Their teachings can help you to create a mindset to make money online
This list is based on the influence the authors have had through the years, paying attention to three single factors:
1.- How many times their work is mentioned in the works of other authors.
2.- The uniqueness of their work.
3.- The Success of their work.
Feel free to propose somebody else, this list means to be an useful approach of the personal development industry and its best authors.
1.- Tony Robbins

He is famous worldwide because of his book Awakening the giant within and because of his seminars. He is well known like the motivator of motivators or the greatest motivator in the world.
His coaching service costs $1, 000,000.00 and he has been hired from very important people in the entire world including the President of The United States.
Thanks to his book, above mentioned, my life changed, as a result of applying a technique of visualization that he highlights in his book, and to the goal setting methodology that he mentioned in the book,
He has written other books and he is co-author of other books, his first book was Unlimited Power which was very successful.
Manny Ibay, a Los Angeles trial attorney, wrote a book on how he reached great success thanks to applying Tony Robbins´ teachings, the book is:
Thank You, Tony Robbins: How Tony’s Success Programs Helped Me Design My Life So I Can Do What I Want When I Want
It is sold in amazon and it´s been a success.
His work is mentioned and highlighted by many authors, like the above mentioned.
2.- Napoleon Hill

His book Think and grow rich is the most famous book on personal development and it is known like the book that has produced more millioners in history through its teachings.
Many people, including several authors claim that they have read the book many times, and that they read it again usually.
He is also author of The Law of Success In 16 Lessons and The Science of Personal Achievement: Follow in the Footsteps of the Giants of Success
3.- Mark Joyner

He is a former U.S. Army Officer. He was not in the personal development industry, he is a living legend on marketing and he is a #1 best-selling author of over a dozen of books. He is the founder and CEO of some very successful companies, due to his incredible success and his incredible capacity to easily and massively produce it he decided to create a course online for free called Simpleology 101.
In this course he explains how simple is getting what you want, thanks to this course I learned the rule number to be a great achiever.
4.- Rhonda Byrne

She has written only one book, but with the movie The secret which is supported by the book, she has led an astonishing movement throughout the world. The Personal Development Industry can be divided before and after The secret movie.
The difference is so huge that it can be told that before The secret movie, the approach to achieve a goal was like: “Go for it like an animal! whatever it takes”, after the secret the approach is: “Attract your objective to you by changing your inner world and in the meantime become a better person.”
The movie has had such a great influence that more than dozen books referring to its teachings have become bestsellers and they have made very famous to their authors.
Some of these books are:
The law of attraction by Michael Losier
The attraction distraction by Sonia Miller
Feel it real by Denise Coates
Rhonda Byrne will be remembered as the woman who started spread The secret to achieve anything.
5.- Joe Vitale

He is a star in the movie The secret but prior to this he has been a best selling author for many books impossible to list all here, he is well known like a great online marketer. Some of his many books are:
The attractor factor
The key
He has created an amazing program through which I have learned many amazing breakthroughs to achieve my dreams in a very easy way, it is:
The awakening course
6.- Michael Losier

He will be widely remembered because of being invited by Oprah by the outstanding success of his book:
The law of attraction The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t
Prior to his book, the most difficult step for everyone, including me, to fully implement the law of attraction was the last step: allowing, or like it is called in The secret movie: receive.
It was so difficult and frustrating to face this step that many, including me, thought the law of attraction was a real scam.
In his book he explains this step in detail, and the marvelous thing is that he does it in a very clear way, in plain english, so that everybody can grasp it and immediately implement it. The reviews on Amazon of his book are truly amazing, one of them at the front page made by Janet Boyer of janetboyer.com made me urgently wants to get the book.
His appearence in Oprah was so successful that he became a regular collaborator in her show.
Thanks to him I have learned how to become a deliberate sender of my vibration,
7.- Wallace D. Wattles

His book The Science of Getting Rich inspired to Rhonda Byrne to make The secret movie, it is more than enough to say that it is a true outstanding book, it is a great classic, also it is mentioned by many authors, Bob Proctor has given many seminars about this book for many years.
The next quote is an amazing distinction from his book that gives to human beings inspiration to think of great possibilities.
“The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.”
Wallace D. Wattles also wrote The Science of Being Well and The Science of Being Great.
8.- Maxwell Maltz

Psycho-Cybernetics is one of my favorites books, because it has a specific system to follow and that produces amazing results, the explanation of the winning feeling concept is fascinating.
This book has sold over 30 millions of copies wordlwide, according to the Psycho-Cybernetics foundation, many famous authors have mentioned it in their works, including Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy.
9.- William Clement Stone

He was the co-author of the book Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude, Og Mandino mentioned that by following the system outlined in this book he succeed as an author. When I read this I eagerly wanted to buy the book,
I wasn´t disappointed when I read the book, the principles in there are designed to make you move in the right direction towards the achievement of your objective, William Clement Stone is mentioned in the movie The Secret by Jack Candfield.
10.- Steve Pavlina

It is a rare and amazing case, an author who shares his best distinctions and insights online via a blog for free! What a case! His blog is about Personal development. He has written a book: Personal development for smart people. It is very well reviewed on amazon, and it´s been a huge success.
He still shares his distinctions for free through his blog and always keep a very high standard. His blog is visited monthly by two millions of people, which denotes the influence of his work.