50 books to make you more money, stronger and faster.

🧠 Brian Tracy (Mental Programming & Focus)

1. Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

If your outer world is a reflection of your inner world, then this book gives you the blueprint to rewire both. Tracy walks through mental exercises that help replace anxiety, doubt, and procrastination with intention, clarity, and courage.I use this book when onboarding new clients stuck in a victim mindset. It becomes the pre-work before we touch a barbell. Combined with CoreSelf Evolution, it resets thought patterns into tactical outcomes.

2. Eat That Frog

A classic in time mastery, this short book teaches you to attack your biggest, hardest task first thing in the day. It’s practical, digestible, and perfect for high-performing but distracted minds.I use “frog tasks” in my Inertia Over Inspiration Protocol to help clients overcome analysis paralysis. You stop overthinking and start executing.

3. Focal Point

Tracy shows you how to laser in on what matters—cutting noise, distractions, and wasted energy. This is how you build a lean, high-impact schedule.Great for business owners, side hustlers, and trainers overwhelmed by endless to-dos. I pair this with my own Priority Stacking Worksheet.

4. Reinvention

This book is about intentional pivoting. If you're changing careers, healing from failure, or reshaping your identity—this is your guide.I read this during my rebrand phase and restructured DXTheTrainer from top to bottom. It’s a mindset map for controlled chaos.

🔋 Tony Robbins (State Control & Wealth Psychology)

5. Unlimited Power

Robbins introduces the fundamentals of NLP, showing how to override limiting beliefs, shift your physiology, and rewire emotional responses.I use the anchoring and pattern interruption exercises here for emotional regulation during high-stress training periods.

6. Awaken the Giant Within

A deeper dive into decision-making, personal values, and life direction. It’s about internal alignment with external execution.This book shaped my affirmations, my public speaking, and my goal setting. I recommend it for any client stuck in an identity crisis.

7. Money: Master the Game

A tactical, interview-based finance bible. Robbins breaks down wealth-building using advice from top investors like Ray Dalio.I built the DX Money Protocol around lessons in this book—especially the “All Seasons Portfolio” and passive income tools.

🎭 Robert Greene (Strategy, Power, and People)

8. Art of Seduction

This is not a dating book. It’s a psychology manual on attention, charisma, and emotional influence.I use this when teaching trainers how to build magnetic personal brands and influence without begging. Seduction = presence + pattern awareness.

9. 33 Strategies of War

Each strategy here is a battlefield principle applied to social, business, and personal warzones. It’s relentless.My War Mode Training Protocol is a physical translation of these tactics—especially the "Guerilla-War-of-the-Mind" strategy.

10. Mastery

This book maps the long arc of skill development and purpose. Greene breaks down how mastery isn’t a moment—it’s a lifestyle.If you’re burned out, this will ground you. I recommend it to every trainer, artist, or entrepreneur hitting a plateau.

11. Laws of Human Nature

A deep analysis of why people act the way they do, with frameworks for decoding behavior.I use this as a client filter tool. It helps you read body language, silence, over-explaining, and other tells that reveal someone’s real condition.

12. 48 Laws of Power

Not for the faint-hearted. This is a lens into how power moves—seen and unseen.It's required reading for navigating corporate gyms, brand partnerships, and online culture. I debrief each law in my coaching intensives.

📣 Seth Godin (Marketing with Purpose and Precision)

13. Tribes

This book is a crash course in leadership through community. Godin explains that people want connection, not products—they follow ideas.I used this to design the DX Body Type Matrix as a tribal system. Each archetype becomes its own movement, its own mission. It’s not branding—it’s belonging.

14. Permission Marketing

Godin breaks down why interruptive marketing fails and how trust-based systems win. Email lists, opt-ins, and niche loyalty over virality.It forms the foundation of the DX Lead Magnet System. We build real rapport—not dopamine drip ads.

15. Linchpin

Become irreplaceable. That’s the thesis. Godin shows how to turn your work into art by adding emotional labor and creativity that can’t be automated.I use this to help trainers stop being reps-and-sets robots and start building transformative services that clients will never leave.

16. The Practice

A masterclass in consistency over motivation. Perfect for content creators, trainers, and anyone trying to fight “inspiration addiction.”This book is why I post daily, why I batch record, and why I never wait for the muse. I built my content rhythm off this.

17. The Icarus Deception

Godin dares you to stop playing small. Culture taught you to avoid flying too high, but the real danger is flying too low.This mindset flipped my comfort zones. I stopped building safe fitness funnels and started building cultural disruption tools like Inertia Over Inspiration.

18. Purple Cow

If your business isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible. Being different is no longer optional—it’s survival.This shaped how I designed my quiz-based funnels, archetype training, and sovereign suite programs. I train people to be purple cows in black-and-white industries.

🛡️ John C. Maxwell (Leadership as Legacy)

19. Thinker's Edge

Leaders are defined by how they think, not what they know. This book is a toolkit for upgrading your mental models.I use this to guide high-level clients through decision audits. It’s about making thinking a discipline, not a default.

20. Failing Forward

Maxwell reframes failure as a data point, not a defeat. Every setback becomes a setup.This book became essential during injury recovery seasons. I built the Bounce-Back Blueprint using these concepts.

21. Today Matters

Your future isn’t made in months—it’s made in minutes. Maxwell teaches the power of stacking good days.I integrate this into my daily ritual system: movement, mission, mastery. I don’t skip because I don’t want to skip life.

22. The Self-Aware Leader

A powerful breakdown of internal leadership. If you can’t lead your moods, you can’t lead anyone else.I use this with trainers and men struggling with emotional chaos. Self-awareness is strength—not softness.

23. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

You talk, but are you heard? Maxwell reveals the secrets behind real connection, not just transmission.I rewrote my client onboarding scripts using this book. It turned “sign-ups” into “significance.”

🧠 Robert A. Johnson (Depth Psychology for Real Self-Knowing)

24. He

A masculine psychology classic. Johnson explains the myth of Parsifal to decode the modern man’s crisis.This is the soul behind my DX Male Archetypes. I use this in coaching men who’ve lost their inner compass.

25. She

The feminine equivalent to “He,” decoding the myth of Eros and Psyche.I recommend this to women clients rebuilding after trauma or identity loss. It’s also foundational for understanding sacred feminine energy in self-development.

26. We

Johnson explores romantic relationships through myth and Jungian theory.It’s a deep dive into projection, idealization, and true union. My relationship coaching protocols are steeped in this lens.

27. Ecstasy

A book on divine madness and the soul’s longing for something more.This book showed me how to turn craving into creation. I train people to transmute addiction into purpose.

28. Inner Gold

Your projections are your teachers. Johnson shows how we give our power away to mentors, lovers, and celebrities.I used this to reclaim my own authority after years of over-relying on gurus. Now I teach my clients to trust their own gold.

29. Owning Your Own Shadow

This book is a guide for integrating the parts of yourself you’ve disowned.In fitness, this is the shame, guilt, and rage that show up in binging, quitting, or perfectionism. I use this in my shadow training rituals.

🔁 Spencer Johnson (Simplicity Meets Wisdom)

30. Who Moved My Cheese?

Change is coming whether you like it or not. This parable helps you prepare and pivot.I recommend it to clients starting a new training program, relationship, or life phase. Read it in one hour, feel it for years.

31. Out of the Maze

The follow-up to “Cheese,” focused on freeing yourself from false beliefs.This is about identity traps. I assign it in the CoreSelf Reset Protocol when someone is stuck in old definitions of who they are.

32. Peaks and Valleys

A parable about how to manage emotional highs and lows without being destroyed by either.I use this to build emotional regulation plans. If you can handle life’s cycles, you’ll never be ruled by them.

💰 Robert Kiyosaki (Financial Reprogramming & Wealth Defense)

33. Fake

Kiyosaki dismantles modern financial lies—fake teachers, fake assets, fake money. He warns against trusting the school-to-job-to-retirement trap.This book taught me to question everything about financial advice. I include it in my Wealth Recode Curriculum for clients exiting the consumer mindset.

34. Rich Dad Poor Dad

One of the most quoted, but rarely applied, money books. Kiyosaki uses two father figures to compare employee vs. investor mentalities.It’s the gateway drug to financial sovereignty. I assign it to teens, trainers, and anyone still trading time for dollars.

🧬 Raymond Charles Barker (Decision Clarity & Mental Sovereignty)

35. The Power of Decision

Barker’s metaphysical breakdown of why indecision kills momentum. He blends spiritual science and real-life action.This book fuels my high-stakes planning rituals. It’s why I never make decisions in confusion—only in clarity. It’s part of my Mental Reset Kit.

💼 Napoleon Hill (Faith, Focus & Fortune)

36. Think and Grow Rich

Hill spent decades studying high performers and broke it down into a timeless wealth formula—definiteness of purpose, persistence, faith, and autosuggestion.I reread this every year. It forms the mental DNA of all my vision boarding, goal-setting, and manifestation systems.

37. Outwitting the Devil

A darker, more aggressive work where Hill interviews “the Devil” as a metaphor for fear, distraction, and societal control.I integrated its concept of “drifting” into my Inertia framework. Every time you stall on your purpose, the Devil wins. I teach clients to beat him daily.

⚔️ Steven Pressfield (Creative War & Inner Resistance)

38. Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

Short, sharp, and surgical. This book is about alignment through action. You don’t “wait” for the right moment—you plant your body where your dreams live.This became one of my top coaching mantras. I recite this phrase before every content creation sprint, training session, or business investment.

39. War of Art

The classic on defeating Resistance—the invisible force that stops you from doing your work.I built the Creative Discipline Stack off this. This book is a weapon against self-sabotage.

🧪 Ben Greenfield (Biohacking meets Physical Mastery)

40. Boundless

Greenfield lays out the entire map of human optimization—sleep, hormones, nootropics, gut health, strength, and spirit.This is required reading for my high-level male clients. I built the Biohacker Recovery Blueprint around this book’s protocols.

🧬 Dave Asprey (Self-Directed Evolution)

41. Fast This Way

Asprey explains how fasting can reset metabolism, mindset, and even emotional patterns.I use this as part of my spiritual-fasting protocols. It’s not just about body fat—it’s about emotional clarity.

42. Super Human

Longevity isn’t luck—it’s a process. Asprey outlines what it takes to expand healthspan with daily interventions.This is the science behind my Age Reversal Stack. I recommend it to clients 35+ looking to future-proof their bodies.

🛡️ Ryan Holiday (Stoic Execution & Media Mastery)

43. Ego Is the Enemy

Holiday teaches that the biggest threat to greatness is your own ego—your need to be right, praised, and protected.I use this in all my coaching intensives. Clients reread it every time success begins to soften their discipline.

44. The Obstacle Is the Way

A direct application of Stoic philosophy: what blocks the path becomes the path.I built the DX Comeback Protocol around this. Every injury, heartbreak, or failure is now a weight we train with.

45. Stillness Is Key

Holiday argues that clarity, peace, and stillness aren’t luxuries—they’re necessities for greatness.I pair this with meditation coaching and my Nervous System Rebuild Rituals. Stillness trains your signal.

46. Trust Me, I’m Lying

An insider look at how media and PR manipulate emotions to sell narratives.I reference this anytime I teach fitness branding. It exposes why misinformation spreads faster than truth—and how to resist it.

47. Growth Hacker Marketing

A breakdown of modern marketing that prioritizes iteration, experimentation, and rapid user feedback.I built the DX Marketing Lab with these principles. Test, measure, pivot, scale.

48. Courage Is Calling

Holiday closes the loop on the Stoic virtues with a book about doing what you know is right—regardless of fear.This book is about stepping into leadership without approval. It’s in the core of my DX Warrior Code.

🧠 Tim Ferriss (Curation, Optimization, and Mental Reframing)

49. Tribe of Mentors

A book of mini-interviews with high performers across all industries. Each page is a shortcut to a better life system.I use this as a warm-up or wind-down tool. Pick any page. Get a life-altering insight. I recommend it weekly to every content creator I coach.

50. Tools of Titans

Same concept as Tribe of Mentors, but even more tactical—divided into Health, Wealth, and Wisdom.This is what inspired the original Sovereign Suite Build. It’s not a book—it’s a toolbox.

🧠 Xavier Savage's Challenge to You

This list is not a flex. It’s a challenge.

• Which book are you avoiding?

• Which section of your life is weakest—money, muscle, or mindset?

• Which two books will you commit to before the end of the month?

Every page you avoid is a future you delay.

I’ll be reviewing these in workouts, YouTube shorts, and deep-dive content drops weekly.Bookmark this post. Revisit it often. Read like a savage. Train like a weapon. Think like a sovereign.

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