Reaching Your Potential is quintessential Peale. He wrote it in the 20th century so some stories are a little dated, but overall the principles have not changed. If you're looking for an easy and inspirational read--here it is. Learn about the power of your thinking, your attitude. Learn to do what only you can do!

You are greater than you think you are. No matter who you are or how old, once you begin to see yourself as an exceptional person, your potential begins to blossom. That's the truth - Our life is what we make it. Dare to be yourself - There has never been anyone quite like you. Imitation is suicide, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his famous essay on self-reliance.

Be the person you always wanted to be - It makes no difference how unfavourable your sitution, how little training, or money or status you have to begin with. The great question is what you do with the little you have. Think constructively - Remember you can decide yourself into failure and unhappiness, or success and happiness. Unleash your potential - Five years from now you will be precisely what you think over the next five years. You will be a bigger person if you think big; you will be a smaller person if you think small.