Reading is one of the best things you can do to stretch yourself, stay sharp, and get ahead in your field.
Here are some of the best books I’ve come across. I’ve enjoyed reading them and I hope you do, too.
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If you tell yourself something often enough, you’re going to believe it. Whether it’s true or not, it doesn’t matter. We have an internal dialog that is constantly telling us things about ourselves and our potential, and rehashing the conversation we had with the bank...
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit has been a go-to resource for understanding habits since it was written in 2012. Its three-step model for how habits are formed has helped many people interrupt the habit loop and be more intentional about their actions. My only...
Everybody wants to do a great job. Some individuals, teams, and organizations are better at it than others. Why do some companies excel at everything they do, while others get caught up in the whirldwind of everyday monotony? Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim...
It’s easy to let ourselves get spread too thin. We have no free time. We’re not getting enough sleep. We’re always on the move. We can’t wait for the weekend, but there’s so much to do around the house that we never get a chance to relax. We want to pull back. We want...
Productivity doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, productivity shouldn’t be complicated. If it’s complicated, you’re not going to do it. Time management shouldn’t require a flowchart. It doesn’t need Zen philosophies. Or memorizing matrices of next actions...
In 2016, Michael Hyatt released Free to Focus. It was a premium training course on personal productivity, and it carried a premium price tag. I was familiar with Michael’s work—this wasn’t the first course I’d taken from Michael—so I signed up as soon as enrollment...
For years, the go-to handbook on millionaires was Thomas Stanley’s The Millionaire Next Door. The conclusion, surprising to many, was that millionaires are regular people. Your neighbors could be millionaires and you might not know it. Conversely, the neighbors you...
The basic idea behind the 12 Week Year is to set quarterly goals instead of annual goals. You’ll need to scale back a little, obviously, but don’t scale back too much. The truth is, we can accomplish a lot in 12 weeks if we’re focused. Once you have...
My mother trained her border collie to sit using a clicker. It’s a simple example of the Habit Loop: cue, routine, and reward. When my mother gestured (cue), the dog sat (routine), and got a click (reward), sometimes with a treat (random reinforcement). [figure-svg...
Every January 1, millions of us set resolutions to improve ourselves. The biggest areas are our health, our finances, and our relationships. Maybe it’s because we just spent December eating too much, spending more than we should have, and reflecting on the people that...
This is the book Dr. Stephen R. Covey is best known for. It’s one of the best books on self-leadership ever. You should have a copy in your library. (Amazon agrees—it’s included with Kindle Unlimited.) Obviously, the seven habits are the meat and potatoes of the book....
This is part leadership manual, part biography. Rudy Giuliani shares the leadership principles the guided him through his twelve years as mayor of New York City. The chapters alternate between leadership lessons and the events of September 11, 2001. Giuliani takes you...
When an idea to do something bold pops into your head, you have five seconds to act on it before your brain kicks into survival mode and talks you out of it. That’s the idea behind Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule. It has nothing to do with the hot dog you dropped on...
We spend one-third of our lives sleeping. That’s twenty to thirty years, hopefully longer. Yet we understand so little about sleep—namely how it works and exactly why it’s important. I discovered Shawn Stevenson when he spoke at Michael Hyatt’s Free to...
Your morning routine can make or break your day. In The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod recommends six specific practices that should be part of your morning routine, tied together with the only-slightly-awkward acronym SAVERS (as in, they’re your lifesavers): Silence...
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read on human behavior. It still shapes a lot of how I interpret why we do what we do. It’s by Hyrum W. Smith, the founder of Franklin Quest, the company that would later put the “Franklin” in “Franklin Covey”. The first half of...
Want a glimpse into what makes Pixar Pixar? Ed Catmull, who has headed Pixar ever since it was still owned by George Lucas, and Amy Wallace take you behind the scenes for a look at the magic that makes the magic. Catmull explains his business, leadership, and...