Best Books to Read and Listen

THE WAY OF THE INTELLIGENT REBEL : SUCCEED OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM, TEACH YOURSELF ANYTHING AND ACHIEVE ULTIMATE FREEDOM BY OLIVIER ROLAND To start with, Olivier shares  “3 Key Principles   for Success in All Areas of Your Life.”  These three principles will enable you to select your own methods and use them effectively. PRINCIPLE 1 – HEALTHY SKEPTICISM: The unhealthy skeptics are those who, when they come across a new theory that challenges their preconceptions, immediately reject it with the words: ‘That’s just not possible. It goes against everything I have learned to date, and if it really yielded the positive results described, everyone would know about it.’ The healthy skeptics are those who, when they encounter a new theory that challenges their received ideas, says: ‘That’s interesting, and the results are encouraging. But is it true? Let me think… What simple experiment could I perform to test one of two of the method’s principles?’ You need to test things for yoursel...

THE ENTREPRENEUR ROLLER COASTER: WHY NOW IS THE TIME TO #JOINTHERIDE BY DARREN HARDY I n  The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster  you will learn the best strategies Darren has ever collected from the most successful people on the planet, covering the four essential skills necessary for entrepreneurial success: sales, recruiting, leadership, and productivity. This essential guidebook will prepare you for the wild ride of entrepreneurship. It will warn you (of forthcoming fears, doubts, and the self-defeating conditioning of your upbringing and past), inoculate you (from the naysayers, dream-stealers, and pains of rejection and failure), and guide you (as you build those underdeveloped skills of independence, self-motivation, and self-accountability) safely past the landmines that blow up and cause the failure of 66 percent of all new businesses. Discover why NOW is the best time to #JOINTHERIDE. "This is loaded with practical, proven methods and techniques that you can use to save yo...

THE BALANCED SCORECARD : TRANSLATING STRATEGY INTO ACTION BY ROBERT KAPLAN AND DAVID P NORTON The Balanced Scorecard  translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures.  The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures.  In the first part, Kaplan and Norton provide the theoretical foundations for the Balanced Scorecard; in the second part, they describe the steps organizations must take to build their own Scorecards; and, finally, they discuss how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a driver of change. The Balanced Scorecard is a framework to implement and manage strategy by linking a vision and mission to strategic priorities, objectives, measures, a...

THE UNEMPLOYED MILLIONAIRE ESCAPE THE RAT RACE, FIRE YOUR BOSS AND LIVE LIFE ON YOUR TERMS  BY MATT MORRIS In  The Unemployed Millionaire , Morris reveals how he turned his life around and shatters the myth that it takes money to make money. Thanks to the Internet explosion and the ease of global trade, it is possible for anyone to start a business and market their products worldwide to millions of customers. A self-made millionaire shows you how to make millions while living life on your own terms At just eighteen years old, Matt Morris founded his first marketing business. At twenty, he dropped out of college to pursue business full-time. At twenty-one, he was homeless and deeply in debt, living out of his car. It was then that he made a life-changing decision to re-invent himself and his career. By twenty-nine, Matt was a self-made millionaire. How did he do it? In  The Unemployed Millionaire , Morris reveals how he turned his life around and shatters the myth that it...

T HE 5 SECOND RULE : TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, WORK AND CONFIDENCE WITH EVERYDAY COURAGE  BY MEL ROBBINS The  5 Second Rule  is simple. If you have an instinct to act on a goal, you must physically move within  5 seconds  or your brain will kill it. The moment you feel an instinct or a desire to act on a goal or a commitment, use the  Rule . Here are 3 reasons why this simple idea of a 5-second countdown can be useful for you: Through little acts of courage, the 5 Second Rule makes you less afraid over time. There are three reasons the “right time” will never come, so you just have to start. The 5 Second Rule helps you override your feelings, it’s a psychological intervention. Lessons from the Book Lesson 1: The 5 Second Rule builds courage like compounding interest. When we read   stories about our heroes  or biographies of historical figures,  we tend to see people of extraordinary courage and bravery. That’s not the case. They were j...

OUTLIERS - THE STORY OF SUCCESS   BY MALCOLM GLADWELL Definition of  outliers . An  outlier  is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population. Malcolm Gladwell's  primary  objective in  Outliers  is to examine achievement and failure as cultural phenomena in order to determine the factors that typically foster success. Gladwell  proposes that once a person has practiced his or her craft for 10,000 hours, they enter a threshold of genius through which fame and fortune become tangible possibilities. At that point, the person is talented enough or smart enough or capable enough to be truly  successful . The central  thesis  of the book is that while talent and dedicated practice are necessary for success, early advantage and privileged social standing are what truly make the  outliers . Outliers  explains why “the self-made man” is a myth and what truly lies be...

THE 21 ABSOLUTELY UNBREAKABLE LAWS OF MONEY BY BRIAN TRACY Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year. Brian has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 45 books that have been translated into dozens of languages. One of your major goals in life should be financial independence. You   must aim to reach the point where you have enough money so that you never  have to worry about money again. The good news is that financial  independence is easier to achieve today than it has ever...

168 HOURS - YOU HAVE MORE TIME THAN YOU THINK  BY LAURA VANDERKAM It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time.  168 hours  by  L aura Vanderkam .  168 Hours  starts out with a discussion of the common modern narrative about how nobody has enough time. She strongly disagrees with this, arguing that  168 hours  a week is enough time to fit in a robust career, a strong family life, exercise, hobbies, and enough sleep per night. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all.  Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in.  There has to be a better way...and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. ...

THE PROCRASTINATION EQUATION : HOW TO STOP PUTTING THINGS OFF AND START  GETTING STUFF  DONE BY PIERS STEEL Piers Steel is a recognized expert on topics like motivation and  procrastination  and in his book  "The procrastination equation"  he gives an equation you can use to analyze exactly why you procrastinate. The Procrastination Equation Different people procrastinate for different reasons, corresponding to the different variables in the Procrastination Equation:  Motivation = (Expectancy x Value) / (Impulsiveness x Delay) . Procrastination results from lowering Motivation too much. Expectancy = how likely you think you are to reach your goal Value = the value you place on the goal Impulsiveness = how influenced you are by short-term vs. long-term gratifications Delay = how far into the future the goal is Understanding why you procrastinate is a major first step towards reducing procrastination. The book has an assessment tool you can use to help ...