Bookworms Unite! 📚
Join the empowered parent book club!
We meet every third Wednesday at 12 PM PST via Zoom broadcast on Facebook Live. You can join live or watch the replay. No need to read the books, I summarize and synthesize the highlights and provide you with an actionable PDF each month.
Here are some of my favorites
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Here are some of my favorites 〰️
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.
The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
If you're finding that happiness eludes you no matter how much you've achieved, then learning this easy mindset shift will set you on a life-changing path to greater fulfillment and success.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
We may not realize it, but children are hyperaware of money. They have scores of questions about its nuances that parents often don't answer, or know how to answer well. But for Ron Lieber, a personal finance columnist and father, good parenting means talking about money with our kids much more often. When parents avoid these conversations, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model important financial behaviors, but also to imprint lessons about what their family cares about most.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
The 12 Week Year: get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months
Although the authors of this book work primarily with businesses seeking to improve productivity, the system they outline is one which anyone (including parents) can use to their great advantage. I have been amazed at how I can set 12 week goals that seem impossible, then use their system to break down tasks week by week that magically result in goal completion in the time permitted. The scoring and accountability groups are key, so if you’re going to implement this system, I highly recommend you grab an accountability partner or three!
