Category: Book Reviews

  • How To Leverage The Timing of Events in Life

    How To Leverage The Timing of Events in Life

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    Are you an early riser or a night owl? Do you know when you should be doing your programming to have the optimal flow in your work? When is your best time of the year to start something new? These questions matter. I started working my Mullet Method because it helped me get so much

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  • How Do You Leverage The Power in Life’s Small Moments?

    How Do You Leverage The Power in Life’s Small Moments?

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    Our life is comprised of discrete moments. We get up, and that’s a moment. We come in the door and greet our spouse…moment. We tell our kids to get off us…moment. Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories. How are we executing those moments? Are

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  • If You’re Overworked and Overloaded, implement a pull based system

    If You’re Overworked and Overloaded, implement a pull based system

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    Work-life balance. The elusive word/idea/thing that we strive for. What does it mean to be “balanced” in work and life? Does it mean that we spend 8 hours working and 8 hours with family every day? Does it mean that we spend all our time working and then create some epic trip or event to

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  • What are the habits of high performers?

    What are the habits of high performers?

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    What is it that makes high performers, high performers? What is it that puts them above the “rest of us?” I know you’re asking that question because you want to see the same type of success/money/freedom that the high performers you know have. That is the purpose of High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard. Burchard

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  • What Will it Take to Have Your Best Year Ever?

    What Will it Take to Have Your Best Year Ever?

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    I started my year looking at a book about having Your Best Year Ever, by Michael Hyatt. It’s fairly common knowledge that most goals start well, then die by February. The goal of Hyatt’s book is to give us the goal setting and achieving tools so that our year can be the best year we’ve

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  • Do You Know How to Grow into Your Success?

    Do You Know How to Grow into Your Success?

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    But then it gets hard. Rules change, markets change, the economy changes, and people with new ideas come along. If we haven’t been paying attention and adding to our knowledge and skills, we find ourselves getting cynical and resentful and frustrated. It affects our attitudes and our production. Over time, we end up feeling as

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  • Paid to Think has 2 Good Ideas Wrapped in a Stack of Turtles

    Paid to Think has 2 Good Ideas Wrapped in a Stack of Turtles

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    So much of what we do in work is thinking. Yes, developers type code onto the “page” and that code is what clients think they’re paying for. The truth is that they’re paying for you to make smart decisions. Learning to make those smart decisions, with proper information, is what Paid to Think, by David

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  • Mark Manson Tells us To Stop Caring about So Much

    Mark Manson Tells us To Stop Caring about So Much

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    We’ll start this review with a disclaimer there is swearing in the quotes. That’s just the style of the author of the book. In the first chapter, it felt like he was using profanity just for shock factor, with some sentences so overloaded that it was almost comical. After that initial bit, it went way

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  • Resolve Conflicts by Playing Nice in Your Sandbox

    Resolve Conflicts by Playing Nice in Your Sandbox

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    Nothing ever goes as smoothly as we’d like. There is always conflict at home and work, and we have to deal with it. Few of us have effective strategies to deal with the conflict though. You can find an audio version of this. Make sure you subscribe to Should I Read It so you don’t

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  • How You can Become a Linchpin in your Field

    How You can Become a Linchpin in your Field

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    023 – Linchpin While not all of us aspire to being some famous person that holds the keys to success in an industry, we all dream of being indispensable. Of being someone that is a leader in a small field. Even if that niche is obscure, being the person that is the “go to” in

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