On Living Routines, $100 Startups, and Timeless Financial Lessons

Books that changed my life

Hi All! 

Welcome to 2023! Here are three books to kick off the year with motivation and excitement. 

1. Personal development
Own the Day, Own Your Life

Summary
This is a fresh approach to health, wellness, and building effective routines. The book fundamentally changed how I approach each morning and had a significant impact on my diet and fitness routines. 

• Principle: To live one day well is the same as to live ten thousand days well. To master twenty-four hours is to master your life.

• Insight: The little things are the big things.

• Quote: No man ever steps into the same river twice. For it's not the same river, and he is not the same person -Heraclitus

• Instruction: Accomplish these tasks in the first 20 minutes of waking up

  • Activity (light movement)

  • Hydration (water)

  • Outside light (sunlight)

Author: Aubrey Marcus
Themes: Personal development, Health and wellness
My personal notes from the book
 

2. Entrepreneurship
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

Summary
A fun, easy-to-read book about practical entrepreneurship. It presents many of the key lessons on starting your own business. It is written for the internet age with remote work at its core. For those interesting in a side hustle, this is a good place to start.  

• Principle: A business ultimately succeeds because of the value it provides its end-users, customers, or clients.

• Insight: A feature is descriptive, a benefit is emotional.

• Quote: Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming -Richard Branson

Author: Chris Guillebeau
Themes: Entrepreneurship, Personal development, Running a business, Productivity, Work hygiene 
My personal notes from the book
 

3. Personal development
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth Greed, and Happiness

Summary
A wonderful addition to books on money and personal finance. This book is not about cutting back on lattes and saving money for retirement. Rather, it focuses on practical financial advice that is hard to find. It was a refreshing read and helped to shape my perspective about personal finance and investing. 

• Principle: Avoid single points of failure. Everything that can break eventually will. If many things rely on one thing working, and that thing breaks, you are counting the days to a catastrophe. That is a single point of failure 

• Insight: The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving

• Quote: There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need -Warren Buffett

Author: Morgan Housel
Themes: Personal finance, Investing, Wealth creation
My personal notes from the book
 

Thanks for reading! Please feel free to forward this to friends (they can sign up below). Even if they don't want to read the books, there is plenty of wonderful knowledge in the notes! 

Best,
Adam

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