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Book Preview:#1 A budget is a guide to show you how much money you have to spend each month. It's a great way to stay on track with your finances and prevent you from overspending.
#2 The most important rule of a budget is that you must be able to pay things back at the end of the month. If you can't, you're undermining yourself.
#3 The author once nearly bought herself a $150 facial...
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Get the Summary of Robin Sharma's The 5 AM Club in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As you read this summary, you will discover that getting up earlier every day can transform your daily life and your propensity for success.
You will also discover: that getting up at five o'clock in the morning is the first step on the way to the rest of your journey; that you must never stop learning...
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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Stillness Is the Key in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As you read this summary, you will discover what inner peace is and how you can cultivate it. You will also discover: that your heart, body and mind must be in harmony to achieve inner peace; that you must take control of your mind and thoughts; that you must savor every moment and be grateful for...
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Get the Summary of Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's Attached in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Attached, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller take a scientific approach to explain how romantic relationships work and why some are more dysfunctional than others. They use real-life stories as well as cutting-edge research to educate us on why some people are able to thrive in their relationships...
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Get the Summary of Marshall B. Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What is Violent Communication? If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate-judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling,...
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Get the Summary of Anne Lamott's Almost Everything 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paper whites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But, even when life is at its...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Goleman's Social Intelligence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A shrewd study of social intelligence.
Intelligence is a tricky concept to pin down. Highfliers in some settings can also perform terribly in others. We've all met that person whose IQ test results are off the charts, but who crashes and burns when it comes to making small talk at a party.
That's...
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Get the Summary of Sigmund Freud's Dream Psychology in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: One cannot enter into a study of psychology without coming across the name of Sigmund Freud. Even in popular culture, his name stands in common with others like Albert Einstein and Karl Marx. There are downsides to this level of popularity. One often encounters the criticisms of Freud's work before...
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Get the Summary of Neil Pasricha's The Happiness Equation in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times-bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts...
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Book Preview: #1 Someone who loves games and plays them. Someone who can't help but think about how games work. Someone who wants to know how things work as systems.
#2 Cadwell was born in St. Louis, and as a child he spent a lot of time playing video games. He became interested in the patterns and systems of video games, and as he got older, he began to figure out how to apply those...
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Book Preview: #1 Mary Lou Kopas helps deliver three babies in a single day. She is a certified nurse-midwife, who helps women navigate the joys, terrors, and transformations of pregnancy and birth.
#2 When Nayantara started experiencing contractions, Brumble didn't want to be treated as a medical emergency, so she wanted to have a more personal connection with her labor. She and her...
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Book Preview: #1 Nice is a word we all use, but seldom stop to think about. It's a confession that being nice is the same as being a good person, and behind that is the fear that if you're less nice, you are selfish and bad.
#2 Being nice is about making everything smooth for others, based on the theory that if you please others, give them everything they want, and keep a low profile,...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's Lost Connections in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Any reader can use this workbook for Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari and find immediate help in applying its major lessons.
Lost Connections, Johann Hari's newest book, reveals many of the truths about depression and its treatments. The author recounts his own...
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Get the Summary of Chip Gaines's Capital Gaines in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of five in Waco, Texas. But, long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out...
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Book Preview: #1 I learned that sociopaths are made, while psychopaths are born with a smaller amygdala that doesn't feel anxiety or fear. I would never choose psychopathy, because I believe that it is not the answer to our exhaustion. Some anxiety is normal, and some is chemical and genetic.
#2 The more people are part of the hype cycle, and the higher the stakes of performing, the...
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Get the Summary of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature argues that violence has been decreasing over most of human history. People have innate tendencies towards violence, but they also have innate tendencies towards peace. Historical developments, especially the consolidation of state power...
37) Summary of Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish's How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen & How to Listen So
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Get the Summary of Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish's How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen & How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and teens in this accessible, indispensable guide to surviving adolescence.
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting...
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Get the Summary of Stephen Covey & A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill's First Things First in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?
Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient?...
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Book Preview: #1 Firefighters must wear bunker gear, which consists of a thick Nomex material that's sometimes used to make space suits. The uniforms are made of this rubbery material.
#2 The daily command staff meeting is held at the St. Louis Fire Department headquarters. The meeting is attended by the battalion chiefs, who must rework the firefighter schedules when people call...
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Book Preview: #1 Behind the convenience store, in full view of a broken surveillance camera, a camping chair and a blood-stained blanket sit abandoned in the urban blight. A passerby peeks over the police tape and proclaims that the suspect got him three times in the back and once in the chest. But that is almost certainly not what happened.
#2 Erika Harden is a civilian crime scene...
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