Book Reviews

Don’t Forget! Getting Things Done Edition

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Free Book Giveaway - 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back And The Truth That Will Set You Free

My next book giveaway is coming up and I’ll be giving away 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back and the Truth That Will Set You Free by Steve Chandler. To have your name entered in the next drawing, simply email the FREE BOOK CODE at the bottom of my RSS feed to ron dot [...]


Book Review: Millionaire By Thirty

Millionaire by Thirty: The Quickest Path to Early Financial Independence was written by Douglas R. Andrew and his two sons, Emron and Aaron.
The book takes a different approach than many financial authors in that it doesn’t advocate cutting up your credit cards, paying off all your debt, or discouraging you from drinking a latte every [...]


Free Book Giveaway - Smart Couples Finish Rich

My next book giveaway is coming up and I’ll be giving away Smart Couples Finish Rich by David Bach.
To have your name entered in the next drawing, simply email the FREE BOOK CODE at the bottom of my RSS feed to ron dot haynes at thewisdomjournal dot com. I even pay the shipping! I’ll [...]


Free Book Giveaway May 17

My next book drawing is coming up TONIGHT and I’ll be giving away The Millionaire Next Door.
This is a fantastic book on how millionaires actually lived their day to day lives. It goes into detail on how they made their money, how they spend it, the cars they drive, the homes they live in, the [...]


Book Review: 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back And The Truth That Will Set You Free

Steve Chandler has written a powerful motivational book, 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back and the Truth That Will Set You Free. This is a book that I personally found to be life-changing and it’s power lies in how it changes your perspective on what words I speak to myself. The book’s main [...]


Don’t Forget The Free Book Giveaway!

My next book drawing is coming up in about a week and I’ll be giving away The Millionaire Next Door.
This is a great book that dispels a lot of the myths surrounding millionaires, how they made their money, how they spend their money, the cars they drive, the watches they wear, and how they live [...]


Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 4 - How I Learned to Stop Fooling Myself

We have a tendency to overlook risks if those risks get in the way of what we want to do anyway. The conspiracy between these two components, our eyes and our brains, allows us to live on the fence between reality and illusion. Too many times we allow ourselves to fool ourselves, looking through life through those proverbial “rose colored glasses.”


Getting Things Done by David Allen Part 3

Getting Things Done by David Allen Part 3
Read Part 1 here.
Read Part 2 here.
This is the third and final section of the book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.. Section 3 is titled The Power of the Key Principles and it starts by discussion of the power of the collection habit and how [...]


Getting Things Done by David Allen Part 2

In yesterday’s post on this book, I covered the first section and first three chapters of David Allen’s book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.
Today, I’ll cover section two, Practicing Stress Free Productivity, by covering chapters four through ten.
Chapter 4
This chapter primarily focuses on setting up your personal space or spaces for [...]