The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel

When you read the title of the book, you might guess that it is only about money and maybe business, but it is about life. With the real time stories shared by Morgan Housel, this book makes stories meaningful and let you know more about personal finance, investment, wealth creation and living a better life.

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. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

High Performance Habits | Brendon Burchard

Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:

Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?

Of those who pull it off, why are some miserable and others consistently happy on their journey?

What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what practices help them improve the most?

After extensive original research and a decade as the world's leading high performance coach, Burchard found the answers. It turns out that just six deliberate habits give you the edge. Anyone can practice these habits and, when they do, extraordinary things happen in their lives, relationships, and careers.

Which habits can help you achieve long-term success and vibrant well-being no matter your age, career, strengths, or personality?

The Biggest Bluff | Maria Konnikova

It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought...

The Prosperous Coach | Steve Chandler, Rich Litvin

The Prosperous Coach is a book originally written for professional coaches to make them better in terms of economic gains. Although  I am not a coach, I learnt great insights from the book. There are many things in this book for every professional to apply to their business. Here are my highlights from the book:

Show your clients what they cannot see. Say to your clients what no one else would dare to say. And you will have all the clients you ever desire.

The Latte Factor | David Bach

Three Secrets

1) Pay Yourself First

Keep your first hour’s worth of each day’s pay. An hour a day, in other words, of paying yourself first.

2) Don’t Budget – Make It Automatic

3) Live Rich Now

The first two secrets – pay yourself first, make it automatic – those are the how. This is the why. Figure out what matters, and follow that.

If you don’t know where you are going, you might not like where you end up. What am I doing with my life?