Books I Have Read & Will Read

This is a list of books currently in my library to read/listen to. I will be adding my book wish list of books that I will be reading in the future. I will also be adding some short notes from the books I have finished as well as my rating. This is something I will be updating over time as it takes a long time to write the notes. Down the road I do plan to have a second blog of the notes from each book in depth but that's a future project.

 

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

By: Jim Kwik

Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more - more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement - by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods....

 

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD , Michael E. Long

Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself....

 

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and Past-Life Therapy

By: Brian L. Weiss M.D.

Dr. Brian Weiss is a highly respected psychiatrist from the mainstream of the medical establishment....

 

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - and How to Make the Most of Them Now

By: Meg Jay

New York Times best-selling psychologist Dr. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss....

 

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

Narrated by: James Nestor

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....

 

 

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By: James Clear

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones....

 

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

By: Seth Godin

From the best-selling author of Linchpin, Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to putting their best work out into the world....

 

$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

By: Alex Hormozi

The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor....

 

Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Converting Your Online Visitors into Lifelong Customers

By: Russell Brunson

Master the art of what to say in your funnels to convert your online visitors into lifelong customers in this updated edition from the $100 million entrepreneur and cofounder of the software company ClickFunnels....

 

The Secrets of Closing the Sale: Included Bonus: Selling with Emotional Logic

By: Zig Ziglar , Tom Ziglar

Zig shares tips and techniques from his vast wealth of sales experience. His insights will prove to you over and over why this is the definitive how-to sales program....

 

Secrets of a Master Closer: A Simpler, Easier, and Faster Way to Sell Anything to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

By: Mike Kaplan

If you want to know, step by step, how to quickly, easily, and smoothly walk anyone from being a skeptical prospect to a happy customer that refers you friends, family, and colleagues...then you want to read this book....

 

The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry

By: John Warrillow

Whether you want to transform your entire business into a recurring revenue engine or just pick up an extra 5 percent of sales growth, The Automatic Customer will be your secret weapon....

 

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

By: Morgan Housel

In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 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....

 

Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.

Narrated by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.

In flow, everyday experience becomes a moment by moment opportunity for joy and self-fulfillment....

 

Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: full cast

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life....

 

From 6 to 7 Figures: Simplify Your Business, Gain Your Time Back, Scale Faster than Ever

By: Austin Netzley

Sharing the proven 2X methodology that has helped entrepreneurs across the globe free up their time and drive more growth than ever, this audiobook breaks it down, step by step....

 

Ready Player One

By: Ernest Cline

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut.....

 

The Secret

By: Rhonda Byrne

Narrated by: Rhonda Byrne

The Great Secret has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money....

 

Permanent Record 

By: Edward Snowden

A young listener’s adaptation of whistleblower and best-selling author Edward Snowden's memoir, Permanent Record - featuring a brand-new afterword that includes resources to learn about the basics of digital security....

 

YouTube Playbook 2021: The Practical Guide & Secrets for Growing Your Channel, Making Money as a Video Influencer, Mastering Social Media Marketing & the Beginners Blueprint (+10 Tips)

By: Brandon's Business Guides

Discover the key strategies to rapidly growing your YouTube channel in 2021 and beyond even if you’ve never uploaded a video before and have major camera anxiety. Do you want to create and grow a successful YouTube channel? Listen to find out more....

 

Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey

I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud....

 

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

By: Tim Ferriss

The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek....

 

What the Heck is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS

By: Gino Wickman , Tom Bouwer

Designed to engage employees in the EOS process and tools, What the Heck is EOS? uses simple, straightforward language and provides questions about each tool....

 

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

By: Leil Lowndes

What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!)....

 

The Compound Effect: Multiply Your Success One Simple Step at a Time

By: Darren Hardy

The Compound Effect contains the essence of what every super achiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success....

 

Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

By: Max Lugavere , Paul Grewal

Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide....

 

High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

By: Brendon Burchard

After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success....

 

Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

By: Jia Jiang

Rejection Proof is Jia Jiang's entertaining and inspiring account of conquering his fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes....

 

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

Spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity and shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment....

 

Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success

By: Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort - immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street - reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system....

 

Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat

By: Michael Masterson

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted, would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did....

 

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal , Ryan Hoover

Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hooked Model"....

 

I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman’s Guide to a Meaningful Life

By: John Kim

In I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck, Kim delivers the dos and don’ts for stepping up and into manhood, which he defines by transparency and strength of character, not six-pack abs or a corner office....

 

Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon presents Unf*ckology, a "science-help" book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. You can finally put an end to your lifelong social suckage....

 

7 Ways to Be Her Hero: The One Your Wife Has Been Waiting For

By: Doug Fields

Having a pulse is all it really takes to fall in love. Staying in love is another matter; staying in love requires a plan and some learned skills....

 

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

By: Michael E. Gerber

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business....

 

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By: Gino Wickman

All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth....

 

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....

 

Think and Grow Rich

By: Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals....

 

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson , Norman Doidge MD - foreword

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths....

 

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

By: Donald Miller

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage....

 

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World

By: William H. McRaven

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day....

 

The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower....

 

How Chefs Holiday

By: Dana Cowin

Join Dana Cowin, author and former editor-in-chief of Food & Wine as she chats with some of today’s most popular chefs/food personalities ....

 

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

By: Jim Collins

Narrated by: Jim Collins

Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't....

 

Thank You for My Service

By: Mat Best , Ross Patterson , Nils Parker

Members of the military’s special operations branches share a closely guarded secret: They love their jobs. They relish the opportunity to fight. They are thankful for it, even, and hopeful that maybe, possibly, they’ll also get to kill a bunch of bad guys while they’re at it....

 

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

By: Chris Voss

In this practical guide, Voss shares the nine effective principles - counterintuitive tactics and strategies - you, too, can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal lives....

 

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

Narrated by: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life....

 

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

By: David Goggins

For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself....