“Just because improvements aren’t visible doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.You’re not going to see the number change each time you step on the scale. You’re not going to finish a chapter each time you sit down to write.Early wins come easy. Lasting wins require a lifestyle.”

“One of the most valuable skills in life is being able to see another person’s perspective.If you’re going to someone’s house, think about how it might feel to be the host. If you’re creating a product, spend as much time as possible thinking like the customer. If you’re calling customer service, think about how it might feel to be on the other end of the conversation.The more clearly you understand the viewpoint of your spouse or customer or coworker, the better positioned you are to find a solution.”

“Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them."

“You’re never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”

“The most appealing daily schedule I know is that of a turn-of-the-century Danish aristocrat. He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse, wood grouse, woodcock, and snipe. ....“Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on a white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living … Could it be more perfect?”

What are the current habits that are hindering your future progress?

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

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3-2-1: One of the most valuable skills in life, and starting before you feel ready

How many times have you bought things you didn’t need or couldn’t afford?We often make these wrong financial decisions because we do not have a budget.

Budget

Rules that will help you make a success of budgeting:<ul><li>Don't create any debt you cannot repay within a month.</li><li>Don't make buying expensive things a habit.</li><li>Check your account balance at least twice every week.</li><li>Don't assume savings will happen automatically.</li></ul>

Success Budgeting

Your cash flow is healthy if:<ul><li>50% of your income pays your fixed costs like rent, telephone, and utility bills.</li><li>30% of your income pays for variable and lifestyle costs like groceries and travel.</li><li>20% of your income pays for short and long-term investments.</li></ul>

Healthy Cashflow

You also need a pyramid of bank accounts in place.<ol><li>Top of Pyramid: Checking account. This is where you keep your day-to-day expenses.</li><li>2nd Top of Pyramid: Savings account. It houses your emergency fund.</li><li>Middle of Pyramid: Semi-liquid savings account, which would help save up to buy a house in a few years.</li><li>Bottom of Pyramid: Account for longer-term investment.</li></ol>

Pyramid of Bank Accounts

<ul><li>Save up an emergency fund equal to at least three months of your living expenses.</li><li>Create a debt repayment schedule that pays down your debt at a minimum cost of interest and maximum benefit in profit to you. Compare the interest on your debt with the return on investment you are getting per dollar for the month.</li><li>Open up a retirement account.</li><li>Consider investing in the likes of mutual and index funds because they are low-risk.</li><li>Consider investing in the individual stocks of companies you feel a strong affinity for (only if you feel confident of your investing savviness).</li></ul>

Start Your Journey

Nothing scary or complicated about investing.None of your money should sit idle in a bank account except your emergency fund.Your money should actively work toward reaching a goal on its own to your benefit.

Investing

Cooking your own meals is a great way to save money. Financial security means you must embrace the Italian grandmother's mindset — cooking for yourself and your family members is imperative, and eating out or ordering food is a treat.The next time you’re tempted to go to the nearest restaurant, remind yourself there is food at home, and you can save for the future.

Lifestyle

With your partner, you need to have goals and dreams involving investments, property ownership, and retirement, not just falling in love and hoping all turns out well.You should willingly postpone your fairy-tale ending to build some stability for yourself.

Money in Your Relationship

<ul><li>Find a non-stressful time to have a money talk.</li><li>Begin the conversation by appreciating each other.</li><li>Both you and your partner should then, in turn, share how money was regarded and handled in each family.</li><li>Both of you should, in turn, share money hopes and dreams, as well as fears and concerns.</li><li>Both of you can mention the facts ― the subject of the (potential) dispute.</li><li>Both of you should agree not to blame the other concerning the money issues that have now been resolved.</li></ul>

Discuss with Your Life Partners

Money is nice, but there has to be a point to it. Otherwise, you’ll never have enough.

Having a written financial plan gives us a measurable goal to work toward. We can reduce doubt or uncertainty about our decisions and adjust to help overcome obstacles that could derail us.

*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018* *One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* *Indie Personal Finance Bestseller* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start. The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don’t care about personal finance. Whether you’re in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit. Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn’t just about what you put in the bank. It’s about everything—from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). So The Financial Diet gives you the tools to negotiate a raise and the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary. The Financial Diet will teach you: • how to get good with money in a year. • the ingredients everyone needs to have a budget-friendly kitchen. • how to talk about awkward money stuff with your friends. • the best way to make (and stick to!) a budget. • how to take care of your house like a grown-up. • what the hell it means to invest (and how you can do it).

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Books

Chelsea Fagan

Lauren Ver Hage

The Financial Diet

Discovering your purpose is not about finding something external, but rather uncovering the unique gifts and passions within you that can impact the world.

Discovery

Life gains its deepest meaning and fulfillment when we align our actions with a purpose greater than ourselves.

Align

Your purpose is not determined by your circumstances; it is found in the depths of your heart and the calling of your soul.

Listen To The Soul

Every person has a vital role to play in the grand tapestry of life. Discovering your purpose is realizing the significance of your part in the greater whole.

Your Part

The search for purpose begins with a willingness to ask the question: 'What on Earth am I here for?' and a commitment to seek the answer with an open heart and mind.

Ask Yourself

Your purpose may evolve and change over time, but its essence remains rooted in bringing love, joy, and positive transformation to the world.

Fact

Discovering your purpose requires self-reflection, deep introspection, and a willingness to question the status quo.

Self-

Don't be afraid to take risks and step outside your comfort zone, for it is in those moments of stretching that you may uncover your true purpose.

Courage 

Let go of the fear of failure and embrace the learning that comes with it. Your purpose may unfold through the lessons learned in moments of perceived setbacks.

Goal 

An evangelistic booklet based on the first three chapters of the New York Times #1 bestselling book The Purpose Driven Life.This small booklet will start your journey in knowing your life's purpose and living the life you were meant to live, which will:<ul><li>Give your life meaning</li><li>Simplify your life</li><li>Focus your life</li><li>Increase your motivation</li><li>Prepare you for eternity</li></ul>To continue the journey, purchase the full-length edition of The Purpose Driven Life--available in audiobook, ebook, softcover, and hardcover editions. Also available: The Purpose Driven Life video study and study guide, journal, devotional, book for kids, book for churches, Spanish edition, Large Print edition, and more.

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Motivation & Inspiration

As philanthropists, Rick and Kay Warren give away 90 percent of their income through three foundations: Acts of Mercy, which serves those infected and affected by AIDS; Equipping the Church, which trains church leaders in developing countries; and The Global PEACE Fund, which fights poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Rick Warren

What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

Embrace the present moment, for within it lies the power of mindfulness, the wisdom of self-reflection, and the opportunity to align our actions with integrity.

Embrace Life

Amidst the winds of change, let us cultivate the virtue of patience, for it is through patience that we find resilience and maintain inner tranquility."

Cultivate Patience 

"Meditations" underscores the importance of regular self-reflection as a means of self-improvement. Aurelius encourages individuals to set aside time for introspection, contemplation, and the examination of their thoughts and actions.

The Practice of Self-Reflection

Aurelius reflects on the transient nature of life and the inevitability of death. He suggests that contemplating our mortality can bring clarity and a sense of urgency to our actions, helping us prioritize what truly matters.

The Contemplation of Death

Aurelius emphasizes the practice of mindfulness, the ability to be fully present in the current moment. By cultivating mindfulness, individuals can better understand their thoughts, emotions, and reactions, and make conscious choices aligned with their values.

The Power of Mindfulness

The virtue of patience and the ability to endure challenges with composure and perseverance. Patience allows us to navigate difficulties with grace and maintain inner tranquility.

The Virtue of Patience

Aurelius highlights the significance of living in alignment with one's principles and values. He encourages individuals to act with integrity, honesty, and moral courage, even in the face of adversity or temptation.

The Importance of Integrity

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." From expressing his gratitude to the ones from whom he had learned important qualities and lessons in life to detailing his thoughts and reflections over a wide range of subjects including our mind and thoughts, life and death, goodness, self-judgement, virtuousness, nature, leadership, and human rationality, Meditations gives an insight into the inner life and philosophy of the last of the ' Five Good Emperors, ' Marcus Aurelius. With ancient wisdom that is as relevant in modern times as it was then, Aurelius' Meditations is one of the greatest works of Greek and philosophical literature. A series of twelve books, it has continued to influence its readers throughout the centuries.

Meditations (Medieval Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, romanized: Ta eis he'auton, lit. 'things to one's self') is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known, noncontemporaneously, as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calmness and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.

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Meditations

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become

There are 4 laws to creating good habits namely Cue, Craving, Response and Reward. If you can tackle them, congratulations you have built a good habit

How To Set And Maintain Good Habits

The cue triggers the brain and initiate a behavior. On the Japanese rail system, staff habitually "point and call" out seemingly obvious things, like trains leaving platforms or lights changing.This reduces errors by 85% and accidents by 30%.

Make It Obvious (Cue)

The craving is the motivational force behind every habits. Dopamine is the brain chemical behind habits. Make a habit pleasurable, or connect it to another pleasurable activity, and it sticks. When we anticipate a reward, dopamine spikes.

Make It Attractive (Craving)

This is the actual habit which can take form the of a thought or action.Friction prevents habits from forming. Lay out workout clothes, pre-chop vegetables or introduce friction to break bad habits.The author Victor Hugo once wrote a whole book to a six-month deadline after wasting a year socialising. How? He threw away all his clothes so he couldn't go out

Make It Easy (Response)

This is the goal of every habit.If there's no immediate gratification in an action it's very hard to make it a habit. A nice feeling,a good taste, a feeling of satisfactio, anything can work. Your brain needs an incentive, no matter how small.

Make It Satisfying (Reward)

If you have made it to the end. I hope you change your life for the better. Feel free to share and DM us on Instagram @mazinations . Do not forget to read the book.

Thanks For Reading

The reason why I am posting on this book it is because thanks to this book, my life has had a drastic improvement. However, it doesn't take just a few pages to read to have a better life, it also takes tiny actions

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results 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, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: <ul><li>make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);</li></ul><ul><li>overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;</li></ul><ul><li>design your environment to make success easier;</li></ul><ul><li>get back on track when you fall off course;</li></ul>...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Career

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James Clear is the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" He writes about habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement at jamesclear.com. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Learn more at jamesclear.com

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TRY In this life, everyone has a challenges and one should face it no matter no succeed or not.LEARN You cannot Fly if you haven't Fall, You can Fly if you had Fall. Mistakes are part not the Results make those to your learnings.PLAN Make goals, to-do, risks, how-to, what-if.BREAK Take a Break, when things doesn't work, time isn't good, and Restart after getting motivated and strategies.

Take the steps and keep moving 

It's the most basic thing first have to do, don't think how can it be helpful or problematics.In schools we do learn almost everything, so many subjects right but not everything is useful to you but it gives us a sense what is it and what to choose next of this.When you try things, you get a taste of this and you can know you have to keep doing this or new one.

Not everything is for learning, If you do is waste of time so do know what you like, what is important and what can be helpful, highlight those and note them.Learning should be that be Remembered and worth of learning.

Learn 

If you can plan your plans, so can you track or make change in coming time. To-do What are goals you want to do, learnings, experiments, business, targets..How-to how you execute goals, your strategies, marketing, research, teamwork .What-if what if this doesn't work, what other options gonna be there.

Plan

Failure is part, Success is Result when you do things, take the breaks if required and comeback.Their gonna be time when should take a break and learn things which can be helpful, take motivation session, improve yourself and see what other doing better than you in that.If you are wrong, still you can learn that what should not do and where to improve and Restart better.

Break

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How to obtain what we desire

<ul><li>Loneliness doesn’t stop when we are surrounded by people. It stops when we are seen for who we truly are.</li><li>Actions and words both have value, it’s when the two don’t align that the value is lost.</li><li>Our partner cannot fulfill our needs, and it’s not their job to do so.</li><li>If it doesn’t bring peace, profits, or purpose, then don’t give it your time, energy, or attention.</li><li>A lot of conversations need to be had in person. Tones need to be heard, facial expressions need to be seen.</li><li>Your greatest test will be how you handle people who mishandled you.</li><li>You can mute people in real life too. It’s called boundaries.</li></ul>

What are some things you realize as you get older?

<ul><li>Never lose your self-respect for someone who doesn’t care about your feelings and emotions.</li><li>Some people will always be important, with or without a conversation.</li><li>When you care for someone more than they deserve, you get hurt more than you deserve.</li><li>The people we choose to spend time with will shape who we become.</li><li>Life hack: Replace judgment with curiosity.</li></ul>

In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions. The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices into life coaching. Pat Williams and Deborah C. Davis have finally revised their classic practice-building book for today's therapists and future coaches. Every chapter in this second edition has been updated and rewritten, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to not only therapists, but all helping professionals. The book begins by exploring the history of the coaching movement and shows how society is hungry for life coaches. The second part of the book explains in detail the differences and similarities between coaching and therapy, discusses the coaching relationship, and considers some of the skills therapists will need to learn and unlearn in order to reclaim their joyfulness about their work. Professional transition tools such as developing and marketing your practice and honing your coaching skills are discussed at length in Part Three. The final section moves beyond basic life coaching to introduce coaching specialties such as corporate coaching, offers self-care strategies for life coaches, and peeks into the future of life coaching. There is new material throughout, including an overview of recent coaching developments, updated liability concerns, new business opportunities, and a new section on the research about coaching. Coaching gives practitioners the opportunity to break free of managed care and excessive reliance on the insurance industry and to work with a wide range of clients—specifically, those who are not suffering from mental illness but, rather, seeking to maximize their life potential. This book will help you enter this lucrative and personally enriching world with the skills and knowledge you need to build a successful coaching practice.

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Communication

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Love & Relationships

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Society, Arts & Culture

Patrick Williams

Deborah C. Davis

Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals (Revised and Expanded)

The brain controls us and defines our behavior.It's responsible not only for thinking, learning, and mental abilities; the brain reacts to every tiny stimulus inside the body and in the outer world.

Brain

Women and men can feel changes in their brains right after the pregnancy period starts.In male bodies: The testosterone level decreases, making them more caring.In female bodies: Prolactin provokes the desire for nesting.For mothers: These changes are permanent. The bond between a child and its mother is a biological necessity for survival, prompted by oxytocin (the love hormone).

Brains During Pregnancy

The mother's habits and the environment are crucial for the baby's development.The bad habits cause damage to the baby's brain, as they may lead to depression or schizophrenia.Dieting and fasting are as harmful to a baby as drinking alcohol and smoking, as they may lead to brain disorders.

Habits & Environment

Young Picasso could barely read and write.Einstein spoke slower than others.Daniel Tammet knows by heart PI to 22 514 decimal places.These brain disorders are genetic, and numerous reasons can cause them.

Brain Disorders

Even though many feminists claim that gender is a social construct, numerous studies show that a baby determines its gender, sexual orientation, and the extent of aggression before birth.It's more likely to be caused genetically rather than by the influence of the outer world.

Gender & Sexual Orientation

What does it mean to be in a coma?A coma results from brain damage and makes a patient unresponsive to external stimulations.Doctors often say, "A coma patient is like a vegetable." They are still alive, but their brain is dead.

Coma

In contrast to coma, locked-in syndrome means that the patient's brain is still working and conscious of itself but completely paralyzed.In most cases, they can only move with their eyes, and that's the method of communication for them.

Locked-in Syndrome

95% of Americans believe in God.This belief is also fully processed in our brains.Our family and environment left information in the brain during the early years, and we adjusted to it the same way as a mother tongue.Richard Dawkins (a famous evolutionary biologist) claims that kids are affected by their religious parents because they can't think critically.

Religion

If life is a gradual development process, then Alzheimer's is a disease that causes a reverse: a person slowly loses the ability to live normally and care for themselves.Moreover, step by step, they lose their personality.The first symptoms include loss of memory or inappropriate behavior.How to prevent Alzheimer's?You can minimize your chances by maximizing brain activity, such as:<ul><li>Speaking foreign languages.</li><li>Obtaining an education.</li><li>Working a challenging job.</li><li>Stimulating your thinking and physical activities.</li></ul>

Alzheimer

People often believe that our feelings, desires, and love are in our hearts.However, they are wrong!Your personality, with its fears, dreams, ambitions, and passions, is based on your brain, while the heart only pumps blood to keep your body functioning.

Love is In Our Brain, not the Heart

The brain is the very essence of our personality and abilities. Unraveling the brain will help us understand the basis of human behavior and actions.

A vivid account of what makes us human.   Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential, our limitations, and our desires, with each chapter serving as an eye-opening window on a different stage of brain development: the gender differences that develop in the embryonic brain, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, how parenthood permanently changes the brain.   Moving beyond pure biological understanding, Swaab presents a controversial and multilayered ethical argument surrounding the brain. Far from possessing true free will, Swaab argues, we have very little control over our everyday decisions, or who we will become, because our brains predetermine everything about us, long before we are born, from our moral character to our religious leanings to whom we fall in love with. And he challenges many of our prevailing assumptions about what makes us human, decoding the intricate “moral networks” that allow us to experience emotion, revealing maternal instinct to be the result of hormonal changes in the pregnant brain, and exploring the way that religious “imprinting” shapes the brain during childhood. Rife with memorable case studies, We Are Our Brains is already a bestselling international phenomenon. It aims to demystify the chemical and genetic workings of our most mysterious organ, in the process helping us to see who we are through an entirely new lens.   Did you know?   • The father’s brain is affected in pregnancy as well as the mother’s. • The withdrawal symptoms we experience at the end of a love affair mirror chemical addiction. • Growing up bilingual reduces the likelihood of Alzheimer’s. • Parental religion is imprinted on our brains during early development, much as our native language is. Praise for We Are Our Brains   “Swaab’s ‘neurobiography’ is witty, opinionated, passionate, and, above all, cerebral.”—Booklist (starred review)   “A fascinating survey . . . Swaab employs both personal and scientific observation in near-equal measure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “A cogent, provocative account of how twenty-first-century ‘neuroculture’ has the potential to effect profound medical and social change.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Health

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Science & Nature

D. F. Swaab

We Are Our Brains

Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

No One's Crazy

King Alyattes of Lydia, now part of Turkey, is thought to have created the first official currency in 600 BC. But the modern foundation of money decisions-saving and investing is based around concepts that are practically infants.

Where It Began

People do some crazy things with money. But no one is crazy. People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies, experiencing different job markets with different incentives and different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons. Everyone has their own unique experience with how the world works.

Crazy Or Different 

"Our findings suggest that individual investors' willingness to bear risk depends on personal history." Not intelligence, or education, or sophistication. Just the dumb luck of when and where you were born.”

Place Time People 

"What you're doing seems crazy but I kind of understand why you're doing it."-uncovers the root of many of our financial decisions.

Being Understand

Few people make financial decisions purely with a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a company meeting. Places where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together into a narrative that works for you

How Decisions Are Made

Dogs were domesticated 10,000 years ago and still retain some behaviors of their wild ancestors. Yet here we are, with between 20 and 50 years of experience in the modern financial system, hoping to be perfectly acclimated.

Expectations Vs Reality 

We all do crazy stuff with money, because we're all relatively new to this game and what looks crazy to you might make sense to me. But no one is crazy we all make decisions based on or own unique experiences that seem to make sense to us in a give moment.

It's Just Who We Are

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 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.

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two kids.

Morgan Housel

The Psychology of Money

Your brain is like a muscle, and just like any other muscle, it needs regular exercise to stay healthy and strong. These seven tips will help you train your brain and keep it in top shape.

7 Ways to train your brain

Reading is a great way to exercise your brain. It helps improve your vocabulary, comprehension, and critical thinking skills. Read something every day, whether it's a book, a newspaper, or an article online.

First: Read Everyday

Writing down your ideas is a great way to exercise your brain. It helps you clarify your thoughts and develop your ideas more fully. Keep a notebook handy and jot down your ideas as they come to you.

Second: Write Down Ideas

Exercise is not only good for your body, but it's also good for your brain. It helps increase blood flow to the brain, which can improve memory and cognitive function.

Third: Exercise Regularly

Keeping a journal is a great way to exercise your brain. It helps you reflect on your thoughts and experiences, and it can also improve your writing skills. Try to write in your journal every day.

Fourth: Keep A Journal