We’ve compiled a list of books to help fortify your mindset to help you slow burn towards your goals and refine your focus. Read on for five fantastic recs!
The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma blends moving storytelling, practical advice, and detailed structures that readers can implement in their daily lives to achieve massive success and productivity without forcing themselves into burnout. In The 5 AM Club, Sharma takes readers along the journey of an artist and a businesswoman who study under an eccentric and magnetic mentor. He takes them around the world, showing them how he lives his most spectacular life — and the routines he implemented along the way that helped him get there. Full of vivid scenes, meaningful relationships, and straightforward instructions alongside the scientific benefits of installing these habits and structures into your life.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman outlines the two mental systems that guide the way we think. He calls them System 1, which acts quickly and is emotionally motivated and intuitively directed, and System 2, which moves slowly and is guided by logic and requires conscious deliberation. Understanding the way that these two systems work and the way that they affect our personal, professional, and emotional atmospheres is key to learning to direct yourself into the future. Kahneman shares his practical and intuitive advice, explains where readers can and cannot trust their intuition, and how we can fortify our minds against the impulses and regressions that cause us to take steps back.
Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey
When it comes to productivity, there are no shortcuts or hacks, but there is strategy. By combining hyperfocus (where we are fervently concentrated) and scatterfocus (where we are creative and sporadic), we will be able to achieve both our greatest creativity and highest productivity. By capitalizing our time to work less but harder, strategizing our caffeine intake, and leveraging our tired hours for maximum creativity, we can enter a new realm of accomplishment in our personal and professional worlds.
The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltecs were a society more ancient than the Aztecs. They believed that every individual’s life is a dream and that all of these dreams, when combined, become the “Dream of the Planet.” Problems in today’s (and yesterday’s) world begin to arise when people forget that their lives are all resonances of this dream. The Mastery of Self draws wisdom from the ideas of the “Dream of the Planet” and our dreams and explains how we can free ourselves from the illusions we’ve been taught, live as our most loving, authentic selves, and release ourselves from the limiting stories we’ve told ourselves.
The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest
The Pivot Year consists of 365 daily meditations to guide readers into the depths of their hearts, into a level of understanding that they may not have known was possible. When the time for action comes, Wiest says, you’re not going to turn to a book to find the answer. You’re going to think, look into your heart, tap into your intuition, and make the decisions. The best way to prepare yourself for these pivotal decisions is to fortify your relationship with yourself so that you know when the time comes, you’ll have the knowledge and the confidence to make the right decision.
From technical frameworks to kickstart your morning to philosophical unravelings to live your truth, these books cover a wide range of methods to lock in this year and live your best life. What did you think? Are you going to try any of these meditations or join the 5 AM club? Let us know on our socials!
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