Practice This

  by WordRidden
Working hard is not going to help you to fly right any more. Working smart is the name of the game. Change your mindset from “doing” to “achieving.”
Change is no easy, especially when it comes to changing a mindset. A famous book by Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life helped me to focus on dealing with Change and focusing on Productivity vs. Activity.

”They were disappointed but believed they could solve the problem. So they …

  by foxypar4

Are you living life you won’t regret about when you are 95?
It is simple yet powerful question that you should answer before it is too late.
Marshall Goldsmith and  Mark Reiter, the authors of the book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful ask it very colorfully:
“Imagine you’re 95 years old and ready to die. …The 95-year-old you understands what was really important and what wasn’t, what mattered and what didn’t  What advice would …

  by MissTurner
Personal development books seem to follow a well-defined structure. Knowing the structure is helpful when you want to distill practical nuggets. After all, that is the main reason you read such books in first place, no? You want to efficiently distill nuggets of effectiveness.
After reading quite a few books on personal development I have a feeling that these three follow the pattern:

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
The …

  by jurek d.
The best way to reduce the risks associated with new product is putting it in target operating environment, or better off under much higher stress than it suppose to carry. Carmakers do it, aircraft makers do it. I do it – I am software performance engineer. It proves time and again – software failure guaranteed without stress testing it beforehand.
How can I stress test a product before it’s even created? How can I test my new business idea without significantly investing efforts? In software we call …

by kwerfeldein
The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best by Richard Koch is the book I needed to read long ago. If you still have not read it do it now. Do not postpone it. It is engaging read and it is full of practical insights from successful entrepreneur.
For some reason I think it served (or could serve) Tim Ferris as a good prototype when he was writing his The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live …