Posts Tagged ‘book’

Ten Great Ways to Promote your Book

So you have written a book and had it published. Congratulations. Now you face the challenge of what to do next. Many authors think that marketing is a job for the publisher so they sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in. You might have a very long wait. The market for books is extremely crowded and most books do not sell well. However… Continue reading

April 9 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: amazon, author, book, marketing, promote, publish, review | 14 comments»

Review: Undress for Success

Kate Lister and Tom Harnish have been working at home for years. For sixteen years, they operated a home business. They've codified the advice they've generated in a ll those years of working at home in a new book, Undress for Success. The book covers an introduction to moving towards a home office, with a heavy emphasis on teleworking. Telecommuting And You Section titles like 'Expose Yourself — Are Your Right… Continue reading

April 2 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, career, telecommute, telework | 8 comments»

Review: I Will Teach You To Be Rich

As far as personal finance blogs go, Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to Be Rich can't help but stand out. Most of the personal finance blogs out there stick to calm explanations of what the writers are doing to improve their own finances, along with some tips meant to get readers interested in doing things the same way. In contrast, Sethi's blog is loud, full of concrete examples… Continue reading

March 24 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, personal finance, ramit sethi | 9 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 3 of 3)

The second major theme in David Allen’s Making It All Work is “perspective”. (The first major theme, “control”, is discussed in part two of this review.) This part of the book expands greatly on the “Horizons of Focus” to which Allen commits only nine pages in the original Getting Things Done. Getting perspective means two things for Allen. First, and less importantly, it means consciously sorting your priorities before… Continue reading

February 9 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 2 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 2 of 3)

Note: I decided that I'd better make this three parts instead of the originally-planned two. Allen's work is, of course, central to the whole field of personal productivity, so it's worth really diving into it. Don't miss Part 1 here. At the center of Making It All Work is a renewed emphasis on control -- effectively managing the work in your life -- and perspective -- aligning your work… Continue reading

February 6 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 5 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 1 of 3)

December saw the release of David Allen’s Making It All Work:Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life, Allen’s long-awaited follow-up to his classic Getting Things Done (Ready for Anything, published in 2004, acts more as a companion to Getting Things Done than a sequel). Making It All Work seems to have been written with the primary goal of addressing some of the the… Continue reading

February 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 10 comments»

Build Your Renegade Career! A Review of “Career Renegade” by Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields is an extraordinary sort. A corporate lawyer by training, a severe illness – Jonathan says his body “rejected his career” – led him to quit law and follow a path of his own making. After a stint as a personal trainer followed by the founding and eventual sale of a successful training business, Jonathan found his true passion in yoga and opened Sonic Yoga, one of the most successful… Continue reading

January 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, book review, career, job, jonathan_fields, renegade, review, work | 15 comments»

Principles in Perspective: A Review of “The Last Lecture”

The Last Lecture is a book based on an internet sensation, the "Last Lecture" given by computer scientist Randy Pausch at Carnegie-Mellon University. Pausch died tragically of pancreatic cancer in 2008; the principles he discusses in his last lecture (and in a companion lecture on time management, both of which are available on the internet) take on a whole new meaning in light of the fact that they were… Continue reading

January 7 2009 | By Art | Tagged: book, inspiration, last-lecture, randy-pausch, review | 3 comments»

Straight Up From ‘Scratch Beginnings’

With nothing but $25 and a backpack, Adam Shepard set out to prove whether the American Dream still exists. He headed for a city he didn't know — Charleston, South Carolina — with the goal of having $2,500, a car and a place to live by the end of the year. Shepard chronicled his experiment in Scratch Beginnings. The book holds a few gems for average people working… Continue reading

November 13 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, goal, plan, shepard | 28 comments»

Review: Personal Development for Smart People

Steve Pavlina's credentials in personal development are impressive: he's written about productivity, goal setting and more on his blog and in other venues. This month, Pavlina's book — Personal Development for Smart People — hit shelves. With a name like Personal Development for Smart People, I have to admit I was expecting something a little more technical than what Pavlina wrote. I was expecting a system, maybe a few… Continue reading

October 28 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, pavlina | 9 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Your Working Bookshelf

It’s about time to wrap up the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway, and we’ve got a gorgeous leather laptop bag from Sports Accessories to wrap it up with. And since you’re bound to have some space left in the bag, we’ll throw in a $100 Amazing gift credit from the folks at Ubernote so you can fill it up with books (or whatever).

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August 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: bag, book, business, giveaway, note-taking, reading, ubernote, web-app | 116 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Reading and Relaxation

Nothing says “relaxation” more than a good book. Whether it’s a fascinating account of the lives or events of long ago or far away (or maybe just across town), or a fantastic voyage to other worlds, or a careful description of the latest scientific discoveries, let me lose myself in a good book. Summer is especially good for reading (though if you live in a state with “weather”, winter’s are pretty… Continue reading

August 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, content, giveaway, reading, recommendation | 94 comments»

7 Free Books That Should Be On Your Shelves

Who doesn't like free stuff? And if we're talking about stuff that will actually help you out in the long run, it's hard to find a reason to turn it down. Free books, for example, are more than worth their price, especially if they are good reference materials. But sometimes it can be hard to find free books — it's not necessarily something that's advertised. There are plenty of… Continue reading

July 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, reference | 10 comments»

Are You a Productive Reader?

I know you can read. You're reading this, aren't you? (If you're not reading this, never mind.)

But are you productively literate? That is, when you read, do you learn anything that you can apply immediately to your life, or do the words and ideas just bounce around your brain's pleasure areas for a while before disappearing like so many wisps of morning fog?

Not that there's anything wrong with… Continue reading

May 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, growth, learning, personal-development, reading | 14 comments»

The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf

I just received my copy of Lifehack contributor Pamela Skilling's new book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. Pamela's book is a guide for people fed up with the corporate lifestyle -- the lack of creative expression, the lack of spiritual reward, and ultimately the lack of control over the conditions of your own employment -- who are looking… Continue reading

May 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, leadership, learning, Management, organization, Productivity, reading, thinking | 2 comments»