HACK Your BRAIN to Take Immediate Action: 90% of HIGH ACHIEVERS Practice THESE HABITS Daily

If you’re looking to break away from your current work arrangement and start doing something that you’re passionate about, consider starting your own microbusiness, a business run by one person. Where you once needed to have a fair amount of funding to get started, Chris Guillebeau suggests you can now do so for as little as $100.

In The $100 Startup, Guillebeau breaks down the process of starting your own business. He covers everything from finding your target audience to creating a development plan, explaining how you can find success without loaning a cent from the bank.

In the digital age, when nearly anyone can start a business online, how do you stand out? In Launch, marketing expert Jeff Walker offers a product launch strategy that will help you market and sell a product with little to no start-up costs. By focusing on giving value and building customer engagement, you can create a business that grants you flexibility, autonomy, and immediate profits.

In this guide, we’ll discuss how the Internet has changed the marketing game and how you can adapt to—and take advantage of—this new landscape to quickly and successfully grow your business. Then, we’ll discover how you can attract interested buyers with little more than an email list, even before you have a product to sell. Along the way, we’ll draw on insights from the field of psychology to show why Walker’s strategy works and compare his book with those of other experts, such as Seth Godin’s All Marketers are Liars and Ryan Holiday’s Perennial Seller.

In 1994, a young programmer named Jeff Bezos took a chance, quit his job, and founded the first online bookstore. Three decades later, his business—Amazon—is valued at over $1 trillion and has revolutionized the online marketplace. Invent and Wander is a compilation of Bezos’s letters to Amazon shareholders, combined with excerpts from interviews and speeches. Its narrative chronicles Amazon’s rise from a niche retailer to a digital superstore while also illustrating Bezos’s values and insights into innovation and success.

In this guide, we’ll explore the history of Amazon as it grew to a thriving online marketplace that also became an invaluable resource for cloud-based computing. We’ll delve into the principles that Bezos says are central to Amazon’s success and compare Bezos’s management decisions with those of his contemporaries. Since Bezos presents an insider’s view of Amazon, we’ll also hear from outside voices who are critical of Bezos’s leadership style and Amazon’s impact on the market.

Many people assume their ideal life will never be more than fantasy, but in reality, you have the power to create the life you dream about. In this book, life coach and self-help guru Tony Robbins provides insights and strategies to help you take control of every aspect of your life, from your emotions to your focus. In many cases, you can make transformational changes to your life through small adjustments, such as swapping out just one word in your vocabulary.

In this guide you’ll learn how your bad habits are wired in your brain, how to decode your negative emotions to find solutions to them, and how to create your destiny.

This guide compares and contrasts Robbins’s ideas with those of other popular self-help authors, as well as current scientific theories. This will provide you with background and a deeper understanding of the lessons in Awaken the Giant Within, as well as some alternative methods for taking control of your life.

In his epic 707-page Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss shares the habits and beliefs of 101 people at the top of their game, including tech investors like Chris Sacca and Peter Thiel, entrepreneurs like LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Evernote’s Phil Libin, superhuman athletes like Amelia Boone and Wim Hof, media figures like Edward Norton and Whitney Cummings, and more.

These are the principles that successful people use to achieve audacious goals, improve themselves, and be happier. The premise: if you can apply the lessons from this book, you can be more effective.

The Miracle Morning presents best-selling author and speaker Hal Elrod’s antidote to living the kind of mediocre life that most people accept as normal. Elrod argues that everyone is capable of achieving their dreams in every area of life, including relationships, finances, career, health, spirituality, and happiness. The answer is committing yourself to personal development by getting up early and following a simple daily routine of silence, affirmation, visualization, exercise, reading, and writing, which can empower anyone to transform any area of life in a surprisingly short time.

The world order has changed numerous times in the past and will continue to do so—so argues Ray Dalio in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, in which he explains how he makes sense of human history in order to anticipate what’s coming next. Having studied the rises, peaks, and falls of over a dozen major empires, Dalio argues that history “rhymes” and that we can learn to recognize where we are in its repeating cycles. With that knowledge, we can make better decisions in life, business, and investing.

Dalio is an American billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates. Our guide explains his principles for understanding the large-scale patterns of cause-and-effect that drive history as well as his predictions for what’s next—which chiefly concern the unfolding relationship between the US, a major power on the decline, and China, a major power on the rise. In commentary, we explore additional perspectives on the patterns of history, and we offer numerous real-world examples of the concepts Dalio discusses.

Investing experts and laypeople alike often lament the unpredictability of the securities market—financial markets on which investments like stocks and bonds are sold. However, according to one of the world’s leading investors, Howard Marks, this belief in the market’s unpredictability is unfounded. In Mastering the Market Cycle, he argues that the securities market fluctuates predictably based on recurring business cycles and patterns in investor psychology.

In this guide, we’ll begin by discussing the foundational cycles—the economic cycle, the profit cycle, and the credit cycle—that shape the investing landscape and impact the securities market. Then, we’ll turn to the psychological cycles that arise from these business cycles, examining how investors swing between greed and fear and between risk tolerance and risk aversion. Finally, we’ll discuss how these cycles influence the overall securities market cycle and how understanding the securities market is crucial to earning above-market returns.

In Money: Master the Game, motivational speaker and life coach Tony Robbins argues that anyone can master money, achieve financial well-being, and create their dream lifestyle. In Robbins’ view, to master money means building an investing strategy that yields passive income for life and gives you the choice of when, where, and whether to continue working. Conversely, neglecting to master money means that you’ll always need to trade your time for money.

Our guide unpacks Robbins’s approach to changing your money mindset and financial strategy, and we contrast it with popular approaches to financial independence such as Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) and Early Retirement Extreme (ERE).

Unlimited Power is a classic self-help book that teaches you how to take control of your life. Tony Robbins claims that the key to this is ensuring that your actions, beliefs, and goals all work together and complement each other. He believes that doing so will allow you to harness a level of energy and conviction that would normally be impossible to access, and he says you can use that energy to achieve all of your goals in life.

Robbins is a world-famous life coach, motivational speaker, and business strategist. Our commentary will explore how some of Robbins’s theories have changed since this book’s 1986 publication. We’ll also draw connections to other prominent self-help books like Flow and Extreme Ownership, offering clear and actionable advice on achieving your goals and living a happy, productive life.

Many people assume their ideal life will never be more than fantasy, but in reality, you have the power to create the life you dream about. In this book, life coach and self-help guru Tony Robbins provides insights and strategies to help you take control of every aspect of your life, from your emotions to your focus. In many cases, you can make transformational changes to your life through small adjustments, such as swapping out just one word in your vocabulary.

In this guide you’ll learn how your bad habits are wired in your brain, how to decode your negative emotions to find solutions to them, and how to create your destiny.

This guide compares and contrasts Robbins’s ideas with those of other popular self-help authors, as well as current scientific theories. This will provide you with background and a deeper understanding of the lessons in Awaken the Giant Within, as well as some alternative methods for taking control of your life.

Minimalism offers a formula for how to live a meaningful life by first getting rid of clutter (like excess stuff and debt) and then focusing on five key areas: your health, relationships, passions, growth, and contributing to others.

The authors Millburn and Nicodemus achieved the American dream of corporate success and conspicuous consumption, but it left them unhappy, exhausted, and deeply in debt. They quit their jobs, re-examined their lives, and started the popular website TheMinimalists.com. In this book, they explain how anyone can follow their path of self-examination and how to make small daily changes to achieve a clutter-free, debt-free, and fulfilling life.