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20 Proven Strategies to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone for Success in Life.

“Get out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”Brian Tracy

I am a big fan of doing the unusual things. Sometimes in big ways. Often in small and daily ways to mix things up. Why? Because this habit is a simple and relatively easy way to:

Get out of your comfort zone.

And if you change your perspective on yourself from someone who sticks to the old and comfortable all the time to someone who likes to mix things up then it will feel more natural and easier to break out of your comfort zone when comes to bigger things too.

Because this habit makes the inner resistance and the fear that may hold you back smaller.

Add a spark to your day and come alive.

It keeps you from getting stuck in the same old daily or weekly rut. And it adds more fun to your life.

Refuel your curiousness about the world and life.

When you do the unusual thing regularly you to discover a ton of new and exciting things.

And that will refuel your curiousness about what else is out there that you haven’t discovered just yet.

So how do you do the unusual thing and break out of your comfort zone in small and sometimes bigger ways?

20 Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Eat the Unusual things. Instead of choosing the meat-based dish at lunch try the vegetarian alternative. Or try the fish if you usually go for the beef.
Smile towards everyone. Instead of just going along with your day in your normal social way try smiling more. Smile more towards your co-workers, the lady at the checkout at the supermarket, the people closest to you and smile to yourself when you encounter a mirror. See what happens.
Cook Something New. Each week we try cooking a new recipe. It is most often a tasty experiment and helps us to find, sometimes unexpected, new favorites. It has also certainly made me a better cook in the last few years.
Mix up your music. I mix things up by trying new music every month. I have a look at the best music on sites like Metacritic. Then I load a few of those albums on Spotify and listen.
Work in complete silence and stillness. Shut the door to your office, shut off your music, unplug the internet and just focus on doing the most important thing you can do today while enjoying the silence.
Read something that your friends wouldn’t guess that you are reading. Doing this has helped me to expand my horizons and learn new skills and many, often unexpected things about the world around me.
Do all your shopping for the week. Instead of doing grocery shopping when you feel like it or need to, sit down and plan what you will eat and need for a whole week. Go and get all of that at the store. Now you don’t have to go back there for a week and you’ll probably have a bunch of extra free time (and less stress) to enjoy this week.
Have a day of kindness. Instead of having the usual bursts of irony, sarcasm etc. during your day try to go for a day where you are just being kind and friendly to everyone including yourself.
Enjoy it all. All fluctuations during your normal day is a part of life and as life it’s a gift in some way or another. So on some days I just tell myself: “enjoy it all”. Then I try to enjoy my day no matter if the inbox is overfull, if I’m hungry and starting to get cranky. The things I usually don’t like so much I tell myself to enjoy as a part of life. And so my day actually becomes more enjoyable because much of how we see life is about how we choose to think about it.
Watch something odd. If you usually watch thrillers then try a romantic comedy. If you most often get stuck with documentaries try an animated movie from Japan (I recommend anything by Hayao Miyazaki). If you love Family Guy, try The Wire. Expand what you watch to get new ideas and impressions.
Listen to the sound of the world. Leave your portable music player/app at home or shut off and in your pocket. Just listen to sounds of the city, nature and people as you move about during your day.
Take a day to be offline. I tend to spend a day a week offline (usually Saturday or Sunday). It’s a wonderful change of pace and feels like I’m on a small, healthy and extra relaxing vacation. Plus, it makes it more fun to get back to work on Monday.
Take a news black out. Instead of reading the paper or watching the news as usual try to go without that for a day. See how it affects you and how much you miss the news.
Hide a note for a loved one. Hide a sweet note of affection for a partner, family member or a friend in his or her cookie jar, tea or coffee container, book on the nightstand, hat, shoes or somewhere else where they look each day. Make him or her happy in an unexpected and unusual way.
Take a different route. To work or to school. To your gym or home. See something new even when you are in transport mode.
Walk or take the bicycle to work. Instead of taking the car or riding the bus as usual. Get some exercise and fresh air before it is time to start working and on your way home.
Let it go just for today. If you often get into arguments or have trouble letting issues go and replay them over and over in your mind then just for today let it all go. Tomorrow you can take up your old habits just where you left them. But for today, instead of getting into an argument just let it go and walk away. If you replay something in your mind, let it go for today. If an old memory pops up today too, let it go instead of dwelling.
Go out. If you usually stay in during the weekdays, then call up a few friends and head down to the pub for a few hours even if it’s just a Wednesday. Or call up someone you haven’t met in ages and go for a cup of tea or coffee. Or pop down to the movie theater and catch a movie. If you usually do those things though, consider just staying in with PJs on and taking it easy.
Sit in a new place. If you have favorite chair or part of the sofa where you always sit then try another chair or place to sit today. It can give you a new perspective at work or at home. And I have found that it can even give me some new and fresh thoughts and perspectives on life.
Throw out the things you haven’t used in 1 year. Go through one part of your home – a closet, a drawer in your desk or bedroom cabinet – and see what’s in there. Go through the items one by one and ask yourself: Have I used this item in the past year? If not, give the item(s) away to charity or a friend or simply throw it out.

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10 Celebrities You May Not Know Live With Bipolar Disorder

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It can be hard to open up about a mental health condition. In recent years, however, mental health conversations have moved from private spaces to the public stage, with celebrities and other public figures speaking out about their experiences with mental health. Having this conversation publicly helps reduce stigma and provide education on conditions people may not really understand.

One such condition is bipolar disorder, which causes extreme shifts in a person’s mood — from emotional highs (mania or hypomania depending on the type) to deep lows (depression).

If you have bipolar disorder, you are not alone. According to the Bipolar International Foundation, about 2.6% of the U.S. population has a bipolar diagnosis. It affects women and men equally. Treatment, like therapy, medication or a combination of both, have helped many people living with the condition.

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HOW TO REGAIN YOUR LOST MOTIVATION – MAHMOOD QAMER

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Hello! I’m Mahmood Qamer and today my blog is about “How to regain your lost motivation so that you can continue to achieve your goals whatever the circumstances around you?”

What is Motivation?

First of all we need to understand the term “motivation” because it is the basic thing in regaining motivation when you feel you have lost your motivation. Motivation mean that all those indicators that’s motivates you to set a target, aim or goal in your life. It may be a Monumental milestone in your life or a small project at work. We all set priorities for our goals so that we keep working toward our goal.

What are Goals and how can we achieve our Goals?

According to Brian Tracy (a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. He is the author of over seventy books that have been translated into dozens of languages. His popular books are Earn What You’re Really Worth, Eat That Frog! and The Psychology of Achievement). He define goals should be SMART. This mean specific measurable achievable realistic and time-bound targets. These SMART kind of goals that help you to achieve whatever you want to accomplish in our life.

But even if we have the perfect plan in place to achieve our goals sometimes along the way we can lose them, we lose our motivation during our journey of reaching toward these goals. This is one of the reason I am writing and sharing few tips with you to help you regain your lost motivation and stay productive. I have learned these tips from the Lectures of Brian Tracy.

In order to regain your lost motivation and continue to be motivated toward your goal, is five step process that can really help you to solve your problem during working toward your goals.

Step # 1: Break Your Goals Down Into Bite-sized pieces.

How can breaking your goal down into bite-sized pieces help you to achieve your target or complete your task? Remind yourself of the Big Picture of your Goal. Remember most of the motivational speakers, consultant and other experts most commonly said that break your goals down into bite-sized pieces. So take the overall goal and make a list of all the smaller parts of the goal and then just eat one bite at a time is most common and most productive method to achieve any big goal.

Step # 2: What you think and how you feel?

Your thinking and feeling have a direct impact over your motivation, it can activate your motivation or deactivate your motivation as well. If you are thinking positively toward your goal, and focusing on the big pictures, then you can easily goes through the struggling time with lot of motivation, while on the other hand if you are thinking negatively and feeling bad. This will have a direct impact toward your goal and you may lose motivation and feel less energetic toward your goal.

So take small steps toward your goal so that you can continue to have a strong motivation level and feel good about your target, task or goal. This will also keep you moving forward day-by-day.

Step # 3: Intrinsic motivators

Another important tip to regain your lost motivation; look for intrinsic motivators. This mean that all those things within the goal that motivates you automatically rather than just a deadline from your boss. Find a personal reason why you want to achieve this goal. Sometimes a personal reason is to outperform somebody in the office or to do something that makes you feel better, more respected and more healthful, than anyone else that’s a real motivator.

Step #4: Don’t Over-think about Your Goal

One of the reason most of the people lost motivation while working toward their goals is that they start over thinking about their goal, which ultimately result’s into lost of motivation and they feel hard to regain it back. The basic reason when you feel and think a task is too large or too difficult for you. This effect create a tendency which led us to avoid the task or lose motivation altogether. Just follow the first step i-e to take small steps or simply take one step at a time and see where it leads you. Keep your eyes on the target as well as on the destination.

Brian Tracy said that one of the best things he ever learned was, the starting point of motivation is motive. It means that what motivates us to have a target or aim at. Find a key motivator that make you feel motivated and keep your in moving forward step by step and with small tiny steps you will get closer and closer towards your goal.

Brian Tracy share that most commonly asked question from most of the people to him “How do you get pumped up?” It is very simple just take one step at a time. Just be clear about your long-term goal as well as clear about the steps that can take you toward your destination and take your first step. In life all success begin by taking the first step.

Your first step will guide you toward your second step and after that second step will move you to your third step and then third step will push you forward toward your fourth step and so on. With all these small steps you actually start to build up momentum and this will result you to start moving faster and faster. As you make progress toward your goal, your brain will releases endorphins. Endorphins make you feel positive. They make you feel creative. They make you feel happy. They actually release ideas. With all these positive changes, you will find yourself moving faster and faster towards your goal and you will find your goal moving faster and faster toward you.

Step #5: Activate the Law of Attraction

By moving in forward motion with one step at a time, you will start achieving and accomplishing your targets, with all these achievements and accomplishment you can easily activate the law of attraction. You will begin to attract into your life people, ideas and circumstance that help you to achieve your goals even faster than before.

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Why it Pays to Be Hungry | Les Brown | Motivational and Inspirational – 2020

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START YOUR DAY BY READING SOMETHING MOTIVATING TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS.

STORY OF LES BROWN: “HOW HE ACHIEVED HIS DREAM JOB AND GOALS IN HIS LIFE

I was identified as mentally retarded student and put-back from the fifth grade into the fourth grade and I stayed in that category until I got out of high school. I don’t have any college training, but I met a high school teacher, who one day changed my life. I was waiting for another student, when he came in and he said to me, “Young man, go to the board “and write what I’m going to tell you.” And I said, “I can’t do that, sir.” And he said, “Why not?” I said, “I’m not one of your students.” He said, “It doesn’t matter” just follow my directions now. I said, “I can’t do that, sir.”

He said, “Why not?”

I said, “Because I’m educable mentally retarded.”

And he came from behind his desk and he looked at me. He said that don’t ever say that again.

“Someone’s opinion about you does not have to become your reality.”

As he talked, my heart began to beat fast. Tears began to come out from my eyes and I was sitting in the back just listening to him, because the speech he was delivering that speech was for me.

He said, Les Brown,

“if you want to do anything worthwhile in your life, you’ve to be hungry!”

I told him, “Mister Washington, “I wanted to become a disc jockey.” And that’s so I started working to develop myself as disc jockey.

He said,

“I want you to practice every single day as disk jockey.” I said, “But I don’t have any job now.” He said, “It doesn’t matter.
He said that

“it’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not to have one, than to have an opportunity and not to be prepared.”

And as I was working to develop myself as disc jockey, I applied for a job of disk jockey at WNB on Miami Beach. I went and met to a guy named as Milton Butterball. I said, “How are you, Mister Butterball?

“I would like to do a job of a disk jockey.” He looked at me and he said, “Do you have any broadcasting background?” I said, “No, sir, I don’t have any.”

Do you have any journalism background? I said, “No, sir, I don’t have.

“He said to me, we don’t have any jobs available.

“I said, “Yes, sir.”

I went back to Mister Washington and told him. He said, “Don’t take it personally.”He said,

“Most people are so negative, they will say no seven times before they will say yes.”

He said, “Go back to him again.”

So, I went back again. I said, “How are you, Mister Butterball?

My name is Les Brown.

He said, I know that what is your name?

“What do you want?” I said, “I’d like to know whether or not you have any jobs as a disk jockey, sir.” He said, “Didn’t I just tell you yesterday “we didn’t have any jobs?” I said, “Yes, sir, but I didn’t know whether or not somebody got laid off or somebody was fired, sir.” He said, “No one was laid off or fired, “Now, get out of here.

“I came back the next day, like I was seeing him for the first time. I said, “Hello, Mister Butterball.

“How are you?”

He looked at me with rage.

He said, “Go and bring some coffee for me!”

I said, “Yes, sir.”

And I went to bring coffee for him, for a while. After that I also bring food for him for his lunch and dinner. Similarly, I also went to the control rooms and I also bring food for disc jockeys as well. I stayed in the control room until I was asked to leave.

One Saturday afternoon while I was at the radio station, a guy name Rock was drinking while he was live on radio. I was alone there, looking at him through the control room windows, walking back and forth, young, ready, and hungry. Pretty soon the phone rang, and it was the general manager. And I answered the phone. I said, “Hello?” He said, “Les, I am Mister Kline speaking.”

I said, “I know sir.” He said, “Rock is not being able to finish his program.” I said, “I know sir.” He said, “Would you like to call one of the other DJs to come in?” I said, “Yes, sir.” I hung the phone up. I said, now he must be thinking I’m crazy. I called my mom and my girlfriend Cassandra. I said them turn-on the radio and bring it to the front porch. I’m about to coming live on radio.

I waited for about 20 minutes, and I phone the GM back. I said, “Mister Kline, I can’t find anyone.” He said, “Young boy, do you know how to work with the controls?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “Go in there and don’t need to tell anyone about this.” I said, “Yes, sir.”

I was desperate and couldn’t wait to sit behind those controls. I put on old Stevie Wonder record called Fingertips. I sat down behind that turn-table. I said, “Look out! This is me, LB Triple-P”, “Les Brown, your platter-playing popper.

“There was no one before me, and there will be no one after me, therefore that makes me the one and only.”

Young, single and to be loved, certified, bonafide and indubitably qualified “to brink you satisfaction and a whole lot of action”. “Look out baby, I’m your love man.” I was hungry!

I was hungry!

You got to be hungry! Begin to know that you have greatness within you, and if just one of you here began to envision yourselves as being blessed and highly favored to reach your goals, if just one of you captured the essence of what that means, that you have greatness in you and a responsibility to manifest that greatness, that you can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud, you can touch millions of people’s lives, and the world will never be the same again because you came this way.

One thing I want to tell you, it was hard; ladies and gentlemen that coming to speak to people and I was also facing financial difficulties in my own life. I was behind on my bills and my dreams, and I was telling, you can live your dreams! It was hard, ladies and gentlemen. It was very difficult to pick myself each day and believing on that I can do it. There were times that I doubted on myself. I used to ask myself, can I do this? And something said within me, you’re the one. Don’t give up on your dreams. By continuing to push forward, by continuing to run toward my dream, that one day I would have my own talk-show.

It’s a long shot, ladies and gentlemen, from Liberty City in an abandoned building on a floor, never knowing about my mother and father. It’s a long shot. Being here with you today in this Dome in Atlanta, it’s a long shot. No college training. Labeled educable mentally retarded, but I kept running toward my dreams.

Don’t stop!

“Don’t stop running toward your dream!”

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The SEVEN Things You NEED To Learn for Your Financial FREEDOM – Robert Kiyosaki

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What does school teach you about money?

What type of education school-system are providing to students?

What will make you rich either going to school and learning book to become smart or rather gaining financial smartness?

Do you know: How money works and how to make it work for you?

How to learn the language of money to be successful?

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When Robert Kiyosaki was young, his poor dad always told him the best path to success was to go to school. This was and still is advice spread to young people around the globe. The problem is, what does school teach you about money? Nothing!

Robert’s rich dad, on the other hand, didn’t have a college degree. He had to drop out of school in order to help his family and run family business, which started as a local store. Yet! he was very rich and successful, eventually building a real estate empire, complete with a hotel on the beach.

The idea that school will make you a success is perpetrated everywhere all the time. What will make you rich is not going to school and learning book smarts but rather gaining financial smartness—learning how money works and how to make it work for you. You need to understand the language of money to be successful. This require financial education, which opens up a whole new world, a world where you can succeed on your own.

Unfortunately, our schools don’t teach that language. They teach you the basics, and then they either teach you a specific trade or skill, or they simply train you to be an employee.

The SEVEN Things You NEED To Learn for Your Financial FREEDOM

Step # 1: How to read a financial statement?

Robert Kiyosaki share his experiences and problems at the time when he was in Business School. At that time, the most horrible subject of all was accounting for him. The reason he sleep during accounting class and top of that when he argued with the accounting teacher, because the accounting teacher had no idea what accounting was, this is due to the fact that the teacher was not so much intelligent or somehow have no idea “how the disciple of accounting can be applied? The reason for that because the teacher never served into an organization and they even don’t have any idea how modern technique can be applied to the modern business.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT:

If you read Robert Kiyosaki book: “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, this book is all about financial statement, income statement and balance sheet of cash-flow.

How could it not be irrelevant when 99% of all people graduate from school don’t even have an idea about what is a financial statement ? and if some f them do know a little about it, this just because they probably had the same accounting teacher, who wasn’t really an accountant. He had a master’s in accountancy but he had never been an accountant so that’s why! Robert Kiyosaki has created the cash-flow board-game . According to him, accounting is the most important subject for individuals because this is what your banker wants to see your banker wants to see your financial statement. This is your report card when you leave school if you have good financial statement, bankers will give you all the money you want. He further said that bankers have never asked him for his grades or about his college. They look at my financial statement and they respond like

“You’ve all the money you want “

This point out really quickly the differences between what they’re teaching in school and what Rich Dad Teach to Robert Kiyosaki. He said that the very big difference most school teachers are like my poor dad and that’s why they always work for salary?

STEP #2: DIFFERENT TYPE OF INCOME

E = Employee

S = Small and medium enterprise.

B = Big Business Owner (more than 500 employees).

I = Investor or Insider.

CASH FLOW-QUADRANT

Employees:

What employees always say that they work for money? but they want job security paycheck and pension..

Small Business or Self Employed:

S stand for self-employed. They are small business owners doctors lawyers they work and provide services. So they are self employed.

Big Business Owner:

What big business owners ? 500 employees or more.

Investors or Insiders:

I stands for investor. It is more likely to be investor they are not just investor, they are more likely insiders.

So the difference that’s what schools are not teaching you is what’s the difference really speak and these rich people that’s the big difference.

When I was about your age, I had to make a decision, I want to become a pilot as most of my friends went to fly for the airlines, or own an Airlines or I could invest in Airlines and that’s the difference in the mindsets and skill sets you don’t just make crossings the education is extremely different on this side then on this side here you know I know most millionaires, they want a High-paying job they want to be able to pay the rent and eat and all this stuff and then you dream up the big house, a nice car and all that but that’s why 99% of Americans are broke because their heads are in the wrong spot so

STEP # 3: WHY YOU SHOULD WORK FOR ASSETS NOT FOR PAYCHECK?

This started the journey on investing. At the start of the journey on assets build up, I do remember the moment down the road where just like everybody else I was focused on the income column; get a job, get the pay raises, if you’re an hourly rate wage work more hours or raise your hourly wage so I was always focused on this. Finally after When I actually bought some investment properties the light finally went on and I’m like instead of focusing on acquiring income what if we focus on just acquiring assets that the assets go into the income process so that was a huge shift in my mindset and once that shift happened for me I don’t think about the income column anymore I just think about the asset and that’s our game called cash flow.

Most people are so busy working for money, they are so busy trying to pay their bills and liabilities. I think our assets was the counting game to get where we are now, and that is we are financially free. You should know that’s the whole thing so everybody can do this. It is not a matter of putting your head into the right column and if for me it was in 1973, when I took my first real estate investment course here I’m free you know I lost money get made money back but I have never been out of the assets. We are still practicing every single day. I’m working on a new project right now in the asset column it’s gonna put a lot of cash flow into the income column because again we’re focusing on asset column not the income column.

STEP # 4: WHY SAVERS ARE LOSERS?

MONEY COLUMN:

There are three kinds of money today that everybody should be aware.

God’s Money: Gold and Silver

God’s money is gold and silver. Most people don’t know what God’s Money look like.

Government Money:

Government money is currency, like dollar, yen to pay salaries. I called it the fake money and everybody’s working hard for it just like eating fake food or drinking fake water that’s why people are getting sick financially because they working for fake money and then those fake assets which with another part of their millennial the fake generation series.

In 1972 gold God’s money, the reason I called it God’s money is you can’t fake it. You know you can fake it with a fake ETF like a gold ETF or a silver which I don’t touch because it smells as bad as the guys print in that trap you know I mean Jesus but this is real money so you look at this here when I first started buying that; dollar was forty and today that’s sixteen dollars and this here is auto gold and the reason we bought it is most people haven’t seen our touch this God’s money. Why does this so? Because it was here when the earth was created and it’ll be here when we’re all dead and gone when you’re saving those fake dollars this will still be here. I’m concerned you’re gonna find most of my talks about the Fed so I would recommend you guys buy this stuff don’t save money don’t save government money because they’re corrupt as hell as you know save God’s money in school they compensate for a risk by telling you to memorize the right answer so in other words these kids leave young people like you leave school think, if I know the right answers then there’s no risk and it drives old guys like me crazy because everybody’s talking about Millennial’s.

STEP #5: DON’T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES.

I love working on these programs because if you’re going to be successful you have to take some risk. Most of the young people are afraid of doing that. They are afraid of losing. They eventually end-up working all their life for someone for a salary and they have the tradition thought process which my poor dad often remind me “the best path to success was to go to school. This was and still is advice spread to young people around the globe. The problem is, what does school teach you about money? Nothing! Robert’s rich dad, on the other hand, didn’t have a college degree. He had to drop out of school in order to help run his family business, which started as a local store. Yet he was very rich and successful, eventually building a real estate empire complete with a hotel on the beach. The idea that school will make you a success is perpetrated everywhere and all the time. What will make you rich is not going to school and learning book smarts but rather gaining financial smarts—learning how money works and how to make it work for you. You need to learn to speak the language of money to be successful. That takes financial education, which opens up a whole new world, a world where you can succeed on your own terms. Unfortunately, our schools don’t teach that language. They teach you the basics, and then they either teach you a specific trade or skill, or they simply train you to be an employee.“

STEP # 6: TAXES MAKES YOU RICHER

The problem with young people that they don’t understand tax you see all over the world makes a very little difference These guys pay 40% of their money in taxes so they make $1,000 they’re going to spend $40 in taxes these guys that make $1,000 they don’t pay 60% in tax so our schools are teaching entrepreneurship but they’re not teaching them tax okay and because they’re focusing on income.

For example over here it’s 20% in tax so they make $1,000, only 200 dollars goes to tax and these guys 0%.

STEP 7: “WHAT DID SCHOOL TEACH YOU ABOUT MONEY?

The reason financial education isn’t working in our school systems that they are teaching financial education for these people who collect taxes and to really become rich you should focus on Big Business Ownership or Investment, this focus create the difference between the Rich and Poor Dad, there financial statements.

What they are teaching at school right now to work hard for more money so that you can pay more taxes. On the other hand, the rich people don’t pay taxes and as strange as that may seem and I’m talking about legal this is all over the world so that’s the big difference around one last thing which I think most Millennials understand.

I really follow the formula of McDonald’s. We have an education company that buys real estate which means we make a lot of money pay zero taxes legally what the school teach you about money nothing you know balancing a check come. When you look at this financial statement up here that’s what your banker wants to see. Your banker doesn’t care about your grades. They doesn’t care what school you went to, when you look at most of the politicians today they don’t have one of these either the US government doesn’t have one of these anymore they stop doing this because of the US government the the budget is so out of balance they can’t do anything so that’s why you know 22 years ago in 1996 I created the cash-flow board-game; the purpose of this was and still so people could teach people what our school systems will never teach you never because they don’t know it because evidence is now coming out that the school system was hijacked by the ultra-rich people and years ago and they would never teach people what I know what my rich dad taught me so that’s why most of our political leaders are broke they’re poor people you know who makes the most of the politicians they got paychecks for life they get benefits for like I think all this stuff but they’re doing a horrible job so you’re gonna depend upon the government to take care of you that’s crazy you know a lot of people don’t like Trump you know I understand why but he really understands his stuff I know because he’s my friend we wrote two books together this is how the rich think even if you hate Trump and Trump doesn’t pay taxes that’s why he doesn’t want to show us his tax returns I mean you got to be crazy so they’ll never teach you this

“people can teach people don’t expect the government to take care of”

Socrates Quotes On Life

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Break free from conformity and think beyond your time with Socrates quotes as your guide!

An amazing collection of Socrates quotes that will help you know yourself better.

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who’s renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics.

He is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the ancient era and is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

Although he remains an enigmatic figure, he left no writings and most of his teachings are known from the writings of his students, particularly Plato and Xenophon.

Because he did not conform to the local traditions, many felt that his teachings threatened their way of life. He was sentenced to death and died after being forced to drink poison hemlock.

From one of the greatest philosophers of all time, we found these ancient wisdom quotes from Socrates on love, youth and philosophy – that can hopefully provide you with actionable insight. Enjoy!!

Here’s is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking Socrates quotes and sayings, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Famous Socrates quotes about life from his writings and overall philosophy

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” – Socrates
“I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.” – Socrates

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

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Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it’s the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

Following are some of the most common mistakes that most of us do in our daily life; consciously or unconsciously.

Mistake # 1: Social Media

If you are using Social Medias for excessive time. Believe me, it’s not useful at all. Stalking people profile(especially of your crush), messaging someone who is least bothered about you. Yes, it definitely takes a lot of courage to realize that it’s unnecessary. I did realize it so I have quitted Social Medias like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest for 8 months. Believe me, the result is really good. Quora can be good as I can learn over here.

Mistake # 2: Fairy Tales

Believing that Fairy Tales exists! No, my dear beautiful faces matter. Everyone is attracted to a beautiful girl or a handsome guy. I guess loving someone ugly exists only 0.99% in this only world. Now, I am sure you all guys are going to debate with me. But it’s the sad reality of life. So grow up and focus on yourself instead of waiting for a Fairy Tale to take place in your life. It only exists in movies and stories.

Mistake # 3: Engage with your Phone

To wake up early in the morning and instead of checking out any other things. Before brushing your teeth and even washing your face. Engaging in your Phone.

Mistake # 4: Irritating Others

If you have never danced in rain, went on trekking, done rock climbing, told your parent how much you value them, sang songs, dreamed to be a successful person, love yourself, irritate your cousin, siblings and loved ones. Because if you have not done this then you’re naturally unattractive. I have a long list so I just couldn’t include all of them.

Mistake # 5: Feeling Stress

You feel constantly irritated, joys surround you but not longer than a few minutes. Then, you obviously need to check out what’s wrong with you.

Mistake # 6: Waiting for Someone to Message You.

Waiting for someone to message you. Waiting for someone to care about you. Ask whether you’re fine or not. Believe me, only your family and yourself will really care about you.

Mistake # 7: Believing that a person will love you and Only YOU Forever

If you have ever believed that a person will love you and only you forever. They will be with you. Care about you. No, not at all! Everyone in life is replaceable. People will get down with another person if they’re more beautiful than you. Mark my words it so happens, though it’s sad, it’s also true at the same time.

Mistake # 8: Wondering the One who died returns back to your life.

If you have ever wondered the one who died returns back to your life. Believe me, I wasted my three years believing that. Yes, I was just fourteen back then, so as a child I believed it. The day you realize it, it hurts much more. But unfortunately, it will never become a reality. So, don’t waste your time in this.

Mistake # 9: Settling for Less

If you are settling for less. Please don’t do that push yourself up. I believe it. I started working in an IT company just after 1 month of my SEE examination(Grade 10). Obviously it’s hard. I can hardly manage 3 to 4 hours for my studies. But, I want to get independent. If I can help my family in a small way then why not? I will do that.

Mistake # 10: Seeking the Attention of Some Random Guys or Girls

If you’re seeking the attention of some random guys or girls. Please don’t do that. It will take you nowhere. It’s such a wastage of time.

Mistake # 11: Stuck with your Past.

Don’t get stuck with your past. It is a complete wastage of time. Pick yourself up. Believe that you deserve someone better. With time you will grow and glow. Keep your Chin up and never settle for the same mistake again.

Mistake # 12: Following the Crowd.

If you are following the crowd. You are mistaken, don’t ever do that. What if you fall? Get up again. Do something different. If things don’t work out and life gets tougher. Be more habitual to get more tuff. But Don’t give up! Nah! It shouldn’t be even one of your option.

Mistake # 13: Loved the Scars of Your Body

If you have never loved the scars of your body. What if you are ugly, what if you are short, what if you don’t get proposals from your crush, what if you are a Sunflower in the world of Rose. There isn’t anything bad in that. Everyone cannot be pretty. After all, you will definitely find someone one day who will love and appreciate all of our scars. So, don’t ever think that you’re ugly. You’re beautiful or handsome. No matter what you will always be special to those who loves and values you.

Mistake # 14: Five People Smile

If you never had fun and made at least Five People Smile a day. Do that, the world needs more of that. Everyone is so self-obsessed. In this world be Ketchup to someone’s Frech Fries.

Mistake # 15 Understand the Rule

If you haven’t understood the rule. To add friends, reduce enemies, multiply joys by celebrating them with others and dividing other sorrows by being a part of them.

Mistake # 16: Hate or Revenge

Don’t Hate or have time for Revenge. After all, everyone has to face their own Karma. Time is really precious, don’t kill it in stupid things.

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Almost more than 198 books published in December 2020 that appears to be on the chart of the Amazon Best Seller Books of the Month.

Layla by Colleen Hoover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Romance

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love.

When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.

Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for all of them

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

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Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they’re surprised… and curious.

Their parents are all clear on one point—not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it’s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious—and dark—their family’s past is.

The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over—and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes your next obsession. You’ll never feel the same about family again.

Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane

Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead?

Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth.

With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone

The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher

From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Wives comes another twisted psychological thriller guaranteed to turn your world upside down.

Have you ever been wrong about someone?

Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.

Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.

Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel.

From the wickedly dark mind of bestselling author Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family is a taut new thriller that’s riddled with twists in all the right places.

Every Last Secret by A.R. Torre

Welcome to the neighborhood. Watch your husband, watch your friends, and watch your back.

Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality.

Neena Ryder isn’t a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn’t delivered, she’s anxious to move up in the world. This beautiful new town is a step in the right direction. It’s also making Neena aware of what she doesn’t have. Namely, William. When Neena’s infatuation escalates into obsession, it’s just a matter of eliminating a few obstacles to get the life she wants. The life next door.

As Neena’s secret fixation grows, so does her friendship with Cat. But beneath their cordial interactions is a wealth of temptations, secrets, and toxic jealousy. For both women, the desire for a perfect life can turn perfectly dangerous.

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Marie Benedict, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room, uncovers the untold story of Agatha Christie’s mysterious eleven day disappearance.

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car—strange for a frigid night. Her husband and daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.

The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. With her trademark exploration into the shadows of history, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such a murky story.

What is real, and what is mystery? What role did her unfaithful husband play, and what was he not telling investigators?

A master storyteller whose clever mind may never be matched, Agatha Christie’s untold history offers perhaps her greatest mystery of all.

Open House by Katie Sise

A missing young woman, ten years gone. A town still held in the grip of an unsolved mystery. A breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of We Were Mothers.

A decade ago in upstate New York, art student Emma McCullough walked into the woods and was never seen again. It’s a mystery that still haunts her bucolic university town and her broken family, especially her sister Haley, whose need for closure has become an obsession. But now, finally, the first piece of evidence in the vanishing has been found: Emma’s bracelet, lodged in a frozen piece of earth at the bottom of a gorge. For Emma’s three best college friends, for a beloved former teacher, and for Haley, the chilling trinket is more than a clue in a resurrected cold case. It’s a trigger.

Then a woman is attacked during an open house, and the connections between the two crimes, ten winters apart, begin to surface. So do the secrets that run as deep and dark as the currents in this quiet river town.

Under a Gilded Moon by Joy Jordan-Lake

From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House.

Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American “royalty,” is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country’s grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow.

Kerry MacGregor’s future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians. She is determined to distance herself from the opulence she sees rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, however close its reach. Her family’s land is among the last pieces required to complete the Biltmore Estate. But something more powerful than an ambitious Vanderbilt heir could change Kerry’s fate as, one by one, more outsiders descend on the changing landscape—a fugitive from Sicily, a reporter chasing a groundbreaking story, a debutante tainted by scandal, and a conservationist prepared to put anyone at risk to stoke the resentment of the locals.

As Kerry finds herself caught in a war between wealth and poverty, innocence and corruption, she must navigate not only her own pride and desperation to survive but also the temptations of fortune and the men who control it.

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TAKE A STEP TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE – MUST READ – The Most Powerful Life Changing Books Can Change Our Lives Forever

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To live is to learn and to peruse is to catch on quickly from the experience of others. Life changing books can be incredibly powerful and can definitely influence the way we think.

Following these life changing books just might change how you think about the world, work, other people, and yourself.

Book 1: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEAN HILL

You will start the most important day of your life the day you pick up “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. As a self-help book this wonderful and simply written book is the acknowledged world heavyweight champion. In fact the story goes that Ken Norton – a little known US boxer – used the principles of the book to knock out Muhammad Ali then the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion. The book has helped people from many different walks of life to succeed in their chosen fields. The principles laid out are universally applicable and those who swear by the value of the advice hail from every country and almost every walk of life! This book uses extracted material from the 1937 edition of “Think and Grow Rich” and includes the Author’s prefers it ” is truly an `Amazing Read’.

Book 2: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 2016

The book is a response to the self-improvement industry and what Manson saw as a culture of careless energy that isn’t handy or supportive for most people.

Manson has approached life very differently from other people and hence presented his own school of thought in his book, the subtle art of not giving a F*uck in 2016, which quickly became a best seller.

Manson utilizes his very own significant number of individual encounters to write down a better approach than continually endeavoring to be happy.

Manson’s approach and composing style have been arranged by some as contrarian to the general self-improvement industry, utilizing gruff trustworthiness and irreverence to outline his thoughts.

This book is considered as one of the most life-changing book 2018 as well. One of the most famous saying from the book by Mark Manson;

“THE DESIRE FOR MORE POSITIVE EXPERIENCE IS ITSELF A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE”

Book 3: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 1936

Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies.

The book allows you to rethink how you talk, think and speak in public gatherings and while meeting friends and potential clients or investors.

THE BEST QUOTE FROM THIS MASTERPIECE OF ONE OF THE LIFE CHANGING BOOKS IS: “DON’T BE AFRAID OF ENEMIES WHO ATTACK YOU. BE AFRAID OF THE FRIENDS WHO FLATTER YOU”

Book 4: Mindset by Carol Dweck 2008

After conducting a good bit of research, incredibly famous Stanford University clinician Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a basic yet extra-ordinary concept which she called the intensity of outlook.

In 2008 and she write a book about it.

In this splendid book, she demonstrates how achievement in school, work, sports, expressions of the human experience, and relatively every region of the human undertaking can be significantly affected by how we consider our gifts and capacities.

This is one of the top life changing books you will ever read. It is one of the best books about life.

“BECOMING IS BETTER THAN BEING”

Book 5: Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki 2000

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter.

They have been greatly praised for this amazing book and the book holds merit to this day.

It advocates the significance of monetary proficiency (budgetary training), money related autonomy and building riches by putting resources into resources, land contributing, starting and owning organizations.

It also focuses on expanding one’s budgetary knowledge (monetary IQ) to enhance one’s business.

It is one of the 100 must-read life-changing books.

A FAMOUS SAYING FROM THIS LIFE CHANGING BOOKS SELF HELP IS:

“GUILT IS WORSE THAN GREED, FOR GUILT ROBS THE BODY OF ITS SOUL.”

Book 6: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 1988

Paulo Coelho is one of the most famous writers of our era.

Almost all of his work is brilliant, but nothing has been able to beat The Alchemist yet. Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd kid who longs for an adventure.

Santiago’s trip helps us understand the fundamental importance of tuning in to our souls, of perceiving opportunity and figuring out how to peruse the signs strewn along life’s way.

The best life changing book pdf is also available. This life changing books is a must read.

AN AMAZING QUOTE SAYS “AND, WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING, ALL THE UNIVERSE CONSPIRES IN HELPING YOU TO ACHIEVE IT.”

Book 7: The most effective method to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 1948

Dale Carnegie, an exceptional man, wrote several life changing books that enabled individuals and businesses to turn over a new leaf. He lived in the 20th century in America and his books still hold merit to this day.

Dale Carnegie wrote about how to stop worrying and start living in 1948.

Ever asked why you can’t quit stressing over something? Regardless of how hard you try?

By characterizing the wellspring of your pressure, you can get over it for the last time. Carnegie has created something of an immortal equation that can help you to get over any amount of overthinking.

This book is considered as one of the most life changing books of all time, even today, in 2018.

ONE OF ITS FAMOUS QUOTES IS: “OUR THOUGHTS MAKE US WHAT WE ARE”

Book 8: By what means Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon 2012

It is safe to say that you have achieved a lot and yet happen to feel negative and unsatisfied?

While accomplishments can be fulfilling, maybe the reason why your feeling so down is because you’ve been dismissing your family and companions for work. This book, however, will help you maintain the balance you need in life.

It is one of the most life-changing books of all time.

THE FAMOUS QUOTE OF THIS AMAZING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE IS: “IT IS EASIER TO HOLD YOUR PRINCIPLES 100 PERCENT OF THE TIME THEN IT IS TO HOLD THEM 98 PERCENT OF THE TIME.”

Book 9: Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson 2013

Ken Robinson, knighted and given the title of Sir, is a British speaker, author, and educationist and provides advice to the British education board on arts education.

After a very successful life as an educationist, he wrote his very famous and significantly life-changing book “Finding your element.”

In the event that you don’t realize what yours is, it just means you haven’t found it yet. Or on the other hand, maybe you have, however it was rejected from the get-go throughout everyday life.

A quote from this life-changing book is,

“IF YOU’RE NOT PREPARED TO BE WRONG, YOU’LL NEVER COME UP WITH ANYTHING ORIGINAL.”

Book 10: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman 2000

Did you know if your heartbeat rate transcends 100 bpm, you’re considered excessively enthusiastic, making it impossible to think reasonably?

You likely let emotions cloud your judgment more frequently than you know. Goleman clarifies how you can abstain from giving your feelings the chance to govern you and settle on better choices throughout everyday life.

The best quote from one of the best books about changing your life:

“IN A VERY REAL SENSE WE HAVE TWO MINDS, ONE THAT THINKS AND ONE THAT FEELS”

Book 11: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Taleb a very vocal and popular spokesman of all things controversial and political

He has written this book in hopes that people will understand the threat and opportunity that chance represents.

This Life Changing Books will show you perfectly why life is not reasonable and how it passes in a very non-linear way. The writer goes on to say that we severely underestimate the realm of possibilities when we make decisions, and thereby expose ourselves to risks.

This book brings forth a very fascinating blend of ideas and this quality merits it into our Life Changing Books list.

Book 12: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the World by Daniel Pink

Daniel H. Pink has four books that are international books sellers and he has written on topics that encompass personal wellness and innovation.

He wrote, “A Whole New Mind” in 2005, that helps people recognize the 6 fundamental abilities everyone needs to have.

Being innovative, creative and imaginative are essential traits that help us in succeeding while likewise also increasing our personal well-being. Pink recognizes the 6 fundamental human abilities that he sees as essential for both professional achievement and personal satisfaction.

Book 13: Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company by Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton is a Stanford engineering school professor who mules over the concept of creativity and so have written a book for people to understand how to promote, manage and practice creativity at a personal level and also at a commercial level.

He offers to understand the nature of innovation and experimentation, failures and creative freedom.

This book will expound all your creativity and will offer approaches to bring more advancement to your business through building systems that will help you in managing both disappointment and achievement.

Man, What an extraordinary year?

There’s not much you can say about 2020 that doesn’t include some curse words, but I will say this: It provided plenty of time for reading. It provided plenty of things that needed to be read about—from leadership to pandemics to civil rights to elections—this was one of those years that sends you to… well, I would say “the bookstore,” but that was hard, too.

Anyway, I read a lot. As I’m sure you did too.

Every year, I try to narrow down all the books I have recommended and read for this email list to just a handful of the best. The kind of books where if they were the only books I’d read that year, I’d still feel like it was an awesome year of reading.

My reading list is now increasing with every week, which means I hear pretty quickly when a recommendation has landed well. I promise you—–you can’t go wrong with any of these.

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

There is something surreal about reading a book published 15 years ago about an event 100 years ago that just happens to nail exactly what’s happening in this moment (his book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America is also good and equally timeless.) Barry’s haunting book covers in definitive, gripping detail the Spanish flu: a global pandemic which staggered nations and cities and the brightest medical minds of the time. “It’s only the influenza,” confident officials repeated. “It’ll be over soon,” they reassured. And then the President of the United States caught it… (I’m talking about Woodrow Wilson, of course). Because the more things change, the more they stay the time. Because history is the same song happening on repeat. Anyway, reading this book at the beginning of the pandemic was not only educational, but it has helped shape my family and businesses’ responses to the crisis. Barry writes of the relief people felt when the Spanish flu seemed to be winding down. They thought it was over, but actually only the first wave was done. “For the virus had not disappeared. It had only gone underground, like a forest fire left burning in the roots, swarming and mutating, adapting, honing itself, watching and waiting, waiting to burst into flame.” You cannot relax yet. You cannot drop your shield, as the Spartans would say. You must continue to protect the line. The health of your neighbors depends on it. And I joked in February that I was deliberately not going to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy this book because of the pandemic. In truth, I got it down from my shelf and sat on my bedside table while I worked up the courage to read it again. My feelings were well-founded, because on the night I finished, all I could do was walk quietly into my son’s room and sob while he slept. The Road is just one of the most beautiful and profound depictions of struggle and sacrifice and love ever put down on the page. Worth reading again!

Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This is an absolutely incredible book. I think I marked up nearly every page. The book is a study of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR and Lyndon Johnson, and it is so clearly the culmination of a lifetime of research… and yet somehow not overwhelming or boring. Distillation at its best! I have read extensively on each of those figures and I got a ton out of it. Even stuff I already knew, I benefited from Goodwin’s perspective. This is the perfect book to read right now—a timely reminder that leadership matters. Or as the Stoics say: character is fate. Or as I wrote about in this piece about leadership during the plague in ancient Rome: when things break down, good leaders have to stand up. After Goodwin, I picked up Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts, who I find to be funny, insightful and quite good at capturing the essence of unique historical figures. I also recommend Roberts’ biographies of Churchill and Napoleon. As I said, now is the time to get perspective and to learn from the past.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

I’ve raved about some of my favorite epic biographies before: Robert Caro’s LBJ, William Manchester’s Churchill, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Well, add another to the list. Taylor Branch’s definitive series on Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement has not only been riveting, eye-opening and humbling, it’s been the perfect vehicle to help me understand what’s happening in the world right now. I finished Parting the Waters and immediately picked up Volume II, Pillar of Fire. I’ve come to believe that one of the best ways to become an informed citizen in the present is not to watch the news, but to read history. The actor Hugh Jackman said in an interview a few months ago that he’s been getting his news by keeping his eye on the big picture—going through the Ken Burns catalog and reading books like Meditations. “That’s the way you should understand events and humanity,” he said, “with that sort of 30,000-foot view.” If you want to understand what’s happening in the United States right now as it pertains to race, get off Twitter and read these books. On that note, I re-read Invisible Man, first published in 1952, in light of the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. There are many “anti-racist” reading lists floating around, but how many of the books on those lists will still be readable in 70 years? Do yourself a favor and read this. It’s not going anywhere because it is timeless—and sadly, very timely. I also learned so much from Edward Ball’s Life of a Klansman (and when I interviewed him) and just as much from Albion W. Tourgee’s A Fool’s Errand (Albion was one of the legal advisors in Plessy v. Ferguson). Strongly recommend one or both of these books to anyone who wants to become better informed instead of more partisan. My study of this history has been ongoing, but I feel I have learned far more these books than I have from the trendy white fragility books going around.

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The Best Books I Read in 2020 is originally wrote by Ryan Holiday and it is now re-posted on my blog information use.

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

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President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew at the 1972 Republican convention. Federal prosecutors pursued a bribery case against Agnew but negotiated a plea deal

The principle that “no one is above the law” is supposed to be a foundational democratic creed, but political leaders, at least in recent decades, have rarely been held accountable for their malfeasance. In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after his resignation in response to the Watergate scandal, and Nixon never faced a criminal trial. In the last days of his presidency in 1992, President George H.W. Bush pardoned six of his allies caught up in the Iran-contra scandal. Justice Department regulations formed during Watergate prohibited special counsel Robert Mueller from prosecuting President Trump on charges that he obstructed justice. Whether Trump will be tried in court after he leaves the White House remains in doubt.

In “Bag Man,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and journalist Michael Yarvitz have written a case study in how the democratic ideal of equal justice under the law collides with the squalid realities of America’s political system. Their book, which is based on their podcast of the same name, gives a brisk and engaging account of the effort to hold Vice President Spiro Agnew criminally accountable, and it sheds light on the challenges — legal, moral, political — of treating presidents and vice presidents like every other citizen.

In “Bag Man,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and journalist Michael Yarvitz have written a case study in how the democratic ideal of equal justice under the law collides with the squalid realities of America’s political system. This book is based on their podcast with same name, gives a brisk and engaging account of the effort to hold Vice President criminally accountable, and it sheds light on the challenges, legal, moral, political and treating presidents and vice presidents like every other citizen.

Media personalities tend to favor history built on baseless conspiracy theories, such as Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln” (which falsely implicates Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Lincoln’s assassination), or rooted in national celebration (think Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation”). In “Bag Man,” however, Maddow and Yarvitz adopt a more trenchant approach, basing their storytelling on archival research and oral histories that yield fresh details about the ordeal confronting prosecutors investigating Agnew’s abuses of power.

Based at a Justice Department office in Baltimore, U.S. Attorney George Beall, a Republican in his mid-30s, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ron Liebman, Tim Baker and Barney Skolnik unearthed evidence that Agnew — as Baltimore County executive, as Maryland governor and as vice president — accepted envelopes full of cash from builders in exchange for steering them government construction contracts. The government lawyers found a welcome ally in Elliot Richardson, Nixon’s attorney general, who courageously urged his colleagues to pursue a case against the vice president.

If the case felt airtight to the lawyers, actually bringing it to trial was a different matter altogether. “The kids from Baltimore were pushing hard for the punishment they believed Agnew deserved,” Maddow and Yarvitz write. “People who do this s— go to jail,” Skolnik recalled thinking to himself. And “the message if he doesn’t go to jail is that if you’re big enough, if you’re powerful enough, you don’t get treated like everybody else.”

But the no-one-is-above-the-law principle bumped up against the power of Agnew’s position, partisan politics and the metastasizing Watergate scandal. Beall’s brother, a GOP senator from Maryland, along with Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush and other GOP luminaries, applied subtle pressure on the Justice Department to soft-pedal the investigation. The lawyers didn’t buckle.

Agnew complained in public that it was a witch hunt, part of a liberal-media plot to destroy a leader who had dared to take on the political establishment. Most concerning to Richardson, Watergate was imperiling Nixon’s presidency; if Nixon resigned or was impeached, letting Agnew become president while he was under investigation for bribery would plunge the country into another abyss.

Justice Department lawyers had conversations about the best thing “to do for the country.” What was the right way to achieve equal justice under the law? What outcome would advance “the national interest”? Richardson overruled his line attorneys and negotiated a deal with Agnew’s lawyers: In exchange for a no-contest plea to a single charge of tax evasion and his resignation from the vice presidency, Agnew would avoid criminal prosecution and jail time. Stopping Agnew from becoming president overrode the need to seek justice in a courtroom for his abuses of power.

In these pages, Agnew is depicted as an archetype of Trump’s hard-right slash-and-burn style of politics. Bashing liberal politicians as “radic-libs” and television news broadcasters as “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history,” Agnew used us-against-them cultural frames to enlist the die-hard backing of an emerging White working-class GOP base. The vice president’s oratory made him “a singularly divisive national figure,” the authors write.

At times, though, the Agnew-as-Trump analogy is overwrought. The authors give Agnew too much credit for innovating a brand of politics that owed as much, if not more, to the era’s grass-roots conservative mobilization, the growing influence of far-right media, and leaders even more influential than Agnew such as Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly and Newt Gingrich. (Also left unaddressed is whether Agnew might have survived in office had Fox News and Twitter existed to defend him in the early 1970s.)

Some of the writing tends toward the glib. The authors write that Beall, facing pressure to let Agnew go, “took the heat, all of it.” In summing up Frank Sinatra’s support for Agnew’s legal defense fund after the vice president defended Sinatra from allegations of mob ties, Maddow and Yarvitz observe that the singer “returned the favor, Ocean’s-11 style.”

“Bag Man” is also partial to a good-and-evil theme that crowds out nuance and reflects the limits of turning partisan cable television and podcasting into sober-minded historical analysis. The authors quote one of the prosecutors referring to Agnew as pure “evil,” a description that doesn’t really help explain how someone who could rise to the vice presidency would also engage in such a long-running criminal enterprise, or the sources that undergirded Agnew’s deep well of political support.

Nonetheless, this fast-paced and well-researched book underscores how the nation’s legal and political systems struggle to hold the most powerful elected leaders responsible for their crimes. In the end, Agnew resigned. Like Nixon, however, he never went to jail and never stood trial. He went on to poison the public sphere when he published a conspiracy-laden and anti-Semitic novel, and lived out his days without ever experiencing the full consequences that probably should have flowed from his years of abusing the public trust.

Bag Man

The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

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Publisher : Crown (December 8, 2020) Hardcover : 304 pages Price $16.74

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If your days are feeling monotonous, you might find entertainment and variety in this flurry of new books about subjects that span the globe. A Danish writer’s collected memoirs trace her effort to nurture artistic ambition in spite of a grim family life and, later, addiction. A biography revisits the lives of two pioneering sisters who paved the way for women to practice medicine in the United States. And a debut novel imagines a romance between two enslaved men in Civil War-era Mississippi. No matter what you’re seeking, you can find it in the pages of a book next month.

‘Aftershocks: A Memoir,’ by Nadia Owusu. (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 12.)

Owusu’s life has been a series of upheavals: She has lived across the world, thanks to her Ghanaian father’s work with the United Nations, and was all but abandoned by her Armenian-American mother. Eventually, settling in New York as an adult gives the author a chance to make sense of her identity. Images of earthquakes and their aftermaths recur throughout the narrative: As Owusu notes, aftershocks are the “earth’s delayed reaction to stress.”

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency,’ by Tove Ditlevsen. Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Jan. 26.)

Ditlevsen was well known in her native Denmark by the time she died, but few of her works have broken through in English. Her novel “The Faces,” perhaps her best-known work, details the unraveling of a children’s book author. Ditlevsen’s three memoirs, originally published in the late ’60s and 1971, are collected here in one volume. She writes about growing up in working-class Denmark on the precipice of World War II, nurturing her creative ambition and navigating her relationships, including a truly harrowing third marriage to a man who encouraged her addiction to Demerol. Fans of Rachel Cusk and “Borgen,” take note.

‘The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine,’ by Janice P. Nimura. (Norton, Jan. 19.)

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, and encouraged her younger sister Emily to follow suit a few years later. Their interest in the field unnerved many, especially men — one male dean of a medical school wrote, “You cannot expect us to furnish you with a stick to break our heads with” — though neither sister was driven by a strong commitment to the women’s movement or suffrage. Emily’s accomplishments have often been eclipsed by those of her older sister, but Nimura tells both their stories in detail.

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World,’ by Simon Winchester. (Harper/HarperCollins, Jan. 19.)

Using his own land purchase as a jumping-off point, Winchester explores the political, social and emotional meaning humans have attached to property over the centuries. His book takes readers across the world, touching on dispossession, boundary-drawing and humanity’s “frenetic appetite for territory.” (Winchester, whose previous books have taken up the eruption of Krakatoa, the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, a history of the Atlantic Ocean and other capacious topics, is no stranger to sprawling subject matter.)

‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean,’ by Joan Didion. (Knopf, Jan. 26.)

“Part of the remarkable character of Didion’s work has to do with her refusal to pretend that she doesn’t exist,” Hilton Als writes in the foreword to this collection, composed of essays first published between the late ’60s and 2000. The subjects on offer range from Ernest Hemingway to Nancy Reagan — though Didion’s own subjectivity is never far from the page, as usual.

‘Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,’ by Maurice Chammah. (Crown, Jan. 26.)

For many Americans, the death penalty is an abstraction, but Chammah, a reporter at The Marshall Project, zeroes in on the people — lawyers, judges, families — whose lives have been profoundly shaped by the practice. His focus is Texas, which has become an epicenter of capital punishment since the first execution by injection in the United States was carried out there in 1982 — and a state, Chammah argues, whose cultural identity embraces its history of harsh justice.

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011,’ by William Feaver. (Knopf, Jan. 19.)

The second and final volume of this biography traces Freud’s life as his artistic output and notoriety soared. Feaver, a British art critic, draws on his conversations with the famously private painter, interviews with Freud’s family and friends, and more for this examination of a mercurial, manipulative and brilliant artist.

‘No Heaven for Good Boys,’ by Keisha Bush. (Random House, Jan. 26.)

Bush lived in Senegal while working in international development, and draws on those experiences in her first novel. Two cousins work in Dakar as talibé, boys who study the Quran at residential schools and are often forced to beg for money, food and other supplies. There’s plenty of cruelty depicted in these pages — physical and emotional abuse, family separations — but the moments of human kindness and hope keep the story afloat.

The Prophets,’ by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Jan. 5.)

This debut novel centers on a romance between two enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah, in Civil War-era Mississippi. After another enslaved man discovers their relationship, he attempts to turn the rest of the plantation against them, believing it puts everyone in danger.

Sanctuary: A Memoir,’ by Emily Rapp Black. (Random House, Jan. 19.)

In an earlier book, “The Still Point of the Turning World,” the author wrote about her first child, Ronan, who died of Tay-Sachs disease before he turned 3, and the impossibility of parenting a child without a future. After Ronan’s death, she remarried and had a healthy young daughter. The essays here confront a wrenching question: How can you be the mother of two children, one living and the other dead?

‘Saving Justice,’ by James Comey. (Flatiron, Jan. 12.)

The former F.B.I. director divulged key details about his exchanges with President Trump in a previous memoir, “A Higher Loyalty.” Now, he broadens his focus and registers alarm about the erosion of truth and trust in the United States — and the ramifications for democracy.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life,’ by George Saunders. (Random House, Jan. 12.)

Saunders has been a stalwart of the M.F.A. program at Syracuse for years, and here he adapts one of his courses into a book. His essays — paired with fiction from Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol — make a case for why literature is essential, even in unsteady times.

‘Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs,’ by Kenneth R. Rosen. (Little A, Jan. 12.)

The author, a former New York Times staffer, began collecting material for this book as a teenager, when he was sent to three different therapeutic programs for wayward adolescents. His narrative — anchored by four young adults sent to similar “tough love” environments — shows that many programs inflict lasting damage on the people they claim to help. Ultimately, the book makes a strong case for reforming the practice. “For me, as for many others,” Rosen writes, “the programs were the start of a life spent circulating through countless institutions and lockups.”

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Despite being something most humans have a vested interest in, skincare is one mystery we haven’t cracked satisfactorily. Like calorie-free pasta, we can’t seem to wish universally beautiful, hydrated, blemish-free skin into existence.

In our very earnest attempts, though, we have created a whole lot of products to wade through that promise perfection. It can feel like with all the variables (your nitpicky skin and the overwhelming amount of options available) that finding a routine that works for you is, at best, up to random chance.

But recommendations from experts and friends let us cheat a little. They slim the pack and give us a truncated, smarter shopping guide. What do other people swear by? What do they spend their hard-earned money on? What diamonds are hidden in the rough of miles and miles of sterile-colored plastic bottles?

To make your skincare search more efficient, we’ve compiled a list of bestselling skincare items on Amazon (which, as you can imagine, sees a whole lot of sales — and thereby has a ton of data to draw from).

If you’re interested in things that we’ve personally tried, we recommend the sensational $11 Aztec Clay Mask, under-the-radar but truly incredible Hydrocolloid Mighty Patches, and of course our entire team’s cheap go-to skincare favorites and our justifiable splurges.

1. LilyAna Naturals Skincare Gift Set – Retinol Cream, Vitamin C Serum, Eye Cream and Face Cream Moisturizer- Unique Gift For Women and Men

LilyAna Naturals Skincare Gift Set – Retinol Cream, Vitamin C Serum, Eye Cream and Face Cream Moisturizer- Unique Gift For Women and Men (Just in $67.99)

Amazon rating: 4.4 stars out of 5 stars

This Vitamin A formulation delivers the noticeable results of Retinol cream without the irritation, redness, dryness, or greasy residue. The scent is derived from Aloe Vera and Green Tea, it’s only made in small batches of 5-gallon buckets, and LilyAna has a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not totally satisfied, they’ll give you a full refund with no questions asked.

2. COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch, (4-pack), $10.98

Amazon rating: 4.6 stars out of 10978+ reviews

COSRX acne patches are thin, clear hydrocolloid patches that heal acne by drawing impurities to the surface and protecting the blemish from bacteria and infection. Patches stick to the skin and absorb pus from whiteheads, helping the acne flatten and reduce inflammation.

3.Facial Cleanser by Differin

Facial Cleanser by Differin, Acne Face Wash w/ Benzoyl Peroxide, Sensitive Skin Formula, 1 pack, 4Oz, Basic (60600) in $10.44

Amazon rating: 4.5 stars out of 4,562+ reviews

Previously only available by prescription, this once-daily topical retinoid works to clear breakouts when they start and prevent new acne from forming. It promotes skin cell turnover and targets clogged pores and inflammation. According to the company, Differin Gel Provided up to 87% reduction in acne lesions after 12 weeks in a clinical study.

4. Thayers Witch Hazel Toner

Thayers Witch Hazel Rose Petal Toner, $10.95

Amazon rating: 4.6 stars out of 38000+ reviews

Thayers’ rose petal alcohol-free witch hazel toner has proprietary witch hazel extract, rose petal water, and vitamin e to soothe and clear your skin without moisture-stripping alcohol.

5. CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion for Dry Skin

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion for Dry Skin | Body Lotion & Facial Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid and Ceramides | Fragrance Free | 19 Ounce, $17.80

Amazon rating: 4.7 stars out of 38170+ reviews

This lightweight lotion provides 24-hour hydration without a greasy film and helps restore the skin’s own protective barrier with three essential ceramides. It’s oil- and fragrance-free, as well as hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic, and non-irritating.

6. Neutrogena Makeup Wipes

Neutrogena Makeup Removing Wipes, Twin 50-Pack, $8.97

Amazon rating: 4.8 stars out of 39,998+ reviews

Neutrogena’s Makeup Removing Wipes gently cleanse and dissolve 99.3% of most makeup. It’s effective, but gentle enough to use around the eye area.

7. Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen, Broad Spectrum SPF 45, 2-Pack, $13.49

Amazon rating: 4.5 stars out of 2,100+ reviews

This dermatology-friendly sunscreen comes with broad spectrum SPF 45 to prevent sunburn and Helioplex Broad Spectrum UVA/UVB protection. Like many Neutrogena products, it’s meant to sink in and feel dry to the touch for an ultra-light, shine-free finish.

8. CeraVe Hydrating Daily Facial Cleanser for Dry to Normal Skin

CeraVe Hydrating Daily Facial Cleanser for Dry to Normal Skin, $14.64

Amazon rating: 4.5 stars out of 5,600+ reviews

Like other CeraVe products, this face wash uses three essential ceramides that cleanse, hydrate, and help your skin restore its protective skin barrier (and retain its moisture). This formula, though, is particularly good for dry skin, with its areas of concern being Psoriasis prone skincare. It’s fragrance-free, non-comedogenic, non-drying, and non-irritating.

9. Vanicream Skin Cream

Vanicream Skin Cream with Pump Dispenser, $13.43

Amazon rating: 4.7 stars out of 15,373+ reviews

Vanicream is another option for skin problems like atopic dermatitis (eczema), psoriasis, ichthyosis, and/or winter itch. It’s supposedly gentle on even very delicate skin and is free of dyes, fragrance, lanolin, parabens, and formaldehyde. According to the company, this moisturizer was awarded a seal of acceptance from the National Eczema Association with a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

10. Purebiology Retinol + Complete Anti-Aging Facial Moisturizer Cream

Purebiology Retinol + Complete Anti-Aging Facial Moisturizer Cream with Hyaluronic Acid & Breakthrough Anti Wrinkle Complex, $23.90

Amazon rating: 4.0 stars out of 1338+ reviews

With claims of being the strongest non-prescription anti-aging blend, the Purebiology moisturizer aims to seriously target wrinkles. You’ll find 2.5% active retinol, hyaluronic acid, and a proprietary anti-wrinkle ingredient, Fision Wrinkle Fix, that Purebiology claims has clinically shown to deliver the most potent anti-aging benefits among non-RX grade cosmetics by promoting more hyaluronic acid production from the body.

Purebiology’s formula is free of harmful additives, parabens, GMO’s and is cruelty-free. If you’re not 100% satisfied, the company offers a no-questions-asked refund.

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When you’re shopping online, there’s no doubt that reading the reviews is important. It doesn’t matter if you’re buying a mattress or an Instant Pot, you’ll probably scroll through the reviews—or at least check out its star rating—before you actually make your purchase, right? And if you’re shopping on Amazon, you’re likely no stranger to the vast selection of products and the sheer number of reviews some popular picks rack up. Every product on this list is one of Amazon’s bestsellers from the home and kitchen department, and each one has 5-star reviews numbering in the thousands (some even in the tens of thousands!) from happy shoppers all over. Maybe you’re in need of a new shower curtain liner, want to test out some new sheets, or have always wanted to try out an air fryer—in any case, these are the products Amazon customers swear by.

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With more than 180,000 5-star reviews, these microfiber sheets are easily the most popular sheets on Amazon—and they’re a budget find, too, at around $30 for a queen-size set.

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Nothing compares to freshly made waffles on a cozy morning, and this super-affordable waffle maker is just the thing you need to make it happen. It has more than 104,994 5-star reviews and comes in more than a dozen colors to match your kitchen.

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8-Inch Memory Foam and Innerspring Hybrid Mattress

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