What’s a side hustle? It’s a way of making money outside of your primary source of income.
Side hustles are becoming increasingly popular as individuals look for ways to boost their earning potential. While a side hustle can sometimes be a “part-time job,” the wise hustler seeks opportunities for growth and financial freedom.
Through the course of over 20 years of “deep reading,” I’ve managed to consume over 1,000 nonfiction titles on various areas of interest.
Occasionally, I write reviews of my selections of “best nonfiction books to read” on a particular topic. Many of these titles are used as a reference in the in-depth guides I provide on this website.
Below are the best nonfiction book reviews currently available based on topics that might interest you:
This selection focuses on books that provide practical strategies and methods for achieving more and realizing meaningful growth. If you’re interested in self-actualization, you’ll probably enjoy these titles.
Best books to read for personal development include:
Read the complete personal development books review >
This selection of psychology books will help you better understand what drives you. If everyone read these books early on and developed an understanding based on them, we would live in an entirely different world.
Best books to read in psychology include:
Read the complete psychology books review >
This selection focuses on titles that support professional development, behavioral change, and meaningful productivity. If you’re interested in higher performance, these books are you!
Best books to read for business include:
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This selection of marketing books will help you build your marketing intelligence and learn vital strategies for gaining awareness, creating customers, and scaling your business.
Best books to read for marketing include:
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These classics from the self-help genre guide individuals to achieve more and make more money by conditioning their minds, developing new habits, and finding motivation through inspiration.
Best books to read for inspiration and achievement include:
Read the complete self help book review >
Most of my clients now listen to audiobooks more then they read. Whenever available, I’ve included links to Amazon’s audiobook version for each listing. If you’re not already an Audible customer, you can start a free 30-day trial and get two free audiobooks.
Overview: This in-depth guide provides meditation guidance, meditation instructions, and loads of “underground” tips based on over two decades of research and experience in mind training.
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I was suffering from acute anxiety before and during exams in my sophomore year at the University of Michigan.
As a consequence, I was getting sick often and freezing during exams, lowering my performance.
My uncle shared with me a simple meditation practice he learned from a course. Using this method made a measurable difference in my health, performance, and well being.
And so, from then on, I began exploring and experimenting with different meditative practices and breathing techniques.
Perhaps you’ve never meditated before. Or, you’ve been meditating for years.
Maybe you dabble in meditation, or you tried it out and decided it wasn’t for you.
Regardless of your relationship to meditation (or lack thereof), I’m confident you’ll find tremendous value in today’s new guide.
In this comprehensive and unusual meditation instruction guide, I’m going to offer what I’ve learned from over 25 years of mind training.
Topics include:
Let’s jump in …
In Awakening the Mind, author Anna Wise defines “mastery” as:
“Being in the state you want to be in, when you want to be there, knowing what to do with that state, and being able to accomplish it.”
In a state of personal mastery, your mind is calm, quiet, and alert.
You are free of distraction, rumination, or any other disempowering tendencies of the mind.
In this state, the inner critic doesn’t attack your ideas before they’re formed or judge you or your performance.
You access your higher potential naturally—without conscious effort.
Imagine what you can do in that state. That’s the power of personal mastery.
You have experienced this state before. But how often?
For most of us, this state of personal mastery is rare. However, I see mastery as our natural state.
If that’s true, why does it often seem so challenging to access?
There are six primary culprits …
Most business never establishes core values. Even fewer businesses use them effectively and live by them in meaningful ways.
There are good reasons why you know the names of many organizations that use them, including Netflix, Amazon.com, Google, Southwest Airlines, Zappos, IKEA, Ritz-Carlton, and Under Armour.
Whether you’re a CEO of a 20,000 person organization or an entrepreneur with a team of four, core values are vital to creating a thriving business that consistently produces results.
Core values are a critical tool for outperforming leaders.
Why?
Most people sense that they aren’t living from their highest potential.
For most, this “knowing” is subconscious. That is, a part of us knows, but consciously, we don’t connect with this reality.
For some of us, however, as we get older, this realization becomes more conscious. (If you’re reading this, that likely includes you.)
We know the difference between when we’re operating from our higher potential and when we’re not.
But why do we often fail to operate from our innate power in the first place?
One reason is that our brains rarely function the way they’re designed to run.
The pineal gland—and many other vital glands and organs—aren’t functioning within their intended design.
Thankfully, we have the power to change that.
Today’s guide is the final segment in a 4-part series on the pineal gland.
Part 1: Decalcify Your Pineal Gland
Part 2: Pineal Gland Detox
Part 3: Restore Your Circadian Rhythms
If you haven’t read these guides yet, I recommend you do so as each guide builds on the next.
Now, we’ll examine how ancient traditions viewed the pineal gland. Then, we’ll explore traditional methods for pineal gland activation, or what’s often called “opening your third eye.”
Here’s an image of Rembrandt’s painting Philosopher in Meditation:
The light of the sun pours through the window. Sitting in meditation, the Philosopher absorbs the light in its reflection on the floor. He reflects on the light of consciousness, readying himself to ascend the spiral stairway to enlightenment.
The Philosopher is an archetype, akin to the Wise Old Man.
But what is an archetype? And how can we use them to elevate our consciousness, support our development, and increase our achievements?
Overview: This in-depth guide to peak performance explains the science of performance and provides proven methods for accessing your higher potential in business and any other activity.
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There’s an indescribable joy in optimal performance, at performing at one’s best.
The ultimate rewards of peak performance are found in breaking through to a higher level of development in oneself.
These breakthroughs bring a sense of freedom. Internal resistance falls away, and often, our sense of self with it. Absorbed in the task at hand, we access more of our innate potential.
We can pursue peak performance in whatever field interests us: sports, business, music, arts, negotiation, selling, mathematics, philosophy, writing, just to name a few.
But consistent peak performance eludes most of us. Peaking is the exception, not the rule.
In this guide, we will explore the science of peak performance to discover ways to access this state with greater consistency.