Shock Notes

We all have our perceptions of what rich people are like. Many of us don’t know many millionaires. Television shows and celebrity news skew our ideas about them. Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and Dr. William D. Danko set out to find out who the affluent in America are. They compiled their empirical findings in The […]

Even the most practical of us procrastinate from time to time.  We are not machines. But often the difference between successful and unsuccessful people is how much they procrastinate.  It is a constant battle.  Putting off the hard things is tempting. 23 Anti-Procrastination Habits teaches 23 tactics to combat your urge to procrastinate.  These are time-tested […]

It seems to me that most people who have never written a book think that it takes at least a year to write one. It may be true that the traditional publishing process takes that long to get a book on the shelves of Barnes & Noble. But the actual writing process doesn’t take so […]

The original Miracle Morning book by Hal Elrod changed my life.  Who knew that waking up earlier could have such a profound effect on my day? It is the basic idea of The Miracle Morning.  Wake up one hour earlier than you normally do every morning.  During that hour you will do six things: meditation, […]

How you experience your life is all about your attitude.  You can go through life seeing few choices, feeling trodden upon by the people around you, and having to do things you don’t want to do.  Or you can see the silver lining in every cloud, find opportunities at every corner, and take full control […]

Wallace Wattles is the godfather of the modern self-improvement genre.  He wrote The Science of Getting Rich over a hundred years ago, but the concepts are still applicable today.  It takes a little getting used to the vocabulary at first.  He uses New Age-sounding terms like the “Formless Intelligence,” the “Supreme,” and the “Certain Way.” […]