knowledge gives the mind freedom

Here is a wide and varied selection of wisdom to helping you break the 9-5…


The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
- Tim ferris

This is a must-have book for any freedom seeker or digital nomad! It gives you practical skills, technology and know-how to push your remote business forward. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book really does open-doors by showing you how. 


"Think and Grow Rich" is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want.


Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.

We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. 

Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defence.


Desperately looking for answers to save her daughter from addiction to drugs and alcohol, Shelly Jo found tools to reduce addictions; and help children to adults beat the struggles of cravings, emotions, and weight gain. Feed your brain-brain food. What you eat matters. Get rid of negative self-talk.

What if you could reduce feelings of anxiety, depression, stress, cravings, and addictions? And increase your energy, sleep, happiness, and weight loss? Go from self-hatred, obsessive thoughts, self-harm, panic, fear - to CONFIDENT and JOYFUL? Would your life be different?

Standing at my vendor table, a woman stopped, looked at my sign. Puzzled, she asked, “Amino Acid Therapy, Nutrition and Hypnotherapy, that’s an odd combination. How do they work together?” I smiled and asked, “Are you ready to find out the answer?” She stated emphatically, “Yes!”


Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.

In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.


THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake.

Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.


“People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. He calls them atomic habits.

In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. Along the way, he tells inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of tiny habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy. These small changes will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships, and your life.”


Starts with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek

"In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of ideas."

This book will help you understand the why in your business. Knowing your 'why' when starting up a business is fundamental to happiness and running a successful business. A great book for anyone looking to start up a business.


Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time - Brian Tracy

Eat That Frog is quick read and amazingly useful if you are procrastinate or are generally hopeless with time. He states that successful people don't try and do everything, instead they focus on the most important tasks on their "To-Do" list and make sure they get done.


The Happiness Trap : Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ Harris

"A growing body of scientific research suggests that we are all caught in a powerful psychological trap: a vicious cycle, whereby the more we strive for happiness, the more we suffer. This book provides an escape from 'the happiness trap', via a revolutionary new development in human psychology: a powerful model for change, known as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT helps people to create a rich, full and meaningful life, whilst effectively handling the pain that inevitably comes with it. rather than controlling or avoiding emotions, people can learn from their own bodily reactions and begin to act sensibly on them. Expressing emotion in ways that are appropriate to context is a highly complex skill, and one that is rarely taught. Rich in clinical wisdom, practical guidance, and case illustration, this book provides an empirically supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom."

Anyone who is on a journey of personal development should read this.


Emotion-focused therapy: Coaching clients to work through their feelings - Leslie Greenberg

"Rather than controlling or avoiding emotions, clients can learn from their own bodily reactions and begin to act sensibly on them. Expressing emotion in ways that are appropriate to context is a highly complex skill, and one that is rarely taught. Rich in clinical wisdom, practical guidance, and case illustration, this book provides an empirically supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom."

This book has helped me understand how to support clients through their understand of themselves and their emotions.


Leadership Coaching with Feedforward - Jonathan passmore

Excellence in Coaching presents cutting-edge thinking in the field of workplace coaching. This book is a staple to feed my coaching technique. I always adapt my coaching techniques creatively to provide what is needed for the client at the time.

 


The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

This is a book from one of my favourite philosophers. He has helped me with my own personal development and I use his work to ground myself and help my clients. This book explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are... We are therefore in urgent need of a sense of our own existence which is in accord with the physical facts and which over comes our feeling of alienation from the universe. Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Alan Watts offers a new understanding of personal identity. It reveals the mystery of existence, presenting an alternative to the feelings of alienation that is prevalent in Western society, and a vision of how we can come to understand the cosmic self that is within every living thing.


I would not be able to get such ground-breaking results without creativity and listening to the requests of my clients. I always do my best to draw any and every technique, tool and attribute to make sure you get ground-breaking and enlightening results.