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Books on Habits, Goals and Productivity

The Joy Choice by Michelle Segar

If you want a super smart approach to creating sustainable, flexible habits - this book is for you. Psst - I interviewed Michelle Segar on my podcast and it’s one of my favourites. Listen to the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

No Sweat by Michelle Segar

Michelle Segar is one of my favourite thinkers when it comes to habits. She focuses on health-related behaviours, but her work can be applied to any new behaviours that you want to build.

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Every time I read this book, I get something new from it.

“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”

Procrastination Decoded by Dr. David Maloney

I had so many light bulb moments reading this book, particularly towards the end.

“By far the biggest step in ending procrastination, as Dr. Neil Fiore also points out, is not to schedule when you will work, but to schedule when you are going to relax and have fun!”

Mind Management not Time Management by David Kadavy

I’ve read this book twice because I enjoyed it so much the first time. Really suited to creative people who do creative work.

Elastic Habits by Stephen Guise

Stephen Guise really hammered home the idea of having flexibility with your habits for me. If you want to create more adaptable, flexible habits - this book is for you.

Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play by Mark Forster

Mark Forster has some really great thoughts on making productivity stress-free and fun. I’ve read all of his books.

”Beyond the resistance threshold we will only do a task once the pain of not doing it becomes greater than the pain of doing it.”

Time Surfing by Paul Loomans

If you’re sick of reading that time blocking is the answer to your productivity woes, this is the book for you. A super intuitive, zen approach to time management.

“It’s not so much a matter of getting the job done immediately as it is about being able to befriend it, and by doing so take the negative charge out of the situation.”

Books on Mind Management

The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey

This book was one of the first books on mindset that led me to a bunch of “huh!!” moments.

“When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.”

The Way Out by Alan Gordon

This is a book about chronic neuroplastic pain that I used for some nerve pain I was struggling with. It not only totally got rid of the pain I was experiencing, it changed how I think about emotions in general.

“The more fear you have around your pain, the more likely your pain is to continue.”

Dating Without Fear by Thomas Smithyman PhD

This is one of the best books about social anxiety that I’ve ever read. Don’t mind the dating stuff, unless you struggle with that.

“Research clearly shows that our defensiveness actually feeds anxiety over time—the more you avoid something you’re afraid of, the stronger your anxiety about that thing becomes in the long term.”

Just a Thought by Amy Johnson, PhD

This book is all about the nature of thought, and reading it really helped me at a time when I needed it.

“Deep, lasting change starts with us waking up and seeing things in a way that we didn’t see before. Behavior follows from there.”

A Little Peace of Mind by Nicola Bird

If you’re a gorl that gets anxious thoughts sometimes, this is a necessary read.

“It’s a really simple fact that the more thinking we have about any area of our life (also known as the more seriously we take our thinking about anything), the more we’ll struggle.”

Metacognitive Therapy by Linda Burlan Sorensen

If you are an intellectualiser, an overthinkiner or an overanalyser.. Metacognitive Therapy might be for you. Metacognitive Therapy is a psychotherapy focused on modifying metacognitive beliefs that perpetuate states of worry, rumination and attention fixation.

Redefining Stuttering by John C Harrison

A book about stuttering that has a lot of insight related to behaviour change.

“The great irony is that the harder you try to solve a stuttering problem, the more you reinforce its presence, because in order to have something to solve, you must continually recreate it.”

Books on Business

Profit First by Mark Michalowicz

I read this yeeears ago and still use the profit first system today.

Books on Relationships

The Relationship Handbook by George S. Pransky, PhD

This book has truly made my relationship more love-filled n’ beautiful than ever. It gave us a lil glow-up, if you will.

I'm a little concerned about recommending this based on one of the book's reviews and some of the content that I think should have been excluded, so please take the below info to heart before you read this book:

If you answer yes to any of the below questions, do not read this book. Instead, please read Lundy Bancroft’s “Why Does He Do That?”.

  • Does my partner have a pattern of being possessive or overly jealous?

  • Do they speak disrespectfully about former partners (using degrading or condescending language)?

  • Does my partner regularly criticise my personality, diet, appearance, homemaking abilities, etc, to “help me improve” or “out of love”?

  • Is my partner controlling in any way about what I do, who I see or what I wear?

  • Does my partner seem unable to see or acknowledge their flaws, mistakes or missteps? Are they always the one “in the right” in every way in any conflict in their life?

  • Does my partner have a pattern of disguising insults as humour or sarcasm?

  • Does my partner insist that they are always correct and that you are always incorrect in your opinions or preferences?

  • Does my partner constantly blame others when things go wrong?

  • Does my partner always have abrupt changes in moods? Am I constantly guessing how they feel? Does how they feel about me seem to change abruptly?

  • Do I often think … “What is it about ME that sets them off or makes them act this way? Everyone else thinks they’re great.”

  • Does my partner often encourage me to distance myself from people in my life?

  • Is my partner fine when they’re sober, but scary when drunk?

  • Does my partner regularly call me names?

  • Does my partner often “verbally (or physically) explode” when upset or angry?

  • Does my partner regularly yell at me or others?

  • Has my partner ever punched a wall in anger?

  • Does my partner consistently refuse to apologise for unkind or thoughtless behaviour?

  • Has my partner ever placed their hands around my neck in an attempt at strangulation? A person who has suffered a non-fatal strangulation incident with their intimate partner is 750% more likely to be killed by the same offender. Please, please please, call or book time with a local or online domestic violence counsellor and use this resource to start making a safety plan now.

  • Has my partner ever physically hurt me at all or threatened to hurt me?

Like most women, I have watched friends and acquaintances experience subtle and unsubtle abusive behaviour from partners who have clear recurring patterns of disrespecting, possessive, devaluing, blaming, entitled and controlling behaviours.

I would HATE if ANY of them continued working on a relationship because I recommended a book like this when they should, instead, work towards leaving.

Please use this resource to start making a safety plan now and consider making an appointment with a domestic violence counsellor.

“Leaving can seem impossible. Your abuser has spent a lot of time and energy cutting you off from support and keeping you beholden to them. You’re trauma bonded with them, leaving feels like cutting off a piece of your body. Like ripping off a part of your soul. It won’t be until long after you’re safe before you realise none of it was love. Not the good times (which there absolutely were, otherwise you wouldn’t have fallen for them) and especially not the bad.” - Reddit Thread