3. Die With Zero
Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
By Bill Perkins
It’s time to stop worrying about the future so much, and start living in the now. Bill Perkins explains his book by expanding on the classic Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper: The ant works hard all summer to save food for the winter. The grasshopper doesn’t. Winter comes along and you know the rest.
“There’s a time for work and a time for play,” Perkins writes. “Great moral. But when does the ant ever get to play?”
In his book, Perkins offers nine rules to help you from being an ant who doesn’t play. Some of the rules make sense, like Rule No. 2: Start investing in experiences early. Perkins isn’t a financial planner, he cautions. He’s not offering a steady plan to save for the future while still enjoying your life; he’s offering ways to be more present now, so you don’t look back on would’ves, could’ves, and should’ves later in life. (May; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $26)
4. Fix This Next
Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
By Mike Michalowicz
“Most entrepreneurs busy their days dealing with the apparent issues,” Mike Michalowicz writes in Fix This Next. “We aren’t sure which one to focus on first, so we go for the low-hanging fruit.”
A lot of the time, those low-hanging fruit issues stem from one larger issue that is being ignored. Michalowicz has developed a process focused on identifying your business’s needs, and working up from there.
“Think of it like this: You should build a house from the ground up,” Michalowicz writes. “The same is true for your business. Focusing on the apparent is similar to replacing windows on the third floor while the basement is in danger of crumbling due to widening cracks in the foundation.” (April; Portfolio; $23)
5. Weird
The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
By Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan knows a thing or two about being different: She grew up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas.
“Being weird feels like showing up alone to a party where you only know the host, except the host is in the bathroom…. Except the party is your life,” Khazan writes. Weird can be hard sometimes, but it can also be an advantage. Maybe you’re not weird per se, but you have social anxiety or impostor syndrome.
In researching the book, Khazan spoke to people who were different in one way or another, and dealt with personal issues because of it. But even those people were able to “pinpoint certain skills they honed, strengths they cultivated, or lessons they learned.”
Khazan says your weirdness can be your superpower. (April; Hachette Go; $28)
Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
By Bill Perkins
It’s time to stop worrying about the future so much, and start living in the now. Bill Perkins explains his book by expanding on the classic Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper: The ant works hard all summer to save food for the winter. The grasshopper doesn’t. Winter comes along and you know the rest.
“There’s a time for work and a time for play,” Perkins writes. “Great moral. But when does the ant ever get to play?”
In his book, Perkins offers nine rules to help you from being an ant who doesn’t play. Some of the rules make sense, like Rule No. 2: Start investing in experiences early. Perkins isn’t a financial planner, he cautions. He’s not offering a steady plan to save for the future while still enjoying your life; he’s offering ways to be more present now, so you don’t look back on would’ves, could’ves, and should’ves later in life. (May; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $26)
4. Fix This Next
Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
By Mike Michalowicz
“Most entrepreneurs busy their days dealing with the apparent issues,” Mike Michalowicz writes in Fix This Next. “We aren’t sure which one to focus on first, so we go for the low-hanging fruit.”
A lot of the time, those low-hanging fruit issues stem from one larger issue that is being ignored. Michalowicz has developed a process focused on identifying your business’s needs, and working up from there.
“Think of it like this: You should build a house from the ground up,” Michalowicz writes. “The same is true for your business. Focusing on the apparent is similar to replacing windows on the third floor while the basement is in danger of crumbling due to widening cracks in the foundation.” (April; Portfolio; $23)
5. Weird
The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
By Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan knows a thing or two about being different: She grew up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas.
“Being weird feels like showing up alone to a party where you only know the host, except the host is in the bathroom…. Except the party is your life,” Khazan writes. Weird can be hard sometimes, but it can also be an advantage. Maybe you’re not weird per se, but you have social anxiety or impostor syndrome.
In researching the book, Khazan spoke to people who were different in one way or another, and dealt with personal issues because of it. But even those people were able to “pinpoint certain skills they honed, strengths they cultivated, or lessons they learned.”
Khazan says your weirdness can be your superpower. (April; Hachette Go; $28)
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