Explore the work-ethic of productive people and get a glimpse into the techniques that helped them reach a high level of success.

Productivity & Time Management

This is a bold manifesto against hustle culture and the glorification of burnout. The book, written by Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, offers a radically calm alternative to chaotic office life. Through short, punchy chapters and practical advice, it champions focus, balance, and sustainable productivity. Whether you’re a CEO, manager, or employee, this quick yet powerful read shows how better choices, like fewer meetings, sane hours, and clear boundaries, can create healthier companies and happier lives. If you’ve ever felt that work shouldn’t be insane, this is your handbook for change.

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

This book is a refreshing take on the concept of productivity in a world that is increasingly distracted by technology and busyness. Rather than adhering to traditional productivity advice that emphasizes cramming more into each day, “Make Time” encourages readers to rethink how they allocate their time, focusing on making room for what truly matters. It helps readers shift away from the chaotic cycle of endless tasks and distractions to a life where they can focus on what brings them joy, fulfillment, and purpose.

Make Time

The book points out the paramount role self-discipline plays in achieving success in all areas of life. Through practical advice and real-world examples, Tracy demonstrates how mastering self-discipline leads to personal growth, professional success, and overall happiness. The book covers key topics, such as goal setting, time management, personal responsibility, and overcoming procrastination. Tracy offers actionable steps and exercises to help readers strengthen their discipline and apply it consistently. Ultimately, the book teaches that success is a result of persistent effort and the ability to make disciplined choices, regardless of circumstances.

No Excuses!

Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

In the opinion of BJ Fogg, founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University, “Behaviors are like bicycles. They can look different, but the core mechanisms are the same. Wheels. Brakes. Pedals.” In the case of behaviors, the three elements are motivation, ability and prompts. “Tiny Habits” explores them all – and presents a seven-step method to easily outsmart them!

Tiny Habits

The primary premise of Laura Vanderkam’s book on time management ‘’168 Hours’’ is that we all generally have more time than we think. Do you find it hard to believe in this? Of course, you do - the narrative of busyness has seized our culture so much that it is hard to have any other worldview. After reading ‘’168 Hours,’’ you will think of time differently, and consequently, fill it with more meaningful activities.

168 Hours

Get inspired, build great plans, reach your goals, live happier!

Self-Help & Motivation

According to an Australian nurse who recorded the regrets of the dying she worked with, the most common human regret of all is the following: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” In “Essentialism,” McKeown explains how to get that courage – and how to prevent others from prioritizing your life for you!

Essentialism

Personal Development

According to Aristotle, the foundational thinker of Western civilization, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit.” Renowned motivational speaker Brandon Burchard concurs wholeheartedly – well, up to a point. In “High Performance Habits,” he claims that excellence is not just a habit, but a set of six habits and 18 practices. We go over each of them in detail.

High Performance Habits

Published in 2018, “The Bullet Journal Method” by Ryder Carroll breaks down the practice of bullet journaling, a system of personal organization he first shared with the public in 2013. A bullet journal is essentially a highly flexible notebook that can simultaneously be your to-do list, journal, planner and sketchbook. It achieves this through its Lego-like modular structure. To learn more – check out our summary!

The Bullet Journal Method

“Manage Your Day-to-Day” is a carefully edited compilation of interviews and essays written by some of the world’s most renowned thought leaders on the subjects of productivity and creativity. Aiming to be “a playbook of best practices for producing great work,” the anthology strives to help readers “shift their mindset, recalibrate their workflow, and push more incredible ideas to completion.”

Manage Your Day-to-Day

Biology, physics and a lot of experimentation!  

Science

For most of us, time is what our clocks measure. For Carlo Rovelli, however, time is both more and less than that. In “The Order of Time,” in welcoming, lyrical prose, he shatters our naïve perception that time flows steadily from past to future and replaces it with a network of facts and observations, in view of which time becomes little more than an illusion. 

The Order of Time

Do you struggle to get out of bed in the mornings? Do you feel like you have so much to do that you never have time for the important things in life? Laura Vanderkam has the solution to these predicaments. In “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast,” she explains how you can make the most of your mornings and live a healthier, happier, and more successful life.

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

“Deep Work” is an eye-opening account of the influence of technology, social media, and modern office layouts on our ability to concentrate. Contrary to popular belief, multitasking is not conducive to our productivity. As Newport, an assistant professor of computer science, explains, only deep, unencumbered concentration allows us to fully tap into our potential. So, if you want to be successful in modern society, you’d better learn how to work deeply. Through countless examples and actionable advice, Newport explains how to do just that.

Deep Work

If you have ever wondered if there is an easy way to success, look no further. Grant Cardone, bestselling author and successful sales training expert, has come up with the 10X Rule, which offers a simple formula for anyone to achieve more than they ever dreamed. 
Leading a successful life has nothing to do with your education, your character traits or your background, but everything to do with how much work you are willing to put into becoming successful. Commitment, obsession, and the right mindset will get you where you want to be. And “The 10X Rule” will help you along the way.

The 10X Rule

Examples and tips on how to build a better and more satisfying routine into your life!

Lifestyle

Have you ever struggled to concentrate on a task? Does your mind keep wandering off? Or do you let emotional events in your life distract you easily from what you’re supposed to be doing? “Focus” by Daniel Goleman explains why we struggle to concentrate, and the benefits of having more focus in our lives. Not only will you be more productive when you are able to focus your attention, but the improved focus is the way to achieve excellence. It also maintains successful relationships and helps solve and prevent global problems such as climate change and pandemics.

Focus

“The 5 AM Club” is a self-help book wrapped inside a parable-like story about an entrepreneur and an artist who, quite by accident, become dedicated students of an eccentric billionaire, Mr. Riley. Under his mentorship, they discover the value of waking up early, the four focuses of history-makers, and the importance of mastering the four internal empires – among other exciting and noteworthy things.

The 5 AM Club

Based on the premise that productivity doesn’t mean accomplishing the greatest number of tasks, but more of the ones that matter most, “Organize Tomorrow Today” by Jason Selk and Tom Bartow is a simple-to-apply guide to a fulfilling life and a successful career. It offers eight easy-to-understand concepts that should help you retrain your mind to optimize performance at work and in life.

Organize Tomorrow Today

Based on the positive psychology of Martin Seligman, “The Now Habit” by Neil Fiore redefines procrastination as a habit we develop to cope with anxiety about starting or completing a task, and introduces several strategies that can help you stop using procrastination as an escape while doubling your productivity – and even your income!

The Now Habit

Getting Things Done” by David Allen is the book that first introduced the world to the much-admired time management method of the same name. The five-step process involves capturing the tasks you need to do, clarifying their objectives and organizing them appropriately, reflecting on their importance, and, finally, engaging with them in order of importance. The book explains each step in exhaustive detail.

Getting Things Done

In “The Power of Habit,” Charles Duhigg explores the neurology and mechanics of habit formation. After demonstrating that all habits form a three-step loop comprising a cue, a routine, and a reward, he offers a four-step framework for replacing the bad ones that can be summed up in the golden rule of habit change: adjust the routine, but keep the cue and the reward.

The Power of Habit

“10 Days to Faster Reading” by Abby Marks-Beale is a comprehensive how-to guide to speed-reading. Jam-packed with exercises, quizzes, and specially designed reading techniques, the book aims to help you break the bad habits that slow you down, develop your powers of concentration, and cut your reading time in half – while maintaining high levels of reading comprehension.

10 Days to Faster Reading

“Mini Habits” by Stephen Guise explains why most of the popular personal growth strategies don’t work while offering an alternative that does. Unlike other habit formation programs, Guise’s strategy isn’t rooted in motivation and volume, but in willpower and guaranteed consistency. Discover why what’s between you and the person that you want to be might be just one “stupid small action” per day!

Mini Habits

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

 Learn the methods of effective communication, and understand what drives corporate culture. 

Corporate Culture & Communication

Most people think that productivity is about “working more or sweating harder.” As it happens, nothing could be further from the truth than that: rather than being simply “a product of spending longer hours at your desk or making bigger sacrifices,” productivity is “about making certain choices in certain ways.”
“Smarter Faster Better” by Charles Duhigg is a book about how to recognize these choices that fuel true productivity. It delves into the eight ideas that seem most important in expanding your efficiency and demonstrates how you can connect these ideas to become smarter, faster, and better at everything you do.
So, get ready to explore each of these eight ideas and prepare to learn how to separate yourself from the merely busy and become genuinely productive in this relentless and rapidly changing world of ours.

Smarter Faster Better

“I Know How She Does It” contains specific techniques that will enable you to make the ultimate balance between your work, family time, and pleasures. The author has conducted detailed research on the daily schedules of women who make at least $100,000 a year. She explains that you can have time for everything by creating a detailed daily schedule.

I Know How She Does It

Healthy mind, healthy body. Take some moments of tranquility amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Spirituality & Mindfulness

In “Life’s Amazing Secrets,” Gaur Gopal Das shares the four principles that form the foundation of a happy life: our personal life, our relationships, our work life, and our social contributions. If we manage to balance the contradictions in these areas and show gratitude for everything life gave us, we already enjoy the benefits of knowing a secret.

Life's Amazing Secrets

In this 5-step manual for multiplying time, “Procrastinate on Purpose,” Rory Vaden shares an action plan in which the central idea is to start making deliberate choices regarding the tasks, goals, and aspirations that receive your attention. Prioritize properly to invest in what really matters: eliminate, automate, delegate, procrastinate, and concentrate.

Procrastinate on Purpose

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

In “Mindset,” world-renowned psychologist Carol S. Dweck proposes that there are two fundamental mindsets that people adapt: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. By comparing and contrasting the two, she demonstrates why only one of them works – and how people can use this knowledge to improve and make the world a better place.

Mindset

This straightforward and comprehensive self-help classic, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey, supplants the personality ethic with an interdependence-based “character ethic.” Effective people align themselves with fundamental principles and universal values when making decisions or taking action. Search the win-win scenarios by understanding your partner first.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Who has never had a bad day? In this work, author Caroline Webb uses discoveries in the area of behavioral science, psychology, and neuroscience to help us overcome or at least reduce the stress and difficulties that generate bad days for many of us. By better understanding brain function and our decision-making process, Webb explains how to apply that knowledge in our day-to-day life to learn how to deal with challenging situations. Do you want to learn how to turn a bad day into a good day? Want to find out how some actions can motivate you and help you work better? Come with us!

How to Have a Good Day

​Have you focused on many things and have many life goals? The authors of this book, Gary Keller, and Jay Papasan will show you that having many goals is not always the best way to succeed. The ONE Thing book shows us how to achieve better results quickly, how to have less stress in your professional and personal life, how to recharge your energy and how to achieve your goals successfully. The authors recommend that you focus on "one thing." The one thing is what you want most of all, your primary purpose, which will help you to achieve all your other goals. Think about what is most important to you and learn to identify your "one thing" in this microbook!

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