Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

This review is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

In a world that is increasingly demanding and fighting for our time and attention, we find ourselves stretched thin. Cramming our calendars with tasks and to-do lists, working long hours, being distracted by social media and the likes, and spending far too much time on insignificant matters and less time on what is truly important. In this book, Make Time, that authors offer a simple and effective system to free us from distraction and this constant and perhaps unnecessary state of busyness.  (more…)

Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk

This review is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Gary Vee is a relentless hustler and in his newest book, Crushing It, Gary highlights how entrepreneurs can utilise social media to build their brand and influence others to the success of their business. It is somewhat an update or sequel to his 2009 book Crush It – a motivational and practical read on how to create a life around your passions. (more…)

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Aware: by Dr Daniel Siegel

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

Dr Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. After completing his medical degree from Harvard University Daniel spent time studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behaviour, autobiographical memory and narrative. (more…)

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Let’s Talk about Death by Michael Hebb

Written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi

Let’s Talk about Death (over Dinner): An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation

For many of us, the conversation about death is one we’d prefer to avoid not to mention one that we’d be delighted to have while enjoying a meal around the dinner table. In this book, the author, Michael Hebb not only encourages us to talk about death but inspires it. Without a doubt a difficult and uncomfortable topic of conversation yet one that has significant importance. (more…)

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Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space was written by the late Carl Sagan, an American guy with many titles to his name, Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist and Science publisher. Most known for popularising science and taking many on a journey into space and time. A futurist and explorer excited by the opportunities that exist for humankind beyond the pale blue dot that is Earth. (more…)

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The Success Principles

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

Jack Canfield is most popular for his book Chicken Soup for The Soul that presents an array of comforting stories of how amazing people have moved through adversity, overcome challenges and risen up to go on and live their dreams. In The Success Principles Jack shares 64 timeless philosophies that many people both past and present use to live their own definition of success.

I read this book years ago after a recommendation by a mentor of mine. After reading it the first time it was clear that my mentor had read it several times as he not only lives by the principles but he no teaches them as well. Many in which I have picked up from him. (more…)

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This Is Marketing

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

Seth Godin is the marketing guru – the king of marketing. He sure knows his stuff. As I stated in a recent review of his podcast Akimbo, aside from extreme marketing prowess what makes Seth so attractable is his ability to communicate both elegantly and clearly. It is one of the traits that I truly admire about Seth.

This book captures the brilliance of Seth’s knowledge on marketing in an easy to read format that will make us humble marketers or sceptics reframe what marketing is and why it exists. (more…)

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The Willpower Instinct

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Dr Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who, using neuroscience and psychology, is dedicated to delivering practical tips and strategies to help improve the well-being of others. After the popularity of one of her courses, ‘The Science of Willpower’ McGonigal decided to write this book to elaborate and explain her work further.

In reading The Willpower Instinct I believe McGonigal successful answers the following questions: What is willpower? How does it work? Why does it matter? And, what we can do about enhancing our personal self-control? (more…)

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The Brendon Show

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Brendon Burchard is a leading personal development coach. He is extremely motivational, personable, intimate, and often bursting with excitement and positivity. He is said to be in the top 100 most followed public figures in the world. Walking in circles with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bredon is one of the highest paid motivational speakers and hi-performance trainers in the world, said to have trained over 1.5 million students globally.

Previously Brendon’s podcast was known as The Charged Life, however not so long ago it was rebranded as The Brendon Show. The podcast takes us behind the scenes into the world of Brendon as he shares training, live motivational talks, tutorials and other adventures and lessons that he himself has learned over the course of his week. Brendon is almost perfectly matched to what I imagine a true motivational speaker should be like. (more…)

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The Enchiridion & Discourses by Haward B. Morse

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

Epictetus was a second-century stoic philosopher. Born a slave and raised within the Roman Empire. After his release from slavery, he found peace in Greece where is spent the remainder of his days.

This book is delivered in two parts, the first is short precepts, practical guides to the bulk of his work – The Enchiridion. The second part is the longer discourses of Epictetus. These writings are actually the works of his pupil Arrian. (more…)

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