Every month, when I write my blogs, I include resource recommendations (books, podcasts, articles). To create the easiest user experience, I’ve decided to add all of those resources to one centralized location. If you’re here, welcome and congratulations on your journey of personal and professional development. I hope you enjoy the reading and listening materials!
Book Recommendations
A powerful book that makes you rethink the way you view regrets. By reflecting on past mistakes we can use this information to learn and grow.

If you are building a business I would highly recommend this book. It is all about branding and how to make your message clear to customers. It also has actionable exercises to help you do this.
It is a difficult thing for most of us to do, but Adam Grant argues we are better off if we have the curiosity and humility to change our minds when we learn new information.


Give and Take explains how givers (those that help others without expecting anything in return) can achieve great success without getting taken advantage of.
Quit will change how you think about doing exactly that. It explains why we should quit more, why we don’t and how to get better at making those decisions.


The Practice is packed with valuable information. For instance, it tells us that imposter syndrome is a sign that you are a healthy person, doing important work, with an uncertain outcome and that it should be embraced.
Get It Done does a great job of outlining ways to approach setting and achieving goals. The key message is to change your circumstances so that you create an environment conducive to achieving your goals.


The Extended Mind makes a strong argument that most of our best thinking happens outside of our brain.
Drive outlines the three primary components that motivate people in their work (autonomy, mastery, and purpose) and how leaders can use this knowledge to engage and develop their employees.


Using a wonderful blend of science and indigenous teachings, Braiding Sweetgrass is a book about our relationship to the natural world and the lessons we can learn from it.
Four Thousand Weeks shares an outlook to help free us from the productivity expectations we place on ourselves.


A growth mindset is a belief that, with effort and determination, you can gain the skills and knowledge you need to overcome the obstacles in your path. This is a great book to help bring awareness to our default mindset and information on how to operate with more of a growth mindset.
Podcast Recommendations
How to write so people will read it.
Cal Newport talks about his new book Slow Productivity. His big idea is that the way we think about productivity is wrong. Busy does not equal productive.
Why we don’t think of the opportunity cost of not quitting.
Reece Witherspoon talks about her struggles with imposter syndrome. Enough said.
This episode proclaims that we don’t really know ourselves that well, but if we question ourselves like Socrates would we will start to know ourselves much better.
This podcast teaches us how to recognize the force of friction on change and methods to overcome it.
Author James Nestor talks about the importance and value of intentional breathing. It has changed the way I think about breathing, meaning I actually now think about it some.
An insightful, wide-ranging discussion about perseverance, resilience, vulnerability, and more.
In this episode, learn why it’s better to engage negative emotions than ignore them.
This Happiness Lab episode has helpful tips about quieting the negative chatter in your head.
The Next Big Idea is great for anyone that is looking for some ideas to motivate yourself or others to achieve big goals.
Hear Ezra Klein discussing how the common metaphor of our mind as a computer is wrong and how we need to structure our work and schools differently to get better results.
Coaching for Leaders, Effective Delegation of Authority has great tips about how to implement the tactical aspect of delegating.
Here Dorie Clark describes how we need to be thinking long-term as we make choices on a day-to-day basis, in order to achieve our vision for who we want to become.
On You Can’t Always Have What You’d Like, they share strategies to help us focus on doing more things that will bring us true happiness.
This episode from The Happiness Lab gives us a great growth mindset tips. If you are telling yourself you can’t do something, or aren’t something, just add “yet” to your thought and see how that might start to shift your perspective.
Article Recommendations
- This article explains why habits are so powerful and hard to break. It also gives useful insight about how to change habits.
- Here’s a different perspective on thinking about goal setting based on who you want to become.
- This short video provides some powerful advice for anyone who is trying to make it feel easier for people to ask questions.
- Tips for cultivating self-awareness.
- Instead of striving for work life balance, this article advocates for setting up a life that meets your psychological needs.
- This article outlines the components of emotional intelligence and some tips to improve ourselves in this area.
- If you are a punctual person like me this article will warm your heart. It is about the importance and value of starting meetings on time.
- This article has some great, practical advice if you are feeling overwhelmed.
- Why we should use intuition more often at work.
- Watch this Atomic Habits synopsis.













