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JaffaCake70 · 2023-05-09T17:57:57+00:00

Just that really. A book that changed your mindset, your habits, your beliefs. I'm looking for something to listen to on Audible and trust the Mumsnetters to provide good recommendations.

Youthinkyoureuniqueyourejustastatistic · 09/05/2023 22:38

I will teach you to be rich - Ramit Sethi
Goodbye Things - Fumio Sasaki

JobChangeSoonPlease · 09/05/2023 22:38

Being Mortal - by Atul Gawande
It's given me a totally different perspective to aging and how the human mind works. I have a completely newfound empathy for my parent's wishes as they grow older and what's important to them even if they don't make sense to me. I've read it several times and loaned it out to many. Most people end up buying their own copy as it's one of those you can read every few years and gain new insight from.

Stopsnowing · 09/05/2023 22:36

Four thousand weeks
aAtomic Habits
feel the fear and do it anyway

Reasonableadjustments · 09/05/2023 22:32

Why does he do that by Lindy Bancroft

Made me See abuse in plain sight.

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 09/05/2023 22:31

SilentHedges · 09/05/2023 19:51

"Your money or your life" by Vicki Robin and Jose Dominguez. I read it 11 years ago and have gone from very little net worth, to having a house paid off in 3 years (bought solo in 2019) , a decent pension, and a net worth I wouldn't have thought possible. Zero family help, no inheritances, just working a full time job and understanding how money works. It's changed my life and I'll retire 10 years earlier.

It is a fabulous book isn't it?

OwlSock · 09/05/2023 20:29

StarbucksKaren · 09/05/2023 19:56

I second that recommendation

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I third it.

Nearly 20 years ago, these were the three books I read that changed my life at a time when I was completely lost. Newly divorced at 30 I had an awakening - Walden (as I mentioned), Your Money or Your Life (as quoted) and Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin.

Still my favourites. Happily, some years later, I married a man who also had these as his favourites.

StarbucksKaren · 09/05/2023 19:56

SilentHedges · 09/05/2023 19:51

"Your money or your life" by Vicki Robin and Jose Dominguez. I read it 11 years ago and have gone from very little net worth, to having a house paid off in 3 years (bought solo in 2019) , a decent pension, and a net worth I wouldn't have thought possible. Zero family help, no inheritances, just working a full time job and understanding how money works. It's changed my life and I'll retire 10 years earlier.

I second that recommendation

ZoraMipha · 09/05/2023 19:55

Siddhartha

SilentHedges · 09/05/2023 19:51

"Your money or your life" by Vicki Robin and Jose Dominguez. I read it 11 years ago and have gone from very little net worth, to having a house paid off in 3 years (bought solo in 2019) , a decent pension, and a net worth I wouldn't have thought possible. Zero family help, no inheritances, just working a full time job and understanding how money works. It's changed my life and I'll retire 10 years earlier.

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JaffaCake70 · 09/05/2023 19:43

XBealtaine · 09/05/2023 19:11

I'd say The courage to be disliked by two japanese authors. It was what I needed at the time.

That sound interesting, I always feel like I need to care a bit less about what people think of me. I might give that a go :-)

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XBealtaine · 09/05/2023 19:11

I'd say The courage to be disliked by two japanese authors. It was what I needed at the time.

endofthecorridoor · 09/05/2023 19:09

Alan Carr how to give up smoking. Does what it says Retrains your brain. I’ve just bought a copy for my friend who want to stop

ModeWeasel · 09/05/2023 19:07

I had it on a cassette tape 🤣

ModeWeasel · 09/05/2023 19:06

Jack Canfield - The Success Principles. Listened to it in the 90s and got the degree result I really wanted based on applying what I read.

It’s pretty simple stuff really but it helped really internalise and understand some useful things, including it being ok to make mistakes.

no idea what I would make of it now if I read it 25-30 years on mind you!

Leggingslife · 09/05/2023 19:05

With the end in mind. It's about dying. But so uplifting and reassuring too. Non fiction.

OwlSock · 09/05/2023 19:05

Walden by Henry David Thoreau.