Glen James' Book Recommendations
Money
In Sort Your Money Out: and Get Invested, former financial adviser and host of the my millennial money podcast Glen James shares a life-changing approach to the major milestones of your personal finances, such as dealing with debt, embracing a realistic spending plan that works, buying your first home, investing in shares and creating the plan you need for long-term financial success.
Learn about:
Setting up money from the ground up
The importance of being consumer debt free
The smart way to invest in real estate
Investing in shares (including ethical investing!)
How to develop a money mindset
Getting out of debt
Sort Your Career Out and Make More Money
By Shelley Johnson and Glen James
Sort Your Career Out: And Make More Money is your go-to guide for building a career that you love. Dream jobs don’t just come along: you need to make them happen. And this is the book that will show you how, from creating the ultimate career strategy to getting paid what you’re really worth. (Hint: It’s not just about changing the font on your resume!) With tips and guidance from two of today’s top money and career experts, you’ll learn how to change jobs, secure a promotion, ask for a pay rise and much, much more.
Life The Life You Want With The Money You Have
By Vince Scully
'Cut out your morning latte and you can be rich!' It's a popular view - but it's hopelessly inaccurate. The truth is, it's not your morning coffee that's keeping you out of the housing market or preventing you from building long-term financial security.
Learn how to review your spending habits, build an emergency stash, pay off your debts, choose the right insurance, understand super, save up for your first home and make investments - all while feeling free to enjoy your life.
Girls That Invest
By Simran Kaur
Ever wondered how on earth the stock market works, but felt too intimidated to ask “those” questions? This is the book for you! In this guide to investing in stocks (aka shares), Simran Kaur teaches the essential principles you can apply to any market, anywhere in the world.
Because money provides freedom: The freedom to say yes or no, the freedom to handle whatever life throws at you, and the freedom to grow and prosper. This book is your invitation to join the thriving community of women who are building a better financial future.
She’s On The Money
By Victoria Devine
Learn how to be more secure, independent and informed with your money - with clear steps on how to budget, clear debts, build savings, start investing, buy property and much more.
Just like the podcast, the book is full of real-life money stories from members of the She's on the Money community who candidly share their experiences, wins and lessons learned to inspire others to turn their stories around, too.
Investing in Shares with She’s On The Money
By Victoria Devine
Victoria's second book is all about learning how and why to invest, and taking confident action to create an investment portfolio that will set you up for security and prosperity later in life.
Financial Autonomy
By Paul Benson
Financial Autonomy is a book about money but it's equally about gaining choice. If you get the money side of your life right, you will have the choice to pursue maximum happiness in all the other aspects of your life.
Get Started Investing
By Alec Reneham & Bryce Leske
Investing in the stock market has never been more accessible. Alec and Bryce show why the stock market has been the most powerful money-making machine that has ever existed and how you can access it with just a few spare dollars.
They break down the jargon and give you all the information you need to build the confidence to get started today.
The Psychology of Money
By Morgan Housel
Award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics.
The Barefoot Investor
By Scott Pape
This book will show you how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette … and you'll be able to manage your money in 10 minutes a week.
The Millionaire Next Door
The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
By Dr Thomas J. Stanley
The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.
Stop Acting Rich... and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
By Dr Thomas J. Stanley
In Stop Acting Rich ... and Start Living Like a Millionaire, Dr Thomas J. Stanley details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite.
Business
The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit (and when to stick)
By Seth Godin
*Note from Glen: anything Seth Godin writes, you MUST read!!!
Marketing guru and bestselling author Seth Godin explores how the most successful entrepreneurs tackle projects that get hard – hitting Dips or Cul-de-Sac’s – and how they assess and act to make the right moves for the best outcome. It will forever alter the way you think about success.
Tribes
By Seth Godin
In this fascinating book, Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement – to bring together a tribe of like-minded people and do amazing things.
Atomic Habits
By James Clear
People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions – doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. He calls them atomic habits and he digs into how you can make big and lasting change with small but effective habitual changes.
EntreLeadership
By Dave Ramsey
New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated talk radio host Dave Ramsey shares the secret to how he grew a multi-million dollar company from a card table in his living room.
Outliers
By Malcom Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell writes about the world of "outliers" – the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful, and what makes them so successful. His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
By Chip & Dan Heath
What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In the course of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath have established what it is that determines whether particular ideas or stories stick in our minds or not, and Made to Stick is the fascinating outcome of their painstaking research.
Cult Status
By Tim Duggan
Enough has been written about huge cult brands founded last century – Nike, Apple, Red Bull. What will the cult companies of tomorrow look like? Who is amassing the kind of passionate community that makes a brand a massive, long-term, sustainable success?
Tim Duggan, co-founder of one of Australia's most innovative and awarded new media companies, has studied hundreds of successful entrepreneurs and change makers over the last decade to uncover what they all have in common.
Life and Wellbeing
The Life You Can Save
By Peter Singer
In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, Peter Singer examines the progress we are making. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life.
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
By Matthew Walker
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences- every major disease in the developed world – Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes – has very strong links to deficient sleep. In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters.
Gut: The inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
By Giulia Enders
Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and – let's be honest – somewhat embarrassing body part we imagine it to be, it is one of the most complex, important, and even miraculous parts of our anatomy. And scientists are only just discovering quite how much it has to offer; new research shows that gut bacteria can play a role in everything from obesity and allergies to Alzheimer's.
Deep Work
By Cal Newport
'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.
Thinking, Fast And Slow
By Daniel Kahneman
The phenomenal New York Times Bestseller by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to you make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do.
12 Rules for Life
By Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Peterson's work as a clinical psychologist has reshaped the modern understanding of personality. In this book, he combines ancient wisdom with decades of experience to provide twelve profound and challenging principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today.
Classics
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
By Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
By Robert Kiyosaki
Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Learn why some people work less but earn more. Pay less in taxes, and learn to make their money work for them. Its simply knowing which quadrant to work from and when. The wealthy know that the keys to wealth and financial freedom are found on the right side of the quadrant, through business and investing.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
By Dale Carnegie
This book will help you solve one of the biggest problems you face: how to get along with and influence people in your daily business and social contacts. Since it was first published in 1936, Dale Carnegie's all-time classic has been translated into almost every known language and continues to help millions of readers around the world.
Think and Grow Rich
By Napoleon Hill
Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you want in life.
