81: You Are Awesome by Neil Pasricha

This course by Joe Buhlig offers detailed insights and strategies for effectively using OmniFocus to manage tasks and projects. It covers principles, conventions, and automations to enhance productivity.

Michael Hyatt's "Your World Class Assistant" offers a practical guide for entrepreneurs and executives seeking to improve their productivity and team management. The book emphasizes delegation and effective communication, providing strategies for identifying tasks to delegate and finding the right assistant. It explores different leadership styles and their impact on team dynamics. Hyatt's insights are based on his extensive experience building and scaling businesses. The book provides a framework for creating a high-performing team and maximizing efficiency.

The OmniFocus Field Guide is a detailed video course designed to help users of all levels master the OmniFocus task management system. The guide, created by David Sparks, includes over 7 hours of content across 92 video tutorials. It covers everything from basic setup to advanced features such as perspectives, tags, and automation. The course is structured to help both new and experienced users, starting with the fundamentals and progressing to advanced techniques. It also includes a webinar series in the Plus Edition, which delves deeper into advanced tactics and user interactions.

Creating Flow with OmniFocus by Kourosh Dini is a detailed guide that helps readers build a personalized productivity system using OmniFocus. The book covers both basic and advanced concepts, focusing on creating custom perspectives and workflows to enhance productivity. It combines practical instructions with philosophical insights, drawing from Dini's background in psychiatry to address common productivity challenges.

In 'No Fail Meetings', Michael Hyatt provides a 5-step system to ensure meetings are productive and effective. The steps include deciding if a meeting is necessary, scheduling appropriately, preparing agendas, staying on topic during the meeting, and following up afterward. This approach helps organizations reduce unproductive meetings and increase overall productivity.

In this revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely uses a series of illuminating experiments to show how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible forces skew our reasoning abilities. Ariely explains how we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate, and how these behaviors are neither random nor senseless but systematic and predictable. The book covers various aspects of decision-making, from the power of placebos to the effects of social and financial norms, and offers insights into how to make better decisions by understanding these irrational patterns.

In 'The Obstacle Is the Way', Ryan Holiday presents a framework for turning obstacles into successes. Drawing from the philosophy of Stoicism and the writings of Marcus Aurelius, Holiday outlines three disciplines: perception, action, and will. He illustrates these principles with historical anecdotes from figures such as John D. Rockefeller, Amelia Earhart, Ulysses S. Grant, and Steve Jobs. The book emphasizes the importance of perception in shaping one's response to obstacles, the need for intentional and creative action, and the cultivation of will to persist through challenges. Holiday argues that by adopting these Stoic principles, individuals can transform their obstacles into opportunities for growth and success.

In 'The Infinite Game', Simon Sinek distinguishes between finite and infinite games. Finite games have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint, whereas infinite games, like business and life, have no defined endpoint and are played to continue the game rather than to win. Sinek argues that leaders who adopt an infinite mindset, focusing on a 'Just Cause', building 'Trusting Teams', having 'Worthy Rivals', practicing 'Existential Flexibility', and showing the 'Courage to Lead', will build stronger, more innovative, and resilient organizations. The book uses real-world examples to illustrate the benefits of an infinite mindset and the pitfalls of a finite mindset in business and leadership.

In this book, Carol S. Dweck introduces the concept of two mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe their abilities are static, while those with a growth mindset believe their abilities can be developed through effort and learning. Dweck shows how these mindsets influence success in school, work, sports, and personal relationships. She also discusses how to adopt a deeper, truer growth mindset, and how this can transform individual and organizational cultures. The book emphasizes the importance of perseverance, learning from failures, and embracing challenges as key components of the growth mindset.

In this book, Dr. Richard A. Swenson addresses the issue of chronic overloading in modern life and introduces the concept of 'margin' as a solution. Margin is defined as the space between our load and our limits, acting as a buffer to help us heal, relate, reflect, and recharge. The book provides seventy-five practical prescriptions for restoring margin in areas such as emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances. It emphasizes the importance of simplicity, rest, and balance in achieving a healthier and more fulfilling life, particularly from a Christian perspective.

In 'Deep Work', Cal Newport argues that the ability to perform deep work—professional activities in a state of distraction-free concentration—is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. The book is divided into two parts: the first part explains why deep work is valuable, rare, and meaningful, while the second part presents four rules to transform your mind and habits to support this skill. These rules include 'Work Deeply', 'Embrace Boredom', 'Quit Social Media', and 'Drain the Shallows'. Newport provides actionable advice and examples from various successful individuals to help readers master the skill of deep work and achieve groundbreaking results.

In 'Make Time', Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky offer a framework to help individuals manage their time more effectively. The book introduces the concept of the 'Busy Bandwagon' and 'Infinity Pools' (endless digital content) that consume our time. It proposes a four-step daily process: Highlight (identify the most important task), Laser (focus on that task), Energize (maintain energy levels), and Reflect (evaluate and improve the process). The authors provide over 80 actionable tips to help readers implement these steps and make meaningful time for what truly matters.

In 'You Are Awesome,' Neil Pasricha shares personal stories and research to help readers develop mental resilience and move from being change-resistant to change-ready. The book offers strategies to handle failure and anxiety, promoting a more resilient life.

In 'Principles: Life and Work', Ray Dalio shares the principles he has developed over his career that have helped him achieve success. The book is divided into three sections: the first section explains how Dalio's principles were formed from his personal and professional experiences; the second section outlines life principles, such as embracing reality, being radically open-minded, and understanding the importance of pain and reflection in personal growth; and the third section focuses on work principles, including the use of radical truth and radical transparency to transform an organization. Dalio advocates for systematizing decision-making into algorithms, learning from failures, and building a culture where it is okay to make mistakes but unacceptable not to learn from them.