My 2022 reads that impacted me the most.

Reading is such a powerful part of my life — it helps me grow, broaden’s my thinking and inspires my behaviour. It has been a good reading year for me with a number of books making a huge impact. Remembering what I’ve read by making this list has already inspired to read more in 2023!

Best non-fiction of 2022

So here’s my list of the five books that had most impact on me during 2022.

Die with Zero by Bill Perkins — this is such an insightful book and changed how I think about money and retirement. Packed full of practical tools to help you think about money and the ageing process. I’ve already written about how it has already changed how I live. It is a great book to inspire you to live life to the full now (not what just when you retire). Bill says things that I have never heard before, yet seem so obvious and true. You must read this!

The Gap & the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy. This is one of those books you read and think ‘if I can just master this everything will be amazing’. I’ve written a full summary of the main idea which is about how we tend measure ourselves against our goals/plans/ideals and so always have a gap (which leads to a whole bundle of negative thoughts/emotions) — the solution is to measure ourselves against where we started from (our gain). Simple…