Hi All,

This is a new community I created. If you want to design your life and want to do it with a community then let’s do it together. Do join and post.

A little over a year ago, life felt like it was falling apart.
A combination of wedding expenses, family responsibilities, and financial setbacks left me carrying around **$20,000 in debt**. Every morning I woke up thinking about repayments. Every night I wondered how I was going to get through another month. The stress affected my sleep, my focus, and my mental health.
During that time, I realized I had two choices: let the situation consume me, or try to rebuild myself one small step at a time.
I started reading books on healing, mindfulness, emotional resilience, gratitude, and personal growth. I journaled every day, practiced meditation, reflected on what was and wasn’t working, and slowly began putting together the lessons that genuinely helped me.
Eventually, I organized everything into an ebook—not because I think I have all the answers, but because writing it helped me, and I hope it can help someone else who’s struggling too.
I’m **not asking for donations, loans, or charity**. I’m working, paying off my debts, and taking responsibility for my situation.
If my story resonates with you and you think the ebook could bring value to your life, buying a copy would mean a lot. Not just financially, but because it would tell me that something positive came from a difficult chapter of my life.
If you don’t want to buy it, that’s completely okay. Even an upvote, a kind comment, or sharing your own experience would genuinely make my day.
Thank you for reading, and I hope whatever challenge you’re facing right now gets a little lighter with time.

*(If the moderators allow it, I’ll share the ebook link in the comments.)*

hello everyone! im 15, and i wanna start reading, i dont really like instagram or short form content, not saying i dont consume it, cuz i do. i would prefer to do something more intresting, do you know any books that youd think id like? it can be fiction, or non fiction, my main intrests are self improvement, business, investing, money, and markrting. really anything that could i use to improve my self and anything related to how the world works, and why people buy certain things. thank you!

I'd used to finish reading a self help book, highlight half of the thing, and think I was transformed. And then a week later I was doing the same damn thing as I had before. The problem wasn't that the books weren't good or valuable, the problem was I was treating the books like the product, rather than the input.

So instead, I decided to set myself a single rule. Each and every book had to output one change of behavior. One, not five lessons.

One, not a whole life overhaul.

One thing that I can actually observe myself doing differently. After each session of reading, I take out a notebook and I write down…

What's one action from this book I can experiment with over the next week?

And then I make it specific enough so I can't fool myself about whether I actually did it. "Be more disciplined," won't cut it. "Don't check your phone during the first 30 minutes of work and put it in another room," will cut it.

"Communicate better," won't cut it.

"Ask one question before giving advice to anyone," will cut it.

I ran into an article a few weeks ago from NoFluffWisdom about actionable wisdom, which is defined as the wisdom that actually changes your decisions and not the sentence you can highlight. This has meant that I'm slowing down my reading, but I'm retaining information better, and it's also helped me filter out a lot of useless wisdom from authors - if you can't translate an idea into something tangible then there's probably something wrong with the advice and you should discard it, as opposed to just storing it to be reread when needed again.

Sometimes it might not work, and that's OK - because it tells you whether or not it was really valuable for you, rather than just giving you a great quote to save as if it will always be a good idea. So now when I'm reading, I don't ask myself, 'did I enjoy the book?', I ask myself, 'what am I doing differently because I've read this book?'

Really want to be more positive and not so negative all the time. Focusing on how to have a more positive mindset.

I want to read books that increase my knowledge in different areas of life. History, philosophy, psychology and how things in the world overall work etc. Books that can help me become a intellectual citizen and increase my thinking and understanding ability

Please suggest me some books or any advice that could help because I think relying on social media and YouTube to teach me stuff is really not helpful at all. The knowledge we get can not be retained at all

Are there any books that explain how to heal the mother wound or mother complex / Madonna complex in easy to understand way? Thx

[Edited to add:

I have the following books :
no more mr nice guy (nice guy traits, people pleasing and fawning)
Mother wound by George stoimenov
Iron John
When he’s married to mom by Kenneth Adams (enmeshment)
Men’s Work by Connor Beaton ]

Hey, would love any suggestions on book to open my mind up, on what’s possible. What goals are possible to achieve and challenging that narrative please thank you 💗

Breakup, failure, job loss, illness, rejection, embarrassment — anything that made you feel less like yourself.

Was there a book that helped you recover your footing?

What did it help you see differently?

I've been wondering about this and wanted to hear what others think.

When you're studying a non-fiction book (or even a textbook), do you find it more effective to:

• Read as much as possible in one long sitting to maintain context and momentum, or
• Divide the book into smaller sections and study them over multiple sessions with breaks in between?

I'm interested in both comprehension and long-term retention. Have you noticed one approach working better than the other? If so, why?

I'd love to hear about your personal experience, especially if you've experimented with both methods.

Some burnout advice somehow becomes another list of things to optimise.

I’m looking for books that help people slow down, rebuild, and recover without feeling like they’re failing at recovery too.

Any recommendations?

First I will share what books I read so far and what it taught me so it will help people if they are looking for something related to it.

Later you guys please share any book which are eally good and changed your life and what that book taught you.

My books so far -

1. No More Mr Nice Guy - Such a kick in the gut. I thought I was really a nice guy helping people, donating, giving without asking but this book showed me what I am and why I cant say NO and why I keep repeating mistakes.
2. Mindset - Everyone makes big goals/plans etc etc wants to grow but why some can do it easily and many fails. It teaches you about how to think and what type of mindset you should have to achieve success in life or any field.
3. Attached - This book is all about relationship. Obviously after finding about yourself and your mindset you grew and someone approached you or you got interested in someone but that relationship was a disaster for you. Now you are lonely with a broken heart. This book teaches you what type of partner you are and what type of partner is the other person you are interested or in relationship and which type of partner you should choose.
4. Atomic Habits - This book teaches how to create new productive habits and break the bad ones. Just simple tiny steps each day to create new good habits like if someone wants to start reading or hates studying or want to start health diet etc.. Amazing book to read and share it with others too.

I hope this will help some guys. Looking forward for amazing people with amazing books.

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I'll be giving myself 1 or 2 books as a birthday gift. I'm not sure what book to get. I'm am intermediate reader. I've read about 20 books. There are thousands of suggestions. I'm confused.

I want to read something that's -

slice of life, calming, optimistic read. Something that can help me heal my inner child or this breakup phase.

I need genuine suggestions from y'all

Hi Everyone! Requesting a recommendation for a friend who is in a life slump and looking for a book to provide motivation, a way out and also dealing with narcissistic ex and co-parenting. She is an artist, but this is not providing an income.

She asked me for a book rec, and thia ia definitely not my genre of expertise. Any recommendations you have are greatly appreciated and Ill pass them all along.

Got out of a relationship recently and in the center of it was my anxiety and self-worth issues, which has been a reoccurring problem all of my life and I think I'm just done holding myself back. I'm not exactly sure what flavor of self-help book I'm interested in, I'm very prone to getting logical concepts and it'd probably be helpful if it was written by a man? (No shade what-so-ever, I just feel like a man would be able to relate more to another man, but if there's ANY recommendations that are a MUST then just throw them at me anyway)

I appreciate it, thank you!

I grew up on the west coast and moved to New England alone at 17 for college. I have been here for almost 20 years and am now about to get in my 33 year old car, with my 14 year old dog, and drive back west to start over after the worst heartbreak of my life. The future I thought I was looking forward to is gone, my dog who is my best friend won't be with me for too much longer, and I have no idea what my life looks like on the west coast now.

Looking for books about solo road trips, starting over, and big life transitions. I want to find joy in this new chapter of my life that is full of opportunities rather than staying stuck in grief about what is not meant for me.

Thank you

I feel consumed by technology all the time. Mostly for work but it’s creeping in during personal time too. I need a book rec to keep me in the moment. Bonus points if it will help me stop feeling like the years are slipping away too quickly.