First Apartment and Adult Life

The books, in order

1. 1

   Personal Development · 15 min

   The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

   Marie Kondo

   Clutter that keeps coming back is a sign of the wrong method, not a lack of willpower.

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2. 2

   Productivity and Focus · 17 min

   The Bullet Journal Method

   Ryder Carroll

   Tasks with no real purpose survive in your routine because keeping them out of habit takes less courage than deciding to eliminate them.

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3. 3

   Personal Finance · 15 min

   How to Organize Your Financial Life

   Gustavo Cerbasi

   Without a diagnosis, every budget turns into a list of good intentions that won't survive the first surprise.

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4. 4

   Personal Finance · 15 min

   The Automatic Millionaire

   David Bach

   If you depend on remembering to save every month, you are at the mercy of your own mood on a bad day; if you schedule the transfer once, you never have to remember anything again.

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5. 5

   Personal Finance · 17 min

   I Will Teach You to Be Rich

   Ramit Sethi

   Automating the transfer of your paycheck to what matters is stronger than relying on willpower at the end of every month.

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6. 6

   Habits and Discipline · 15 min

   Atomic Habits

   James Clear

   Having plenty of motivation is not what separates people who change from people who don't. An environment that makes the right thing easy is.

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7. 7

   Personal Finance · 15 min

   Think and Grow Rich for Women

   Sharon Lechter

   Managing the household budget is already management training; what many people still lack is learning how to make their own money grow.

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