Books and stuff
My journey to financial literacy included a lot of reading (and listening). Learning is the first letter of the acronym LEAP because without the knowledge, you can’t make informed and rational long-term decisions. Money is important. How you manage it, what you do with it and where you invest it. The more knowledgeable you are, the better off you will be. This part of my journey was so important that I wanted to share the books, blogs and podcasts that changed my life with you.
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Book Recommendations
Money Mindset
Great for facing your money blocks and limiting beliefs. Really got me thinking about what stops me from generating more wealth.
Practical tips and advice based on scientific research for how to recognise fixed and growth mindset and gear your mindset for success.
Highly recommended – a fantastic mix of money mindset and practical tips for the long term investor. Will have you saying ‘ohhh’, now it all makes sense. Great read all round.
Practical Money Tips
Fantastically-written and very relatable! Andrew Hallam details his journey from modest teacher salary to millionaire. Funny and practical – highly recommended!
UK based story about a no spend challenge. Lovely mix between anecdote and information, optimism and honesty. Lots of practical advice for finding joy and spending less. However, she didn’t have children at the time of writing, and a no spend year may look very different for parents.
Investing
An excellent book to start your investing journey – clearly structured and simplifies investing for everyone. Heavily aimed at a US audience but some universal methods worth learning. I read it once I had a good knowledge of investing so didn’t perhaps get as much from it as I would have if I had read it at the start of my journey.
Property Investment
Rob Dix outlines multiple strategies and practical tips for UK property investment. Useful for beginners and people on their investment journey. A perfect partner for his podcast the Property Podcast.
Habits, development & Productivity
Very interesting strategy to track your time in small units to evaluate how you spend it in reality versus expectations. Real life examples from a mother and career woman to relate to. Loved the tips to structure your schedule around your personal energy levels and ebbs and flows during the day, but more difficult to implement if you have a job as opposed to being a freelancer and creating your own schedule.
You can’t get through a paragraph of this book without a snippet of wisdom! Well written would be an understatement – this is more of a life manual than a book on habits. Thank you James Clear for sharing this with the world.
Motivation
Having read Mel’s famous ‘5 second rule’ and used it to motivate myself to stop procrastination and take action, I was keen to read this book. The main premise is that self-praise is more effective that self-deprecation. The scientific background about the effect of the reticular activating system is really interesting.
The ultimate financial independence book for expats!
Buy the book!
Read the paperback version
Fantastic for making notes, highlighting and referring back to sections as and when you need to!
Read the Kindle version
Great for on-the-go convenience and binge-reading so you can start investing as soon as possible!