Well this seems like a good opportunity to post a few of the lessons I learned in my 20s.

To my former self:

If you're depressed, here's how to turn it around

• Stop drinking, this is the main cause.
  
  
• Lift weights. This alone could also stop depression. It's likely related to low testosterone levels
  
  
• Fapping too much makes the depression worse
  
  Fap less, and never to porn
  
  
• Ejaculating too often removed your motivation to take actions and start tasks. You can consider porn like a poison for the mind. Pleasurable but it desensitizes you to all other pleasures, making life seem bland and boring. Until the only thing you want is porn. It perpetuates itself.
  
  
  Gratitude
  
  
• Whatever you are grateful for will grow
  
  
• Gratitude is the only way to be happy. If you think about what happiness is, it's appreciating what you have. When you think of something that would make you happy, you are imagining yourself appreciating it when you get it.
  
  Wealth
  
  
• You can have anything you want, as long as you create enough value for others first.
  
  
• To be wealthy, don't try and do tomorrow's work today, just have a successful day each day. If you have more successful days than unsuccessful days, your wealth will grow. As you have successful and productive days, opportunities will be attracted to you.
  
  Theories
  
  
• The key to success in any area is having the right theory. A small amount of work, or a massive amount of work, with the wrong theory, won't lead to success.
  
  
• With the right theory, success will be relatively straight forward. When you do the thing, it will basically work every time. Anything that has been done many times before, can be done yourself with the correct theory
  
  
• When most people speak of the 'years of hard work' they put in before they 'cracked the game', usually means they were laboring under the wrong theory, and then one day they found the correct theory, and when they applied it, it worked. (excluding world class athletes, talking about common things like starting a business or growing muscles)
  
  
• Theories can be gathered by spending tens of thousands of dollars on seminars or tens of dollars on books. Both can contain theories that work and theories that don't work. Higher cost definitely does not mean they have the right theory
  
  
• Some theories can seem like they are guaranteed to work, but on testing, actually don't. When someone says they have the right theory, it will seem worth any price. Often they actually don't. Beware. If possible buy their book and test it for yourself, it's just as good in book form.
  
  
• This whole list is a list of theories, as you can see, they are usually quite simple and easy to understand. Complexity is usually a sign the person doesn't really know how things work
  
  
  Girls
  
  
• You cannot make a girl like you, you can however find a girl who likes you
  
  
• They key to getting girls is to get in excellent shape (lift weights), dress well, and talk to girls until you find one that likes you
  
  
• If a girl is unsure if she you likes you, won't go on a date with you, or doesn't let you touch her in anyway. She doesn't like you. Find one that wants all those things. Don't be fooled by girls who seem to REALLY like you but doesn't have time to meet, or won't let you touch her. They do not like you like that.
  
  
• Hot girls are just as likely to like you as not hot girls
  
  
• If you like a girl more than she likes you, and she doesn't want to meet up/hang out/have sex. Let her go and move on
  
  
  Career
  
  
• It's very easy to get ahead if you just try, most people don’t
  
  
• You career will naturally progress just through normal learning, don't worry about it
  
  
  Flow
  
  
• If you want things to happen without effort and struggle, live a life with gratitude and presence. Things will seem to happen easily and naturally.
  
  
  Meditation
  
  
• Mediation gives you the ability to be your best. Very handy for improving at anything, particularly gaming, as you see more and learn more. It gives you access to creativity in solving problems and improving your performance
  
  
• Mediation allows you to 'stop the mind'. Do this if you're stuck in over-analysis
  
  
• To meditate, set a time on your phone for 20 minutes, sit still and don't move a muscle, and focus on your breath as often as you can. Your mind will try to stray, just focus on your breath as much as able. This is how you quiet the mind
  
  *****
  Edit:
  
  To answer some requests, here's my list of resources.
  
  Wealth/Metaphysics
  
  
• http://www.audible.com.au/pd/Health-Personal-Development/The-Science-of-Getting-Rich-Audiobook/B00FMUQVSI
  This audiobook has the best summary I've found of how wealth works
  
  Lifting
  
  
• https://stronglifts.com/5x5/
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Training/dp/0982522738
  
  
• http://startingstrength.com/
  
  
• http://www.leangains.com/2011/09/fuckarounditis.html
  
  How Procrastination works:
  
  
• https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
  
  
• https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.html
  
  How Business works
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572
  
  What innovation actually is and how to do it:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Entrepreneurship-Peter-F-Drucker/dp/0060851139
  
  How economics works:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/047052670X
  
  How to get things done:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
  
  Task Management tool:
  
  
• https://todoist.com/
  
  Spiritual Books
  
  
• Spiritual books won't make sense unless you've had an awakening, and you can't make this happen, it happens by chance/grace. If you have, anything by Eckhart Tolle will be amazing.
  
  How to be a man:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Way-Superior-Man-Spiritual-Challenges/dp/1591792576
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Truth-Spiritual-Guide-Death/dp/1591792592
  
  Audiobooks (most of these can be found on audiobook):
  
  
• Audible.com
  
  Frame Control (Anytime you feel like you're trying too hard or begging for something, you lost the frame)
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/1501211811
  
  This is my favourite book of all. They talk about the new type of conscousness which is really really interesting to me. May not apply to all people.
  If anyone find this book interesting I'd love to talk about it:
  
  How the world works:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Spiral-Dynamics-Mastering-Values-Leadership/dp/1405133562
  
  
• https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Spiral-Dynamics-Integral-Audiobook/B00FO5660E
  
  

Some version of this question gets posted at least once a week. Heres a repost of my normal response.

Recommended reading

Here is my suggested reading list for anyone who ever wants to be a small business owner. I like audiobooks but you can get some of these in print also.

Entrepreneur Mindset

There are several books that talk about the entrepreneur mindset. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” was one of the first that I had encountered. “Four Hour Work Week” is a popular one among young adults and lazy millennials now. But I think this one below sums it up in a relatively fast and easy way. To me there is nothing wrong in this book, but in my opinion it’s a little incomplete and inaccurate and won’t work for some people. It doesn’t say how to switch lanes, or say that you can be in two lanes at the same time. Still, it should be required reading for anyone remotely interested in business. It’s at the top of my list because the correct mindset is required before anyone can think about actually doing business.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Millionaire-Fastlane-Crack-the-Code-to-Wealth-and-Live-Rich-for-a-Lifetime-Audiobook/B0143BEDUO


Business and Marketing

These two combined are basically an MBA in a box and then some. High level practical information. They are long audiobooks that go over the lessons of an MBA program, and the first one also covers a lot of life hacking and mind hacking theories such as how to stay motivated etc. Some of this stuff is very interesting, some if it is boring to slog through. But knowing what is in here will have you well versed to communicate about business at a high level. I have listened to both several times, I keep coming back because it’s a lot and I can’t learn it all at once.

https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Critical-Business-Skills-for-Success-Audiobook/B00UY842O8


The E Myth series basically describes how many entrepreneurs fail to implement systems in their business. It has a couple other important business concepts and is geared mainly for beginning entrepreneurs or those who have not yet studied a lot about business at a high level.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-E-Myth-Revisited-Audiobook/B002V1LGZE

Mike Michalowicz, Solid principles, Some are regurgitations of Seth Godin and E-Myth, but some are original and insightful. Not very efficient in delivery of material, seems like he stretches it out. But one of the few business authors who gets into nuts and bolts and not just rah rah. I would highly recommend.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Toilet-Paper-Entrepreneur-Audiobook/B00FKCI3I4

https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Pumpkin-Plan-Audiobook/B008CHN41K

https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Profit-First-Audiobook/B06X15WX5B

In the world of marketing, Seth Godin is well known as a forward thinker. He has a new perspective of thinking about marketing in the internet age.
Seth Godin Startup School. This is a series of 15 short podcasts, maybe 15 to 20 minutes long each. It’s a good cliff notes version of a lot of his other books.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seth-godins-startup-school/id566985370

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Purple-Cow-Audiobook/B002V0QOJS

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/All-Marketers-Are-Liars-Audiobook/B002V1NIMI

Gary Vaynerchuk is well known in online entrepreneur forums, especially with a younger audience. He is interesting to listen to and talks at a basic level mostly about social media marketing.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfA33-E9P7FC0AoARnMLvgFgESJe4_Ngs

This is a link about fashion, but it could just as easily be about any other business. As you read it, substitute the product for your product or widgets and it makes sense.

https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-build-a-great-online-fashion-brand-34-things-that-really-amazing-fashion-retailers-do

It’s probably not necessary to read this whole book, but it’s widely referenced and it’s important to understand the theory. This guy basically coined the phrase “Lean Startup” to describe businesses that start small and apply the scientific method to determine which direction to grow. Inspired by LEAN Manufacturing methodology made famous by Toyota, but follows similar principles.

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898


There are a lot of great posts in reddit. There are a lot of crappy ones too. But worth trolling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/

https://www.reddit.com/r/restaurateur/ (yes it’s spelled wrong)

For example, this post basically has a step by step guide to start a small business.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/5lfy6n/4_years_ago_i_wrote_a_case_study_on_reddit_on_my/

Other links
21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/bezos-amazon-shareholder-letters/#2000


E Commerce, Design, Online Marketing
This guy has a very interesting perspective on display tactics.

https://www.nickkolenda.com/

A good source for tactics. Also offers one of the better wordpress themes

https://thrivethemes.com/6-brain-hacks/

These guys offer great information and insight in their podcast.

https://ecomcrew.com/episode-1-welcome-to-the-ecom-crew-podcast/

Landing Page Optimization
Important for all businesses even offline, for example with restaurants these principles could help for menu design or digital signage, for other businesses this knowledge can help with advertising layouts etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-brand-strategies-uniquely-position-your-ecommerce-above-bhardwaj

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/7-landing-page-design-tips

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/landing-page-design-infographic/

https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-build-a-great-online-fashion-brand-34-things-that-really-amazing-fashion-retailers-do

https://thrivethemes.com/6-brain-hacks/

This book discusses platform or marketplace apps, especially networking apps like Uber for x or dating apps. A must read for anyone thinking about attempting any kind of similar online platform.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Platform-Revolution-Audiobook/B01DDX7MJ2

Also

http://andrewchen.co/marketplace-startups-best-essays/

A good page of links

http://www.themissionmarketer.com/digital-marketing-resources/


For Restaurants

http://www.restaurantowner.com

Very valuable stuff here. Business plan templates, etc. $30 a month for a subscription but well worth it if you are starting or running a restaurant.

https://www.restaurantmastering.com

http://www.typsy.com

Not worth the paid membership yet, but it's growing. And you can get a free trial for like a week and binge watch everything.

Dealing with delivery aggregators

https://www.reddit.com/r/restaurateur/comments/76sd1i/uber_eats_what_percentage_you_paying_em_anyone/

I've gotten a lot of emails that look exactly like this one and I immediately delete them because they're spam. You need to answer two fundamental questions: Why should they trust you? and Why should they pay attention to you? You're not giving them a reason to trust you because you're essentially a nobody with no track record. You're not giving them a reason to pay attention to you because there's nothing personalized or unique to them about this email, you talk way too much about yourself, and you don't talk enough about what you can ultimately do for them.

Here's a breakdown of the current email:

> I'm Joe, a Web Developer from X.

Intro is alright. Before that you might want to say, "Hi $name,".

> Recently I found your website, and, was curious if you would be interested in working towards building a new one?

Why? What's the business case for a new website over their old website? What's the benefit?

> I currently work for a web agency in X, who offer web services for small, medium, and, large businesses, though I'm looking for further work to help businesses in the area.

Is it you or the agency offering services? This is confusing. Help businesses do what exactly? You could say, "At $web_agency I've worked on projects for multi-million dollar businesses such as X, Y, Z but now I'm leveraging my experience to help businesses like yours in $your_market do A, B, C."

> I have worked on hundreds of websites and have been working in the industry for nearly 6 years.

But what results did you get? Did you increase sales by X% for ABC company? What can you do for them? Don't make it about yourself.

> Additionally, I have a strong knowledge in SEO, which can help your website perform better within Google's search results.

What's SEO? Why should they care?

> I am really good at what I can do, and, can offer an agency service with non-agency prices.

Don't tell, show. And don't compete on price, please...

> Let me know if this is something you would be interested in.
> If you would like chat and organise a meeting to discuss this further, feel free to email me back, or call me on X

Why not create an attention-grabbing hook like, "$name, let's set up a quick 5 minute call so we can discuss a few ways your website can be improved to increase appointments/sales/etc by 20% like I've done for my other clients."

I suggest you read Pitch Anything and CA$HVERTISING.

You should be more specific about what you're hoping to learn. There are thousands of resources out there in regards to entrepreneurship, marketing, website development & eCommerce. You could find pretty much anything you want if you phrase it correctly.

Example Searches

• How to setup Facebook ads
  
• How to start a business under $1,000
  
• Growth hacking (tips and tricks on growing your business fast)
  
• How to build a wordpress website + top wordpress plugins
  
• How to create a landing page
  
• Best community bulletin board software
  
• How to build a Facebook group
  
• How to create YouTube videos
  
  ​
  
  You can just keep going from there.
  
  The basics of what you'll need, assuming you know nothing (which I doubt) would be this.
  
  
• How to build a website (wordpress, html, Wix, Squarespace, .etc)
  
• How to build an audience (paid + organic, FB + Google + Instagram + Pinterest + YouTube + Reddit)
  
  Everything else you just figure out along the way based on how you want to monetize your audience and quite honestly, no book is going to help you figure that out.
  
  You'll learn a lot more just hanging out on Reddit and watching YouTube videos on the subject matter that's next on your checklist. Books are almost purely inspirational at this point and I think we can agree there are plenty of Podcasts that will help you find inspiration (and skill), such as The Top (Nathan Latka) or Mixergy
  
  If you study hustlers you'll get all the information and inspiration you could ever hope for. Read or watch anything from Noah Kagan (AppSumo). No one does it better than him. Ryan Holiday (not an affiliate link) is another favorite of mine. There are also some older Tim Ferriss articles that really talk about how you approach certain businesses.
  
  Like I said, man. It's all out there. You don't need to pay $1 for information, you just have to know what to look for and if you listen to a few podcasts or read a few beginner articles you'll figure out pretty quickly the steps you need to take next.
  
  ​
  
  Some Books I Like (no affiliate links)
  
  
• The Obstacle Is The Way: Ryan Holiday
  
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness of Crowds: Charles Mackay
  
• Secrets Of A Master Closer: Mike Kaplan
  
• Hooked: Nir Eyal
  
• The Art Of Learning: Josh Waitzken
  
• The 4 Hour Workweek: Tim Ferriss (Maybe the best entrepreneur book of all time)
  
• Pitch Anything: Oren Klaff
  
• The Gambler: William C. Rempel
  
• and of course...How To Win Friends & Influence People: Dale Carnegie (everyone MUST read this book)

Entrepreneur Reading List

1. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
   
2. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
   
3. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
   
4. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
   
5. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
   
6. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
   
7. Ikigai
   
8. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
   
9. Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
   
10. The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
    
11. Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
    
12. The Web Startup Success Guide
    
13. The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
    
14. From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product
    
15. This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at Little or No Cost to You
    
16. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
    
17. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
    
18. Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
    
19. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
    
20. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
    
21. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
    
22. Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    
23. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
    
24. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
    
25. Eric Sink on the Business of Software
    
26. Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
    
27. Anything You Want
    
28. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
    
29. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
    
30. Tao Te Ching
    
31. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
    
32. The Tao of Programming
    
33. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
    
34. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
    
    

    Computer Science Grad School Reading List
    

    
    

35. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
    
36. Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
    
37. Introduction to Probability
    
38. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    
39. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
    
40. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
    
41. What Is This Thing Called Science?
    
42. The Art of Computer Programming
    
43. The Little Schemer
    
44. The Seasoned Schemer
    
45. Data Structures Using C and C++
    
46. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
    
47. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    
48. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
    
49. How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
    
50. A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
    
51. Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
    
52. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
    
53. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
    
54. Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
    
55. How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
    
56. Types and Programming Languages
    
57. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
    
58. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
    
59. Commonsense Reasoning
    
60. Using Language
    
61. Computer Vision
    
62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    
63. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    
    

    Video Game Development Reading List
    

    
    

64. Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    
65. AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
    
66. Making Games with Python and Pygame
    
67. Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
    
68. Bit by Bit

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• Tested Advertising Method
  
• Ogilvy on Advertising
  
• How to Change Minds is a sales book, but it's got an easy to understand framework to understand how people make decisions that I have found useful for marketing
  
• The Ask Method Gives some great jumping off points on how to ask questions for marketing research, and how to organize that information to make decisions about your marketing and your product
  
• Positioning and Repositioning by the amazing marketing strategist Jack Trout of Disney and Coke, are good foundation reads if you don't know anything about marketing. If you know what a USP is, skip Positioning but I did like Repositioning. I did like Positioning as a refresher of a variety of different concepts that I have read more detailed individual books on.
  
• Integrated Marketing Communications to learn about more broadly how to make all of your marketing communications work together towards a common business goal. The book itself is about using marketing campaigns across different channels (tv, radio, print, online) in a coordinated effort, but it will help you understand how to use email, social, paid ads, and other marketing systems you develop together.
  
  Second Influence. Getting Everything You Can is good if you are basic in marketing, I would not recommend it for people who are more advanced.
  
  If you don't know what a "business goal" is, you need to read this:
  
  
• Scaling Up Every marketer should understand the processes that drive growth in businesses, because you are trying to manipulate those levers with marketing. You can also reverse engineer your prospect's business and explain the gains of your services in the terms of processes that drive their revenue when you're pitching them, too.

Have you read Pantley's - No Cry Sleep Sleep Solution? I know gentle parenting is hard when you are frustrated, but she has some good tips, like how to create a bedtime routine and how to stick with something for 10 days.

I work full time, and, although I would love to be home with my daughter, most days I feel like this is a blessing. It gets me out of the house, makes me feel like I can have real adult interactions and gives me a sense of purpose. Plus, its a break. I can come home feeling emotionally and physicially ready to play with my toddler again. I know its not a possibilty for everyone, by maybe working might help? Or even Voulenteering with your daughter, Lots of people love babies, voulenterring to visit old folks or making play dates with other children (although both of these can be stressful) might help.

I know you already know this, but taking care of yourself first is the only way you have enough to give to another person. It takes a village to raise a child.

Articles from reputable sources are a decent source of knowledge, but some quality business books will get you an infinitely better understanding of concepts. Here is my personal business book list if you want to get a "universal generalist" understanding of business:

• Business Creation - The Lean Start-up
  
• Value Creation - How to Make Millions With Your Ideas
  
• Marketing - Getting Everything You Can Out Of Everything You Got / All Marketers Are Liars
  
• Sales - Pitch Anything
  
• Value Delivery - Indispensable
  
• Accounting/Finances - Financial Intelligence / Accounting Made Simple
  
• Understanding the Human Mind - Making Sense of Behavior
  
• Productivity - Getting Things Done
  
• Problem Solving - The 80/20 Principle
  
• Decision Making - Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
  
• Negotiation - 3-D Negotiation
  
• Management - Growing Great Employees
  
• Project Management - Making Things Happen
  
• Statistics - Marketing Metrics
  
• Corporate Knowledge - The Effective Executive
  
• Corporate Strategy - Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
  
• Creativity - The Creative Habit
  
• Personal Finance - Your Money or Your Life
  
  I am graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce Honors degree in May and I can easily say that one of these books (average price ~25$) has significantly more content than most individual classes I have taken (~600$). However, keep in mind that business knowledge and business acumen are two entirely different things. Knowledge is easily obtainable through books like these, and acumen is the result of applied experience with decision making. In short, it is one thing to be book smart, but it is another to get out there and actually apply it. No one can give you that in the form of an article or book - you have to do that yourself.
  
  edit: added links to amazon

Here is some different advice:

Step 1: get excited. Sounds like you have that part under control. :-)

Step 2:
Don’t worry about a once a day weed habit. My wife smokes, and our kids have turned out amazing. I totally get the desire to be your best. But if weed does it for you, then do it. I believe it helps her be a better mom.

She only ever does it after the kids go to sleep. Or i’ll watch the kids for awhile so she can restore.

Step 3:

Getting the baby, you and your wife regular (all thru the night) sleep is so critical. Our pediatrician was so great and coached us to have all our kids sleeping through the night by 2 months old. It makes a massive difference in your wife’s sanity levels. You’ll be a safer, more engaged parent if you have sleep.

Here is a book I found on Amazon. Pick a winner and take control of this for your family. It’s an amazing gift to your team if you can make this happen.

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_7dwdBbKNKE0D3

Nothing has really changed in the realm of vehicle dynamics over the last few decades, the physics understanding that is. We've known about the forces and reactions and how to calculate them for a very long time, it's just not until recent times where we've been able to actually measure them during a race. The modern race car now has telemetry to measure just about everything you can imagine but it's main purpose is to validate the theoretical models that the engineers use to design the car in the first place. Now just because we can measure them easily doesn't mean we can get lazy and stop worrying about the "why".

A good example of an "olden days" book is Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by the Milliken Brothers, in fact this is often referred to as the bible of vehicle dynamics regardless of it being written nearly two decades ago. It's a great resource but it's not for the faint of heart, there is a lot of in-depth analysis starting from the basics (steady state, tires, kinematics, weight transfer) and then moves onto the more difficult aspect (transient responses, tire load sensitivities, dampers/springs, aero) most of which would require some sort of engineering/physics background to grasp but if you're determined to learn about this stuff, it's an enlightening read.

I've read Tune to Win several times now as well as the other books in the series when I first got into racing a while back and if you're looking for a general high level overview of vehicle dynamics/aero/driving than it's a great read, for anything more you're gonna have to move onto more serious books.

Now for an engine overview, I'm not sure what sort of background you have but for a comprehensive book that covers just about everything from basics to the black-magic sort of stuff, you can have a look at Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals which covers everything from types of engines, principals of operation, kinematics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, modelling, basically everything and similar to RCVD, is often referred to as the bible for ICE's.

Now, I've given you two resources, these are not by any means the only two authorities on these topics, there are many more (and cheaper) resources you can look at. It all depends on how much you want to know, personally I own these books and a hell of a lot more, I find I buy more books than I can keep up with but I know they all have something that I want to know about. I want to eventually make my way into F1 as an engineer so I figure I better get a head start and learn as much as I can before I make any serious attempt.

Good luck, hope this helps!

That's fantastic! Good for you! :-D

We co-slept until our son was about 2, but by then he was just too big for the bed (3 people in a double bed = no blankets for mama :-/ ) and we moved his toddler bed into our room. The transition took a month or so to really smooth out, but we got good advice from the No-Cry Sleep Solution and now he happily sleeps in his own space.

When he was an infant, I would nurse him in the bed and then transfer him to his sleeper, but when he hit four months, it's like he figured out that this was BS. He could be floppy-asleep, but you laid him down on the mattress and it was instant, furious tantrum that lasted FOREVER and thoroughly woke him up. >.< We started co-sleeping because it was the only way any of us got enough sleep to function the next day, and it was a very positive experience. Made extended breast-feeding much easier and my husband loved the snuggly bonding time.

Considering how much of the world engages in it as a standard practice, I think it's always good to try to normalize safe co-sleeping in the US, and also show that it's not a permanent condition. ;-) Thanks for sharing your success!

I'm not an expert, but I'll offer my humble advice. It does not sound like your daughter and her father are "connected". I'd advise trying to find ways to bring up the value of rapport and let him figure out its importance on his own. Trying to change him directly is unlikely to work, but a little bit of persuasive psychology will give you big results.

A couple suggestions:

• Leave links like this up on your computer and let him discover and read them on his own
  
  
• Get some books that support your concerns and bookmark parts you would like him to read. You don't have to ask him to read it, just leave the bookmarked copy by the toilet. I recommend The Connected Child just off the top of my head
  
  
• Lead by example. Don't tell him how you want him to interact with your daughter, model it for him.
  
  These are just a few strategies that I could think of right now, but I hope it helps. I can tell that you really want to fix this and the simple fact that you are seeking help tells me that you will. Good luck!

Plenty of good feedback on your design in this thread but I'll throw this out there. If you want to learn more about ICE engines (and you should if you want to design them) here are some good books on it. I'm an engineering student, lead engine designer for my FSAE team and taking a break from a lit review on compression ignition engines for my research project to do some redditing. These are some of the best books that I've found, presented in the order you should read them (from most basic to most advanced). Basically, if you want to revolutionize a technology you need to understand most if not all of what has come before.

• Four Stroke Performance Tuning by Graham Bell:
  
  The value of this book is largely in getting an introduction to how physics and calculations play into engines. It's intuitive but thought provoking.
  
  
• Design and Simulation of Four Stroke Engines by Gordon P Blair
  
  This is one of the most noted ICE books, he also has a 2 stroke edition, and can be read and reread. It delves deeper into discharge coefficients and gas flow through engines, with a focus on pressure waves.
  
  
• Internal Combustion Fundamentals by John Heywood
  
  The name may make this one sound basic but in reality it's the most basic book of the next level of research. Where Blair will help you characterize and optimize an existing engine Heywood will help you design one from scratch. I honestly haven't been through this book entirely but it's tremendously useful.
  
  One thing I notice about your design that I have to point out is sealing the paddle to the combustion chamber. You're looking at something very similar to an apex seal on a Wankel engine, arguably the greatest weak point for that engine. In your design, the direction of drag on that seal would change but on the other hand it would experience slower average speeds.

I'd like to make some book recommendations for you:

• Learn how the brain learns. Pick up one book by Ruth Clark. There's some duplication across her books. Perhaps start with Efficiency in Learning -- this book has a CD in the back, so make note of that if you are getting a Kindle or used version. If that one doesn't suit you, try Building Expertise.
  
  
• Pick up some quick tricks based on good theory. I adore Sharon Bowman -- see if you don't agree! My first book of hers was Training From the Back of the Room -- highly recommend!
  
  
• Learn a little about training in the business world, and the controversies around it. Training on Trial is great for this.
  
  
• I guess every instructional designer has a stack of go-to learning activities. Start your own collection of favorites. 101 Ways to Make Training Active is a good start!
  
  
• Ok, but how do you get a good grip on the managing-work side of things? Check out The Trainer's Support Handbook. Free downloadable forms. I really can't say enough good things about this book.
  
  All of that looks great, but your budget means free is better? Dive into Don Clark's Big Dog and Little Dog website!

There are way too many red flags here, and nothing to suggest you would get any more out of this course than you would from reading a manual.

1. The course outline has been lifted directly from the section headings in this book. Each lesson corresponds to a chapter. There is nothing to suggest any work has gone into devising the syllabus.
   
2. Misinformation in course summary. It says you will learn the "newest version of Gregg Shorthand, which is the Second Edition 'Simplified.'" Simplified is not the most recent version. The second edition came out 61 years ago, and three others—Diamond Jubilee, Series 90, and Centennial—have followed it. Many Gregg users would argue that Simplified is the best of these, so there's no problem there; but it isn't encouraging to find plainly mistaken ideas in the course description.
   
3. There are two "Recommended Books" listed in the Course Syllabus, and neither will teach you Gregg Simplified. The first is a Gregg Centennial handbook, which will not align too well with the coursework. The second is a business style guide that happens to be stamped with the Gregg name, but really has nothing to do with shorthand. If you were planning on using Gregg in the workplace, it may be a good complement to the course, but I would be curious to know where you expect to work that Gregg would help you getting there. In any case, it looks like the person who drew up this syllabus did a quick Amazon search for "Gregg" and got on with life. Certainly they didn't give this section much attention. Did they do any better for the actual course?
   
4. The "Related Articles" were clearly auto-generated. They may be useful as part of a more well-rounded business education, if that's what you're after. (In that case, though, why study shorthand? It's obsolete in just about every office setting.) But there's no chance they were curated; they just have nothing to do with the subject at hand. Again, this looks slapdash.
   
   The only benefit I see is the promise of "audio activities," but you can practice shorthand with any audio you'd like.

I don't know if it's the link or the website, but I get a redirection...not the best for thrusting a website.

Wordpress (.org) is great just find a better theme and browse the plugins.
for example Louis vuitton is running on wordpress. There is a lot of multinationals using wordpress.
And do the updates !!! you're using wordpress 4.5.4, the last version is 4.7
You need a theme with a e-commerce integrated in it and a SSL certificate
in order to sell; I didn't get what you want to sell btw.

Also I hope you have a backup of your website!

Online Business query on youtube - Freemium is the trend you can find a lot of free tutorial to learn the basics of business on youtube.

Next I recommend some readings (not affiliate):
-The personnal MBA - Josh Kaufman
-Growth Hacker Marketing - Ryan Holiday

• This blog on growth hacking: https://www.hackisition.com/

/u/Kiwibaconator has it right, but allow me to expand on that. For both gasoline and diesel fueled engines, peak combustion temp and exhaust temp is right around 15.5 to 17:1 (lambda =~1.1); anything richer or leaner than this range becomes cooler.

As you may know, diesels generally run at 25:1 with a peak of 18:1 to 16.5:1 only during acceleration and the turbo has not produced full boost. But during steady state lug curve, generally runs at the ~28:1 (rated) to ~22:1 (peak torque) and 50 to 65:1 at idle. This steady state lug curve afr is well below the peak temperature of 15.5 to 17:1. The leaner side of afr is much cooler than the rich side of afr.
Why is lean afr cool? It is because the more excess air is available, the more the heat of combustion is spreadout among the mass of air. Think of the air as a tiny heat sink, the more Air to Fuel ratio, the more heat sink mass to energy input.

Gasoline will typically run on the rich side, from 15.5 to 14.5 afr. With modern 3-way cats and O2 sensors, the engine is designed to oscillate back and forth between 14.5 and 15 for catalyst chemistry reasons. Gasoline combustion temps are lower because of the much lower compression and boost, but the exhaust temps are still higher. Running extra rich (<14:1) also helps prevent predetonation by slowing down combustion with excess fuel and partial combustion products. Slowing down combustion with extra fuel also combines with the heat sink idea, except now the extra fuel is the heat sink, and the energy release is limited by the amount of oxygen available; so in a sense the extra fuel is not combusted thoroughly, which limits its energy release, but gets heated up a lot which helps dilute the heat and reduce the peak temperature.

Source:
Heywood
ME - engine design 10yrs (diesel)

And I have these in my list on amazon. Would love to get some opinions on them:

 

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

 

Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More

by Robert Bly

 

Words that Sell

by Richard Bayan

 

Tested Advertising Methods

by Caples and Hahn

 

Writing That Works

by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson

 

Confessions of an Advertising Man

by David Ogilvy

 

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

by Al Ries and Jack Trout

 

The Robert Collier Letter Book

by Robert Collier

 

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee

 

Letting Go of the Words

by Janice (Ginny) Redish

 

Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers

by Harold Evans

 

Can I Change Your Mind?: The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing

by Lindsay Camp

 

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

by Roy Peter Clark

 

Read Me: 10 Lessons for Writing Great Copy

by Roger Horberry and Gyles Lingwood

 

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

by Luke Sullivan

 

WRITE IN STEPS: The super simple book writing method

by Ian Stables

 

On Writing Well

by William Zinsser

 

The Wealthy Freelancer

by Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage and Ed Gandia

 

Write Everything Right!

by Denny Hatch

 

The Secret of Selling Anything

by Harry Browne

 

The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time

by Chris Murray

 

On Writing

by Stephen King

 

Writing for the Web

by Lynda Felder

 

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

by Ann Handley

 

This book will teach you how to write better

by Neville Medhora

Some things to check out:

• The list mentioned in the sidebar
  
  
• This Wikiversity page for a good high-level intro
  
  
• Book: Positioning for brand strategy
  
  
• Books: Influence and Fascinate for consumer psychology concepts
  
  
• Book: The Tipping Point for big how big ideas take off
  
  
• Book: Don't Make Me Think for website usability
  
  
• Website: Hubspot marketing hubs (I haven't actually looked too much into this site, but it looks ok at first glance).
  
  These are just some specific things I've found helpful in the past, and most of them (the books) are related to specific concepts, so keep in mind that there are many other topics that you should look to other sources for. For example, for search engine optimization, there's Seomoz.org. For low-cost marketing alternatives, there's Guerrilla Marketing. For ongoing general marketing tips, there's Duct Tape Marketing or various things from Seth Godin. All things considered, I'd say you should become familiar with the high-level marketing topics (the Wikiversity page), then tackle those topics in more detail by googling around or asking for recommendations on reddit.
  
  Side note: Might not appear entirely relevant to you at this time, but it's never a bad idea to brush up on your Microsoft Excel skills. Many marketing associates (especially in industries related to taxes, etc.) have to deal with Excel a lot, and therefore can benefit from learning optimal/automated ways of doing things in Excel.

My boys have never been good sleepers. The advice in the No Cry Sleep Solution combined with Weissbluth's sleep 'schedule' helped a lot in the beginning, but at 6 months out, I needed something stronger as my boys still had opposite schedules and were up a lot at night. I read through a ton of baby sleep books and picked bits and pieces from a bunch. The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight is my current favorite because it has detailed breakdowns by month and a plan that's basic and easy to follow. I don't follow her guidelines 100% because I breastfeed on demand rather than schedule, and they still wake each other up overnight, but, with her help, I have my boys taking naps semi-together and nighttime has gotten a lot easier.

The thing about baby sleep is that you need to figure out what works for you and your baby. Some babies are fine being up every hour. Other babies are not. You can often tell how well a baby has slept by how quickly they go to bed after waking up in the morning or by fussiness. Since tweaking my boys' schedule and being more diligent about putting them down to sleep, both boys are less fussy and my night owl no longer spends all morning trying to get back to bed.

Sleeping through the night should come with growth, but some babies need help more than others. Read through the books and try out a plan for a few weeks. Don't be afraid of letting them grouse or cry for a bit if nothing else works. I swore I would never do CIO before I started on this sleep journey. Haven't had to yet, but I do now believe it's a necessity for some kids, perhaps if better sleep habits aren't taught to them earlier.

Step one I think is to stop nursing to sleep, followed by night weaning :)

For the first part, what I did (and I was in a similar situation, nursed to sleep, then from 12-15 months kiddo started waking 5-6 times a night, it was extremely exhausting), was sit down in the rocking chair as normal, and nurse as normal, but just when he was about to fall asleep, I'd delatch. He'd fuss and I'd rock and croon and talk and sing, if he didn't calm down I'd relatch him, but then delatch again just as he was falling asleep and try to calm him by other means. Rinse and repeat, the first three days it was a long bedtime routine and I questioned what I was doing. But it really only took about a week to get him falling asleep without nursing.

The next step was to maneuver to falling asleep in his own space instead of my lap. Again I did it gradually, by the same method - just when he was looking sleepy I'd move him to his bed. If he cried, I'd shush and rub his back and talk and sing for a few minutes to calm him. If it didn't work, I'd pick him up and get him relaxed, and just when he was looking sleepy I'd quietly put him down again. Again, it was hard at first but after about a week he caught on and it became much easier.

Once he was going to sleep in bed and not nursing to sleep, the 5-6 wakeups a night were reduced to one waking, then getting up really early. Eventually I DID do some "cry it out" but since I'd already gotten him most of the way there it was very brief and not stressful.

The trick here is to get them going to sleep in the same conditions under which they will wake in the night. If they can go to sleep on their own, when they wake up on their own, they're much more likely to just relax and go back to sleep. If something changes (like you're nursing them to sleep, then they wake up and you're gone) it's very jarring, like if you fell asleep in your bed then woke up on the front lawn.

If that sounds good to you, I can tell you I read Dr Gordon's night weaning article, The No Cry Sleep Solution, and the Troublesome Tots website (I guess now it's called "precious little sleep"). I kind of put together things from those three sources and it made a huge improvement. It didn't 100% fix things and we still have some sleep issues but it was a HUGE improvement.

It really depends on if she's eating or comfort nursing. Eating can disrupt sleep but comfort nursing doesn't as much and it's fine to continue. I've had two comfort nursers who like to sleep with a nip in the mouth and we've had to set up co-sleeping (safe) set ups to get them through the first year... (well I'm only at 6 months with #2...)

Doctors often assume nursing is just for food and it's only one of the reasons babies wake to nurse (they often just need contact, cuddles and reassurance). You can transition her sleep association from the breast to something else when she wakes but I'd suggest going slowly rather than using a CIO/Ferber method if she's under 1. I've read the No Cry Sleep Solution and Ferber's Solve Your Baby's Sleep Problems books a few times now and there are a lot of different approaches you can take - I highly recommend reading those books and picking a method that works...but only if you decide that you need to cut down on night nursing.

That being said, if she's growing and you're ok with night feeds, then you don't need to make changes (they can backfire and make her wakings WORSE! at least in my experience!) You might want to check in with a different pediatrician, too. You know your baby best and what works for your family. As long as she's growing and developing, then you're doing what's best :)

Not really sure if this will come off as condescending but here are some books for general parenting or parenting kids with behavioral issues. For any folks out there looking for resources.


The Connected Child
https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001
Mainly focuses on attachment, or lack there of, for adoptive parents but some of the info is good for parents with children who have behavioral issues caused by attachment issues. Does have some religious aspects but also creates space for non-religious folks as well.

The Whole Brian Child
https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Child-Revolutionary-Strategies-Developing/dp/0553386697 great general parenting book.

No Drama Discipline
https://www.amazon.com/No-Drama-Discipline-Whole-Brain-Nurture-Developing/dp/034554806X help me understand what’s happening in my kids brain in misbehaving and tactics for working through various issues.

These really helped me feel empowered and informed as a parent. Every time we do well with the stuff we feel like the best parents in the world. Hope this helps anyone out there that might need it.

Edit: links and formatting. I suck at it and I’m on mobile so...
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Wow, that's a really broad topic and there is so much written on this.

When you say presentations, do you mean specifically like PowerPoint slides or pitching like getting funding for a business idea?

One of the best places to hear great presentations is Ted.com. You may want to check out [Garr Reynolds] (https://www.ted.com/search?q=garr+reynolds) and his books. Another great resource for presentations is [Nancy Duarte] (http://www.ted.com/search?q=nancy+duarte). Also [Seth Godin] (http://www.ted.com/search?q=seth+godin).

For pitching (selling your ideas or getting funding) I would read Oren Klaff's book called [Pitch Anything] (https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469128594&sr=1-1&keywords=pitch+anything).

Let me know if that was what you were looking for. Hopefully others will have more ideas!

Happy to help :) It is a near lifetime of just being a business junky and just loving to read about this stuff. The best and easiest book I give people when they want to learn business is the Personal MBA.

http://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375464773&sr=1-1&keywords=personal+mba+josh+kaufman

It is a solid, easy to read overview of business. You wount become an expert from it, but it is a 'explain like I am five 'introduction into business.


For innovation and new market development specific (My specialty) I'd go with Crossing the Chasm Quick read

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business/dp/0062060244

Lastly, take a strategic finance class. No numbers, simply the logic behind what is value. I've been told The Wall Street MBA is a good read but I can't vouch for it.
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-MBA-Second/dp/007178831X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375464915&sr=1-1&keywords=wall+street+mba

Finance will ultimately change how you think. And not entirely for the better...

I've never done keto. I've always had excellent results on VLCD (very low calorie diets), which obviously give fast results, but you have to work hard to keep the weight off. These diets tend to be very low carb diets, putting you in ketosis. However, being on a VLCD is not necessary or realistic long-term for PCOS management and weight loss, which are your aims. I found a good PCOS nutrition book to be helpful when I was first diagnosed. It helped me understand what I should avoid (refined carbs and sugars, basically) or at least reduce my intake of (carbs and red meat) , in order to help my symptoms. Seafood is great, and definitely better in many respects than meat. It contains less chemicals (vaccinations etc), a lower harmful fat content, and less hormones to interfere with your own. Keeping your blood sugar levels steady and making the best food choices is achievable when you're taking a balanced approach, following, for example, a low GI regime. That way, you'll be avoiding the things that make symptoms worse, you'll reduce your risk of diabetes and insulin resistance, and you'll lose weight. I think taking note of calories is also very important.

A couple of books I found to be useful are listed below:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007131844

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0071499849

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0340896019

Hope this helps!

Assuming you're starting from scratch, and without repeating what /u/Laser45 already said, definitely read up on whatever books you can get your hands on, and avoid Gurus. (Very, VERY few classes are worth their cost) This is one of my all time favorites, which you should be able to get as a freebie on an Audible trial:

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
by Gary Keller
https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370

If you have $30k in savings, I would recommend looking into putting that into a high-yield checking account - such as: Kasasa Cash (4% APY, 7.5k cap [1]), LMCU (3% APY, $15k cap [2]), Option1 CU (4% APY, 10k cap [3]). Links below.

Biggerpockets is good... but beware ALOT of it is fluff, and not all of it is accurate. Worse - much of what is presented is shown and appears alot easier to execute and implement than it actually is. Many people lose sight of the fact that - when they wholesale, do subject-tos, drive-for-dollars, etc. - they are essentially building a new business from scratch and applying ALOT of time and elbow grease... with very little protective "moat" that prevents the competition doing the same. Even if you're complete / have done your first deal - does the profit on a $/hr basis make sense, or did it make more sense to better educate yourself at your main line of work (or even get a second job)?

Ultimately, you have to decide if you want to be an "investor" - or - if you want to "buy another job." Always quantify your options, make sure the $/hr figure makes sense - and of course, make sure you feel 100% comfortable with it.

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[1] https://www.pelicanstatecu.com/accounts/personal-checking/index.html
[2] https://www.lmcu.org/banking/checking/checking_max.aspx
[3] https://www.option1cu.org/personal/Checking/edge-checking

You'll probably find "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" to be a very good read. It talks about a lot of different real estate concepts that are still very applicable today. I particularly enjoyed his thought process on how to identify a good real estate opportunity and how leverage in real estate can make you wildly successful in real estate investing.

There's also a very good answer that I found on Quora relating to real estate investing that you might find interesting.

Say no more, fam.

You don't need a degree to run a business. Having your own business allows you to experiment with these books first hand instead of taking some professor's word for it. Professor's usually just read what the book says. If they were actually good at running a business they'd probably be doing that.

• Business Creation - The Lean Start-up
  
  
  
• Value Creation - How to Make Millions With Your Ideas
  
  
  
• Marketing - Getting Everything You Can Out Of Everything You Got / All Marketers Are Liars
  
  
  
• Sales - Pitch Anything
  
  
  
• Value Delivery - Indispensable
  
  
  
• Accounting/Finances - Financial Intelligence / Accounting Made Simple
  
• Understanding the Human Mind - Making Sense of Behavior
  
  
  
• Productivity - Getting Things Done
  
  
  
• Problem Solving - The 80/20 Principle
  
  
  
• Decision Making - Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
  
  
  
• Negotiation - 3-D Negotiation
  
  
  
• Management - Growing Great Employees
  
  
  
• Project Management - Making Things Happen
  
  
  
• Statistics - Marketing Metrics
  
  
  
• Corporate Knowledge - The Effective Executive
  
  
  
• Corporate Strategy - Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
  
  
  
• Creativity - The Creative Habit
  
  
  
• Personal Finance - Your Money or Your Life

You shared a lot of information and I have just a few thoughts for your consideration. These are in no particular order. These more focus on the advice-guidance. I am in a technical field and though I lead some strategically, I'm more a technical advisor than director.

1. Identify why you want the degree. I offer this piece of advice to anyone seeking a degree. Is it for the knowledge-expertise (which you can obtain with research & practice), the contacts (which you can obtain through networking-socialization), the structure of the degree work-study, or for some “credential” or “authenticity?” I ask this because in America (my country), tuition, resources, and books can be… costly. (Consider a book like this that might provide summary information that would lead you to the expertise, “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business,” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845572/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_9W8FDbHK047NT )
   
   
2. Cozy up to those two law seniors. Network them and their contacts. This will open up job possibilities, new perspectives, new contacts, and new knowledge-expertise.
   
   
3. Consider rather than “finding” a job or role that matches your vision, that you create your job or role. Immediately after digesting your post, the easy thought of “independent strategic legal consultant” popped into my head. I’m uncertain on the how just yet, but I’m certain there are plenty of opportunities around just in small-mid sized corporations. If Indian corporations are similar to American, a law firm will represent most of the larger ones.
   
   
4. Is it possible that you could also flex (assert?) your current role – department head and department roles and responsibilities to either carry you during this transition of finding a new job/role or grow into that new role?
   
   
5. Boredom will happen in almost all corporate, firm, or hierarchical organization type jobs, not just your current one. Routine diligence, repetitive work, are not areas we excel at, especially if the tasks have been mastered. There’s no challenge. You might have to trick yourself to look for other challenges outside of those routine tasks. For instance, what about your social interactions within the job? Or long term plans to move/shape the role/department to your vision.
   
   I hope they help and good luck.

I'm working on an MBA right now with about 12 years in the IT industry, 5 of which has been in IT Management. If I didn't have real world experience under my belt I wouldn't be able to apply a lot of what I'm learning. Personally, I have to apply what I'm learning for it to really stick. If I didn't have real world experience then sure, I'd still get good grades, but grades alone aren't the point right? School and the business world are very different. I highly recommend getting out there gaining some experiential education, and then take on the MBA if you still think it would be valuable.

A large part of the value in a good MBA program is networking and what you learn over and above the course material by interacting with your professors and fellow students. That said, if you want a crash course in some of the business fundamentals that may be taught in a typical MBA program, I've heard many people highly recommend the following book.

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

I co-slept/bed-shared and breastfed, so I slept 9+ hours every night. I have three beautiful, thriving girls to show for it. At 7 weeks, a later bedtime is okay, IMO. It helps to work it down earlier and earlier the older they get because they obviously sleep for longer periods.

Highly, highly recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Gentle-Through/dp/0071381392

Edited to add: I have to agree with some of the replies here about 7 weeks being too young for a sleep schedule. When you start to feel that she has established a a natural eating/sleeping rhythm herself, I think that may be the best time to start training. And the "training" should be more of a gentle nudging sort of thing. Be flexible and be kind to yourself. I personally know so many moms who develop PTSD over their kids' sleeping schedule. I guess when you're sleep deprived, it can become an obsessive thing. I can understand that. Don't let it ever overshadow the wonder of having an infant!

I totally agree with your doctor about not needing a daily bath. You can start bathing her daily when she starts getting dirty daily. Here's a hint: if you have to ask yourself whether she's dirty...chances are, she's not really dirty.

Look, I'm usually over on Breaking Mom because I'm fairly nontraditional in my parenting. Why? Well, my youngest is exactly like yours.

No, you won't be able to go out in public quite yet - but practice things like short trips to the mall food court. Continue to model and explain good behavior, but don't expect any of it to kick in for a while. At 4.5 I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, but he does still smash his brother's lego creations regularly.

Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Strong-Willed-Child-Clinically-Six-Year-Olds/dp/0071667822

Use it to learn how to communicate effectively and set limits. In this case, I'd start locking him in his room or a bathroom (with the light on).
Expect him to throw things at the door and try to bang it down. Hold fast; after a few hours he'll get tired out. After, of course, he tries the 'I'm sorry'; the 'I'm so sad sobbing'; the 'Screaming at the top of his lungs'; etc. The next time it will.be.shorter. And then when you have to leave the room, ask him if he'll behave or if you need to lock him in the room to go deal with baby brother.

It is exhausting. It sucks. It is a battle of wills you don't want to fight. Consider removing the light fixture temporarily because if he falls off the table, then he'll learn, and it's not going to hurt him much (my two boys are 4 and 6). Kids like him have to experience things for themselves; being told that something will happen is not effective until it actually does.

Be prepared to start looking the other way at the playground. He'll test physical limits and you just have to trust that he's learning.

And yeah - other adults will talk. You'll grow a backbone. My kids are finally settling down and behaving, but according to my mother you'd think I was raising hellions by letting them run in the house (WTF else was I supposed to do to get their wiggles out?).

Lastly, make sure, as others have suggested, that he has a physical outlet ever day. I have my kids run laps in the hallway, I go through burpees/pushups/mountain climbers/jumping exercises with them; they have interactive wrestle time with mom or dad. When mine were 1 and 3 it was almost daily unless we could play outside.

If you like reading btw, here's my top list for teaching yourself marketing:

My favorite marketing book: https://www.amazon.com/Being-Direct-Making-Advertising-Pay/dp/0394540638

Best for creative ad strategy: https://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287

Two really good ones on branding: https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding/dp/0060007737, https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/0071373586/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SAK252T4836CY0G4XYGD

A classic on inbound marketing (not paid media): https://www.amazon.com/Inbound-Marketing-Found-Google-Social/dp/0470499311

Good guide to Facebook advertising: https://adespresso.com/academy/guides/facebook-ads-beginner/

On What to Read


Here are some suggestions on books and websites:


The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko - https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474


If You Can by William Bernstein - http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm


Free version is here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/5tj8480ji58j00f/If%20You%20Can.pdf?dl=0


The Investor's Manifesto. Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between by William Bernstein - https://www.amazon.com/Investors-Manifesto-Prosperity-Armageddon-Everything/dp/1118073762


The Bogleheads Guide to Investing - https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Larimore/dp/1118921283


The Coffeehouse Investor - https://www.amazon.com/Coffeehouse-Investor-Wealth-Ignore-Street/dp/0976585707


The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning - https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Retirement-Planning/dp/0470455578


The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William Bernstein - https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portfolio/dp/0071747052/


Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey - https://www.amazon.com/Total-Money-Makeover-Classic-Financial/dp/1595555277


Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson - https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Finance-Dummies-Eric-Tyson/dp/1118117859


Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson - https://www.amazon.com/Investing-Dummies-Eric-Tyson/dp/1119320690/


The Millionaire Real Estate Investor per red-sfplus’s post (can confirm this is excellent) - https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370/


For all the M.Ds on here and HNW individuals, you might want to check out https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/ and his blog – found it to be very useful.


https://www.irs.gov/ or your government’s tax page. If you’ve been reading, you know that millionaires know more than your average bear about the tax code.


https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/7vohb3/money/


https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3hzcvn/financial_advice_from_a_financier/


https://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/09/22/4-money-tips-4-personal-finance-legends/


Personal Finance Flowchart from their wiki - https://i.imgur.com/lSoUQr2.png


Additional Lists of Books:


https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_reviews


https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/books-4/


Subreddits


https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/


https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ - I would highly encourage you to spend a half hour browsing their wiki - https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index and investing advice - https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/investing


https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/


https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityAnalysis/


https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/


https://www.reddit.com/r/portfolios/


https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/


MRP References


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/40whjy/finally_talked_to_my_wife_about_our_finances_it/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/67nxdu/finances_with_a_sahm/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/488pa0/60_dod_week_6_finances/ (original)


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/6a6712/60_dod_week_6_finances/ (year 2)


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/3xw015/how_to_prepare_for_a_talk_about_finances/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/30z704/taking_back_the_finances/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/2uzukg/married_redpill_finances_and_money/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/3637q5/some_thoughts_on_mrp_and_finances/


https://www.reddit.com/r/askMRP/comments/8dwaqt/best_practices_for_finances_within_marriage/


https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/588e5o/gain_control_of_the_treasury/


Final Thoughts


There are already a lot of high net worth individuals on these subs (if you don’t believe me, look at the OYS for the past few months). This should be a review for most folks. The key points stay the same – have a plan, get out of the hole you are in, have a budget, do the right moves for wealth accumulation. Lead your family in your finances. Own it.


What are YOU doing to own your finances? Give some examples below.

I am one of the "<1 baby has no wants, just needs" camp, although 1 is pretty arbitrary. I just can't imagine that an infant has the wherewithal to distinguish between the two ... yet.

I am so grateful to have a good sleeper, because I know if I were in your shoes, I would be a sleep-deprived zombie who spent the whole night with her finger in her kid's mouth.

The way I see it, he needs comfort and you need sleep. You've got to do what you can to balance those needs, or you'll go crazy and that's no good for him, either.

I've heard a number of folks say that by 6 months if a baby is at a good weight, there's no nutritional reason he should NEED to eat during the night, so he probably needs some help learning how to self soothe. My doula highly recommended this book over Ferber's CIO, largely because she knows I can't stand the thought--she says CIO totally works, too.

Good luck to you! So sorry you're having such a rough time.

Congrats on your daughter! I have a little guy myself and went through something similar. If she sleeps well through the night in the bed with you, I'd just keep her with you. As long as you are bedsharing safely, it will really facilitate breastfeeding and make both of you get better sleep. I would periodically try to put her down in a crib (The American Academy of Pediatrics' position is that the safest way for babies to sleep is room-sharing without bed-sharing until at least 6 months, so the crib should be in the room with you anyway), and if she's not going down easily, then she's not ready for it. I loved Elizabeth Pantley's the no-cry sleep solution

. I had to transition my son out of bed because I was the all-night snack bar; he was sleeping through feeds but I wasn't, and I had to drive an hour to work at 7am. He was ready to sleep in a crib by himself at around 11.5 months. I began putting him down to sleep in the crib next to our bed 8ish, and then he'd wake up around 11pm. For the first week I'd just take him into bed with us, then I started laying him down every time he stood up to be picked up. It never got to him crying, he was more sleepily confused. It took another week for him to sleep through the night, then we moved him into his own room, and he's been sleeping through the night since then. I tried something similar at 4, 8, and 10 months and he just wasn't ready. There are a lot of cry-it-out folks out there. It works, but at what cost? Stick to your guns-you will find something that works for you. BTW I had some issues and wrote to the email provided at Elizabeth Pantley's webpage, and she wrote back to me personally within the week with sympathetic and detailed suggestions which really helped. Good luck!

This is a business where you have to do things the hard way, typically. If you decide to become a retail broker, there are a few things I would do:

• Figure out which senior brokers are going to retire soon-ish - work to determine whether you can buy their book (this might mean you actually just work for them for a while);
  
  
• Cold call like crazy - mostly business owners, doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc., and give them a short pitch of good ideas you have. Remember that these guys get pitched constantly, so you should learn the art of the pitch. You'll have to make hundreds of calls before you succeed, but this is what sales is about;
  
  
• Partner with any realtors, accountants, tax advisors, lawyers, estate planners and so on you know, or establish those relationships. Refer business to them in exchange for them to refer business to you.
  
  I would suspect that a broker, in his first five years, probably hates his life. But once you get beyond that initial phase, it can obviously become very lucrative, as lucrative as a more institutional role. Remember that brokers eventually establish relationships with investment bankers and start doing fun little private placements. Some brokers specialize in this stuff (e.g. finding capital for small tech firms). These guys get warrants, the piece of the compensation picture that the retail client often doesn't know about. Warrants are good.
  
  Remember too that we may be entering a long-term bear market. Some good friends of mine got started at one of the world's largest brokerages back in the mid 90s. So they had timing on their side. You may not.
  
  This book might interest you: http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp
  
  It's written by a guy who raises VC capital.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Baby-Book-Revised-Edition/dp/0316198269

All of the Dr. Sears books are great. They treat you and your baby like people, not projects to schedule or manage.

http://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-Theyre-Definitive-Breastfeeding/dp/159337285X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397570127&sr=1-1&keywords=so+thats+what+they%27re+for

This is kind of old, but a funny way to learn to succeed at breastfeeding.

http://www.amazon.com/The-No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Through/dp/0071381392/ref=pd_sim_b_13?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NSBRKTSW2JNFCDDDGK6

This is the gentlest way to deal with sleep issues if you have them. I have never had sleep issues, though, as we coslept. In fact, I have never slept as much as I did when my oldest was a newborn. I slept 12 hours a night.

I am in a similar situation. I have spent my summers working for my family business. I worked at the assembly, warehouse, R&D you name it. I think its important to understand the people that you work with, understand their day-to-day jobs and really know your company.

Start with the product, learn every detail of the process it goes through to become a final product. You will also build a good relationship with your workers that is important too.

Once you feel confident, dive into management. Accountants and marketing people are the backbone of the business. Know what they are doing, their strategies. Learn how financing works in the company and who you are selling your products. Make some cold-calls to new customers, learn the trick of the trade.

Only once you really know how things work, set a goal! Say "I will grow this company 2 times the size it is today!" - its easier said than done.

If you didnt receive a former education in business, here are my top sources where I learnt a lot:

https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473345589&sr=8-1&keywords=personal+mba

https://www.amazon.com/HBR%C2%92s-Must-Reads-Boxed-Books/dp/1422184056/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1473345608&sr=8-2&keywords=HBR+essentials


These books wont tell you how to run your grandfather's business but they will tell you what a business is/does and how you can steer it. The rest is creativity, hard work and vision.

Hope this helps!

My top three picks would be the No Cry Sleep Solution, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and the Happiest Baby on the Block (I've seen the DVD, didn't read the book).

I also highly recommend the blog Parenting Science. I teach child development, and what the author writes is backed by recent research (citations included) so it isn't just one random person's thoughts but essentially a literature review of what to do for the best outcomes when it comes to infant sleep and behaviour. Oh, and definitely KellyMom if you're breastfeeding. :)

I was actually terrified to cosleep until I did some reading on it. [Dr James McKenna](Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping https://www.amazon.com/dp/1930775342/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_1zNyyb9HW4PR9) is the leader on cosleeping studies in the US. I read this book before I started cosleeping. Cosleeping was necessary for us to get through the night.
Also, Dr Sears has some insight on cosleeping and SIDS
Dr Sears
Finally, when you want to ease your little one into their own bed gently, The No Cry Sleep Solution has some great advice. I used this book like an Manuel during my first year of parenting.

I'm a cosleeper and a big advocate of education of safe cosleeping. That doesn't mean cosleeping is right for you and your family. I just wanted you to have some reading material from people who have actually studied the effects of cosleeping.

PS: My best friend's baby died of SIDS, not cosleeping. So I am very familiar with how awful it is and her situation was so terrifying to me going into motherhood. I spent a great deal of time searching for answers about SIDS, as did my friend. The truth is, there are risk factors, but no known causes.

Good luck to you. I hope you and your family get some rest!

I would suggest the book "the millionaire Real Estate investor" here:

https://www.amazon.ca/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370

Property management is my biggest side hustle, and the most profitable. I fell into it when I paid off my mortgage, and realized a year later, 50% of my net worth was earning less than zero, and creating a huge drag on my plans for early retirement. I now own a condo, and a duplex. (EDIT - sadly, still not retired. Kids are expensive!)

Can it be a full time job? Sure, but I suspect it's a great side hustle instead. Like DSJustice mentions, it's a long process, and not possible to profitably start in Vancouver or Toronto, based on the prices versus rent. Depends on where you are.

I would suggest staying away from the condos though. Yes, the condo fees eat up your profit, but it's the fact that so much is out of your control that is the real risk.

If I could have a do-over, I'd buy duplexes, and triplexes instead. (EDIT two - Ok, I see your from AB. It really depends on the conditions out there... Are you guys close to recession? Maybe wait a while?)

The NoCry Sleep Solution saved my sanity. At 14 months old my dude was only sleeping in 3 hour increments. It's 100% normal for a child at 6 months old to still be waking through the night, but he should be able to sleep on his own for a nap at least. If cosleeping isn't right for you guys, that's a-okay, but y'all definitely didn't cosleep too long. Don't have high expectations that it's only going to take a few nights for a gentle transition. But it definitely is possible!

Edit: spelling

Hey, don't get down on yourself! Your feelings are perfectly valid and ok to listen to.

There is an awesome (and gentle!) sleep book that I've found super helpful: The No Cry Sleep Solution .

I found the The Brand Gap to be very elementary. If you've been in marketing for a while you should already have a solid foundation on branding that that book covers. It's definitely an easy read and a great source for an introduction to branding.

With that said, I'd recommend:

• Designing Brand Identity
  
• Positioning
  
• Youtility
  
  

I learned Gregg by way of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0070245487

A while later, I found a Gregg dictionary. Each word had its corresponding "squiggle" - that helped. I had a record player with a set of dictation records for practice also.

I'd suggest reading up online and getting a sense of the language first. Then, definitely the instructional book.

Overall, it's just takes tons of practice. Use what you know every chance you can and you will gain speed. Too, you will get a sense of the way you write the language - your style.

Don't be discouraged if it takes some time to get the form right - it is fluid written movement but, essentially a new language.

Good luck!!

Given that social security is constantly threatened, and given that most Americans have less than $500 in savings and are not saving nearly enough for retirement, creating passive income is a great way to both hedge against uncertainties and build actual wealth.

You've really got something to think about here. If you rent your house out, someone else is paying your mortgage for you. And if you're renting it out for twice to three times the note (hell of an investment), that one property can pay for your next property as well. Keep going and in a decade you could have several properties that have paid for themselves. When you are ready to retire, which could be a lot sooner than you currently believe is possible, you could be sitting on ten to twenty properties or more that you own, that you owe nothing for, that are making you thousands of dollars each month. And if you get tired of dealing with it all, you can always sell.

I recommend starting by looking into sources such as bigger pockets and start reading books like [The Millionaire Real Estate Investor] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071446370/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_EPN-zbTQ6ZCNS) by Gary Keller. Those sources will lead to learning about your current options and your future as an investor. And you need to learn about it, because whether you realize it or not, you're already a real estate investor.

Some books that come to mind:

• Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson: a guide to setting goals.
  
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport: why "follow your passion" is terrible advice and what to do instead.
  
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman: an MBA crash course.
  
• The 80% Approach by Dan Sullivan (short and free): overcome perfectionism; 80% done is good enough.
  
• Learn to Program by Chris Pine (free): a great intro to programming.

Man, I feel you here.
Parent of an abused foster (adopted) 13yo daughter here, whose behaviors are very similar to what you mention (multiplied by 140lb body with hormones and the vocabulary of a sailor).

Three Major Points to start:

A. Try to reduce the frequency of the meltdowns.

There are two books you should buy and read right away. The Connected Child and Beyond Consequences. (Links below) Ignore the fact that they are 'for' adoptive families. They are fantastic for bio families too. The basic idea is to promote attachment, show love, use consistency and help your child learn who she is. I can, in no way, do justice to these books in summary so I'm not gonna try. This does not mean they get away with everything. This does not mean you're going to fix everything overnight. It does, however, mean you're going to change how you parent to a totally new model that might not feel natural at first. The more you do it, the better the bond you have with your child.

The style was once explained to me as "General Patton meets Mr. Rogers". Firm, high expectations, but calm and loving all the time.


B. When a meltdown of your daughter does happen.

Just doing the stuff above, you'll still have plenty of issues. That doesn't mean it's not working.
It all boils down to natural consequences. Break all the crayons, can't color anymore. Trash the house, clean the house. Throw a 5 minute tantrum while I was going to be playing video games, kid does chores I would have done for 5 minutes so I can play video games. Threaten to kill self or kill me? Cops are called.

Un-natural consequences (otherwise called punishments) cause their own problems.
By using natural consequences, you don't enter into a secondary battle for control of trying to impose punishments that the child finds unlogical.

C. When you lose your cool during a meltdown

This will also happen, as parents, we're not perfect.
When things go south - Reconnect Quickly.
Be the one that shows the example of remorse and show how you can make up for it. This doesn't mean the child gets away with what they did, though.



All the other stuff you need to do:

Get Help / Don't be Embarrassed: Realize when you need help. In combat, if things get hairy, you ask for help, you don't just wait until 3/4 your men are dead before telling someone above you that you're in trouble.

This means you must remove any stigma you might have from this situation and put your ego aside. Doesn't mean you're a bad father. There are tons of resources you should pull from.

First, surround yourself with a circle of support. Family and friends are very important.

Second, find resources in your community. Could be private therapy, could be from a county mental health organization. Could be a church group. I promise you that there is help out there that people just like you go to.

Care for yourself / Respite
The harder things are at home, the less patience you have. The less patience you have, the harder things get.

You need time for you (and your SO if you have one).

Find ways to recharge. Kid stays with grandparents, friends (with people you trust can handle you child and understand the situation), babysitters, overnight camps, etc.
You can't care for your child if you're totally out of steam.

Ask yourself, what if you couldn't physically control her.
I've been struggling with this in the last few years. If you can only use your mind to parent, and can't physically touch the child (even just to move them into time out, for example), it changes how you will parent them. Start thinking like that, and then add on the fact you can move them in time out as a bonus.

Lastly, realize you're not alone. There are many families that struggle with this type of problem, and it is possible!



http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001/
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Consequences-Logic-Control-Attachment-Challenged/dp/0977704009/

Since you're in the Bay Area, go to an SF Made event or schedule a meeting with Janet. SFMade is an organization that gets stuff made in SF. Mostly cut and sew apparel work.

Go in with a plan, not just an idea.

Don't worry about your niche (or niche within a niche) being too small. Smaller is better to start. Tailor your product to a small group and blow their minds. Get a base of raving fans then expand from there or, better yet, figure out what else they will buy and make it.

Don't worry about competition like Outlier. Read Positioning and "own" a phrase in your customers' minds. Maybe it's "dress shirts for Crossfitters."

My company, Tortuga Backpacks makes travel backpacks. Note how our story and target market are reflected in our 'About Us' page, product copy, and every other page on the site. We aren't the only company making backpacks, but we portray a very clear image: 25-39 year old urban travelers who see the value of packing light. I'm a marketer by trade, so I think about this stuff a lot.

Rationalizing why a version is better never works, people don't like to be told that they're wrong. This is why graphic design is 50% salesmanship. Selling clients on a concept is half the battle. There are tried and tested ways to present ideas that don't come across as "I know better than you so do it this way...". Even body language can play an important role. I recommend getting some good books on sales psychology and pitches. Pitch Anything and The Challenger Sale are good starts.

It's a book! The newborn one I mentioned is for younger babies, didn't see that your LO was almost 6 months, but she wrote one for older babies too! The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_hPE-ybQ6W280M

First, octane rating has nothing to do with the gas volatility. You can have 87 winter blend that is more volatile than 87 summer blend. Volatility and octane are two completely separate values that have no relation to each other. You need to get that right before we can move on.

Also, knock is the colloquial term for detonation, which surprisingly you are correct. It's when the gas detonates before the spark event and creates much higher pressure in the cylinder. It can sometimes be heard as an audible "knock" in certain engines. It more often is unable to be heard without special monitoring equipment.

Last, as I said before, static compression is just one factor out of many that determines what the engine's octane requirement is. I'll give you a real world example. My 1972 Sportster has a static compression ratio of 9:1 and needs a minimum of 94 AKI to not detonate. My 2002 Sportster has a static compression of 10.5:1 and will run perfectly fine on 91 AKI.

By your simple, misunderstood statements the 2002 should be blowing up compared to my 72. The real answer is that octane and compression can be related, but compression is only one small factor in determining that. There are several other things that are far more dominating in determining the required octane.

If you would like to learn more about this so we can speak intelligently about it, please pick up a copy of John Heywood's Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals (https://smile.amazon.com/Internal-Combustion-Engine-Fundamentals-Heywood/dp/007028637X?sa-no-redirect=1) and read it cover to cover. It will go over a lot of things you're misunderstanding and help you clarify some of your thoughts.

Learning To See - https://www.amazon.com/Learning-See-Stream-Mapping-Eliminate/dp/0966784308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542653181&sr=8-1&keywords=learning+to+see

Great book to help you see what is creating value for your customer and what waste that can be removed to achieve optimal flow.

There is a really excellent book called The Personal MBA that could easily be read in less than a week. It would not make you "well rounded" in one week but it does summarize and give good explanations of much of what you would learn in an MBA curriculum. Definitely something to include. I am not connected with the author.

I'd suggest reading well-regarded and well-edited publications and pay attention to the structure of the language and the punctuation. How language is used in context is going to be your best guide. For more in-depth reading about actual language, I consider Garner's indispensable. Also a big fan of Steven Pinker, though it's a little heavy and can be controversial. Anything by Bill Walsh is worth reading if you're interested in writing well.

Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Development/dp/0071752854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493931578&sr=1-1&keywords=pitch+anything

I listened to the audio book (Narrated by the author), and it was great as you could get his excitement and passion for the subject

It's not really about that one waver, it's about brand exposure. They are trying to make 'doing my taxes' and 'liberty taxes' connected in peoples minds. Your one part of reinforcing that message. The more reinforcement you have, the stronger the connection. A lot of advertising is like dealing with a child, you have to establish a premise and then reinforce it constantly.

If you wish to know more read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586

Suggested read for everyone in this thread: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

it's all about branding and reasons for success vs. failure of a brand name

Very interesting even if you only have a passing interest in marketing and it is well written by some of the best in the industry.

Me and my wife are using this book to transition our co-sleeper to his crib:

No Cry Sleep Solution

This method is much nicer to your child. It's all about setting expectations by giving them positive sleep associations and forming a solid routine. The book has some specific tips for parents of twins also. I'm a big fan of attachment parenting and this books goes along very well with my philosophy of parenting. It gives lots of good actionable advice for lots of circumstances and attitudes.

I would highly recommend you try this before trying CIO. I see some people here saying that the CIO method worked after 2 days for them, that's great but isn't how it always works. Some children take a lot longer than that on CIO, and if you have twins I'm sure your problems and time till sanity is double.

Grab yourself a copy of Business Improv and/or this Second City book. There's enough in both of these to keep things fresh for a while if you keep doing this. Also, this book is intended for Agile teams but the games work (with some tweaks) for pretty much any corporate environment.

Bob Kulhan's book is supposed to be good but I haven't personally read it.

I am not much of a book reader but the Personal MBA is a great read. I feel without a doubt that I got my money's worth of information about business in general.

https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572

I do some science writing in addition to academic scientific writing. The main part is to know what to leave out. Does it matter EXACTLY what experiments the researchers did? No. It matter's what they found (and that they actually found what they're saying they found).

Don't make long meandering sentences with a bunch of conjunctions and parenthetical phrases. Those are hard to read. Your readers are going to be reading very fast and if they get lost, they are going to stop and move on to something else. Don't lose your readers. You also have to know what they know. Can you just say polymers or do you have to explain what a polymer is? This is important.

Use active voice. None of that passive voice in science bullshit (unless that sentence calls for it). Use exciting verbs. Don't rely on a thesaurus. The reader will know.

If you like I'd be glad to read one of your pieces and give it a critique. Here are some good books to read if you're serious about getting into science writing.

Narrative Nonfiction--very popular now

Science Writer's Handbook

Fieldguide for science writing

Style book--not about science but needed for good writing, and it's funny

Learning to See is a pretty good tool... it goes over VSMs, but it gets into Toyota Production Methods and is basically just a good place to start. If you know absolutely nothing about Six Sigma, Six Sigma For Dummies isn't awful - my trainer kept a copy on his desk.

People are probably going to recommend the usuals but I'm going to try and add some spicy flavor to this topic.

1. Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout. If you want to be effective you need to understand how the mind works in the present age.
   
   
2. Story Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by McKee, Robert. I get what Sagmeister is saying by calling out designers who act like they are literal story tellers, but the fact is that there are many lessons to be learned from this fine art. My favorite passage is Crisis, Climax and Resolution. Robert writes about the climax of a story and how it needn't be "full of noise and violence. Rather it must be full of meaning. If I could send a telegram to the film producers of the world, it would be these words: Meaning produces emotion. Not money, not sex, not special effects, not movie stars, not lush photography."
   
   Designers call it using a concept.
   
   Also can anyone recommend a good book on art philosophy/aesthetics?
   

As a "helping service" provider, your costs are probably relatively low and mostly your own time.

As such, your economic success will rise and fall on your pricing and marketing.

This is a pretty good wholistic view of marketing from a customer perspective: Positioning, the battle for your mind

Once you understand what you want to be, you can then explore how to get there.

The two I've purchased so far are the No Cry Sleep Solution and Retro Baby. The former was highly recommended to me by a few new parents but I haven't dived in yet. The latter is a fun read and it made me really excited for all of the development milestones to come.

I feel like what's missing from my library is some A to Z book on newborn health. It would be nice to have a book to consult before scaring myself by Google-ing.

Hmm, that's a tough one.

I wasn't familiar with the book, so I decided to take a look at Amazon's page for the book. I don't see any kind of genre listing, but they do have sales rank data. That book is listed as #18 in Scifi Short stories and #69 in British literature. That's not a very trustworthy or effective metric, though. Barnes and Noble didn't have genre listing either.

Huh. I dunno! I guess there's at least one book, then.

Ah, yes. Those aren't the same. This is the most updated, recent official exam book that includes the practice exams:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119523265/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The book comes with questions as well, but not very good ones in relation to the exam. It also has online flashcards. The practice exam book can be activated online, and all questions are available online. That book has everything that is covered in the test.

The other book I used was this one, but more straight to the point, but doesn't cover every single detail like the Sybex:
https://www.amazon.com/CISSP-Study-Guide-Eric-Conrad/dp/0128024372/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cissp+study+guide+third+edition&qid=1555615018&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I went through the same thing. My now boyfriend kept saying "calories in and calories out" that's all that matters. It took him almost a year to understand it's not that simple. Metformin and lower carb eating changed my whole life. You can try adding to your eating every time you eat any carb or sweet (fruit) eat protein (cheese, meat, eggs, etc.) I learned this from http://www.amazon.com/The-Insulin-Resistance-Diet--Revised-Updated-Fat-Making/dp/0071499849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395350965&sr=8-1&keywords=Insulin+resistance+diet

Might be something you want to pick up. I found an older version at good will for .50 and it's helped me understand how to eat. If you ever need some support, I'm your girl.

Hi Jane,

I have a very similar background, former educator, turned ID. I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Expertise-Cognitive-Performance-Improvement/dp/0787988448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524406717&sr=8-1&keywords=ruth+clark+building

It is by Ruth Clark, full of practical examples, data (to sate the teacher in you) and a ton of best practices. It is a book that you will read, put away, put into action, and then re-read.

Interesting you should ask this question today, since today's Vice "Young Americans" column is about what it's like growing up "Asian" in America: http://www.vice.com/youngamericans/the-asian-american-experience?utm_source=vicetumblrus

This is a humorous rendering of a problem a lot of my Asian-American friends have faced growing up in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWynJkN5HbQ

You'll find more adoption-specific questions answered in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001

If you have questions about the process you're about to go through, I used to work at the world's largest, oldest China adoption agency, CCAI, so if you have questions about the process I might be able to answer basic questions, but for the most up-to-date and accurate info, I'd advise you to just call CCAI and directly ask your questions of the professionals (ask for Sarah H, (303) 850-9998). It doesn't matter if you're planning to adopt from a different agency, they rules are set by China, so the process is basically the same regardless of what agency you go through.

Not totally in line with what you're asking, but I'm currently reading Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff. Its a very insightful book where he goes into detail about basically being persuasive enough to sell anyone anything. Be it yourself in the form of an interview or your product. Great read so far.

The Personal MBA - excellent resource and really helps you grasp the business side.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Personal-MBA-Master-Business/dp/1591845572

Ask away! I got pregnant after about 3 years of Metformin and Insulin-Resistance Diet and 2 rounds of Clomid. There's a book called PCOS and Your Fertility that's pretty good.

Unfortunately it's a little late for some of the S's and probably not ready to cry it out.

Might want to check this one out:
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_B0Lavb0673REP

The bigger problem is the first one - getting a good grounding in Marketing, as the fundamentals don't really change although the media does. Social media marketing is Marketing, and follows many of the same principles.

Would recommend taking a look at Josh Kaufman's book The Personal MBA (Amazon) and here's his list of 99 books from his website of which the marketing books listed there is a very good place to start.

You can basically waste a TON of time on the plethora of so-called 'social media marketing experts' who are experts at selling to others social media marketing 'secrets'. It's a bit of old-fashioned hucksterism that makes them a lot of money (true) but may not be all that worthwhile (unless you want to sell social media secrets for the future career).

As a professional marketer myself, having been in many roles in Marketing (and outside sales and product development), you've got to have a foundation to build on.

Even consider taking a MOOC from a reputable place on Marketing, it's a discipline of study for good reason, and then see how the social media part fits into it.

In my own situation, Large Mega Corp the revenue from Social Media is on the order of 1% (we track such things), while the web is on the order of 15%. We still have a direct sales force (we are B2B) and have events and exhibit at conferences; I have no illusions about all the marketing that needs to be done offline (where still many of our customers are).

Just my $0.02, FWIW.

Investing in real estate really requires that you know a little about a lot of things. These are the books I used when starting up:

General Overview:

• The Wall Street Journal. Complete Real-Estate Investing Guidebook
  
• The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
  
  Multi-Family Introduction:
  
  
• Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads
  
  Flipping Introduction:
  
  
• FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit
  
  Real Estate Formula Primer:
  
  
• What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow
  
  Landlord Tax Basics:
  
  
• Every Landlords Tax Deduction Guide
  
  
  That is a good intro for books...BiggerPockets is always good too. However, most investors will tell you that there is only so much you can read about real estate. Read some books, get a feel and then go for it. It's the only way you can really learn.

congrats !

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can you confirm that those are the books you were using:

https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Information-Security-Professional-Official/dp/1119523265/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sybex+cissp&qid=1557068330&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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https://www.amazon.com/CISSP-Study-Guide-Eric-Conrad/dp/0128024372/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EHIXX8M9ICO3&keywords=11th+hour+cissp&qid=1557068417&s=gateway&sprefix=11th+ho%2Caps%2C391&sr=8-2

These are books which I have read twice or more and would read again and again on the topic of post-collapse:

Alas Babylon

On the Beach

The Postman - not like the movie with Kevin Costner (just based upon and quite different)

One Second After - currently the most realistic and scariest of the bunch I think.

Earth Abides

Lucifer's Hammer - this one I wouldn't read without many years between as the start is sooooo slow but the second half is good.

I am looking to hire a long term writer, offer to pay and incentives based on CTR. [LeadArk] (http://leadark.com) partners with the top 1% of Real Estate Agents to do marketing for their clients, people like you and me who are buying homes. Very captive audience, who will be making a decision in the next 60 days. 13,000 people a day buy homes.

I opened [LeadArk] (http://leadark.com) 6 months ago, signed up 250 users in the last 3 months and already have a 6 figure contract. Working with Oren Klaff the author of [Pitch Anything] (http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854) to make it sizzle. Are you looking for a long term partnership, or just portfolio work? What's in it for you and how do we get our goals in line?

I also recently got started in the share market. I've been applying to IPOs and gradually learning about how to judge whether a company is fundamentally strong or not. I'm learning from a combination of reading news( news on the company, acquisitions, sentiments), books on how investing works(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817589.Learn_to_Earn), how a business works(https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572) and various financial metrics(P/E ratio, EPS, etc.) via data camp(https://www.datacamp.com/courses/importing-managing-financial-data-in-python, https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-financial-concepts-using-python, https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-portfolio-risk-management-in-python).

Cool! That's a good one. Also really thought this was good.

Here are two great books to start with:

Personal MBA - https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Entreleadership - https://www.amazon.com/EntreLeadership-Practical-Business-Wisdom-Trenches/dp/1451617852/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466870653&sr=1-1&keywords=entreleadership+dave+ramsey

Two of the best introductory books:

1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1259643883
   
   
2. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071446370

Millionaire Real Estate Investor, Gary Keller.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370

There might be better "beginner books", but I think this does start at the basics and does an even better job at the more thorough and practical levels. By far the best overall book on RE investing that I have read. No nonsense approach, which is hard to come by in a world where every slick haired dude ever bought anything is trying to sell a book on "how to be a billionaire overnight with no money or assets at all!".

Beyond that there are a list of other books that hit on more specific or detailed topics, and when you need those just let me know. I could think of a few.

Maybe you should become an amazing marketer then?

I've heard Pitch Anything reccomended. Also your tone seems to be the biggest problem with your proposals. If you only phrased things differently, you might see clients/companies becoming much more willing to play along.

I hope things are going better for you. My son had a lot of similar behaviors when he came home, but almost two years have passed and he's like a different child (still we see some of the maladaptive behaviors but not as frequently). Trust Based Relational Intervention was a game changer for us. Check out The Connected Child. https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001

I found a lot of value in The Personal MBA. Sit down with it some afternoon and it'll help you decide what path to take.

I really really like this woman’s approach: No Cry Sleep Solution. It’s a gentle approach to helping them get there.

A nice broad crash course is The Personal MBA. I wouldn't say it's in-depth, but a good overview of a wide range of concepts.

My sister loved this one:

Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds, Third Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071667822/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_MjX1DbEV5J560

https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Strong-Willed-Child-Clinically-Six-Year-Olds/dp/0071667822/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1480946225&sr=8-11&keywords=parenting+discipline+books

Never read it, but it seems to hit the nail on the head for you and has a good amount of high reviews.

There's a million things most people on this sub could recommend, and really the learning never stops.

Here are some good starting points:

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

Zero to One - Peter Thiel

The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman

The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris

I would pick up a CISSP book and start studying. With your background it should not be too difficult to pass the CISSP. That way you can at least mention you are working towards it in an interview.

I used the older version of this book and found it very useful.

CISSP Study Guide, Third Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128024372/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_eR4LxbP7GK7MQ

Edit: for typo

Yeah, for me it makes perfect sense. I've read a lot about PCOS, insulin resistance, diabetes, nutrition etc and while I had gestational diabetes I could see how certain foods raise your blood sugar really high and then it crashes back down. I also tried eating after the "insulin resistance diet" http://www.amazon.com/Insulin-Resistance-Diet--Revised-Updated-Fat-Making-Machine/dp/0071499849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324314058&sr=8-1 .. and that worked pretty well compared to other diets I've tried. It's about linking proteins with carbs in a certain way. But I gave up on it because I felt like I constantly had the "keto flu" .. it sucked. I don't mean for a few days but weeks, shaking, headaches, brain fog.

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries and Jack Trout is as important today as it ever has been. It's a great book and IMHO a must read for every marketer and business owner.

Our little guy ended up self soothing by sucking his thumb, but I had bought this book and was enjoying the ideas in it. https://www.amazon.ca/No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Gentle-Through/dp/0071381392 it’s just another method to try other than crying it out. It offers solutions for co-sleeping parents.

You dont need to take a class. Get the book "Personal MBA" https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572 Get it right now. Go to Barns and Noble or Download a digital version. This is your course, its $15 and you will be done in 3 days and know more about business than most people.

You might be better served by looking up book son business improv, like this one.

You would really like the book On the Beach: https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Nevil-Shute/dp/0307473996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525114349&sr=8-1&keywords=on+the+beach

I passed my exam with help from the CISSP Mentor Program and following along with their talks with the Eric Conrad study guide.

In short, yes it is. Theres many ways I could explain it but I don't think i'd do this book justice - http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370 The Millionaire Real Estate Investorby Gary Kellar

This book is to real estate what Rich Dad Poor Dad is to Personal Finance.

I'm so sad to hear this. He's not lazy, he's traumatized. He's not freezing up on purpose, he's dissociating under stress, a behavior kids learn to cope with abuse. It sounds like CPS didn't provide a class for parenting traumatized children, and that's a travesty. I highly recommend you check out this book. It might give you the information and tools you need to be able to safely and effectively parent this poor kid: https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001

ETA: It does sound like he needs a 504. It has nothing to do with being smart, it's about accommodations for a disability. Taking away recess is a terrible consequence for a kid having social difficulties. He needs support, not punishment.

Have you tried the No-Cry Sleep Solution? I read through this book and decided that at 12 months (now 17) I wasn't ready to night wean. However, this process did help me get my LO to sleep without being ALWAYS attached to my boob.

edit: Hit post before I meant to.

If you're saying that you only have 3 or 4 months to learn shorthand, Gregg might not be the right system to choose. With that being said, older Gregg textbooks are available to view at HathiTrust, OpenLibrary, archive.org, Google Books, and angelfishy dot net

You can buy a new copy of the Gregg Simplified manual from amazon at this link

https://www.amazon.com/GREGG-Shorthand-Manual-Simplified/dp/0070245487/

If you choose to study the Simplified version there are people here who can answer questions you might have, and there's a Tumblr blog called DailyGregg that provides a constant trickle of refreshers and practice material in tiny doses.

Buy the Gregg Shorthand manual on Amazon. You will be able to write basic words after the first chapter.

Have you had your A1C blood glucose level tested? Mine was in the pre-diabetic range, plus I kept gaining weight. I went on Metformin and the Insulin Resistance Diet and they have worked wonders for me. I've lost 70 pounds in 18 months, which is a fairly slow but healthy weight loss, and my food cravings are gone.

And I highly recommend avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup at all costs. When I tried introducing it back into my diet, I started gaining weight again. It's a pain to read every food label at the grocery store, but it's so worth it!

The Personal MBA

https://www.amazon.com/CISSP-Study-Guide-Third-Conrad/dp/0128024372

On The Beach

you should read On the Beach.
in which they did not fare so well.

CISSP Study Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128024372/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_5GgGDb2NADS0W

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http://www.businessballs.com/body-language.htm#body-lang..

http://www.rationalresponders.com/mere_christianity_c_s_lewis

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/u1bc2/had_my_first_serious_talk_with_my_dad_about/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/o8w12/my_greatgrandmas_homemade_bread_for_pennies_per/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwwxNwVTnP4

http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Vintage-International-Nevil-Shute/dp/0307473996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340509595&sr=8-1&keywords=On+The+Beach

http://listverse.com/2012/07/02/10-great-popular-science-books/

http://www.sumolounge.com/

http://www.oddee.com/item_97898.aspx

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http://www.reddit.com/r/BarefootRunning/comments/v5liw/a_great_lowcostnocost_option_for_minimalist_shoes/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/people-food-dogs-846363.html?cat=22

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/wq3fz/whats_the_most_ignorant_opinion_youve_ever_seen/c5fgfyr

http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/should-I-spank-my-child

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/reptiles-amphibians/legless-lizard-vs-snake.htm

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/08/pb-j-yogurt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weightwatcherspointsrecipes+%28Gina%27s+Skinny+Recipes%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/k8ktr/footsteps/

http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_evolution

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http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/15ny9x/my_history_teacher_asked_while_in_a_conversation/

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Read the book Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

I'd start with either the Complete MBA For Dummies or The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics, 3rd Edition then advance to The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business or The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed..

Is it this one?

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the marketing bible called 'Positioning' explains a lot about how this works. other things being equal, people will keep voting for senator smith the way they buy kleenex and zerox.

smith dies, they will gravitate to the closest substitute, in this case smith junior. there are other factors, but name recognition is the biggest one.

http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586

this?

First off, it's OK that this happens. 6 months isn't too late to have problems trying to end this (I know people who waited until their child was 2 years, which was a real mess).
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MY main advice - READ THIS BOOK (The No-Cry Sleep Solution) - http://www.amazon.com/The-No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Through/dp/0071381392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394037979&sr=8-1&keywords=baby+sleep
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You gave little detail so all I can say is read this book and go from there. Kids do not "perfect sleeping" until 12 months at the earliest (going to sleep without a peep, staying asleep throughout the night).
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ONE LAST COMMENT: A-OK to post this question here but you will get significantly more answers at /r/parenting

This might be the sort of thing your doctor meant.

http://www.amazon.com/The-No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Through/dp/0071381392

Check out this book, it is kind of interesting even if you don't have a baby. Basically the baby gradually learns he or she is safe, even lying in bed, and doesn't get too overwhelmed.

> She will sleep for 45 minutes to an hour and a half in her crib

The sleep cycles of babies last between 30 and 45 minutes. Sounds like your daughter's cycles last 45. Whenever a cycle is ending, babies are easily aroused to wakefulness, or wake up themselves if they feel something is amiss. For example, my 11 month old will sleep 45 minute naps if he's by himself, but up to 2 hour naps if his mom sleeps with him. He will sleep long naps too if I'm holding him, as I think my heartbeat and breathing ease him. We co-sleep too and our baby "sleeps through the night" in the sense that he seldom becomes fully awake, but he very much fusses until he finds mommy's breast, sucks a few drinks and goes back to sleep. I tell you all this so that you don't think something is wrong with what you've been doing. In my opinion, you've been doing it perfectly well.

Since you need/want your baby to sleep by herself, have you heard of the No Cry Sleep Solution? Check it out. I've heard it requires a bigger effort than CIO, but is just as effective and you're not forcing your child to feel abandoned and suck it up.

There is a difference in allowing your child to cry themselves to sleep and teaching them to soothe themselves and go to sleep on thier own. I recommend a book called the No Cry Sleep Solution. We have followed the same bedtime routine (and played the same music) every night for our son who is now three and he goes to sleep at night and for nap with no fuss. Also when you first begin, you don't let your child just cry it out. You start by waiting 5 then 10,15, and 20 minutes to soothe them. I think that we started this around six or nine months old.

the no cry sleep solution i think is basically the pioneer of this technique so i'd start there.

Did you read No Cry Sleep Solution? It's gospel around here. I'm reading it now. . .

Okay, so I think you have a few options here.

1. Strictly waiting it out. Keep doing what your doing and hope that she will develop better sleep soon. Lots of people choose to do this.
   
   
2. Gentle sleep training, basically, doing a few things to help her get to sleep while gradually reducing your involvement in order to ultimately reach your goal of her staying asleep, reducing night feedings. It does take time and commitment, but they way I saw it when I was in your position is that I was unhappy, exhausted and I needed to try and change things. I found suggestions in the No Cry Sleep Solution helpful around this stage.
   
   The rolling is a phase and no matter you approach, I think it just sucks for a while until she has better control over her body.

On The Beach by Nevil Shute is probably the closest I've read to that level hopeless apocalyptic scenarios.

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart is another one. It's not as dark, but it has some key things in common that you may like.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood No sci-fi or apocalypse thread is getting very far without me recommending it.

I'm not familiar with any textbooks but one book that's similar to a textbook is The Personal MBA (https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538444048&sr=8-2&keywords=personal+MBA). I found it to be like a textbook in a negative way and never finished reading it because I'm personally more into mindset. He read hundreds of business books and compiled all that knowledge into this book. It's exhaustive from that standpoint.

My wife and I bought, and used, the book The No Cry Sleep Solution and loved it. The words "no cry" in the title mean the author does not advocate the "cry it out" method.

The book has lots of suggestions for different situations, different ages, and different problems. She presents you with lots of tools and options to help you figure out what is going to work for your unique situation.

Oh man. It's a long journey from "no clue" to "men's suits" even without the business aspect. To get started in garment sewing, I'd recommend starting with aprons and then pajama pants. Both are those are simple, use cheap fabrics, and require you to learn the techniques you'll use in more advanced sewing - and you can still wear them around the house, even if they turn out embarrassingly bad. (The first few probably will suck pretty bad!) You can also experiment on those forms with buttons, zippers, elastic, embroidery, lots of design elements you'll need for other garments.

The name of the game in this learning cycle is "fail faster". If you work on a more complex garment (even in the muslin stage) you'll be significantly time-invested before you see how it's turning out. You can make an apron or some PJ pants in an afternoon. Almost-instant addicting gratification and you can see where you need more practice quickly.

On the business side, becoming a recognized brand happens via marketing. You should read The Personal MBA as a primer on business in general. I work for an ad agency, and I've worked on fashion brands - it's tough to make it in fashion, whether it's fast fashion or designer. A lot of people want to "become recognized", it's a high-competition field. Not saying you shouldn't go for it, just be realistic that "recognized brand" does not happen overnight (or cheaply).

There's the subreddit /r/TryingForABaby/ for people who are trying to conceive.

As for books, I'm a fan of Dr. Sears' stuff. The Baby Book is a good general one. There are tons of more specialized ones out there too but you won't know which one you need until the baby is here and you know his or her personality.

Generally speaking, I wish I'd read a sleep book before the baby was here. I always thought babies would sleep when they're tired with no intervention from you. This is not true. Or not always true. Baby_Snow^1 was a terrible sleeper. I desperately read any sleep book I could find in those first few months. I like The No Cry Sleep Solution because it fits with our parenting style.

Of course with sleep books, you can drive yourself nuts because one book says one thing, another says the complete opposite. The key is to think of them as tools. Take from them what you think will work and what works with your parenting philosophy. None of them are meant to be taken as unalterable game plans.