What's in the Words

Building on the principles found in his father’s best-selling book (The Four Agreements) Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. invites us to gauge how attached we are to our own viewpoint.  In The Five Levels of Attachment, we gain awareness of agreements implicitly made across the years – agreements that shape our reality and affect our future.  We are further shown how to release those which no longer reflect who we really are.

There are few topics that can get AJ and Steve riled up a bit... but the marketing of the KKK and the selling of hate - at the expense of millions of black and brown people being killed... is a surefire way to ruffle feathers.

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury is a practical guide to negotiating more effectively whether you’re haggling over a price, negotiating for a pay increase, or debating how to divide the housework. The authors propose an alternative to traditional adversarial bargaining, which often results in unfair agreements and strained relationships. Principled negotiation, by contrast, aims to reach wise and fair agreements efficiently and civilly. In addition to walking you through their method, the authors offer numerous tips and techniques for handling challenging negotiations. Anyone can use their method, under any circumstances.

On the last episode of 2020, @stevecanal and @ajjoiner unpack American Rule by @JYSexton, and it's a banger.

Listen to today's episode as @stevecanal & @ajjoiner break down The Way of the Superior Man by @daviddeida.live. This book presents the ultimate challenge—and reward—for today’s man: to “unify heart and spine” through the full expression of consciousness and love in the infinite openness of the present moment.   Are you up to the challenge?

Author Anna Nyakana takes you on a journey with Niya Zuri as she leads her friends on a breathtaking and exciting trek through time as they take on dinosaurs, help ancient princes, and evade suspicious royal guards.

First, the book is structured as a dialogue between the Napoleon HIll and the devil — that’s a unique conversation without a doubt! Hill gets the devil to agree to share with him all the various ways that people allow themselves to go astray. The book was written in 1938, it was not published until 2011, because it was deemed too controversial for his family. It’s an incredibly easy, incredibly fast, and incredibly captivating read.

Check out @stevecanal & @ajjoiner as they peel back the layers of the amazing read.

HOW TO WIN WHEN SH*T HAPPENS is brilliantly organized in a flow that over the course of 30 days moves the reader from the core of self-doubt through layer after layer of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, to emerge as a stronger, more self-assured individual. 

In this work, Christal Jordan has penned a transparently captivating tome that will touch your soul and regenerate your spirit to embrace each new day with energy, confidence, and most importantly, a renewed sense of worthiness. 

The book is based on affirmations that Jordan has pulled from some of society’s most notable inspirational leaders and used to guide her personal journey to rich and rewarding life experience.

Your personality is merely a by-product or a reflection of where you are emotionally. If you maintain suppressed emotions, you’ll develop a personality to either cope with or avoid them.

Check out @stevecanal and @ajjoiner's review and tag your favorite reading partner.

In 'Messy', Tim Harford explores how the human qualities that we value—creativity, collaboration, resilience—can benefit from disorder and confusion as soon as we decide to embrace the constraint instead of resisting it.