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The Teleprompter Interview: Katy Wix ‘My First Screen Crush was King Kong’

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“Anchors, rigging, shackles,” lists Katy Wix down the phone, “poop deck, wheelhouse, three sheets to the wind…” The comedian and writer has had a productive year. Filming wrapped on Ghosts series two just as UK lockdown began. Since then, she’s finished one book – Delicacy: A Memoir – due out next April, is pitching another, writing a TV show, and thanks to a new-found obsession with Netflix yacht-based reality show Below Deck, has also managed to acquire an enviable grasp of nautical terminology.

Wix is an established UK comic actor, with credits across the board, starting with cult hit Time Trumpet and going mainstream as witless, lovable Daisy in BBC mega-sitcom Not Going Out. She’s currently part of Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, the hottest comedy around, fresh from multiple Bafta wins. She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster. In BBC One sitcom Ghosts, Wix plays Mary, a 17th century yokel burned as a witch and now part of the motley group haunting a modern-day stately home. Mary’s distinctive west country accent “just came out”, says Wix. “It’s an insult really, because I can’t claim to do that accent well. It’s sort of a stock noise. The more I do it, the more I think it sounds like Nanny from Count Duckula. Ducky!”

Ghosts series two, which lands as a boxset on BBC iPlayer on Monday September 21st , will give fans more about Mary’s background, says Wix. “I think people will really love it, and then there’ll be another series next year, depending on the big C. Not cancer. The other big C.”

From superyachts to Alan Partridge, The Day Today to Ghostwatch, Anna from This Life to formative sexual fantasies about prehistoric apes… here’s the Katy Wix Teleprompter interview.

Your parents were quite arty, working in dance companies and the theatre. Did your childhood allow for much TV watching?

Oh my god, yes! My routine was: come home from school, watch the tail-end of Fifteen to One, and when I was really young, repeats of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Then it would be The Broom Cupboard, something like Round the Twist, then the sound of the Six O’Clock News and turning over to The Simpsons. I still do it now, if I’m at home and it’s five to six, I’m going to watch The Simpsons, it’s a tradition.

Welsh telly was slightly different to the rest of the country. We have S4C rather than Channel 4. I remember going through the TV listings and seeing what was on normal Channel 4, like The Word, then I’d look at Welsh Channel 4 and it would just be something boring in Welsh at the same time.

Was there a TV show that inspired you to start acting and comedy?

The one I remember the most is Abigail’s Party. Seeing Alison Steadman’s performance made me want to do character acting. It was just a phenomenal, convincing, detailed performance. Years later, I wrote a radio sitcom that she was in. It was one of those absurd moments where you just have to leave your body and look down on yourself to be able to handle it.

That must happen a lot, you’ve been part of a lot of great comedy casts…

What got me into comedy was Brass Eye and The Day Today. When I was about 15, that’s what changed my brain. It was the first time I’d seen adults being silly and coming up with absurd situations that were my sense of humour. Before that, comedy on TV would always feel like just something your parents would watch but this really felt like it was for us, for me and my friends. It was the same with The Office.

And then you were in This Time with Alan Partridge with Steve Coogan last year.

I was in sixth form when Knowing Me, Knowing You came out and I had it on VHS. Watching people like Rebecca Front and Doon Mackichan… anytime Alan had a guest on the sofa, the level of detail and all the reactions and the tiny little social awkward moments, that made me think I want to do that type of performing. So then, when I got to be in the last Partridge, it was mad. It was phenomenal to be that near to the character and all his tiny micro-expressions. Even the colour of his socks – this weird salmon pink – that was so perfect. Tim [Key] was there as well and we’re old pals, so that made it feel more like, well if Tim can deal with it. But I think even Tim now says he still has times where he has to go into the loo and give himself a moment.

Who or what was your first TV love?

This will sound like a joke, but I swear to God it’s true. It was a running joke in our family that my first crush when I was about four, was King Kong [laughs]. My mum used to tease me about it all the time. It was the combination of brute strength and these massive, soulful, pained eyes – which I still look for in men – that absolutely got me. It was an erotic connection for me. When I look back on it in a Freudian way, it feels like a really obvious, very heterosexual image for a little girl to have, because I wanted to be that woman in the nightie in his massive hairy hand.

Unusual, yes, but then a lot of people our age cite the fox in the Robin Hood Disney film as their first screen crush.

I do get that. I do get that. What was it about that fox?

He’s rakish. And politically, he was sound too – rob from the rich, give to the poor.

You’re right. And he was really confident too.

Growing up, which TV character did you idolise?

There are two, a younger one and a slightly later one. When I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I would draw outfits all the time in my school books and I had the Usborne Book of Fashion Design and spend hours on it. So I wanted to be Hilary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air because she just had incredible fashion. She always got boys and she was really cool and confident and wore amazing clothes. She was everything I wanted to be.

Then a little bit later, maybe sixth form or in my early 20s. I wanted to be Anna from This Life, so much and I kind of still do. Because she was tall and really cool and had dark hair and a lot of attitude and wore black a lot and smoked a lot and didn’t give a shit. That was my vibe at university.

Is there a TV character you’d like to be now?

Probably still Anna?

Which TV show gave you nightmares?

The massive one for me, when I was about 11 or 12: Ghostwatch. I went to a friend’s house to watch it and I remember being a bit like ‘yeah right’ watching it, and then when I got home that night, I just cried. I was in the bath, hysterical and my mum had to come in and calm me down. It was horrendous.

Everyone totally swallowed it at the time, because we were less TV-savvy in 1992. I remember they had a phone-in and someone called in to say ‘There’s a shape in the curtains’, which really fucked me up. The whole Pipes thing. I remember being in my bedroom and seeing a shape of an old man in the curtain all the time. I’ve got really vague memories of Craig Charles being in a park, saying that someone had killed a Labrador. I was thinking about watching it again. I actually don’t know if I dare.

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When did you last cry watching television?

Last night. Have you ever seen the show Below Deck? I’m obsessed with it. I’m not massively into reality TV but it’s an American reality show all filmed on superyachts that rich people charter. It’s almost like a perfect sitcom family – you have a different captain every time and the deckhands and then the interior, who do the hotel stuff, and then you have the chef, who’s always a temperamental big personality and then each episode has a different group of insanely rich, usually quite horrible, sexist people with loads of money who get really drunk, that’s the premise. It’s non-stop drama. You’re just watching people fall off boats and have arguments.

How did it make you cry?

In this episode, there was a girl who’d been really quiet and grumpy and everyone was slagging her off, and then she revealed that she’d got a text that morning saying her estranged father had died, so that’s what set me off. It’s got me through lockdown, it’s so addictive.

When did you last laugh out loud watching television?

Below Deck, same episode!

All human life is there!

I think it was someone’s malapropism, that’s my favourite thing about reality TV, the way people talk in a kind of Stath-like way and get it wrong.

What was the last TV show you recommended to a friend?

Below Deck! [Laughs] I’ve just got Lolly [Adefope] onto it, and Adam Drake – he’s a comedian in a sketch show called Goose and does Capital, a podcast with Liam Williams – he’s now devoted. One of my best mates was bemoaning that her boyfriend’s not into reality TV, but boys can watch Below Deck too. It’s got loads of boat stuff in it. Chains and anchors. I’m learning all these terms, like shackles, poop deck, wheelhouse, three sheets to the wind… That’s where the expression ‘in my wheelhouse’ comes from. Three sheets to the wind means you’re sailing off course.

Which TV show would you bring back from the dead?

Changing Rooms.

Good call.

I also loved The Late Review. I really loved that.

What’s a TV show you wish more people would watch?

Do you know Iyanla Vanzant? She started off on The Oprah Winfrey Show – I love Oprah so much – and she’s a TV therapist/healer/spiritual. She’s got a show you can only get on American TV called Iyanla: Fix My Life. She just speaks so much wisdom. She spends a week with people who are really traumatised and it’s their healing journey. It’s so moving, it’s so profound. She’s doing incredible work for the human race.

She did an amazing show called, I think, ‘The Myth of the Angry Black Woman’ with a house full of women of colour who all got to talk about this trope that they were angry and how they felt unable to speak without being silenced. She did a show that was rehabilitating people that had come out of prison and women that had been sex workers all their loves, just amazing.

Which current TV show do you never miss an episode of?

In lockdown, what kept me going was I May Destroy you, obviously, Below Deck, obviously. I also became obsessed with the Japanese Big Brother Terrace House, but it just got pulled because there was a suicide. It was so, so awful. I read an article saying the producers didn’t behave well, so I feel like I can’t like it any more. I love Succession too. I started watching this show on Netflix called Intervention and got totally obsessed with it. Again, it’s maybe ethically a bit dubious. It’s American, obviously, and they’ll film an addict who’s in a really desperate state and then the family kind of trick them, or persuade them to go into a room and then the intervention therapist is there and they’re like ‘Guess what, you’re going to rehab now!’ Anything that’s got human suffering, and then a redemption story in it, I’ll watch.

Given the power, which TV show would you commission?

I think about this a lot – what if I had a channel? I’d commission the sketch group Sheeps to make tons of series. That’s Liam Williams, Al Roberts and Daran Johnson, and so far they’ve only done live shows, but I would commission them for hours of TV. Colin Hoult doing his character Anna Mann, I’d commission hours of that. Everyone involved in Stath Lets Flats, I’d just say ‘Turn up, pitch and we’ll make it’. There’s a documentary from the 70s that I adore, that I would like to show again, which is John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. It’s one of the most beautiful, gentle documentaries. I feel like that should be on TV. And just whatever Gemma Collins is doing, commission that.

Also, you know in the 90s, late at night you’d get some weird, bizarre performance art happening on BBC Two? I miss that. The sort of stuff that was on after The Word. And then finally, maybe just all of Peep Show again?

What’s the most fun you’ve had making television?

Ghosts is where I probably laugh the most because of Lolly [Adefope]. We make each other laugh all the time. When me and Anna [Crilly] did our sketch show on Channel 4, it was incredible. It was stressful but exciting. It was such a nice atmosphere to be with all these gorgeous people that you find funny.

Stath Lets Flats is like that, because we’re all genuine mates. When people take comedy so seriously I really love it. I love that attention to detail. Jamie [Demetriou] and everyone involved really cares. There’s no ‘that’ll do’ attitude, everyone wants it to be the best it can be. Why not treat comedy as a science that you have to absolutely get right?

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Ghosts series two starts on Monday the 21st of September on BBC One at 8.30pm. All six episodes will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer from then.

Delicacy: A Memoir by Katy Wix, published by Headline, is available to pre-order now.

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**Illustration courtesy Robin Sheldon**

I love Kalyn Nicholson. I absolutely love her spirit. I watch her videos whenever I feel down or stuck hoping that her energy somehow rubs off on me.

Lately, I’ve been feeling stuck. There’s nothing wrong with my life per se. But that feeling that I’m not really moving forward has been gnawing at me for a while now. And so I turned to Kalyn for some inspiration.

I absolutely love how she makes these fun bucket lists for each season. It’s such a joy to watch her check off each item one by one on her videos. This got me wondering. What if I made a tiny bucket list for October, something to get me out of the humdrum of life and really do something fun with it.

And so I turned towards my trusted tarot card reading site to get a reading. I needed a theme for the month. I put out a question into the universe about how I should be living my life this month. Here’s what it said

1. Choices and action made out of love for oneself and the other person will attract experiences that are in alignment with my wishes of finding peace and purpose of life

2. By doing this I would feel much fuller, happier and self confident.

3. Go with the flow because the coming change in events will actually prove to be to my benefit.

The theme was quite clear now. October would be my month of self care, kindness and acceptance.

I also listed out a few activities to ensure I would create some fun experiences for myself.

Social activities/ Magical adventures

Hanging out with friends and pets

Walks in nature

Learning

Listen to BBC podcast on art and design

Listen to A Short History of Nearly Everything audiobook

Creating

To be decided

Kindness

Hugs

A gift for myself

Hot cocoa

Buy a cute pair of earrings

Fictional Book of the month

Handmaid’s Tale

Movie of the month

Crazy Rich Asians

Explore a new place or a restaurant

To be decided

If all goes well, I will review my month based on the following.

Lessons learnt

Song of the month

Dope experiences with photos

I’m not gonna try and finish them all. This will be like my north star for October. As the tarot reading suggested I will try and go with the flow and trust that I will gain more clarity by the end of this month.

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Brain Food: The Three Timezones, Relationships, and Confident Knowledge

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September 2020

Your fears are ebbing, your confidence is rising, and proof that I exist can now be felt in your touch by loved ones, found in your smile by friends, and seen in your countenance by strangers. Everything, for you, will now begin getting easier, happier, and zippier. / The Universe (from Mike Dooley's Notes from the Universe newsletter, September 3)

Time of the Season

Coming home. Solitude. Lots of Sonnentor Gute Laune tea.

Fixing a toaster. I love how easy it is to disassemble old electronic devices.

Full moon magic. Manifesting. Perhaps the time has come - maybe I'm finally going insane. But I keep receiving these messages (or rather have very strong urges and feelings) at the moment. I felt super out of place, out of touch and out of luck these last few weeks, like something was wrong with me for being different, thinking differently. I just couldn't deal with people's energies anymore (hectic, stressful, close-minded, inflexible, conservative, rule-abiding). But something tells me I'm on the right path when I stick to what is good for me. All signs are pointing the way. I'm so curious for the things to come.

Vivid dreams about family issues, my brother dying in an accident, consoling my mum, browsing through an imaginary grandma's treasures in her attic apartment.

Strictly speaking this is not a thing I love because I hate wearing face masks and I miss wearing lipstick so goddamn much but I have found silk to be the perfect material. Super smooth, soft, breathable and light.

Advancement in my self-love journey. Listening to my body. Trying to give it exactly what it needs. I don't know what happened but there has been such a profound change in the way I treat myself and the worthiness I suddenly feel. I'm much more able to let go of situations and people that are harmful to my mental well-being. I am enough.

Christina's Matcha Mornings podcast. It's so interesting to see the direction she has taken. I met her in Vienna ten years ago after reading her LiveJournal for years. My inspiration.

How to be more alive in the moment.

Random bit of trivia: there is not a single subway station in Munich that includes the letter Ä. I'm a collector of weird facts.

The Vintage Books edition of Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey. I love the grey, cream, the black and white photograph. The rough cut. Also: learning about Miss Christine and Girls Together Outrageously. I ordered a few of Patti's books the other day because I'm quite interested in her art - photography, visual art, poetry.

Making a list of my artistic heroines. So far Patti Smith, Marina Abramovich, Siri Hustvedt, Nina Hagen, Louise Bourgeois and Donna Tartt are on it. And Ramapriya, a former yoga teacher.

Magic Eye holo images. I was obsessed as a child and it's just as fascinating to me again now.

Manifesting male company. The conversations are nice so far, let's see where these lead.

Popping bubble wrap.

Going on a long Sunday walk. Sunshine. Smelling wild roses on the way. Eating a whole wheat croissant in front of the churchyard.

Finding practical solutions. Decluttering.

Ayurvedic rituals.

Drinking coffee in the morning, especially on days I can stay at home. What a productivity high!

Waking up crazy early on a Saturday. Reading my current favourite, a Leigh Bardugo fantasy trilogy. Breakfast with fresh raspberries and coffee from my friend's roastery. With barista soy milk foam. Getting a hot water bottle. Going back to bed, reading some more. My new Saturday routine: cleaning, making crisp bread. Doing the laundry.

Listening to old Radiohead songs. In Rainbows is my favourite album. OK Computer a close second.

A sudden desire to move. Yoga, blackroll, stretching, dancing. So nice. It's quite rare that my body actually wants to be moved and used because usually I have issues with low energy or an aching joint. The other day I took a walk and came across an ad for Kundalini yoga in my neighbourhood. Unfortunately the couple who gave the class have since moved away but Sarah gave me some recommendations for other Kundalini classes nearby. I have to try it!

The beautiful Sunday morning sunset.

An obsession with an O.P.I nail polish with the worst name ever. A very soft, pale pink. Currently I won't accept anything else on my fingernails.

Heighted awareness. A better connection to my needs and desires. Figuring it all out. A miraculous change in my eating behaviour. I just can't seem to overeat anymore.

Sister Shanti.

A warm breakfast. Herbal tea, miso soup with furikake, dashi, roasted sesame and a sheet of nori. Ayurvedic porridge with soy yoghurt, blueberries and my usual mix of nuts, cacao nibs, hemp and flax seeds. Bircher muesli. Coffee with barista style soy milk.

Creativity connected to the moon cycle.

Visiting my mum. Driving out to her workplace for the first time in years. Taking home lots of crystals. Singing along to old songs on the radio. Her outrageously delicious cookies with nuts, chocolate and apricot jam. Talking about the important stuff. Connecting. Spending hours in the woods on a mushroom forage. Having dumplings with creamy mushroom sauce for lunch on Sunday. Getting to now Martin's grandchildren. They took a liking to me. I was their witch and had to come up with new magic spells all the time. I would summon mushrooms (or have them appear on someone's bum) and turn the boys into crocodiles or broccoli.

There's a new Fleet Foxes album!

A very nice and pretty comprehensive autumn movie list. It inspired me to make my own.

to have pull with - Have a means of gaining advantage with, have influence on, as in She had pull with several of the board members. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

Making my favourite vegan Lebkuchen with lots of nuts, dark chocolate and marzipan. They're huge so eating one of them is already very satisfying.

Reconnecting with Christina. Sending each other voice messages on Instagram. Talking about personal growth, our internet presence from ten years ago, her MatchaMornings website and so much more. We might even meet next time she's in Munich!

Stealing a piece of stale bread from Frank's oven. Eating with with a dollop of delicious soured butter.

I kinda like how we're forming a new tradition. Visiting Frank after school, waiting for him to finish work, cooking something, watching a movie or an episode of a TV series (we just got started with the new season of Fargo).

Doing a little research on the lyrics to my favourite Epic Rap Battle of History (Dr. Seuss vs. William Shakespeare). We had suspected that part of it was written in sonnet style but unfortunately we couldn't prove our theory.

Becky giving my compliments for how cute my face looks when I'm wearing my foxy hat. I actually found another hat in the same style online. I'm going to check that website every day from now on because I know that there are hats with robins and squirrels out there and someone will put them up for sale sooner or later.

Walking home from the hairdressers. Quickly avoiding bumping into a long-haired dude walking towards me. He imitated my swift move and smiled at me. I giggled and somehow we had a tiny connection, a fraction of a moment together.

#personal #present perfect #things i love #september #2020 #september 2020

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My trading book recommendations

Updated: August 19, 2019 – a complete update of all my favorite trading books and non-trading related books.

This is not going to be another must-read trading book list where the same old trading books are mentioned for the 1000th time.

Although I do include some of the classics, you will also find a lot of new and non-trading related books in my list. In my opinion, you need to read a diverse mix of different books and different genres to get exposed to as many different ideas as possible. And sometimes, you will get the best ideas from a book you almost didn’t pick up.

All it takes is 1 idea or 1 sentence to completely change the trajectory of your life. So please, for your own sake, stay open-minded and pick up some books you’d normally avoid.

��An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

The Trading Classics

Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street’s Champion Day Trader [personal favorite]

Marty Schwartz is a legend and his results speak for themselves. This book isn’t just a very entertaining read, but Marty Schwartz’ personal story is also a very inspiring one from the average Joe to a multi-million dollar trader.

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude

Is Trading in the Zone the best trading book out there? At least for beginners this probably holds true. But even if you are not new to trading and haven’t read this book yet, go and read it! At some point every trader acknowledges that trading successfully isn’t only about a trading method, but about a trader’s mindset and psychology. This is the point when you’ll want to have this book.

Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

I haven’t met a single trader who doesn’t like the Market Wizard Series. Some of the best and most popular traders and hedge fund managers share their stories and explain what it takes to become a profitable trader, and what helped them. Since the books are available as an audio version and written in an interview style, they are ideal to listen to wherever you go.

Also recommended by this author: By Jack D. Schwager: Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders and The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing [a personal favorite]

Burton Malkiel talks about bubbles, behavioral finance, herd mentality and everything that happens in the head of traders and investors. This book points out what drives prices and how traders see and think about the markets. The concepts and ideas in this book are often in complete contrast to what you usually hear on TV or read in financial books. At the same time, you will have a lot of aha-moments when Malkiel shares his thoughts on financial topics and trading.

Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading

Alexander Elder, another legendary name in the world of trading, explains what it takes to become a professional trader. He focuses on a trader’s mindset, money and risk management and developing your own trading strategy. He points out how important discipline as a trader is and what separates the average from the successful trader. Although the points about technical analysis won’t be particularly helpful to all traders, his view on psychology and the trader’s mindset will help everyone to understand the impacts of psychology better.

More About Trading

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

This book walks you through the history of probabilities, math and risk management. From the first time, people started engaging in games of chance such as rolling dice, to the modern world of risk management and modeling. If you are looking to learn something new and are a bit of a math and statistics geek, this book is a must.

Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers

Professional gambling and trading have many similarities, especially when it comes to mindset, psychology and discipline. This book is the gambling equivalent to the Market Wizards series in trading. From the best poker players, blackjack and backgammon player, to sports bettors and multi-millionaire horse racing legends, this book offers some fascinating insights into the world of professional gambling.

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility” (Incerto)

Nicholas Taleb’s book talks about the very rare, but highly impactful events that shock financial markets and the whole world in general. He talks about the impossibility to prepare for such events and the implication that arises from it. This is a thought-provoking book which offers unique insights and provides a different view on the world and highly recommended for traders since we deal with the unknown every day.

Books That Will Challenge The Way You Think About Life

The Alchemist [personal favorite]

I am convinced that The Alchemist should be included in every recommended reading-list, regardless of the topic. It fair to say that this book is probably the most inspiring novel ever written. The book shows the story of a shepherd who sets out to follow his heart and pursue his dreams despite uncertainty and lack of resources. If you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow – and you never will – but still follow the voice in your heart, something extraordinary is waiting for you.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

This is a super fun read, packed with LOADS of practical tips on how to improve your life. However, it is not the standard self help book and it encoirages you to think differently and question many of the conventional tips and the general approach to life. Highly recommended!

I also highly recommend his newer book: Everything Is F*cked

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch was a computer science professor who has been diagnosed with cancer. In his ‘last lecture’ he talked about how to live life and how to overcome obstacles. This book isn’t about dying, but about living. If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

This novel is completely different from all the books on this list, but it’s a personal favorite and a world-wide bestseller as well. Robin Sharma shares the story of a successful lawyer who, after a heart attack, quit his job, sold all of his possessions and set out to find a secret tribe of monks deep in the Himalaya. The monks taught him their secrets about life, how they view the world and showed him how to use the mind in a whole new way. Robin Sharma’s writing style is very vivid and he shares many practical tips that you can apply to your own daily life.

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

When it comes to personal finance, Rich Dad, Poor Dad is probably the #1 book in the world. Robert Kiyosaki’s book contains so many valuable lessons about how to take your finances to the next level, why passive income is so important and what you can do to live independently, that it should be taught in school.

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferris is a legend in the area of online entrepreneurs and investors. He not only has a blog that is worth subscribing to, but his book is also a must-read if you plan to escape the usual 9-5 job routine and pursue the dream of doing what you love. In his book. Tim Ferris gives a lot of real life examples and provides many actual tips on how to earn money online and what it takes to live independently and freely by doing what you want.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Although the title claims that this book is for startups, it’s much more than just this. Peter Thiel is probably among the smartest people you’ll ever hear about. Not only is he the founder of Paypal and Palantir, but he’s also an angel investor and visionary. In his new book, he talks about society and what he believes is wrong about how we see our world and shape our future. He challenges a variety of common-sense beliefs and provides a whole different view on the world we live in. If you like to think differently, this book is undoubtedly for you.

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

When traders just starting out, everything is fun and exciting. But once trading becomes hard, frustrating and boring, you notice that it takes more than you originally thought. Research shows that the majority of traders only trade for a few months. Seth Godin’s book The Dip describes this phenomenon and explains why pushing through the hard times is so important to the success of any profession and skill.

Biographies

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

This biography is a fascinating story about risk, following your passion, building a business, having a vision and overcoming setbacks. This book has easily become my #1 most favorite biography.

I listened to it as an audiobook on Audible and I could not turn it off.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Prior to reading Shoe Dog, Total Recall was my favorite biography. Arnold’s book does indeed read like a movie script and there is so much more to him than just bodybuilding and being a movie star.

His will, motivation and his work ethic are unparalleled. After reading this book, you will be ready to take on the world.

Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

First I didn’t want to read his book because I felt that I already knew it all after listening to various podcasts. But man was I wrong.

His life story is truly remarkable and his will is from another world. If you are struggling to find motivation, this book will show you what is possible.

Spirutal books

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

This book has been hugely successful and I have read it numerous times within just a few months. There is so much wisdom packed into this book that it will just keep blowing your mind time and again.

This book is so important for traders because it also tackles the issues of dealing with the inner voice in our heads, how to manage it and how to put it into perspective.

The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection

This is Singer’s (the man who wrote the previously mentioned book The Untethered Soul) biography. His life story is astonishing and it resonated with me in particular because he is not the classic spiritual guru. He built a billion Dollar tech company and was very sucesful in his life.

He surrendered to life and just went with the flow. There is so many lessons in this book you will be able to apply to your own life as well.

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

I am not relegious what so ever but I picked up this book after it was recommended to me and I did not expect the impact it would have on me. Although the book is weird at times, the messages in the book are just so well expressed. The first and second book are my personal favorites.

This book series has completely changed the way I look at the world, how I view religion, society and so many other things. If you are open-minded, this book will probably do the samr for you as well.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

You probably will have to read this multiple times to fully understand all aspects but there are so many gold nuggets hidden in this book, that you will have plenty of aha moments while reading it.

Tolle talks about much more than just living in the present moment.

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

This book is quite strange at times, a little confusing and the ideas that are presented are very different. However, since the ideas of this book are so groundbreaking and potentially life changing, I expected it to be different. You can’t expect to have a mindset shift if you keep reading the same old things you already know about.

Give it a try and I am sure you will see the value.

I am always looking for non-conventional and different books. If you have a suggestion for a book that is completely overlooked by most, please share it in the comments.

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Finding A New Normal

As the mission with this blog, I want to be honest, this move to Arizona has been much more taxing then I expected. My girls have seemed to make the transition, albeit challenging in the first few days, but they have adjusted beautifully. Still some ways to go before they really get to their stride, but, I am so very proud of them and how they have adapted to all that is new. My wife, she has her moments of being overwhelmed, new and different teaching position, coaching, and being a mom (as well as taking care of me 😉.) The girls are still active in sports, but their level of commitment has increased, and they are both practicing 3-5 per week respectively plus practice/games/events on the weekends. Like everyone else out there, things are a bit chaotic, but, there has been major progress in adjusting. Me, I am all over the place and have had a hard time, “finding my new normal.” That is something Robin said a couple of days ago. I believe we are all trying to find it, but I might be going in the opposite direction while Robin and the girls are grabbing it and stepping on its throat. I mentioned it, I think I may have bit off more than I can chew with underestimating how much more this adjustment was going to take. Not going to lie, I figured I would get out there, have the house all squared away, kids good to go, Robin off and running, training going well, coaching/mentoring/training business moving, job good to go and a happy, magical world……......HOLY SHIT was I wrong!!! It is okay though. It is getting better. I mentioned this before, but it is amazing how tools, resources, and, I guess maybe inspiration presents itself to you when most needed. Over the last couple of days, the podcasts, conversations, and meetings I’ve had provided these nuggets, signs maybe? To help me keep moving forward and provide clarity on this journey. Not just this adjustment journey, but this overall journey.

Last night I finished a book, The Ultramarathon Man (for those interested in the sport, highly recommend this read) to today I fired about my Kindle and Amazon to acquire some new material. There were 4 that caught my eye – what the hell, I will share them for the good of the group (mindless plug here!!).

- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson, Malcolm Gladwell

- The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan

- The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins

- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown

Although I just finished up a Brene’ Brown book a few weeks ago I was drawn to the one above, so I cracked it and started reading. Only a few minutes into I come across this;” No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worth of love and belonging.’” Wow!! Where my mind was at a few days ago, what I was fighting with, it feels that this was what I was looking for, needing to see. Sorry to be geeky but I think this world we live in is pretty special. The Universe, for me God, is magical and maybe you all think I am crazy but the fact that, I just finished my last book in this recent group, chose to select the 4 books above, and today, begin reading Brene’ Brown’s and read this message; I think that is freeking awesome. Now, have I instantaneously found my new normal? Hell, no but I am looking at things differently, have some more clarity and self-awareness, and know that no day is going to be perfect. Shit, tomorrow could suck who the hell knows but I am not dreading what’s to come; for a moment, I was.

When those days come that aren’t ideal, you know, those days where we expect to go exactly according to plan (wink, wink, wink – they don’t exist) and then the shit hits the fan and it is 10pm and you feel like you didn’t get anything done? Come on, you know those days? Like, every day? Although I forget very often, this passage above reminds me that I am enough, I am doing enough, and I do belong right where I am at. Now, if where you are at is not where you want to be then that is another conversation but for me, although I have a long road to go, I am getting better; no matter if I didn’t scratch everything on my to do list.

“Why do we so often end up hustling for it rather than believing in it?” – Brene’ Brown

#fthenewnormal enjoytheride youareenough youbelong youaintgonnafinishitall

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