The Joy of Doing: Positive Personal Productivity (2026)
More than just philosophy and motivation, The Joy of Doing provides a flexible yet powerful seven-step process that takes you from your biggest goals to management of your daily activities. This ensures that every day you are addressing the key facets of your life and are making the best use of every moment. You have a choice of ways to incorporate The Joy of Doing comfortably into your daily life.
You’ll learn how to:
• Savor your progress, without the checkboxes.
• Start your day with a list of activities that inspires, not intimidates.
• Know every moment that you are making the best possible use of your limited time.
• Adapt gracefully when life throws changes at you.
• Find balance in what you do each day.
• Free yourself to accomplish those ambitious projects.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an artist, an executive, a retiree, or anyone else trying to balance a busy life, The Joy of Doing provides a solid approach to real productivity that works in the real world.
Simple Spreadsheets for Hard Decisions (2008)
Note: This book is in extremely short supply. Please contact us if you have trouble getting it.
Best personal, financial, and business choices with Microsoft Excel — when you have too many goals and too little information.
Learn to build powerful, custom financial model in minutes, even if you’ve never used Excel before. Then use them interactively to compare, evaluate and fine-tune your options.
Ever wish you could glimpse your future—just long enough to make a decision today?
- Should I buy a house or rent?
- How much money can I spend?
- Which car should I buy?
- How much must I save to send my child to college?
- Which health insurance should I buy?
- Can I afford to retire?
- Should I change jobs?
- Can I handle the risks of aggressive investments?
Conquer life’s daunting decisions with the help of a friend you’ve had right on your desk all along: Microsoft Excel.
Excel leaves a crystal ball in the dust when it comes to answers. Instead of one vague future, the spreadsheets you will learn to build show actual potential consequences of decisions you make today…change the decision: change the consequences! Yes, there are always unknowns. But, change your assumptions about them—inflation, investment returns, future expenses, and so on—and see how the outcome changes.
Advice on making and saving money is everywhere. But, only in Simple Spreadsheets for Hard Decisions do you master informed spending, saving, choosing a course of action, and other quality-of-life choices. Do the numbers to quantify your values and see possible futures beyond those of any crystal ball!
Have you, due to insufficient information, ever made a rash decision or no decision at all? The methods and samples in this book give you the know-how to make a balanced decision when you feel pulled in many directions by uncertainty or conflicting goals. The book’s simple techniques help you quickly build a spreadsheet to guide your thinking on outcomes beyond your control, for personal, financial, or business decisions.