What a book. It’s motivating, sparks a great number of ideas and it’s worth a buy simply for the list of resource of websites, books and companies that it has. Warning this Blog Post has spoilers of what the book has ahead, but it’s still a damn good read (the book I mean).

The book is divided into four sections, with the help of the acronym DEAL:

Definition:
The cover of the book states, “Escape 9-5, Live anywhere, and Join the New Rich”. Who are the New Rich? The New Rich, don’t only take money to be their currency, but two other essential ingredients that are necessary to be actually living the life of the wealthy, rather than merely collecting for it. i.e. Time and mobility. Without which you may have all the money you will ever need, but if you’re unable to create that time/mobility for yourself, that money may as well be in a chest buried in the jungles of Congo.

In this section, Tim goes in depth and helps you chart out your Dreamline, TMI (Target Monthly Income) and your Worth per Hour. All tools that help you join the leagues of the New Rich.

Do you feel a novelist in you scraping to come out? Want to start a blog but don’t think you’re writing is good enough? Are you going through the draft of your email again and again before hitting Send? Always dreamt of starting a Journal, but still haven’t?

Here are 6 little ammunition packs, in which I have found inspiration, motivation, guidance, tips & tricks that has got me banging away on my keyboard like never before:

1. Copyblogger.com
This is one terrific blog. Why?
- It’s vast. Covers a wide range of writing topics be it making headlines, opening statements or creative writing or how to find writing time.
- The blog is updated regularly. There’s a new resource to look forward to everyday.
- The posts are so simplified, it’s a matter just following the steps presented in a, b c, format which make your writing better instantaneously.

Here are a few posts that got me hooked:
- 5 simple ways to open your blog post with a bang.
- How to write Magnetic Headlines
- The David Ogilvy Playbook for Business Blogging
- How to write remarkably creative content

2. Writing Well by William Zinsser
Writing Well, a guide for non-fiction writing, boldly states on it’s cover, “More than one million copies sold”. One doesn’t need to turn too many pages to see why.

Some books are entertaining, some useful, but once in a while once comes across a book that can be classified as “life changing”. How to Read better and Faster by Norman Lewis is one such book. Don’t be deceived by it’s simplistic title. The book is NOT an English lesson book that teaches one to read, but how one can increase one’s reading speed from 200 wpm (words per minute) to 500 wpm to even 1,000 wpm & 2,000 wpm. When I started the book I would crawl at 200 to 250 wpm, which Norman Lewis says is the average reading rate. And now after just a couple of months, I easily cruise at 450 to 500 wpm. That means it takes me now half the time to finish the morning paper, emails, letters, office documents and also the occassional novel!