SCPL Reads: Adulting
If it sometimes feel like you're still just a kid but now with adult responsibilities, these books are for you. From financial advice to time management, these titles are full of tips and tools to help you feel more on track.
Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims
In Your Turn, Julie offers compassion, personal experience, and practical strategies for living a more authentic adulthood, as well as inspiration through interviews with dozens of voices from the rich diversity of the human population who have successfully launched their adult lives.
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle
When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy, parenting, friendship, uncertainty, aging, grief, new beginnings—life—you need a guidebook, too. We Can Do Hard Things is the guidebook for being alive.
Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most
Cassie Holmes
Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to avoid distracts, design an effective schedule, and be confident in your choices.
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Tiffany Aliche
Revealing this practical ten-step process for the first time in its entirety, Get Good with Money introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. With helpful checklists, worksheets, a tool kit of resources, and advanced advice from experts who Tiffany herself relies on, Get Good with Money gets crystal clear on the short-term actions that lead to long-term goals.
Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives
Gretchen Rubin
Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she’s faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the “Secrets of Adulthood” that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism—the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.
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