![]() I read it before a salary negotiation, and as a result, I upped my initial asking number (and they gave it to me)!’ I could see how I'm stacking the deck against myself without even knowing it. Image credit: Harper Paperbacks | Entrepreneur What We Love: There’s a reason why this book topped The New York Times’ Best Sellers list - and why its author, Gretchen Rubin, has had her works translated into more than 30 languages. Rubin’s writing and analytics put her at the forefront of research on habits, human nature and happiness. The latter was sparked by a simple question she asked herself on a rainy afternoon on a city bus: “What do I want from life, anyway?” In this book, Rubin outlines her own resolutions for the year she spent working on her own “happiness project.” She focused on a different area each month, like vitality and boosting energy for January - this meant goals like an earlier bedtime, better exercise and simply acting more energetic. Rubin’s angle here isn’t telling readers to do something - rather, it’s to share her own experience in hopes of inspiring readers to think differently about their own happiness. Image credit: Simon & Schuster | Entrepreneur The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field (Nathaniel Branden) It allows for a plan that can be modified to fit any individual.’ Another says, ‘A realistic, genuinely practical (but not easy), lifelong approach to making the constant adjustments we know we need to be our best selves.’īest Place to Buy: Currently listed at $9.00 on Amazon What Readers Say: One reviewer writes, ‘The quirkiness of this twelve-month plan for a focus on happiness distinguishes it from other self-help books. It doesn’t work with Audiobooks with DRM (Apple Books or Audible) but does work well with MP3, M4A, and M4B files.What We Love: Shonda Rimes may have had three shows on television, but she didn’t have it all - especially when it came to confidence. If you use Plex, and love Audiobooks, you’ll love Prologue. The developer has a tip jar to support continued development, and I frequently use it whenever new updates come out. It’s a fantastic app, and it’s well worth the download. Prologue is a free download on the App Store, and there is a one time $5 in-app purchase to unlock offline downloads and the collections features I mentioned earlier. It also supports voice boost (similar to Overcast), variable playback speeds, sleep timer, bookmarks, and Siri support. ![]() It has a great CarPlay version, so it’s perfect for listening to books in the car. If you build “collections” in Plex (think: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc.), they will show up as Collections in the app. Playback progress syncs over iCloud to listen on your iPhone and your iPad without losing your spot. Instead of having to load your books manually, you sign in to your Plex server, and all of your books are available to stream or download offline. Once that is all set up, the Prologue app becomes the best audiobook app on the App Store. There is a step-by-step guide for configuring it on the Plex Forums. While Plex doesn’t support it out of the box, it’s a pretty straight forward process to add a section of your library for books. Once I discovered it was possible to put these files into Plex, it became an audiobook dream setup for me. I will often find cheaper copies of books on CD from Amazon, and then use Audiobook Builder to combine them into an M4B format that works great for audiobooks. I’ve had an Audible subscription since 2008, and I’ve listened to hundreds of books during that time. I’ve been an audiobook fan for as long as I can remember. Earlier this year, I added a new type of media to my server: Plex audiobooks with the Prologue app. Plex is an essential part of my media life for TV and Movies. I then have my setup rounded out with a Backblaze subscription to keep everything backed up. After that, I used an Nvidia Shield for several years and recently moved to an Intel NUC with a 14 TB external drive to house all of my media. I set up my first very Plex server running on an old MacBook Pro I had, and it worked well for several years. When I moved in 2013, I decided I was done with physical media for TV shows and movies and ripping all of my DVDs into digital format.
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