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Rainbow Gold: Building a Business That's Both the Journey and the Destination is a business memoir and entrepreneurial guide by David B. Hampson, published by MindStir Media on October 17, 2025. Drawing on his own winding path — from running a restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, to leading Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance Group in New Hampshire — Hampson builds a case for passion-driven, sustainability-focused entrepreneurship rooted in the "butterfly effect" of small, deliberate choices. Kirkus Reviews calls it "familiar but sound advice on building a business for the long haul," and that verdict captures the book's balance of genuine credibility and real-world limitation: the voice is honest and grounded in lived experience, but readers already steeped in entrepreneur literature will encounter well-worn territory.
Apr 5, 2026
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living is a rigorously structured daily devotional that brings Stoic philosophy into the rhythms of contemporary life, debuting on both the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists — the latter ranking it as high as #2 overall and keeping it there for eleven weeks — and has since sold more than two million copies.
Apr 3, 2026
Eric Jorgenson's The Almanack of Naval Ravikant compiles over a decade of entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant's wisdom — drawn from tweets, podcasts, and essays — into a structured guide covering two central pillars: building wealth and finding happiness. Originally published in 2020 and now reissued in a second edition by Authors Equity (September 2025), the book features illustrations by Jack Butcher and a foreword by Tim Ferriss. It is designed to serve as both an entry point and a reference work for readers at any stage of life, translating Ravikant's first-principles thinking into accessible, consolidated form.
Apr 5, 2026
Adapted from Admiral William H. McRaven's viral 2014 University of Texas commencement address, Make Your Bed distills ten principles drawn from his 34-year Navy SEAL career into a concise self-help book published by Grand Central Publishing — a brisk, anecdote-driven guide that resonates strongly with readers seeking direct, military-framed life lessons, though its brevity and narrow experiential lens will not satisfy every audience.
Apr 3, 2026
Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself is a self-help and psychology book that makes a rigorous, structured argument for replacing chronic self-criticism with self-compassion — covering its core components, its practical benefits, and its application across relationships, parenting, and personal growth. Originally published in 2011 and later issued in a William Morrow Paperbacks edition, it remains one of the field's foundational texts on the subject.
Apr 2, 2026
Ivi Green's independently published guide distills 50 landmark personal-development titles into a single visual reference, translating soft-skills classics on success, leadership, healthy habits, and happiness into infographic form — a format designed to make a wide body of self-help reading accessible in one compact volume.
Apr 3, 2026
Peter Hollins's self-help guide targets the gap between knowing what needs to be done and actually doing it, drawing on psychology, self-discipline frameworks, and neuroscience to help readers push through aversion and build consistent action — a focused, topic-specific addition to his extensive Live a Disciplined Life series.
Mar 28, 2026
Jackson Ridge's The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization is a wide-ranging reference guide structured around ten chapters that move from immediate survival priorities to long-term social reconstruction, covering renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, ethical governance, and community building — marketed equally to sustainability enthusiasts and gift-givers seeking an accessible, visually polished introduction to civilizational resilience.
Apr 2, 2026
David Deida's The Way of the Superior Man is a long-selling spiritual guidebook for men that addresses career, intimate relationships, sexuality, and purpose through the lens of masculine spirituality; having sold over a million copies, its 20th Anniversary Edition — published by Sounds True / St. Martin's Essentials and featuring a new introduction by Deida — brings its central challenge to a new generation of readers, though its framework of polarity between masculine and feminine energies remains a point of genuine debate.
Apr 6, 2026
Exposure: How an Outlier's Journey Illuminates the Extremes of Power, Vitality, and Possibility is an illustrated memoir by Wim Hof — the Dutch extreme athlete known worldwide as "the Iceman" — tracing his life from unconventional early adulthood through decades of record-breaking cold-exposure feats. Published by Sounds True in November 2025, the book combines personal photographs, stories, and motivational passages. Publishers Weekly, while acknowledging the striking photography, describes it as "impressionistic and uneven" and recommends it primarily for devoted fans of Hof's work.
Apr 2, 2026
Published in March 2025 by Pete Sumner and jSw, The 5am Habit: Master Your Morning and Transform Your Life is a short-form self-help Kindle title positioning itself as a science-backed, practical guide to reclaiming the early hours of the day — a modest but focused entry in a crowded genre, best suited to readers who want a quick-start framework rather than a deep philosophical exploration.
Mar 31, 2026
The Growth Multiplier, co-authored by veteran business growth strategist Jay Abraham and marketing professor Dr. Villy Abraham, presents a framework for multiplying business results without proportionally increasing effort or resources — built around what the authors call the "perpetual growth flywheel."
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