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The Power of Journaling: How Writing Changes the Way You Think

By Marcelo Galvani April 14, 2025Personal Development

Category: Personal Development (ID 6) | Tags: self-awareness (14), habits (35), creativity (20), mindfulness (11) 🇺🇸 English Some of the most successful people in history — Marcus Aurelius, Leonardo da…

The Psychology of Money: Why Smart People Make Terrible Financial Decisions

By Marcelo Galvani August 12, 2024Book Reviews

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel (2020) "Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and…

Deep Work: Why Most People Will Never Achieve Real Focus

By Marcelo Galvani May 13, 2024Book Reviews

🇺🇸 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Book Review Author: Cal Newport | Published: 2016 | Pages: 296 Genre: Productivity / Professional Development The Crisis…

Atomic Habits: The System Behind Lasting Change

By Marcelo Galvani March 25, 2024Book Reviews

Atomic Habits: Why Tiny Changes Deliver Remarkable Results "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." This one sentence changed…

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By Marcelo Galvani January 20, 2024Book Reviews

🇺🇸 English "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." Read that again. Let it settle. Because that single sentence — from the opening pages of Essentialism: The Disciplined…

Building Resilience: A Practical Guide to Navigating Life’s Challenges

By Marcelo Galvani November 20, 2023Personal Development

🇺🇸 English Version Sooner or later, life is going to knock you down. A job you loved disappears overnight. A relationship you thought was forever falls apart. A diagnosis arrives…

The 4-Hour Body: Hacking the Human Body

By Marcelo Galvani October 30, 2023Book Reviews

🇺🇸 English Tim Ferriss claims he gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days. Thirty-four pounds. In four weeks. If your first instinct is to call that absurd — good.…

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive

By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Book Reviews

🇺🇸 English Version When Susan David was fifteen years old, growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, her father died. The adults around her did what well-meaning adults often do —…

Wherever You Go, There You Are: A Guide to Mindfulness in Daily Life

By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Book Reviews

🇺🇸 English Version The Moment You're Missing Right Now You're sitting in traffic. The light just turned red — again. Your hands tighten around the steering wheel. Your mind races…

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Book Reviews

You Used to Be Creative. What Happened? Think back. Way back. You're five years old, sitting on a kitchen floor with a box of crayons. You're drawing a house —…

Nike’s 10 Principles: A Blueprint for Personal Growth

By Marcelo Galvani July 9, 2023Personal Development

How a track coach's waffle iron experiment became a blueprint for relentless self-improvement. A Waffle Iron and a Dream In 1971, Bill Bowerman — Nike's co-founder and a track coach…

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

By Marcelo Galvani June 19, 2023Book ReviewsNo Comments

🇺🇸 English Version What If Everything You Were Taught About Saving Money Was Wrong? Think about this for a moment: you spend decades working, saving, investing, building up a financial…

Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Finding Your Way When Life Halts

By Marcelo Galvani May 20, 2023Personal DevelopmentNo Comments

When Life Feels Like Quicksand: A Honest Guide to Getting Unstuck It's Sunday night. You can feel it in your chest before your mind catches up — that heavy, creeping…

How to Cross the Ocean on a Freighter Ship

By Marcelo Galvani May 20, 2023Wellness & LifestyleNo Comments

🇺🇸 English Version How to Cross the Ocean on a Freighter Ship — And Why You Should Imagine this: you're standing on the steel deck of a container ship somewhere…

Discovering the Joy of Hobbies: Why Unproductive Play Matters

By Marcelo Galvani March 16, 2023Wellness & LifestyleNo Comments

Why hobbies aren't a luxury — they're a necessity your brain is quietly begging for. When was the last time you did something just because it was fun? Not productive.…

Finding Your Purpose: How to Build a Life That Actually Matters

By Marcelo Galvani March 15, 2023Personal DevelopmentNo Comments

🇺🇸 English Version The Question Nobody Wants to Sit With Most people don't lack talent or opportunity. They lack clarity about what they actually want. Think about it. You probably…

Managing Stress: Science-Based Strategies for a Resilient Life

By Marcelo Galvani March 13, 2023Wellness & LifestyleNo Comments

Your body doesn't know the difference between a lion chasing you and an angry email from your boss. Your stress response is the same. Your palms sweat. Your heart rate…

The Importance of Self-Care: Beyond Bubble Baths and Scented Candles

By Marcelo Galvani March 13, 2023Wellness & LifestyleNo Comments

🇺🇸 English version below — Versão em Português aqui The Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do Self-care isn't bubble baths and scented candles. It's the hardest thing you'll ever do —…

Goal-Setting Strategies That Actually Work

By Marcelo Galvani March 13, 2023Personal DevelopmentNo Comments

Goal-Setting That Actually Works: Frameworks, Systems, and the Psychology Behind Lasting Change Most New Year's resolutions are dead by February. Studies suggest that over 80% of resolutions fail within the…

The Science of Happiness: What Actually Makes Us Happy?

By Marcelo Galvani March 13, 2023Personal DevelopmentNo Comments

🇺🇸 English Version What if everything you believe about happiness is wrong? We chase promotions, dream about bigger houses, scroll through vacation photos on social media, and tell ourselves: "Once…