Overview Your mind is occupied territory, and the occupier is Satan. First Satan makes you believe his lies, then he builds strongholds inside your mind. In Winning the War in Your Mind (2021), Craig Groeschel asserts that Satan may take control of your thoughts and actions, but by turning to the Word of God, you can win the battle for control of your mind. When you do, you will have a more healthy, positive, and peaceful life. Insights from Chapter 1 #1 Satan makes your mind his battlefield and uses lies as his weapon. By controlling your thoughts with lies, Satan gains control of your life. #2 Believing a lie makes it impact your life as if it was a truth. #3 Strengthening your faith in God rids you of all the insecurities you might have. This prevents Satan from exploiting these insecurities and using them as an easy entry to your mind. #4 God helps you control your own thoughts, which prevents Satan from controlling them. #5 Identifying the lies Satan made you believe is the first ...

There is a way to spend money and stay happy Whether it is car loans, student loans, credit card loans, health loans, or whatever, many of us are drowning in debt. This makes it look like living without worrying about money is a fantasy. This problem has us taking anxiety and even depression medication. Learning how to say no and live a full life with the things you value will help you control your spending. This read teaches you how to use the No–Spend Challenge to reach your financial goals faster and help transform your spending habits so you can stick to a budget. Budgeting and money management can be one of the hardest concepts for people to nail down. You can have all the knowledge available and still suck at executing it. From this guide, you'll discover why budgeting alone isn't working, the psychology behind your impulsive spending, how to pay off debt fast, ways to do for free what you've probably been wasting money on, and many more. Whether you're paying off...

Overview The Fifth Risk (2018) by Michael Lewis is a journalistic account of how broad swaths of the US government are being ignored or dismantled under Donald Trump’s administration. After shunning the conventions of a presidential transition, Trump and his tiny team assumed stewardship of the government without ever bothering to learn how it works. Lewis spoke to former representatives of three key government agencies to hear the briefings that the Trump team never received. What he learned was deeply unsettling. One way to conceptualize the American government is as a team of project managers who oversee a huge number of disparate risks. Contagious diseases, natural disasters, terrorists, and many other threats are constantly present to varying degrees. Two million people work for the US government, in part to make sure these bad things never happen, or to mitigate the effects when they do happen. One challenge when power changes hands from one president to the next is the steep lea...

What’s in it for me? Learn how to take charge of your morning and enhance your life. Once upon a time there was a billionaire. This guy had reached the true elite; he’d achieved epic results in both his professional and personal spheres. He became the kind of person you can’t help but admire. Someone who you knew would leave a positive legacy for the world.  So, what was his secret? Did he have a natural talent that helped him succeed? Nope – it wasn’t natural talent. Were his accomplishments the result of hard work and grit. No, not that either. As you may have gathered form the title of these blinks, this billionaire attributed all his success to a simple, yet revolutionary morning routine. Every day, our billionaire would rise at 5:00 a.m. And after waking, he’d follow a little known formula designed to turbocharge his mental focus, build his physical fitness and encourage him to be his best self day in and day out. Would you like to know this morning routine? It's time to take ...

Of two minds: how our behavior is determined by two different systems – one automatic and the other considered. There is a compelling drama going on in our minds, a filmlike plot between two main characters with twists, dramas and tensions. These two characters are the impulsive, automatic, intuitive System 1, and the thoughtful, deliberate, calculating System 2. As they play off against each other, their interactions determine how we think, make judgments and decisions, and act. System 1 is the part of our brain that operates intuitively and suddenly, often without our conscious control. You can experience this system at work when you hear a very loud and unexpected sound. What do you do? You probably immediately and automatically shift your attention toward the sound. That’s System 1. This system is a legacy of our evolutionary past: there are inherent survival advantages in being able to make such rapid actions and judgments. System 2 is what we think of when we visualize the part o...