PS. Some Things Really Are Easy
The Passive Income Power Plan isn’t about getting rich quickly; it is a guide to help readers build income streams that give them more breathing room. What is the biggest barrier to wealth, practical or emotional?
To me, our mindset is our biggest barrier, as any belief starts in our minds. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you’re right.” That belief system will lie to you and tell you that you’re too old or you don’t have the right education or your partner won’t support you or it’s too expensive to get started (I could go on… and on).
Even the shift from active to passive income begins in your mind. Do you believe you can only exchange hours for dollars? Might it be possible for you to earn income that was tied to something physical, like a house rental or someone purchasing a product that you had created? Once you set up these systems, they exist without much or any involvement from you. For many, it’s a matter of exchanging a belief of what financial freedom really looks like.
You frame passive income as “sovereignty” rather than hustle. What does financial freedom actually look like in lived, everyday terms?
I get asked this question when I speak. And the question is, what does it look like for you? For someone it might be the ability to build a tiny home and live off the land. For someone else it might mean $100 million. we’re almost everyone I’ve spoken with, it means time freedom: I can do with my day what I desire. And money freedom — I don’t have to worry about my bills. Where are you fall on that spectrum is up to you. Consciously focusing on what this would look like — creating images of it in your head and then going and living inside of those images — can help create a safe space for you where this is actually possible in real life.
The book ends with a simple directive: pick one idea and act. Why is that so difficult for people to do?
I love this question so much! We tend to overcomplicate things. Many people have a belief that simple and easy are the same thing. But they’re not. We will tell ourselves “That’s too easy! It won’t work.” What we are really saying here is that it’s too simple and therefore, I don’t believe that it will work. Quite a difference. Coaching can help shift your mindset here – even the bumper sticker coaching, I included in the book can be quite transformational. Yet many people won’t even try, because they want a 15 step system. PS. Some things really are easy.
What are the biggest financial mistakes beginners make when chasing passive income?
The first one is going where they think the money is as opposed to creating the stream they really care about. I believe that alignment is everything. You have to choose the thing that you’re going to want to stick with when there are bumps in the road.
I also see people making basic business mistakes because they haven’t bothered with business basics. If you started making income, put a portion aside for taxes. Simple, right? So much of this can be learned online right now.
Not doing basic market research before starting their passive stream. Are you in an industry where the kind of product that you want to create is already done trending? Do you want to open a laundromat but there are already four in your local area? Using AI tools, market research that used to take days or weeks can now be done in minutes.
The biggest financial mistake I see is people not getting started because they’re afraid they don’t have the money. I think something like half of the passive income streams mentioned in the Passive Income Power Plan can be started with less than $500! Some can be started for free, using just your brain and your computer. This bring us back to your mindset. Are you willing to believe in yourself and to know that the desire you seek is also seeking you?
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If you’ve ever thought, There’s got to be more than this — you’re right. The Passive Income Power Plan is your starting line.
In this powerful guide, transformational wealth coach and business strategist Halle Eavelyn delivers 108 proven ways to earn income while you sleep—no hype, no fluff, just practical ideas that work. Whether you’re stuck in a 9-to-5, running a business that owns you, or finally ready to make your money work harder than you do, this is your roadmap to financial freedom.
Inside, you’ll discover:
108 income ideas—from simple side hustles to scalable digital assets
How to turn what you already know (or own) into recurring cash flow
Mindset shifts to stop stalling and start building
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You don’t need an MBA. You don’t need a six-figure budget.
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Mindfulness Is For Everyone
Nurse Dorothea Presents Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Why Mindfulness Is a Key Coping Skill guides readers through the basics of mental health, the meaning of mindfulness, and the many ways it can improve daily life. Why is mindfulness important?
Mindfulness is something everyone can do, and its effects are large on mental health. Research has proven its ability to reduce stress and anxiety. In today’s world, we all need simple ways to reduce stress.
With a mix of friendly explanations, real research, and simple activities, your book also covers Jon Kabat-Zinn’s nine pillars of mindfulness and the three main practices: meditation, body scanning, and mindful yoga. What are the nine pillars of mindfulness, and how do they help improve mental health?
Non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, letting go, gratitude, and generosity. Practicing each one by itself can improve mental health, but when practiced many at one time, the synergistic effects are large and can result in more mental peace.
What should readers do to start incorporating mindfulness practices into their daily lives?
The easiest exercise is to focus on your breathing and let everything else in your mind go so that your breathe is the only thing at your attention.
What is one thing that you hope readers take away from Nurse Dorothea Presents Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Why Mindfulness Is a Key Coping Skill?
I hope people become convinced of the usefulness of the practice of mindfulness and actually incorporate into their daily life.
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Wilbur’s Heart
Wilbur’s Heart begins with a premise that sounds like a dare and then keeps following it: a failing patient receives a pig-heart transplant, a bold Boston surgeon teams up with an eccentric New Hampshire device crew to make xenotransplantation viable, and what starts as a medical long shot sprawls into a story about risk, attachment, politics, romance, and the unnerving possibility that an organ may carry more than tissue. By the time the novel reaches its late turns, the book has braided together operating-room tension, public controversy, and the strange afterlife of Wilbur himself with a confidence that is half earnest, half gleefully audacious.
I read it expecting a straightforward medical thriller and got something more oddball and more animated: a novel with scalpels and immunosuppressants in one hand and a streak of mischief in the other. The dialogue often has an old-fashioned, talky vigor; characters banter, flirt, needle one another, and occasionally sound larger than life, but that expansiveness is part of the book’s charm. I was especially pulled in by the way the novel keeps returning to the emotional absurdity of the central act: not merely “can this surgery work?” but “what does it do to the people who consent to it, perform it, defend it, fear it, or begin to believe in it?” When the book leans into cellular-memory eeriness and Wilbur’s lingering presence, it acquires a pleasantly uncanny shimmer.
I also admired the book’s refusal to become antiseptic. For all its technical talk, it is not bloodless; it is emotional, sometimes sentimental, sometimes wry, and willing to be a little pulpy in the best sense. The final stretch won me over because it commits fully to its own peculiar weather: high-stakes surgery, grief, political fallout, romantic crosscurrents, and a last note that is genuinely strange rather than neatly explanatory. The novel throws a lot onto the table, and not every subplot lands with equal force. But Wilbur’s Heart has a kind of unabashed narrative appetite, and I found that invigorating.
I’d hand this to readers who enjoy medical thrillers, speculative thrillers, science-inflected fiction, and character-driven suspense with a taste for ethical provocation and a dash of romantic turbulence. It should especially appeal to people who like medicine in fiction not as wallpaper but as the engine of consequence. In spirit, it feels closer to Robin Cook than to Michael Crichton: less icy, less purely mechanistic, and more interested in the human ache and eccentricity around the science.
Pages: 263 | ASIN : B0FLVS2TVN
In Jake’s Shoes
In Jake’s Shoes is a work of contemporary literary fiction with a strong family drama and coming-of-age core, and it follows Jake Gatlin, a young soldier serving in Mortuary Affairs in Afghanistan, while also tracing the older grief and silence that shaped him back home. As the novel moves between war, memory, and the letters Jake wrote to his dead grandmother, it slowly becomes a story about loss, guilt, and the hard work of finally seeing someone you thought you already knew. It’s not just about what happened to Jake. It is also about what his family, especially his father, failed to understand until it was almost too late.
Author Andrew C. Phillips does not rush the pain in this book, and he also doesn’t try to dress it up too much. The novel trusts ordinary family moments, old arguments, private letters, and half-finished conversations to carry real weight. I liked that the book lets Jake feel wounded, observant, tender, and angry all at once. The letters to Gammy Gat could have felt like a gimmick in another novel, but here they become the quiet engine of the whole story. They give Jake a voice that is open in ways he cannot be with the living, and they also give the novel its deepest sense of intimacy.
I also found myself thinking a lot about the father. In many books like this, the emotionally blocked parent is there just to be judged. Here, Phillips does something harder and better. He lets Marshall be wrong without flattening him into a villain. That choice gave the novel its professional edge for me, because it pushed the story beyond easy blame and into something more honest about family, masculinity, and the stories parents tell themselves about discipline, strength, and love. The novel is direct to the point of sentimentality. Still, I respected that openness. The book means what it says. And by the end, that candor felt earned rather than naive, especially once the father begins to understand Jake through the letters and, finally, through grief.
I would recommend In Jake’s Shoes most to readers who like heartfelt literary fiction, family-centered war novels, and stories of grief that lean toward healing rather than irony. People who respond to books about parents and children missing each other emotionally, then trying to bridge that distance, will probably find a lot here. It’s a reflective, sad, generous novel, and it feels written from a place of real care.
Pages: 345 | ASIN : B0G6G8R4QT
More Other Such Matters
Fella Cederbaum’s More Other Such Matters is a book of spiritually searching poems that circle around identity, love, mortality, truth, and the terrible persistence of the thinking mind. The collection moves less like a narrative than like a sustained act of inquiry, each poem worrying at the same great questions from a different angle until they start to glow. Again and again, Cederbaum turns to direct address and cascading questions, asking what remains when profession, doctrine, self-image, fear, and even opinion fall away. Poems like “Before You Were You,” “Faith,” “The Knower And The Known,” and “The Mirror” make the book feel like both a meditation manual and a private reckoning, though its strongest moments are more intimate and embodied than abstract.
What struck me most was the book’s unusual combination of severity and tenderness. Cederbaum can sound almost admonishing, as if she’s trying to shake the reader awake, but there’s warmth under that urgency, and often a real ache. I felt that most sharply in poems where the philosophical pressure gives way to something bruised and personal, like the old tears in “Love Broke Through,” the lonely vastness of “One Single Tear,” or the quietly devastating recognition in “What I Thought I Wanted,” where imagined identities keep turning bland in the hand. Even the more playful poems, especially “My Universe of Cheese,” have that same undercurrent: delight laced with metaphysical impatience. I admired the refusal to settle for easy consolation. This isn’t poetry interested in decorating experience. It wants to strip experience bare.
The book is most effective when its style becomes genuinely musical. Cederbaum has a real instinct for repetition, for the pressure of a recurring phrase, for the way a question can become its own rhythm. Her best lines have lift and clarity, and her images can be surprisingly memorable, as with the orchid and the daisy, the cat as a silent teacher in “Medical Journeys,” or the mirror that keeps changing with praise, desire, and self-doubt until the poem lands on a wiser, steadier truth. The poems return often to oneness, surrender, and the unreliability of thought. But even then, the voice is unmistakably authentic.
I found More Other Such Matters earnest, searching, and often deeply affecting. It’s a book less interested in polish than in penetration, less interested in literary coyness than in saying the largest things as plainly as possible. I think readers drawn to spiritual poetry, contemplative writing, and emotionally candid meditations on selfhood, love, and impermanence will find a great deal here.
Pages: 156 | ASIN : B0FR37DNSZ
Sage of the Mountains
Sage of the Mountains is a modern inspirational fable, really a self-help story dressed in the shape of a quest. Dr. George Cluen frames it around Folly, a blacksmith whose life has been wrecked by betrayal, heartbreak, and the slow grind of pain, then sends him into the mountains in search of a sage who might help him let go and start again. The book makes its purpose plain from the start. It’s about healing, self-discovery, reframing suffering, and learning how to move forward when your mind keeps dragging you back. That mix of allegory and personal growth sits at the heart of the book, and Cluen underlines it again in the reflective material at the end, where he ties Folly’s journey to his own search for peace.
This book doesn’t hide what it wants to say, and I think that honesty gives it some real warmth. Folly’s setbacks are heavy, but they are presented in simple, readable language that keeps the story moving, and Arabello’s guidance gives the novel its emotional backbone. At times, the dialogue feels less like natural conversation and more like the delivery system for a lesson, but in this genre, that is partly the point. This isn’t a literary puzzle box. It’s a book that wants to meet a reader in pain, sit them down, and say, keep going.
I was also struck by the author’s choice to build the story as a series of encounters, trials, and reminders, almost like stations on a climb. That structure gives the book a steady rhythm and makes Folly’s growth feel incremental instead of magical. The strongest idea running through it, for me, is that change isn’t something that arrives from outside. It has to be practiced, sometimes awkwardly, through attention, gratitude, restraint, and small wins. That is familiar territory in inspirational fiction and self-help, but Cluen gives it a personal pulse by linking the fable to his own period of loss and searching. You can feel that lived experience underneath the message. Even when the symbolism is broad, it doesn’t feel empty. It feels meant.
Sage of the Mountains will work best for readers who like uplifting, faith-leaning or spiritually open personal-growth books, especially ones that use story instead of straight advice. If you’re looking for a reflective, accessible book about hurt, resilience, and finding your footing again, I think it has something genuine to offer. I would most readily recommend it to readers of inspirational fiction, allegorical healing narratives, and anyone going through a rough patch who wants a gentle nudge toward hope.
Pages: 102 | ASIN : B0FFVSPZT3
