Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress—in Real Estate, Business, and Life by Tarek El Moussa Book Review

 

In Flip Your Life, Tarek El Moussa breaks down 4 key areas he chooses to live by: evaluate, emulate, renovate, and duplicate. These rules are the rules he lives by and how he flips houses for a living.He shared his birth and how he was born frail and jaundice. He developed weird tics and the doctors believed that he has some kind of palsy. He was made fun of by others kids and even some adults. One coach would ask him in front of everyone if he would like a million dollars just so kids would laugh he had a weird tic. He struggled with ADHD. He was even slammed against the wall by one teacher because of hyperactivity. He explained how when he graduated from college he began to gain weight and he had always been an athlete. He felt his life was a disaster and he didn’t know the direction he wanted to go in life. He turned to alcohol and smoked. In the book, he shared how he was diagnosed with cancer. He had two different types thyroid and testicular cancer. He later experienced horrible back pain. He had his share of challenges he had to deal with. He also went through a divorce. He also explained how he flips a house. He first evaluates the property to determine it’s worth including it’s strengths and weaknesses. He next compares houses and he referred to it as comps. It’s an idea of what could be. Then finally renovates the property. This lead to a tv show, Flip or Flop on HGTV that details the entire process of renovating a home. 

One of my favorite sections was about your healthy self and what all that looks like. These included you respect yourself, know who you are, okay with expressing emotions, and much more. He also looked at the unhealthy self and what all that entails. He also shared how readers can be persistent in their momentum and how critical it is to choose our crew carefully. He explained how his crew helped him through his experiences in life and how men especially struggle with connecting deeper with other men. We have to be willing to ask for help which most of have trouble with. He realized how the helped him to reach his career goals and to become a house flipper. He enclosed a helpful section on some characteristics to look for when building a team. 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is ready to flip their life around. I loved how he shared some behind the scenes of how he conducts and decides how to flip houses. I immensely loved the discussions on mindsets and what we believe about ourselves has a profound effect on whether we will succeed. He was very transparent in how went through a divorce and eventually got remarried. Along the way also experiencing health challenges that changed his life. The cancer being so back to back was shocking and readers will be able to see what he faced. This book will assist you in finding new opportunities and to flip your life. 

I received this book free from Hachette Go for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

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God Is a Grunt: And More Good News for GIs by Logan M. Isaac Book Review

 

 

In God is a Grunt, Logan M. Isaac covered a theological approach of what a solider is and mixed with a history lesson. He defined the term grunt as, “low-ranking or unskilled solider or other worker.” He described how they are the people on the front lines and they do the killing or they are killed. He explained how high the suicide rate is for people who served in the military. He stated, “one solider and seventeen veterans will take their lives every day, or one every eighty minutes.” He begins the book by first exploring Cain and how many people only chose to see him as killer who killed his own brother. He looked at how he was cursed by the ground. He revealed how killing effects grunts. He looked at how they have to deal with the stereotypes they face. He explored how God is a grunt and how He is a divine warrior. He also included words from Hebrews and Greeks that readers can easily look up online by their strong concordance number. 

 

 

I would recommend this excellent book on what our soldiers faced and what they are dealing with daily. I liked how he shared personal heart touching stories and they will make you have tears in your eyes. I liked how he looked at stories from scriptures and historical key characters, such as, Francis and Pilgrimage, George and Martyrdom, and Ralph and GI Justice. I liked how throughout the book he shared how Jesus is like a grunt. I like how he took apart the military service in the New Testament and what this says about our earliest attitudes towards soldiers. This book is written and geared to appeal to GI’s and to help them navigate through life.

 

 

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The Story of George Washington Written by Patricia A. Pingry Book Review

The Story of George Washington is a children’s book covering his life and it explained who we celebrate him on President’s Day. He was the first president of the United States and he is known as the father of our country. He was born on February 22, 1732. He is famously known for him chopping down a cherry tree in his childhood and he was very honest to openly to admit it. The book touched on what he did and how many farms he managed. It discussed the Revolutionary War and how he signed the U.S. Constitution. It revealed how the United States was named after him. 

 

 

 

I would recommend this children’s book to any child aged 2-6. It described the life of George Washington and the background where kids can easily learn about America and the first president. I immensely loved how it gave a quick overview of his life and it taught children history. This book could easily become the first building block of American history for our children. I loved how colorful the book was and how it helped to catch kid’s attention. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords/ Worthy Kids for my honest review.”

 

 

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https://www.amazon.com/Story-George-Washington-Patricia-Pingry/dp/154601392X