"Cereal Dad Preneur is a MUST read. For anyone trying to do it all in business and not having to compromise your role as a parent and spouse, you have to read this book. Matt Smith is seriously a unique and profound individual who has miraculously codified how to balance life, as best as a person can." GRANT CARDONEWhether you're a Dad or a Mom, rocking the 'parent' part of your life, feeling your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you're a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price ? this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life. FAMILY FIRST has always been Matt's motto, and you will discover that FAMILY FIRST doesn't have to come at the expense of pursuing your ambitions and passions of being wildly successful in business at the same time. You CAN have it all.You will be propelled along the learning curve to a place light-years ahead of where you are now, by helping you benefit from his life experiences while bypassing some of the challenges? When you study and implement the tools and techniques provided, you will develop the systems you need to succeed in any industry, allowing you to work smarter. It will change your life for the better. You have to read Cereal Dad Preneur! "Matt's ability to win in business without sacrificing what matters most inspires me. Consider this book your game plan for building a legacy that will be felt for generations." Joseph BlairFather, NBA Coach, Philanthropist"Building a successful business takes courage & insight. Building 10 successful businesses and a loving family like Matt has requires unshakable confidence & proven systems. Matt generously shares his system for scaling a life full of meaning and purpose in this book. Consume this content, channel your inner Cereal Dad Preneur & create the wealth you desire."Stephen GrearFather, Founder of Reshoevn8r, Investor

"Cereal Dad Preneur is a MUST read. For anyone trying to do it all in business and not having to compromise your role as a parent and spouse, you have to read this book. Matt Smith is seriously a unique and profound individual who has miraculously codified how to balance life, as best as a person can." GRANT CARDONE Whether you're a Dad or a Mom, whether you're rocking the 'parent' part of your life and feel your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you're a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price ... this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life. FAMILY FIRST has always been Matt's motto, and you will discover that FAMILY FIRST doesn't have to come at the expense of pursuing your ambitions and passions of being wildly successful in business at the same time. You CAN have it all and feel good about yourself and your achievements. You will be propelled along the learning curve to a place light-years ahead of where you are now, by helping you benefit from his life experiences while bypassing some of the challenges? When you study and implement the tools and techniques provided, you will develop the systems you need to succeed in any industry, allowing you to work smarter. It will change your life for the better. "You have to read Cereal Dad Preneur! I am neither a Dad nor an entrepreneur but the info in this book is for anyone wanting to advance in life. It benefited me and helped guide me to better my life choices in more ways than one. From improving mindset and work ethic to enjoying family life even more. 100% recommend this book to everyone." Isaiah Gonzales "This book is a great source of inspiration that will tell the story of what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and family man." Leanne Vezanni "Everyone wants to know how Matt Smith does it. He reveals all of his secrets in this book to win. It's a must read for any person that has a passion for life. " Jenny "If you want to understand the importance of succeeding in BUSINESS and, more importantly, in LIFE, read this book!!!!" Chris Turner "Matt packages his own guide to help both men and women reach for more in business, balance, and life, but written from the perspective of a friend." Adam Sanchez "Matt's ability to win in business without sacrificing what matters most inspires me. Consider this book your game plan for building a legacy that will be felt for generations." Joseph BlairFather, NBA Coach, Philanthropist "Building a successful business takes courage & insight. Building 10 successful businesses and a loving family like Matt has requires unshakable confidence & proven systems. Matt generously shares his system for scaling a life full of meaning and purpose in this book. Consume this content, channel your inner Cereal Dad Preneur & create the wealth you desire." Stephen Grear Father, Founder of Reshoevn8r, Investor "Matt walks his walk and does it with a deep level of kindness and generosity. He is a powerhouse who makes everyone around him better. The world needs more Matt Smith's." George Carroll Father, Speaker, Best Selling Author and Business Strategist for Tony Robbins

WSJ and USA Today bestselling author of Cereal Dad Preneur and Authority, Matt Smith has turned his passion for family, great communication and fun into this wonderful children's book.Meet the Koala family of Mom, Dad, Parker, Paisley and Preston as you follow along the fun examples they use each and every day. Matt also uses some of these to create meaningful communication with the teams in many of his businesses.

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

"ENTREPRENEUR" IS NOT A JOB, IT IS AN IDENTITY MICHAEL DERMERDo you feel......that you have a great business but are struggling to thrive'...that the world is on your shoulders'...that you are energized and overwhelmed at the same time'...that no one understands or cares as much as you do?In The Lonely Entrepreneur, author and entrepreneur Michael Dermer shows you how to thrive in the entrepreneurial struggle by changing your perspective.What took a decade to build was destroyed in ten days!Michael faced "the perfect storm" of struggles when the business he spent ten years building was almost wiped out in ten days by the financial crisis of 2008.Bankrupt customers. Enraged investors. Angry creditors. It would take years of working 24 hours a day to save his company. How did he do it?THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE IS YOUR PERSPECTIVEMichael changed his perspective. He realized that with the right perspective, solutions were everywhere. With the wrong perspective, the simplest of tasks seemed impossible. Not only did Michael successfully sell his company and become an industry pioneer, he discovered a methodology that helps all entrepreneurs with the issue we face--the struggle.In The Lonely Entrepreneur you will learn how to:* Identify the flawed perspectives you develop under the influence of the four Ps--pressure, passion, pleasure, and pain.* Change your perspectives from those that stifle progress to those that empower you to thrive.

Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don’t exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society. Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the state. And it articulates an innovative theory of ‘capital as power’ and a new history of the ‘capitalist mode of power’.

As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press