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Doing the Impossible - Patrick Bet-David
The 25 Laws for Doing the Impossible
Law 1- Invest in your Identity- read, listen to CDs, attend conferences, events
Law 2- Let the Right Ones in- associate yourself with good quality people
Law 3- Protect your Credibility Score- do what you say to build trust and character
Law 4- Know your why.
Law 5- Dedicate to work long hours to reach your goals
Law 9- Be curious
Law 10- Break away from the old you
Law 13-Push yourself to pass your limits and keep inventing
Law 14- Turn your cause into a Crusade
Law 22- Let your controversy be your status quo
Law 25- Have Heart, have courage
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Mastery - Robert Greene
3 Phases of Apprenticeship
Step 1: Deep Observation (the Passive Mode). Your main objective when entering a new work or environment is to observe and know everything about it, not to get attention or shine. Observe the rules, standards, and procedures. and importantly the unwritten rules. Observe who is in power, and things you should avoid. Stay passive in the background, and drop any preconceptions you have about this new work or environment. Don't try to change the culture or challenge anyone or anything. After months until you have reached mastery then you can change the rules.
Step 2: Skill Acquisition (the Practice Mode). Determine the skills that you need to master and reduce them to simple and essential practical skills that you can practice. Implement the "greatest system ever invented for the training of skills- the apprenticeship system of the Middle Ages." Learn the skill by watching your trainer or mentor and imitate them very closely with "endless repetition and hands-on-work, with very little verbal instruction." And make a commitment to learn the skill for 7 years and pass a master test or produce a master work. Your main objective is to learn one skill to mastering and "that serves as a foundation for acquiring others." Never try to learn mulitiple skills at a time. With practice the skill becomes more easier and interesting. However understand that the beginning of learing a skill can be tedious because it is hard. As you progress boredom is an issue of the pass. To reach a level of master you need 10,000 hours (7 to 10 years).
Step 3: Experimentation (the Active Mode).
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Building a Story Brand - Donald Miller
How to organize and make your message clear about your products or services
Once you sign up for free, Click on the middle top section "Watch intro video". This video will teach you a lot about how to attract more customers.
"People buy things because they hear or read words that make them want to buy things."
"If we can make our message really clear about why our customers really need our product you gonna win in the marketplace."
"People buy the products that are communicated the clearest...They buy the ones they can understand the fastest."
"If your competitor has an inferior product, but are a better communicator they will beat you in the marketplace. Why? because the customer never knew you have a better product and they never know why they might need it."
Two things that will help you communicate clearly.
1. SURVIVE and THRIVE: "If what you are communicating about your product isn't directly related to helping your customers survive and thrive, they aren't going to pay attention. Customers need to know if you are going to help them get ahead, get strong, save money, establish more security, or experience a better quality of life.
2. CONSERVE CALORIES: "When your brain has to process a lot of data that has nothing to do with your survival, IT TURNS OFF.
"Always remember, people want to be taken somewhere."
"What does the hero want? Who or what is opposing the hero getting what he/she wants? What will the hero's life look like if he/she does get what she wants?
"The three dominant ways storytellers end a story is by allowing the hero to:
1. Win some sort of power or position. 2. Be unified with somebody or something that makes them whole. 3. Experience some kind of self-realization that also makes them whole.
What do you offer? How will it make my life better? What do I need to do to buy it?
Offer Access (membership, status), Create scarcity (limited), offer a premium (privileges), offer identity association.
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
6 Steps to create your definite chief purpose.
Step 1: Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient to say “I want plenty of money.” Be definite as to the amount.
Step 2: Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.
Step 3: Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
Step 4: Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Step 5: Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly, the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
Step 6: Read your statement out loud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read — see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.
Here is Bruce Lee's from the book "Fighting Spirit"
“I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest-paid Oriental superstar in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970, I will achieve world fame and from then onwards until the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and peace.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
In a Nutshell Fundamental Techniques In Handling People
• Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
• Principle 2 - Give honest and sincere appreciation.
• Principle 3 - Arouse in the other person an eager want.
In a Nutshell - Six Ways To Make People Like You
• Principle 1 - Become genuinely interested in other people.
• Principle 2 - Smile.
• Principle 3 - Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
• Principle 4 - Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
• Principle 5 - Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
• Principle 6 - Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.
In A Nutshell - Win People To Your Way Of Thinking
• Principle 1 - The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• Principle 2v Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, "You're wrong."
• Principle 3 - If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
• Principle 4 - Begin in a friendly way.
• Principle 5 - Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
• Principle 6 - Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
• Principle 7 - Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
• Principle 8 - Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
• Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
• Principle 10 - Appeal to the nobler motives.
• Principle 11 - Dramatize your ideas.
• Principle 12 - Throw down a challenge.
A leader's job often includes changing people's attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to accomplish this:
• Principle 1 - Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
• Principle 2 - Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
• Principle 3 - Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
• Principle 4 - Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
• Principle 5 - Let the other person save face.
• Principle 6 - Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
• Principle 7 - Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
• Principle 8 - Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
• Principle 9 - Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
Eight Things This Book Will Help You Achieve
• 1. Get out of a mental rut, think new thoughts, acquire new visions, discover new ambitions.
• 2. Make friends quickly and easily.
• 3. Increase your popularity.
• 4. Win people to your way of thinking.
• 5. Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done.
• 6. Handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant.
• 7. Become a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist.
• 8. Arouse enthusiasm among your associates.
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - T. Harv Eker
https://millionairemindbook.com/
#1 - Rich people believe "I created my life". Poor people believe "Life happens to me."
#2 - Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game not to lose.
#3 - Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
#4 - Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
#5 - Rich people focus on opportunities, Poor people focus on obstacles.
#6 - Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
#7 - Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
#8 - Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
#9 - Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems. "The secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem."
#10 - Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers. "If you say you are worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not."
#11 - Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
#12 - Rich people live in a world of abundance. Poor people live in a world of limitations.
#13 - Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income. "The true measure of wealth is net worth, not working income."
#14 - Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money. "The habit of managing your money is more important than the amount."
#15 - Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money. Rich people see every dollar as a seed that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.
"Get educated. Take investment seminars. Read at least one investment book a month. Then choose an arena to become an expert in and begin investing in that area." List strategies that you can create income without working.
#16 - Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. "If you are willing to do only what's easy life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy". Read Susan Jeffers' book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. "The only time you are acutally growing is when you are uncomfortable."
#17 - Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know. "If you're not as successful as you'd like to be, there's something you don't know.