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August 27, 2017
10 Books to Start Living Your Life the Easy Way
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Three years ago, I didn’t know a thing about the world of personal development, but when I discovered Leo Babauta’s book “The Power of Less” by accident one day, my interest was piqued.
Since then, I haven’t stopped reading and I have discovered a real passion for Self-Help literature.
The books below transformed my life and I hope you can have the same experience.
If you are determined to take action, then try these books and take the first steps they propose.
There is no better time than now to get started!
1. Identify the essential, 2. Eliminate the rest
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life by Leo Babauta
There is nothing that says you have to settle for less than you truly want, just because everybody else does. You can become one of the few people that actually live the extraordinary life all of us deserve. Happiness. Health. Money. Freedom. Success. Love. You really can have it all
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod
Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
Cash is just like the seat belt you buckle when you get behind the wheel of your car. When you go for a drive, you don’t plan to have an accident. Still, you wear your seat belt.
The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel KahnemanLet’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
On Writing – A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen KingTruly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
Think and Grow Rich
(Start Motivational Books) Napoleon HillI can’t emphasize this enough. Focusing on one prime skill at a time is absolutely necessary for rapid skill acquisition.
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
by Josh KaufmanEmotions are merely signposts, suggestions that our neurobiology gives us, not commandments. Therefore, we shouldn’t always trust our own emotions. In fact, I believe we should make a habit of questioning them.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
:by Mark MansonThey are ordinary people who made a few key decisions that changed their lives
The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better to Live More
by Chris Guillebeau
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August 26, 2017
Make The Most Of Your Days -Top Tools
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Learn how to Touch-type
According to David Allen, author of the productivity uber–bestseller Getting Things Done (2002), if your work requires using any sort of computer, learning how to touch-type is the single most significant thing you can do to improve your productivity. The critical threshold seems to be about sixty words per minute (abbreviated WPM). If you can’t touch-type at least sixty WPM with a low error rate, you’re seriously crippling your ability to do productive work. The less effort you need to put into typing, the more time and energy you have to do higher-value tasks.
– Josh Kaufman The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! (affiliate link)
See also:
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (affiliate link)
https://first20hours.com/typing/
https://wwwtyro.github.io/keyzen/
http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php
http://typingtrainer.sourceforge.net/
The 2 Minute Rule
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (affiliate link)
“I have a two-minute rule that says: If you determine an action can be done in two minutes, you actually should do it right then because it’ll take longer to organize it and review it than it would be to actually finish it the first time you notice it. “ – David Allen
https://facilethings.com/blog/en/basics-two-minute-rule
http://lifehacker.com/use-the-two-minute-rule-to-stop-procrastinating-and-get-1521792128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86tGkEJft8
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-clear/stop-procrastinating_b_3342758.html
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (affiliate link)
Limit email processing time
Limit your inboxes. Limit your time per day (for example check twice a day at 10am and 4pm). Don’t check all day, every day.
Process quickly. Delete, archive, reply, put on your to-do list or forward. Get it out of the inbox.
Is it entirely necessary that you reply to every email?
A Mindful Guide to Email in 20 Minutes a Day:
http://tim.blog/2008/01/09/10-steps-to-become-an-email-ninja/
Parkinson’s Law and Immediate Goals
Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
In other words, we can have 80% of the result by spending only 20% of our time.
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials.” – Tim Ferris, The 4 Hour Workweek
Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).
Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/how-to-use-parkinsons-law-to-your-advantage.html
https://impossiblehq.com/parkinsons-law/
http://simpleeconomist.com/tim-ferriss-parkinsons-law/
https://jdgreear.com/blog/what-pareto-parkinson-can-teach-us-about-productivity/
Latte Factor
By using what I call The Latte Factor®, you can build a fortune on a few pounds a day.
The trick to getting ahead financially, he said, is watching the small stuff – little spending habits you have that you’d probably be better off without.
What about you? Chances are that you’re earning more than you were ten years ago. But are you saving more? Are you getting ahead or running harder just to stay even? Is your income helping you become more free or less free?
– David Bach
http://davidbach.com/latte-factor/
https://financialmentor.com/calculator/latte-factor-calculator
https://tools.doughroller.net/latte-factor-calculator
Emergency Money: The Sleep well at Night Factor
How much money should you put aside in order to protect yourself against the proverbial ‘rainy day,’ and where should you put it?
THE THREE RULES OF EMERGENCY MONEY
you need a cash cushion of at least three months’ worth of expenses. Take what you estimate you spend each month, multiply it by three, and you’ve calculated your goal for emergency savings. A year’s worth of expenses is a great ultimate goal to shoot for.
Don’t touch it unless it’s a real emergency. A real emergency is something that threatens your survival, not just your desire to be comfortable.
Ultimately, you will want to keep your rainy day fund separate from your current account. While you could put your rainy day money in the same account you use to pay your bills, you really shouldn’t. When you keep your spending money and your emergency money in the same place, it’s too easy to dip into the rainy day fund for monthly expenses – and before you know it, your emergency fund will be gone.
– David Bach
http://www.oprah.com/money/the-4-rules-of-emergency-money
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/09/08/how-to-start-an-emergency-fund/
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Question Yourself : Mind-blowing questions
He who asks a question remains a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask remains a fool forever – Chinese Proverb
Here are some of the best questions I have encountered on my journey to self-development. I use them regularly during monthly and yearly reviews and at specific times when I am looking for new insight into a particular area.
Now it is your turn to tap into the power of the questions and the books below, and to conduct your own experiments!
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Questions
Source
Why Did YOU Wake Up This Morning?
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)
* by Hal ElrodWhat can we do now to ensure that we don’t end up struggling?
Whose life am I going to save today?
Choose Yourself!*
by James Altucher1. What are your values
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life
* by Leo Babauta2. What are your goals
3. What do you love
4. What’s important to you?
5. What has the biggest impact?
6. What has the most long-term impact?
If you start today, what could your life look like in 6 months, 5 years, or 10 years?
Process your inboxes, from the top down, don’t ever skip over one. Make the following decisions; – Delete it? – Delegate it? – Deal with it immediately – reply or take action? – Defer it for later? – File it – you only need it for reference? – DO NOT LEAVE IT IN YOUR INBOX
Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
* by Leo BabautaIf you had a gun to your head or contracted some horrible disease, and you had to limit work to 2 hours per week, what would you do to keep things afloat?
Tim Ferriss http://tim.blog/2016/12/07/testing-th...
If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
*by Timothy Ferriss
Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?
What excites me?
What 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?
What 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
Go through all your monthly expenses and ask yourself, “If I had to eliminate this because I needed an extra kidney, how would I do it?
What are your dreams?
David Allen http://www.keepinspiring.me/david-allen-getting-things-done/#ixzz4b0SiNGcx
How would you want to spend a Sunday afternoon 5/10 years from now?
What are your fantasies?
What would you get out of those fantasies?
What would I start doing if money wasn’t an issue anymore?
Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance de rater ses études
* by Olivier RolandWhich methods enable the clever rebels to regularly beat those results?
Which simple experiment could I start now to test one or two principles of this method?
You have started this book a month ago. How many pages have you written? How long do you work on it every day? Do you have a plan and do you know how many pages you should write every day to finish on time?
Go and see more experienced people that have already reached the goal you are after. Explain them briefly the situation and ask them: “What would you do if you were me?”
Once the first version of you product is finished, survey your customers this time. Ask them questions such as: “To you, what needs improving the most about [Product Name]?” and “Have you seen something silly the way [Product Name] works? If yes, how should it work instead?
What is the main issue, frustration, or the biggest problem you are facing at the moment?
1. What is the target condition? (The challenge)
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results (Business Books)
* Mike Rother2. What is the actual condition now?
3. What obstabcles are now preventing you from reaching the target condition? Which one are you addressing now?
4. What is your next step?
5. When can we go and see what we have learned from taking that step?
Don’t ask yes/no questions — ask, what’s one thing we could have done differently to make your experience better?
The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
* by Ken Blanchard, John P Carlos, Alan RandolphHow will your resume be different next year?
How did you manage to do this? Why was it a success?
The one I use frequently, don’t know where they come from
Which skills and methods did you use to make this project a success?
On which other process or project could you use the same skills and methods?
What have you preferred in this project, this year, lately? What do you prefer doing and why?
What are you most proud of?
What would my ideal life look like in 2017, 2018, 2030…
Becoming more proactive: in which situation, which behaviour will I improve? What am I going to do differently and why? When? How and with Whom?
What do I know? What don’t I know? Which questions do I need to ask about this subject?
Before a negociation: What does my interlocutor desires?
How to Win Friends & Influence People
* by Dale CarnegieHow can I make this person do what I want him/her to do?
What can I admire from this person?
In preparation for this meeting, ask yourself some hard questions: could my opponents be right? Partly right?
Is there some truth or merit in their position or argument?
Is my reaction one that will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration?
Will my reaction drive my opponents further away or draw them closer to me?
What am I happy about in my life now?
Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
* by Anthony RobbinsWhat am I excited about in my life now?
What am I proud about in my life now?
What am I grateful about in my life now?
What am I enjoying in my life right now?
What am I committed to in my life right now?
Who do I love? Who loves me?
Does the project produce and obvious product or service?
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
* by Chris GuillebeauDo you know people who will want to buy it? (Or do you know where to find them?)
Do you have a way to get paid?
What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this situation?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
*by Stephen R. Covey
What’s really important? Why am I doing what I’m doing?
What one thing could you do (you aren’t doing now) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?
What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?
What are the two or three most important things that I need to do today?
The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume by Josh Kaufman (2012-09-06)* by Josh Kaufman
What are the things that—if I got them done today—would make a huge difference?
Do you know how much you should Pay Yourself First?
The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
* by David BachDo you know where to put the money you Pay Yourself First?
Are you actually doing it?
Is your Pay Yourself First plan AUTOMATIC?
How much money should you put aside in order to protect yourself against the proverbial ‘rainy day,’ and where should you put it?
Do you have a definite major purpose, and if so, what is it, and what plan have you for achieving it?
Think and Grow Rich
* by Napoleon HillWhat I would do if I had a million dollars?
Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year?
Have I delivered service of the best possible quality of which I was capable?
Have I delivered service in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?
How much time have I devoted to unprofitable effort which I might have used to better advantage?
How may I re-budget my time, and change my habits so I will be more efficient during the coming year?
If I had been the purchaser of my own services for the year, would I be satisfied with my purchase?
To which do you devote most time, thinking of success, or of failure?
Are you gaining or losing self-confidence as you grow older?
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August 23, 2017
Make The Most Of Your Days -Top Tools : The 2 Minute Rule
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (affiliate link)
“I have a two-minute rule that says: If you determine an action can be done in two minutes, you actually should do it right then because it’ll take longer to organize it and review it than it would be to actually finish it the first time you notice it. “ – David Allen
https://facilethings.com/blog/en/basics-two-minute-rule
http://lifehacker.com/use-the-two-minute-rule-to-stop-procrastinating-and-get-1521792128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86tGkEJft8
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-clear/stop-procrastinating_b_3342758.html
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (affiliate link)
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August 13, 2017
Question Yourself: 70+ Questions to Redesign Your Life and Start Living your Dreams!
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