Category: Personal Development

A better world, Communication, Effectiveness, Leadership Development, Personal Development, psychology

Do hard things by Steve Magness

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When thinking of the word “tough,” many people think of a John-Wayne-type: someone who suffers silently, stoically ignores pain, and wouldn’t be caught dead talking about their feelings. But according to author Steve Magness this popular image of toughness is deeply flawed and needs to be revised.

In his thought-provoking book ‘Do Hard Things’ he proposes that toughness isn’t projecting confidence; it’s uncovering authenticity. See, true toughness begins long before we reach the playing field or the conference stage. It starts with how we assess the situation and our capabilities. Our expectations set the stage for our biological reaction.

True resilience comes from being honest with ourselves, from aligning our expectations and reality! Being honest with ourselves allows us to relentlessly pursue our goals, which inevitably improves our endurance and performance. 

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Effectiveness, Leadership Development, Personal Development

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

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This week I revisited one of my favorite books – the 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss!!

The book argues that there are two types of people in the world – Deferrers and the New Rich.

Deferrers work tirelessly, planning for a postponed future. They put off their dreams until retirement. On the other hand, the New Rich are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create fulfilling and luxurious lifestyles in the present.

They accomplish this by using lifestyle design and by following some simple techniques to reduce their workload and generate money in order to live a life most people can only dream of.

The following rules are crucial to keep in mind as you start your journey towards becoming one of the ‘New-Rich’.

  1. Stop considering Retirement as the ultimate end-goal after a long and potentially unfulfilling working life. Instead, consider it as worst-case-scenario Insurance in case your lifestyle design fails you.
  2. Plan for mini-retirements throughout life in order to sustain your energy.
  3. Remember that sometimes less is truly more.
  4. Embrace the fact that you will never get the timing completely right. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Just do it and correct course along the way
  5. Ask for forgiveness instead of permission
  6. Emphasize Strengths, don’t fix weakness.
  7. Things in excess Become Their opposite. The New Rich are not interested in creating excess amounts of idle time but simply obtaining freedom to do things they want to do instead of things they feel obligated to do.
  8. Money alone isn’t the solution. Stop using money as the scapegoat for not making changes to your life.
  9. Relative income is more important than absolute income. In the eyes of the New Rich making 50,000 Dollars per Year by working 4 hours a week makes you a richer person overall than Making 100,000 dollars per Year by working 80 hours a week!
  10. Push your limits and take healthy risks!

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A better world, Communication, Effectiveness, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Development, Personal Development, psychology

‘Step up’ – Lead in Six Moments that Matter By Henry Evans and Colm Foster

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: ”Leadership is not a job title but an Action”! So goes the main premise in a wonderful book I recently read. It’s written by Henry Evans and Colm Foster, and it’s called ‘Step up’. In a nutshell, the book suggests that no matter your title or place on the organization chart, you can be a leader – or, more precisely, you have the potential to exercise leadership!

Put in other words – Every day, all-day employees worldwide find themselves in situations where they have a choice! – To shine or let opportunity pass them by.

The book is divided into six chapters, each providing a unique piece to the overall puzzle of self-asserted leadership.

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A better world, Communication, Leadership Development, Personal Development, psychology

Give and Take By Adam Grant

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This week I read ‘Give and Take’ By Adam Grant. The book has the subtitle ‘Why Helping Others Drives Our Success’ and is, in its essence, a groundbreaking insight into the surprising forces determining if people rise to the top of the success ladder or sink to the bottom.

The basic premise of the book is that most people fit into one of three reciprocity styles:

  • Givers – who ‘give more than they get.’
  • Takers who ‘get more than they give.’
  • And Matchers who ‘balance give and take’ and are willing to exchange favors but careful not to be exploited.

Every time you interact with someone, your chosen style reveals itself. The decision is all yours, and what you choose can significantly impact your chances for success in Life, Business, and Love!

I like to think I am a giver – how about you??

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Communication, Leadership Development, Personal Development, psychology

The courage to be disliked

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This week I have been working on a Summary of ‘The courage to be disliked’ by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. This title immediately spoke to me since I definitely have ‘people pleaser’ tendencies and honestly quite rarely have the courage to be disliked.

I simply and utterly detest it if I sense that people do not like me. Especially if it is someone I am expected to work alongside, but strangely also if the disapproval comes from someone I don’t even like or someone I will most likely never see again (like a sales clerk in a shop or a cold caller on the phone).

Quite frankly, this tendency is hard to understand and explain, but I have not yet learned to overcome it.  So, when I saw this book, I was very curious to learn how I could find the courage to be disliked.

In the book, we learn that the desire to please others is a very natural tendency but, nonetheless, something we must overcome if we want to live happy lives.

Kishimi and Koga argue that people are mainly unhappy because they care far too much about obtaining recognition from others – be it a teacher, a parent, or society at large! Kishimi and Koga, however, claim that approval from others comes at too great a cost. See, by constantly chasing approval, people ultimately end up living other people’s lives. Instead of pursuing their own goals, they follow the expectations of others, sacrificing their own desires (and happiness) in the process.

Bottom line: external Approval Isn’t Worth Pursuing. Some people will inevitably dislike you. No matter what you do, there will be someone in the world who would rather you do it differently. The only way to attain sustainable happiness is to work up the courage to embrace this fact and free yourself to live what you believe to be a good life, no matter what other people think.

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