A summary of things you should know about Four Seconds according to Peter Bregman: Introduction In this episode bestselling author Peter Bregman reveals all his insights on Four Seconds whereRead More
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]]>In this episode bestselling author Peter Bregman reveals all his insights on Four Seconds where he reveals a strategy to eliminate counter-productive habits from your daily routine.
In his book Bregman gives you simple and practical solutions that can be used every day, take very little time to accomplish, and will help you produce results you never thought you would see. The goal of the book is to help you overcome habits that attract stress, leverage listening to change someone’s mind, disengage from problematic situations, and take responsibility for your team’s failure.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are working on multiple projects and are having a hard time organizing their routine in order to see more effective and productive results.
One of the things that make this book different is the writing style. The book is written in a style and way and with a goal that would help people impact their life, relationships, and business.
You can absolutely jump in and jump out.
Slow down. Just slow down and take a deep breath and before you act in any situation ask yourself what you want the outcome to be.
The book is broken up into three parts: Change Your Mental Default, Strengthen Your Relationships, and Optimize Your Work Habits.
The first part talks about ourselves, our habits, and the habits we get into. It’s based on a general premise and the science behind it is that there are events that happen in our lives and ways we respond to those certain events. I also talk about goal setting and why goal settings are gut reactions and how to rethink them. I have a chapter about motivation and follow through; how generally when we are not doing something we think our problem is motivation. There is a chapter about the urge to be perfect which for an entrepreneur is completely destructive; we cannot be successful as entrepreneurs if we are striving for perfection. You can only build new ideas by making mistake after mistake.
The second part of the book, strengthening your relationships, is all about the kneejerk reactions that we have in relationships to other people. We talk about the importance of boundaries as entrepreneurs and why we end up burnt out in a lot of ways.
The third part of the book is about optimizing work habits which is about leadership. There is a chapter called Complaining with the Complainers about neutralizing negativity. There is a big chapter about letting people fail which is very hard for us as entrepreneurs. We have a chapter about sharing the glory and a chapter about the importance of being helpful instead of nice.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 08:39
“What if we chose not to miss an opportunity to be inspired? If we gossiped about things that people did that energized us without fixating on the things that disappointed us, if we took sparks that ignited our enthusiasm and induced our good will and if we allowed those sparks to light our fires of passion.” – Peter Bregman
“Learning anything isn’t about doing it right, it’s about doing it wrong and then adjusting. Learning isn’t about being in balance, it’s about recovering balance.” – Peter Bregman
I am the CEO of Bregman Partners; it’s a company that strengthens leadership in people and in organizations. We do leadership programs, coaching, and I work as an advisor to CEO’s. I do a lot of writing and thinking about human behavior and the things we do that get in our own way that either help us or prevent us from being successful.
The inspiration was my own consistent failure. I find that there are habits that I am in and when I look around I find that I am not alone. These habits are things that we do intuitively and are counterproductive. When I saw the impact of uncovering my own blind spots I wanted to share it with others and decided to write a book about it.
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Thoughts Are Things according to Greg S. Reid: Introduction In this episode, bestselling author and success leader, Greg Reid takes a deepRead More
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]]>In this episode, bestselling author and success leader, Greg Reid takes a deep dive into his book Thoughts Are Things where he and his co-author, Bob Proctor, reveal the true mindsets that determine where a person will be successful.
In their book Reid and Proctor interview professionals to dissect the psychological science of thought and how successful people think differently from others who are unable to reach their potential. The goal of the book is to teach you how to manipulate your thoughts, what kinds of thoughts will make you wealthy, and how thinking is significant to achieve a meaningful life.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who admire the works of Napoleon Hill and are ready to change everything about their lives in order to control their actions when it comes to wealth and success.
Thought Are Things is not necessarily the truth and we come right out and say it. The reality is it’s thought backed by massive action that becomes things. If thoughts were things I’d be a pizza because I am starving and thinking about pizza. You got to think it, you got to feel it, but ultimately you got to do it.
You can literally open up any chapter and start fresh.
One of the greatest things that people did was to be very careful of the people they surrounded themselves with. And the thoughts that you put into your head are a direct proportion of the people you’re hanging out with. So it’s important to seek counsel and not people’s opinions. It’s important also to have many mentors in our life.
To write the book we sat down with amazing human beings and found out exactly how their thoughts dictated where they are today.
Thoughts backed by massive action become true reality. One of the big takeaways is about the subconscious mind where you have no control of what it is. One thing that kept popping up was fear – fear is one of the biggest driving things that hold us back and most of it is manmade fear. We spend 90% of our time worrying about 10% that really happens. And fear is a great mechanism and it files away emotional pain, regret, and embarrassment and that’s why if we fail at something we are reluctant to try it again. The subconscious mind pulls from that memory to keep us safe and away from experiencing that same outcome. Sometimes we have to trick that subconscious mind and the way that people do that is they put more positive on top of that negative. Sometimes thoughts are important but you also have to take necessary actions and course directions to make your dreams a reality. Successful people seek counsel and failures listen to opinion. And the difference is that opinion is based on ignorance, lack of knowledge and inexperience, and counsel is based on wisdom, knowledge, and mentorship. If we would spend our daily lives only seeking and listening to counsel and ignoring people’s opinions, that’s the day your life would change.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 07:30
“Fears only enemy is action in the absence of faith.” – Greg Reid
I live in San Diego, California with you wife and my two year old son. I get to write books, make movies, travel the world, and meet some of the most influential people of our time and then tell their stories.
To start with I did Thoughts Are Things with a legendary author named Bob Proctor and this book is the very first one in the Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich series. The whole concept is if you ever read Think and Grow Rich, the first three words are Thoughts Are Things. Bob and I decided to take those three words and expand on them and from there we created this gem that people are loving national wide.
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