A summary of things you should know about The Happiness of Pursuit according to Chris Guillebeau: Introduction In this episode Chris Guillebeau takes a deep dive into his book, TheRead More
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]]>In this episode Chris Guillebeau takes a deep dive into his book, The Happiness of Pursuit where he reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest.
In his book, Guillebeau shares his journey around the world where he found ordinary people doing extraordinary things and reveals their secret motivations. The goal of the book is to challenge you to take control of your life and help you find what it is that makes your life count.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who not only want to make money doing things that they love, but want to make an ever-lasting difference throughout their lives.
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It’s not primarily an “entrepreneurial” book. It’s something that’s much more about creating meaning and purpose in our lives. This book is much more about the meaning behind why I started a business and part of the reason was because I value freedom. I valued that freedom because it allowed me to do other things.
It’s probably easier to start at the beginning and read all the way through.
There is something greater out there and a calling for all of us and the more we take steps toward it, the easier it becomes. Don’t stop or ignore that calling.
In the beginning of the book I started with a story of me going to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. After many obstacles and difficulty of getting there I begin to really ask myself why I am going through the trouble. It was then that I reminded myself that I am honoring this quest that I have chosen to go on and decided to finish it. I realized along the way that the greatest thing that came out of this adventure had nothing to do with be but rather from all the great people I met throughout the journey.
I begin talking about others who took on a quest and share their success stories. I talk about this guy who took on the four year MIT Computer Science Curriculum which is supposed to be one of the most difficult computer science curriculum and he did it in one year. I talk about why he did that and what he learned through that process. I also talk about a guy who walked across America and a guy who produced the world’s largest symphony. Throughout the book there are 50 stories that try to draw the reader in.
I organize the book around three sections. The first section is Beginnings. This section talks a little bit about my journey and about how people come to a quest. Each quest should involve challenge, difficulty and a possibility of failure. I talk about how a lot of people are discontented and that’s how they come to their quest.
The second section of the book is called Journey. In this section there are a lot more stories and it looks at the values that these people have. I not only tell the stories but also what we can learn from it and how we can apply it to our own lives. I tried to focus on what I call everyday adventure and showing how people can cultivate the value of adventure in their own lives even if they aren’t ready to do it just yet. I talk about how people do these quests, how much money it cost and how much time it takes. I try to help people strategically craft a quest for their life no matter who they are or what their situation is.
The last section is called destination and that is about arrivals. I talk about when I came to the end of my quest and what exactly that was like. Often that moment can be bitter sweet so I show the ready how to process that and give advice on what to do next.
In all three sections I am essentially trying to give the reader tools for how they apply this in their own life and their own pursuit. My goal in writing this book is for the reader to walk away and take action. I want inspiration combined with action.
“It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than the top of one you don’t.” – Steven Kellogg
I am a writer, traveler and entrepreneur. I have spent the past 10 and ½ years on a personal quest to visit every country in the world. I also wrote a few other books which are The $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity.
This was probably my most personal book yet. It took me a little bit longer to write than the other two. I came to this 10 and ½ year journey and as you might imagine that was such an incredible experience for me personally. And so when it came time to write about it I didn’t want to just write a travel memoir but I wanted to look at something deeper. The model that we used for The $100 Startup was essentially a case study model of looking at all kinds of people who have started a business without going in to debt and without going to business school. I really liked that model because we pulled out all these different examples and showed how people had done it very specifically. I use this same model for The Happiness of Pursuit, and I look at all kinds of people who have taken a quest and try to understand why they did it and learn about their obstacles along the way. The goal was not just to provide a bunch of stories the goal was to present this agenda to the reader. Ultimately the focus of the book is on the reader and why a venture can be a good value for our lives.
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Wishcraft by Barbara Sher
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Related books: The Greatness Zone by Hal Elrod | Dream Year by Ben Arment | Vision to Reality by Honree Corder
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Miracle Morning according to Hal Elrod: Introduction In this episode, Hal Elrod shares his book, The Miracle Morning where he believesRead More
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]]>In this episode, Hal Elrod shares his book, The Miracle Morning where he believes how you start the day sets the context for the rest of your day which sets the context for the rest of your life.
In his book, Elrod teaches you his ultimate morning routine that helped double his income within two months. The goal of the book is to provide you with a real life experience of success and the steps on how to wake up each day with more energy, motivation, and focus to take your life to the next level.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to change their lives, but have trouble waking up early in the morning and feel as if they are losing energy and motivation throughout the day.
The Miracle Morning is the highest rated book many, many times over both in terms of sales and five star reviews. After applying the concepts that I teach you in this book you immediately see extraordinary results.
I suggest the reader read from front to back.
The one concept that I would like the reader to take away is to wake up earlier than you have to because you want to, not because you have to. Because how you start the day sets the context for the rest of your day which sets the context for the rest of your life.
It starts out with the introduction which is my story and why yours is the one that matters. I share the details of my car wreck and the actionable lessons I learned from it.
Chapter one – it’s time to wake up to your full potential – this just reinforces the idea that we are capable of so much more than we could have ever even considered for ourselves. This chapter is designed to really remind you of the unlimited potential that’s in all of us.
Chapter two – The miracle morning origin born out of desperation – this is the in-depth version of the story of how I came up with the miracle morning.
Chapter three – The 95% reality check – it’s essentially the reality check that 95% of our society will never live life on their terms.
Chapter four – Why did you wake up this morning – The purpose behind the miracle morning is the idea that most people wake up not because they want to but because they have to. When we hit the snooze button we are starting our day with procrastination which sets the tone for you to become the person that procrastinates in other areas in life. This also starts your day with a lack of self-discipline.
Chapter five – The five step snooze proof wake up strategy for the snooze-oholics – This is the most important chapter.
Chapter six – The life savers – Six practices guaranteed to save you from a life of unfulfilled potential.
S – Silence (meditation/prayer)
A – Affirmations
V – Visualization
E – Exercise
R – Reading
S – Scribing or Writing
Chapter seven – The six minute miracle morning – One minute for each of the life savers.
Chapter eight – Customizing your miracle morning to fit your lifestyle and achieve your highest goals and dreams – I give you all sorts of options on how to do your miracle morning. I allow you to make it your own so that it fits your lifestyle and achieves your goals and dreams.
Chapter nine – From unbearable to unstoppable – This is the real secret to forming habits that will transform your life in 30 days. I bust the myth that it takes 21 days to form a habit.
Chapter ten – The miracle morning 30 day life transformation challenge and fast start kit – After you learn how to effectively implement a habit, we break it down into a 30 day miracle morning life transformation challenge and I give you a 10 page challenge that allows you to customize it to fit your lifestyle.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 09:40
“The number one cause of unfulfilled potential of regret and of struggle is never deciding that now matters more than any other time in your life because it does.” – Hal Elrod
I was a radio DJ until I got into sales where I was one of the youngest sales rep ever inducted into the companies’ hall of fame. I broke a bunch of sales records and thought that I was going to do that forever. I was in a horrific car accident, died for six minutes, broke 11 bones and told I would never walk again. I bounced back from that and went on to write a couple of bestselling books, became a coach and a motivational speaker.
It was never intended to be a book, it was written out of responsibility to share my experiences with other people. I did research and created what seemed to be the ultimate morning ritual and within two months of doing it I more than doubled my income.
Vision to Reality by Honoree Corder
The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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The Experiment by R. Michael Anderson
Habit Stacking by Steve Scott
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7 Morning Routines of Very Wealthy People
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Vision To Reality according to Honoree Corder: Introduction In this episode, Honoree Corder takes a deep dive into her book, Vision ToRead More
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]]>In this episode, Honoree Corder takes a deep dive into her book, Vision To Reality where she helps you answer the question what do you really want and why haven’t you already got it.
In her book, Corder points you in the right direction to achieving success by talking about her coaching philosophy and program. She will teach you how to increase efficiency and effectiveness, overcome challenges, increase productivity, and live with passion and purpose.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who wants the steps used by successful entrepreneurs to transform their daily actions into the life of their dreams.
My book is different because I didn’t add in any additional pages, I went straight for the tip of the spear. It’s less than 150 pages and it’s all very high content and something someone can use as a reference.
I like everyone to read my books all the way through and then take it section by section.
That they need to give themselves the clear space to define their vision.
In chapter one I start by asking what do you really want and why haven’t you already got it? I discuss in this chapter why you don’t have what you want and what’s happened to prevent you from getting it. I talk about this fictional character Ted who is in all of us and he’s this unintentional guy who is not really sure about why he hasn’t achieved success. I am not a fiction writer but I like to bring people some kind of recognition of themselves and to also know that they are not alone. I then point you in the right direction to achieving success by talking about my coaching philosophy and program.
I talk about the STMA (Short term massive action) and I help people to define what it is that they are looking for and then turning it into reality. Before they can really figure that out they need to figure out what is in the gab that’s holding them back.
I talk about who someone needs to be because I think that being-ness is so important verses doing-ness. I go through all of the things of who someone needs to be in order to turn their vision into reality.
In chapter two I get into the exciting stuff which is what is possible. I think that pretty much anything is possible with a few exceptions.
And then in chapter three I start talking about how your vision becomes your reality – how do you sit down and craft the vision? I also talk about what might come in the way of your vision and how to avoid those things.
In chapter four we talk about your goals because once you create a vision you need to have goals. If you have the right goals they get you up early and keep you up late. You are really, really tired but you are also happy because you’re building something that you like. So we talk about how to set these goals so that they are driving you effortlessly.
In chapter five I get into the power of laser focus – how do you turn the actions that you have identified into the action steps that you’re doing every day. Knowing that you need to do something is different from actually doing it.
In chapter six I talk about what your ‘I am’ is. Any words you say after ‘I am’ is a command to your subconscious mind and I want everyone to choose their ‘I am’ statements with intention and purpose.
The title of chapter seven is Who’s on Your Bench which means who is in your environment, who is holding you accountable, who’s pushing you and pulling you. And also who you need to network with so that you can grow your business effortlessly.
In chapter eight I talk about old habits. Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Trying to have willpower will not be enough and so you have to engineer circumstances in your life and I give some examples on how to do that.
Finally in chapter nine we discuss the planning phase.
And in chapter 10 we figure out how you are going to pull it all together and make it actually happen.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 03:58
“Committed eats impossible for breakfast.” – Honoree Corder
“Thinking you can achieve something unleashes the force that allows it to happen.” – Honoree Corder
I am a business coach, executive coach, corporate trainer, motivational speaker and 13 time author. I currently live in Austin, TX. I have worked with entrepreneurs, business owners and senior level professionals for about 15 years and helped them achieve their biggest vision and solve their biggest problems. My background is in the corporate world and in network marketing and so I have had to distinct successful separate careers that have both informed and influenced how I work with people today.
I wanted a reference book for myself and for others that isn’t just the tip of the spear but is the sharp point that would give the formula for turning what is in our minds eye into our actual real life reality.
Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
Buy Vision to Reality by Honoree Corder on Amazon today
Visit HonoreeCorder.com to learn more about Honoree and her book
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Related books:
Dream Year by Ben Arment
From Idea to Exit by Jeff Weber
Life By The Cup by Zhena Muzyka
Relevant advice and tips:
5 Important Things That Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know About Starting a New Business
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