A summary of things you should know about The Little Book of Clarity according to Jamie Smart: Introduction In this episode Jamie Smart reveals all his insights on The LittleRead More
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]]>In this episode Jamie Smart reveals all his insights on The Little Book of Clarity where he provides you with a quick guide to focus and declutter your mind.
In his book Smart expands on his original book Clarity and provides you with new, powerful ways to improve your productivity, eliminate stress, and master the art of innate thinking. The goal of the book is to help you create more relationships, meet personal goals, pinpoint negative goals, and train your brain to start prioritizing your day-to-day life more clearly.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are constantly bombarded with an extensive to-do list and need an effective manual that will clear their head in order to get things done efficiently.
You’ll find that almost all other books about productivity and clearing your mind is going to give you a whole bunch of things to do, things to practice, and things to remember. It didn’t make sense to me how you could help someone to have a clear mind by giving them more things to think about and do. My book doesn’t give you anything to do, anything to remember, or anything to practice and as you start to understand how it all works then it starts to implement automatically. All you need to do is read the book and it’ll do the work for you.
It really is one to be read in sequence and in fact one of the earliest chapters tells you about a way of reading in which I call reading for insight.
A simple misunderstanding about how the mind works is the cause of pretty much all the struggles that you face in your life and all the struggles we face in society. When you clear up that misunderstanding your life is going to instantly improve.
The introduction is setting the scene and you’ll find it talking about things that you can relate to and it’ll be setting a different direction for it. You’ll also find that at the end of every chapter there is a QR code that you can scan with your smartphone and it’ll take you to videos that explain the chapters in more depth. I wanted to make this a book that you can use in an interactive way.
The first chapter is called Misunderstanding; the hidden trap and it kind of sets the perspective. The principles behind clarity are to our psychology what the discovery of germs was to medicine.
The second chapter is called The Power of Insight and that’s about how when you read the book you are going to read it for something that comes from inside of you. That may sound strange but the nice thing about it is that there is nothing you need to practice or remember.
Chapter three is a technical chapter called How Perception is Created and it’s just explaining how your senses and mind works. We talk about tricks of the mind because so many things we struggle with as entrepreneurs really are just tricks of the mind.
Chapter four is talking about The Power of Principles and that’s about the principles that run our minds and emotional systems. When you understand these principles it makes everything a lot easier. The other thing you’ll find in this chapter is what I call the clarity equation which is clarity equals capacity minus contamination. The idea of that is we all have the capacity for the good stuff but what gets in the way of it is what I call contaminated thinking. The other thing you are going to find in that chapter is what I call the deep drivers and they are eight powerful values that every single one of us has that help us create the things we want to create.
Chapter five is the Psychological Immune System. You know how you got a physical immune system? Well you’ve also got a psychological immune system. Just like your physical immune system is there to take care of your body, your psychological immune system is there to take care of your psychology.
Chapter seven is called Stress; the source and the solution.
In chapter eight you are going to discover what I call the ultimate leverage point. As an entrepreneur one of the most powerful things you can get is leverage so this chapter is about the ultimate leverage point.
In the next eight chapters you will dive into each of those deep drivers in depth.
Chapter seventeen is called There’s Only One Problem and that’s the one thing that gets in the way of that stuff.
In chapter eighteen I introduce you to what I call penicillin for the mind. Just like penicillin goes wherever it’s needed in your body to care infection, this penicillin for the mind goes everywhere in your psychology to give you what you need.
Chapter twenty is The Leadership Delusion.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:36
“How secure can a person ever feel when they believe that their security comes from something outside of them?” – Jamie Smart
I’m an entrepreneur and my fascination is with how people think, how people motivate themselves, and how people get results. Very specifically what I’ve find is how the mind works is a huge area of fascination and I’ve been exploring that for years.
When I found myself having all the trappings of success but none of the feelings of success I went back to the drawing board and found that there was a fundamental misunderstanding behind how I thought life worked. As I cleared up that misunderstanding for myself and started clearing it up for my clients not only did I become more productive, more clear minded, more comfortable in my own skin, I also became more successful. It turns out we are designed for reality and do really well in it but we don’t do so well when we are caught up in our muddle thinking.
All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
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]]>A summary of things you should know about How to be a Productivity Ninja according to Graham Allcott: Introduction In this episode Graham Allcott takes a deep dive into hisRead More
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]]>In this episode Graham Allcott takes a deep dive into his book, How to be a Productivity Ninja, where he shows you how to worry less, achieve more, and love what you do.
In his book Allcott combines all of his teachings from his public productivity workshops from all around the world into a simple, effective guide to working faster and smarter. The goal of the book is to teach you how to overcome procrastination, how to use email more efficiently, new ways to increase your personal time, and how to de-clutter an information overload.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own more than one business or run a time intensive business and need help balancing their overloaded schedule in order to work more efficiently.
My book is very real, hands on, and dives right into the practicality of where you are personally.
I originally wrote the book to be read from front to back but there are some who pick in and out.
Don’t manage time, manage attention. Look at the two or three hours that you are on top form and schedule your task according to that.
The first chapter is all about developing a mindset of a ninja to use in your productivity. This is about living in the present moment and not thinking about what you need to do or worrying about tomorrow. People’s best work happens when they are present and in the moment. We talk about being ruthless, ruthless with yourself and being ruthless with others. I go over reasons why we get stressed, attention management, and best ways to go about using your e-mail.
Then we get into what I call the CORD Productivity Model that has four elements which are capturing and collecting information, organizing, reviewing, and the psychology of doing. The capturing and collect element is about getting things out of your head and getting that information into what I call the second brain. The key to organizing is having a good set of list; I suggest having an overarching master to-do list and an overarching project list. The review element is where I ask myself a series of questions each morning to go over what I need to get done. The last element of the CORD productivity is the psychology of doing what needs to get done. Even though you know what to do it’s sometimes hard to find the momentum to get things started so I give you different ways to create it and ways to trick your brain into doing it.
There are also chapters on product management and meetings.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 06:36
“Time management is dead.” – Graham Allcott
“A ninja is not a superhero but they often appear so.” – Graham Allcott
I run a company called Think Productive and am an author. For the last few years I’ve been involved in productivity training and coaching with some of the biggest companies in the UK and increasingly around the world. At the moment my life is traveling the world and being the evangelist for Productivity Ninja.
The inspiration for me was my own journey with productivity. I used to be a chief executive of a charity here in the UK and I went freelance. And when I went freelance I realized that I no longer had a team of people around me and knew I had a problem and needed to develop my own skills. I started reading lots of different books, blogs, and experimenting with different systems to develop my own take on the topic of productivity. I am a big believer that the things you struggle to learn yourself are the things you should teach to other people so I started doing just that.
Making It All Work by David Allen
Linchpin by Seth Godin
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Work Simply according to Carson Tate: Introduction In this episode Carson Tate takes a deep dive into her book, Work Simply, whereRead More
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]]>In this episode Carson Tate takes a deep dive into her book, Work Simply, where she provides a system to help make work less complicated and more organized.
In her book Tate gives you a step-by-step productivity system that is separated into four custom styles that are uniquely fit for different types of learners and doers. The goal of the book is to help you identify your own unique productivity style, maximize your effectiveness, lead great meetings, communicate properly, and tell how your desk defines your work style.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that maintain a very busy schedule, work over 40 hours a week, and need help organizing tasks into an effective system.
The key difference from my book is that it is based on this concept that I developed called productivity style. In the book you take an assessment to determine your thinking style and once you discern your type then the rest of the book you customize strategies and tools based on your type.
I absolutely do not recommend you read my book front to back. I would suggest that you go to the chapter or chapters in the book that speak to your current challenge and read that content.
It would be to personalize your productivity. Decide to no longer accept a one size fits all solution for your time or e-mail or communication challenges. Push back and understand your thinking style and then rigorously filter and only allow in those strategies and tools that are in alignment with you and the way that you work.
Early on in the book there is a chapter on your productivity style, why it matters, and how to identify it.
Then the book moves into the areas that I think most of us really struggle with in our businesses. In this section there is a chapter about Managing Your Attention and in our 24/7, always connected world, how do you manage your attention so that you’re able to focus on your goals and priorities. And this chapter looks at how to control against distractions, how to manage “emergencies”, and also how to manage your technology.
Then the books moves on to Setting Priorities. Everybody knows about setting priorities but I introduce a new framework here that I call Ready Goals and these goals are slightly different than most of us have been taught around Smart Goals in that they are realistic, exciting, action oriented, directive, and ultimately they are yours.
Next I look very specifically at the challenge we face like investing your time wisely, how to free your brain and build an effective master task list, how to get more done, and then how to tame your inbox. And then we move into how to shape your space. How do you shape your physical environment regardless of where you work for optimal performance?
Each of the sections start with best practices and each one have very specific strategies for you based on your productivity style. Each chapter also has very detailed charts that make it very easy to access the information and most of them are downloadable from the website.
In the third part of the book we talk about how to work more effectively with others. This section looks at how to delegate effectively and gives you charts on productivity style clues so that you can identify the style of your direct reports, the style of your investors and vendors. Then there is a section on working well with others and why we have what I call these productivity clashes and what to do about them. And the finally piece in this section is around meetings and how to get work done in and through them.
I end the book with a high level summary so that you can pull out the nuggets and take away what you want.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 07:38
“Every time you say yes to something you’re saying no to something else.” – Carson Tate
I am the owner and founder of a company called Working Simply and that’s my personal mission as well as my company’s mission to help individuals, teams, and organizations streamline and simplify their workflow.
I am very privileged to have the opportunity to work with really high achieving entrepreneurs and business owners and as I was working with them I was finding that they were struggling in trying to adopt and adapt some of the time management, productivity, best practices in the marketplace. So they were feeling frustrated and overwhelmed because the latest and greatest app or blog post that they read wasn’t working for them. I realized that it wasn’t the lack of drive but rather the tools that they were using weren’t aligned to the way they think. So I wanted to write a book that helped people identify the way they think and then align their thinking styles to the way they actually work so that they can be more productive and more discerning.
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
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]]>A Quick Look at 5 of the Latest Books for Entrepreneurs The Entrepreneurs Library presents some of the latest books for entrepreneurs in January 2014. These books are brand newRead More
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]]>The Entrepreneurs Library presents some of the latest books for entrepreneurs in January 2014. These books are brand new to the market and the authors are in line to give a thorough deep dive of their books. Stay tuned this month for the release of the interviews with these great books and their authors.
Procrastinate on Purpose grew out of the Rory Vaden’s quest to see how super-achievers accomplish their work. We have all heard that time is finite, but Vaden insists that is wrong. In fact, he says, everything you have learned about time management is wrong. Of course, we all have the same hours in a day, but super-achievers invest time in tasks today that give them more time tomorrow.
In his book, Rory Vaden brings his high-energy approach and can-do spirit to the most nagging problem in our professional lives: stalled productivity. Millions are overworked, organizationally challenged, or have a motivation issue that’s holding them back. Vaden presents a simple yet powerful paradigm that will set readers free to do their best work—on time and without stress and anxiety.
“A brilliant insight turned into an actionable method. Start now!”— Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
“We all have the same 24 hours in a day to make an impact but what if you could actually create more time? Procrastinate on Purpose shows how the greatest leaders in the world have figured out how to literally multiply their time. This book is a game changer.”— Jon Gordon, bestselling author of The Energy Bus and The Carpenter
Learn more about Rory Vaden | Buy Procrastinate on Purpose on Amazon
The world has changed and you can’t use yesterday’s communication strategies to create tomorrow’s successes. Dianna Booher is the master on this subject and this may very well be called her masterpiece. This book is timely and relevant and it teaches you how to what matters most in communication: build trust and reinforce relationships.
In her book Dianna Booher provides an essential nine-point checklist for success in the art of communication and persuasion—for building solid relationships, and for increasing credibility in the workplace. With lessons from politics, pop culture, business, family life, and current events, the book identifies common reasons that communicators fail to accomplish their goals, along with examples and analyses of messages that succeed and those that fail.
“Dianna Booher has done it again! What More Can I Say is the definitive book on the hows and whys of communicating effectively. I’ve always said leadership is an influence process—and to influence others, you have to know how to get your point across clearly. What more can I say, other than ‘Read this brilliant book!’ –– Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Legendary Service
“Dianna Booher may have accomplished the impossible. By following the tactics revealed in What More Can I Say?, you will communicate in a way that creates a dynamic engagement with others after which all parties walk away satisfied and smiling. Excellent work from one of today’s most important communication experts.” –– Marshall Goldsmith, author or editor of 34 books including the global bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Learn more about Dianna Booher | Buy What More Can I Say on Amazon
Tim Stevens, now an executive with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, takes his lifetime of service and dispenses with conventional wisdom. Short, powerful chapters end with actionable discussion questions. Four pillars hold up every successful leader: Be a person of integrity. Identify the right people around you. Build a great culture. Lead through crisis.
Stevens knows that creating a healthy and successful organization requires throwing out the conventional instruction manual and writing one that balances practical lessons, spiritual truths, and twenty-first century realities—exactly what you will find in Fairness Is Overrated. This is a manual of doing, not talking. No fluff, no stale inspirational platitudes. It’s time to move past planning and kick-start Monday into action.
Each chapter packs a punch with many practical lessons learned, deep truths, and actionable next steps for yourself, teams and organizations. These 52 unique chapters are spread nicely across four distinct focus areas: Be a person of integrity; Identify the right people around you; Build a great culture; and Lead through crisis.
Learn more about Tim Stevens | Buy Fairness is Overrated on Amazon
Robert Dickie has served as a decorated Air Force Officer, the CEO of an international company, and as the leader of several non-profits. He now serves as president of Crown. With real world experience and advice from a host of industry leaders, Bob outlines seven proven strategies for operating in our ever-changing landscape that can be translated into a practical personal action plan to achieve results.
This book is exactly what’s needed to help a new generation of adults make the leap to work that lasts in this new economy.
“A must read! Robert shares very useful insights and direction for the large and increasing numbers who are, or soon will be, confronting career changes necessitated by our rapidly changing global economy impacting every facet of life.” — Rod Dammeyer, Former Partner of Arthur Anderson and CEO of Itel Corporation, current CEO of CAC
“Robert is one of the most thoughtful and genuine leaders I know, and the power and effectiveness of his advice, anecdotes, and action plans is evidenced in Robert’s own success in applying them to his own life. My only regret is that I didn’t have such a powerful ‘how to’ guide at my disposal earlier in my own career!” — Brett R. Keith, Managing Partner, Rockwood Equity Partners LLC
Learn more about Robert Dickie | Buy The Leap on Amazon
In Work Simply, renowned productivity expert Carson Tate offers a step-by-step guide to making work simple again by using the style that works best for you.
Carson Tate has helped thousands better manage their time and become more productive. Her success owes partly to the realization that most of us fit into one of four distinct productivity styles: Arrangers, who think about their projects in terms of the people involved; Prioritizers, who are the definition of “goal-oriented”; Visualizers, who possess a unique ability to comprehend the big picture; and Planners, who live for the details.
In her book, you will learn:
Learn more about Carson Tate | Buy Work Simply on Amazon
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