A summary of things you should know about Habit Stacking according to Steve J Scott: Introduction In this episode Steve Scott shares his book, Habit Stacking, where you will discoverRead More
The post A Preview of Habit Stacking with Steve J Scott appeared first on The Entrepreneurs Library.
]]>In this episode Steve Scott shares his book, Habit Stacking, where you will discover 97 quick habits that can instantly change your life.
In his book, Scott teaches you to discover how to manage a simple routine that you can repeat on a daily basis along with a few tools that will keep you motivated and consistent.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs like you who want to make giant leaps forward in business, strengthen personal relationships, stay on top of finances, get organized, and improve health and fitness.
Most books talk about huge habits and not too much attention is paid toward the small habits that will improve your life.
The first part sets up a framework that is important the reader read. This book is very short so it shouldn’t take long to read.
I would say you can put a bunch of small habits into a single routine and you don’t really need a bunch of fancy processes to get them done.
The start of the book I introduce the idea that little hinges swing big doors and the idea here is small changes produce a significate lasting change to your life. You can add these small life changes to all the different aspects of your life such as productivity, relationships, finances, organization, spirituality, health and leisure and when added together they can do a lot for self-improvement.
The next section of the book is the introduction of the habit stacking and the mindset behind it. It is important to know that you can actually add dozens of small habits to your life with one single routine. Generally most people rely on multiple triggers to do all sorts of different habits and I teach you to do all these things for one specific trigger.
After that I go into the difference between small changes and mini habits. I set the framework between what a small change and mini habit is. Mini habits have a chance to grow and small changes are individual habits that have a start and finish that you really can’t improve on.
Next I go into the eight elements of habit stacking routine. I basically talk about how to take only five minutes or less and for a complete habit the total routine should be about 30 minutes or less.
A good substantial part of the book I go into the individual examples of habits that you can develop. There are 97 examples I include in the book that that includes the examples for productivity, relationship, finance, organization, spirituality, health and leisure. I give the framework for the habit stacking routine and talk about picking a time and location to focus on one routine at a time. I talk about the importance of putting everything into a logical checklist, having a good solid reason why you’re doing each one of these habits and using rewards to keep you going to follow this routine.
The next section talks about triggers and why they are important. A trigger is an outside event where you don’t have control and acts as a catalyst for following the habit stacking routine.
I then go into two examples of a habit stacking routine. I give an example of a productivity and morning routine. And I end with disruptions and challenges. We all have stuff that just happens in our lives and I explain how to overcome these distractions.
“Big doors swing on little hinges.” – W Clement Stone
I have been self-employed for the last 10 years in a variety of internet businesses specifically the last two years I have been into Kindle publishing. I got into habit development because I wanted to improve my own life and now I write books that come from my personal experience and things I have talked about with other people.
To be honest it came from a position of frustration. I wanted to figure out a way to put the little habits into a single routine and for a year I did this every single day first thing in the morning. One day I was trying to come up with a name for a book and I figured that this might be something that others find valuable.
Crush It! By Gary Vaynerchuk
Buy Habit Stacking by Steve J Scott on Amazon today
Visit HabitStacking.com to learn more about Steve’s book
Visit DevelopGoodHabits.com to read more of Steve’s exclusive content
Follow Steve J Scott on Twitter and Facebook
Download the full transcript here (coming soon)
Listen on iTunes, Stitcher , and SoundCloud
Related books: Smartcuts by Shane Snow | People Tools For Business by Alan Fox | Work Smarter by Nick Loper
Relevant advice and tips: 10 Bad Habits That Successful People Avoid | 7 Productivity Tools For Entrepreneurs To Make Life Easier
What did you like and not like about this episode? Fill out this one minute survey here.
The post A Preview of Habit Stacking with Steve J Scott appeared first on The Entrepreneurs Library.
]]>A summary of things you should know about Pitching and Closing according to Alex Taub Introduction In this episode Alexander Taub provides his insights and expertise on business development andRead More
The post A Preview of Pitching and Closing with Alexander Taub appeared first on The Entrepreneurs Library.
]]>In this episode Alexander Taub provides his insights and expertise on business development and partnerships when it comes to startups. In his book, Pitching and Closing, Taub gives you an all-inclusive guide to the best practices of creating a startup in a nontechnical format breaking down the categories of business development, partnerships, sales tactics, preparation, and execution. This book is the perfect match for the entrepreneur interested in startups who does not have the technical capabilities.
There is really no great go-to book that helps nontechnical people break in to the startup world. So this is a book for people interested in startups but don’t have the technical capabilities.
Once you read this book it should get you excited about going in to the startup world and how much potential there is.
We broke up the book into five sections. The first section is called Business Development. Basically it goes through everything you need to know about business development. From what is business development to how to structure your business development team and what the difference between business development and sales are.
The second section is an introduction to partnerships. We came up with something called the four golden rules of partnership which is basically why would anyone want to work with you? You are either going to make them money, you’re going to save them money, you’re going to grow their user base or you’re going to improve their product. We also talk about three types of partnerships.
The third section is pitching and closing. We talk a lot of the legality of deal making, contracts and things like that. We have a lot of quotes from companies such as Spotify that give us some great insight into when you should sign a letter of intent. Another part of part three is launching deals and compounding effects and the last part of part three is keeping the deal.
Part four is about the best practices of preparation and execution. We go through all the best practices around all the preparation execution of being on the nontechnical side of a startup.
The last section is called war stories. In this section we talk to people like Gary Vaynerchuk, Tristan Walker and Jesse Itzler and let them tell their story and why we have highlighted them in the business development world.
There isn’t a quote that I’m really excited about but one of the sections I like is called sincere selling, in the introduction to partnerships. This is one thing that I really live by; you need to believe what you are selling to other people if you want them to buy into it. If you don’t sincerely believe what you are pitching to somebody, you need to get out of there and go do something that you do believe in.
I am the co-author of Pitching and Closing with my good friend Ellen Dasilva. I am also the co-founder of a company called Social Rank which is a simple tool to help brands find out more information about the people that follow them across social networks. For the past two years I ran business development and partnerships for a startup called Dwolla. Two years before that I ran business development for a business called Aviary. I also have a blog called Alex’s Tech Thoughts that I write four posts a week and contribute to Forbes entrepreneur section every two weeks.
I have been writing for four years and one day I got a LinkedIn message from an editor at McGraw Hill asking me if I ever considered writing a book because she really liked my stuff. I hadn’t thought about it before but I said that’s a pretty good idea but I knew I couldn’t pull it off on my own. That’s when I brought in my friend Ellen to co-author the book with me. The inspiration was an editor liked my stuff and I felt like there wasn’t much out there on the topic of business development in partnerships.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Buy Pitching and Closing by Alex Taub on Amazon today
Visit PitchingAndClosing.com to get more information on the book
Follow Alex Taub on Twitter and Facebook
Follow Ellen Dasilva on Twitter
Download the full transcript here
Listen on iTunes, Stitcher , and SoundCloud
Related books: Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg | Go For No! by Andrea Waltz | High Profit Selling by Mark Hunter
Relevant advice and tips: 7 Reasons Why Your Sales Skills Suck
What did you like and not like about this episode? Fill out this one minute survey here.
The post A Preview of Pitching and Closing with Alexander Taub appeared first on The Entrepreneurs Library.
]]>