Enchiridion - Epictetus (book) (10mins)
- "If anything laborious, or pleasant or glorious or inglorious be presented to you, remember that now is the contest, now are the Olympic games, and they cannot be deferred; and that it depends on one defeat and one giving way that progress is either lost or maintained."
Write Out Goals
Thought
I had a friend that asked to see if we could sit down for 45mins and help him out get some training. It turned out to be Primerica. Which doesn't seem all that bad but is based on an older style of network marketing.
Just last night or this morning I got a message from a guy on Facebook asking to see if I was interested in making some extra income on the side. Says he's a recruiter for a global company. Looking into his profile and things he seems fairly legit. The strange thing is he's along the lines on network marketing but may use different companies and things. I saw something about Paycation that he mentioned. Looked interesting and another network marketing where people purchase vacations under you site and you get compensated.
So everything seems to be going together in a sense. I'm curious if this is an opportunity that I should test out. Make a step towards financial freedom. Are the stars aligning or am I just perceiving this to be so.
I can see in myself that it would be helpful for me to break out of my shell. I'm looking for ways to do so. Thinking about toastmasters and other things. I know relations are very important and being a competent well spoken person.
How can I break the cycle to get free and realize the potential out there?
It won't hurt to try. I have tickets for a Primerica event that could be overwhelming but helpful. Also I will message that guy back and see what happens.
Don't be afraid nothing is impossible, innovate out. The Obstacle is The Way.
Money: Master the Game - Tony Robbins (audio book) (2hrs)
- part 44 to 47
- "Man is only great when he acts from passion." (Benjamin Disraeli)
- 3 Jars for spending, yourself, someone you know, someone you don't know.
- Repetition is the mother of skill. Action is where your power is found.
- Finished Audio book
67 Steps - Tai Lopez (video) (1hr)
- Worth a Damn Factor
- don't get out hustled
Workout (1hr)
- walk to and from track
- run stairs
- volleyball with wife
Power Questions - (book) (1hr 20mims)
- "Could I travel on that beam of light? Could I reach or exceed the speed of light?" (Einstein)
- "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." (Einstein)
- Rather than offering advice Peter Drucker would pose simple but penetrating questions such as, "What business are you really in?" "What do your customers value most?"
- "To be , or not to be, that is the question?" (Shakespeare)
- Power Questions - the questions we select have the power to give new life to your conversations in unexpected and delightful ways. They are powerful tools to get directly to the heart of the matter. They are the keys to opening locked doors.
- "If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, three days. If half an hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now." (Woodrow Wilson)
- "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." (Bob Dylan)
- "Once you've made your pitch, or you ask a question, shut up!" (DeWitt)
- Chpt 2: "What would you like to know about me/us?"
- when someone asks "tell me about your company?" Or "Tell me about yourself?"
- Clarify what they would like you to talk about.
- When to Use: When you are asked a general question that could potentially require a long answer.
- Follow Up Questions: "Does that answer your questions?" "is there anything else you'd like me to talk about?"
- Chpt 3: "What do you think?"
- Open ended questions
- "The greatest compliment was paid to me today. Someone asked me what I thought and actually attended to my answer." (Thoreau)
- Devout Listening - listening intently
- asking questions and then listening put you in control
- People want to be heard!
-Developed your reputation as a great listener. Draw others out and show you care about them by asking.
- "Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request." (Philip Stanhope, the fourth earl of Chesterfield)
- The listen. Listen aggressively. Listen attentively. Listen to the silence. Listen with your eyes. Listen!
- "The seeds of progress are rooted in the unhappy person. It's the pebble in the shoe that causes you to take notice."
- When to Use: When ever you are discussing a dilemma or planning a course of future action. After you have shared your views or presented a proposal. When someone comes to you with a problem.
- Follow Up: "What has influenced your thinking about this the most?" "Are there any other perspectives I ought to be aware of?"
- Chpt 4: "Are they ready to buy?"
- First Question That Someone Will Buy: "Does the buyer have a significant problem or opportunity that the solution addresses?" No need, No sale
- Second Question: "Does the buyer own the problem?"
- Third Question: "Does the buyer have a healthy dissatisfaction with current offerings or with the rate of their improvement?" No dissatisfaction? No sale.
- Fourth Condition: Trust that you are the right person for the job.
- Fourth Question: "Does the buyer trust that you are the best person for the job?" No trust? No sale.
- You must be determined and committed. Before you exhaust yourself trying to get the sale, you must ask the question, "Are they ready to buy?"
Focus - Daniel Goldman (book) (1hr)
- Erving Goffman
- "Away" - a gesture that tells another person "I'm no interested" I'm what's going on here and now.
- "Continuous Partial Attention"
- What are our distractions costing us?
- We have an attention crisis on our hands.
- "Information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." (Herbert Simon)
- Part 1
- Bela Bartok - string quartets
- Selective Attention: the neural capacity to beam in on just one target while ignoring a staggering sea of incoming stimuli, each one a potential focus in itself.
- "the sudden taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one of what seems several simultaneously possible objects of trains of thought." (William James)
- Two Types of Distraction: Sensory and Emotional
- operates in the prefrontal regions
- Richard Davidson names focus as one of a handful of essential life abilities
- "Phase-locking" - synchronized state with the object of that beam of awareness
- Nicholas Carr - "deep reading"
- "tide of technological revolution so captivate, bewitch, dazzle, and beguile man that calculative thinking may someday come to be....the only way of thinking." (Martin Heidegger)
- Deep thinking demands sustaining a focused mind. The more distracted we are, the more shallow our reflections; likewise, the shorter our reflections, the more trivial they are likely to be.
- Multitasking is false. Rather than having a stretchable balloon of attention to deploy in tandem, we have a narrow, fixed pipeline to allot. Instead of splitting it, we actually switch rapidly. Continual switching saps attention from full, concentrated engagement.
- When we coordinate what we see and what we know, our efforts in tandem multiply our cognitive wealth.
- Collective Intelligence
The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday (book) (20mins)
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