Booked Morning Podcast

I'm so pumped to give you my takeaways from this amazing book. I want to Thank you, Katie Donnelly, for gifting me this book. She’s my co-host on another podcast “Lingerie Success" and she is awesome. This book has become on of my favorite business books. This is going to be a permanent item on my top book collection. Gary vee for those of you that don’t know built his reputation in the Wine Industry, he took his fathers business from a liquor store and grew it into a 60million dollar empire and is now a rock star in the marketing world and consults with some of the top 100 companies in the world through his agency VaynerMedia. Like Charles Duhigg from my last review, I had a chance to meet with Gary at Inbound 2016 in Boston and he packs an ultra energetic punch, he is like a human energizer bunny. This book is an extension of that. He presents case studies and observation both present and future of real-time businnes, to really recognize the extreme importance of lifetime customer value and simply out-caring our competitors in business.

Im so excited to bring this fascinating book to you. It was written by Pulitzer prize wining reporter Charles Duhigg and was a New York Times best selling book. Last year I attended the Inbound Conference in Boston, and was fortunate enough to meet him and listen to his talk about this particular subject and reading this book puts everything together. If we understand how habits work, the we can change them. Habits are choices we make at one time and stop thinking about but continue repeating them.

When we talk about or hear about success its often attributed to genius, talent and hard work. This his third thought provoking book shines a new perspective on success and how unseen factors contribute to someones success and some beyond what we can control. He is challenging everything we think we know about success and some of the best and most successful individuals. Malcolm presents that external forces, like birth years, where we were born and advantageous opportunities contribute to our success, and not just sheer power of will. The previous episodes I’ve had in this podcast dealt with books about specific things to be successful. Those who have read this Outliers book, may or may not agree with the ideas presented by the author, but being aware of this possibility will allow us to be open to other factors and take advantage of certain opportunities that are presented to us. A talk that Grant Cardone - one of todays top sales coaches - once said, that we the middle class have a big disadvantage.. because we have had just enough to be comfortable, but not enough to make a difference in today’s world. We go to school, graduate with a burden of debt thinking we will find a dream job as we were told by our parents, it rarely does that really happen and we end up living paycheck to paycheck, hoping something better comes along, but as middle class, being use to comfort does not motivate us to work hard or put in the time to hone our craft. Outliers are those people/groups who break the norms.This book presents to us several anecdotes and stories to explain the points the author is trying to make and these are my takeaways.

Many of you listeners must be thinking. Win Friends? Like bribe them? or Influence them, is that the same as manipulating people to do what we want. Today’s mentality is so broken. When I tell some of my friends about this book, they chuckle thinking its a joke. But this is a classic 1936 book, a time when friends and influence meant something deeper than a Insta Friend or a FB Friend in todays time. This book brings to us timeless lessons about learning the basic rules for making a great first impression and winning people over to understanding where you are coming from. Contained in this book is 29 principles on how to deal with people and broken down into 4 parts from the techniques in handling people to becoming a more effective leader and getting buy in from others.

All of us in life, one time on another feel like a failure, or that whatever we try or to, it seems the universe is against it. I for sure have had those times in my life. With life challenges, failure is a part of the becoming successful and achieving process. In this podcast, my tag line is “a book a day keeps failures at bay.” we Cannot totally avoid failure as it is a part of our life, we simply need to learn our lessons from each failure or mistake and become better. That is the main lesson of this book. A great story of failure is from J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter novels She was in public assistance when she was wrote the first book of what would become one of the best selling series in history. The book was rejected by a dozen publishers. The only reason it got published at all was because the CEO's eight year old daughter begged him to publish it. JK Rowling once said.. “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.” - J.K. Rowling Even - President FDR Sanctioned the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans in WW2 When we think of success, or see succes, we often call it luck, blessing, or because family has connections, or my personal favorite, they just had an easier life.. What we fail to realize that may of the greatest successes in history were also some of the biggest loosers and failures. They just learned from their mistakes and used them as stepping stones into success. Let us learn and apply Seven Principles for Failing Forward from the Author.

I wanted to share with you the book that pretty much started the personal development and self help industry and sold over 70 Million copies worldwide. It was written by Napoleon Hill after being commissioned by the Richest Man in History Andrew Carnegie. This has been a game changer for many millionaires and biillionaires of today. There are some controversial, esoteric lessons in certain portions of this this book, but it was written for its time in the early 1900s. I will share with you the main lessons I gained from it. A key take away I want leave you is with this quote and my last thoughts about this powerful book. “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” In general, people seldomly succeeed with Luck or chance. It is almost ussually from key character traits and skills that can be learned and applied in life. Every success starts in our mind, and then achieved through persistance and faith. If we dont believe we can be successful or achieve our goals in life, and we stop at failure then we will never gain the success we aim to achieve.

In today’s book. I will share with you one of the most famous books in personal development. Our life is made up of our habits, and in this #1 best selling book, Stephen teaches us a framework for personal effectiveness which are formed by the combination of our habits in life. Habits - are a combination of our knowledge, skill and desire. The Author reminds us that to form a habit, we need to have the knowledge to know what to do, the ability to know how to do it and finally the motivation to do something. Stephen explains in this book that many individuals who have achieved a high degree of outward success still find themselves struggling with an inner need for developing personal effectiveness and growing healthy relationships with other people. Stephen believes the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. He shares a quote "In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions."

Today’s book that I will be sharing is one of the most powerful and popular business books on how to embrace change. We often hear the phrase, “The only thing constant is change.” We know deep inside this is true, we have had so many experiences in life that have proved this concept over and over again. And yet we often forget or loose sight of this and are not always prepared for the change. Or we refuse to accept it when it does come. This book breaks that concept down for us and into an entertaining story presented as a parable where 2 mice (sniff and Scurry) and 2 little people Hem and Haw live in a maze and are presented with change.

Eat that FROG!. Most of you who are new to this concept must be thinking. What the Heck, why would I eat a frog? Well, this book is for those of us who feels overwhelmed with work, business or life and doesn't know where to start. Brian shares different methods for planning and prioritizing; he shows us how to identify the most important tasks and tips for keeping focused. I for one definitely need this, in trying to balance a family life with three kids plus a challenging career plus a packed extra curricular schedule with my family and outside of it. To get over procrastination, we need to really know ourselves and what we want to achieve. Face our limitations, organize our time and EAT OUR FROGS! When we take on the hardest and most important tasks first, we’ll train ourselves to stay the course to achieving our life dreams and goals.

m super pumped to share this book with you? I’ve read this book a few times, I’ve shared it with many.. and every single time, I am still getting gold nuggets out of it. This is one of the best books I’ve read, and should be a required reading for everyone who wants to succeed. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how successful people and organizations get others to buy into their vision, get their offering across clearly and lock in the direction of their business. You will find that this will seem like the worlds simplest idea, but despite that or maybe because it is, it is neglected or ignored. Often, I talk to my business friends, team and family about the importance of knowing WHY… Why they want to achieve something, why the chose a certain career path, and why they got into business in the first place, Knowing WHY, acts as a compass through the struggles of life and entrepreneurship. Simon’s book brings this up 50 levels higher and deeper. As a father at home and a leader in an organization, many of you and myself included, talk about WHAT plenty of times, Some talk about HOW, but very few of us really ever discuss or even know our WHY. And it is not just about the money either.

This is the inaugural episode for this Podcast and I am so excited to be sharing with you this life changing book that I just finished. Its from Best selling author Hal Elrod, and its titled… The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Did you ever think that by Changing the start of your day, you can change the rest of your life. The goal of this book is to show you how to have a fulfilling and happy life. And this all starts with your morning routine.