What You Will Learn

The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss As the back cover of the book says, "WARNING: Do not read this book unless you want a new way of living". There's so much in this book and it applies directly to employees as well as business owners. Follow Tim's four-step process: Definition, Elimination, Automation, Liberation. Your eyes will be opened to a few uncomfortable truths, but you will be given the exact tools and tactics you need to create a new life for yourself.

Dr John Demartini, is an American researcher, best selling author, international educator, public speaker in human behaviour. In this interview we chat about living to your potential, building wealth by determining your values (and, like always, we tried to slip in a few 'devils advocate' questions about personal development).

'A Toltec Wisdom Book' As we've grown up, we've subconsciously made a bunch of agreements with ourselves. This agreements guide our behaviour - they act as an internal compass by which we decide what we do and don't do. But we never CHOSE these agreements. This book presents us with four agreements that we should make with ourselves in order to live a good life. Replacing our old agreements with these new four won't be easy, but it may be an important personal shift you can make.

Today Gretchen Rubin launches her brand new book: 'Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organise to Make More Room for Happiness'.  We spoke about happiness, habits, the benefits of having a dog, and how to best organise your physical space to remove the clutter and the mess to allow you to be happier and more productive.

In analysing who people act or don't act, Gretchen Rubin found that it boiled down to one very important question: How do you respond to expectations? You can be categorised as either an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel. After you understand who you are, you can set up systems and environments that will allow you to harness the strengths of your personality, combat the weaknesses, and build better lives.

We want to perform our best in a job interview, but if we're constantly thinking 'I'm in a job interview', then we won't be our best selves. Having presence is about being present - having the comfort, confidence and self-assured enthusiasm to stop the constant inner monologue and feel powerful and self-assured. 

Robert's work delves into the parts of ourselves we don't want to look at - envy, our dark side and our secret lust for power. He identifies the things below the surface that are driving us forward. We asked Robert about the role of intuition, taking advantage of the zeitgeist and using humility as a tactic. He is the author of our favourite book and one of the greatest thinkers on the planet. Enjoy!

This is a phenomenal book, all about what we do and why we do it. In this episode, we're covering four of the laws:  - Chapter 6: Elevate Your Perspective (The Law of Shortsightedness)  - Chapter 8: Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude (The Law of Self-Sabotage)  - Chapter 2: Transform Self-Love into Empathy (The Law of Narcissism)  - Chapter 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose (The Law of Aimlessness)

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need - without it you will be emotionally and socially challenged. However, we all experience the feeling of love differently and we all have certain things that make us feel loved. Gary Chapman has broken this down in to 5 'love languages' - we all have our own language, and we often can't understand or speak other languages.

After a great conversation with Dr Karl 12 months ago, we again had the pleasure of joining him to discuss his newest book (his 44th book!) 'Vital Science'. Listen to our first interview with Dr Karl here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/doctor-karl/id1125635053?i=1000400662996&mt=2&app=podcast Check out Dr Karl at his website: https://drkarl.com/ 

Studies have shown the only 7% of our communication is verbal (what we say). 38% is vocal (how we say it) and the remaining 55% is non-verbal (what we do with our body language and our gestures). Intuitively, we often can sense when someone is meaning something different to what they're saying, but ti isn't until reading a book like this that dissects a wide range of different types of body language that we can really learn to decode actions and gestures. 

'The Definitive Guide on Value Investing' In the book you'll learn how to value a company (so you know when it is under or below it's fair value), understand how stocks work and how to diversify a portfolio to best manage risk, sound investment philosophies (such as understanding the different between investment and speculation), and powerful questions to ask yourself when making an investment.  https://whatyouwilllearn.com/top50/ 

The Personal MBA - by Josh Kaufman 'Master the art of business' In this episode we cover the 5 parts of a business: 1. Value creation – discovering what people need or want, then creating it 2. Marketing - attracting attention to build demand 3. Sales - turning prospective customers into paying customers 4. Value delivery - giving customers what you've promised and ensuring that they're satisfied 5. Finance - bringing in enough money to make your effort worth while

Bryce and Ben are best selling authors, and the hosts of the Property Couch which is a trusted guide for Property and Money management. Aside from this, we are from the same city and share the same interests in reading great books. In this episode we dive deep into money management, property investing and books. You can download the first chapter of their book, 'Make Money Simple Again' for free at the link below: https://thepropertycouch.com.au/free-chapter-make-money-simple-again/ 

There are two paths to success: be a conformist or be an original. Both can lead to eventual success, but each require a different approach to life. This book is all about how everyone can be more creative and bring new ideas to the table by being an 'original'. We talk about the things you can do to come up with more good original ideas, how you can spread these ideas, and the mindset required to keep moving along the path less taken.