I choose the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as my book to read. This is actually the second time I have read this book. The first time was 7 years ago before I was running a successful company. I was just a freelancer and didn't have a lot to manage the first time.
The general principle of this book is that there are 7 Habits that effective and successful people tend to follow. When these principles are followed, they allow for incredible personal growth and success to occur. The book stresses taking personal accountability for your actions and proper goal setting as a couple of ideas. When you are able to know who you are, what matters to you, and you realize you are in charge of your actions in life you can tremendously affect the direction and results in your life.
An exercise I would do in the class would be to do a vision board that includes your values, dreams, and your personal mission statement. Starting with the end in mind and defining who you really make all of the other habits easy.
My biggest aha is how different this book was this time I read it. The first time I read it, a lot didn't make sense to me and I found it challenging to read. This time, it left a much stronger impression and reminded me of a lot of things that I need to do again. I actually did most of the things he said to the first time and reflecting back, I realize that I have followed the guidance of those things for the last several years without even doing it intentionally.
Hi Alan,
ReplyDeleteThe book you chose is really similar to the book I read named 'Mindset: The New Psychology of Success'. They both talk about how some principles and habits could help anyone succeed. It seems your book refers to having a positive mindset about yourself and your future, which I find really helpful for anyone who has short term and long term goals. Good Post
Growing up my parents would always tell me to do something and I wouldn't listen. Then later on I would usually regret not listening. They had a saying for that "If you don't listen, you feel", and I think it has the same general principle; of taking accountability for your actions. The effort that I put in will be rewarded. No effort, no reward.
ReplyDeleteHi Alan, I think this book seems really interesting. You gave great details about the book, and I really got a good idea of what it is about. Listening to your parents is wise and while we are young, we may not know what is right and wrong, but they are always right usually.
ReplyDeleteShalom Alan, I, too, have read this book so I am quite happy that you chose this one. I am a weekly returner to this blog and I was hoping you'd choose this book so I could hear your taste on it. That exercise you came up with based on the book is something I believe people need to do everyday. I think if you can remember the big picture while doing the small, but important, trivial tasks of running/starting a business. Great Job with this post I love reading them as always.
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