2 books a week!!I was watching a video on someones website yesterday and the lady mentioned that she didn't have a traditional education but managed to get herself a degree with no school quals. Since then she has started and runs her own business. And yes, she read 2 books per week. That's right - 104 books a year. How many do you get through in a year? Bill Gates is famous for taking himself off for a week or 2 and just reading books so he has time to 'think'. |  |
This empowers him to do what he does so well combined with his sheer genius and bloody mindedness.
I ask what you are reading because it is fairly well accpeted that reading provides knowledge and knowledge is power right? Weeeell, not necessarily - depends what you do with that knowledge.
am currently making my way through an incrediable book by Greg McKeown called 'Essentialism'.
It's about boiling down all the things we need to get done to the most important things so we can get on with life and make the most impact. It's about saying 'no' more than 'yes' and understanding why. It's about having criteria to live by (see my blog on values) and using them to guide you to the essentail things in life avoiding the worthless things which can so easily distract us from our main purpose.
Some of the questions he asks are as follows:
I ask what you are reading because it is fairly well accpeted that reading provides knowledge and knowledge is power right? Weeeell, not necessarily - depends what you do with that knowledge.
am currently making my way through an incrediable book by Greg McKeown called 'Essentialism'.
It's about boiling down all the things we need to get done to the most important things so we can get on with life and make the most impact. It's about saying 'no' more than 'yes' and understanding why. It's about having criteria to live by (see my blog on values) and using them to guide you to the essentail things in life avoiding the worthless things which can so easily distract us from our main purpose.
Some of the questions he asks are as follows:
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin at home or work?
Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?
Do you feel busy but not productive?
Do you ever feel like you're contantly in motion but never getting anywhere?
Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?
Do you feel busy but not productive?
Do you ever feel like you're contantly in motion but never getting anywhere?
If you answered yes to any or all of these then the answer is to become an ESSENTIALIST. I won't spoil the content so you can get a copy for yourself and make your own way to becoming an essentailist. You will probably find, as I did, that there are many things in there you are already doing, but there are also many you may not be. My craft needs refining. Thank you social media for being the contstant in there that seems to stick out like dogs balls in terms of getting in the way of getting things done.
I highly recommend the book. See if you can build up some momentum to reading more than you already do. 2 a week is a tall order but I am happy with one a month.
If you are stuggling to get time to read that much then you really do need to get the book and read it as it's princiles will enable you to have more time and therefore live the life you really want to live as well as work. Enjoy.
I highly recommend the book. See if you can build up some momentum to reading more than you already do. 2 a week is a tall order but I am happy with one a month.
If you are stuggling to get time to read that much then you really do need to get the book and read it as it's princiles will enable you to have more time and therefore live the life you really want to live as well as work. Enjoy.
