I have learned a few things in this life, and one of them is to be comfortable. To live life how I'm told and to be OK just being. To find a career and to do my best at what I learn. I've always been patted on the back for having a life plan. What I wasn't taught was how to think outside the box. How to get uncomfortable. How to attract positive people that will speak good into my life. As my life moves on and things change in the world I realize that being comfortable will only make me the robot that the government wants me to be. I tend to have a defiant personality, some people call me stubborn. With that stubbornness, I've learned that pushing past comfortable is key to my success. I have learned the reading is a must after high-school. Not to use it on useless novels that I will never learn anything from, but to use that must-read attitude on books that will change my life. In the last 6 months or more I have picked up books that have changed my life. In these books there are tools that teach me how to become a better person. How to out think my peers. How to motivate and love who I am. To grow and think outside the box.
One of the first books that I picked up was, The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. I learned in that book that it's the tiny things done daily that will make big changes overall. It taught me to not look at the whole picture, but to only see a little at a time until the whole pictures is in complete view. I have struggled with reading my whole life. I have felt very overwhelmed with extra schooling and the thought of reading books scare me. So with the principles that I have learned in, The Slight Edge, I have learned that simply reading 15 minutes a day will help me accomplish my goals of reading a big book.
The 2nd book that I have read is, How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnagie. It is an older book. But for me it was a book I could relate to. It took me a while to finish it. I simply read 15 minutes a day. I refused to look forward to the next chapter like I had done in the past with books that I put down and never picked back up. I used the principles of The Slight Edge to finish a book that seemed overwhelming. A book that I had picked up for years and put back on the shelf because I felt overwhelmed. But this book taught me ways to befriend people that I would normally never have in my life. It taught me tricks on dealing with people.
The 3rd book I have started is, The Greatest Secret In the World, by Og Mandino. It is based on the Ten Scrolls. It's not your normal book. It has you set goals before you get started. It takes a scroll and has you repeating it 3 times a day for 5 weeks. I'm only on the 3rd scroll. I have learned a few tricks. Recording myself reading on my phone and setting an alarm is important. When it goes off, I take 5 minutes to listen to it. I do that 3 times which equals 15 minutes in the day. This is a book that will take over 45 weeks. The idea is that the goal you set in the beginning, you will have met that goal by the time 45 weeks have come.
I have read other books also, but they were short and related to our business that we have begun.
Reading self help books has never been on a priority list in my life until now. I am destined for greatness. It won't happen unless I do it on purpose.
This blog will be my journey on that path. If I can do it so can you!
