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It isn't easy to keep up with the pace of life. It can feel like time is running away, and there's always more to do than we can manage. So it's no wonder many people are trying to figure out how to slow it all down. But what does slowing down mean? What do we want to let go of? And how do we make these changes in a world that expects more and more from us? In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I want to go beneath the surface and explore some of the profound benefits of slowing down. Episode contentsSlow Consumption in a World Of Instant Knowledge | 2:41Slowing Down and Control | 8:23What's The Point of Personal Productivity? | 10:53How Does Slowing Down Reduce Stress? | 13:31What Would Help Me Slow Down in Life? | 15:38Perception of Pace | 22:40What Do We Want When We Seek a Slower Life? | 27:51Slowing Down Our Important Tasks | 30:42The Risk of Rushing | 33:40Speed as a Tool | 35:56Why Do Time Management Tools Make Us Busier? | 37:05Enjoyment is Not The Destination | 40:12Where Do We Get to Slow Down Now? | 43:45Slowness is a Beautiful Waste of Time | 45:14Why I Call Myself a Slow Coach | 46:56What Would You Like To Waste Your Time On? | 48:08What's The Rush? Enter The Sanctuary of Slowness | 50:47 Slow Consumption in a World Of Instant Knowledge | 2:41 This topic is on my mind as I plan the next Haven Book Club. We are reading The Courage to Be Disliked, to which we will dedicate the next four months. What will slowing down make possible? How much more will we see, explore, and experience by not rushing? What will greet us in the gaps between the sessions and the vast depths as we reflect and process the ideas, and our conversations about them, over time? It's reassuring to know that we could quickly acquire an overview of a book's core concepts if we had to. So what if tools like Blinkest, StoryShorts, and Snapreads allow us to take our time with the books we want to read instead? To mine the depths for the kind of wisdom and mindful insights that don't come from knowledge hoarding. These valuable tools can reinforce and support our goal of slowing down. But only if we choose to approach them that way. If we only ingest bitesize nugget versions of books, we might struggle to open space for the inner conversations that lead to self-awareness and intentional growth. Slowing Down and Control | 8:23 Slowing down can help us let go of the need for control. It's about understanding that growth starts with roots that emerge from seeds planted in the dark. These are processes beneath and beyond our field of vision. Not an easy thing to do in a world that likes quick and visible results. What's The Point of Personal Productivity? | 10:53 I spent a lot of time, money and thought on productivity tools and time management techniques. I would hand hours over to designing my "ideal week" and perfect processes to deal with emails, social media, and my morning routine. But invariably, the more I focussed on being productive, the more overwhelmed I felt. This "productivity trap" is where we end up using productivity to free time to do more. It seems obvious, but it doesn't feel like it when we're stuck in that mode of thought, where we tell ourselves that with the right formula, technique, or process, we will finally have all the time in the world for the important stuff. This is accompanied by that dreaded feeling that we should be doing more. Because there is always more to do, even if we optimise our routine and clear our schedule, "more" will slip in. If these productivity techniques are not helping us do what we're already doing but slower, they are probably not helping us. Rather than asking, “what do I want more time to do?” maybe we could ask, "what do I want to be able to do more slowly if I choose to?" We can use that as a starting point from which to design the foundations of our life. How Does Slowing Down Reduce Stress? | 13:31

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 456. In this podcast I speak about my journey to get to where I am right now with Boostly, as well as the responsibility and accountability that comes with it. I also talk about tools I plan to use going forward to help with the Boostly development. Want to gain trust from your customers? Check out www.boostly.co.uk/trust 00:00 - Introduction 01:19 - Blinkest 03:42 - A definite read - Clockwork 04:29 - More responsibilities 06:29 - My Clockwork Commitment 08:28 - Self Accountability   • https://Boostly.co.uk • https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps • https://instagram.com/boostlyuk • https://Boostly.co.uk/guidebook • https://Boostly.co.uk/website • https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 450. In this podcast I interview Mike Michalowicz about how he is helping the hospitality industry and the impact he's had on Boostly..   Check out Hospitable Hosts on https://hospitablehosts.com/   00:00 – Introduction 01:41 – Books that Mike has offered and created 02:55 – Blinkest 07:01 – The cheerio analogy 11:15 – Profit First 15:54 – Market 21:28 – What is Mike creating next? 25:51 – Mikes go to destination 27:13 – Does Mike book direct?   • https://Boostly.co.uk • https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps • https://instagram.com/boostlyuk • https://Boostly.co.uk/guidebook • https://Boostly.co.uk/website • https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast

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With the holidays upon us, we share our recommendations for 7 books that will make excellent holiday gifts.  --- Transcript   Tom: Greetings, and welcome to The Remote Real Estate Investor. On this episode, we're coming into holiday season and with holiday season, it's gift giving. So we're going to talk about on this episode, our favorite books that we have read to help us with our investing career. And we're gonna talk about why we like them some highlights over them. And this could be something you give to yourself or give to a friend. All right, let's do it. How is everybody doing today?   Michael: Stuffed still from Turkey and pie.   Tom: Nice. Lowkey he goes, just go to family stuff.   Michael: Yeah, we just stay put. My wife and I we had a friend in town. We adopted a friend as part of our family. So had something at the house hung out. It was great,   Tom: Nice, Emil?   Emil: We had some family over in the backyard. It was windy and cold that night in Los Angeles, which is rare. So everyone was in cold turkey and mashed potatoes by the time we brought it to their table. But you know, it was good times.   Tom: Yeah, Pierre?   Pierre: So I just went down to visit family had Thanksgiving with my mom and my sister. And then you know, got out and hiked at Big Sur and had a grand old time.   Michael: Nooiice.   Tom: Nice, it was beautiful out.   Pierre: It was gorgeous. Yeah, it was beautiful.   Michael: Tom, would you get up to man? Tom: Oh, lowkey. Little mother in law, Thanksgiving dinner, very lucky. Usually with the holidays. I'm like, my parents are local. And my wife's parents were like bouncing from house to house. But to limit the exposure, we just did one house and it's kind of mellow, kind of mellow like that. But let's go ahead and jump right into it. So on today's episode, as we mentioned, it's going to be the books episode. So this could be used as a gift for yourself, for somebody who you think might get value out of it. But let's go and start with Michael. Michael, what is the book that you're bringing to the table to talk about first?   Michael: The book that I'm gonna bring to the table talking about first is a classic. It's been talked about for years and years. And I think so many real estate investors have gotten so much value out of it. And that's Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad.   Tom: Hmm.   Michael: And so he's a pretty prevalent author. He's written numerous books, but this is the one that I kind of set me off on my path to real estate investing. And it's funny, I always say that it it kind of summarized what I had always known and kind of thought was true, but put it really nicely into a packaged sentence in Word format, because I'd always have these jumbled ideas in my head. And then I read this book, and I was like, Oh, yeah, like, that's what I've been trying to say, for all this time. And it's a super easy read. It's not complicated. It's more of a mindset book and a mindset shift book. And it's super straightforward, very easy read very simple, simple concepts.   But at its highest in its highest level, most basic level, it basically says buy assets don't buy liabilities, that's what it boils down to. And so if you can do that more times than not, you'll end up net positive, and that should be good. And so it doesn't talk about how to invest in real estate, it doesn't talk about the mechanics of what that looks like. It just talks at a high level, hey, these are some things that you should be thinking about, and different ways to be thinking about some of the things you probably already know. And so he tells the story from a child's perspective, and it was just super great read.   Tom: I bet you so many people have had their real estate awakening, like to that book, like, wait a minute, like, I want assets. I think that's been such a common I don't know in disgust talking to other people that Rich Dad, Poor Dad is just such an eye opener, because I mean, it's really easy to have the fallacy of thinking of things that are really liabilities and thinking of them as assets. You know, I don't know, cars and stuff that just that's No, no, it's not I remember I read that I was listened to as an audiobook just at a college and they were talking about real estate was one really big piece of it and systems with the other. And so I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna build my career around systems and real estate and just like, you know, ran with it.   Michael: And here you are, here I am. Yeah, it's like everybody's first. You know, they all talk about the shared experience. And yeah, like you said, so many people get started. I feel inferior. Have you guys read that book?   Pierre I have. Yeah.   Emil: What's funny is like every real estate investors Bible, I hadn't read it till like four months ago, because everyone's like, oh, rich, Dad, Poor dad's best. And it was good. I was happy I read it. I think if you've already gotten into real estate investing, it's like you said it kind of already distills why you got into it in the first place. Hundreds of people have regurgitated what has been said in it. So by the time you get if you haven't read in, you're already investing in real estate and you follow the real estate investors read blogs or whatever. You've already gotten most of those lessons. It's just getting it from the original source he's like the OG on a lot of this stuff that most real estate investors talk about. So glad I read it. Great book. More people should read it definitely changed a couple of things for me so glad I read it.   Tom: Good point. Probably more of a beginner more entry.   Michael: Yes.   Tom: Maybe you have a friend who or partner or whatever sibling Why are you buying real estate on the other side of the country? Why are you both you know, like,   Michael: Yes,   Tom: Yeah if you already like the Kool Aid taste, you don't need to drink more kool aid for this stuff.   Michael: That's right.   Emil Yeah, There's more stuff in it than just real estate investing though I think like if you're in real estate investing, and let's say you have a full time job, he talks about business and the idea of paying yourself first and all these other concepts, which those were a little bit newer for me, like I've always heard pay yourself first, but he kind of actually frames it a different way than I had originally thought pay yourself first. I won't spoil it. But I think even if you're in real estate, there's like business lessons in there. There's other lessons that a lot of people can get stuff out of.   Michael: Dig it.   Tom: Emil, you're up next.   Emil: Alright, so first book and keeping it real estate investing related. I got one rental at a time, which is by our good friend who has come on the show a couple times. Michael Zuber, it is also not a how to book but is the story of his journey. And I like that he's a working professional, which I think a lot of people listening to this show can relate. We're not very few of us, if any, you know, our full time real estate investors right now. We have a full time job. So balancing being a real estate investor and full time job and all those things. I think it was a really unique story.   I don't think you read a lot about those. You know, you hear more about someone who quit their job went into real estate full time flipping this and that, but he is a buy and hold investor hear about his 15 year journey through real estate and how he achieved financial freedom. I love it. Great book. I recommend it to a lot of people. And Michael's a really smart guy. So definitely recommend if you haven't read it, read it. If you have send it to a friend. It's one of my favorites.   Michael: It was interesting, because we had him on the podcast, before I had had a chance to read his book, or you guys had had him on he was on and you guys interviewed him a while back. And then I picked up his book. And then we had him on the podcast. And I was like, Oh, I liked the book so much better after having heard him speak and just realizing that like, Yeah, he's just a guy. He's just a dude, like super cool guy super down to earth person. He's not this high and mighty, you know, you have to do this. You have like God, like, this is my story. It worked for me, maybe I can help you too. That's great.   So I think you hit the nail on the head of nail, it's very much mindset shift. And he kind of breaks it down into a little bit more granular of like, this is what I did kind of like on a step by step basis. And it's not so overwhelming. He really did eat the elephant one bite at a time. I think when we see or hear about real estate success stories always see is that person at the mountaintop, but we don't see all the blood, sweat and tears that they left on the way up getting there. And so he kind of talked about that a little bit, which I thought was really humanizing.   Emil: Yeah, it's rare to read the full story. You know, a lot of times, it's like, you just see the guy or gal who has 200 doors. And it's like, How the heck did you get there? And this book, like really distills it all down, which is it's fun to read.     Tom: Yeah. What I liked about his book, and him is he's like an open book. So like, I think real estate can oftentimes be guilty of putting terms and acronyms and making it sound more fancy. And like pretentious than it really is. I think, Michaels Zuber does a really good job in his book and just talking to him of being really practical and giving specific actionable stuff and saying, no, it's very doable. This is what I did XYZ, and not throwing a bunch of jargon and leaving parts out and talking about it. So as an open book, I think is the best way to describe him, as well as the book and talking through his experience in a very non hoity-toity or non…   Michael: Just uses layman's terms.   Emil: It's not intimidating.   Tom: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And he's just stripped that away. So great book Emil, front of the pod.   Michael: The other thing that I like about that, before we move on is that a lot of people talk about how difficult it is to invest in California, or how hard it is to make the numbers work in California, but he did it. And so people could say like, Oh, yeah, he had a California salary. But you can take the same thing and scale it to any other part of the country. Right? If you're not investing in California, you don't need a California salary. So if you can go live in the Midwest and earn a Midwest salary, you can go invest in the Midwest and things scale, oftentimes geographically. So I think I don't know if that makes sense, or if that's material to us, but whatever.   Tom: I dig it. All right Pierre.   Pierre Sure. Yeah, I'll deviate from the whole real estate theme. And I'm going to recommend an old book here. I think this one's from 1946. And it's called Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, not overly sophisticated not using jargon, it's very accessible. He systematically destroys 20 economic fallacies with cool calm logic and historical evidence to back it up. And the whole point of the book is to show how to feel good or do good economic policies that are meant for a specific interest group can often have adverse outcomes for the general public, hurting everybody. So it pushes back against these currents of economic thought, and showing how the inconsistency in the principles that they're derived from can cause some pretty destructive effects in practice.   So like each chapter, he just takes on one fallacy at a time and destroys it with simple language. And it's super easy to understand. And so really great entry point into reading economics. And it's fascinating to see how some of these fallacies that he was talking about back in the 1940s are still so prevalent today. And that are kind of the rallying cry of so many of the political movements today from both sides. So it's fascinating to see how on the nose this guy was back then and how relevant his arguments still Is today.   Michael: What was one of the best fallacies see debunked.   Pierre: So he starts with like the most simple ones, the broken windows fallacy, and its cousin the blessing of destruction, how different economic prosperity has come from war, and then the curse of machinery. How a lot of people are mistaken about how these labor saving devices are putting workers out of work and hurting society as a whole. He talks about like, who the tariffs actually help, and this drive for exports, and is it really beneficial. I won't dive into each of these arguments. So you can go and read it. It's a short book, it's only about 200 pages, or a little less than 200 pages, but parody prices, saving specific industries, how  prices actually work, what government price fixing, does what rent control actually does, what minimum wage laws do the function of profits and inflation and stuff like that   Tom: Two things I like, but I haven't read it. I'm adding it to my queue. But something that was written a long time ago, and still getting super high reviews, I just looked at the Goodreads. It's like the rotten tomatoes score of moving on, you guys have seen that for and it's like four plus, which I automatically like, and then also something about brevity being kind of short and concise.   Pierre: Yeah. And the version that I have the forward is by Steve Forbes, and it's recommended by Nobel laureates like Frederick Hayek and his teacher listed on Nice's the pillars of Austrian economics and the Austrian economic business cycle, the main takeaway that I have from it is just thinking about how something that might look good for a specific group right now in the short run will almost always hurt the general interest in the long run. And once we implement these policies, it's super hard to undo them. So we get stuck with these policies that are delivering the exact opposite of what its stated purpose was.   So it's really good to be able to look in and say like, oh, there's a second, third, fourth order effect of this thing. And we should be very careful before quickly adopting something that sounds pretty nice and romantic. And if you want it for free, the Mises Institute gives it away for free. If you go to mises.org economics in one lesson, type that into your search bar, they'll mail you a free copy of the book, because it's that important.   Michael: Nice.   Tom: Nice, nice. Check it out. Awesome. The next one, I'm going to do just a comment on some of these books. So about a year ago, and a little over a year ago, and preparing for Roofstock Academy and building this product out I just went on a binge and I read like I went onto Goodreads and like read every top one, just put it in my audible account and pounded through one. And this one particularly I liked a ton it is the millionaire real estate investor by Gary Kelly. It was written back in 2005. And I would say this is kind of a beginner to like middle experience. I think even if you are do have a bunch of properties, I think it's a really good way to think about it.   It appeals to a lot of different like systems thinking so just kind of I had to use four different kind of descriptors of why I like this book. One of them is it speaks to hard and soft skills. So in the beginning, it talks about mindset and goals, which is so important. If you're doing this kind of longer journey of building wealth through real estate, it's important to have the right thought in the way that you're thinking about it. Otherwise, it's over time it's hard to sustain. The other is into the more technical skills into acquisitions and ownership and, and thinking kind of system mindedly. I think it does a great job of blending those two aspects which are both really important in real estate.   The other is it is like realistic and the way that it's set it up. As I said, building wealth through real estate, I can sometimes take time and it is not the hotel ballroom, we're going to make you rich and just follow these five steps. It's very pragmatic about this is not a get rich quick and lastly related to that is it includes at the end of it a ton of use cases of people who have had success and what their journey is so kind of similar to Michael Zubers book, talking about his detailed journey. This includes a bunch of use cases of people so excellent book millionaire real estate investor by Gary Keller. Yeah, have you guys read the millionaire real estate investor?   Michael: I have but it's been a while. I don't have much colored   Emil: I just picked it up. See that? I'm pointing to it here.   Tom: Yeah, I can see the top book right there.   Pierre I do recognize it there, yeah.   Emil: I just picked it up a feeling it's been recommended enough. I'm like, Alright, I'll skim through it. Let's go.   Pierre Let's go!   Tom: Let's go. Highly recommended.     Emil: Do you guys skim through books now? Like there's certain books where I'm like, I've gotten good at just skimming through books instead of just reading them cover to cover. Curious if you guys do that?   Pierre It depends on the kind of book.   Emil: Yeah, true. Business, real estate investing those kinds of books.   Tom: Yeah,I do the audio version of skimming, which is speeding the speaker up to like 3x. And just like have a little bit of blood dripping out of my ears.   Michael: Okay, for the first time this is what you are going to do.   Emil: I listen to every podcast on 1.5 x. And if you go back down to one after listening to like a podcast for 20 minutes, it sounds like everyone's drunk or something. It's so funny.   Michael: It's like if you've been speeding on the freeway driving 90 then you go back to 65 like man, this is a snail's pace.   Tom: Yeah. All right, I got one more round of book reviews. or book recommendations this time may or may not be related to real estate. So, Mr. Michael Albaum lead us off.   Michael: Yeah. So we started a book club at the Roofstock Academy that's been going on several months now. It's been a lot of fun. So we recently read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, which is a book that I read years ago. It's a classic book. I think it was written in the 20s 1920s. Pierre, correct me if I'm wrong.   Pierre: Yeah. Originally published in 1936. Michael   Michael: 36 awesome thanks. Yeah.    Tom: Gotta love books with staying power.   Pierre: That's right.   Michael: But uh, it's a book. And, Tom, I love that. You mentioned Gary Keller's book about soft skills and hard skills. This is a book all about soft skills. And it talks all about people skills. And that's something that's so rarely taught, and the hard skills you can learn anybody can really teach that to someone. But it's the soft skills that I think are a lot tougher to master. And so it talks about ways to be likable. And I mean, I think the title kind of sums it all up How to Win Friends and Influence People really nicely. And it's a book that you can reread over and over and over again, I intend to read it once a year, at least, as some good refresher and good tips and tricks. Just in your everyday life doesn't have to be specific to real estate investing doesn't have to be specific to business, but just in living your life as a human being. I think it offers some really great tips and nuanced ways to live a happier life and just, you know, be a more like person.   Tom: Classic one plus one, I have kind of a funny story. I've got a funny story related to this book. So I got this book in college, and I was reading it and I play football in college. And I had left the book in the training room just on accident, like icing or doing something after and I left in the training room. And this guy who was kind of like a big scary defensive lineman had took it after I'd left and was like, he took it and he was like reading He's like, Oh, this is really this is great stuff from I'm like, Yeah, good. Take it. It's all yours, man. He was a super nice guy, Matt Moil, I hope your hope you're doing well out there. I haven't talked to you in a while. But anyways, I was an early evangelist and sharing this book with some big defensive linemen. But yeah, for all the stuff that Michael said just a classic I mean, kind of similar in a way that Rich Dad Poor Dad and kind of turn people on to that this book on to personal development and sharpening the saw and all that really important stuff that pays huge dividends. So great book,   Michael: I think one of the best parts of it is that it's actionable like day one. It's easy to read, and you can just go practice the things that it's talking about, like, Oh, this works for me or Oh, this doesn't. It doesn't require you to spend money or invest in real estate or anything like that, to realize the fruits it has to offer.   Tom: Alright, Emil. Got another book?   Emil: All right, my next one, just given its end of the year, I think a lot of us are thinking 2021 goals. I don't know why Michaels laughing in the background, but I'm gonna keep it going anyway, you know, as we're thinking 2021 goals. I'm a huge believer that a lot of your goals and the things you want to achieve are just habits you need to create. I don't think they're just these like, giant monumental things that need to happen. A lot of the big stuff you see are the changes you see people make are just tiny habits they've formed in their lives just compounded over a long period of time. I think you could even say that about real estate investing a lot of different things. So the book I'm recommending is called Atomic Habits by James Clear, really practical guide on how to build good habits and break bad ones. It also has some cool tips, you know, we all have our vices, right? And he just gives you some like really practical tips on how do you make a vise feel less like a vise like, how do you do something good before you kind of indulgent advice, and I just think it has a lot of good practical tips, especially heading into the new year where people are planning their goals. So I'm probably gonna reread it heading into this month, myself.   Michael: And Neil, what's a vice for you Just out of curiosity?   Emil: Man, I don't really have any right now.   Michael: But because you read the book,   Emil: No, I can't believe I'm gonna admit this on the show. I haven't played video games in like a decade, and my brother in law got an Oculus, and I tried it out. Oh, man, it's unreal. so freaking fun. And so I couldn't help myself and I bought an Oculus. And that is going to be my vise. And so it's like, you know, what's, what's something productive you can do for 10-15 minutes before you spend some time playing Oculus. So it's got some some tips like that.   Michael: I've played on Oculus and I found myself I was sweating after I got done. So it's kind of like a workout too.   Emil: It can be there's games where you're like, doing a lot of movement and all that, which is what my wife was stoked about. So she's she's in on it too. That's gonna be my vice. That's my main one.   Michael: Right on.   Emil: I also eat a lot of sweets on the weekends. That's another vise   Michael: Just on weekends.   Emil: Yeah, I have a big sweet tooth and I just kind of limited to the weekend.   Michael: You're a stronger man than I.   Emil: Oreo fiend.   Tom: Pierre, got one more for us?   Pierre: Sure, you guys, read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari?   Michael: Oh, it's so good.   Pierre: It's super fun book I know is on the bestseller list. But if you haven't read that that's a fun interdisciplinary historical account of human history. tracking all the different domains of human society and development and all the way up into these complex societies that we live in today. So I think that's a really fun book. I think I've read it three times. So…   Michael: That's a long one, too. Yeah,   Pierre: Yeah. But it reads itself. I mean, that is both reads itself. And he has two more and following that…   Emil: Homo Deus   Pierre Homo Deus, and then 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. But I think Sapiens is definitely his best. The other one's are kind of more speculative and preachy.   Tom: He's a big, month long, Silent Retreat, like meditation guy, he doesn't like yeah, four months, a year, every year, I think it is like two month ones at a time. He's getting those those ideas around sapiens, you know, thinking about it.   Pierre: I love books of human history. I like like, oh, the last 13 years in human history. These are the theme of books that I read a lot like Guns, Germs and Steel and things like this that I find really fascinating. But what I really love about Harare is that he pulls from so many different you know, economics, religion, nutrition, culture, and warfare and politics and like you have this really thorough interdisciplinary scoop of history. So I think that's a really fun way to look at things, how they're all interconnected, and how they all feed into the world that we live in today.   Michael: It was pretty eye opening when they were talking when he was talking about that, you know, domesticating animals Yeah. And how you know, the dogs came from wolves. And the reason that dogs are man's best friend is because all the ones that weren't man best friend, they just kill them. So they just got like, the best jeans like yeah, this was so good. Like, see ya. Eye opening.   Pierre A pretty dumb side note, but I saw this meme. It's like a wolf looking at the fire and it says like, some food scraps next to the fire. What's the worst that can happen? It's like 10,000 years later, another picture. It's like a pug and a pink hat all dressed stupidly.   Michael: So good.   Tom: So good. I'll closes out here. So I'll actually make it to just because I like that that Sapiens call, Eric Larson is an author who does like history like tracks some event like some major event, and then some like little subplots within that event. The most recent one that I read is called the splendid and the vile, and it's about Churchill's during the air raid the what's it called the German air raid during World War Two. Anyways, awesome, awesome book. He also does the Devil in the White City, which is really good as well.   But my real pick for this the last one is another kind of soft skills mindset. One, it's called the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and I'm going to summarize it real quick is it's a short book it is there's four kind of key things from it as ways to live your life one is, be impeccable with your word. Don't take don't take things personally. Don't make assumptions and always do your best I think, in all aspects of your life. If you could go by those four key you know, drivers, you're gonna be, you're gonna be in good shape   Pierre I should have know you were a mystic, Tom.   Tom: I am! I'm a Sufi mystic.   Pierre: Yeah, no, that's a good book. He has another one called the Mastery of Love, which is also kind of a great little life lessons. Great little interpersonal life lessons.   Tom: Yes. Cool, guys, any final thoughts on books, the episode, all that good stuff.     Michael: I just think books can be such a great gift for people for I personally was never a big reader growing up, I would always have more fun goofing off. And then I started reading more about something I was passionate about real estate specifically, and, you know, kind of self growth, self improvement. I was like, oh, there's this whole world in books that didn't even know existed. So if you're not a big reader, to all the non big readers out there, you know, find something that you're passionate about, and try opening up a book. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.   Pierre: And if that's hard for you hit the audiobook.   Michael: Yeah, exactly.   Tom: I joke that I can't read it, but I can listen really well.   Emil: Something tells me our audience are readers.   Michael: Voracious readers.   Emil: If you're taking time out of your day to listen to podcasts like this. I think you you like learning and knowledge and I feel like we got a lot of readers.   Tom: Blinkist is another interesting website. They take nonfiction primarily and they condense it down into like, 1 10-minute spiel worth of reading. So they have I think they have like PhD students like PhD people do these. They were they break down. They have tons and tons of titles and you pay an annual subscription. We're not getting any, any any profit from Blinkest or from any of these recommendations. But yes, it's worth checking out Blinkest. It's like Cliff Notes, but like for adults for nonfiction stuff, so Blinkest.   Michael: Do they have that audio version as well?   Emil: It's primarily ausio.   Tom: But they do have a PDF versions as well.   Michael: Sweet.   Pierre: Oh, and also everyone out there. Hit us with your favorite books in the comments down below.   Tom: Yes.   Pierre: Let us hear what you guys are reading out there.   Tom: Yes. Awesome, guys. Well, on that note, I think it's a good time to close it out. All right, Happy investing.   Michael: Happy investing.   Emil: Happy investing.

Endlich darf er drüber reden! Alex zieht blank und berichtet von der damals schockierenden Trennung von Walkenhorst/Windscheif. [Werbung] Ein Danke geht raus an den Sponsor dieser Episode, Blinkest! Blinkist ist eine App mit der man mehr als 3.000 Sachbücher in je nur 15 Minuten lesen und hören kann. Über http://blinkist.de/ohnenetz bekommt ihr exklusiv 25% Rabatt auf ein Jahresabo! Gönnt euch außerdem unser neustes YouTube-Video ► https://bit.ly/2NPoJa4 , Folgt uns bei [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ohneNetzundsandigenBoden/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/volley_pod/), abonniert unseren YouTube-Kanal ► https://bit.ly/2WPngH8 und checkt unseren Merch auf www.onusb.de/shop! Stabil wie ein Stift.

Leicht verkatert meldet sich Alex aus Australien - was da los?! In den nächsten Wochen und eher Monaten wird auch der Beachvolleyball ruhen müssen und da kann man zum verfrühten Abschluss der Ozeanienreise auch mal einen Teambuildenden einstreuen (Dirk gefällt das). In dieser Episode rekapitulieren wir das 4* Event in Doha, Alex' Turnier in Australien und beschäftigen uns mit der großen Frage "Wie geht es weiter?". Muss neben World Tour, Techniker Beach Tour auch eventuell Olympia abgesagt werden?! Hört rein für unsere Takes! [Werbung] Ein Danke geht raus an den Sponsor dieser Episode, Blinkest! Blinkist ist eine App mit der man mehr als 3.000 Sachbücher in je nur 15 Minuten lesen und hören kann. Über http://blinkist.de/ohnenetz bekommt ihr exklusiv 25% Rabatt auf ein Jahresabo! Gönnt euch außerdem unser neustes YouTube-Video ► https://bit.ly/2NPoJa4 , Folgt uns bei [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ohneNetzundsandigenBoden/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/volley_pod/), abonniert unseren YouTube-Kanal ► https://bit.ly/2WPngH8 und checkt unseren Merch auf www.onusb.de/shop! Stabil wie ein Stift.

Unser großes Thema in dieser Episode ist natürlich das Pokalfinale in Mannheim (30:00): Hat Düren auch nur den Hauch einer Chance auf eine Sensation? Und Ist Stuttgart trotz drohendem Rivers-Ausfall immernoch haushoher Favorit gegen Dresden? Davor erfahrt ihr wie immer ein paar schöne Storys aus unserem leben - u.a. warum Alex letztens im Lidl angeschriehen wurde und wie sich Dirk bei seinem letzten Spiel bis auf die Knochen blamiert hat! Reinhören ist angesagt! [Werbung] Ein Danke geht raus an den Sponsor dieser Episode, Blinkest! Blinkist ist eine App mit der man mehr als 3.000 Sachbücher in je nur 15 Minuten lesen und hören kann. Über http://blinkist.de/ohnenetz bekommt ihr exklusiv 25% Rabatt auf ein Jahresabo! Gönnt euch außerdem unser neustes YouTube-Video ► https://bit.ly/2NPoJa4 , Folgt uns bei [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ohneNetzundsandigenBoden/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/volley_pod/), abonniert unseren YouTube-Kanal ► https://bit.ly/2WPngH8 und checkt unseren Merch auf www.onusb.de/shop! Stabil wie ein Stift.

Zum zweiten Mal haben wir die große Ehre, Thomas "der beste Mann" Kaczmarek als Gast zu begrüßen! Dieses Mal haben wir vor allem über ihn als Trainer gesprochen. Wird Tommi jemals deutscher Nationaltrainer? Wie sieht seine Vision für Walkenhorst/Winter aus? Und vermisst man eigentlich seine Freundin im "Männerurlaub"? All das und noch viel viel mehr erfahrt ihr in dieser Highlight-Episode! [Werbung] Ein Danke geht raus an den Sponsor dieser Episode, Blinkest! Blinkist ist eine App mit der man mehr als 3.000 Sachbücher in je nur 15 Minuten lesen und hören kann. Über http://blinkist.de/ohnenetz bekommt ihr exklusiv 25% Rabatt auf ein Jahresabo! Checkt unseren Merch auf www.onusb.de/shop. Folgt uns bei [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ohneNetzundsandigenBoden/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/volley_pod/), abonniert unseren YouTube-Kanal ► https://bit.ly/2WPngH8 und gönnt euch unser neustes Video! Stabil wie ein Stift.

Today, I'm sharing 10 reasons everyone should become a reader. After all, “readers are leaders, and leaders are readers!” Think you don't have time to read? Do you struggle to find any benefit in reading? Listen to today's podcast and let me show you how reading can transform your life. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons 10 Reasons: 1. Readers grow ……a. Spiritually ……b. Mentally ……c. In influence ……d. Emotionally 2. Reading produces confidence. 3. Reading feeds the mind & soul. 4. Reading equips you with the goods you need to serve someone else. ……a. Knowledge ……b. Wisdom ……c. Ideas ……d. Solutions 5. Readers have a distinct advantage over non-readers. 6. Readers have more influence, because they have more answers. 7. Reading expands your horizons. 8. Reading increases your value in relationships. 9. Reading increases your lifespan. 10. Readers are leaders, and leaders are readers. Tips: 1. Set a specific time each day as your reading time. 2. Treat it as an appointment. 3. Listen to books on audio. ……a. Audible.com ……b. Blinkest (audio book summaries) 4. ReadToLead Podcast Question: What if you read ONE book per week in your chosen field or area of interest? Would that make a difference? (Sales, Marketing, People, etc.) Comment and Engage With Us If you'd like to comment in this episode, please go to BrianHolmes.com/072, go to the show notes for this episode and scroll down to the comments section. I would love to hear from you—comment, question, or whatever.

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Es gab Zeiten in denen ich an mir selbst echt verzweifelt bin. Obwohl ich super viel über Ernährung wusste, habe ich es einfach nicht geschafft dieses Wissen umzusetzen. Doch weshalb fällt es uns häufig so schwer ins Handeln zu kommen? Oftmals stehen wir uns selbst im Weg. Obwohl wir große Pläne haben unser Leben bzw. unsere Ernährung zu verändern, stehen wir uns selbst im Weg! Doch warum ist das so? Dahinter steckt möglicherweise eine geringe Selbstwirksamkeit. Was Selbstwirksamkeit bedeutet und wie wir diese stärken können, um ins Handeln zu kommen, erfährt ihr in der neuen Podcast Folge Erwähnte Folge: #017 Die Macht des Umfelds *Werbung: Blinkest gehört zu meinen lieblingsapps und wir von mir nahezu täglich genutzt. Wenn du Blinkest auch mal testen möchtest dann schaue [hier](http://www.blinkist.de/bastienne) vorbei und sichere dir ganz exklusiv einen Rabatt von 25% auf das Jahresabo! www.blinkist.de/bastienne

I think I know very little about Muslims and their religion Islam - so I set out to learn more.  Blinkest has a blink called "The first Muslim" by Lesley Hazelton and it is a quick review of the prophet Mohammed and his origin story. So fascinating. If only we could all just sit down and agree to live on this planet as one instead of fighting over land, resources and long held beliefs in books full of myths. Oh well, good luck with all that. I will continue to curate curiosity by learning as much as I can about Islam and it's core belief structure. After all, I bet we'd all see Muslims a lot differently if we read about them and stopped believing our politicians' opinions beings how they clearly have ulterior motives in saying what they say and believing what they believe. Visit mediamogle.com facebook @mediamogle Soundcloud: @jessemogle Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter @jessemogle email: everythingsinteresting@gmail.com   http://www.mediamogle.com   CULTIVATING CURIOSITY THROUGH COMPELLING CONVERSATIONS

I stumbled upon the concept of Ikigai (roughly translated as a reason for living) by reading the Blinkist for Blue Zones. In this 20 minute cast, I shoot on my instinctive thoughts and feelings regarding this lifestyle concept native to Japanese and Okinawan cultures and its potential usefulness for content creators and small business owners. Disclaimer - Here's my affiliate link for a discount on your subscription to Blinkest: http://bit.ly/2scCkMz (MOMENTO MORI - Catch ya tommorrow!)

Digitale Startups - In diesem Podcast unterhalte ich mich mit Volker Vorndamme. Er ist ein sehr interessanter und erfahrener Unternehmer, der schon einige ups und downs erlebt hat, und der heute primär als start up Berater - vorwiegend im online Bereich - tätig ist. Genießen Sie auch diese sehr inspirierende Folge, in der Sie auch sehr viele wichtige und hilfreiche Anregungen und Ideen erhalten. Viel Spaß bei diesem Gespräch mit Volker Vorndamme. [powerpress] KONTAKTDATEN: WEBSEITE INTERNET-RESOURCE/HILFSMITTEL: Evernote Blinkest   BUCHEMPFEHLUNGEN: Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer von Stefan Merath The Power von Rhonda Byrme The One Thing von Gary Keller   The post UMH 069 : Volker Vorndamme – digitale startups appeared first on Klaus Pertl Mentales Coaching.

In this episode, Natalie shares tips for ensuring that you don’t undervalue you when it comes to salary or charging the right rate/price with clients, knowing when to fold, and means ‘mean’ goals versus end goals. This week’s listener dilemma is about how to deal with shady friendships and Natalie shares what she’s learned this week. Links from the show The Vicious Cycle of Undervaluing Yourself http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/the-vicious-cycle-of-undervaluing-yourself/ Knowing When To Fold http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/knowing-when-to-fold The Justifying Zone http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/the-justifying-zone Betting On Potential—Are you gambling on a relationship capacity that doesn’t exist? http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/betting-on-potential-are-you-gambling-on-a-relationship-capacity-that-doesnt-exist/ The Blinkest app (note, I am not affiliated with Blinkist in any way) A couple of posts about boundaries and friendship http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/we-have-to-let-our-friendships-evolve/ and http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/when-you-experience-conflict-in-your-friendships-because-of-new-boundaries/  Email: podcast@baggagereclaim.com  Instagram | Courses | Events | Blog | Membership