Stop Wasting Your Life & Do Something Read Online Free PDF
Author: Simon Smith
presuppositions of NLP is that it is better to have choice than not to have choice.
Let’s say that you lose your job. Would it better to have no other job vacancies in your area, or to have a lot of vacancies for you to choose from? The answer is obvious.
If you were to find yourself in a difficult situation at home, would it be better to have more choices and strategies to overcome the problem or less? Again the answer is obvious.
So how do you give yourself more choices in all areas of your life?
The answer is to educate yourself. Never rely on others to do it for you. It won’t happen.
In many ways I owe everything I now have to books. Books taught me how to manage my money. They taught me how to communicate with people more effectively. Books taught me how to manage my mind. Books opened up the pathways to knowledge and choices. They led me to seminars, business meetings, and self-action. I would not be writing this book today if it weren’t for books.
Here are just a few things you can learn from books:
How to be a better parent
How to be happy
How to become wealthy
How to have a great relationship with your partner
How to get a promotion
How to start a business
How to learn a foreign language
How to get fit
How to control a disease
How to network
How to take apart an engine
How to communicate more effectively
In fact, there isn’t much that you CAN’T learn from books. Yet people don’t read them. I find that very strange. When someone I know and care about is struggling with their life, I recommend a book to them. Do they normally read it? No. Jim Rohn used to call the fact that people don’t read these books “Mysteries of the mind” and I agree.
Some people don’t like to read (as you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’re not one of them). No problem. Get an audio book. You can listen to it in the car.
If you’re just starting out on your ‘Library Building’, here are a few ideas that may help you.
Decide what’s important to you and buy books in that genre. For example, let’s say you sit down and make a list of the 6 key areas in your life that are the most important to you, and you come up with the following list: parenting, career, health, relationships, self development and increasing your net worth.
Get yourself a bookshelf, and put a sticker with each of these headings on the edge of your shelves. Just buy (or borrow from the library as it’s free) one book from each of these categories. Want to know what books to get? Have a look on Amazon. What sort of reviews do the books have? Look online at book recommendations and reviews. People all over the world write up on how good these books are, so you shouldn’t have any trouble finding a good book for each of your categories.
The next step is to actually read them. I would recommend reading for at least 30 minutes per day. Read in the bath, on your lunch break, on the train. If you struggle for time, get the audio-book and listen to it when it’s convenient.
If you listen to or read for 30 minutes per day, this will equate to 182.5 hours of reading a year. You can read a lot of books in 182.5 hours.
Doing this will give you two things. Knowledge and choices. Knowledge for the sake of it isn’t necessarily beneficial, but knowledge in an area that’s important to you is invaluable. The next time a problem comes up, you have a lot more references to draw from and use to help you solve it.
The next time someone you know needs some help, you’re in a better position to give it to them as you have more references. You cannot believe what this will do for your life!
Chapter 11
Curiosity
Curiosity is a blessing. To be able to find all things interesting makes life a joy. When you’re fascinated by everything that’s going on around you, there’s no time to be bored, and there’s no time to feel down.
Have you ever wondered what
Let’s say that you lose your job. Would it better to have no other job vacancies in your area, or to have a lot of vacancies for you to choose from? The answer is obvious.
If you were to find yourself in a difficult situation at home, would it be better to have more choices and strategies to overcome the problem or less? Again the answer is obvious.
So how do you give yourself more choices in all areas of your life?
The answer is to educate yourself. Never rely on others to do it for you. It won’t happen.
In many ways I owe everything I now have to books. Books taught me how to manage my money. They taught me how to communicate with people more effectively. Books taught me how to manage my mind. Books opened up the pathways to knowledge and choices. They led me to seminars, business meetings, and self-action. I would not be writing this book today if it weren’t for books.
Here are just a few things you can learn from books:
How to be a better parent
How to be happy
How to become wealthy
How to have a great relationship with your partner
How to get a promotion
How to start a business
How to learn a foreign language
How to get fit
How to control a disease
How to network
How to take apart an engine
How to communicate more effectively
In fact, there isn’t much that you CAN’T learn from books. Yet people don’t read them. I find that very strange. When someone I know and care about is struggling with their life, I recommend a book to them. Do they normally read it? No. Jim Rohn used to call the fact that people don’t read these books “Mysteries of the mind” and I agree.
Some people don’t like to read (as you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’re not one of them). No problem. Get an audio book. You can listen to it in the car.
If you’re just starting out on your ‘Library Building’, here are a few ideas that may help you.
Decide what’s important to you and buy books in that genre. For example, let’s say you sit down and make a list of the 6 key areas in your life that are the most important to you, and you come up with the following list: parenting, career, health, relationships, self development and increasing your net worth.
Get yourself a bookshelf, and put a sticker with each of these headings on the edge of your shelves. Just buy (or borrow from the library as it’s free) one book from each of these categories. Want to know what books to get? Have a look on Amazon. What sort of reviews do the books have? Look online at book recommendations and reviews. People all over the world write up on how good these books are, so you shouldn’t have any trouble finding a good book for each of your categories.
The next step is to actually read them. I would recommend reading for at least 30 minutes per day. Read in the bath, on your lunch break, on the train. If you struggle for time, get the audio-book and listen to it when it’s convenient.
If you listen to or read for 30 minutes per day, this will equate to 182.5 hours of reading a year. You can read a lot of books in 182.5 hours.
Doing this will give you two things. Knowledge and choices. Knowledge for the sake of it isn’t necessarily beneficial, but knowledge in an area that’s important to you is invaluable. The next time a problem comes up, you have a lot more references to draw from and use to help you solve it.
The next time someone you know needs some help, you’re in a better position to give it to them as you have more references. You cannot believe what this will do for your life!
Chapter 11
Curiosity
Curiosity is a blessing. To be able to find all things interesting makes life a joy. When you’re fascinated by everything that’s going on around you, there’s no time to be bored, and there’s no time to feel down.
Have you ever wondered what
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