Featured Presentation:17 Books, 17 Success Lessons (Part 2)

In this second of three related episodes, I discuss the action necessary for success in marriage, family, and life by examining the most important personal life lessons I gained from five books that iI read during 2017. Over these three episodes, I count down the books from #17 to #1.

• Book #11: The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business (Charles Duhigg)
  • Success Lesson: Every habit has a trigger and a reward. Changing undesirable habits requires replacing them with preferred habits that when triggered elicit the same reward.

• Book #10 The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success (Darren Hardy)
  • Success Lesson: There is no magic bullet for success. Instead, success is the sum of the many small decisions we make every day, which we perform consistently and over time.

• Book #9: The 5-Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage (Mel Robbins)
  • Success Lesson:If you have an impulse to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds or your brain will kill the idea.

• Book #8: The E-Myth Revisited: Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it (Michael Gerber)
  • Success Lesson: Rather than focusing on technical mastery, ultimate success in business at any level is about cultivating a system of attitudes and practices that become routine and automatic that could be taught to someone else when necessary.

• Book #7 The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino)
  • Success Lesson:Your obedience to God’s purpose for you will touch the world in ways that you will never anticipate in your wildest imagination.

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