BOOKS THAT LEAVE A MARK

BOOKS THAT LEAVE A MARK

I am a bibliophile and books are literally my best friend. I absolutely love it when books

push me to make notes on my phone and also in the book itself as well. I recently read one

such book and the takeaways from the book was so crazy for me that I felt guided to write a

blog post about it. The book is “The Diary of a CEO” by Steven Bartlet. I discovered

Steven through this book and better late than never! The book is so easy to read and

comprehend and it is divided into 33 laws!

Let me share with you my favourite parts of the book!

1) Your skills or products are worthless if not marketed at the right place, right time. You

need to put yourself out there in settings where the skill set you have to offer holds value.

(Law 26)

2) How you choose to your "limited 'time in life, changes everything. No time management

techniques will work on you if you don't have the DISCIPLINE. Your motivation might

fluctuate but how you manage to keep your discipline intact changes everything!

Discipline= The value of the goal+the reward of the pursuit - the cost of the pursuit (Law

27)

3) You cannot pour from an empty bucket! If you fill your own bucket, when you have a full

bucket, you can positively bend the world in any way you desire. (Law 1)

4) You need to hold yourself accountable, always. Be answerable to yourself! You need to

have your "skin in the game". You need to have "personal interest” in whatever it is that you

are doing because that helps you hold yourself accountable. (Law 2)

5) Healthy conflict strengthens relationships because those involved are working against a

problem. Unhealthy conflict weakens a relationship because those involved are working

against each other!!! (Law 3)

6) Be ok with the fact that two seemingly conflicting ideas can be true at the same time andhave a bias to keep them separate. You can choose to agree to disagree and I guess that is

okay! (Law 5)

7) ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. Sometimes instead of just talking about yourself, ask.

And ask the right kind of questions! Questions, make people think. And even when it comes

to yourself, when deciding what to do, ask yourself questions! (Law 6)

8) Your SELF STORY, your self-perception is just extremely important, way too important,

never compromise on it! (Law 7)

9) Instead of fighting a "bad habit", create a new one! Bad habits have a tendency to serve you, make you feel rewarded, it gives you some sort of a hormonal high. So never try fighting it. Create a new, positive habit in place of the negative one, that gives you a similar kind of reward! Why not to fight it? Because what you resist, persists! (Law 8)

10) THERE IS NO GREATER FORM OF GRATITUDE THAN TAKING CARE OF

YOURSELF. (law 9)

11) Do not wage a war on reality. Invest in shaping perceptions. Our truth is not what we

see. OUR TRUTH IS THE STORY WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE. (law 13)

12) THE ENDOWMENT EFFECT - the endowment effect is a cognitive bias that causes

people to overvalue an item simply because they own it, regardless of its objective value.

(Law 17)

13) Believe in and follow the KAIZEN PHILOSOPHY. KAIZEN means continuous

improvement. It is not about making big leaps forward, but rather making small things better,

in small ways, everywhere you can, on a daily basis. The kaizen philosophy is a golden rule

for life as well. We must focus on continuously evolving and making small improvements in

ourselves, every day. (Law 19)

14) It is ok to fail, don't dread failure. In fact, if you want to increase your success rate, you

need to double your failure rate. Failure is feedback. Feedback is knowledge and

Knowledge is power. (Law 20)

15) Become a plan A thinker. If you have a plan B ready with you, you would tend to very

easily get distracted from your plan A. The first step before anybody else in the world

believes it, is you have to believe it- there is no reason to have a plan B because it distracts

you from Plan A. You can call it manifestation also. But stick to that one Plan, your Plan A.

(law 22)

If you want to understand these points in depth, please read the book. Trust me, it is a lovely

book!!

If you don’t know already, I am Preet! Thetahealing Practitioner, medical intuitive,

growth coach, manifestation and law of attraction coach and a tarot card reader! I help people uplevel and grow in life and tap into their most abundant self everrrr! Get in touch

with me to know more and let us work together to take a step towards a better you!

Love always,

Preet Manoj

Wholistic Growwth