WAKE UP 

"A few years from now you will arrive. The question is where." - Jim Rohn

 

The moment you realize something is off. You want more but you don't know what. You don't need a plan yet, you need the spark.

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Jim Rohn - The Art of Exceptional Living

James Allen - As a Man Thinketh

Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Great

Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese?

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Deepak Chopra - The Power of Coincidence

 

STAY ON THE PATH 

"The key to mastery is simply staying on the path." - George Leonard

 

You've seen it. Now you decide: this is not a weekend thing. This is a life path. Most people stop here. The ones who stay change everything.

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George Leonard - Mastery

Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich

Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Jim Rohn - How to Use a Journal

 

SET UP YOUR SYSTEM 

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." - David Allen

 

Time, habits, reading, thinking, capturing ideas. The infrastructure that holds everything together. Without this, nothing sticks.

 

David Allen - Getting Things Done

Mortimer Adler - How to Read a Book

Jim Rohn - How to Use a Journal

Richard Koch - The 80/20 Principle

Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono - Six Thinking Hats

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

 

SHARPEN THE TOOLS 

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

Interpersonal and transferable skills. Listening, speaking, negotiating, thinking, influencing, understanding emotions. These skills work everywhere, on boats, in families, in business, with strangers. This is the stage you use every single day.

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Tony Alessandra - The Dynamics of Effective Listening

Milo O. Frank - How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds

Patterson/Grenny - Crucial Conversations

Roger Fisher/William Ury - Getting to Yes

William Ury - Getting Past No

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People

Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence

Edward de Bono - Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono - Teach Your Child How to Think

 

AIM 

"The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left." - Robert Kiyosaki

 

Money, contracts, accounting, power,  the basics everyone needs. Same as learning to listen or organize your time: these are life skills, not business skills. And for those who want to build further - innovation, marketing, entrepreneurship.

 

Life Basics

Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad

Thomas Stanley/William Danko - The Millionaire Next Door

Greg Crabtree - Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits

Ramit Sethi - I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Mike Michalowicz - Profit First

George Orwell - Animal Farm

 

Aim Further

Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Guy Kawasaki - The Art of the Start

Scott Berkun - The Myth of Innovation

Barry Nalebuff/Ian Ayres - Why Not?

Dan Kennedy - How to Make Millions from Your Ideas

Seth Godin - Permission Marketing

Seth Godin - This Is Marketing

Jay Conrad Levinson - Guerrilla Marketing

Robert Bly - Getting Started in Consulting

 

THE LIFE GAME

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"And the game goes on..."

 

Health, stress, languages, change. There is no final chapter. The program is the life. The life is the program.

 

Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese?

George Leonard  - Mastery

Language Learning - Tony Enev Method 

Worst grades in languages at school. Seven languages today. A personal system built from necessity, refined over 35 years. This one you learn in person.

 

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This section is built from 25 years of living it. The books above reappear here because they never stop being useful. The rest is experience - tested, failed, adjusted, repeated. The game doesn't end. You just get better at playing it.