Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

• Success is a progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.


• Success is anyone who is doing deliberately predetermined job because that's what he decided to do deliberately.

25 Secrets to Wealth Creation by Kevin Trudeau

1. Very high teachability Index
   
   
   
   • = Willingness to learn x Willingness to change
   
   
   • If you want things in your life to change you gonna have to change things in your life.
   
   
   • If you continue to do what you've always done, you continue to have what you've always got.
   
   
   • E.g. changing from 2 finger typing to all fingers.


2. Training balance scale
   
   
   
   1. Motivations, thoughts, dreams, visions, goals, attitude, enthusiasm, the why.
      
      
      
      • 90% of wealth creation!
      
      
      • If I just start, it'll all work out.
   
   
   2. Technique, skill, action steps, the how.
      
      
      
      • The how will come.
      
      
      • Need to work on both, but the why is much more important than the how.


3. 4 phases of learning
   
   
   
   1. Unconscious incompetence
      
      
      
      • don't know that you don't know
   
   
   2. Conscious incompetence
      
      
      
      • know that you you don't know
   
   
   3. Conscious competence
      
      
      
      • conscious thought process/effort
      
      
      • stage of development of habits
   
   
   4. Unconscious competence
      
      
      
      • automatic doing
      
      
      • habit


4. Definite purpose/aim/goal/dream
   
   
   
   • very clearly defined obsession
   
   
   • narrow in scope
   
   
   • consider wealthy/successful people when they started
   
   
   • diversification? not really - sussessful people turn their businesses to other people who have 100% focus on them and putting 95% of their own attention to a new project


5. The #1 most important secret introduced by Napoleon Hill: have a definitive purpose and a burning desire for its achievement
   
   
   
   • when people apply this principle, just with their mind, money come so fast and in such large quantities that it frightened him
   
   
   • THINK and grow rich, not act, not work, etc


6. Use the law of attraction
   
   
   
   • you become what you think about
   
   
   • thoughts are things
   
   
   • whatever you think about and focus in your mind you attact into your life
   
   
   • really, really, really want something - you'll get it
   
   
   • really, really, really don't want something - you'll get it
   
   
   • internal emotional guidance system
     
     
     
     • don't have to worry about your thoughts
     
     
     • all you have to do is feel what you're feeling
       
       
       
       • good feelings - the better you feel, the more your thoughts are focusing on what you want
       
       
       • bad feelings - focusing on what you don't want, change


7. Leaders are always readers
   
   
   
   • 5 years from now, the person you become will be based on the people you meet and the books you read
   
   
   • suggested books
     
     
     
     • The law of success in 16 lessons by Napoleon Hill
     
     
     • Ask and it is given
     
     
     • The magic of thinking big
     
     
     • The magic of believing
     
     
     • See you at the top by Zig Ziglar
     
     
     • The go getter
     
     
     • How to win friends and influence people
     
     
     • The secret
     
     
     • Rich dad, poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki
     
     
     • Think and grow rich
     
     
     • Success through a positive mental attitude by W. Clement Stone


8. Listen to audio recordings
   
   
   
   • read and listen to keep you thinking in the right way
   
   
   • read and listen every day!
   
   
   • a guy having a phenomenal body because he goes to gym every day, not the other way round
   
   
   • have to train every day


9. Attend seminars
   
   
   
   • like-minded people
   
   
   • experiential event
   
   
   • vital


10. Save 10% (minimum)
    
    
    
    • live below your means
    
    
    • pay yourself first


11. Get out of debt
    
    
    
    • the crippling debt
    
    
    • this could be the 1st definitive purpose


12. Good priority management
    
    
    
    • cannot manage time, only priorities
    
    
    • get complete control of your time


13. Associate with winners
    
    
    
    • 5 years from now your income will be the average of 5 of your best friends
    
    
    • be in the presence of winners


14. Work
    
    
    
    • smart, not hard
    
    
    • though process
    
    
    • do what you love
    
    
    • understand work


15. Develop a pleasing personality
    
    
    
    • be likeable
    
    
    • read "How to win friends and influence people"


16. Develop communication skills
    
    
    
    • most successful people are good communicators, persuasive, negotiate well, good core sales skills
    
    
    • huge advantage in business


17. Improve your credit score
    
    
    
    • for "other people's money"


18. Reduce taxes


19. Reduce insurance premiums


20. Use corporations and trusts
    
    
    
    • tax efficiency
    
    
    • protecting assets
    
    
    • increasing ability to get lines of credit


21. Other People's Money


22. Increase your income
    
    
    
    • + reduce expenses
    
    
    • investing in real estate
    
    
    • ebay
    
    
    • investing stock market - insider trading
    
    
    • trading in stocks
    
    
    • multilevel marketing - not as good as used to be - too much competition

Hmm... ok, different counts - no matter.

Colorado Experiment Workout

From http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to-freak-how-i-gained-34-lbs-of-muscle-in-4-weeks/

More at http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/timothyf.htm

• For each set, I target to reach failure after 80-120 seconds, thus 8-12 repetitions at 5/5 cadence. This is sometimes referred to as "time under tension" (TUT). I will usually do one marathon workout of 2-3 hours before beginning the program to determine an appropriate starting weight for each exercise.


• Doing bicep curls WILL cause your skin to darken and your body hair to fall out.


• I consumed at least 5,000 calories per day, but before you use a closed-system thermodynamic calories-in/calories-out model to call me a liar again, please read Dr. Michael Eades' posts on calorie counting. Google him and you'll find a few good articles.


• I generally spend about 2 hours with a trainee before any real workouts and have them do 10-rep sets of increasing weight with a 2-sec up and 2-sec down speed for each exercise. Complete one exercise at a time. Take 2 min between sets and exercises. Once the trainee completes a set that would have failed in 2 reps or so, cut 25% off that weight and use it for your next workout at the 5/5 to failure. From there, adjust as needed.


• When you lift a wheight, that's the positive movement, when you lower it, it's negative movement right there.


• The eating is absolutely a bitch, to use a scientific term. The workouts are nothing compared to the food consumption.


• Here's a good meal for gaining: durum wheat macaroni (toss the magic orange powder and use skim milk to make) + a can of tuna + low-fat turkey chili. Mix it all up and season. Fast and dense. Feel free to substitute quinoa for macaroni for variety.


• To the best of my recollection, I did not do any aerobic exercises, with the exception of a daily 30-minute walk in the morning for sun exposure and general well-being.


• I use casein both post-workout and pre-bed if I'm on a gaining program. Whey can be useful in combination, but it often results in a negative nitrogen balance shortly after ingestion due to it's rapid gastric emptying and AA absorption. It is possible to do just fine with whole foods or just casein. I would not use whey in isolation unless you are eating something to slow its absorption. I know this contradicts many recommendations out there — just my experience.


• Just one set, one weight. No drop sets required. I will generally only swap main exercises when progress begins to slow substantially, less than 5-10% weight added per workout, depending on exercise and caloric intake.


• Comment by Matt September 4th, 2009 9:53 am: In order to increase caloric intake the ONLY THING I CHANGED was to drink one gallon of whole milk a day. Called G.O.M.A.D. I make my own protein bars (steel cut oats, whey protein, crushed smart start, chocolate chips, natural peanut butter, and whole milk. Mix and place in fridge. Google this recipe. Taste better than anything I have bought.


• I no longer consume casein isolate. I believe that most proteins are best consumed from whole food sources. There are just too many things we have yet to identify that work in conjunction with the protein we're so eager to hack out and make taste like chocolate :)

Real Estate without agents by Terry Ryder

How to save thousands of dollars and acres of heartache when you buy and sell your home.

Had a quick look at this book from the library.

Business tips

From Tim Ferriss on http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/03/08/why-grow-and-other-wisdom-from-37signals/

• Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination in itself.


• The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.
  
  
  
  • James Dyson - cyclonic, bagless vacuum cleaner.
  
  
  • Vic Firth - drumsticks.
  
  
  • Bill Bowerman - waffle sole in sports shoes.
  
  
  • Mary Kay Wagner - cosmetics.
  
  
  • "Solve your own problem" approach lets you fall in love with what you're making.
  
  
  • You know the problem and the value of its solution intimately.
  
  
  
  


• "Tone is in your fingers."
  
  
  
  • It's tempting for people to obsess over tools instead of what they're going to do with those tools.
  
  
  • People use equipment as a crutch. They're looking for a shortcut.
  
  
  • What really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.
  
  
  • It's not the gear that matters. It's playing what you've got as well as you can.
  
  
  
  


• Say no by default
  
  
  
  • "If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse." - HENRY FORD
  
  
  • Use the power of no to get your priorities straight.
  
  
  • You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.
  
  
  • People avoid saying no because confrontation makes them uncomfortable.
  
  
  • Don't believe that "customer is always right" stuff, either. Making a few vocal customers happy isn't worth it if it ruins the product for everyone else.
  
  
  • If you're not willing to yield to a customer request, be polite and explain why. People are surprisingly understanding when you take the time to explain your point of view. You may even win them over to your way of thinking. If not, recommend a competitor if you think there's a better solution out there. It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.
  
  
  
  


• Recommends Rework - the first mainstream book by 37Signals.


• Recommends Basecamp - project management tool by 37Signals.


• Found another book "Getting Real" by 37Signals with online version available at http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php


• Also saw on amazon their book "Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points"