How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

 Extreme Ownership 

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Nothing you want will just fall into your lap. When you want something in life, you take action. 

Extreme Ownership

Every successful person understands that concept. But there’s another concept that can help you get what you want out of life.

It’s what some might refer to as a rather hard truth. And that is that you must take ownership for what happens in your life, including in your business. By taking ownership, you can achieve the dreams that you desire.

In the book, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, the two authors are former U.S. Navy SEALS who understand what it means to keep going when others quit.

The book is clear about one thing and that’s the fact that you are responsible for your life. Whatever happens or doesn’t happen is no one else’s responsibility or fault if something doesn’t work out the way that you wish it had.

How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, the two authors are former U.S. Navy SEALS

If you’re someone who wants to be a success or you want to run a successful business, you can use the guidelines in this book to set that journey in motion. The book will show you how you can develop the character it takes to lead a business.

It also teaches you what it means to be a leader and what your obligations will be. The chapters in the book are divided by three main parts. The first part deals with the hard truth about leadership that can be difficult to face — such as accepting responsibility when something goes wrong.

Regardless of what happened, the book teaches that leaders step up and shoulder the responsibility for the action and make it right. It also covers not placing blame at the feet of those who work for you or at the feet of those you lead.

In the book, you’ll discover how the art of communication can effectively help a business succeed and steer you away from mistakes. When there’s praise to be had, the book teaches that the ones you lead should share in the end result rather than you taking all the credit.

You’ll also learn how you can boost your team performance. By following the principles taught in the book, you’ll learn how to differentiate between tasks that need to be done immediately and those that can go lower on the list.

You’ll learn about making decisions and turning those decisions into action steps so that you’re not engulfed by your to-do list. You’ll discover how to strategize and how that can help your business — but you’ll also learn the art of being accepting to change when necessary.

Some of the top points of the book include learning how to remain dedicated to the outcome of your goals until you achieve success as well as how to stay strong when others don’t believe you can do it.

Essentialism lifestyle, You Only Hold On to The Things That Help You

 

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

If you’re like most people, you live a life of expectations and pressure. You strive to do your best in the areas of your life that matter the most to you. You want healthy, loving relationships.

You want a financially rewarding career that you enjoy. But in the midst of all the striving, you end up feeling like you’re spinning your wheels. You feel like you have a lot of forward motion, but no real movement.

Your productivity isn’t at the level where you want it to be. You feel like you’re running from sunup to sundown and not really making a whole lot of headway. The problem is that you’re wasting too much time on stuff that you shouldn’t be.

In the book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, the author teaches how you can streamline your life and start only doing what really matters. Unlike a lot of self-help advice you’ll find, the book won’t show you how to find the time to add more to your plate, so you create an overly complex task list.

Essentialism 

Instead, it teaches you the true meaning of being productive. You’ll discover that time is a precious commodity and you don’t need to know how to manage it. What you need to know instead is how to value the time that you do have.

You’ll learn that you’ll end up doing less, but accomplish more. The book shows that by developing an essentialism lifestyle, you only hold on to the things that help you — the things that are meaningful.

If you’ve ever gone through your home and cleaned out stuff that you no longer wanted or given away things that you felt were weighing you down, the concept is like that. But instead of getting rid of stuff, you’re getting rid of behaviors and learning how to do what’s important.

You’ll stop feeling like your life is mired in chaos, like you’re trying to get to the bottom of a never-ending to-do list. You’ll discover why less is actually more when you stop trying to do everything and be everything.

The book will show you how to figure out what your priorities are and concentrate only on those things. Part of the book covers the art of doing less. Instead of aiming to finish twenty things, you’ll learn how to do only a handful, but to focus on that handful and do it to the best of your ability.

This way, you’re not spreading your talent, skill or mental energy as thin as you once did. The book teaches that you should stop trying to take everything onto your shoulders and instead, do what you’re good at. A key element of the book is on learning how to understand when something truly needs your attention and learning to let go when it doesn’t.

LITTLE THINGS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE…AND MAYBE THE WORLD

Make Your Bed

If You Want to Change the World, Start Off by Making Your Bed — William McRaven, US Navy Admiral 

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Based on a Navy SEAL’s inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons “should be read by every leader in America” (Wall Street Journal).

On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day.

Taking inspiration from the university’s slogan, “What starts here changes the world,” he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better.

Make your Bed 

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World

There are certain lessons in life that can help you succeed. You can enjoy personal development satisfaction by learning them.

The book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World, explains what the lessons are and how you can put them into practice.

One of the lessons is to begin your day by finishing a task such as making your bed. The reason behind getting the day started by doing something is because once you finish the task, you gain a sense of accomplishment.

But more than that, it also sets the frame for the day. You start out productively and you’ll be productive throughout the day. The author also talks about not trying to be an island as you’re living your life and trying to achieve your goals.

Those who learn the power of teamwork or having someone that you can count on, reach their goals faster and are more successful in what they set out to do. One chapter of the book covers what to look for in others when it comes to success networking.

Just because the person seems to be the smartest or the most obvious choice doesn’t mean it’s the right choice. The true way to measure a person is by how they’re able to handle the situation.

Because there are no equal roads to achieving success, it can often seem like life is unfair. Instead of bemoaning that fact, the book teaches that it’s best to keep on trying and to keep going.

Sometimes, you can try harder than your competitor to accomplish something and you won’t make it — yet the other person will. It’s not because you’re not as accomplished. It’s just because stuff happens.

Failure is often game over for some people. Once they fail at something, they decide the task can’t be done and they give up. The book teaches that instead of letting failure be the thing that stops you, let it be what empowers you on to greater success.

If you apply the failure as a lesson, it can be used to improve your life rather being a problem. Something that might cause you to hesitate is taking bold chances. But that’s exactly what you must do, according to the book, if you want to see change happen.

Get ready to move forward in boldness without a safety net to catch you. Along your journey in life, you’re going to encounter those who will try to stop you. They’ll say or do something to try to get you to turn away from your goals.

You have to stand strong, dig in your heels and refuse to turn back.

The book teaches that there will be times when you’ll face hardship, but you have to remember to keep on going even through the rough patches.

Admiral McRaven’s original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage.

Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life’s darkest moments.

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

 The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

For some people, encountering an obstacle is an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to get stronger. But for other people, it’s a stopping point. They can’t get past the obstacle. They don’t know how to go over it or around it, so they just quit, sometimes turning around when they’re right on the cusp of success.

Often, it’s the obstacle that’s the exact way to success and in the book,

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, the author teaches how to have the right mindset for when troubles do hit.

The book goes into detail about what it takes to keep on trying even when you’re faced with failure. It shows you how to change your thinking so that you can gain the right perspective when trouble hits.

But more than that, it gives you the realization that you do have the strength to keep on moving through the obstacles. The book presents the art of developing stoicism in your life and gives examples of times in history when others were faced with obstacles, but persevered.

You’ll learn how to develop a no excuses mindset, and that life isn’t being unfair when trials hit because trouble happens to everyone. Instead of allowing the troubles to hinder you mentally, the book shows how you can learn to view what seems like the end as a new beginning — even while you’re going through the fire of your situation.

If you feel like you’re trapped, like you just can’t put another foot forward, you can benefit from reading the book and following the advice that’s taught in it. You won’t learn how to think things are great, but will instead learn how to face problems head on until you conquer them.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part is perception. It’s followed by action and then by will. In the part that deals with perception, you’ll understand that the stuff that happens to you is sometimes out of your control.

You’ll discover how to direct your attention to the problem at hand without letting your emotions take over — regardless of how angry or disappointed you are. In the part dealing with action, you’ll discover how you can stay the course and how continuing to try is the most important thing no matter what hasn’t worked so far.

The book will teach you that if you hang in there, you will reach the end. In the third part of the book, it shows you how to remember that whatever you’re facing isn’t forever. You’re going to get through it.

In this part, the book talks about making peace with what’s happened — even if that thing isn’t a good thing. One thing the book teaches that’s important for both life and career success is that while you can’t help what has come or will come your way, you can help how you handle it. You get to define whether it’s a quitting point or an opportunity to become even stronger.

Serious Success Isn’t Based on Wishful Thinking

 Daydreaming can be a powerful tool sometimes. It gives us a chance to get an image of what our ideal life would be like — a goal to strive for. Having this clear idea of a goal in mind is a very important part of becoming successful.

You can’t go very far without knowing what you’re going to do. However, daydreaming should remain as a tool for visualizing your goal, and it should never go far beyond that. For many people, daydreaming is what they spend a good chunk of their time doing.

They’ll sit around bored at work, imagining their dream house, their dream car, and their dream life. In the meantime, though, they’re not doing anything to actually help them move closer to their goals, but rather they’re just spending their time fawning over what their life could be.

                                           Wishful Thinking 

This is a very unproductive mindset. Very seldom will anyone see any kind of success by just thinking alone. It takes so much more to make a successful person. You need to be able to put your thoughts into action, taking real steps towards these goals in order to make your life better overall.

It’s impossible for simple thoughts to actually progress your life in any way, but it’s been shown time and time again that action will get you where you want to be. Next time you find yourself daydreaming a little too much, take things to the next level.

You’ve seen that goal in your head, so you know that much. Now, you need to come up with a plan to get you there. Think about what your progression will look like from where you are now to where you were thinking about.

Having a goal alone doesn’t give you much help, but having a clear map from start to finish is a key part of becoming successful. Never be content with just imagining what your life could be like.

Whenever you have the opportunity, you should be taking actions in order to actually achieve those goals. Be on the search for another job, take some time to tend to your personal relationships — whatever it is that you need to be doing.

No matter what, you have to be doing something actively to get you there, rather than just hoping to wake up one day and find that you’re successful with no effort. Mere thoughts can’t get you anywhere.

For - Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - Do read Atomic Habits

 An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

James Clear, a renowned expert in habit formation, provides practical strategies to help readers develop good habits, break bad ones, and harness the potential of small behaviors to achieve remarkable results. The testimonial also underscores the importance of having the right system for change, as habits are a reflection of one's system. 

Clear's ability to simplify complex concepts from biology, psychology, and neuroscience is praised, and the book is described as an easy-to-understand guide to making good habits automatic and bad habits nearly impossible. It features real-life stories from accomplished individuals who used the science of habits to excel in their fields. 

The book covers topics such as time management, motivation, environment design, and getting back on track when facing setbacks. Ultimately, "Atomic Habits" is hailed as a transformative tool for anyone striving for personal or professional success, whether as an individual or part of a team or organization

The synopsis as follows: 

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. 

James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. 

The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:

• make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);

• overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;

• design your environment to make success easier;

• get back on track when you fall off course;

...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds By David Goggins

Many people live their lives according to the lies that they believe about themselves. Sometimes these lies come from outside influences that tell you what you are or are not capable of.

But most of the time, these lies are what you accept within yourself as the truth. The key to changing that is by challenging these lies. The book, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, teaches how you can break through and transform your life.

The book focuses on becomingmentally tough so that you don’t give in to self-defeating thoughts andbehaviors and inadvertently derail your own success. In the book, you’ll discover that your only limits are the ones that you place on yourself.

You’ll discover that the ability to achieve what you want is really all up to you. The author, David Goggins, begins telling you that you must face yourself. One of the problems is that many people aren’t completely honest with themselves.

They don’t face up to their failings and doubts. They live a life of good enough, one that’s less than 100% of what they could be, what they were meant to be. Goggins teaches readers to address your life in all aspects, whether it’s what you’re doing in your career, in your relationships, with your finances or with your health.

Can't Hurt Me

Once you identify what the obstacle is that’s preventing you from reaching the success you want, then you have the power to overcome it. You’ll discover why and how you need to set goals so that you’re in charge of turning your dreams into reality.

The book is proof that by setting small milestones and achieving them, you can master long term goals. Imagination is one of the keys found in the book. By picturing what it is you want your life to look like, you can develop the mental strategy to hang in there until you do reach that point.

As you picture what it is that you want from life, you can imagine how you’ll feel and what you’ll see. As you imagine, you can picture the roadblocks and how you’ll get past those.

By mentally seeing what you want, it prepares you to reach the goal. In the book, you’ll learn why trying to do less than your best or less than you should might get you to the finish line, but it sets a precedent of not giving 100% that can weaken your personal or professional triumphs.

You’ll learn that it’s not enough to master your work and then remain in the same circle. You should always be growing, learning and achieving. Increase your challenges each time you master one. 

One surprising theory that the book teaches is that when you do achieve a goal, don’t see that as the end but as the opportunity to do even more. Let one accomplishment propel you on to the next. Know the reason behind why you do what you do in your business. Understanding that will help keep you going when things get difficult.