In this episode, I will highlight some of the useful life tips I’ve picked up from various books over the years. Here are 11 quotes that capture the tips:

 Demote the importance of email. Your inbox is other people’s priorities (Craig Jarrow, Time Management Ninja)  

To make networking successful, follow up is everything (Jayson Gaignard, MastemindTalks).

Scaling requires grinding it out and pressing each person, team, group, division or organization to make one small change after another (Robert Sutton, Hayagreeva Rao, “Scaling Up Excellence”) . 

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do (Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”)

Unless you give at least forty-five minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your ninety minutes a night [of reading] are chiefly wasted (Arnold Bennett, “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”). 

The acid test for creativity is simply stated: has the domain in which you operate been significantly altered by your contribution? (Howard Gardner, “Five Minds for the Future”)  

Keeping things “just in case” indicates a lack of trust in the future…Good things cannot easily come into your life if you block the flow of energy by persistently clinging to outdated clutter (Karen Kingston, “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui”) 

Judging is what the mind does, I discovered. But what you can begin to do is write your judgments down and question them. That will give you a sane and happy life (Byron Katie, “Who Would You Be Without Your Story”). 

Great presenters have the ability to tell you something you already know, in a way that gives it new and more powerful meaning (Jon Steel, “Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business”).

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do (Timothy Ferriss, “The 4-Hour Work Week”).

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think” (Patrick Lencioni, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”). 

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