Books On Purpose

Hey Shoremates,

Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces. My name is JD Elliott, and today we are continuing The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle.  I understand that sometimes these books can cause more questions to come up, so if there’s ever anything you want to talk about more in depth, you can find me streaming on Twitch.  Just search for The Life Navigator, follow me, and you’ll get notifications whenever I go live. 

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.  Today’s action items build on yesterday’s questions.

1. Yesterday we talked about how Myelin is the secret ingredient, and today we went through some stories involving people who were commonly thought of as geniuses such as Beethoven, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and the Bronte Sisters. Now knowing they all spent thousands of hours practicing from a young age, what are your thoughts on this chapter? 
2. If you’re struggling with the idea that skillsets are really grown through deep practice, ask yourself why it’s hard for you to accept.  Now, knowing that your brain will work to get better at whatever you have it do,  what would you like to get better at?  What do you need to do today in order to do that?
3. Have fun.  This is a long process, and it’s good to enjoy the journey versus only looking forward to the destination.  

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. The talent code is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates,

Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces. My name is JD Elliott, and today we are continuing The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle.  I understand that sometimes these books can cause more questions to come up, so if there’s ever anything you want to talk about more in depth, you can find me streaming on Twitch.  Just search for The Life Navigator, follow me, and you’ll get notifications whenever I go live. 

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.  Today’s action items build on yesterday’s questions.

1. Now that you know the scientifically proven way, using myelin, to get better at skills, develop a game plan in which you’ll work on the individual components of the skills. 
2. What are some challenges you see that can cause to you stop practicing?  Decide and journal what you’ll do when those obstacles come up so that you can keep pressing on.
3. Have fun.  This is a long process, and it’s good to enjoy the journey versus only looking forward to the destination.  

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. The talent code is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates,

What if I told you that you could learn more in a shorter time frame?  Would you want to know more?  In The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle covers the science behind how to achieve this.  In this episode, we cover the author, the introduction, and chapter 1.

Action Items:

1. What is a skill set that you really want to get better at?  Dont worry about your age.  The brain works the same, and over the next few days you’ll be able to learn how to get better at it in a shorter time frame. 

2. Break this skill set down into its individual parts.  By understanding the smaller parts, from the knowledge over the next few days you’ll better understand how to get better, faster, and with less time spent

Always Remember, 

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates, Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces.  Today we are finishing our 5th book, the power of Habit: why we do what we do in life and business, by Charles Duhigg.

Action Items. 

1. What is the one habit that you either wish to change or implement?
2. Follow the plan from earlier: Identify the routine, experiment with rewards, Isolate the cue, and have a plan.  Over the days, give yourself grace as it is guaranteed you’ll fail a few times while figuring things out.
3. Celebrate.  You just finished the Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life an business by Charles Duhigg.

Shoremates, I hope that this book was valuable to you.  I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates, Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces.

In today's episode, we cover The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Saddle Back Church.  Did you know that Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to be arrested leading up to the Civil Rights movement?  But it was her who caused for it to occur.  In this episode we talk about the powerful forces causing both of these movements to be successful.

Action Items. For ease of reference they are listed in the show notes as well:

1. Is there anything you see in society that you think needs a huge and drastic change? If so, how badly do you want it?  What are you willing to give up to see it come into reality. 
2. From the answer from action item one, what social groups are you a part of?  Do your friends have any friends that they can call on as well to help you build a plan to accomplish the change?
3. Brainstorm how you can turn your plan into something that becomes socially unacceptable not to be part of.  For example, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott all the church congregations made promises that they would not take the bus, causing for it to be socially unacceptable to take the bus. 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you.  This truly is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates, Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces. My name is JD Elliott, and today we are continuing our 5th book, the power of Habit: why we do what we do in life and business, by Charles Duhigg.

Chapter 6 is entitled The Power of a Crisis: how leaders create habits through accident and design. 

Chapter 7 is called How Target knows what you want before you do.  When companies predict (and manipulate) Habits. As a disclaimer, this chapter specifically mentions Target, but several other companies do the exact same and you can read Target's email to the author in this chapter. 

Action Items from this week:

1. What can you do to interrupt the habit loop for a habit you want to get rid of?  A few ideas can be putting a phone into airplane mode, turning off wifi, removing cigarettes or alcohol from a house, putting running shoes by the door and gym clothes next to your bed to put on when you wake up.
2. What is a habit you want to start doing?  Think about something that will be a cue to remind you to do the habit, such as the earlier mentioned running shoes by the door.  Then think about how you’re going to reward yourself. This will help start the craving process and help turn it into a habit faster. 
3.  Knowing that the golden rule of habits is you’ve got to believe you can accomplish whatever you need to, do you honestly believe you can accomplish the new habit?
4. If not, what would it take for you to believe. If you do genuinely think you can, why do you believe you can? 
5. If you are in a position of leadership, are there any areas that you can give more control to those under you? With the knowledge from these experiments, what changes can you make?
6. If you personally struggle with self discipline or will power, then make yourself some prompts similar to the case studies.  Identify areas you struggle with the most, then imagine yourself solving those issues when they come.  Imagine what the difficulties will be, then how you’ll overcome them.

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. This is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates, Welcome back to Mind Your Helm.  The podcast designed for those who who want the best books broken down into small, bite sized pieces. My name is JD Elliott, and today we are continuing our 5th book, the power of Habit: why we do what we do in life and business, by Charles Duhigg.

Action Items. For ease of reference they are listed in the show notes as well:

1. If you are in a position of leadership, are there any areas that you can give more control to those under you? With the knowledge from these experiments, what changes can you make?
2. If you personally struggle with self discipline or will power, then make yourself some prompts similar to the case studies.  Identify areas you struggle with the most, then imagine yourself solving those issues when they come.  Imagine what the difficulties will be, then how you’ll overcome them.

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you.  If you only ever do action items from one of the chapters, this is definitely one that will radically improve your life.  By increasing your self discipline by flexing your will power muscle and creating habits, it’s a matter of time before you become healthier physically, emotionally, and financially. This truly is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates,

In today's episode, we finish chapters 3 and 4 out of Charles Duhigg's legendary book, The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in Life and Business. 

Action Items

1.  Knowing that the golden rule of habits is you’ve got to believe you can accomplish whatever you need to, do you honestly believe you can accomplish the new habit?
2. If not, what would it take for you to believe. If you do genuinely think you can, why do you believe you can? 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. This is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates,

In today's episode, we finish chapters 1 and 2 out of Charles Duhigg's legendary book, The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in Life and Business. 

Action Items

1.  Yesterday you wrote down a habit you wanted to get rid of, along with how you were feeling and what you thought triggered it.  With today’s information, what can you do to interrupt the habit loop?  A few ideas can be putting a phone into airplane mode, turning off wifi, removing cigarettes or alcohol from a house, putting running shoes by the door and gym clothes next to your bed to put on when you wake up.
2. What is a habit you want to start doing?  Think about something that will be a cue to remind you to do the habit, such as the earlier mentioned running shoes by the door.  Then think about how you’re going to reward yourself. This will help start the craving process and help turn it into a habit faster. 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. This is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

Welcome to our 5th Book, The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in Business and Life by Charles Duhigg. 

The Habit Loop is comprised of three simple actions: the cue, the reward, and the routine.  This habit loop is constantly in progress, but the good news is that with this knowledge, we have the ability to change it.  As we continue throughout this book, we will increasingly understand why habits work the way they do, how to add habits, how to remove habits, and how to optimize your life….on your terms. 

Action Items:

1. What is a habit that you want to get rid of in life?
2. Next time you find yourself doing this habit, pay close attention to the actions before the habit.  What did you do, and how did you feel?

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. This is a life changing book, and I highly recommend adding it to your bookshelf for greater detail on each chapter.

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott