Books On Purpose

Shoremates, 

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Action Items:

1. Where do you want to go in the future?  What is it that if you think you’ve accomplished it, makes you feel excited?
2. In order to accomplish your desired future, it is vital to rest and sharpen your saw.  How will you sharpen your saw on the way to this future?
3. If it’s not in the calendar, it’s not going to happen.  When will you schedule out time to sharpen your saw?

Always, Always Remember,

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

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Action Items:

1. Brainstorm who you can reach out to for help.  This could be anyone from friends, mentors, colleagues, linked in associates, or even podcast hosts.  
2. Actually reach out to them, and don’t be discouraged if only a few respond back.  When they offer something to you, don’t leave the call without asking how you can help them out.  If they say something within reason, make sure you do it.  It’s all about depositing in value more than you withdraw. With that said, don’t let that be the initial reason you don’t reach out to someone.  That’s the purpose behind asking how you can best help someone out.
3. Take a 7 day no complaining challenge.  For the next 7 days instead of complaining, say something out loud that you’re grateful for.  This may be insanely hard at first, especially if you hang out with complainers, but if you do this you’ll find life to be much more enjoyable, and more successful people will enjoy hanging out with you.  

Always, Always Remember,

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com.

Action Items

1. It’s time to set a vision for your life.  Find a quiet place with no distractions. What is it you actually want in life?  Who do you want to be?  If you were to be on your death bed, who is the person you’d be proud to say you lived as.
2. What is it you love about your job or career choice?  What are things that you really enjoy doing?  Then, write down everything you don’t like. Imagine this as a version of a pros and con lists. 
3. Now that you have written down what you like and dislike, what do you feel is missing?  What kinds of jobs will provide what is missing?  Will they also entail the things you like about your current job and less of the things you don’t like?

Always, Always Remember,

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com.

Action Items

1. It’s time to set a vision for your life.  Find a quiet place with no distractions. What is it you actually want in life?  Who do you want to be?  If you were to be on your death bed, who is the person you’d be proud to say you lived as.
2. What is it you love about your job or career choice?  What are things that you really enjoy doing?  Then, write down everything you don’t like. Imagine this as a version of a pros and con lists. 
3. Now that you have written down what you like and dislike, what do you feel is missing?  What kinds of jobs will provide what is missing?  Will they also entail the things you like about your current job and less of the things you don’t like?

Always, Always Remember,

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by my tea store www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action Items

1. At what point do you normally start to feel the pressure and want to cave?  What is the common trend among these times?  When you’ve identified that, decide now, before you hit that moment, exactly what you’ll do when you encounter that pressure moment again. 
2. What is normal considered in your line of work or what you want to do?  Where is the line of expectation for people to hold themselves up to?  Now, what can you do to exceed it?
3. What can you do today to help others achieve what they want to achieve in life?  If you want happiness, how can you help others be happy? If you want confidence and hope, how can you best help others achieve that?
4. Celebrate!  We just finished a legendary book, and one that started my own personal development journey over three years ago. These are principles that have been tried and tested by myself, and I can personally tell you that if you do these, your life will never be the same. 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action Items

1. Who are the 5 people you spend the most time with?  What are their main characteristics both positive and negative.  After doing this, ask yourself if that list is ok with you and where you want to go.
2. Where do you want to be 5 years from now.  Picture it in crystal clear, HD vision.  Where do those kind of people hang out?  Take action to start hanging out with these kind of people.  There is a caveat here.  Because these people are further down the road than you, you’ll have to show that you’re humble and hungry to get better. The most successful are generally the most generous. They are also picky who they show their generosity to, as it is a massive gift.  Sometimes you won’t be able to spend time with them, so get creative.  Do they have podcasts or books you can listen to?  Jim Rohn is Darren’s mentor, yet 99% of the instruction received was not face to face. 
3. Do you need a change in environment?  If it’s physical, what can you do to be in a cleaner, more organized place. If it’s mental, try writing down literally everything that comes to your head that needs to be done, and then organize it from there.

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action Items

1.  Having the bookends in life are vital. If you have a few extra dollars in your budget, I highly recommend The high performance planner from Brendon Burchard.  This is something that I personally use every day of the week.  It has both morning and evening habits, and can radically change your life.
2. What do you know you need to be more consistent in?  If you want momentum in these areas, what behaviors will you need to have in order to keep up the consistency long enough to have momentum come in and be your friend?  If you want Darren's reference sheet, you can find it at thecompoundeffect.com/free

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action items for today.

1.  It’s time to clean up the house. Whichever the vice may be that you want to get ride of, when you are not feeling tempted go and clear your house of anything that would tempt you to go back to the bad habit.  Then think of what you really want from that vice and swap something from this.  For example, if you love going to the pub to hang out with friends, you may actually be going for connection and calorie heavy beer comes with it.  You’d get even more powerful connection if you volunteer at a nonprofit.  
2. Decide whether you’re going to slowly go into the water, or jump right in.  If it’s a bad habit you’ve had for decades, you may decide you’re ready to just stop cold turkey.  Or, maybe you’re more like Darren who decided to cut back on caffeine by slowly mixing in decaf, and then switching to decaf tea over the course of a month.
3. Decide what you are going to celebrate.  Shoremates, this is an extremely powerful action.  For paying off debt, this is why the snowball method is so impactful.  By feeling the sense of accomplishment and allowing your brain to get pleasure, it provides momentum in wanting more and more results. 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action items for today.

1. What is the number one goal that you want to achieve?  Knowing Darren’s formula for life, take out a piece of paper, write down the goal at the top, then write down every single behavior or habit that is sabotaging your progress. It’s important to write every one here.  If you have more than one goal, that’s ok.  Do this process for each goal you have. 
2. Now, write down all the good habits and behaviors which will lead towards achieving your goals. 
3. What are the triggers to each of the bad behaviors, and write a who, what, where, and when for each of them.  Do you drink too much when you’re around certain people, do you eat too much at a certain time of day?  This is all good to think through and identify why you’re doing what you’re doing.

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates, 

If you want a copy of my notes, updated weekly, go to www.thelifenavigator.com, sign up, and you'll get access.  If you love tea, be sure to stop by www.nauticalteas.com. 

Action items for today.

1. What is an area that you struggle with the most?  Now, journal about everything that you are thankful for about the situation. 
2. Where are you not taking full responsibility for either the success or the failure you’re experiencing?  What are three things you can do right now to take back responsibility for areas in your life?
3. Start tracking the area from question number one. If done the way we’ve discussed, your life years from now will be drastically different. 

Shoremates, I hope that this episode was valuable to you. Each book we choose has to have the potential to change your life in a positive way, and I highly recommend adding this book to your bookshelf. 

Always, always remember

You’ve got this!

-J.D. Elliott