Books On Purpose

Shoremates,

In today's episode, we cover Dave's no nonsense guide to deciding on a business or career, and follow up with his friend New York Times Best Selling Author Dan Miller's questions for our action items of the day.

Action items for today. For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes as well.  We are pulling from Dan Millers questions from earlier. 

1. What are your skills and abilities. What have you been trained for and what are your natural talents?  Does this line up with what you want to do?
2. What are your personality traits?  Do these personality traits line up with what you want to do?
3. What are your values, dreams, and passions?  Do these line up with what you want to do?

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.  There has been something else I’ve been working on to give you for free, and hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll be able to give you more information and release this product that can add even more value to your life. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

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.  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 and we can talk.  Today we are continuing chapter 5.  The rest of this chapter focuses mainly on business principles, but as we go through this, you’ll see that a lot of it can be applied to either everyday life, or to ideas to make wherever you work a better or more efficient place. 

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.  There has been something else I’ve been working on to give you for free, and hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll be able to give you more information and release this product that can add even more value to your life. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates,

In today's episode we finish covering the steps to making a decision and then discuss Dave's famous Momentum Theorem. 

1. For your options that you wrote down from yesterday, narrow it down to three possible choices. 
2. What is the worst possible scenario that could happen if you fail during this venture?  What is the best thing you can imagine that can happen? Are you willing to move forward with this in mind?
3. Think about the formula that Dave created to build up momentum. Is there anything in your life that you are passionate enough about to maintain focused intensity over time?

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.  There has been something else I’ve been working on to give you for free, and hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll be able to give you more information and release this product that can add even more value to your life. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates,

In today's episode we cover Dr. Stephen Covey's 4 quadrant system, and tips for making decisions. 

1. Think about everything you are doing.  Which quadrant do they fall into?  For the quadrant 3 and 4 activities, think about how you can get rid of them and for the one activities, after you’re finished with them how can you turn it into something you can make a quadrant 2 activity.  An example for this is if you failed to get an oil change and so you had to replace the engine, you’d ensure you did oil changes.  Or if you didnt take care of your health and you ended up at the hospital, you’d focus on your health. 
2. What is a big decision you’re facing right now, that you don’t know what the right thing to do is?
3. Think about options you have for question number 2.  Get in a quiet place, take a few deep breaths, and allow yourself to think creatively about other ways to solve that problem. 

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.  There has been something else I’ve been working on to give you for free, and hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll be able to give you more information and release this product that can add even more value to your life. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Hey Shoremates,

Today we talk about dreams, visions, goals, and how to achieve those goals by ensuring they are specific, measurable, time bound, and written down.

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.

1. Start getting into a quiet place and think about what you want your personal mission statement to be.  This can be a work of progress and take weeks or months. That is 100% ok. The important thing is you’re being honest with yourself.
2. What are some goals you have?  Make sure it is specific, measurable, time bound, and written down.  
3. Why, and I mean at your core level, do you want to achieve these goals?  

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.  There has been something else I’ve been working on to give you for free, and hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll be able to give you more information and release this product that can add even more value to your life. 

Always, always remember.  You’ve got this.

-J.D. Elliott

Shoremates,

Welcome to our 7th book, Entreleadership, written by the legendary Dave Ramsey. 

Shoremates, I understand that this book in particular may cause unknown feelings of shame or anger to arise.  If this is the case, that is 100% ok.  Subconsciously, there is a reason you feel that way, and by digging deeper you’ll make incredible strides forward. In one of the promotions for this book, comedian Jeff Foxworthy said that wisdom is a combination of knowledge plus scars.  Throughout the introduction, Dave is essentially pleading with you to listen to the lessons he has learned, as much of these lessons came through blood, sweat and tears.

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.

1. Are you currently in a position of leadership?  Even if you are not, what are your current strengths and weaknesses?  What can you do, whether it is by hiring out or setting up a system similar to autopay, in order to reduce how much the weaknesses can effect your day to day life?
2. Are you passionate about what you’re currently doing? If not, what can      you do starting today to move towards an area you’re passionate in? 
3. What are your thoughts on servant leadership?  Does knowing that it actually isn’t being subservient change your thoughts on it?  

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,

Welcome to the last episode of our 6th book, The Talent Code!

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 and we can talk.

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.

1. Today we covered a lot of material about coaching and making small changes.  Based off this material, what changes do you find you’ll need to make?
2. Celebrate.  We just finished our 6th book, the talent code by Daniel Coyle

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.  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 and we can talk.

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.

1. The John Wooden Strategy, also refereed to as Mplus, MMinus, Mplus, is to show the correct way of doing something, show what the person did incorrectly, then show the correct way again.  Is there anything in your life that you can apply this to?
2. If you have a child that is taking lessons, does the coach inspire your kid to love the activity and have a passion for it?  If not, what other coaches or teachers would do so?

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.  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 and we can talk.

Action Items: For ease of reference, these are listed in the show notes.

1. If you haven’t done so already, download my summary of Mindset By Dr. Carol Dweck to get amplifying information on fixed mindsets versus growth mindsets
2. Now that you know that praising the work versus the result yields far better results, is there anything you need to change in how you speak to others?

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.   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 and we can talk.

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

1. With the skillset you want to develop, what is the current gap between where you are and where you want to go? 
2. Break that gap into the smallest parts you can.  
3. Come up with a game plan to work at the small parts, first slow, then fast.  You’ll find you’re able to learn more at a faster pace than you had imagined.  

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