Build systems and structures instead of having new year resolutions.
With new year resolutions you in the long run lose the momentum and motivation you started out with while with systems and structures, you evolve into a person who doesn’t need new year resolutions to start, stop, and change things!
As much as we focus on what we can get, it is much more important to focus more also on who we become. Who we become focuses on personal growth, building strength of character, and manifesting the right life.
As A Man Thinketh is an essay and self-help classic, which argues that the key to mastering your life is harnessing the power of your thoughts and helps you cultivate the philosophy and attitude of a positive, successful person.
On this episode, Pelumi reviews translating this skill, of being able to have five moves ahead, into a valuable methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of life and business.
In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough to to become alright with not knowing, being wrong, and rethinking our own conventional wisdom.
In this review of the 1959 classic, The Magic of Thinking Big, Pelumi summarises the book on how it gives several starting points to develop and strengthen the most important trait of successful people: believing in yourself.
In this episode, Pelumi reviews a book that is a concise, practical guide to mastering small choices that determine big outcomes which dictate the course of your life – by best-selling author, publisher, and motivational speaker, Darren Hardy.
Eating the frog means just do it, otherwise, the frog will eat you meaning that you'll end up procrastinating it the whole day. Once that one task is done, the rest of the day will be an easier ride and you will get both momentum and a sense of accomplishment at the beginning of your day.
The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, and to finish it completely, is the key to key to attaining success at what you do.
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About Influence Podcast
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Pelumi Olawole’s Ripples of Influence Podcast is a regular examination of what it takes and means to be a person of influence. The Podcast offers practical personal and business development lessons…
that take the mystery out of personal and business success. In each episode of the RIpples of Influence Podcast, we bring you empowering insights and easy-to-understand takeaways you can use to lead yourself. You’ll learn effective ways to grow as a person, optimize your time, develop your career and business, and restructure your orientation to achieve your ultimate goals.