Miracle Morning, Time Blocking and Think and Grow Rich with Alexis Kingsbury, serial entrepreneur and business consultant.
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Tools & Apps
iThoughts app – a mind mapping application. “It’s probably the best app and most powerful app that I use, and it’s the one I’m asked about most often when I’m at conferences because I take all my notes into iThoughts.”My Fitness Pal app – fitness and food app for tracking data like meals, calories and exercise.WordPress app – for blogging straight into a blog from a phone or tablet.Intercom – a customer communication platform. “I have an application called ‘Intercom’, which is used by my software business for one of our support tech teams, so I can keep an eye on what conversations people are having.”Buffer – for scheduling tweets.Other Resources
People that Alexis admires – Richard Branson, Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad, Poor DadBooks
Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod – essentially sets out six activities for you to do every morning.Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon HillLive It by Jairek Robbins – Alexis says “in the book it says to identify your perfect day, because the more you bring that to life in your head, the closer you’ll get to actually achieving it in your life”.How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen – one of the things he highlights is that he went to a very reputable university, and as he went to the reunions he saw that initially people were extremely successful. After about the fourth decade of reunions or whatever, suddenly some of them are on their own and lost their relationships, some are in prison, and some have lost it all, some have committed suicide, and so on. He just reflects on the fact that intelligence doesn’t prevent that. The problem is that we tend to get the goals wrong and we tend to prioritise a particular thing, so at the end of the rainbow, then the dreams will come true. I think actually you have to start living the dream now.Tips
Eat that Frog – Brian Tracy ie doing the worst thing you need to get done on a day in the morning so that it’s out of the way.“I’ve got it as part of my visioning in the morning that I make sure that I have gone to bed before eleven.”From Think and Grow Rich – “invent a council of people who you would almost like as coaches, alive or dead, that you know enough, perhaps by reading their autobiographies or knowing them through basically whatever, that you can almost give yourself advice through their lens.”“What could I meaningfully do today/this week/this month to achieve that?” Using this question on a short and long term basis to ensure that work is meaningful and taking you to wherever you plan to be, rather than just ‘being busy’.Relative prioritisation is really important; what is most important at any given time.Time blocking on your calendar to achieve tasks and reach goalsPlanning and ensuring that the right stuff gets done so that there is no ‘guilt’ of not achieving what needs to be done.Exercise “baking it into my life. It’s not trying to have it as this crazy add on and decide, “Oh, I’m going to run in the mornings even though I don’t want to. I’m going to go to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but then feel fed up that I’m not seeing my family. Instead, it’s built into my life that it’s just part of it now.”“If I realise I’ve had a really inefficient day, I’ve not eaten that frog, I’ve not done the exercise or whatever, if I catch it I will talk to myself out loud. I think it’s like a pattern break, which I believe comes from the world of NLP, and Derren Brown, and so on. ‘Alexis, you haven’t done anything productive this morning…’.”To Contact Alexis
Alexis’ TwitterMaking Greatness BlogEmail: [email protected]Tweet: “It’s probably the best app that I use, and it’s the one I’m asked about most often when I’m at conferences” https://ctt.ec/vDxsf+
Tweet: “Relative prioritisation is really important; what is most important at any given time.” https://ctt.ec/gi1e7+
Tweet: “Planning and ensuring that the right stuff gets done so that there is no ‘guilt’ of not achieving what needs to be done.” https://ctt.ec/9f7ca+
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