Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that self help can be helpful. Reading
Speaker 1: or rereading some of the classic self help books can
Speaker 1: be a fun way to fire yourself up for making
Speaker 1: the most of daily life. Because I write self help books,
Speaker 1: I have read a lot of other self help books
Speaker 1: over the years, and many of them are well forgettable,
Speaker 1: but a few have definitely stood out. I remember encountering
Speaker 1: the late Stephen Coveys The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
Speaker 1: People a few years after it came out, and finding
Speaker 1: certain precepts such as begin with the end in mind
Speaker 1: and put first things first. Quite insightful. Thinking through my
Speaker 1: prior these ahead of each week and thinking of them
Speaker 1: for both work and my personal life has helped me
Speaker 1: manage long term projects like book writing while trying to
Speaker 1: create a happy home life too. But it's not just
Speaker 1: Covey who's had some good advice. Dale Carnegie leans more
Speaker 1: towards the personality ethic that Covey sometimes laments, but he
Speaker 1: was quite wise about human nature. People like to hear
Speaker 1: their names, people do things when they want to do things,
Speaker 1: So if you want them to do something, you are
Speaker 1: better off arousing in them an eager want. As he
Speaker 1: puts it, I am not sure I have gotten my
Speaker 1: two year old to experience an eager want for potty trading,
Speaker 1: but I am definitely trying to think about it from
Speaker 1: his perspective. Even the most offbeat folks might have some
Speaker 1: useful ideas. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
Speaker 1: Isn't exactly scientific, but I have still found it helpful
Speaker 1: to realize that when men get upset, they may just
Speaker 1: want to go into their caves for a while, even
Speaker 1: if they do have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
Speaker 1: And that old favorite the rules also much not to like.
Speaker 1: But if you are a single woman looking for a
Speaker 1: long term relationship with a man, it's continued sales show
Speaker 1: there may be some insights into the male mind in there.
Speaker 1: In any case, if you see a book that's been
Speaker 1: out for a long time and people seem to still
Speaker 1: be reading it, maybe it's available in paperback, or the
Speaker 1: copy in a used bookstore is well worn, that might
Speaker 1: be a sign that it could be useful. My rule
Speaker 1: is this books are pretty cheap. You can almost always
Speaker 1: get an e book for less than twenty dollars, you
Speaker 1: can certainly score a used paperback for less than that.
Speaker 1: Read with a critical mindset, you do not actually have
Speaker 1: to turn down a Saturday night date. If your potential
Speaker 1: Prince Charming asks on Thursday, as the rules suggests, he's
Speaker 1: supposed to ask by Wednesday. But if you do get
Speaker 1: one good idea that improves your life, that was money
Speaker 1: well spent, and sometimes with self help, you already know
Speaker 1: the advice, but you need to be reminded of it.
Speaker 1: That is certainly the case with some of the rules
Speaker 1: in Tranquility by Tuesday, which is my next self help
Speaker 1: book and which is out this week. The book is
Speaker 1: about nine of my favorite time management rules and what
Speaker 1: happened when a d fifty people tried them out over
Speaker 1: nine weeks. Now, probably most people know that they should
Speaker 1: get to bed on time and get some physical activity
Speaker 1: and plan how they'll spend their time and not flit
Speaker 1: in and out of things all day long. But when
Speaker 1: we are reminded and convinced, we do it. That was
Speaker 1: the case for people who tried out my nine rules
Speaker 1: for Tranquility by Tuesday. I measured them on various dimensions
Speaker 1: before and after I found that their overall time satisfaction
Speaker 1: scores improved by over the project. That isn't doubling. But
Speaker 1: if you were a wealth manager, you'd take sixteen percent
Speaker 1: returns over nine weeks. Right. Self help can be helpful,
Speaker 1: So why not ask a friend for a favorite book
Speaker 1: recommendation and give a book a try. One good idea
Speaker 1: isn't a high bar, but one good idea can be priceless,
Speaker 1: which isn't bad for a few bucks or a swipe
Speaker 1: of a library card. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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