Life changing instruments: coaching, Miracle morning, podcasts and more.

Ann
Ann
Aug 27, 2017 · 4 min read

I am coming back to this diary, as I feel I have to write down what is going on. I feel that things I am going on through are on purpose, and who knows how dots connect later — I would have a retrospective view from my notes.

Since my last post there have been much going on

  1. Couch and “magic kick”

I took a class in self-development group, where we basically worked with couch on NLP techniques and every meeting I had to get out of my comfort zone and speak to the room of 4–5 people. Experience itself deserves separate post, but as a key finding for me was couch himself and I realized — I want to work with him 1:1. On a big picture what happened after few sessions with him - I received that one needed “magic kick” and out of nowhere I got an energy and desire to look and don’t stop until I find what I need.

2. Tony Robbins

Oh my God. How could I be not familiar with his work yet? I got to know about him also from the group mentioned above. It is so much energy, so much truth, so much motivation. “Impossible is not a fact, it is an opinion”.

I have watched several youtube videos with him, interviews and events which he runs — now every time I hear this voice, there is a desire to stop being sorry for myself and act.

3. Books and audios

I have started to read and listen audiobooks like crazy because I realized that It is actually a myth that I don’t have time for it. There is a pile of books in progress and some finished. There is some:

“Linchpin” , “Tribes” and “Purple Cow” by Seth Godin

Everything what is on SkillShare by Seth Godin — I became big fan of him

“How to win friends and influence people” by Napoleon Hill

“The Black Swan: The impact of highly improbable” by Nassim Taleb

“The timeless way of building” by Christopher Alexander

4. The Miracle Morning

The book “The Miracle morning” by Hal Elrod deserves special point. I have read it — to be precise — on May 20th. Since than I woke up later than 9 am maybe 3 times. For me, considering myself deep “night owl” with shifted work schedule and waking up 10–12 last 5 years maybe, this is really the shift.

The book is indeed not about waking up so early, instead is also another magic kick and magic words which do motivate and remind about most important things in our life. Highly recommend to anybody!

I will make special post about it later.

5. Podcasts

Finding out about Hal Elrod was another pivot point. I joined closed Facebook group, and started to listen his podcasts. It appeared that last episodes are being run by his friend Job Berghoff — and why — because Hal was being diagnosed with rare form and cancer and now under treatment. You see.. how much is given to this amazing person..! I was shoked, but I believe he is strong and will get over it!

So I wanted to share about Podcasts: basically these are findings of guests of Hal Elrod podcast “Achieve your goals”:

  • “The Model Health Show” by Shawn Stevenson — amazing amazing amazing! A lot of super cool guests, interesting topics, science facts and motivation.
  • “Maximize your strengths” by Alissa Daire Nelson — podcasts with interesting guests with focus on their strength sides. See also point 6 below.
  • “From the heart” by Yoga Girl (the only one I found by myself:)
  • “Kwik Brain” by Jim Kwik

Podcasts became my almost everyday ritual while commuting 1 hour to and from work.

6. Strengths finder

I learned about Gallup strength finder from one of podcasts with Alissa Daire Nelson (https://daire2succeed.com) . The topic is about how often people only concentrate on questions “what’s wrong with me?” and how rare people are asking themselves “what is actually good with me?”.

Gallup.com is analytics company with tens years of experience and data (you can read more in “About” section on their website) and it has a test which called “Strength finder” which analyzes your answers and ranks your qualities from 1 to 34. The simplest and cheapest option is to buy 20$ test which will give your Top 5 strengths — which is enough food for though and self-development work for quite a while.

for example my Top 5 are:

  • Restorative (the one who loves to fix problems)
  • Learner
  • Empathy
  • Achiever
  • Responsibility

And I am reconsidering what I am doing a lot. This matches perfectly!

Alissa also has a free book to help dive into your strengths with exercises on her website, which I am reading currently.

You can take test here: https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com

Summarizing

As you see there’re so many tools available and so much information coming from all sides. I am not at the point of mixing and shifting and trying to approach things one by one, however it’s being hard sometimes. One of the main goals to me right now is to streamline, focus and become more organized. Likely this is the last post in such a long format and further I will come into more structured way of journaling.

Hope at least one of above will be found helpful!

Cheers,

A.

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