Back when I was at the very early stages of building my planning practice I was of necessity deeply ensconced in learning to sell. After all, nobody else was going to do the selling for me. Therefore I had to dive pretty deeply into the literature of sales. Of course it exists. There's a literature for everything.
One of the content creators (I hesitate to call them writers since writing isn't really their point per se) who made the biggest impression on my was a guy named Brian Tracy, who is the ultimate white guy from central casting (says the pot, calling the kettle black). Not all of his oeuvre stands out, but some of it does.
One of the things he advocated in his book The Psychology of Achievement was that people should get up and jot down 10-15 ideas first thing in the morning, while the brain was the freshest and least inhibited. I never quite got to doing that. My morning routine has been meditation/stretching/strength then reading then later writing my blog, which sometimes suffers from the hungry attention hippo of DuoLingo. But my reading, and perhaps my routine as a whole, has gotten a little stale. Perhaps it's time to change it up a little.
2 comments:
Brian Tracy!
I spent way way too many years looking down at self-help books from Tracy and others. Then I actually read a book by Brian Tracy. It was fantastic. Then I read another, and another. How easy it is to waste time in snobbishness.
That (unsurprisingly) actually sounds like good advice from him, too!
I didn't know him to disdain him earlier in life, but I had a similar experience with Steven Covey of "Seven Habits" fame, which I was sure was beneath me when I saw it on my mom's shelf but then later read it and realized it was very solid
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