Role Models
These successful people can be our role models and mentors in life, business, and spirituality.
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8 Lessons from the Book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
There’s one self-development book that has profoundly shaped the way I think of life, success, and productivity. The book is “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey. Covey’s self-help tome has become widely popular and influential in the modern age since its 1989 publication, translated into over 40 languages, and it has become a classic. When I read this book during college, I had an epiphany about how a productive, effective person could be, and it created a framework for personal and professional success based on seven fundamental habits. When I first read the book, I was at a loss as a young adult, and I…
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8 Important Lessons on Business and Life from Kim Kardashian
As much as you like or love her, Kim Kardashian is a force to be reckoned with in the age of television and social media. She and her family used the TV reality wave in the early 2000s to help catapult themselves to fame and finance their businesses and life starting with the E! reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Almost two decades later, Kim Kardashian has multiple business ventures such as KKW Beauty, KKW Fragrance, and SKIMS, including many multi-million dollar business endorsements. What can we learn from Kim Kardashian? The world did not think she would be so successful, we overlooked her drive and ambition, but…
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8 Lessons from A Reluctant Businessman: Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia’s Business Philosophy
I encountered Yvon Chouinard many years ago after his talk on business’s moral role in environmental sustainability and immediately bought his book “Let my people go surfing. The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.” “Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.” — Yvon Chouinard “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” — Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman The word ‘reluctant’…
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8 Essential Points from Li Ka-Shing’s Best Financial Advice
Li Ka-Shing’s incredible story is an inspiration. As a person who started life in poverty and eventually becoming one of the wealthiest businessmen in Asia, he is now a self-made billionaire. Li Ka-Shing imparts one of the best financial advice ever. This advice is so magnificently simple and effective everyone can learn from it. Here are eight essential points. 1. Divide Your Monthly Income Into Sets of Funds. No matter your monthly income, divide it strategically into five sets of funds: Living Expenses (30%) – “Live simply. Eat a basic breakfast. Eat a basic lunch. Eat a basic dinner. While you are young, you are still strong and adaptable-…
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8 Lesson from Cal Newport’s book “Deep Work.”
Cal Newport writes in his book Deep Work that committing to focus on a cognitively demanding task is the meaning of deep work. The book is enlightening. We live in a distracting world full of email interruptions, popup notifications, Instagram updates, and other social media mind clutterers. Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World If we learn to focus our brains on a singular task, deep work becomes a superpower. 1. Deep Work vs. Shallow Work Cal Newport labels two types of work, one that requires a lot of brainpower, he calls this cognitively demanding task “deep work,” and the other is a non-cognitively demanding (can…
