2000 Books for Ambitious Entrepreneurs - Author Interviews and Book Summaries

1) How to design our days so that we give our very best when we are at work? 2) How can we enjoy guilt free play? 3) How to stop feeling like yet another day just went by without any real sense of progress and fulfillment? 4) Why Hard edges are important in our days 5) Moving from compulsive to conscious behavior

Perfectionism can be our biggest enemy - because it hinders us from TAKING ACTION. If we wait for the perfect moment to take perfect action, we can end up waiting forever and lose out in the game of business and in life. In today’s interview I will endeavor to learn why we need to abandon perfectionism and how we can become much more ACTION oriented by embracing Imperfectionism. Get this Audiobook for free at: http://www.2000books.com/free 90 day Mental Toughness Course: http://www.2000books.com/tough

Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip. It’s essential to be pitch perfect—to get the right message across to the right person at the right time. We cover: 1) The importance of Preparation 2) The pasta sauce principle 3) Importance of Certainty 4) How to deliver the perfect pitch under high pressure.

Big Ideas: 1) Why slow is fast and fast is slow? 2) You can't connect with people when you are going fast. 3) Thinking fast and thinking slow 4) Controlling the Rhythms of life 5) Action Items

How do we move from blame, fear and victim mindset to radical responsibility, trust and empowerment? 3 commitments we discuss: 1) Taking Radical Responsibility 2) Learning through curiosity 3) Feeling all the feelings   Jim Dethemer is a Co-Founder of the Conscious Leadership Group (CLG) a leadership consulting and training organization. Throughout his career, Jim has coached leaders from Fortune 500 companies to early stage entrepreneur. Today we are talking about his outstanding book: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

Key Ideas : (1) Plant the right seeds: Don’t waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. (2)Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst. (3)Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and over deliver on every single promise.

How can we sell more by selling less? Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new business approach that cuts through the clut­ter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life. Jay Baer provides a groundbreaking plan for using information and helpfulness to transform the relationship between companies and customers.

Originals are made - NOT BORN. They don’t have better ideas than their peers. They just keep trying and trying. Einstein had 248 other papers that nobody knows about. Edison had 1000 patents BUT only 6 that really matter. Originals try a lot of ideas to get to a few good ones. Quantity and Quality are correlated. Originals persist instead of quitting. That’s the biggest difference. Dean Simonton’s research: Originals are not better. They just produce more work. Odds of producing an influential or successful idea are positively correlated to the total number of ideas generated. Periods when we generate the most ideas are when we also create the best ideas.

The obstacles that we think prevent us from realizing our deepest wishes can actually lead to their fulfillment. Starry-eyed dreaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and as it turns out, dreamers are not often doers. While optimism can help us alleviate immediate suffering and persevere in challenging times, merely dreaming about the future actually makes people more frustrated and unhappy over the long term and less likely to achieve their goals. In fact, the pleasure we gain from positive fantasies allows us to fulfill our wishes virtually, sapping our energy to perform the hard work of meeting challenges and achieving goals in real life. Based on her groundbreaking research and large-scale scientific studies, Oettingen introduces a new way to visualize the future, calledmental contrasting. It combines focusing on our dreams with visualizing the obstacles that stand in our way. By experiencing our dreams in our minds and facing reality we can address our fears, make concrete plans, and gain energy to take action.

Kristen Neff, an associate professor at the University of Texas and a pioneer in self-compassion research, dives deep into the transformative power of kindness toward ourselves. She discusses how self-compassion helps those facing failures, encouraging an inner ally rather than an enemy. The conversation highlights key components like mindfulness and the importance of a supportive inner dialogue that fosters resilience. Neff also shares practical strategies for integrating self-compassion into daily life, aiming to nurture emotional well-being and personal growth.