Book Review – The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Author: Tim Ferriss

Sonya’s Review: I had heard of the 4 Hour Work Week for quite a while before I decided to read it. It is this huge big book full of amazing information that we could all implement into our businesses 🙂

I only ever succeeded at implementing one of the ideas and it changed this so much for me. He spoke about the fact that when we try to make appintments with poeple we go back wards and forwards trying to come up with a date and time that suites us both, and this takes up way too much time. He recommended implementing an online diary that people could book in. So if someone mentioned they wanted to have a meeting with you, you just send them a link to yur diary and they book themselves in. This literally changed my life 🙂

There are so many other great ideas and I will eventually implement them all 🙂

And yes, definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

If your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management or just living more and working less then this audiobook is the blueprint. Forget your tired, old retirement concepts and throw out that deferred-life plan – there’s no need to wait and every reason not to. You can have it all! This audiobook is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Start living now!

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Book Review – Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate

Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate

Author: Dan Miller and Jared Angaza

Sonya’s Review: As I have mentioned previously, Dan Miller is someone who I really admire and love all his works, his books, his podcasts and his courses. I read this book after listening to his other book 48 Days to the Work You love. This was the first time I had been ‘introduced’ to Jared Angaza, Dan’s son and I was really taken with him. He has since released an amazing podcast and is doing amzing things 🙂

I love that this book talks about having wisdom, combining it with passion and achieving success 🙂 its a really cool book and I highly recommend that you read it 🙂

And yes, definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

Wisdom without passion is a Ferrari with no gas in the tank. Passion without wisdom is a tricked-out 57 Chevy with no steering wheel. Baby Boomers have relied on wisdom to pave the way to success. Education, knowledge, investing strategies, 401(k)s, real estate leverage, and carefully contrived career paths were expected to lead to success in the golden years. Seeing the overall failure of that formulaic approach to life, younger generations today have relied on passion as the guiding principle for their version of success.

Yet both are necessary. Regardless of age, those using only wisdom to achieve their goals are likely to end up disappointed and unfulfilled, feeling as though they have been chasing empty rainbows. Those trusting passion alone may lose the power of wisdom and end up underachieving, falling short of their potential, and unable to attain their worthy goals. In Wisdom Meets Passion, best-selling author Dan Miller and his entrepreneurial son Jared Angaza show how to blend the two, equipping readers to accomplish their greatest goals, experience the thrill of fulfilling relationships, create meaningful work, and complete their purpose and calling here on earth no matter which age group they represent.

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Book Review – Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don’t Waste Your Time and Money

Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don’t Waste Your Time and Money

Author: Pat Flynn

Sonya’s Review: I have been listening to Pat Flynn’s two podcasts for a really long time and love everything he does 🙂 So when he released this book it was only natural that I purchased the hard copy and the audio copy 🙂

Anything to do with starting a business interests me, anything that Pat writes about interests me, so those two together were always going to work 🙂

His concept is quite a good one and the free course that he has that goes along with the book is awesome, I have personally done it 🙂

Have a read and let me know your thoughts 😉

Most definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

Stop rushing into businesses born from half-baked ideas, misguided theories, and other forms of self-delusion. A lack of proper validation kills more businesses than anything else. As Joel Barker says, “Speed is only useful if you’re running in the right direction.” Will It Fly? will help you make sure you are clear for takeoff.

It answers questions like:

Does your business idea have merit?
Will it succeed in the market you’re trying to serve, or will it just be a waste of time and resources?
Is it a good idea for you?

In other words, will it fly?

Chock-full of practical suggestions you can apply to your business idea today, Will It Fly? combines action-based exercises, small-scale “litmus tests”, and real-world case studies with anecdotes from the author’s personal experience of making money online, hosting successful podcasts, testing niche sites, and launching several online businesses.

Will It Fly? will challenge you to think critically, act deliberately, and dare greatly. You can think of the book as your business flight manual, something you can refer to for honest and straight-forward advice as you begin to test your idea and build a business that takes off and soars.

In five parts, Will It Fly? will guide you through the validation of your next business idea:

Part one, Mission Design, helps you make sure your target idea aligns with and supports your goals.
Part two, Development Lab, walks you through uncovering important details about your idea that you haven’t thought about.
Part three, Flight Planning, is all about assessing current market conditions.
Part four, Flight Simulator, focuses on the actual validating and testing of an idea with a small segment of a target market.
Finally, Part five, All Systems Go, is to help you make sure your idea after all that will fly!

Please Note: Additional materials for this audiobook can be accessed at willitflybook.com/course

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Book Review – Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry

Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry

Author: Daniel Priestly

Sonya’s Review: So this is a fairly new book that has been added to my, must keep reading time and time again list 🙂

I had read one of Daniels other books – Oversubscribed and loved it. Then a friend of mine introduced me to Michael Clarke as he was coming to Cairns to do a seminar on the Key Person Of Influence. Michael and I caught up and I went to the seminar, listened to the book and totally fell in love with the concept.

I have been telling everyone about this book and even have the privildge of giving some of them away to people 🙂

Read it, and become a Key Person of Influence in your industry 🙂

Definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence.

This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook.

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Book Review – The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

Author: Michael E. Gerber

Sonya’s Review: Ok, so when I say that You Were Born Rich was my first book that I started with, I totally forgot about this one. I was given The E-Myth by my first business coach back in 2004. I read it, I instantly fell in love with it. 🙂

I am a systems person, I love going from business to business helping them implement systems.

I have read this book time and time again and it is so right in everything. I have seen businesses go from start up to adolescent and then go backwards as they don’t know how to grow. Implementing systems is the best way to overcome this. 🙂

Have a read, then do a systems analysis of your business (or get me to do one for you 🙂 )

Definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

In this edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed, and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have listened to The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

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Book Review – The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need

The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need

Author: Scott Pape

Sonya’s Review: A friend gave me this book to read in a hard copy and at the time I couldn’t get it on audible so I started reading it on the plane when I was travelling once. Most books make be fall asleep, which is why I listen to them instead 🙂 BUT this book kept me rivieted for the whole 3.5 hours that I was on the plane.

I then brought it for all my family for Christmas, joined a facebook group of other people reading it and generally told everyone about it. 🙂 I have had friend buy the book for the family as well 🙂

Like most of my books, this is a guide to changing some part of your life, and this is about your finances. Read it, follow it and have success 🙂

As you can guess, definitely a MUST read type of book 🙂

*****

Publisher’s Summary

Fully revised and updated for the 2019-2020 financial year

This is the only money guide you’ll ever need.

That’s a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves.

So what makes this one different?

Well, you won’t be overwhelmed with a bunch of “tips” or a strict budget (that you won’t follow).

You’ll get a step-by-step formula: open this account, then do this; call this person, and say this; invest money here and not there. All with a glass of wine in your hand.

This book will show you how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette…and you’ll be able to manage your money in 10 minutes a week.

You’ll also get the skinny on:

Saving up a six-figure house deposit in 20 months
Doubling your income using the Trapeze Strategy
Saving $78,173 on your mortgage and wiping out seven years of payments
Finding a financial advisor who won’t rip you off
Handing your kids (or grandkids) $140,000 checks on their 21st birthdays
Why you don’t need $1 million to retire…with the Donald Bradman Retirement Strategy

Sound too good to be true? It’s not.

This book is full of stories from everyday Aussies – single people, young families, empty nesters, retirees – who have applied the simple steps in this book and achieved amazing, life-changing results.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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