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The Top Online Courses on Self-Improvement
A compilation of the top online courses on self-improvement.
Summary Notes from Sell Like Crazy by Sabri Suby
Summary notes from the book Sell Like Crazy by Sabri Suby. A great read for anyone seeking to drive tremendous sales using modern digital channels.
The Now
Our minds are constantly racing between an unchangeable past and an imaginary future. In the process, we ignore the only real thing there is – The Now. All our fears, anxieties, worries, stress and other forms of negativity all stem from an inability of our minds to remain present in the current moment.
Viral Content
Everyone wants to create viral content, but only a few succeed. While there is no guaranteed method or set-formulae that helps make content viral, there are very clearly some elements that significantly increase the chances of your content going viral, while missing these is a clear recipe for a lack of virality.
Energy
Everything, including ourselves, is energy. Being energy, we vibrate at a particular frequency, that is determined by our thoughts, feelings and emotions. This frequency attracts things (people, situations, results) that also operate at a similar frequency. By learning to control your energy, you can control what you attract to yourself.
Fact, Fiction & Biases
We like to think that we make our decisions logically and based on facts. The truth however is vastly different. Our actual decision making is far from scientific, and is subject to a whole variety of biases, external influences, emotions, psychological and other factors that often have little to do with a logical interpretation of information at hand.
Massive Action
To achieve extraordinary levels of success in your life, it is essential that you are prepared to take Massive Action and operate at levels of action that are far beyond average. Massive Action creates a momentum of it’s own, that makes virtually anything achievable.
Non-fiction
Writing non-fiction is a different skill from writing fiction, and works most effectively when you focus on writing that can help a person achieve a desired outcome.
Commitment & Perseverance
Perseverance is the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. You are sure to come up against obstacles, challenges, doubts and failures as you progress towards your goals. People who succeed persevere with their efforts no matter how hard the challenges, while others give up on their dreams once the going gets too tough.
Being Busy
People get so tied down in getting things done, that they often lose sight of what it the real outcome (or value) of all the things that they are doing. Being Busy is often a sign of a person who has not prioritized his/her activities and is working on low-value repetitive tasks, with little to show in terms of results. There is no virtue in being busy. What matters are your results.
Negotiation tips
Experienced negotiators use a set of techniques, skills and etiquette to ensure that they manage to extract a favourable outcome from almost any negotiation. These techniques and skill can be used in any negotiation and situation – from family discussions, pay raises, negotiation with clients or vendors, bargaining while purchasing something and more.
What is meditation?
Meditation means different things for different people. For some, it is a technique, while for others meditation is a way of life. Is it a return to your true nature, a focus on your inner rather than your outward world, a way to relax and gain peace or the ability to sit and do nothing at all. What’s your answer?
The Right Guru
There is a vast difference in the quality of learning we get from different teachers. When it comes to learning new concepts, always seek out the best-in-the-field to learn from, the higher cost will pay itself back multifold given that the benefits will stay with us for a lifetime.
Know Your Customer / Reader
It is essential that you have a strong understanding of your customer or reader, in order to be able to tailor make your content to resonate with them. You need to understand who they are (their age, sex, demographic profile), their interests, what stage of the journey they are on and more to be able to make your communication a success.
Good Debt vs Bad Debt
We have been brought up to view debt as ‘bad’, and typically focus on trying to ‘get out of debt’. Yet debt is often used by the rich to get richer faster, by using ‘someone else’s money’. There is a clear difference between ‘bad debt’ and ‘good debt’. Bad debt is used for consumption, while good debt is used to create assets.