Uncle Nappy's Book Club

How to Get the Power You Need as an Entrepreneur

patrickriddle — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:24:39 +0000

This excerpt from Dan Kennedy’s No B.S. Business Success book reminded me of when I was at Clemson University, and Wal-mart wanted to build about a mile off campass. Clemson is known for being a “small town” and people thought this would jeopardize some of the small businesses that had been there for years. I love Kennedy’s viewpoint. As quoted from the book:

“The power you need and can have as an entrepreneur comes from eschewing all excuses never blaming the economy, the government, the competition, the timing, your parents, your school, or anything or anyone else for anything. Ultimate power comes from accepting total responsibility. When you believe as I do that circumstances control other people but not me, then circumstances won’t control you either.

A very common occurrence in America in recent years has been Wal-mart coming into a town and lots of little mom-’n-pop businesses rolling over and dying. Their owners blame Wal-mart. There have been protest marches. Books written. Much handwringing about behemoth Wal-mart destroying small businesses left and right. Al utter and total B.S. And when Wal-mart came to their towns. Why? Because they didn’t embrace the excuse for failure.They re-engineered their businesses to do what the giant won’t, to compete in a different way.”

Quotes from William James, Emerson, and More : Personal Development Book Club

patrickriddle — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:42:41 +0000

Here is a small collection of great quotes Brian Tracy disperses throughout Maximum Achievement:

“Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Belief creates actual fact.” – William James

“If you believe you can do a thing, or if you believe you cannot, in either case, you are right.” – Henry Ford

“What you are shouts at me so loudly, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest revolution of my life is the discovery that individuals can change the outer aspects of their lives by changing the inner attitudes of their minds.” – William James

“Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.” – Epictetus

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare

“A man can bear any what if he has a big enough why.” – Nietzsche

Brian Tracy’s Maximum Achievement : The 7 Laws of Mental Mastery

patrickriddle — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:27:35 +0000

Brian Tracy breaks it down and says there are two types of laws in the universe: man-made laws and natural laws. You can break man made laws and get away with it sometime but not natural laws. Break those and face the consequences.

He goes on to divide natural laws into two categories: physical and mental laws. If you are using the 7 mental mastery laws to your advantage, success is the only path.

Here are the Mental Laws directly quoted from the book:

The Law of Control – You feel positive about yourself to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your life, and you feel negative about yourself to the degree to which you feel that you are not in control, or that you are controlled by some external force, person or influence.
The Law of Cause and Effect – For every effect in your life there is a specific cause. If you have an effect in your life that you do not enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.
The Law of Belief - Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality. William James of Harvard said, “Belief creates the actual fact.”
The Law of Expectations – Whatever you expect with confidence becomes your own self-fulfulling prophecy.
The Law of Attraction – You are a living magnet. You invariably attract into your life people and situations in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
The Law of Correspondence – It says, “As within, so without.” It says that your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.
The Law of Mental Equivalency - Thoughts objectify themselves. Your thoughts, vividly imagined adn repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

Welcome to the First Online Personal Development Book Club on the Planet

patrickriddle — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:08:08 +0000

Check out the About the Book Club page to get the run down.

When getting started as an entrepreneur at 22, after reading a hand full of personal development books, I devoted my life to constant and never ending improvement. One of the things that was drilled into my head was that ultimately you become what you read and whom you associate with.

Thus, Uncle Nappy’s Book Club was formed and still lives on today. We just finished reading and discussing Think & Grow Rich again. You can never get enough of the classics. They always seem to bring clarity to life and business.

I will be adding a “This Weeks Assignment” Widget soon but for now…

This Weeks Assignment: Read the first 86 pages of Maximum Achievement, by Brian Tracy, by next Wednesday.

Depending on the thickness of the book, we break up the reading into a several parts. For instance, we will be reading Maximum Achievement in 4 weeks or 4 parts. We just did Think & Grow Rich in 3 weeks.

I would like to encourage you to comment and take part in the active discussion as you read. It is always enlightening to hear how the different ideas and principals from the books we read correlate to everyone’s experience in the real world.

We are now your accountability partner for success! I look forward to growing mentally and financially with you!