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How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired
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"The first few choices you make each morning determine whether you'll be productive and mindful all day, or whether the world will clobber you over the head."
Marie Kondo performs a quick tidying ritual to quiet her mind before leaving the house. The president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Ed Catmull, mixes three shots of espresso with three scoops of cocoa powder and two sweeteners. Fitness expert Jillian Michaels doesn't set an alarm, because her five-year-old jolts her from sleep by jumping into bed for a cuddle every morning.
Part instruction manual, part someone else's diary, My Morning Routine features interviews with 64 of today's most successful people - including three-time Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, and General Stanley McChrystal - and offers advice on creating a routine of your own.
Some routines are all about early morning exercise and spartan living; others are more leisurely and self-indulgent. What they have in common is they don't feel like a chore. Once you land on the right routine, you'll look forward to waking up.
This comprehensive guide will show you how to get into a routine that works for you so that you can develop the habits that move you forward. Just as a Jenga stack is only as sturdy as its foundational blocks, the choices we make throughout our day depend on the intentions we set in the morning. Like it or not, our morning habits form the stack that our whole day is built on.
Whether you want to boost your productivity, implement a workout or meditation routine, or just learn to roll with the punches in the morning, this book has you covered.
Read by Will Damron, Kaleo Griffith, Dominic Hoffman, Hillary Huber, Sumalee Montano, Arthur Morey, Fred Sanders, and Karissa Vacker
©2018 Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander (P)2018 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Life Is What You Make It
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- By: Peter Buffett
- Narrated by: Peter Buffett
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction? You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless privilege. But the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes.
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My new all-time favorite book
- By K.Indira nagaveni on 06-06-17
By: Peter Buffett
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How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
- By: Robert Shemin
- Narrated by: Robert Shemin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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In How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? best-selling author Robert Shemin reveals for the first time the inner-circle secrets of the mega-wealthy. Have you ever wondered why some people attract wealth while others stay financially trapped and in debt? The key is wealth-friendly, upside-down thinking. Stick with all the old moneymaking rules and stay broke. Break them and get rich. This is the audiobook that shows you how.
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Pretty interesting.
- By Mottoman on 07-08-09
By: Robert Shemin
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Get Out of Your Own Way
- How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Life
- By: Larry Winget
- Narrated by: Larry Winget
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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You think you know what you want in life. You've tried to achieve those things. But if you still don't have them, the culprit may be closer than you think. In this perspective-altering program, the world-renowned Pitbull of Personal Development(tm), Larry Winget, exposes the things you are doing right now to unknowingly prevent your own success in the most important areas of your life.
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Was just OK
- By KatieReviewsStuff on 01-30-17
By: Larry Winget
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Habit of Winning
- By: Prakash Iyer
- Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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This motivational audiobook is a wonderful collection of short and inspirational stories and facts that have the power to evoke the leader within oneself. Be it a student or a manager, this audiobook is for everyone and for all ages.
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India market focus and heavy on cricket and sports
- By Mike Mc on 03-22-19
By: Prakash Iyer
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The Road to Better Habits, Updated and Expanded
- A Simple Framework for Transforming Your Habits
- By: Darius Foroux
- Narrated by: Darius Foroux
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Covid-19 has changed our habits whether we like to admit it or not. We've become more distracted than ever, which is impacting every aspect of our lives. In this updated and expanded version of The Road to Better Habits, you’ll learn how to transform your habits in a simple way. Ultimately, where you are in your life is a result of your habits. The American historian and philosopher, Will Durant, said it best: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
By: Darius Foroux
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The Book of Minds
- How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them—including in plants, aliens, and God—Philip Ball pulls the pieces together to explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe.
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The book was like an engrossing conversation but the delivery of
- By JamesW on 11-15-22
By: Philip Ball
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The Five Times I Met Myself
- By: James L. Rubart
- Narrated by: James Rubart
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Brock Matthews’ once promising life is unraveling. His coffee company. His marriage. So when he discovers his vivid dreams—where he encounters his younger self—might let him change his past mistakes, he jumps at the chance. The results are astonishing, but also disturbing. Because getting what Brock wants most in the world will force him to give up the one thing he doesn’t know how to let go...and his greatest fear is that it’s already too late.
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Good story if you can get past the proselytizing
- By Layla on 10-01-24
By: James L. Rubart
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Ek Chota Sa Kadam Aapki Zindagi Badal Sakta Hai [One Small Step Can Change Your Life]
- By: Robert Maurer
- Narrated by: Vishal Thakur
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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As anyone who uses the Kaizen technique will endorse, the aforesaid understanding cannot get any further away from the truth. What is Kaizen? Kaizen is an effortless, simple and inevitable way to change one's life. In this book, Dr. Robert Maurer, a renowed author, psychologist and world famous Kaizen expert introduces the listeners to an extremely powerful transformative technique. The book sets out a step-by-step system for anyone to achieve any change in her/his life, be it big or small.
By: Robert Maurer
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Unapologetically Ambitious
- Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
- By: Shellye Archambeau, Ben Horowitz - foreword
- Narrated by: Shellye Archambeau, Dan Triandiflou
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for fans of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success.
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A Must for Every Ambitious Professional
- By Jasper W. Kuria on 12-30-20
By: Shellye Archambeau, and others
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This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order
- By: John Schwartz
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Money management is one of our most practical survival skills - and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order is the audiobook that everyone who has never wanted a preachy financial guide has been waiting for.
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Spot On
- By Sheryl Garrett on 04-12-18
By: John Schwartz
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
- How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach
- By: Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Schmidt
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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In this book, The Boston Consulting Group's Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha offer a proven method to determine the strategy approach that is best for your company. They start by helping you assess your business environment—how unpredictable it is, how much power you have to change it, and how harsh it is—a critical component of getting strategy right.
By: Martin Reeves, and others
Inspiring
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Insightful
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inspiring
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Good Reference but drones on
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I have loved my own mornings after listening
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This book has helped me define a new one and I have stopped feeling like a slug and am doing things I hadn’t made time for previously, which bring me joy today. I found the first chapters, the conclusion, and the stats most helpful. (The parenting portion does not apply anymore, so I skipped it.).
Planning the night before is the way to go, but hours before bed so your mind isn’t reviewing what you just planned while you’re under the sheets.
Such stories were helpful. If I were to recommend any ideas to the authors it would be to include a few people who don’t drink smoothies or eat kale and spinach tofu wraps with a homemade fresh organic balsamic vinegar (just an example) and avocado for lunch. (Unless that’s the target audience).
I imagine there were many interviewed who did not make it into the book. Almost all of the contributors practiced a zen/yoga focused meditation. One or two practitioners of Judaism/Christianity would also be useful. (To be fair I did not listen to each story).
But yes, if you’ve had a big life change, or struggle with attention distractions, then creating a routine will benefit you, and this book definitely helped me. It sparked enthusiasm in me.
I recommend it.
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Need a Routine?
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Enjoyable but somewhat one noted
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Interesting Insights
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Realistic for Real People?
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Interesting, but perhaps a bit overkill
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