Name: 6 Books That Completely Changed My Life
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we have done several book
recommendation videos.

that's gonna be six books that
changed my life personally.

Now, these six books aren't gonna be books

that I think are the
best reads in the world,

but they are books that
had at least one idea,

that actually changed
the trajectory of my life

or the way that I act or
think on a daily basis.

And as you can see from
this stack of books here,

because I do own some of these digitally.

So, with that being said,
let's get into my list here,

starting with one of the
books that I own digitally,

One of the main concepts that
I remember from that book

one of the fundamental
truths in habit building,

And a lot of people don't understand this.

And what Nick Winter says
to do in the book instead

is to start with a goal
that you can track,

called pre-commitment and the
examples from his own life

on how he used it to achieve
some pretty big goals.

Essentially, the idea
of pre-commitment means

that you set up consequences
that are gonna happen

if you fail to do something
that you set out to do.

And one of my favorite
YouTubers, Boyinaband,

which I think is a fantastic
name of the concept.

In the book, the author talks
about two different goals

that he was having a lot
of trouble achieving.

One was skydiving, because
he was very afraid to do it,

and the other one, ironically,
was finishing the book,

So what he did to achieve
both of those goals

which is a habit tracker that
actually has you bet money,

if you fail to be
consistent on your habits.

And he went hard core
with his Beeminder goals.

He took half of his wealth for each goal.

I think he had $14,000
to his name at the time,

so he bet $7,000 that he
would write a certain amount

and he also bet $7,000
that he would go skydiving.

he both went skydiving
and finished the book

And that is the thing that
really changed my life.

Because up until then, I had
sort of viewed my business

and, as a result, my business
had kind of plateaued

and I told myself I was going
to put out one blog post

and one podcast episode every single week,

otherwise, I was going to
lose money on Beeminder.

And, as a result, my business
actually started to grow.

Putting consistent effort
on a day-to-day basis

was the catalyst for
that change in my life.

is The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People by Stephen Covey.

in the history of personal
development books,

that really did make a
pretty big impact on my life.

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