True success is just three things: health, relationships, and time. All are important, all are needed. 

Purpose drives action. Never forget that your purpose needs to be aligned with the purpose. The right actions bring out the right feelings. When alignment is in place, everything connects, everything works, and our souls feel better. 

If you spend time with people, forgive them, and then focus on the good – the relationship has to improve. 

We all know we need to take care of our physical health. 

We all know we need to take care of our mental health.

The best way to improve our physical health is through movement and proper nutrition. 

For our mental health, we need human connection and growth. 

Reading is one of the tools that can help us grow. The more we grow, the better our life becomes. 

Here are 7 (Seven) ways reading helps us have a better life (as proven by science) when we read, we:

• Train our brains

• Acquire valuable knowledge

• Reduce anxiety and stress

• Improve our ability to focus

• Develop our communication skills

• Enhance our memories

• Boost our willingness to sympathize, show compassion, and empathize

Added all together reading helps us improve our emotional and mental well-being. When we actively read with a purpose, we are in a better position to help others while also helping ourselves. 

Every year I physically read or listen to about 100 books. Every year I reflect on what I have studied and determine which books have helped me the most and which books will also help others. 

Here are the lists from the last few years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019). 

These are the non-fiction books that helped me the most in 2023: 

1. The Negativity Fast by Anthony Iannarino

2. The Art of Active Listening by 💜Heather R Younger

3. Silence The Imposter by Gary Frey

4. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

5. First Time Manager: Sales by Mike Weinberg

6. Promoted by Bret Barrie

7. Engagement by Kyle Crooke

8. Shift & Distrupt by Bernadette McClelland

9. 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Benjamin Hardy, PhD & Dan Sullivan

10. Build The Life You Want by Arthur C Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

Honorable mentions, another 12 that I wish I could have put in the top 10:

11. The Ultimate LinkedIn Messaging Guide by Daniel Disney

12. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

13. Cyrus The Great by Larry Hedrick 

14. The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson

15. The Secrets of Next-Level Entrepreneurs by Alex Brueckmann

16. The Power of Value Selling by Julie Thomas

17. The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Misha Talavera

18. The Sovereign Individual by James Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

19. Rapid Mass Engamenet by Frank Devine

20. Disciplined Entrenuership by Bill Aulet

21. What A Unicorn Knows by Matthew May & 🦄Pablo Dominguez

22. How To Start a Sales Rebellion by Dale Dupree & Jeffery Villegas

Depression is often caused by a lack of growth. When we are stagnant, not fulfilling our purpose, not growing, not having goals, and not accomplishing things – then we can start to feel depressed.

Embrace your emotions,

to control your feelings.

Eat your fear,

to bridle your adrenaline.

Act on your inspiration,

to unleash your potential.

Others can’t fix us. 

Never could, never can, never will. 

yet… 

Our connection to others allows us to fix ourselves. 

Love is always a choice. Love is proven in action. 

We love ideas, which help us create more ideas and then we act on those ideas. 

Love is not an action we do “to someone”, but rather love is something we do “for someone”.

Often, we think we need to prove our love or show our love, but those actions are usually just selfish, or done to be seen as loving. True actions of love are doing what the other person needs and wants, not what we think is needed or wanted. 

 

When you keep doing the work, when keep showing up with intention, you will find the answers and solutions. Action plus reflection creates useful experience. Experience when combined with now-experienced action drives the work that brings the right solutions. 

Most people underestimate themselves and overestimate the abilities of others. 

This is twisted. 

Usually, the reverse is true. 

You are stronger than you think.