How to Make Books Actionable?

You're reading How to Make Books Actionable?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Have you ever read a book with lots of interesting information but failed to incorporate the message into your everyday life? Upon reading a great book, have you ever been galvanized into taking action but failed to deliver results in the end? We all, in some forms, have such memories. What if you could rekindle those memories and build your life step-by-step to the next level? If you read books on personal development and productivity, you're likely to face a demanding number of ideas to implement into your life. How can you synthetize those ideas into a coherent plan to make them actionable? This post is dedicated to answer such embarrassing questions. Before we dive in, I tell you the obvious secret: Taking action is the key, so we will focus on that. How do I retrieve the takeaway from a book? More and more authors make bonus materials readily available for their readers. Make sure that you check the author's blog or homepage to find bonus materials. Leading authors may provide readers with spreadsheets and action plans as well. This is a good place to start, but it won't work for everybody and can be far from being exhaustive. It's therefore best you take notes and use post it notes to capture essential content. If you're a Kindle power user, you could highlight actionable ...
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