What Is Your One Habit?
I recently read The One Thing by Gary Keller. It’s an insightful book that can help you get the most out of your life.
The message of the book is simple: you should focus on just one thing that gives you the most impact. Not a few things, but just one thing. So it goes further than the Pareto principle that says you should focus on a few important things. That’s why the book calls its principle extreme Pareto.
A key reason why the approach works is that the most important thing is usually difficult to do. It’s not something we are comfortable doing. It’s not something we would naturally do. As a result, we tend...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs
8 Timeless Life Lessons from Warren Buffett
I recently read Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules. It’s a book about Warren Buffett’s investing principles in his partnership years (1956 – 1970), the years before Berkshire Hathaway. The idea of the book is that he managed a relatively small sum back then so the principles are more applicable to individual investors.
The book is an investing book, but also I learned life lessons from it. Here are eight timeless life lessons from Warren Buffett that can help you get ahead in life:
1. Invest in Your Knowledge
While reading the book, I was impressed by the depth of Buffett’s investing knowledge. He was only 25 years ol...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs
The Mindset That Helps You Avoid Getting Stuck in Life
A while back, I wrote about the mindset for overcoming a fear of failure. The mindset says that the regret of failing is less than the regret of not trying.
Now I’d like to introduce you to a mindset that extends that. I call the mindset the experiment mindset.
What does it mean?
In essence, the experiment mindset means that you are eager to try new things. You don’t just do what you are always doing. Instead, you are eager to try something new.
This mindset is powerful. It can open doors of opportunities for you and change your life.
Here are several things that will happen if you have this mindset:
1. You will become...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Thinking Source Type: blogs
New Course: How to Invest Long-Term in Bitcoin
In my post last week, I mentioned that I was working on an investing course. I’m glad to say that it’s now done! How to Invest Long-Term in Bitcoin is a course that teaches you how to invest with a long-term view in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the hot topic in finance right now for a good reason: it’s increasing fast in value. But many people come to the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies with a short-term mindset; they just want to make a quick buck. This course is different because it takes the long-term view. It’s not about getting rich quick; it’s about how to win the game in the long term.
If ...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Finance Source Type: blogs
How to Rebalance Your Life
In investing, there is something called rebalancing your portfolio. A portfolio has different asset classes in it (such as stocks, bonds, and cash), and there is a particular allocation that best serves your financial goals.
Over time, however, your portfolio might go out of balance. One asset class might outweigh the others because its price increases rapidly. The allocation will then deviate from its ideal.
What should we do then? How can we handle such a situation?
The answer is rebalancing.
Rebalancing is the act of getting the asset allocation back to its ideal. You do it by selling the asset class that’s overweight...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Is Your Favorite Quotation?
I love quotations. They are short but contain a lot of wisdom. They allow us to learn the lessons of life in a concise way. We can learn a lot just from reading and pondering good quotations.
I’m always on the lookout for good quotations, so I’d like to ask you:
What is your favorite quotation?
Let me share mine first. Here is my favorite quotation:
“Say no to good opportunities so that you can say yes to the great ones.”
~ Rick Warren
This quotation has helped me make many decisions in life.
Now, what’s yours? Please share it in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
The Mindset for Overcoming a Fear of Failure
Do you want to live your life to the fullest? If you do, then there is a big obstacle that you need to overcome. That obstacle is fear, and among the different kinds of fear, a major one is a fear of failure.
Imagine putting a lot of effort into something but it doesn’t work. What you get in return is nowhere near your expectations. It wouldn’t feel good, would it?
The problem is, the fear of scenario could prevent you from taking any action at all. And taking no action means making no progress. It means that your life will just stay the same. This, of course, is not the way to live your life to the fullest.
What s...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Deal of the Month: Get 50% Off A Dent in the Universe
I have a deal for you this month: for a limited time, you can get 50% off A Dent in the Universe! To get it, please use the coupon code sep2017 on checkout. The code will expire on September 28.
A Dent in the Universe is an e-book I wrote that contains 36 proven business lessons from Steve Jobs. As you know, Jobs is a legend in the business world who transformed multiple industries. Apple honored his legacy last week by opening the Steve Jobs Theater and launching iPhone X.
If you are thinking about starting a business or already building one, this book can help you do it the right way. It’s a time-saver because then you...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
6 Essential Success Tips from Ray Kroc
A while back, I read Grinding It Out. It tells the fascinating story of how Ray Kroc built McDonald’s.
One interesting thing is that he only started building McDonald’s when he was already 52! You might think that at that age someone’s ‘golden age’ has passed; they wouldn’t build something new, let alone something big. But the story of Ray Kroc proves otherwise. It proves that it’s never too late to build something big in your life.
I learned some success tips from his story. Here they are:
1. Believe That the Best Is Still Ahead of You
How could he make such a big commitment at the time when most people alre...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Working Source Type: blogs
8 Reasons a Fear of Success, Not Failure, Is Holding You Back
It is often assumed that someone who is risk averse and who resists their desire to achieve something does so because they are afraid of failing. In actual fact, there is a second fear that holds people back from striving toward their goals: the fear of success.
It may seem counterintuitive to be afraid of something that so many people spend their entire lives chasing, but success can bring challenges of its own and these can discourage some who may otherwise have the ability to attain it.
They effectively sabotage any chances they may have of fulfilling their potential so as to avoid having to deal with the consequences o...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Steve Waller Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
3 Deadly Myths You Must Know About Stress
Conclusion: staying stress-free should be our number one priority – every day
Because when you’re stress-free, you can think clearly. Your brain becomes creative again. When you’re stress-free, you’re healthier, more likable.
That’s clear… stress is our number 1 enemy.
But, information is useless if you don’t take action.
So now that you have read and understood this information, only one question remains… what will you DO with it?
We will probably never succeed to be 100% stress-free, but every additional stress-free moment makes our lives more fun, more productive, more fulfilling and more rewarding.
Soun...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexander Keehnen Tags: Health Working Source Type: blogs
Corporate Guys: Here Are Few Tips To Become More Professional & Stylish At Work
The word professionalism seems so boring, and unachievable. Everyone who goes out and works majorly thinks giving their best shot during the regular work hours is what professionalism all really is.
But professionalism is so much more than this. It is beyond the bounds of prescribing the most effective drugs or the long list of successfully won cases of a lawyer and apparently much more than the catchy and convincing speech of the salesman.
Ever wonder, why didn’t you like the best-known, specialized expensive doctor you went to? Or why weren’t you convinced when that salesman at the Cosmos asked you to buy the deterge...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tim Tags: Working Source Type: blogs
How to Get Out of a Bad Mood
You know the feeling well. Come on, don’t deny it.
The mounting frustration, the sense that nothing works as it should, everything is irritating and time-consuming. You have no patience, you feel knotted up inside and there’s a slowly enveloping cloud of blackness developing over your head like your own little personal black storm.
Yes, you’re in a bad mood and there’s nothing you can do about it. The day’s ruined and your life’s just a bit crap and why oh why does nobody understand the terrible burdens you, and only you are suffering?!
You rattle on in a cantankerous fury, muttering on ...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Hind Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
