Are you reading? Are you listening?

Are you reading 10 pages a day and listening to 15 minutes of a good audio every day?  Think about it! If you do that for a year, you'll have read at least 3650 pages..that's 12 or more good books. Put good stuff in if you want to grow and development in all areas of your life.  And I highly recommend this book to start with. I've read it once and am getting ready to read it again.

Getting healthy together!

Anne Dovel
www.beachbodycoach.com/annedovel
402-613-6468

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen
Do you find yourself missing the one thing in life that would help you achieve a desired goal, realize a long-held dream, or push you up the ladder to success? Then The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson is the book for you!

Successful entrepreneur and motivational speaker Jeff Olson provides you with The Slight Edge Philosophy—the secret for putting yourself on the path to success. He'll teach you how to invest in your own personal development and show you how it is the little steps you make that yield the most dramatic life results.

In this inspirational book, you'll learn the secrets for enhancing all aspects of your life: your health, your finances, your personal relationships, and your family life.

90 Day Personal Development Challenge

I just picked up the October 2009 issue of Success Magazine at the bookstore and it is packed with great stuff. I have a subscription, but I saw this on the stand earlier this week and I had to have it. 


3 weeks ago, I made a commitment to read or listen to a good personal development book or audio for 10 minutes a day. 10 minutes! Seems pretty insignificant when you think of it. What can 10 minutes do? 


One of the books I'm reading is The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson .  I started to realize that it's not the big thunderclap events that shape our lives. It's a series of small, seemingly insignificant actions and decisions compounded over time for good or bad results. That goes for any area of your life. 


Jeff reminded me that if I have a cheeseburger and fries today, it's not going to make me gain 20 pounds this week. It's not going to cause instant heart disease, this week. But 20 years of that kind of habit, will cause deterioration in my health and might result in me having to pay someone $15,000 per stent to open my blocked arteries. And we often don't see that right now. Sure, we see it in other people. But I'm 44. I've got time, right? Problem is we think that and before we know it 20 years has passed. Back to...


10 minutes! Jeff Olson reminded me in his book that 10 minutes might not change your life today. But what if you read 10 minutes or listen 10 minutes every day for the next year?  Or maybe just the next 90 days? That's 900 minutes. 


This simple concept really hit me. I knew that personal development needed to be an ongoing habit. But I would grab a book and get overwhelmed feeling like I had to make it all the way through that book, reading chapters at a time.  There was a problem with that for me. 1. I am a busy mom. I don't have hours and hours to sit, uninterrupted.   2. I can't absorb that much because my mind is just going a million miles a minute sometimes. 3. I can't think of a 3 right now, but you really can't start a sequence and end it with 2.    


Now when I look at the book or magazine on my desk, I look at the clock. Okay. 10 minutes. Now I don't have the excuse not to pick up the book thinking the next chapter just looked too long for the time I had. Just 10 minutes!


Success Magazine will last you for a couple of weeks' worth of 10 minute readings! Plus, it comes with a free cd/dvd. I searched XMradio one day for a personal development channel, but I must not have a big enough plan. So I fill my cd player with Success magazine cds. And their website is also full of lots of free articles and tips too. I've also listed some other resources I've come across lately in the bar to the right. 


I'm going to tell you already, in just 3 weeks' time, I've become more productive and what I need to do in my business has become more clear and I feel like I have more energy. 


Join me in the next 90 days. Challenge yourself to 10 minutes a day. Mark it on your calendar along with your daily workouts. Then come back at the end of 90 days and tell me what happened!


What will your 10 minutes be today?


In this together,


Anne Dovel
5 Star Beachbody Coach
CoachYouFit Inc
anne@coachyoufit.com


*I can help you start your own successful Beachbody business.

What traits do successful people have in common?

Watch this interview with Tony Robbins, Frank Kern and John Reese.

"So the purpose of this interview is to uncover the traits that successful people have in common. Specifically, the traits that cause them to take massive action and follow through. As you’ll see, the solution is really quite simple and available to us all."

If you want to become better, you need to keep growing and learning. And if you want to be successful, then learn from the successful people! This is a great interview. I've kept the window minimized so I can pull it up and listen to 5-10 minutes at a time.

You need to read a good personal development book or listen to a good audio at least 10 minutes a day!

At first it might seem silly. How is 10 minutes a day going to change anything in my life? Well, maybe not today. But what if you do it consistently for the next 365 days? That will make a difference!

Some books I recommend:

Go for No!

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell

The Bible

Success Magazine

Just start reading or listening.. 10 minutes a day and see what happens! I've been faithful to this for the last 3 weeks and it's making an impact on my life already!

Anne