Influence Podcast

One simple hack to goal getting is turning your goals into events, it takes your goals from intention to actions!

Build systems and structures instead of having new year resolutions. With new year resolutions you in the long run lose the momentum and motivation you started out with while with systems and structures, you evolve into a person who doesn’t need new year resolutions to start, stop, and change things!

Cheers to a successful 2022🥂

As much as we focus on what we can get, it is much more important to focus more also on who we become. Who we become focuses on personal growth, building strength of character, and manifesting the right life.  Listen and share with friends! HAPPY MONDAY 🍇

As A Man Thinketh is an essay and self-help classic, which argues that the key to mastering your life is harnessing the power of your thoughts and helps you cultivate the philosophy and attitude of a positive, successful person.

On this episode, Pelumi reviews translating this skill, of being able to have five moves ahead, into a valuable methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of life and business.

In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough to to become alright with not knowing, being wrong, and rethinking our own conventional wisdom. 

In this review of the 1959 classic, The Magic of Thinking Big, Pelumi summarises the book on how it gives several starting points to develop and strengthen the most important trait of successful people: believing in yourself.

In this episode, Pelumi reviews a book that is a concise, practical guide to mastering small choices that determine big outcomes which dictate the course of your life – by best-selling author, publisher, and motivational speaker, Darren Hardy.

Eating the frog means just do it, otherwise, the frog will eat you meaning that you'll end up procrastinating it the whole day. Once that one task is done, the rest of the day will be an easier ride and you will get both momentum and a sense of accomplishment at the beginning of your day. The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, and to finish it comple...

“Make Your Bed“ is the name of both a book and a speech by Admiral William H. McRaven. The book is based on the speech of the same name, which was given at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin on May 17, 2014. Here's my review of the speech transcript and the book too. Link to speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBAqF00gBGk&t=3s)

High Performance Habits is a science-backed plan to living a better quality of life.

An atomic habit is a regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do but is also the source of incredible power; a component of the system of compound growth.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time.

A review of why we do what we do in life and business, from the book by Charles Duhigg

The second review of the book 5 am Club by Robin Sharma.

In this episode, we do a one-time quick review of the book by Robin Sharma; looking t the importance of building an early morning routine, and making time for the self-improvement that you need to attract success.

This episode touches on the importance of enhancing yourself through the four dimensions of renewal; physical, social/emotional, spiritual, and mental.

In this episode, Pelumi talks about the importance of reaching beyond the borderline of differences in perspectives, to create an interdependent reality that gives room for openness and births creativity.

We have to build the skills of empathic listening on a base of character that inspires openness and trust.  This is what we review on today’s episode, as we continue on our book review of 7 Habits of Highly Effectively People.  

What human interaction paradigm do you operate with? Win-Win, Win-Lose, Lose-Win, or Lose-Lose?!  Pelumi talks on the importance of incorporating both courage and consideration in our human interaction framework to create a Win-Win situation where people always leave engagement with us knowing they got what they want as much as we get what we want.

On this episode, Pelumi shares on the importance of scheduling our priorities versus prioritizing our schedule, and the ultimate thing in managing ourself against managing time.   (Excerpts from lessons from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Chapter 3)

On today’s episode we review the second chapter of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.

It’s day 45 of 90 Days Productivity Bootcamp, and we are halfway through the bootcamp. Talks are on how far we’ve come and what to expect on the flip side of the journey.

On this episode, Pelumi shares on the importance of taking responsibility and taking charge of our circumtances, focusing on the things in our circumfrence of influence like Covey taught in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.