Notes:
Most of the charts or exercises were to be made available at Howtotakemassiveaction.com but something else comes up.
– These are the tools to google: SMART analysis, Gantt charts, PERT diagram, single point accountability, transformation diagram, the life scale priority continuum, the transformation diagram,
– Your frustrations, anxieties, things that make you emotional and give you mental pain are the secret desires of what you want from life.
– Understand, plan, do, improve it.
– Momentum needs emotion.
– Bhagwat Gita metaphor of horses pulling you all over the place.
– A healthy marriage ratio has 5 positive : 1 negative emotions and bewre of contempt as it’s is a big one.
– How to win competitions, people who think that they’re lucky have more luck – called expectancy theory.
– A project triangle has results, resources, time on its 3 points with priorities in the middle.
– Small hinges swing big doors – Mal Emery (great quote)!
– 8 behaviours of massive action
– Minimise multitasking.
– Environment and times to check emails.
– Only look at the to do list of that day not the whole task list.
– Be unreasonable about timelines, attention to detail, chunks of time.
– At cause and at effect people, at cause take responsibility for everything.
– Physiology of speed and success.
– Faction fanaticus, existo fanaticus – meaning act enthusiastic, be enthusiastic.
– Get good team. Providers, advisers, connectors.
– The least invested person in any relationship is in control.
– Keep track stay on goal or use skill will circumstances tool.
– Simons morbid obesity and long run story.
I think the book is basically a condensed and reworded think and grow rich with lots of handy tools and techniques to help you really take massive action. Simon has helped our business grow and reach heights in ways we can’t begin to explain. The insight, experience and technology he uses are really priceless. Big up Hems for the lend.
Table of Contents
Prologue
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MASSIVE ACTION
1. Pain Or Pleasure: The Choice Is Yours
2. You’ve Been Sold A Lemon
3. If Massive Action Makes All The Difference, Then Why Don’t We Do It?
4. What Did We Learn From Going To The Moon?
5. Become Decisive!
6. The Secret Of All Secrets!
THE SCIENCE OF MASSIVE ACTION
7. Transforming Your Goal
8. Slightly Borning But Really Useful Tools
9. Behave Your Way To Success
10. Calling In The Cavalry
11. A Simple Way Of Looking At Things When It Is Going Off Track
12. What I Learnt From The Long Run
13. Imagine The Possibilities!
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