Alex Epstein is the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and an expert on energy and industrial policy. Called “most original thinker of the year” by political commentator John McLaughlin, he champions the use of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas and has changed the way thousands of people think about energy. He has risen to prominence as the nation’s leading free-market energy debater, promoting a philosophy that is “anti-pollution but pro-development.” He challenges many popularly held ideas about energy, industry, and the environment, including the big picture benefits (and costs) of fossil fuels and nuclear power. He draws on cutting-edge research and original insights to offer an alternate perspective on the energy debate and shares eye-opening thoughts into how fossil fuels and technology will improve the lives of people – safely, cleanly, and effectively – for years to come.
Today we focus on his journey as an entrepreneur, how he made his work stand out & captured attention, and how he has become one of the most productive people on the planet.
Resources:
Alex's Productivity Secrets & Resolution Revolution
Interviewing is a learned skill and art form. There are some insanely powerful and insightful interviewers out there, and then there are those who fall flat and maybe need a little more practice.
I think we're all refining our skills along the way, but here are some tips to help you become a better interviewer in any capacity - whether it's formally with a podcast or interview show, with mentors to get the best information and guidance, or even with clients/customers. Interviewing is not a skill that is specific to traditional reporters.
Here's 6 tips to get you started:
1. Let the person you are interviewing do most of the talking
2. Be genuinely interested in the human you are interviewing
3. Learn how to deal with different personality types
4. Become your audience
5. Focus on actionable takeaways whenever possible
6. Watch the time
Practice makes perfect and the more comfortable you are, the better you will become at the art of interviewing!
You can get access to my full interview tips for FREE in the episode 127 download.
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6 tips to fast track your success in 2016 - take these serious and the results will follow.
1. Let your vision, commitment, & drive guide you NOT your current circumstances or limitations or excuses.
2. To get energy you must do the work, and follow through on your word. When you hustle and get things done you create energy within to take even more action.
3. ALWAYS celebrate weekly progress over perfection. Being a perfectionist will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Remember you want experiments, not perfection.
4. Make sure you are ONLY associating with those who hold you accountable, raise your standards, and challenge you to think bigger...NOT those people who let you off the hook.
5. Get rid of ALL negativity in your life. Toxic people love company and they have a problem for every solution. You must purposely surround yourself w/ top-notchthinkers.
6. Start your days feeling resourceful, accomplished and confident - Define your highest value activity (MIM - most important mission) and spend the first 90 minutes doing that and NOTHING else. - use your success sheet every morning & evening.
Habits will always trump inspiration. Inspiration is needed to create consistent action, but your habits are ultimately going to define your success or failure.
Which one of these will make the BIGGEST impact on your success and results this week and this year if you really focused on it?
Resources:
Kat Loterzo is a successful author, speaker and mentor to revolutionary leaders who want it all, on their terms, now if not sooner.
Kat lives location free with her husband and 2 children, is obsessed with great coffee, great wifi, great wine and great training of the mind and body, as well as creating as much content as humanly possible on the topic of alignment and taking MASSIVE action.
Read more from Kat and get her free Daily Asskickery at www.katloterzo.com, or visit www.booksforkickasswomen.com to read Kat's books.
Resources:
FREE book for any Multi-Passionate, Driven Woman Who Wants to Have it All!
Society of Self-Mastery - Free FB Community
Simplified Success Society - $1.00 trial
More businesses fail than succeed...so what sets those that succeed apart from those that don't?
In this episode I'm breaking down the two root causes of business failure and sharing a free workbook for you apply to your own business and make sure your foundations are nice and strong.
It's time to get clear, so you can get clients. Because the only way to stay in business is to get deeply intimate and honest with these two root causes of failure. {hint: they have nothing to do with advanced strategies.
Resources:
Get Clear, Get Clients Workbook
Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US $650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.
Spier manages the Aquamarine Fund, an investment partnership inspired by, and styled after Warren Buffett's 1950s investment partnerships. He is also an occasional financial commentator in the media.
What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.
Spier's journey is similar to the thousands that flock to Wall Street every year with their shiny new diplomas, aiming to be King of Wall Street. Yet what Guy realized just in the nick of time was that the King really lived 1,500 miles away in Omaha, Nebraska. Spier determinedly set out to create a new career in his own way.
Along the way he learned some powerful lessons which include: why the right mentors and partners are critical to long term success on Wall Street; why a topnotch education can sometimes get in the way of your success; that real learning doesn't begin until you are on your own; and how the best lessons from Warren Buffett have less to do with investing and more to do with being true to yourself.
Guy Spier shares the two ways the warren buffett made profound impacts on his life and in today's download you can get access to the exact questions you need to be asking yourself if you're looking for a top-notch mentor, plus example email messages of how to get connected to them.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Guy Spier's Nine Rules to Successful Investing
How To Identify & Connect with Top-Notch Mentors
I've been reflecting a lot over the past couple weeks as I close the books down for 2015, I've had a great year, and am ready to welcome in another one. Many thanks to all of you for listening, subscribing and sharing this podcast!
biggest 2015 mistakes
I’m sharing some free exercises to help you understand some of your biggest lessons {failures} - this is the reflection guide I use to create more success in my life. Go to adriennedorison.com/bigmistakes to download this free reflection guide.
Welcoming in 2016 success!
Resources
How To Turn Your Failures Into Wins: a reflection guide to create more success
Hal Elrod is today's guest and one of my personal heroes. He’s the #1 best-selling author of what is now being widely regarded as “one of the most life-changing books ever written” titled, The Miracle Morning: The Not So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed To Transform Your Life… Before 8AM.
It is also one of the highest rated books on Amazon with over 700 five-star reviews!
What’s even more incredible is that Hal actually died at age 20. He was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 mph, broke 11 bones, died for 6 minutes, and spent 6 days in a coma only to wake up to face the news that he may never walk again… Well, not only did he walk, Hal went on to run a 52-mile ultra marathon, become a hall of fame business achiever, an international keynote speaker, one of the world’s top success coaches, he’s a hip-hop recording artist, has been featured in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, writes for Entrepreneur.com, has appeared on radio and TV shows across the country, and the list just goes on and on. He’s also the host of one of the top personal development podcasts on iTunes, called “Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod.”
As the bestselling author of The Miracle Morning, I brought him on today to talk about how you can change any—or literally EVERY area of your life, by simply changing the way you wake up in the morning—even if you’ve never been a morning person.
You can find Hal Elrod @ www.halelrod.com
Hal’s Entrepreneur magazine article about affirmations here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246869
You can purchase The Miracle Morning here – http://bit.ly/SSMmiracle