You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. It's time for our Friday.

Two-minute morning edition posted on Fridays to give you something to think about.

Watch for ado to finish your week strong and maximize your weekend.

I will also include an occasional, occasional red zone rant, but not today.

Here's my topic today.

Growth isn't automatic.

You know, life just isn't going to come along and interrupt you and improve you. You have to

seek it out. It has to be intentional. So the question is, what do you do to work on you? Do you do

it consistently enough? Do you do enough of it? You know, it's like life is not just about showing up,

but stepping up. But in order to just step up, you got to get better at what you do. It's not

simply putting in hours, but putting the right things in those hours, the learning in those hours, the applied learning in those hours. You can improve your skills, habits, and attitudes, and get to the next level. I'm talking about reading, listening to materials, and doing it more often, and more depth, and applying more of it. Here's a statistic for you.

Fast Company magazine reports that CEOs are the top companies in the USA read on average of 60 books a year.

That is 6.0.

Tom Corley, in a five-year study reported in his book,

Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, that 88% of his wealthy respondents reported that they read at least 30 minutes

per day. Sixty-three percent, listen to educational material during commutes, 85% read two or more

books in a month. So you think you don't have the time? Listen, these are busy people too.

These aren't passive, do nothing. Sit on your rear end, suck your thumb, people that are doing all this stuff. They're already busy, but they know if it's important to you, you find a way. And if it's not, you find an excuse. And they also know the book you don't read can't help you. And you can't withdraw from your life, what you don't deposit. Your life gets better when you do. So growth is an automatic

work harder on it. Think about how many of the eight traits learning new things impacts. My goodness,

it impacts your effort, your energy, your enthusiasm, your excellence, your passion, your attitude,

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