245: How to Turn Reading Books into Taking Action [Solo Episode]
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many of us may not realize it (I'm definitely guilty of this), but we sometimes fall into the trap of being "personal development junkies" - often chasing the high from those incredible "aha!" moments that books give us, but we don't always turn those lessons into real personal development or meaningful life changes.
In today's solo episode, I dig into why this is, talk about how to integrate "book summaries" into your reading plan, as well as my personal hacks that help me read more books (hint: there's an app for that) — and how to get more out of them faster than ever before.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.5 | I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a |
| 0:24.0 | peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Goal achievers. Welcome to the Achiever Girls Podcast. This is your host and your friend Hal |
| 0:37.8 | L-Rod. And I'm going to start by telling you, I'm not exactly sure where we're going to go today. |
| 0:43.2 | Number one, I'm sitting on my daughter's bed. |
| 0:46.6 | We have construction being done in our house and it's loud everywhere, even here. |
| 0:50.9 | So I'm in this different space physically in a different environment and I've got a lot of things on my mind and I've got some things I want to chat with you about but I'm not exactly sure what direction we are going to head. |
| 1:02.0 | So I've been sitting here for like 30 minutes, |
| 1:05.0 | just making notes and going, |
| 1:07.0 | I just need to start and I decided I'm gonna be transparent. |
| 1:10.0 | This is a conversation, right? |
| 1:12.0 | It's like if you walked in the door right now |
| 1:13.4 | and you're like, hell, what's up? |
| 1:14.6 | And I would be like, you know what? |
| 1:16.2 | My mind's going all over the place, |
| 1:17.8 | but let's see what comes out of this. |
| 1:19.2 | So that's where we're gonna go. |
| 1:20.0 | We're just gonna have an open dialogue, |
| 1:22.2 | just a conversation, |
| 1:23.2 | just me and you and the other, |
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