552. These 5 Books Changed My Life (+ made me millions)

The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

These 5 book helped me go from a drug addict with no job and $350 in my bank account to building a $30m+ online fitness business, achieve an 8 figure net worth, and marry the woman of my dreams…

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Before I share the list, I first want to admit something…⁣

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I haven't read a 'self-help' book in over a year.⁣

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But cumulatively, I've read over 100 personal development and business books.⁣

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Nowadays, I mainly read non-fiction and the occasional autobiography.⁣

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I share that because what I read today is not what I read to get me to where I am today…⁣

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For who I am now, I believe it's more beneficial for me to read books that allow me to expand my imagination than more 'how-to' stuff…⁣

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After you've read so many, you realize they all say the same thing.⁣

I do believe it's important to go through this phase though so I want to share my top 5 books that have changed my life and what I'd recommend for any coach or entrepreneur.

Time Stamps:

(1:00) Personal Development Reading Phase

(1:43) #1: A Man’s Search For Meaning By Viktor Frankl

(2:51) #2: Deep Work By Cal Newport

(3:50) #3: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion By Robert Cialdini

(4:40) #4: Ready, Fire, Aim By Michael Masterson

(6:07) #5: The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle

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0:00.0	The success that we have in any endeavor is directly proportionate to the amount of intense focus
0:05.2	that we can place on that activity. Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back. Jordan here with the fitness
0:10.4	podcast. Today I'm going to share with you five books that ultimately really helped to change my life.
0:16.0	All right. So these are books that around the same time that I went from being, you know, addicted to drugs, I had literally
0:23.9	$350 in my bank account to within about an eight-year time span, achieving an eight-fifference
0:29.0	net worth, building a $30 million fitness business, being in a relationship, a marriage that I'm
0:34.2	extremely proud of, having a life that honestly I never really dreamt even
0:38.4	possible. And I share this because during this time that I made the biggest pivot is when I really
0:43.8	focused on reading a lot. Now, I'll be honest, these days, I honestly don't read a ton. And when I do
0:48.6	read, it's usually like fiction or autobiographies or I do listen to books. And so I think there's a
0:54.1	certain season in your life when reading personal development books
0:57.5	becomes extremely critical.
1:00.2	Now, you know, I've probably read 100 plus self-help books.
1:03.1	Now, at the end of the day, you'll start to find that most of them kind of say the same thing.
1:07.3	So what I think is important is that you have a phase of your life where you are entrenching yourself
1:12.7	in this sort of way of thinking, right? These ideas. But what's most important is that you don't
1:17.2	just live in this kind of idea, mental masturbation mode. And you do go and actually apply these things.
1:22.0	So anyways, to digress, I am going to share with you five books that are a mix between
1:27.4	personal development, also business, more tactical books to share with you five books that are a mix between personal development,
1:28.4	also business, more tactical books. There are some in here that are more about productivity,
1:33.8	and some that might kind of surprise you. The first one is called a man's search for meaning by
1:38.9	Victor Frankel. So this book helped me to get through one of the hardest times in my life,
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