908. Why Reading Self-Help Books Actually Works (And My Winter Reading List)
Fullerton Unfiltered
Brian Fullerton
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Winter is the quiet season where real growth happens. In this episode, I break down why self-help books actually work when you read them with intention, not just for motivation. We'll talk about how to turn winter downtime into personal and business growth, why most people get nothing from the books they read, and how to apply what you learn so it actually sticks. I'll also share my personal winter reading list and explain why each book has earned a spot as I prepare for the season ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | You're now listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Straightforward. |
| 0:10.6 | No nonsense business advice. |
| 0:12.7 | Completely on. |
| 0:14.7 | Unfiltered. |
| 0:15.6 | Grow your business. |
| 0:16.8 | Grow your life. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, here's your host, Brian Fullerton. |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Fullerton Unfiltered Podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | It is your host, Brian Fullerton here. |
| 0:27.6 | Hang in with you guys, and good morning. |
| 0:30.3 | Well, today's podcast episode, I wanted to kind of just downshift really quick here and talk to you about some things that I think would be really important |
| 0:37.6 | and very helpful for you guys as we are going into this next couple of weeks for the holidays |
| 0:43.8 | and really going into, you know, January 1st, starting up the new year, right? There's a lot of |
| 0:49.6 | excitement. There's a lot of buzz. There's also a good time right now to just kind of chill out a little |
| 0:54.7 | bit, relax, maybe catch your breath a little bit, and really have a little bit of self-care. |
| 1:00.2 | Take care of yourself. Spend time with family. Spend time things with, with things that fill you up, |
| 1:06.4 | including family, friends, you know, just memories, time. You know, just the other day, my wife and I took the kids, gosh, we've been doing like a bunch of little activities because everything is just cold. It's cooped up. And, you know, we're trying to also not go out and about to, you know, get sick during the holidays. You guys know how the last couple of weeks have been. And everybody and their brother has a sniffler or a cold. We're trying to avoid all that. But the other day, we went to a light show nearby, just went through a camp, a park, you know, and able to zigzag up and down. Gosh, that was a good half hour just drive-through and beautiful lights, you know, Camp Dearborn. If you guys are in Southeast Michigan, actually, it was a really, really good time for 20, 25 bucks. But this time of year, like, that's what we're doing. We're building memories. If we're not working right now for, you know, in between snowstorms and salt runs, then I'm just trying to spend as much time with family soaking it up, giving the wife a break from the baby, who is in a huge leap right now. He is clingy. |
| 2:02.8 | He is crying and he is fussy, dude. Like I can't even begin to describe. But right now I'm just |
| 2:09.2 | trying to, you know, give the wife a little bit of a break. I'm working on a bunch of content |
| 2:13.3 | behind the scenes, a bunch of stuff that we're working on for January and February and March already for |
| 2:18.5 | next year. And this time of year, believe it or not, that's actually me kind of calming down and chilling out a little bit. And that's what I would encourage you guys to do. I'm not saying take your foot off the gas. I'm just saying, hey, take the next couple of weeks and, you know, utilize this downtime, you know, to your advantage. Get some extra rest, get some extra sleep. And, you know, by the time |
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