Read A Book A Year

Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX

Chapter 13 –

🛑Why read 100 books in a year?

You read because you
want to learn from other people’s experience and Otto von Bismarck put it best:

“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of
others.”

🛑 To get anywhere, you need to educate yourself and how to educate self is to read… A lot!

How?

🛑 1. Buy books in bulk: when you buy more books, you have more choices to choose from. So, make an inventory, don’t plan it, just pick a choice and start reading.
Buying books is one of the best investment you can do for yourself. It’s never a waste of time to buy books and read them.

🛑 2. Always Be Reading: if you are familiar with me, you will testify that I am always with my phone while eating. You know why? Because I read at the most inauspicious and inconvenient time.

So for you;
Read on the train

Read while you’re breastfeeding your baby

Read while you’re eating

Read at the doctor’s office

Read at work

And most importantly — read while everyone else is wasting
their time watching the news or checking Facebook for the 113th
time that day.

🛑 Read Relevant Books:
Not all books are meant for you even when they are best-selling books. Read books related to your profession and hobbies. Read books about people you admire.

🛑 Try Read Multiple Books Simultaneously: there are no rules to reading books. I often read more than one book at a time. I might read a self-help in the morning, a novel in the afternoon and a motivational one in the evening. You can decide to read two or more books at the same time if that works for you.

🛑 Retain The Knowledge: I’ll just copy it straight from the book.

Knowledge is only good if you use it. To retain knowledge, you need a
system that helps you do that. This is how I do it:
When you read a book, use a pen to make notes in the margins
and highlight important text. If you’re reading digitally, be aware
of over-highlighting. Just because it’s so easy you shouldn’t
highlight everything you find slightly interesting. Keep the
highlighting for ‘aha’ things only.
If you read something you want to definitely remember, fold the
top or bottom corner of the page. For digital readers: take a
picture and store it in a notetaking app you prefer.
When you finish the book, go back to the pages with the folds
and skim your notes.
Write down (use your notetaking software or physical notebook)
in your own words what the book is about and what advice the
author is giving.
Copy the quotes that stand out the most to you.
The point is not to copy the book but to help you process the information so
you can use it later.
Read as much as you possibly can — but never forget to apply what you’ve
learned because that is what counts the most. You put in many hours to read
books, make sure you get something out of it.

WHY IS SUCCESS HARD TO ACHIEVE?

This is excerpt for discussion from my 2-in-1 book series on blueprint for success achievement.

From chapter one…

…The question that bugs me anytime I try to see how people perceive success or examine how they have sailed through the hurdles of hardship to success is; “what is the real definition of success; is success dependent on our perception of it?”…


This question I throw it right back at you:

What is your definition of success?
Many people can define it as achievement of goals while some give it more personal meaning but the decision to keep doing something, to keep learning or to keep pushing can mean you are succeeding at something that is not conventional.

…The word ACHIEVE is a strong word that indicates WILLPOWER. Achieve means to gain something with effort….

Three words so far has repeatedly occurred in the definitions of success I’ve come across and achieve has been the significant word that can act as a standalone definition of success.

Wishing is nothing if you don’t have intention to ACHEIVE your want. Before you can even achieve, you must have the right mindset or perception about success. If you see success as what celebrities only get, you might keep running in the puzzle box of not developing your own success. Hence, you need a restructuring of the mind.

…HOW DO I PLAN TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR PERCEPTION ABOUT SUCCESS?
Foremost, to restructure your perception, there’s a need for destruction of your preceding perception…
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My Author’s Aim for my readers:

1. I want my readers to see that success isn’t far fetched from them especially the hard working ones

2. Just like I’ve listed out the stages you go through before success on this book, my readers should be able to discern these stages and patiently wait on their time.

3. I also want to help my readers see that they can achieve success if they will it. All they have to do is – just do it! Doing everything that takes them to their peak.


Author’s Aim for this book is to see it help students struggling with academic affairs retain their stand and confidence.

1. I want this book to help business owners that are striving for excellence go for more and do more

2. I want this book to turn ordinary people to celebrities through the restructuring of their perception

3. This book will not just be a book on the shelf but a book that act as a guidebook to any holder.

The book is now available in ecopy on Amazon: preorder at a discount the two books Here. Link would be shared in the comment section. Thanks