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Hello, YouTube and a very special to all my subscribers. My name’s Phil and I’m the income school student. So this is my channel, all about my journey as a real project, 24 member. And it’s basically about me trying to build an online income using the Project 24 method from income school. So if you are interested in that, it sounds like something that you’d like to learn a little bit more.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel and hit the notification belt. So today we’re gonna be talking about a brand new book that just came out and it’s by Jim Harmer from Income School and it’s called work energy. And it’s such a good book that I managed to read it in one afternoon. I got it on my Kindle, but you can get it in hardback paperback, and apparently the best way to listen to it is by the audio version, which is hilarious, according to my other project, 24 colleagues.
Yeah, it’s all about that book today. So let’s get into it now. So work energy is a book that Jim harm has been working on for, he says about four years, I think. And it is based around about. Action steps. And it’s designed to basically enable you to figure out the best way that you can achieve your goals and by using your work energy now Jim is not like the best author in the world, but he is pretty funny.
This is a book very much in his own style. So if you watched any of his videos and the way that he talks, this is the way that the book sounds and it’s very entertaining to be honest. And I just, yeah, I couldn’t put it down. Basically. I was reading it pretty much all through the afternoon, ignoring that my wife and I finished quite late in the evening, but I think it’s a really good book and it teaches you a lot of things.
If you’re expecting to hear a lot about income school, about Ricky Kesler, it goes over this information, but it doesn’t go into a lot of detail. So you’re not gonna get all of the secrets from income school through this book, but it does certainly explain the journey and the basics.
Series of events in the journey of income school and also Jim harm’s life. So it’s very interesting. And if you’re a fan of income school, that’s definitely a book that you want to read. Not only is it informative, but it’s also very funny. I like the quote the fact that we’re all, was it lazy lumps of LA and Jim keeps referring to him.
Santa Claus cheeks in one of the chapters, which was quite funny. But yeah, it’s not any fun, but it’s also, for me personally, I could emphasize quite a lot with Jim. He goes into some examples of weight loss, which is something that I also struggle with and also talks about depression which I can relate to as well as an internet market.
It’s definitely periods where you get depressed, but I think Jim handles these topics in quite a good way. And you’re left feeling a little bit more motivated about those topics, which could otherwise bring you down. So I think he’s come up with a quite balanced book. It’s not only.
Professional. It’s also a personal sort of book. So that’s why I’ve enjoyed it so much. So the basic idea of the book is to do with this idea of work energy. Now, work energy. Basically not your passion in life, but it’s just how you react to tasks and how you can achieve things best. So everyone is different and we all are happy with different sorts of tasks.
And what a job that might be excellent for you. I probably wouldn’t like it, and vice versa. And Jim goes through and explains exactly what this idea of work energy is. He gives his own example. So he. He admits freely that he needs a lot of praise. And if he’s not getting praised for a task, then he loses interest pretty quickly.
I think he mentions that Ricky is more of the person who excels when he can share information. So he doesn’t really like tasks where he’s put on the spot and things like that. So you are given 10 actionable steps. And even after you’ve read the book, you can go over to a website, which I’m not gonna give.
You’ve gotta read the book and you’ll get a lot of resources there and it goes through all the different steps and gives you some additional questions to ask yourself. So you can actually, not only just read the book, but you can use it and try and make a difference in your life. I’ve gone through some of those questions a little bit quickly.
I haven’t quite finished everything. I only read it yesterday. But I would say probably for me, my work energy, as I understand it at the moment’s probably problem solving. When I have a problem that I need to solve, I could work for hours and it just really drives me. And as soon as I have a job after about three to six months, I’ve figured out everything that you can do in the.
I lose interest and it becomes absolute health, and another sort of edge to my work energy is that I need an element of respect. In my teaching job, I don’t feel like it’s a job that’s really respected by a lot of people, especially when I worked in the business world. And that just made me feel.
It wasn’t worth doing so for me, I need something that I can be respected when I’m doing it and even respect myself. But I’m still developing the idea of work energy. I may come to a better conclusion as I go through the steps a little bit more. But that’s the main idea. You’re gonna find your work energy and that’s gonna help you with all sorts of tasks in your life.
So it’s a very interesting chapter all about that. There’s another chapter which goes over a couple different steps and it’s all to do with chasing your dreams, really. If you’ve heard anything about Jim Harbor hammer, that he’s got this bucket list that he’s just going through very quickly and he brings this element into the book and talks about creating a bucket list and then how you can go about actually achieving some of those dreams.
It’s not something that I’ve done before, really. To be honest, I only really had one dream in life. And I achieved that. Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to become a pilot. And about six years ago, I actually did get my flying license. But since then because of money, I’ve had to give that up and also where I’m living at the moment, it’s just not something I can do very easily.
So this is an exciting idea because I’d like to go back and have a look and see what kind of things I’ve put on my bucket list and how. Drive me in life. So that was a very interesting chapter as well. And then he went through this idea of building up your dreams slowly.
He gave the analogy of building a house, one brick at a time. If you read the book, it’s just, it really explains it quite well. And this was another quite inspiring part of the book, having to do everything at once, but taking small, but positive steps towards whatever goal you have, whatever project you are doing.
So I really enjoyed reading about that. And it’s something I’m gonna try and apply to my own case. Of course it’s not easy, but it is a sort of a psychological change that you need to have in your life. Because of that, I think the major takeaway from me was the next part of the book, which was all to do with how you break down tasks.
So if you’ve heard anything about the 80 20 rule, you’ll be familiar with this idea of, the effort you put into something and how much you get out of it was Jim went down a different path and he spoke about the 90% activities and the 10% activities basically. When you are trying to be successful in any sort of job or any task, whether it’s, working, building a business, or even just trying to find a wife, one of the examples he gave there are things that can take you 90% of the way towards your goal.
And there are other things that are just. 10% of the actual finished product as it worked. And he basically said that you’ve got to put this idea of the Groundhog date onto those 90% tasks. So what he means by that is that every single day you do things that will take you 90% of the way there. And once you achieve.
Only then do you go back to the 10%, the optimizations? Now, the reason for this is that if you get fixated on the optimizations, you’re just never gonna get anywhere. You’ve gotta put in the real grunt work with those 90% activities before you ever think about the 10%. So in my case talking about.
Creating content. That’s 90%. So every day I should be publishing. And then only once I start seeing that traffic build that’s when I go back and start designing the website, start playing around with optimizing the SEO and things like this. So this is a really good message. But to be honest, if you follow income school, you’ve already seen this through the way that he teaches us.
There’s another good lesson that Jim teaches us in the book, which is basical. Don’t have good ideas and it’s all about being distracted. So either being distracted by your heroes, by the people around you who are very successful. And our visionaries but also having your own ideas where you get distracted.
And instead of following the goal that you have, or, whatever task you’re doing, you get distracted. And I think there’s very useful information that you gave and it gave a few sort of ways that you could avoid distractions and avoid good ideas, sidetracking you as you go along. And also in the book Jim actually gives a recommendation for another book that we should read, which is a big leap by gay Hendrix, which I haven’t read yet, but I’m certainly gonna go and buy to put on my Kindle because it’s all about taking the next step.
And not being limited by your vision of yourself, your success and what you are able to achieve. And these are the core ideas of the book. It’s going from a guy who was extremely poor working in a dead end job. Struggling to support his family to a multimillionaire and all the lessons he’s learned along the way.
It’s something I’m eager to listen to, and I’m gonna try my hardest to put these steps into action. We’re only human and this is also something that Jim talks about throughout the book. So I’ve really enjoyed it. And I think that you are probably gonna enjoy the book too. So if you want to grab a copy, then you should do that as soon as you can, or really help out a gym over income school.
So there is a link in the description to. If you want to give me a small commission and it will be a small commission, but even if you don’t use the link, just go and get the book. I think you’re gonna enjoy it. So thanks very much for watching. If you’ve enjoyed the video, don’t forget to share it.
Also subscribe to the channel. Give me a if you’ve read the book already, what was your favorite part and what work energy style do you have?