Radical Personal Finance

"Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" by Brian Tracy is an absolute goldmine of a book. Without question, this is a 5-star book.

Before you read it though, it's important for you to understand what it is and what it isn't.

It's not a deep-dive treatise of productivity systems; rather, it's an overview of the core principles of productivity that you need in order to organize your life around accomplishing more, meaningful things that will move you toward your goals.

It's short, fast, and pithy.

Tracy begins with the big picture focus of making sure you're doing the right things--planning the things to do that directly tie to your goals and things that are going to have the biggest impact on your achievement of those goals. Then he continues with the practical suggestions to help you actually do those things.

Here's my recommendation: get the audiobook version and listen to it on the first of every month for the next 60 months.

Even if you did nothing else for your personal development and improvement it would be enough to catapult you into the upper tiers of your company and career.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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I like the change of the calendar year. It's a convenient time to sit down and take an inventory of where things are and assess the plans for where things are going.

2014 was an awesome year. It was certainly one of the more challenging times of my life and was filled with change of all types. But it was awesome.

2015 will be transformative. This year, I'll be heavily focused on stepping up my game and making everything I do to be world class.

I have plenty of goals. But for me, the end result of achieving a goal is less important than who I become on the way.

Also, since there's no way for me to achieve a lofty goal without developing as a person, I tend to focus less on the goal or outcome and more on the plan of what I need to learn and who I need to become.

In today's show I share with you some of my areas of focus for 2015 and some of the plans I have for my personal development.

Here are three of my areas of focus for the coming year coupled with some of my action plans for development as an example with resources:

1. I am a world-class business owner.
   • In order to be a world-class business owner, I need to sharpen and hone my personal productivity skills.
     • Nozbe
       • Action: Complete their 10-part skills course and program training videos.
     • Evernote
       • Action: Work through Brett Kelly's Evernote Essentials Book again
     • Gleeo Time Tracker and Alarm Every 15 Minutes
       • Action: Add a careful review of my time usage to my weekly review. Look for items to delegate.
     • Rescue Time
       • Action: Check to see if it has been improved and if it will serve my needs.
   • In order to be a world-class business owner, I need to strenthen my habits in these areas:
     • Work from a list of prioritized importance.
     • Plan each day's work in advance.
     • Complete my weekly reviews, without exception.
     • Complete my comprehensive monthly reviews, without exception.
   • In order to be a world-class business owner, I need to establish new skills and a new comfort level with outsourcing and team building. I also need to focus on automation and systematization.
     • Chris Ducker
       • Read Virtual Freedom and implement/test ideas
       • Read his blog archives and implement/test ideas
       • Listen to his podcast archives and implement/test ideas
     • Sam Carpenter
       • Read Work the System again and implement/test ideas
       • Read his blog archives and implement/test ideas
     • Ari Meisel
       • Read Less Doing and implement/test ideas
       • Read his blog archives and implement/test ideas
       • Listen to his podcast archives and implement/test ideas
     • Tim Ferris
       • Read Four Hour Workweek, Four Hour Body, and Four Hour Chef again and implement/test ideas
       • Read his blog archives and implement/test ideas
       • Listen to his podcast archives and implement/test ideas
   • In order to be world-class business owner, I need to build new skills with Wordpress on my site and other aspects of internet business.
     • Wordpress
       • Look for Wordpress training and complete
     • Membership software
       • Look for membership software training and complete
     • Aweber
       • Look for Aweber training and complete
       • Look for email marketing training and complete
     • Screencasts and video production
       • Look for screencast solution and create presentations
2. I am a world-class podcast host.
3. Radical Personal Finance is a world-class financial education resource.
4. etc... (listen to the show!)

Enjoy!

Joshua

On today's Q&A show we cover:

• 1:32 Should I establish a Family Charitable Foundation for my young family?
• 16:50 How do I balance Career vs. Family in a potential job change?
• 31:00 My teenager was just diagnosed with Diabetes. How do I prep to keep her alive?
• 1:07:25 Why did Joshua disappear from Twitter?
• 1:17:27 Homeschoolin dad chat about reading level and effective teaching.

Enjoy!

Joshua

To join me next week, go here: https://patreon.com/radicalpersonalfinance

I'm not the only former financial advisor who became a podcaster. My friend Joe Saul-Sehy has trod the same path!

We had the opportunity to catch up at the Podcast Movement conference and we were able to talk shop about the financial advisory business.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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There are many ways to budget. All of us need to find a solution that is effective for us. And that solution will probably change as our situation changes.Today, I want to share some advice on budgeting for people who are in a financial emergency.

Here is a very simple method of budgeting. It requires only:

• a checkbook register
• a notebook and pencil
• a stack of all your bills
• a calculator

Details are in the show!

Joshua

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