Books that have impacted me in life

I would be remiss if I did not include the Holy Scriptures, which I include as the following: Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

These shape my worldview and life perspective in more ways than I probably realize and are a large foundation of the morals and standards I strive to live by. These are lifelong study materials for me.

This was the very first business / self-help book I ever read back when I was 21 years old. This is a book I will go back to and re-reference once or twice a year. While it's full of great insights, I was most impacted by three lessons taught in the book:

1. The idea of paradigms: how we each view similar situations through different lenses, and how we can shift our paradigms.
2. The importance of self-awareness and how to become more self-aware of ourselves.
3. The time management matrix

So I actually don't remember a lot of the content in this book. But I do remember that I leaned a lot on this book in college, because as I became more self-aware (thank you Covey!) I realized that I was awkward in social settings and I wanted to change that. This booked helped me better navigate social interactions. I also learned the importance of remembering and using people's names often.

Another college read, this was my first book on real estate. Not only that, it gave me the foundations of understanding assets and liabilities, particularly in my own personal finances, as well as the difference between good and bad debt.

At the end of the day, the concepts taught here are pretty simple and fairly obvious. However, the framework and practicality of how they approach goal-achieving is not only easy to digest, but also easy to implement. In addition to provide a practical framework to get more done, the underlying principle taught is the importance of being intentional with your time by focusing on the activities that move you toward your goals and removing the activities that don't.

The overarching message is that moving the needle in big ways is easier than making minimal changes in your life. The idea is that you as you consider larger more ambitious feats, your forced to think differently about solutions. Additionally, it's typically the 20% of your activities that can help you achieve the 10x progress, so finding ways to offload the other 80% of what you do and turning the 20% into what you spend most of your time doing is what will allow you to achieve the major succes

While I was already watching the likes of Codie Sanchez and Alex Hormozi on YouTube, Jeremy Harbour inspired me to commit to ETA (entrepreneurship through acquisition) in ways I hadn't done before. This book was one of the catalysts that led me into investing into a mastermind network of some amazing people.

I read this right after "Go Do Deals." This was another catalyst that inspired me to commit to ETA. I have found this book to be the most tactical in nature when it comes to deal structures for buying businesses. It also opened my eyes to the idea of multiple arbitrage.