Motivational books :
Here are a few of the best motivational books
Award-winning author
Rene Godefroy have
read and personally recommends.

Anyone can follow Mr. Nightingale’s advice, but it would require tremendous self-discipline. You might not be able to study one subject every day for one hour for five or ten years, but you can certainly try. Many people graduate from high school or college and say to themselves, “Thank God I am through with school. I will never open another book!” Wrong! School never ends. A graduation is merely the beginning of our learning journey. That is why they call the graduation ceremony the commencement ceremony. It is the beginning of learning.

You might say, “I don’t have time to read. By the time I get out of work, I have to take care of a thousand things.” All you are telling me is that you are not serious about reaching the top of your field. Time is completely relative. We never have the time to do anything.

We must make the time! We must sacrifice a little to get a lot. Have you ever heard of books on tape? Have you ever considered banning television from your home? That may be the choice you will have to make to be able to nurture your future.

Get a Thirty-Year Education In One Month
I can hear someone saying, “How can that be possible?” It’s very easy, and I’m not talking about peripheral knowledge; I’m talking about specific and useable ideas that can make a significant difference in your life. Let’s say you bought a book by business and management expert, Tom Peters, or one by an expert in your field.

Do you realize that the author has condensed thirty or more years of his best knowledge into only two to three hundred pages? What if you could digest every one of his ideas and use them? It would cost you approximately $25. Is it possible to get thirty years of education anywhere for $25? I don’t think so! Do you?

This is what is called OPE = Other People’s Experience. It sounds like an easy concept, doesn’t it? Why, then, do so few people read books? Did you know that ninety percent of all the books are read by only ten percent of the population?

Read Magazines And Newsletters
Another idea is to subscribe to every magazine in your field and read them. What if you don’t have time? No problem. Buy subscriptions for your friends with the understanding they will share with you the ideas and stories they learn. It’s not a bad deal.

Your friends get a free subscription to a magazine in their field to feed their minds, and all they have to do in return is share what they learn with you. I know people who pay others to read books and magazines for them. They receive a written report in return.

Depending on how much your time is worth, you might even pay a retired schoolteacher to read for you. Call the high schools in your area and ask them to put you in touch with some retirees. There is always a way!

Step Two: Join An Association
My strongest piece of advice for you would be to join the main association in your field. I owe both the National Speakers Association and its local chapter in Georgia a big debt for my success. Yes, I could have learned everything I now know without these organizations, but it would have taken me years of fumbling around in the dark. Call your association and join today. You will reduce your learning curve tremendously.

If you’re currently employed, your company will almost certainly foot the bill for you. Don’t think that there is no association that is in some way related to your field. In America, regardless of what you do, there is an association dedicated to sharing and empowering its members with cutting-edge knowledge.

It cost me a great deal of money to keep my membership in different associations, but I believe it would have been much more expensive not to have become a member.

How To Benefit From Your Association
Of course, joining an association means nothing unless you are willing to become an active member. You will know the size of your commitment to a thing by observing the quantity and quality of time you spend on that thing. Having joined my association, I attended its meetings religiously.

There were times when I could have been somewhere else, but I chose to attend the meetings. You can tell I was committed. Ask yourself this question: “By spending my time doing this, am I investing my time or am I spending it?”

You and I both know that there is a big difference between an expense and an

investment. We also both know that the choices you make today about where you spend your time will directly affect your future.

Your involvement in the association should also give you opportunities to practice meeting other people in your field. The first few meetings I attended, no one knew me; and although many members went out of their way to acknowledge me, I still felt somewhat like a stranger.

Thankfully, I understood that every pathway has its bumps. I took the initiative and began introducing myself to as many people as I could. I also volunteered to assist others. Over the course of several months, I volunteered as co-director of logistics, and then as co-director of the speakers’ showcase. I helped with organizing our annual speakers’ school, and I also volunteered for the meet and greet committee.

Finally, I sat on the nominating committee. Pretty soon a funny thing happened. Everyone knew me by first name. In less than two years I had gone from being a newcomer to being a veteran! What about you? Have you volunteered for your organization lately? You can become a household name in your association in no time by volunteering on different committees.

Step Three: Become A Small Fish In A Big Pond
Would you like to hang with the big boys? Have you ever wondered how you can become a small fish in a big pond? Would you like to meet your potential employers, clients, or customers?

By now you should know the answer: join an association! I have always wanted to meet the movers and shakers in my industry— people who could open some doors for me.

You might ask, “I already have a job in my area of interest. Do I really need to go through so much trouble?” I’ve got news for you, my friend; there’s no guarantee that your job will be there tomorrow. We are living in a time when things are changing at breakneck speed. Your company can let you go in a moment’s notice.

The remarkable thing is even the company president or CEO may not know what’s going to happen. Like the saying goes in my country, “Don’t wait until you are sleepy to make your bed up—it will be too late.” Network with your peers now. You never know; your next job might come from one of them.

If you are in sales, you already know that it’s difficult to talk to the actual buyer. You can only get as far as the company’s gatekeepers. If you want to get beyond the front doors, you must attend networking events. There are many highly respected authors and speakers to whom I would never have had access had I not become an NSA member.

Let me give you an example. Jeffrey Gitomer is one of the most respected sales gurus in the world. His column appears daily in business journals across the country and in some columns across the world. I was very familiar with Jeffrey’s work, and I had always wanted to meet him.

As a doorman, I always wanted to know what the people at the top were reading. The moment I noticed a book on the back seat of the car I was parking, I would run to Barnes and Nobles across the street and buy that book. How is that for commitment? One day, Jeffrey pulled up at the hotel. I noticed that he had a stack of his book, The Sales Bible.

He shook my hand and said, “My name is Jeffrey Gitomer, and I have a tip for you. The choice is yours. Will it be a book or five dollars?” I answered, “The book!” After that meeting with Jeffrey, I wanted to stay in touch.

Jeffrey was a big fish in a big pond, and I was a small fish. Later, I joined the National Speakers Association, and, lo and behold, Jeffrey was a member! Hello! He and I became friends. Did you read the foreword to this book? Jeffrey wrote it, of course. Do you get my point? Of course you do. You can get to know the people at the top by simply becoming a member of your industry’s association.