Hello everyone,

Thanks for tuning in for another week - and a special thanks to everyone who sent me their book recommendations last week.

This week we're focusing on the idea of action.

The Billionaire Narrator with an Eight-Pack.

This week I was listening to an episode of the My First Million podcast, where the cohost brought up an interesting point.

As a fan of audiobooks, he found a narrator that he really liked. Wanting to listen to more of the narrator, he clicked on his profile and found out he had narrated over 1200 books.

The books ranged from biographies of business titans to the most perennial books on self-improvement. In the words of the host, how could this guy have spent so long with these books and still be a narrator?

The obvious objections aside (maybe his calling is to narrate, etc.) it raises the key principle that is so easy to forget: Words into Works.

The purpose of reading and learning isn't to just stock your head full of facts and stories, it's to improve you and your life.

In the words of Derek Sivers:

"If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.

If our goal is to become financially free, we need to use what we learn about wealth - or risk becoming like that that old Louis Jordon song.

Whatever our goals, it's not the acquisition of knowledge that helps its the use of it.

The idea that knowledge is power is only half-true. Knowledge is potential power - action is what ignites it. Make sure you're taking the correct Action.

Carve Out Thinking Time.

The correct action differs from person to person beyond the base actions we should all be taking (develop patience, treat others with kindness, etc).

So, how do you know your correct action?

First, set your goals. I've written before on the importance of goals, and you should make sure you've set them. By knowing your goals, you know what to focus your actions around.

Second, carve out thinking time. This is a common theme in vintage self-improvement literature. Set aside 15 to 45 minutes, distraction free, and think about how you're going to achieve your goals.

Bill Gates took this to such an intense level in his early years of running Microsoft that he tore the radio out of his car so he would use the time to think rather than be tempted by music.

I try to do a short session of thinking on a daily basis with my journal - and then a longer session each Sunday after reviewing my week. I've yet to leave any session of dedicated thinking time without it feeling like it was time well spent.

If you think about the correct actions, and you keep your promises to yourself, you'll crush it.

Read Biographies.

This is your weekly reminder to pick up a biography (that includes autobiographies and memoirs).

This week I read the entirety of "How To Get Rich" by Felix Dennis and loved it. I also got through a fair chunk of "Win or Learn" by John Kavanagh (the MMA coach behind Connor McGregor).

The Felix Dennis one gave some incredible advice through his life story as well as some warnings about the journey to being rich (which he classifies as £75 million pounds or more). Required reading for those interested in that type of wealth.

What's Coming Up:

I currently am overloaded with things I want to write about - a natural side-effect to learning and experimenting so much lately.

So, to keep myself accountable, I'm going drop a few of these topics below that you can expect in the coming weeks (hat tip to my friend Elijah for this idea):

• Personal Case Studies In Action.
• Using Thinking Time to profit.
• Pound for Pounding thinking.
• Stubbornness vs Persistence.
• The Belief-Action loop.
• Think Feel Act, Act Feel Think.
• The Midwit Meme.
• Could it be simple?
• What outcome are they getting?
• Manifestation, Mindset, and the Art of Mental Warfare.
• Becoming Confident: A Tightrope journey.
• Time-Travelling Thought Experiment.
• Charlie Munger's Guide to Life.
• Becoming Limitless: Improving Cognition.
• Things that can only help.
• What works vs what doesn't work.
• Rivals: The underestimated secret to success.

P.S. If any of these topics interest you, let me know and I'll be happy to discuss them.

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That's all for this week. Thank you as always for tuning in.

Hopefully you'll focus on taking some action.

Until next time,

Zachariah