THE SUNDAY SUMMARY

Welcome to The Sunday Summary, a weekly newsletter where I share a quick book summary with actionable lessons, Book recommendations, Reading tips, and one life-changing Quote to help you build a healthy, wealthy life.

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Book Summary

This week's book is "The Not So Ordinary Life" by F.J. Lam

Divided into 13 chapters, The Not so ordinary life will give you the principles and methods to help you start pursuing your dreams and goals in life. Filled with powerful and actionable pieces of advice, the book will help you take the steps to live your dream life, what the author calls the not-so-ordinary life.

From defining your vision, finding your talents, and taking risks to embracing failures, breaking through, and building perseverance, The book has covered all the essential things that are required to pursue and fulfill your dream.

Here are 6 Actionable lessons that you can learn & implement to achieve your dreams:

1. Define your vision - "if we don't plan and envision where we want to be, we will most likely end up where we don't want to be. Remember, Pursuing your dreams isn't a sprint-It's a marathon. To finish that marathon, you need to know for sure where the finish line is located.

2. Making the room for your dreams - If we want to pursue our dreams, then we need to make room for them. You cannot wait for that next season when you will have more time because that season may never come.

3. Staying sharp- Pursuing your dreams is not merely about your gifts or passion, It is also about the time and effort you put into sharpening your talents. Take advantage of the incredible amount of free or low-cost resources that you can access anywhere at any time take the time to sharpen yourself; It will pay off.

4. Building perseverance- Pursuing your dreams isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. It requires effort and perseverance for the long haul. Therefore, to get where you want to be, you need to learn to keep picking yourself up from self-doubt and disappointment and keep moving forward.

5. Taking risks- Taking a risk to pursue your dreams means you're not static. It means you're doing something to get where you want to be. Take risks. No matter if you face failure, step up and keep moving forward.

6. Embracing failures- There's so much to learn when we try and fail. and it is often the best teacher of what doesn't work. It pushes us to try new ways, and new methods and often ends up launching us on the right path.

Recommendations

Here are five books to become a better decision maker

• Blink

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• Thinking in bets

• Thinking fast and slow

• The art of thinking clearly

Reading Tip

Want to increase your reading speed?

Then try reading the book along with its audiobook. This way when you will read, your mind will try to match your speed with the audiobook speed. Moreover, studies reveal that when more senses are involved( in this case vision and hearing), then our concentration also increases.

So next time read a book along with its audiobook and see the difference.

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I hope you find these tips and insights helpful in your reading journey.

Thank you for your love and support everyone. I'll see you next week.

Happy reading!

Kamalpreet Singh