4 Books to Shift Your Mind and Business in 2024
What books should you read in 2024? Look no further. Attorney Temi Siyanbade is sharing four of her favorite books (plus one bonus) to help you shift your mind and business in 2024.
The four books are aimed at helping you rethink habits, leadership, business, and growth and are sure to impact the actions you take in the new year.
⏲ Time stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell Book Review
03:20 - Atomic Habits by James Clear Book Review
05:18 - Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson Book Review
06:44 - E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber Book Review
09:29 - Bonus Book!!
Transcript
Hey everyone, it is Temi Siyanbade here, your favorite Houston based
Speaker:attorney and the host of Ask Temi Live, where we discuss the best ways
Speaker:to establish your business, protect your name, and keep your profits.
Speaker:So as we are getting ready for the 2024 year, I wanted to share
Speaker:with you four books that can shift your mind and your business.
Speaker:Listen, these books that I'm going to share with you, and a bonus
Speaker:one, um, but these particular resources that I'm going to share
Speaker:with you have been so instrumental for me and so valuable for me.
Speaker:And I just want you to have something that can spark new thoughts, give you new
Speaker:perspective as you get ready for the year.
Speaker:So number one, well, which one should I start with, like, should
Speaker:I start with my favorite one?
Speaker:I'm just going to go down the list.
Speaker:So I don't even know if I can rank these.
Speaker:Um, but the first book that I'm going to talk to you about is, uh, John Maxwell's
Speaker:21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
Speaker:If you know me well, you'll know that I talk about leadership all the time, and
Speaker:this book is the reason why, hands down.
Speaker:I read this book for the first time when I was, I read this book for
Speaker:the first time about 20 years ago.
Speaker:Right, I was still in college, and um, I just had a thought, I was like, wait,
Speaker:you were in college, well, about 20 years ago, and I was like, oh god, I'm
Speaker:so old, but that, I digress, I digress, okay, um, anyways, I read this book first
Speaker:when I was in college, I said about 20 years ago, so I didn't say it was a whole
Speaker:20 years ago, for those of you who are trying to calculate, I didn't give you
Speaker:enough data to calculate how old I am.
Speaker:But anyways, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C.
Speaker:Maxwell.
Speaker:It is an amazing book.
Speaker:It, like, once you read that book, you know when you can't unsee something?
Speaker:The way that John C.
Speaker:Max, John C.
Speaker:Maxwell broke down leadership and laws that impact it.
Speaker:Once you see it, And you start seeing it in the world around
Speaker:you, you can never unsee it.
Speaker:So I view practically everything through the laws of leadership.
Speaker:And, and the beautiful thing he, he does.
Speaker:One of the things he starts off with is establishing what he
Speaker:means by defining leadership.
Speaker:And he talks about leadership has influence.
Speaker:And so with that shift alone, if you stop, if you move away from thinking
Speaker:that leadership is just titles, but you start thinking about leadership as
Speaker:influence, you begin to see influence.
Speaker:And leadership everywhere, right?
Speaker:And you start thinking about yourself in terms of your own self leadership.
Speaker:You think about the organizations that you're a part of.
Speaker:You think about the businesses that you're developing or the
Speaker:businesses that you're a party to.
Speaker:And you start thinking about how leadership impacts them all.
Speaker:I'm just saying, if you are trying to level up your life or just change
Speaker:things about the way you interact with people, 21 irrefutable laws of
Speaker:leadership should be on your list.
Speaker:I don't, I honestly don't know who, I can't, I don't
Speaker:know who should not read it.
Speaker:Like, it is that impactful.
Speaker:If you're in a family, you know, if you're leading a family,
Speaker:you need to read this book.
Speaker:I can't say it enough.
Speaker:It's just hands down one of the best books that I've ever read in my life.
Speaker:Um, the next book that I'm going to recommend that has also been really
Speaker:groundbreaking, but it's more, more recent is James Claire Atomic Habits.
Speaker:Now, the first time I came across James Clear, I was, I think I was getting
Speaker:ready for the new year and I was trying to establish some new routines, you
Speaker:know, trying to figure out, okay, how do I set my new year's resolutions?
Speaker:And I came across one of his blog articles where he's like, forget,
Speaker:forget resolutions or forget goals.
Speaker:Focus on this instead and, um, I'll, I'll put a link to these resources in
Speaker:the comments or in the description, but in that he starts talking about,
Speaker:and here's the quote, here's a quote that I've, I've taken from this book
Speaker:that is just amazing when he said goal, uh, winners and losers have the same
Speaker:goals, the difference is their habits.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We're just, we just, we're just going to pause for that right there.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And, and it's, he clearly, he unpacks this more, but essentially the
Speaker:book's premise is that, um, atomic habits, small, meaningful actions
Speaker:repeated over a long amount of time.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Make the biggest difference.
Speaker:So they're like atomic or, you know, atoms.
Speaker:They're small in size, but then if you think about like the atomic bomb there,
Speaker:the implications and the, the outcome based off of these things are enormous.
Speaker:And so he breaks down developing habits and the mindset behind habits
Speaker:and tips and strategies for them.
Speaker:And it's just a beautiful book He references the book called the power
Speaker:of habit often too So that's a good if you're thinking about ways to kind of
Speaker:shift things for yourself in the year Those two books might be two good books
Speaker:to kind of couple together the power of habits and atomic habits But I think
Speaker:atomic habits just does a really good job at providing like a strong Foundation
Speaker:and argument for why you should focus on habits over goals and how that can
Speaker:change your life So those are two books.
Speaker:Um, the last two books are not as broad in application.
Speaker:They are a little bit more specific to business owners.
Speaker:Um, and so the next one is Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson.
Speaker:And that one, a member of my team, um, my lead paralegal, Casita Simpson, she's
Speaker:the one who recommended that to me.
Speaker:And I loved that book.
Speaker:I love that series.
Speaker:But I think Russell Brunson has done an amazing job at outlining.
Speaker:Um, the secret to building movements, that's one of the things he talks
Speaker:about and really creating clear paths for your client, consumer, whoever.
Speaker:And I think that's critical when I'm coaching other business owners, when
Speaker:I'm coaching other attorneys, when I'm coaching people who are trying to move
Speaker:people who are trying to influence people from one place to another.
Speaker:One of the questions that I consistently ask is, have you thought about the next?
Speaker:step for them, right?
Speaker:So if you speak to them today, what are they supposed to do
Speaker:with that information at the end?
Speaker:One of my big sisters slash friends, we always talk about, you know, um, making
Speaker:sure that we leave people with a takeaway.
Speaker:And I don't want that takeaway when someone encounters me, speaks to me,
Speaker:comes across my resources to just be like, Oh, I have this information,
Speaker:but I want to be as intentional as possible and tell them what they can
Speaker:do with that information going forward.
Speaker:And I think in expert secret.
Speaker:You get a really good roadmap as to how to lay those things out and
Speaker:what to think about when it comes to deciding what is the next step.
Speaker:So that's expert secrets.
Speaker:By Russell Brunson.
Speaker:And the fourth book, fourth book for us to talk about is E Myth by Michael Gerber.
Speaker:And E Myth is another really awesome, um, book.
Speaker:And I think that this is particularly helpful, I think
Speaker:it's helpful for everyone.
Speaker:But if you are in a type of business where there is a specific skill
Speaker:set, um, or service or something like that, I think E Myth helps you.
Speaker:Really iron out some of the wrinkles that come with entrepreneurship and
Speaker:some of the other videos and podcasts that I've done in the past before I
Speaker:talk about how, you know, getting into business is one of the most personal
Speaker:journeys that you'll ever encounter.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Super.
Speaker:Personal and I wouldn't say difficult, but just vulnerable
Speaker:places that you wouldn't expect.
Speaker:But one of those, I, one of the, the challenges there is that when you're
Speaker:an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur in business for yourself, there are so
Speaker:many things that need to be done.
Speaker:Figuring out how you position yourself in the ways to wear the caps at the
Speaker:right time can become really complicated, especially when you're starting out
Speaker:and you have to wear all the hats when you have more people to delegate to, it
Speaker:becomes a little bit easier, but I think you still run into some of these same
Speaker:issues and Michael Gerber does a really great job at providing a framework,
Speaker:providing some simple principles to organize how you approach the various
Speaker:components of running a business.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:That you're not just thinking about, Hey, and I'll, I'll give you a
Speaker:little bit more of, I guess, um, some insight about what he talks about.
Speaker:He breaks it down into three different roles.
Speaker:One role being like the visionary, um, another role being like the technician
Speaker:and another one being the manager.
Speaker:And he talks about how those three components and what those
Speaker:three roles embody represent what.
Speaker:Healthy businesses need in order to be established and to grow.
Speaker:And, you know, here we talk about the best ways to establish your business,
Speaker:protect your name and keep your profits.
Speaker:Having good systems in place is one of the best ways to do all three of those things.
Speaker:And E Myth by Michael Gerber is a great book for establishing that.
Speaker:So I'm giving you four books that I really love.
Speaker:21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
Speaker:Um, James Clare, Atomic Habits.
Speaker:Um, Russell Brunson's expert secrets and Michael Gerber's e myth and e myth.
Speaker:There's a whole, there's a whole series.
Speaker:So there's like e myth attorney and e myth Financial advisor and e myth
Speaker:is so but there's the original e myth and e myth revisited that gives you
Speaker:the foundational portions whereas the other ones they go into your specific
Speaker:industries and There you can go with them.
Speaker:And you know, I looked at the one for attorneys as well Um, but I found that
Speaker:the e myth original and the revisited were sufficient to like provide the framework
Speaker:that I needed to have the shift that was necessary, um, in my stage of development
Speaker:and growth as a business owner.
Speaker:So those four books, amazing.
Speaker:My bonus one, cause I'm a God girl, is of course the scriptures.
Speaker:And this is, this is my, my, my, um, perspective when it comes to looking for
Speaker:truth in the, the, in the scriptures.
Speaker:I'm a person of faith.
Speaker:Um, it's always interesting for me to see parallels.
Speaker:With regards to what I see in books that I read and consume and,
Speaker:and podcasts that I listen to and what's already laid out there.
Speaker:So what you'll find is that you'll, you'll see these different
Speaker:things in place in scriptures.
Speaker:So if you want to, you know.
Speaker:Not a shortcut, but another place to kind of find confirmation.
Speaker:Look through that every now and then, you know, and look through it for yourself.
Speaker:Don't, don't focus on what other people tell you about what's in that book.
Speaker:It's got some challenging things that are like, I don't know why this is there.
Speaker:And I think it's important to ask questions about it, but it's got some
Speaker:things that you're also going to be like, huh, I didn't think about it this way.
Speaker:My perspective has been shifted, but you're only going to access those
Speaker:things if you look at it for yourself.
Speaker:So that was four books plus one, uh, to shift your mind and business for 2024.
Speaker:Now that's the list of books that I have read.
Speaker:I have a longer list.
Speaker:I mean, there's a whole bunch of other books that I've read, but these
Speaker:are the ones that I think would be really beneficial for folks getting
Speaker:ready and gearing up for 2024 now, here's my question to you, what books
Speaker:do I need to have on my list, right?
Speaker:I'm, I have a couple that are, I'm already starting to read.
Speaker:I'll tell you what I think about them at a later time.
Speaker:Um, but.
Speaker:What are the books that have been fundamental to providing a perspective
Speaker:shift for you in the areas of your business, your leadership, your life,
Speaker:um, even your faith, if you want to throw it in there, go ahead and let
Speaker:me know in the comment section below.
Speaker:I'd love to get some more book recommendations on my list.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Until next time, have a great day.
Speaker:And, and I should also throw this out.
Speaker:I'm still going to always put out information about the law because
Speaker:I care about you all knowing that.
Speaker:And so if you have questions that come up about certain legal topics, feel
Speaker:free to let me know about those too.
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Speaker:protecting your business and your brand, um, in the description box
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