Trickle Down Mindset: The Missing Element in Your Personal Success (11 page)

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Data sources:

1. Listen to one podcast episode.

2. Listen to audio book for at least ten minutes.

3. Watch one video on a specialized YouTube channel.

4. Watch one TED talk.

5. Read one chapter of the Bible (or The Holy Scripture of your religion; or read it for five minutes).

6. Read ten (or just two) pages of a good book (or read for ten minutes).

7. Read a single specialized blog post.

8. Read a single random blog post (just type an interesting topic into Google).

9. Read one article from a professional magazine.

Interpretation:

10. Join and start using Lift (interactions bonus: follow other people’s entries and comment on them).

11. Answer one insightful question a day (the best way: on paper).

12. Keep a gratitude journal.

13. Start a blog and work on it every day (not necessarily post daily, just make working on your blog a part of your routine).

14. Keep a journal.

15. Pray or meditate for five minutes.

Interactions:

16. Spend ten minutes in an online community.

17. Text a friend (or a few of them).

18. Write a blog comment.

19. Join Twitter and do one of the following: retweet a single message, follow one new person, send a message to one person.

20. Make a phone call (or two, or three).

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I’m Michal Stawicki and I live in Poland, Europe. I’ve been married for over fourteen years and am the father of two boys and one girl. I work full time in the IT industry, and recently, I’ve become an author. My passions are transparency, integrity, and progress.

In August 2012, I read a book called
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In November of 2012, I created my personal mission statement; I consider it the real starting point of my progress. Over several months’ time, I applied numerous self-help concepts and started building inspiring results: I lost some weight, greatly increased my savings, built new skills, and got rid of bad habits while developing better ones.

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