Hey it’s Tim Brown and this is Extra Mile: Positive Thinking During COVID-19, and I’m doing this every day during lockdown so I can get good at helping people maintain a positive mindset. 

I’m of the mind it takes work to keep yourself positive... and perhaps you want or need something of more substance here... some of these books I’ve read 3 and 5 times because they’re that good.

The basic idea is Think and grow rich is that you can use affirmations, to seed the pot of your mind with positivity, and having a clear defined purpose allows your subconscious to continually help you achieve it. 

The 10X rule is about taking your goal and multiplying your goal by 10 and saying what would I need to do to hit that, and then taking massive action toward that.

Factulness gives you in clear data why the world is literally better than its ever been and is getting better every year, from the worst poverty being diminished by 60-80% in the last 40 years, to 100’s of other clear stats that turn the idea of slowly dying society on its head.

The power of full engagement talks about high-performance executives like their athletes. Your personal energy is important to manage and this book guides you to recognize when in the day you should be wielding that, why and how. 

Antifragile is heavy but has massive impact. The basic idea is that many organic things in life not only are ‘resilient’ they’re better after adversity than before it. 

Tons of actionable stuff in these 5 books. Write down your goals, what actions would you take if you had to hit 10x your number, look for the real positive data that our brain sometimes ignores in its bias towards looking for threats. Stack your highest value tasks in the time of your day when you have the best energy and lastly look at how much better off you’ll be If you get hit but take the right attitude about it.

Thank you for listening! Quicklink to subscribe on Spotify “hookagency.com/extra” - this is Tim Brown, join me every weekday after my mile run for a couple minutes of positivity.