Jim Harmer - Work Energy: Finish What You Start and Fearlessly Take On Any Goal

Work Energy
Finish What You Start and Fearlessly Take On Any Goal
Income School LLC 2020

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This book is dedicated to the like button.

Okay, not the like button itself, but to those who pushed it after reading my blog posts or watching my videos over the last few years. The world is full of critics, cynics, and internet trolls, and as someone who works online, Ive met plenty of thembelieve me! This book is dedicated to those who have made themselves lovable and who treat others welleven when they are online.

This book is 60% story and 40% lessons learned. It includes so much story because I had to learn each lesson through experience. This will not be like every other self-development book, which seems to always start with a researcher who studied millionaires. The author then does a few interviews of said rich and successful people and poof! The author suddenly has an epiphany that all successful people have something in common (There was a pattern!). They find the key to success was X, Y, or Z. The rest of the book is filled with examples weve all heard before of famous entrepreneurs at Fortune 500 companies who fit the thesis. While I enjoy those business books, I wanted to produce something really authentic.

Your goals are personal and will impact who you become, so I owe it to you to open up about how Ive taken on some of mine. I did my best not to turn this book into one long humblebrag, but this is a goals book after all, so forgive me. I cant teach you how to be outgoing or eloquent or any of the other things with which I struggle. I certainly cant teach you how to cook. But I can teach you how to crush every goal in your path. Thats what I do.

One of my goals has been to create an online business to support my family. As Ive done that, Ive recognized and developed a work energy formula that largely created my success. Ive applied it to many other goals now and it is the key. As you read this story and apply the work energy formula, you will quickly find the confidence to fearlessly take on any goal.

Work energy is the personal inner drive that makes you tick.

It is the unique mechanism your mind has developed to get things done, and it has been shaped by your lifes experience. While you may apply your work energy to a career, the word work refers to the work you must put in to achieve a goal.

One more thing before we begin. Ive learned after years of having over a million people follow me on social media that no matter how loud the trolls sound, the best route is for me to always be my authentic selfeven when there are those who dont like who I am. So, in this book, I will tell the story as I lived it. Ill mention briefly my religious beliefs where they fit into the story, politics, my distaste for MLMs, and why I hate fish sticks.

If any of those parts of who I am will hurt your feelings, turn back now before its too late. Head for the hills! Otherwise, lets begin a story that I have told to only a fewa story that will help you crush your goals.

Crap. Ive already messed this book up. The dedication is supposed to be a warmhearted thank-you to someone you love, and now Im turning it into a disclaimer about how offended youre gonna be by reading this book. I hope youll give me a breakIm new to this. Blog posts dont require dedications.

Ten years ago, when I started ImprovePhotography.com, I could never have imagined that eventually its pages would be visited more than 72 million times. An entire 0.6% of the worlds population came to Improve Photography at some point in the last decade. Thats a rather ridiculous statisticnobody gets excited about achieving only 0.6% of anything positive.

Woo! I lost 0.6% of a pound!

Boom! I got a 0.6% return in the stock market this year!

Ma! I got a 0.6% on my test!

But in this case, Im absolutely amazed by it. Thats because 0.6% of the entire planet came to my little blog I created largely while eating Cheez-Its and wearing pajamas.

The reach of social media and websites is incredible. Every Monday I sit down on a chair and talk to a camera for 10 minutes. I upload the file to YouTube and 30,000 people watch it (sometimes many more).

Thats amazing to me because as I sit here writing this, I am typing on my wifes aging Macbook Air with a horrendously dirty screen (does she really spit that much when she talks?), wearing basketball shorts and a T-shirt, and I have bedhead. Oh, and lets just set a tone of perfect honesty right here from the beginning of this story: I might also add that I have a bit of a nasty smell on me right now because I havent even showered for the morning. Yep, thats me. Yet the incredible reach of the internet has attracted four out of every 100 English-speaking people on planet Earthfrom Russia to Brazil to China to the United Statesto my little blog.

Sheesh. The dedication turned into a disclaimer about how offensive this book would be, and now this foreword is getting a little braggy.

Hold it.

Im also pretty sure that youre not supposed to write your own foreword. A foreword is supposed to be written by someone famous and important who barely knows you, but who you pay to write it so it will seem to the reader like you are friends. Lets just pretend that this entire section was written by Ellen DeGeneres, with input from Gandhi.