Hey everyone, this is Stefan from
projectlifemastery.com and in this
video I'm going to share with you guys the top 25
books that have changed my life.
Now, when I was originally thinking about
recording this video,
originally I thought, "Okay, what are
the top five books that have really
made a difference in my life, that I'd
recommend to someone else?" Because people
always ask me, "Stefan, what are the top five
books that you would recommend, the top ten
books? What should I read?" When I was
thinking of my list of my top five books I
couldn't just limit it to five books.
It ended up turning into ten books,
and then when I was going through my list of ten
books, I couldn't limit it there either,
it turned into fifteen and twenty. Finally I
narrowed it down to twenty-five books
that have changed my life. Because my
life has changed over many different years,
you've got to understand, I got into
self development when I was seventeen years old,
and different books that I've read,
thinking back at the different stages of life
that I've been through different books
have changed my life at different
moments different phases of my life and
in different areas of my life. I
believe in just you know you should
always want to improve every aspect of
your life so that you're living a
balanced, fulfilled life. Some of the books
I've got here on my computer, I'm going to
go over each one,
many of the books I don't have the
subtitles on me by memory or anything
I don't remember all the author names for
the books as well, so what I'm going to do
is on YouTube I'm going to link each of
the books below in the description as
well as in a blog post that will
supplement this video, so if you want to
know more details of that, then I'll link
to that there as well and then also I do
recommend, if you do want to get more
up to date on all the books that I'm
reading every single year throughout the
month, I update those in my Monthly
Goals Reports, where every month I share
my goals and I always have goals to read
books and to learn and grow. You guys
can check out more books that I've been
reading at different phases as well.
All right. Now, these books are in no
particular order,
okay, it's not from
best to worst or anything like that.
They all have equally impacted my
life now the first book that i'm gonna
share with you guys that
has changed my life is Awaken The
Giant Within by Tony Robbins. Many of
you guys know how much Tony Robbins has
influenced my life, back when I was seventeen
years old. I first started reading the
book, Awaken The Giant Within, I think,
when I was nineteen, twenty years old. I still
remember specifically when I read the
book, I was actually flying to Toronto at
the time. This book is a powerful
book. Awaken The Giant Within
basically teaches you how you can
change every aspect of your life and how you
can change your beliefs, your state, your
identity, your values. It teaches you
principles for your health, for your
finances. Just really the
key success principles, I think, that
everybody needs to embody in their life.
It's actually a book that I've read
twice. It's a book that ... Like, I
just recall how much it made a
difference in my life at the time amongst
many other things that I've learnt
from Tony Robbins. That's one of
the top books that I often recommend for
people that's really made a difference in my
life. Number two book would be, Think
And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Think
And Grow Rich is a classic self help book.
Napoleon Hill was hired by Andrew
Carnegie who was the richest man in the
world at the time and Andrew Carnegie
had Napoleon Hill go out and study the
most successful people in the world to
find out, what are the common traits, what are
the common qualities that made people
successful. He went and he studied
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
and all these incredible people and this
book, Think And Grow Rich, basically has
all the best of the best of what it
takes to succeed. It's called
Think And Grow Rich because success starts in
your mind, it's your psychology, it's your mindset.
I've shared that many times, how eighty
percent of success is your psychology, whereas
only twenty percent is the how to
and the mechanics. This is a fantastic
book that really goes into the mindset,
the psychology of success. Highly
recommend it. The third book, okay, the third book
that had a big impact in my life is a
really short book but it's powerful it's
a book called It
Works. I think the
subtitle of the book is, it's called, It
Works - The Tiny Little Red Book That
Changes Lives. It's a famous book and
it's a book that you can honestly read
in less than thirty minutes. It's a
tiny book like this is pretty
inexpensive. In the book it basically
teaches how to set goals, it shares a
process for setting goals and then when
you have the goals you want to make sure
that you read them three times a day, you
want to make sure that you carry those
goals with you in your back pocket
or in your purse or whatever it is. You
carry your goals with you at all
times and every day you read it three
times, first thing in the morning, noon,
and before you go to bed. At any
moment if you're stressed in your life,
if you're going through a hard time, if you're
frustrated, if you're angry, if you're depressed, if
you're down all you want to do is you
want to take out that list of
goals and focus on those, focus on where
you want to go.
Don't focus on what you're afraid of,
don't focus on what's not working out.
If you just focus on what you want
consistently, then you're going to move
in that direction and you're going to be
able to manifest and attract what it is
that you want. It Works,
powerful book, everybody should go out and get it.
Another book that really made a
difference in my life is called Man's
Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Viktor Frankl is a psychiatrist who
was basically living in
Auschwitz for a certain period of his life.
He got taken away from
his family, his family got killed, his wife
and his kids, and he was a psychiatrist
in Auschwitz, and all around
him is massive suffering. He
determined that about one in twenty-five people would
actually survive. What he became
fascinated with is, what made the
difference in the human beings that
actually survived and made it through
Auschwitz. Because, here you're
in this environment where at
any moment you're going to be gassed or
killed, you're starving to
death,
you're basically a slave, and it's
just a really powerful, eye opening book,
about the reality of what went on during
that time. What's inspiring about it
is that Viktor Frankl, he basically
studied it, he focused on what made the
difference in somebody going through
suffering, to be able to come out the
other side and be able to survive and
thrive. What he determined was that,
in any moment of life, in any moment of
suffering you always have to find an
empowering meaning, an empowering
purpose. If you can find the purpose
in your suffering, then that would allow
you to be able to make it through
anything. He was also one of the
first people that really determined that
it's not your environment that
determines how you feel, because
you could be in Auschwitz suffering the
worst environment, but that does not
dictate how you feel. You can't control
the outside world, but you can always
control your inner world. He realized
that you could still find meaning, you could still
find happiness and joy,
regardless of the environment that
you're in, so it really teaches you how
to master your psychology and how to
master meaning in your life. Very
powerful book. I actually bought this
book for my mom and my sister. My sister
had the book. I bought it for her
again, because I was like, "You know what, you've
got to read this book again." By the
way, I'm a big believer in certain books
you've read to reread them at different
times, because many of these books I'm
sharing with you, I read them when I was
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
twenty-one years old I'm 30 years old
now and they made such a difference for
me then. If you go through
books at a different time in your life
you're going to get totally different
things from it, because you're at a
different stage of your life.
What's another book that has made an
impact on my life,
one is called The Way Of The Superior
Man by David Deida. This is a book for
men. All men should read this book.
However, women can also read it as well,
if you want to understand men a lot more.
David Deida, he's got a
lot of great books, but The Way Of The
Superior Man,
basically it's broken up into small
chapters and it teaches you how
to be
in your power as a man, how to be in your
masculine presence. It teaches you
how to relate to women, how to deal with
women, how to be on your purpose
in life, and how being on your purpose is
something that's extremely attractive to
women. Because, if you make your
purpose your woman, a lot of times she's
not going to respect you as much unless you
have a bigger purpose that you're moving
towards. An example I always remember
from this book, and this is a book that I
reference constantly, but
let's say you're in a relationship,
and you're a guy. You
love your woman and you're in bed
in the morning and you have a certain
ritual a certain discipline of doing
your morning ritual and going to the gym
every morning. What you find is
that maybe, let's say you're
with your girl and she says,
"Honey, how about we just stay in and
cuddle? You don't have to go to
the gym. Let's just kind of stay in."
You say, "Okay." You start basically
compromising the disciplines that
you had in your life and your higher
purpose, and what's going to happen in that
moment is, your girlfriend or your
wife or whatever it is, she's
going to appreciate that love, but in some
levels she's not going to respect you the
same way. As a man you still have to
love your woman, but at the same time, at
times say, "You know what, I've got to be
consistent with the standards that I
have in my life." Or, "You know what, I've got
this bigger purpose." Even though she
might not enjoy that as much, she's going to
respect you for it. It basically
teaches ... This is just one concept
of the book, is to be on your purpose in
life and how that's actually more
attractive for women. I know for
myself at stages in my life I
was the nice guy and so I would always want
to make everyone happy and make women happy
and so I'd compromise and I ended
up being this guy who just became needy
and clingy and sure enough all the
attraction can just disappear just like
that. You've got to make sure, as a
man you're still on your purpose.
Another great book is The Four Hour
Work Week. I mentioned this book
several times. I
don't really believe in the four hour
work week, it's kind of a myth
the four hour work week, because nobody lives
four hours, the work week
full time. There might be
certain moments, Tim Ferris, myself,
other Internet entrepreneurs that I know,
we would live the four hour work week for a
few months, a month, we travel and you can
allow amazing freedom, but the four hour
work week is flawed in the sense that if
you just work four hours a week and
you've got an online business, the
Internet is changing so much that five
years from now or ten years from now
you're going to basically be out of
business. I don't believe in the
four hour work week for life. I believe in,
maybe at different times in your life,
having that freedom, being able to enjoy
it, but more importantly, finding your
mission, your purpose in your life, that
you enjoy working more than forty hours a
week, but you're doing something because you
enjoy it. It's not a chore for you, it's not
a job, it's your mission, it's your purpose.
This book made an impact in my life
because it made me believe and realize
the whole passive income lifestyle.
Tim Ferris did a great
job marketing and selling the
escape the nine to five and travel the world and
be able to enjoy your life in the
process of building your business.
That really influenced me at the
time, really got me motivated to build
online businesses and pursue it as a
lifestyle, as a career.
I was just attracted to the fact
that I could travel the world. When I was
building my first business I traveled to
Thailand and around South East Asia
while I was building my business. I was
living this great lifestyle and it was because
of the book, The Four Hour Work Week. Beyond
that, it also teaches you how to leverage
yourself, how to leverage virtual
assistance. Tim Ferris did a great
job promoting the whole
idea that you can outsource things
inexpensively to other countries and have
them help you build your business.
Great book for anybody that has a job
nine to five that wants to escape it and
pursue the Internet lifestyle. Another
great book that has made a difference in
my life is called The Greatest Salesman
In The World by Og Mandino. This
is a book that I recently reread. I
read this book when I was, I would say,
nineteen years
old. It's a classic self help book and it
really impacted me when I was nineteen years
old, because Og Mandino, he's got a
lot of great books that I recommend, but
The Greatest Salesman In The World is
basically a fictitious story
about a boy who wants to become the
greatest salesman in the world. He
goes to the king and the king basically
gives him these scrolls. These
scrolls have the different success
principles to be a successful salesman
and to be wealthy and living a great life.
He goes out on this journey and
basically what the instruction
is is that he has to read one scroll
three times a day for thirty days and he's
got to really master what is taught
inside that scroll, he's got to really
practice it. For example, the
first scroll is on love and the power of
just love and how loving the
day, loving people, is one of the most
important skills in being able to
influence people and live a really great
life. Basically,
throughout the book you're going on this
journey and then you're reading these
scrolls and you're reading each scroll,
which is a chapter, three times a day,
morning, noon, and before you go to
bed. It really made a big impact
in my life because I like books like
that. I like books that don't just have a
bunch of theory and knowledge, but get
you to actually shift your beliefs, your
mindset and your psychology. This is a
great book that really forced me to
practice these principles every day and
reading it every day, and then moving on
to the next scroll and reading it every day
for thirty days, and then moving on to the
next, so you really master it. You guys
know that I'm a big believer in
committing to mastery. Great book.
I recently reread it. Many of you guys know on
my Monthly Goals Reports for this year,
and it's a great book, it's a book you
can read while you're reading other
books as well. It's a powerful book.
It's going to take you a few months to
finish it because that's the way it's
laid out, but it's a really great book
in shifting your psychology. Another
great book that made a difference in my
life is called The Wealthy Barber by
David Chilton. This is a book I read when I was
eighteen years old.
When I was eighteen years old I was working
for my dad in the family business with
my brother and I hated my
job, but my dad
wanted me to work in the family business,
I was working in the family business all
throughout high school when I was a kid,
before high school, elementary school.
Didn't get paid most of the time when I worked
for my dad in the family business. My
brother at the time, who's nine years
older than me, he's actually my
step-brother but we're really close, but
he, at the time, was learning about
investing. He had a mentor in his
life who was teaching him real estate and
also his father-in-law, so his
now wife's father, is a very successful
investor, so he's learning a lot from him.
Anyways, he recommended for me the
book called The Wealthy Barber. It's
basically a story about a guy who's
going to the barber and is getting this
financial advice, and this barber becomes
wealthy. It's basically
teaching the principles of paying
yourself first ten percent of what you
make, you've got to pay yourself first,
teaching about the power
of compounding and everything like that.
The book is more geared towards
Canadians because David Chilton is a
Canadian author and so it's more geared
towards that. I read it when I
was eighteen and it really impacted my life. I
didn't know about paying yourself first.
I started doing it, and I think
pretty much every finance
book teaches to pay yourself first,
but what I notice is a lot of people
still don't do it. They read the
book and for some reason they're not
actually applying it. For me, at eighteen
years old, I decided, "You know what? I'm
applying it." I just started doing
that month after month and at the time
I'd invested in a mutual fund which was
Bank of Montreal, the minimum
investment was five hundred bucks. I didn't have
a lot of money to put every month,
but I did twenty-five dollars a month on a
pre-authorized payment plan. Every single
month automatically withdrawn so I couldn't
even see it. Eventually it was
a hundred dollars a month and then I
found another mutual fund and this is
what I was doing when I was eighteen, nineteen years old.
Now I'm thirty years old, my
money's been compounding, I've
continued this habit. Obviously
more of my money goes towards paying
myself first. It was a really great book
that just really opened me up to
that. It's got a really great story as well.
Another powerful book that changed
my life was Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert
Kiyosaki. This is a book that was one
of the most popular finance books of
all time. It really taught me about
assets versus liabilities.
It's a really easy to read book, it's a really
enjoyable to read book that just
helps you with your mindset, your
psychology around money. He
basically shares a story of his rich dad
and his poor dad. His poor dad was his actual
biological father who was actually a
school teacher and I think maybe a
principal as well, but he was poor. Where
his rich dad was actually his friend's
dad and he was wealthy and he
was getting financial advice from him,
and it was just kind of contradictory to
what most of society believes what his
poor dad, his teacher dad, was
basically living at the time as well.
Really great book that just
teaches you the fundamentals of money. I
think everybody should read it.
Another great book is Cashflow
Quadrant also by Robert Kiyosaki.
This is a good follow up book to Rich
Dad Poor Dad. This book, I read it, I think,
when I was maybe twenty-two, twenty-three years old. I
remember, by the way, I was a dating coach
for many years in my early twenties and
I had this one client that I coached, he was
an extremely wealthy person, he was, I
think, in his fifties or sixties, but he
was extremely wealthy. He had homes all
around the world, in New York, in
France, and he was a very wealthy person.
I remember I asked him, I said,
"What advice do you have for me, somebody
that wants to be successful
financially one day?" He said, "Read all
the books by Robert Kiyosaki." He's
like, "You know what, if you just read all
those books and apply it,
that's the core that you need to know to
be successful financially." I
always remember that advice that he gave
and so I ended up reading a few more
of Robert Kiyosaki's books. Anyway,, Cashflow
Quadrant was a good one,
it basically shares his four different quadrants.
Let's see if I can remember all of them. One is
the E, the employee. One is the
self employed. The third is the
business owner. The fourth is
the investor. He basically describes
that you do not want to be the employee,
and you do not want to be the
self employed, because a lot of people
that are self employed but they still have
a job, basically, right? He
is basically sharing, in the quadrant you
want to be the business owner and the
investor. The business owner is the one
that works on the business, they have a
business that runs, that's independent
from themselves. They're not working in
the business as an employee.
Also, being the investor as well. Great
book. Great follow up. Again, more
mindset around money and investing.
Okay, another great book that really made an
impact in my life is The Millionaire Fastlane
by M.J. DeMarco. This is a book
that I actually read when I was in Bali a
few years ago. I read it, I was
actually already, I think, doing twenty thousand,
thirty thousand dollars a month in my business.
I read this book and it
just blew me away.
I like books that
communicate in a very direct way, like a
no BS sort of way, because that just, for me,
it resonates more with me, and it's definitely
a book like that. It's a book that really
puts down the nine to five and also it puts down
the whole thinking of
getting rich slow. Basically, the
whole concept, it contradicts the pay
yourself first and
compounding and all that sort of stuff.
Things like that I don't
necessarily agree with, but it
basically teaches that all the wealthy
financial gurus that give the advice of
paying yourself first and compounding,
that's not how they became wealthy,
they became wealthy in business. I think
business is the best way to really
change your finances, but also at the same
time, the money that you make in your
business, you also have to make sure that
you're paying yourself first and you're
investing in other ways, because
business always changes as it
evolves and I think the best passive
investments that you can have are
stocks that pay dividends, that are
blue chip, or real estate that pay
positive cash flow. I'm a big
believer in investing your money in
those ways and having multiple
strategies for financial abundance. The
long term approach. The short term
approach is more your business where
within a few years you can become a
millionaire. Anyways, really great book on
mindset. I remember one great thing that
I got from the book at the time, it just kind
of always sticks out to me, is, it basically shared
how there's a lot of
people out there, they're always looking
for deals. I'll
give you an example, my mom, I love my mom
but she's always basically taken
all the coupon books and trying to find
all the best coupons and shopping around
in order to find the best possible deal.
I was kind of that way at certain
moments in my life as well, and what this
book really made me realize is that a
lot of people, they're spending so much
of their time trying to find the best
deals and they don't realize that your time
is worth money and you've got to identify
exactly how much your time is worth,
because if your one hour of your time
is worth ten dollars, twenty dollars an
hour, fifty dollars an hour, a hundred dollars
an hour, or a thousand dollars an hour, you
got to be aware of that. Because, a lot of
people, they'll spend their time and they're
actually losing money because they're
trying to save a couple of
dollars or a couple of cents on a deal.
I remember at one moment in Bali,
me and my friend, we were
spending all this time trying to find
the best hotel and the cheapest hotel and the
best deal to get a massage or whatever
it is, and he would spend three hours
looking to save five or ten dollars.
It didn't make any sense. I remember
really understanding
the value of your time and that you
want to be very efficient with your
time. In some cases you want to spend more
money if it's going to save you time,
because your time is more valuable
than money. Great book, great lesson I
got from it. I think
we're about halfway done here. Another
book is called FU Money by my friend
Dan Lok. I shared this book before, this
is a book that actually was given to me by Dan
Lok at a seminar that
he gave here in Vancouver. I read this
book when I flew to
Thailand and I was building my online business,
I was pretty new to it at the time, and it
really helped me with my mindset,
psychology, around building an online
business. Was a very inspirational book to
me at the time. I was near total
desperation mode, committed to doing
whatever it took to succeed online.
It really impacted my life. I actually
shared this book a few years ago on my
YouTube channel and a lot of people went
and they bought Dan's book as a result of it
and Dan Lok noticed this or someone
told him that and he actually reached
out to me. Here was someone that
was once a mentor in my life, he reached out
to me and now Dan and I have
become friends and I've spoken at his events
and whatnot and interviewed him on my
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