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The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur: 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business
A guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others. Each of The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur meditations is followed by a reflection and a challenging question from John Jantsch. He draws on his lifetime of experience as a successful coach for small business and startup leaders to offer an entrepreneurial context. Jantsch shows how entrepreneurs can learn to trust their ideas and overcome the doubt and fear of everyday challenges. The book Written for entrepreneurs, as well anyone seeking to find a deeper meaning in their work and life, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a practical handbook for anyone seeking to embrace the practice of self-trust.
400 pages, Hardcover
Published October 22, 2019
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John Jantsch
28 books84 followersJohn Jantsch is a small business marketing speaker, marketing consultant, and bestselling author of Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, The Referral Engine, and The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur.
Look for The Ultimate Marketing Engine out Sept 2021.
Look for The Ultimate Marketing Engine out Sept 2021.
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October 26, 2020
This book asks you questions you’d not even considered
Unlike most books, I didn’t read this cover to cover in a short time. Instead, I dipped in and out of this book over a period of months.
The reason? In his writing, the author poses some very intriguing questions which I couldn’t immediately answer and needed time to consider!
Author John Jantsch is known for his marketing wisdom, but this book is more philosophical, and tackles the big questions that every entrepreneur or business owner faces.
The book is laid out with 365 short insights, one for each of the year.
Each insight focuses on the extract of a 19th century text, which the author translates and interprets to ask us, the reader and business owner, questions of ourselves.
I’m glad that John does the interpretation of the 19th century writers into modern language, as I’m one of those people who struggle to understand the meaning of poetry and other such writing.
However, the questions that each section asks of us as entrepreneurs are thought provoking and, many times, profound.
I will say that I’ve never made as many notes in a book as I did with this one. You could read it again and again, at different points in your business journey, and it would be relevant in a different way each time.
An amazing read that I suspect I’ll revisit again.
Unlike most books, I didn’t read this cover to cover in a short time. Instead, I dipped in and out of this book over a period of months.
The reason? In his writing, the author poses some very intriguing questions which I couldn’t immediately answer and needed time to consider!
Author John Jantsch is known for his marketing wisdom, but this book is more philosophical, and tackles the big questions that every entrepreneur or business owner faces.
The book is laid out with 365 short insights, one for each of the year.
Each insight focuses on the extract of a 19th century text, which the author translates and interprets to ask us, the reader and business owner, questions of ourselves.
I’m glad that John does the interpretation of the 19th century writers into modern language, as I’m one of those people who struggle to understand the meaning of poetry and other such writing.
However, the questions that each section asks of us as entrepreneurs are thought provoking and, many times, profound.
I will say that I’ve never made as many notes in a book as I did with this one. You could read it again and again, at different points in your business journey, and it would be relevant in a different way each time.
An amazing read that I suspect I’ll revisit again.
December 31, 2020
The Self Reliant Entrepreneur by John Jantsch is a must read for entrepreneurs. Sighting transcendentalist literature by famous American Authors as a daily meditation, followed by a reflection and a challenging question for every day of the year, the book becomes a good companion for the entrepreneurial journey. Personally I have found a new meaning to meditation, by adding this book of inspirational thoughts along with the focused deep breathing to the daily practice. #LoveToRead #BookLovers #atozentrepreneurship #dntjbookclub
December 31, 2021
An interesting tour
An interesting collection of readings and reflections on some major American authors and thinkers which I found a stimulating read throughout the year.
An interesting collection of readings and reflections on some major American authors and thinkers which I found a stimulating read throughout the year.
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