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The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success
Fast Forward Your Impact! You’re proud of what you have accomplished in your life. Yet there is a voice inside your head that says you should be further along than you are right now. So what’s holding you back from having the impact you desire? The answer lies in getting out of your comfort zone and staying there. Doing this means becoming FEARLESS and FOCUSED so that you can take action and break through the mental walls that stand in your way. That is the FFwd Mindset. In these pages author David Schnurman reveals the challenges, fears, exhilaration, and hard-won lessons he learned in training for several marathons and growing his award-winning company, Lawline – resulting in a simple, yet powerful three-step formula that you can apply to your own journey of success. --- “You are in for a treat. Once you read The Fast Forward Mindset , there is no going back.” – Hal Elrod, international bestselling author of The Miracle Morning , The Miracle Equation , and The Miracle Morning Series
186 pages, Paperback
Published May 8, 2019
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August 23, 2019
This book gives amazing insight into the tools and keys of this successful entrepreneur. It's hard not to relate to the honest and unfiltered stories especially if you have challenges of focus and following the standard path. This book generously gives the cliff notes to all the best business and self improvement books the author has found helpful, and his personal life lessons, and the key people who lead to his success.
May 10, 2019
An excellent book to help you overcome hurdles and be fearless. Written from an entrepreneur's perspective, this book has a lot of great actionable advice for other business owners looking to take leaps forward and get past fear that can stand in the way. It's one of those books that has you taking notes, marking pages, and thinking "I can't wait to implement these strategies" along the way.
August 11, 2019
“The Fast Forward Mindset” addresses how we hold ourselves back from having the impact that we want, and how we can become focused enough to break through our own mental walls. Schnurman has developed a three step formula that anyone can use to accelerate their own journey to success. While addressed to entrepreneur’s, anyone can employ these principles to their life and achieve success.
In his foreword, international bestselling author Hal Elrod talks about the specific actions that Schnurman took to support him and his book, “The Miracle Morning mission: Elevating the Consciousness of Humanity, One Morning at a Time”. Why is this important? Because it is a living example of Schnurman’s commitment to help others grow their life and their business.
The three steps that Schnurman defined from his own life experiences are: (1) take action, (2) nip fear in the bud, (3) find your focus. The information presented in this book is distilled from Schnurman’s own life experiences. He hits the nail on the head in his introduction when he talks about how we often feel that we are not as far along in life as we should be. The foundation for this little voice in our head is what we have always expected to do and achieve, and the impact that we expected to have on others. I feel this is true for anyone, in any occupation.
Schnurman presents his material in an anecdotal manner – through stories of things he has experienced in life. He is very straightforward with what he says, and how he says it. He points out that he learned from his good experiences, as well as his bad experiences. We cannot let anything get us down. In walking through the process of Schnurman’s success, we gain a new perspective on how we can achieve success in our own lives.
Schnurman talks about taking ownership of our own thoughts, about learning to deal with things that are out of our control, making bold decisions, and being able to visualize what our future success will look like. Throughout the book we find templates that we can use to move ourselves forward. (Note: These templates can be downloaded from Schnurman’s site.) There are also exercises included that help the reader to develop qualities within themselves that are supportive of their success.
At the end of the book Schnurman presents the Fast Forward Mindset template, and an example of how he completed the template using the goal of publishing this book. (Note: The templates for this plan are available for download from www.ffwdmindset.com/resources.
Bottom line – to achieve success, we need to move out of our comfort zone. “The Fast Forward Mindset” gives us the tools and resource we need to do that, whether we are entrepreneurs or not. This book acts as a gateway to a better way of living.
In his foreword, international bestselling author Hal Elrod talks about the specific actions that Schnurman took to support him and his book, “The Miracle Morning mission: Elevating the Consciousness of Humanity, One Morning at a Time”. Why is this important? Because it is a living example of Schnurman’s commitment to help others grow their life and their business.
The three steps that Schnurman defined from his own life experiences are: (1) take action, (2) nip fear in the bud, (3) find your focus. The information presented in this book is distilled from Schnurman’s own life experiences. He hits the nail on the head in his introduction when he talks about how we often feel that we are not as far along in life as we should be. The foundation for this little voice in our head is what we have always expected to do and achieve, and the impact that we expected to have on others. I feel this is true for anyone, in any occupation.
Schnurman presents his material in an anecdotal manner – through stories of things he has experienced in life. He is very straightforward with what he says, and how he says it. He points out that he learned from his good experiences, as well as his bad experiences. We cannot let anything get us down. In walking through the process of Schnurman’s success, we gain a new perspective on how we can achieve success in our own lives.
Schnurman talks about taking ownership of our own thoughts, about learning to deal with things that are out of our control, making bold decisions, and being able to visualize what our future success will look like. Throughout the book we find templates that we can use to move ourselves forward. (Note: These templates can be downloaded from Schnurman’s site.) There are also exercises included that help the reader to develop qualities within themselves that are supportive of their success.
At the end of the book Schnurman presents the Fast Forward Mindset template, and an example of how he completed the template using the goal of publishing this book. (Note: The templates for this plan are available for download from www.ffwdmindset.com/resources.
Bottom line – to achieve success, we need to move out of our comfort zone. “The Fast Forward Mindset” gives us the tools and resource we need to do that, whether we are entrepreneurs or not. This book acts as a gateway to a better way of living.
August 7, 2019
Over the years I've read quite a few business and entrepreneurship books. There seems to be a standard formula to these books that typically involves providing a ton of facts and information with very little context or rationale. With The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success, David Schnurman separates himself from other authors by curating the information he, himself, has collected over the years. This curation is then immediately contextualized and tied to his own journey and experiences as an entrepreneur and leader. It's a much more impactful formula that actually made me want to work on integrating the knowledge he shares rather than simply reading about it.
For full disclosure, I've worked for Dave for the past few years. I know him very well and I've been a part of the ups and downs he discusses and analyzes in his book. Reading through The Fast Forward Mindset, it felt like I was having a conversation with Dave – his writing is open and honest throughout and reflects how he actually communicates. Even knowing Dave so well, though, I felt like his insight on how he leads sheds light on the experiences we've shared while working together.
I'd highly recommend The Fast Forward Mindset to any entrepreneur (or budding entrepreneur) looking to reinvigorate (or jumpstart) their journey. If you're in the NYC area, reach out to Dave, too – he's always been one to make time to offer advice or help others out on their journey!
For full disclosure, I've worked for Dave for the past few years. I know him very well and I've been a part of the ups and downs he discusses and analyzes in his book. Reading through The Fast Forward Mindset, it felt like I was having a conversation with Dave – his writing is open and honest throughout and reflects how he actually communicates. Even knowing Dave so well, though, I felt like his insight on how he leads sheds light on the experiences we've shared while working together.
I'd highly recommend The Fast Forward Mindset to any entrepreneur (or budding entrepreneur) looking to reinvigorate (or jumpstart) their journey. If you're in the NYC area, reach out to Dave, too – he's always been one to make time to offer advice or help others out on their journey!
September 25, 2019
Incredible book for anyone who wants to find their focus and accelerate their success. I've given this book to so many of my friends who are not where they want to be and don't understand how to get there themselves. Positive book with an author who really is making a difference in the lives of others.
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