How to Make Something from Nothing
Life’s Ultimate Dilemma and How It Influences Your Decisions, Your Success and Everything You Do
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How to Make Something from Nothing
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Narrated by:
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John Moon
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John Moon
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It’s midwinter in 1968. As an eleven-year-old child, chopping wood in the back yard of his parents’ council house, John Moon made a decision which impacted his world forever: he was not going to live his life this way.
In this delightful book, John tells his story, from the high-speed thrills of motor sport to the gradual building of his property portfolio. With candour, humour and sometimes brutal honesty, he shares the successes, the hard times and the out-and-out disasters. There was no rich relative waiting in the wings to bail him out, no influential contact offering him a lucrative career straight out of school, no university education. John started with nothing and went on to place himself within the top 1 percent of the UK’s wealthiest households. And the golden nuggets of advice throughout his book will show you how similar success could be yours.
Life’s ultimate dilemma: will you live for the moment or plan for tomorrow? Whatever you choose, How to Make Something from Nothing – the story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life – is guaranteed to inform and entertain you.
©2024 John Moon (P)2025 John MoonWhat's particularly resonated with me is John's discussion about setting goals and the mindset required when writing them, so I have been writing some career goals recently with the mindset of "I WILL", rather than "I would like", and will do this for personal life goals soon too. While I can't relate to John's industry experience, I can definitely relate to his points on mindset, and how he remembers making specific decisions that changed the course of his life for the better. I also found the section on how becoming more self aware opened John up to self-assessment and improvement particularly interesting.
Whether you're in a particular struggle point in life, or whether you're happy and content, John's book is definitely worth a read or a listen. He reads it very well, and speaks in a more personal manner than other books. He's frank, upfront and honest, and happy to be self-critical in a positive way to enact the right change, rather than encourage negativity. John certainly makes you think about the way you tackle the day!
Makes you think about the way you tackle life
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