{"id":231,"date":"2012-04-30T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-take-the-stairs-by-rory-vaden\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:15:00","slug":"thoughts-on-take-the-stairs-by-rory-vaden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-take-the-stairs-by-rory-vaden\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Take the Stairs by Rory Vaden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a chance to dig into a new book recently titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Take-Stairs-Steps-Achieving-Success\/dp\/0399537236\" target=\"_blank\">Take the Stairs<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/roryvaden.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rory <span>Vaden<\/span><\/a>. The book takes a path I like, namely, it doesn&#39;t pull any punches. Rory makes it clear that if you want success you better be prepared to do the hard work, but in the end it&#39;s worth it and most truly successful people get this.<\/p>\n<p>He also takes on our cultural norms (at least in America) and plays the true <span>contrarian<\/span>. Fortunately he doesn&#39;t leave you with long-winded diatribes. Solutions are found through-out the book. In the end, the resounding theme goes the direction of no easy path to true success. The following are some of the things I liked about Rory&#39;s insights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He makes a suggestion to check email 3 times a day. I like that idea.<\/li>\n<li>We shouldn&#39;t be so fixated with &quot;should I.&quot; A better plan is to move forward and focus on how you can make something work.<\/li>\n<li>Commitment is lacking in our age and its essential to making our success happen.<\/li>\n<li>Get through the upfront pain of change and you&#39;ll be alright.<\/li>\n<li>Procrastination is the enemy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-in-all the book is worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a chance to dig into a new book recently titled Take the Stairs by Rory Vaden. The book takes a path I like, namely, it doesn&#39;t pull any punches. Rory makes it clear that if you want success you better be prepared to do the hard work, but in the end it&#39;s worth it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[632,30,906,905,119,413,903,904,507],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business-commentary","tag-amazon","tag-books-2","tag-business-books","tag-rory-vaden","tag-self-help","tag-success","tag-take-the-stairs","tag-take-the-stairs-by-rory-vaden","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}