Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I really like Plato’s famous phrase: “Every problem has three solutions: my solution, your solution, and the right solution” because I believe it conveys an important truth that I fully agree with faced with any problem that may arise encounter in life, there can be more solutions but only one is right and that produces the desired result. The problem is identifying the right one for me, considering it may not be the right one for you. Starting from this assumption, I thought that the best thing is to expose various solutions and let the reader draw the right conclusions for himself, for his case, or rather for his life. With this in mind, the idea was born to write a series entitled 10 WAYS OF THINKING, which has the prerogative of being a series of books all comprising 10 chapters, or the solutions to the problem. The number 10 is symbolic, in fact inside the book there are so many solutions contained for each chapter that everyone can easily identify the one they consider most satisfying for themselves. The series all deals with topics related to Self-Help and Business Life. The first of the series just released on Amazon is a Self-Help and entitle “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. Achieve the Goal of a Fulfilling Life.” The second in the series, just released, is a Business Life entitled: “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee. Test New Ideas, Turn your Habits and Awaken Decision-Making Power.” I have written 5 more books in this series, which will be available in the next few months on Amazon and all major bookstores.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The first book in the “10 WAYS TO THINK” series is: “Take Control of Your Life: Achieving the Goal of a Fulfilling Life. Self-Acceptance to Gain Mental Strength, Willpower, and Stronger Positive Relationships,” is the essence of self-help.
In the business world, it is essential to come up with new business ideas to stay competitive. It is perhaps more important than ever in today’s world. Sometimes it seems difficult because we have a lot more options today than we did a year or two ago.
In this second book in the series: “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee. Test New Ideas, Turn your Habits and Awaken Decision-Making Power.” I mainly focus on Business Life.
The inspiration to write this book came to me reflecting on some events that have happened to me in my life and seriously reflecting on the true values that should distinguish every human being. I also thought a lot about sharing, social life and the difficulties that every entrepreneur must face to be successful, both in business and in private life.
During the day, we make thousands of decisions every minute. We make most of these decisions without conscious reflection; instinctively or through responses learned as habits based on the experience of a lifetime. Unfortunately, these habitual decision patterns persist in the business world, so that owners react without thinking about changing situations without really thinking. Such behavior is not appropriate in the business environment, where change is constant.
The habits you create today influence your future. Your habits are your daily actions. Change your habits and change your way of thinking.
The secret of success is based on what you think of yourself, on how you consider life. Actual business leads you to be happy for having taken control of your life, not for being dominated by it and spending your days enslaved by it. The genuine change is in yourself because once you improve yourself then everything around you, including your business, will grow accordingly.
Courage will serve you to make the right decisions and make the changes, using fear for your goal, not as an insurmountable obstacle. It will be a fundamental step to take control of your life, knowing that to do so you must act immediately without delay and thus overcome indecision because knowing how to decide at the right time determines the success or failure of any business you are doing or about to start.
My goal in writing the book is to create a work full of tips and solutions already successfully tested, sometimes even very complex, making them understandable to everyone.
Rich in principles of life and human values, in just ten simple steps, with a direct and immediate language, “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee.” it can help you change your private life and your business.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have refined a method. All my life I have been writing notes in a notebook, very detailed and so chaotic that now I find it hard even to reread it. Written in small print, even in the corners of the pages, sometimes the writing is scrum bled with arrows, symbols and more that I won’t tell you and the paper has turned yellow.
However, with effort and effort, I reread it, and I reassembled it and divided it into topics. This facilitated me in identifying the solutions to the various problems encountered.
Later I did a lot of research which I then compared together with some of my collaborators, experts and professionals in various fields.
This is just to say that each book has its own story. The inspiration to write it comes to me above all when I return to my home in Aspen from London, where I have a company. When I am immersed in nature, away from the hectic life of London, in my garden, near my beloved donkey or on top of the mountain, I reread and reflect on my notebook. Every time I read it, I get inspiration for a new book. I mark the ideas and then develop them.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
One of all that I would like to mention who made me think about the problems of managers to realize new ideas that work, is Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who became famous in the seventies for helping Japan with innovative and high-quality products. Other authors who have written self-worthy and interesting information on various topics that I have been able to read are: Dr. Daniel Amen, psychiatrist and specialist in brain disorders., Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Dr. Aimee Daramus, Dr. Barry F. Vaughan, Ph.D. Suniya S. Luthar and others.
What are you working on now?
I am working on Business Life books of great social value on Leadership and Career. I am spending a lot of time in research, because the subject is delicate and I really care. I think they will be ready towards the end of the year.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Here, honestly, you find me a little unprepared. In principle, I rely on Amazon, but I am also testing some services, and awesomegang.com is one of them.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Think a lot, a lot, a lot
Take nothing for granted
Always compare yourself with others for your ideas
Test and verify your solutions
Find your way to get inspired
Leave your mark in the heart of the reader
Only write things of value
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES. Which means: get busy, don’t get discouraged or throw in the towel, don’t dump your responsibilities on others because you have all the tools to do it. Just do your research or read an excellent book.
What are you reading now?
I am enjoying reading this novel “An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains” by Max Frisch, Smith Nicholson.
An evocative book on the motives of life. It is about a man looking to fulfill his childhood dreams never reached. Then he climbs to the peaks of a mountain that no one had ever reached, and there the story takes color with the rediscovery of the basics of life. That something similar happened to me, too. Perhaps therefore I find it interesting, a light but sobering reading. If you haven’t read it, I recommend it.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Continue the 10 WAYS OF THINKING series and improve it more and more.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The book of books, where history, law, wisdom, values of life, the origin of everything and everyone meet, unites the past, the present and the future. The book you read, the more you always learn: The Holy Bible.
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