ReadingForYourSuccess is all about learning to Live Life On Your Terms. Simple as that.

My take-action articles, coaching and book summaries are all dedicated to discovering your own path to personal freedom. Who doesn’t want to feel free anyway? It’s something we all seek and there’s a million different routes. Let’s go find one.

I believe that “action-based-reading” is the only way to really learn and make life changes. Reading is where it starts but taking action is where the magic happens. I am die-hard passionate about learning and improvement and am committed to enabling people to make their lives and careers a success through learning and doing something about it!

What’s so great about Life On Your Terms? This site will teach you to:

• Leverage your time to spend it doing things you love–i.e Find Freedom!
• Take action on new ideas to better your life experience
• Lead healthier and richer relationships
• Experience more enjoyable, stress-free days
• Eat and exercise in a way that nourishes the body and provides amazing energy
• Get motivated and realize your goals and dreams
• Find your unique strengths and purpose
• Become a valuable addition to society and leave the world a little better than you found it
• And whatever else you and I happen to learn along the way…

I love to read, and I especially love to read things that I feel improve my value as a person and teach me things that I can directly apply to my life. Then my favorite is to test them out! (For more about me, check out “Who am I?” further down this page)

My number one goal is to give more than I take and to help others at every chance possible along the way. I love it. Reading For Your Success is here to make its readers live more fulfilling and enjoyable lives. And most importantly, to live the life YOU are meant to live. Pretty simple. I hope my life experiences and the hundreds of books I’ve read (and continue to read) will help to that extent.

The site is here purely for you.  I want all of you to be guided in a positive direction that will lead you to be more successful with each passing day.

Over the years I will continue to grow Reading For Your Success into a resource for making lives a little better in all ways possible by doing the following:

• Writing inspiring articles and book reviews
• Offering custom book suggestions relating to a reader’s goals
• Writing a number of eBooks on the most powerful life-enhancing principles I’ve learned
• Writing a physical book to further spread the love
• Offering one-on-one and group coaching for those seeking guidance with realizing specific goals
• Speaking to groups of motivated people regarding how to excel in various life situations

To give you a better feel for how I can help you, here is a list of some of the posts that have provided the most value for readers. This is constantly changing but here’s a taste. I also recommend checking out my most recent posts for the latest action.

Top 10 Most Popular Posts:

1. The Beginner’s Guide to Being Congruent

2. 10 Lessons a Pickup Artist Can Teach a Salesman

3. The Art of Slowing Down: 12 Simple Steps

4. How to Live to 100: Lessons from the Blue Zones

5. 13 Life Lessons I Learned from Warren Buffett

6. The End of Paying Full Price: 7 Quick Tools for Getting a Better Deal

7. Influence Like Tony Robbins: 6 Tools from a Master Influencer

8. Quadruple Your Productivity and Enjoy a Little Life

9. Eat Simply and Reclaim Your Energy

10. 7 Quick Steps to Finishing a Non-Fiction Book in Half the Time While Retaining Twice as Much

Success is Yours to Define

Few people really know what success means to them. Most of us are caught up in what society claims is successful, which is meaningless to any one person. Reading For Your Success is my way of changing that. Of getting the word out and getting those around me to act in ways that are most congruent with their dreams and goals. That begins with your own definition of success, followed by a path of action. I am here to help.

For my full view, have a look at my Thoughts On Success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson defines success in a way that I hope inspires you to define yours:

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent

people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation

of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to

appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the

world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,

or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has

breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Who am I?

My name is Scott Dinsmore. I’m 28 and just recently married to my gorgeous college sweetheart of over seven years. For those interested, our Croatian honeymoon was the best education I’ve had in years.

I’m a die-hard adventurer, life-experimenter, writer, blogger, speed reader, teacher, personal freedom coach and value investor, in search of the extraordinary.

En Route to Machu Picchu

I love to learn and have completed multi-day courses in Karrass Effective Negotiating, Iris Speed Reading, Spirit Rock Meditation, Toastmasters Public Speaking, Social Media Marketing, A-List Blogging Bootcamps and Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within (UPW), Get the Edge, Relationship Mastery and Mastering Influence. I devote a couple weeks a year to this stuff and spend the rest of the year making it a part of my life. So far the biggest life impact has been Tony’s UPW.

I am fascinated with pushing my physical and mental limits and sharing it with others. I especially love fitness challenges. So far this year some of my experiments include swimming from Alcatraz to San Francisco and then the length of the Golden Gate, Summiting Mt. Shasta and Finishing an Ultra Marathon in my Vibram barefoot running shoes. I learn something new with every adventure and I’m just gettings started.

I have attended university at the London School of Economics, Universidad de Sevilla and University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). My Spanish is not as sharp as it used to be but I can still get by and I love the language!

I run an investment management company, which I started two years ago, Cumbre Captial Partners, that models Warren Buffett’s practical business approach to value investing.

I teach speed-reading courses to students and businessmen through The Iris Organization.

I write personal development articles for a number of websites including Zen Habits, Illuminated Mind, ThinkSimpleNow, MakeItHappen, WriteToDone, GoodLifeZen and Elance and have given guest lectures at UCSB. For a full list of articles I’ve written for other sites check out Scott Around The Web.

I arrange keynote speakers for a Santa Barbara nonprofit, Catlyast For Thought, to provide continued education for local current and future entrepreneurs.

I have run a teaching business in Sevilla, been a tour guide through Spain, Portugal and Morocco, worked for a multinational in San Francisco, a preventive healthcare startup in Santa Barbara and as a consultant for a number of small businesses along the way.

I am fascinated with all that makes for a well-lived life including nutrition, health, fitness, relationship building, psychology, motivation, negotiating, rapport building, influence, time management, communication, speaking, stewardship, gratitude and lifelong education.

I spend my time between San Francisco, Santa Barbara and the rest of the world.

I love learning from new people, making connections, traveling, teaching and building things.

You can read my full story here.

What Does Success Mean to You?

Begin understanding your definition today. That journey will take you down a lightly traveled road and with enough learning, courage and action, it will be your path to lasting happiness. My inspiration to stay true to my own path comes from Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. I hope it does the same for you.

Thank You!

I owe you my sincere gratitude for taking the time to visit. I do hope you’ll stick around. It is you and the rest of the community that makes this site what it is. Together we make some big things happen.

If you like what you read and are a person of action, looking to live life on your terms, you’re not alone and I hope you’ll subscribe to receive new article updates, which I write at least once or twice a week. When you subscribe, you’ll get a copy of my free eBook, The Best of Reading For Your Success: Define your success, live on purpose and maybe even quit your job!

More than anything, be sure to keep reading, learning and doing. Learn to love it. Whether they are articles and books I write and recommend or not, as long as you keep reading and taking action, you will be on the right track.

I wish you well with your own successes. May they be many in quantity and fulfilling in nature.

-Scott Dinsmore, Founder and Chief Success Facilitator of Reading For Your Success

Contact Me

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Email: scott [at] ReadingForYourSuccess [dot] com

Phone: + 1 415 480 4375

Skype: scott.dinsmore

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San Francisco, CA 94104

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