The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Free Press; Revised edition (November 9, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743269519
ISBN-13: 978-0743269513

Amazon.com Review


The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. --Joan Price


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The late Skip LeFauvePresident, Saturn Corporation/General MotorsStephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People played a major role in the development of Saturn's operating systems and philosophy. Our commitment to quality and to our customers has its roots in The 7 Habits.

Ken M. RadziwanowskiAT&T School of BusinessPicture someone going through the best experience they've ever had in terms of training -- that's what they say. People credit the 7 Habits with changing their lives, with getting back on track personally and professionally.

About the Book

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

From the Publisher

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success---in business as well as presonal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving.
1. Be Pro-Active: Take the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.
2. Begin With an End in Mind: Start with a clear destination to understand where you are now, where you're going and what you value most.
3. Put First Things First: Manage yourself. Organize and execute around priorities.
4. Think Win/Win: See life as a cooperative, not a comprehensive arena where success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others.
5. Seek First to Understand: Understand then be understood to build the skills of empathetic listening that inspires openness and trust.
6. Synergize: Apply the principles of cooperative creativity and value differences.
7. Renewal: Preserving and enhanving your greatest asset, yourself, by renewing the physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional dimensions of your nature.

Stephen R. Covey is the most respected motivator in the business world today. Learn to use his 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People--and see how they can change your life.

About the Author

Stephen R. Covey is a renowned authority on leadership, a family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and vice chairman of FranklinCovey Co. The author of several acclaimed books, he has also received numerous honors and awards, including being named one of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential Americans. Covey lives with his wife, Sandra, and their family in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

• Publisher: Pocket; Rev Upd edition (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671023373
• ISBN-13: 978-0671023379
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Amazon.com Review

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

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"Unconditional faith in an unconditional meaning is Dr. Frankl's message to the reader." -- The American Journal of Psychiatry

"Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler." -- The American Journal of Psychiatry

Product Description

Now in its 60th year -- the landmark bestseller by the great Viennese psychiatrist remembered for his tremendous impact on humanityInternationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.
Cited in Dr. Frankl's New York Times obituary in 1997 as "an enduring work of survival literature," Man's Search for Meaning is more than the story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph: It is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and "a compelling introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day" (Gordon W. Allport).

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation) 

Firnando Chau's Review

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Internationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.Cited in Dr. Frankl's New York Times obituary in 1997 as "an enduring work of survival literature," Man's Search for Meaning is more than the story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph: it is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and "an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day" (Gordon W. Allport).

About the Author

Viktor E. Frankl is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University. He is the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology) -- the school of logotherapy.Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.
Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He has been a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and has made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He is President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.

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Preface
DR. FRANKL, AUTHOR-PSYCHIATRIST, SOMETIMES asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, "Why do you not commit suicide?" From their answers he can often find the guide-line for his psychotherapy: in one life there is love for one's children to tie to; in another life, a talent to be used; in a third, perhaps only lingering memories worth preserving. To weave these slender threads of a broken life into a firm pattern of meaning and responsibility is the object and challenge of logotherapy, which is Dr. Frankl's own version of modern existential analysis.
In this book, Dr. Frankl explains the experience which led to his discovery of logotherapy. As a longtime prisoner in bestial concentration camps he found himself stripped to naked existence. His father, mother, brother, and his wife died in camps or were sent to the gas ovens, so that, excepting for his sister,his entire family perished in these camps. How could he -- every possession lost, every value destroyed, suffering from hunger, cold and brutality, hourly expecting extermination -- how could he find life worth preserving? A psychiatrist who personally has faced such extremity is a psychiatrist worth listening to. He, if anyone, should be able to view our human condition wisely and with compassion. Dr. Frankl's words have a profoundly honest ring, for they rest on experiences too deep for deception. What he has to say gains in prestige because of his present position on the Medical Faculty of the University in Vienna and because of the renown of the logotherapy clinics that today -are springing up in many lands, patterned on his own famous Neurological Policlinic in Vienna.
One cannot help but compare Viktor Frankl's approach to theory and therapy with the work of his predecessor, Sigmund Freud. Both physicians concern themselves primarily with the nature and cure of neuroses. Freud finds the root of these distressing disorders in the anxiety caused by conflicting and unconscious motives. Frankl distinguishes several forms of neurosis, and traces some of them (the noogenic neuroses) to the failure of the sufferer to find meaning and a sense of responsibility in his existence. Freud stresses frustration in the sexual life; Frankl, frustration in the "will-to-rneamng." In Europe today there is a marked turning away from Freud and a widespread embracing of existential analysis, which takes several related forms -- the school of logotherapy being one. It is characteristic of Frankl's tolerant outlook that he does not repudiate Freud, but builds gladly on his contributions; nor does he quarrel with other forms of existential therapy, but welcomes kinship with them.
The present narrative, brief though it is, is artfully constructed and gripping. On two occasions I have read it through at a single sitting, unable to break away from its spell. Somewhere beyond the midpoint of the story Dr. Frankl introduces his own philosophy of logotherapy. He introduces it so gently into the continuing narrative that only after finishing the book does the reader realize that here is an essay of profound depth, and not just one more brutal tale of concentration camps. From this autobiographical fragment the reader learns much. He learns what a human being does when he suddenly realizes he has "nothing to lose except his so ridiculously naked life." Frankl's description of the mixed flow of emotion and apathy is arresting. First to the rescue comes a cold detached curiosity concerning one's fate. Swiftly, too, come strategies to preserve the remnants of one's life, though the chances of surviving are slight. Hunger, humiliation, fear and deep anger at injustice are rendered tolerable by closely guarded images of beloved persons, by religion, by a grim sense of humor, and even by glimpses of the healing beauties of nature -- a tree or a sunset. But these moments of comfort do not establish the will to live unless they help the prisoner make larger sense out of his apparently senseless suffering. It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities. Frankl is fond of quoting Nietzsche, "He who has a whyto live can bear with almost any how."
In the concentration camp every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is "the last of human freedoms" -- the ability to "choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances." This ultimate freedom, recognized by the ancient Stoics as well as by modern existentialists, takes on vivid significance in Frankl's story. The prisoners were only average men, but some, at least, by choosing to be "worthy of their suffering" proved man's capacity to rise above his outward fate.
As a psychotherapist, the author, of course, wants to know how men can be helped to achieve this distinctively human capacity. How can one awaken in a patient the feeling that he is responsible to life for something, however grim his circumstances may be? Frankl gives us a moving account of one collective therapeutic session he held with his fellow prisoners.
At the publisher's request Dr. Frankl has added a statement of the basic tenets of logotherapy as well as a bibliography. Up to now most of the publications of this "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy" (the predecessors being the Freudian and Adlerian Schools) have been chiefly in German. The reader will therefore welcome Dr. Frankl's supplement to his personal narrative.
Unlike many European existentialists, Frankl is neither pessimistic nor antireligious. On the contrary, for a writer who faces fully the ubiquity of suffering and the forces of evil, he takes a surprisingly hopeful view of man's capacity to transcend his predicament and discover an adequate guiding truth.
I recommend this little book heartily, for it is a gem of dramatic narrative, focused upon the deepest of human problems. It has literary and philosophical merit and provides a compelling introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day.


GORDON W. ALLPORT

Gordon W. Allport, formerly a professor of psychology at HarvardUniversity, was one of the foremost writers and teachers in thefield in this hemisphere. He was author of a large number of originalworks on psychology and was the editor of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. It is chiefly through the pioneering work ofProfessor Allport that Dr. Frankl's momentous theory was introducedto this country; moreover, it is to his credit that the interestshown here in logotherapy is growing by leaps and bounds.
Copyright © 1959, 1962, 1984 by Victor E. Frankl

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Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II

Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II

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Table of Content
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
Chapter 2: It's Just the  Beginning
Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
Chapter 10: Life Support
Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
Chapter 15: FantasyLand
Chapter 16: That's Nothing
Chapter 17: Winging It
Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation


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Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
* Decide right now that you will not settle for good, knowing you were destined for greatness.
* You will pursue; you will engage; you will confront; you will move on; you will keep going; you will not quit; you will not stop; you will not give up until you have achieved the dream that lies within you.
* What you won't do for money, fame, and fortune, you will do for a dream that consumes you.
* Most people are too busy chasing money instead of their dreams!

Chapter 2: It's Just the Beginning
* Dreams aren't merely a wish list, just as everything you want is not your dream.
* A dream is not what you want to have but who you want to be.
* Our responsibility is to keep improving upon the success that we have had or that has been set by others.
* All the money and wealth this world has to offer can't console the person within whom greatness lies but has not yet blossomed.
* Dreams should be in sight and out of reach.

Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
1. What are you really passionate about in life?
2. What bothers you?
3. What would you do or be if time and money were no object?
4. What is your purpose in life?
5. What are your natural abilities?
6. What are you complimented on most often?
7. What would you do if you knew you only had one week to live?
8. When do you feel the most successful and alive?
9. What  circumstances in life are unique to you, and how can you use those to your benefit?
10. What do you want your legacy to be?
* Mike Murdock has said, "What bothers you most is an indication of the problem you were created to solve."
* You will realize that your dream is not a thing but is actually the fulfilment and full embodiment of your purpose.
* There is something unique about you that is not common in mankind.
* Live for today and plan for tomorrow.

Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
* Dreams are the full embodiment of the fulfilment of the purpose for which you were created.
* It doesn't matter if you were planned or unplanned, wanted or unwanted; you were created with a destiny in mind.
* Being successful doesn't mean every deal I do is profitable, every business I buy or build is a great success story, or every stock I buy doubles in value overnight.
* The problem with pity parties is that you're the only one that shows up and no one brings present!

Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
1. Define Your Dream
2. Write it down
3. Create a plan with specific objective and timelines
4. Be accountable to someone.
5. Take action daily
6. Develop yourself
7. Keep your dream alive
- 10 specific things to keep your dream alive:-
i. Invest time with likeminded people.
ii. Keep it in front of you.
iii. Take care of yourself.
iv. Write it down.
v. Read an inspirational book.
vi. Attend a seminar relating to your purpose and dream.
vii. Associate rewards to your goals to make your dream tangible.
viii. Take action.
ix. Be accountable to a successful mentor who is where you want to be.
x. Create and speak aloud a personal success affirmation daily.
Reflections
* If you don't write it down, it's a pipe dream, not a dream.
* Commit to your dream and give it everything you have.
* Don't die with your dreams still in you.
* Fear and faith are the same thing: believing something will happen that you can't see.
* Tie your goals to tangible rewards to keep your dream alive!
* Dream building attaches tangible rewards to personal accomplishment.
* Customers don't pay for effort; they pay for execution.
* Don't take a vacation from your dreams

Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
* Just because the vast majority of people do not live their dream doesn't mean that dreams don't come true. It's that thy don't understand how to make their dreams come true.
* Slaves see the rope as a noose, but prisoners see the rope as a way of escape.
* Everything you see or want is someone's reality.
* If you are aligned and in tune with your life's purpose, then your dreams and desires will be visions of what you are to become, do, an achieve.

Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
* When you dream, it is with intent and takes great amounts of effort and work to control your mind and thoughts.
* I'm not interested in what you hope will happen; I'm interested in what you believe will happen and willing to make happen.
* Part of becoming a winner is getting to this place over and over and over again and somehow rebounding from it.
* Don't deprive yourself of living life to the fullest and living the lifestyle you were meant to live by dreaming little dreams.

Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
* Not reaching your dreams should not be an option.
* You've got to stay in the game to keep swinging.
* Your dreams fail to take light because you keep stopping halfway down the runway.
* Your dreams will demand every ounce of energy and wherewithall you can possibly muster.

Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
The author stated 27 Reasons people quit pursuing their dreams:-  **Note: Only 9 is mentioned as the other 18 reasons are not in this chapter.1.They don't want to be disappointed
2. It doesn't seem possible
3. They don't want to get hurt
4. Negative self-talk
5. Unexpected circumstances
6. Doubt
7. It's easier-path of least resistance
8. The dream isn't big enough
9. Undefined dream
* Doubt doesn't barge in; it creeps in
* If you believe in your dream enough, then it desn't matter how many failures you experience; it's not over until you in.
* If your dream seems impossible right now, refocus your mind and attention on smaller, specific action steps in the direction of your ultimate dream.
* Chasing your dreams will be painful at times because there is a price to pay.

Chapter 10: Life Support
- continuation-
10. The dream isn't tied to life's purpose
a. Would you do the same thing and as much of what you do today if you were not paid to do it?
b. Will your dreams come true if you accomplish your purpose?
c. Did you determine your purpose prior to defining your dream?
d. Does the realization of your dream help people outside of yourself?
e. Do your dreams support and enhance your purpose in life?
f. Are you known for your dreams or your purpose?
g. Are you as passionate about your purpose as you are your dream?
11. Focused on things
12. Don't want to pay the price
13. Too busy
14. It's countercultural to dream
15. Poor self-image
16. Broken focus
17. Get bored with the dream
18. Rejection
19. Comparing to other people
20. Past Successes
21. Impatience
22. Past failures
23. Don't think it's important or think it doesn't make a difference
24. Don't have a plan
25. Time consuming
26. Don't want to commit or be accountable for it
27. Not enough self-discipline
* Fully rely on God to make you and build you into the person he needs you to be fulfill his purpose and will in your life.
* Every worthy accomplishment and success one achieves appears impossible somewhere on the journey.
* When you accept your dreams as your mission and destiny, there is a peace and calmness that will carry you through during difficult times without always questioning if you are doing the right thing.
* Your purpose should be well known, but your dreams should not.
* What you know in the light, don't question in dark. If it was the right decision in the good times, stick with it during the hard times.
* If you get battered and don't get bitter, you'll get better!
* Center your dream around your purpose and not on a material object.
* Thinking like a winner doesn't mean that you always win.
* Much of success is waiting. Be patient without being lazy!
* To do anything successful in life, it requires a high level of personal discipline.

Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
* Dreams come true by developing as a person, working diligently and consistently, maintaining the right spirit, heart, and mind by controlling your thoughts, giving everything to it that you have been given, and in time.
*  Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You have to believe in your cause, and you have to believe that your success is not rooted in yourself, but is the culmination of other people in your life and the Almighty workig in you to accomplish His will.
* There are people who cannot read the words on this page that have every opportunity for great success  because they believe in their dream, don't know the meaning of the word no, and have the persistence, determination, and will never to quit.

Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
* With each level of success you achieve on your plan, you should attach a tangible symbol of the accomplishment of that dream. Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You need to find something that you can get excited about that will encourage you to make the next phone call, send the next e-mail, go to the next success conference, read the next book, listen to the next audio, close the next deal and become fear and rejection proof!
* Continue to define, clarify, and explore tangible symbols that you can attach to your goals.

Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
* What is in the heart and mind of mankind will soon be reflected on the outside.
* Since thought is the only real and tangible thing from which anything is created and dreams are simply a string of real and tangible, positive thoughts, your dreams can come true if that is what you keep before your mind's eye.
* The more you see, touch, feel, and experience your dream, the more your mind will dwell on it and lead you to the resources necessary to accomplish it.
* Where you are is who you are

Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
* There comes a point in all of our lives where we look back and say, "I'm glad I did it" or "I wish I had."
* I will do today what other me won't so I can do tomorrow what other men can't.
* I will live like no other so I can live like not other!
* Your success is not measured by what you accumulate on earth, but by how you fulfilled the purpose for which you were created.
* Your dreams haven given to you because you are the only one who can make them come true.
* Dreams are not about what you have or don't have, it's about who you become as you move toward  dream that is bigger than yourself.

Chapter 15: FantasyLand
* Dreams without action are nothing more than mystical fairy tales.
* Does your body tell you what to do or do you tell your body what you're going to do?
* The answer to your dreams is the rock-solid work ethic, dogged determination, and unwavering faith and belief that you are pursuing a much greater cause than just a tangible object.

Chapter 16: That's Nothing
5 Attributes of a dreamer:-
1. Dreamers are passionate about what they do.
2. Dreamers have a sense of urgency with a spirit of expectancy.
3. Dreamers don't quit when tough times come
4. Dreamers believe they have what it takes to achieve their dreams.
5. Dreamers control their thoughts
* Taking what's most important to your family and making it the most important thing to you is what makes dreams come true.
* There are many successful people who simply don't realize how great they can become if they'd only learn to say, "That's nothing!"
* It is your responsibility - no, it is your duty- to look the circumstances that are getting you discouraged and keeping you down in the eye and say, "That's nothing!"
* Dreamers believe that success lies within themselves and not in the circumstances of life.

Chapter 17: Winging It
* Most people think the opposite of security is risk. Truth is, the opposite of security is opportunity
* Choose to buy your freedom by working hard as an entrepreneur instead of through forty or fifty years as an employee.
* The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life is on you; the easier you are on yourself, the harder life is on you.
* You need a dream that's tied to your purpose and not just a reward.
*Don't Just wing your life; maximize your capacity and live your life on purpose!

Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
* The excitement and power of dream is in the pursuit of the dream, not just in te attainment of the dream.
* Retirement isn't an age; it's being free to do what you want to do with your life!
* Risk is only risk if you have something to lose.

Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
* The goals you set to accomplish your dreams should be in sight and out of reach.
* Each day is either a building day, battling day, or banner day. Most days are building days.
* Don't play it safe just to win.
* Delight in the process and the work of becoming great.
* The obsession is not so much in winning the gold medals in life, but it is in mastering the discipline, skills and techniques that you have chosen to pursue.
* Failure is not in losing; it is in not trying!

Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation
* The Dreamer's Creed
"I am fearfully and wonderfully as a creative being in the image of God and have been euipped with the power, belief, and strength to succeed in living a happy, healthy, wealthy lifestyle full of life, vitality and energy.  I am hardworking, discerning, diligent, prudent, focused, challenged, motivated, and patient and am a good steward of my time, money and energy. I am blessed and highly favoured winner that attracts unlimited riches, wealth, and prosperity into my life so that I may give freely to others and worthy causes. I will honour God with my success, for God's wisdom is the key to my sucess. This is my day. Today is the day God will give me a financial breakthrough. Today's miracle will change my life forever and set me on a course to riches and wealth. I will not give up, let up, or shut up until I'm taken up.  My dream is a direct fulfilment of my purpose, and I cannot and will not shirk or relinquish my God-given duty to pursue my God-given dream every day with every ounce of energy I have.
* My Story (the Author's background)

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There's No Elevator to the Top: A Leading Headhunter Shares the Advancement Strategies of the World's Most Successful Executives by Umesh Ramakrishnan

There's No Elevator to the Top: A Leading Headhunter Shares the Advancement Strategies of the World's Most Successful Executives by Umesh Ramakrishnan (Hardcover - Nov 13, 2008)

Hardcover: 256 pages

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (November 13, 2008)

ISBN-10: 1591842255

From Publishers Weekly

As vice chairman of a global executive search firm, Ramakrishman uses his access to the top executives at major corporations to ask the one question aspiring CEOs, and even new entrants to the business world, would most like to know: What do you know now that you wish you had known 20 years ago? The result is a low-key, highly personal look back at success. The advice Ramakrishman elicits from the executives delves into such areas as the importance of choosing only 'A' players when seeking to assemble a strong team and striving for a flatter organizational structure to promote communication and information flow. The subject matter does not vary significantly from standard career topics like the importance of networking, but the real value here is access to the wisdom and guidance of proven leaders such as Steve Reinemund of Pepsi and Terrence Marks of Coca-Cola. Chapter-ending executive summaries underscore key points that will benefit anyone—regardless of their corporate ranking—looking to advance in their field. (Nov.) 

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Longtime search executive, Ramakrishnan, sets out to examine and dissect today’s popular management principles and insights by traveling the world to interview members of the C-suite, the corporate world’s chief officers. Stories abound as the author recounts thoughtful conversations with leaders of Fortune’s largest companies and CEO’s of start-ups, including wisdom and advice from executives of Charles Schwab, JC Penny, Aetna, Cadbury Schweppes, and MediaCorp Group of Singapore to name a few. Lessons learned from his interviews include: everyone’s the CEO’s boss; everyone thinks they own you; not everyone likes you; know what’s going on; your constant responsibility is to filter and synthesize the information flow for your benefit; corporate culture begins with you; prepare as much as possible, then expect the unexpected; leaders know how to rally the troops; always strive to be better; and in the end, there’s only you left to blame. There is so much richness in the ideas and experiences chronicled in this excellent book, which offers special insight for library patrons. --Mary Whaley

A top corporate recruiter reveals what it takes to reach the top of a major corporation.

Few people have as deep an understanding of corporate leadership as Umesh Ramakrishnan. As vice chairman of CTPartners, one of the world’s premier search firms, he has placed dozens of C-level executives at companies around the globe. Now he shares powerful lessons from his long career and also from exclusive interviews with top CEO’s.

Ramakrishnan identifies the qualities that distinguish those who are likely to make it from those who aren’t. And he explains, for instance:

• Why the surest route to the top is not always straight up the greasy pole

• How it’s possible to have a star team without everyone being a star

• Why your listening skills need as much attention as your communication skills

• How to meet the challenges—and grasp the opportunities—of globalization

There’s No Elevator to the Top is like an exclusive lunch date with a tableful of CEOs, as Ramakrishnan features the insights of dozens of top leaders at companies like Dell, Cadbury Schweppes, Aetna, BT Group, Pepsi, Infosys, and Ecopetrol.

About the Author

Umesh Ramakrishnan is vice chairman of the executive search firm CTPartners. He recruits directors, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other senior management positions for Global 2000 companies. He is a sought-after speaker and a regular guest on CNBC.

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina

About the Book:-

Paperback: 266 pages

Publisher: Hay House (October 15, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1401922767

ISBN-13: 978-1401922764

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina (Paperback - Oct 15, 2009)













Table of Contents:-
Introduction
Part I Fundamental Principles
Chapter 1 Truth
Chapter 2 Love
Chapter 3 Power
Chapter 4 Oneness
Chapter 5 Authority
Chapter 6 Courage
Chapter 7 Intelligence
Part II: Practical Application
Chapter 8 Habits
Chapter 9 Career
Chapter 10 Money
Chapter 11 Health
Chapter 12 Relationships
Chapter 13 Spirituality
Afterword
Resources


Synopsis
Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement without effort.Personal Development for Smart People reveals the unvarnished truth about what it takes to consciously grow as a human being. As you read, you’ll learn the seven universal principles behind all successful growth efforts (truth, love, power, oneness, authority, courage, and intelligence); as well as practical, insightful methods for improving your health, relationships, career, finances, and more.You’ll see how to become the conscious creator of your life instead of feeling hopelessly adrift, enjoy a fulfilling career that honors your unique self-expression, attract empowering relationships with loving, compatible partners, wake up early feeling motivated, energized, and enthusiastic, achieve inspiring goals with disciplined daily habits and much more!With its refreshingly honest yet highly motivating style, this fascinating book will help you courageously explore, creatively express, and consciously embrace your extraordinary human journey.
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Biography


Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as the most successful personal-development blogger on the Internet, attracting more than two million monthly readers who value his unique insights. Instead of posing as a self-help guru with all the answers, Steve encourages people to fearlessly conduct their own personal growth experiments in order to learn through direct experience. He has written more than 700 free articles, often challenging his readers to question what they’ve been taught and to consider alternative perspectives. Blue-eyed, colorblind, and left-handed, Steve is the voice of recessive genes that seek creative expression instead of social conformity.


Steve Pavlina (born April 14, 1971) is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site and blog dedicated to personal development, StevePavlina.com and the book Personal Development for Smart People. He writes on a broad range of topics, and his lifestyle experiments (e.g. polyphasic sleep) have generated some mainstream media interest.

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Introduction
• Creating StevePavlina.com
• What Is Personal Development for Smart People?
Qualities of the Core Principles
- First, These principles must be universal
- Second, these principles must be collectively complete, so all the critical elements are present and none are missing
- Third, the primary principles must be irreducible, similar to prime numbers in mathematics
- Fourth, these principles must be internally congruent
- Finally, these principles must be practical
• Introducing the Seven Principles
• How to Read This Book
- This book is organized in two parts
- Part I explores the seven fundamental principles of personal development
- Part II is the application section.


Part I Fundamental Principles
Chapter 1 Truth
1.1. Perception
1.2. Prediction
1.3. Accuracy
1.4. Acceptance
1.5. Self-Awareness
1.6. Blocksto Truch
Media Conditioning
Social Conditioning
False Beliefs
Emotional Interference
Addictions
Immaturity
Secondary Gain
Self Assessment
Journaling
Media Fasting
The Guy in the Glass - by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934


When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.


For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.


He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.


You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.


You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.


Chapter 2 Love


2.1. Connection
2.2. Communication
2.3. Communion
2.4. Blocks to Love
Disconnected Mind-set
Fear of Rejection
Incompatibility
Lack of Social Skills
2.5. How to Connect More Deeply
The Connection Exercise
The Time-Travel Meditation
Sharing
Fast-Forwarding
The Direct Approach
Appreciation


Chapter 3 Power
3.1. Responsibility
3.2. Desire
3.3. Self-Determination
3.4. Focus
3.5. Effort
3.6. Self-Discipline
3.7. Blocks to Power
Timidity
Cowardice
Negative Conditioning
3.8. How to Build Your Power
Progressive Training
Master the First Hour
Personal Quotas
Worst First
Competition
Rest


Chapter 4 Oneness
4.1. Empathy
4.2. Compassion
4.3. Honesty
4.4. Fairness
4.5. Contribution
4.6. Unity
4.7. How to Experience Oneness
Oneness World
Spend Time in Nature
Physical Contact
The Mirror Exercise


Chapter 5 Authority
5.1. Command
5.2. Effectiveness
5.3. Persistence
5.4. Confidence
5.5. Significance
5.6. How to Increase Your Authority
Orchestrate Small Rebellions
Triage
Experiment


Chapter 6 Courage
6.1. Heart
6.2. Initiative
6.3. Directness
6.4. Honor
6.5. How to Build Courage
The Heart Question
Progressive Training
Education
Commit in Advance


Chapter 7 Intelligence
7.1. Authenticity
7.2. Creative Self-Expression
7.3. Growth
7.4. Flow
7.5. Beauty
7.6. How to Live Intelligently
Conscious Assessment
Growth Blitzing
Cultivate an Intelligent Microcosm


Part II: Practical Application
Chapter 8 Habits
8.1. Habits and Truth
8.2. Habits and Love
8.3. Habits and Power
2 Powerful methods for achieving victory in the end-game of habit change:
1. 30-Day Trials
2. Stair-Stepping
8.4. Habits and Oneness
8.5. Habits and Authority
1. Daily Goals
2. Worst First
3. Peak Times
4. No-comm Zones
5. Mini-Milestones
6. Timeboxing
7. Batching
8. Early Bird
9. Pyramid
10. Tempo
11. Neat Freak
12. Agendas
13. Pareto
14. Ready-Fire-Aim
15. Minuteman
16. Deadline
17. Promise
18. Punctuality
19. Gap Reading
20. Resonance
21. Prizes
22. Priority
23. Continuum
24. Slice and Dice
25. Single-Handling
26. Randomization
27. Insanely Bad
28. Delegation
29. Cross-Pollination
30. Intuition
31. Optimization
32. Super Slow
33. Dailies
34. Add-Ons
35. Plug-Ins
36. Gratitude
37. Training
38. Denial to non-critical requests
39. Recapturing
40. Mastermind
41. Twenty Creative Ideas
42. Challenger
43. Asylum
44. Music
45. Miracle Worker
46. Paying It Forward
47. Bouncer
48. Opt Out
49. Decaffeinating
50. Conscious Procrastination
51. TV-Free
52. Timer
53. Valor
54. Nonconformist
55. Agoraphobia
56. Reminder
57. Do It Now!
58. Coach
59. Inspiration
60. Gym Rat
61. Troll Hunt
62. Evil Eye
63. Politician
64. Modeling
65. Proactivity
66. Real Life
8.6. Habits and Courage
8.7. Habits and Intelligence


Chapter 9 Career


9.1. Career and Truth
9.2. Career and Love
9.3. Career and Power
9.4. Career and Oneness
9.5. Career and Authority
9.6. Career and Courage
9.7. Career and Intelligence


Chapter 10 Money


10.1. Money and Truth
10.2. Money and Love
The Moocher Mind-Set
The Contributor Mind-Set
10.3. Money and Power
10.4. Money and Oneness
Money and Fairness
10.5. Money and Authority
10.6. Money and Courage
10.7. Money and Intelligence


Chapter 11 Health


11.1. Health and Truth
11.2. Health and Love
11.3. Health and Power
11.4. Health and Oneness
11.5. Health and Authority
11.6. Health and Courage
11.7. Health and Intelligence


Chapter 12 Relationships


12.1. Relationships and Truth
12.2. Relationships and Love
12.3. Relationships and Power
12.4. Relationships and Oneness
12.5. Relationships and Authority
1. Accurate
2. All-Inclusive
3. Flexible
4. Ethical
5. Congruent
6. Consciously Chosen
7. Pleasure-increasing and/or pain-reducing
8. Empowering
12.6. Relationships and Courage
12.7. Relationships and Intelligence


Chapter 13 Spirituality


13.1. Spirituality and Truth
13.2. Spirituality and Love
13.3. Spirituality and Power
13.4. Spirituality and Oneness
13.5. Spirituality and Authority
13.6. Spirituality and Courage
13.7. Spirituality and Intelligence


Afterword
Resources