Editorial Review:
Brian Tracy is one of the world's leading authorities on success and personal achievement, addressing more than 100,000 men and women each year in public and private seminars. In Maximum Achievement, he gives you a powerful, proven system -- based on twenty-five years of research and practice -- that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life.You learn ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. You learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness. You will immediately become more positive, persuasive, and powerfully focused in everything you do. Many of the more than one million graduates of the seminar program upon which this book is based have dramatically increased their income and improved their lives in every respect. The step-by-step blueprint for success and achievement presented in these pages includes proven principles drawn from psychology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, politics, history, and metaphysics. These ideas are combined in a fast-moving, informative series of steps that will lead you to greater success than you ever imagined possible -- they can raise your self-esteem, improve personal performance, and give you complete control over every aspect of your personal and professional life.
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Great, but not concise  2008-08-29
I just bought and finished this book and I can tell that it will be referenced often and a big part of my library. The "laws" mentioned in this book are great to read over and over again. The last 100 pages, however, are filler. He seems to repeat himself over and over about relationships, parenting and other issues. If he would have left that stuff out, I'd give it five stars. I would recommend Eat that Frog or The Ultimate Goals Program on audio instead.
three words: Love. This. Book.  2008-07-22
Let me first start by patting myself on the back. I have been on a roll with my reading selections. Here is another fascinating book by another great author, Brain Tracy. Let me say it again Brian Tracy really knows how to assist you in performing a self analysis on your past present and future experiences and thoughts. He asks riveting questions that make you use your imagination, exercise your subconscious mind and feed your brain with the most powerful enlightening visions to set you on a path to great success. I believe that in growing up, a lot of individuals get lost in the way of society and the limitations that the world puts on our thinking and life. Of course growing up in this fashion is not at all our fault it is partly our parents fault and I say partly because no-one taught them. Any one that has made several past or present mistakes would benefit greatly from this book. Even to the individual that has not made many mistakes and has been afforded a somewhat decent life would benefit from this book. If you are tired of living within the boundaries of the world and you have reached a point where you want more for yourself but you are having trouble moving past the events that have happened in the past this is the book for you. Or anyone that is having trouble focusing on their thoughts to reach their ultimate goals should most definitely pick up this book. You will not regret it, this book is so powerful. The value of the contents inside this book is priceless. This is another book in which my husband and I sit down weekly and discuss the contents and complete the exercises. Ladies I have been attempting to drill success into my husband's ear for years and it has not helped, not one bit. But since we have begin reading this book amongst others and performing the exercises he is beginning to change, and not because I am drilling him but because he is now able to do a self analysis of himself and see the gray areas that have been greatly affecting his life, which is, inevitably our life. I can't emphasize enough how powerful this book is.
Proven self-actualization techniques 2008-07-16
One day, a student of Socrates asked his venerable teacher how to become wise. Socrates led the student to a nearby lake and the two entered the water. Then, he held the student's head under the surface as the frantic young man fought wildly. Finally, Socrates freed him. The young man gasped and gulped. Socrates watched calmly and said, "When you desire wisdom with the same intensity that you desire to breathe, then nothing will stop you from getting it." Brian Tracy uses this graphic anecdote to discuss the intensity of thought and feeling that should accompany the work of setting your goals, a potentially life-changing exercise. Every chapter of Tracy's well-written book contains counsel about achieving your dreams as well as practical advice on perfecting your life. Tracy uses plenty of illustrative examples, such as the Socrates story. He reviews many classic motivational tools and techniques. Some self-help authors lure people into wasting hard-earned time and money on books that don't motivate or inspire. However, getAbstract recommends Tracy as a genuine teacher with much to convey about using the power of your mind for personal growth. And if the message here echoes his other books, it is no less valuable for that.
Simply Superb 2008-05-25
I've read a lot of self-improvement books, from Napoleon Hill, to Anthony Robbins, to Steven Covey...All of which were full of amazingly useful insights. But "Maximum Achievement" is always my first choice whenever I need to brush up on personal success lessons.
*Easy to read. No complicated psycho-babble. Just down-to earth, easily applicable tools you can use to adopt the mindsets and habits of a successful person.
*Brian Tracy lays success out in such a simple, obvious way that you find yourself going "well, duh! I should have known that all along!" These are simple, common-sense truths, but ones that the majority of people just aren't aware of or choose to ignore. He lays them out for you and helps you find the motivation to integrate them into your life.
*The section on the "self-concept" was mind-blowing for me personally. Particularly how it relates to "success-barriers" and how people rarely, if ever experience a level of success that's not consistent with how they see themselves. He talks about how people who come into a sudden windfall of money will actually do things to SCREW THINGS UP, so that they can get back into a financial situation that's more familiar to them. After reading that, the behavior of some suddenly famous celebrities almost starts to make sense...well almost, lol.
It was actually reading about the self-concept in Tracy's "The Psychology of Selling" that led me to this book, since it's such a fascinating concept. I've since explored it further in books like "Psycho Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz, which I also recommend.
All in all, this book is gold in the right hands, and in others it'll end up collecting dust on the shelf. If you actually USE the tools Brian is showing you here, the world is your oyster. Use them.
Maximum Achievement 2008-04-28
I want to underline every word so that I don't forget it. It is wonderful and should be read by everyone that needs or even thinks that they need self improvement. Awesome!
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