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The Power of Focus
Have you read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People [Stephen R. Covey]? Did you like it? Love it? Hate it? Well even if you hated it, The Power of Focus [Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt] might be for you. If you hated the topic in 7 Habits; just skip this whole review!
I feel guilty comparing these two works as some might feel I am doing the other work a discourteous gesture. However, I feel that the two books not only share the same heart, but they are conveying the same message with the same desire to help people. I am a organization freak in that I love to organize things and make them efficient. I, however, am not ultra organized nor am I efficient. I love watches, I am fascinated with time and I am overly anal about every clock I own not being more then 15 seconds off from the correct time. I, however, am RARELY on time…in fact I loath dedicated times; I prefer suggested times.
Where 7 Habits falls short; or lacks a “for dummies” type of action plan, The Power of Focus brings relief. It’s a clean, nice almost “For Dummies” feel and well laid out action plans. It is a collection of 11 chapters; 10 action plans with a conclusion. After each chapter you find out a little more about yourself…but not in a quizlette you might in the back of cosmo magazine type of self realization – I mean the type were you might want to lie on some questions because you really don’t want to face reality.
For anyone in business or anyone trying to reach new personal goals I think this book is worth the $12. The authors are known for the Chicken Soup for The Soul books…so it has quite the motivational flair that you would expect. There is an occasional comment related to God and religion in general, but I think there is less then 5 references overall. None of them seemed to be out of context.
Overall: a great weekend read and worth rereading a few times.
More then I can handle
I have been keeping up on adding new books I get and the ones I read on All Consuming and I can’t help but laugh at the total obscurity of some titles and how random my choices are…yes total nerd vs little kid (Note that Shel Silverstein has made the list of books read in the past year).
On that note, does anyone have some book suggestions?
I highly recommend The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream. It’s a short book (less then 200 pages) and an easy read. A good friend of mine gave it to me for Christmas and I can’t suggest this book to enough people. The general story is that of a boy traveling and learning that it’s about the journey; not the destination. If that’s your style of book, give it a try on a rainy afternoon.
All signs point to yes
Well it looks like my horoscope is trying to tell me today is a good day to stalk! Well I guess I have something to do at lunch today. Muuhahaha!!
Romance, extravagance and nothing but the best, especially when it comes to flirting with a certain someone like they’ve never been flirted with before. That’s your mission, and no one needs to ask if you’ll accept it. You’ve been carrying on this behind-the-scenes infatuation for far too long. It’s time to take this show on the road.
It has its moments
I am so jealous of one of my coworkers who has one of these little toy cubes!! I love the idea and I wouldn’t mind spending about $50 in cubicles…you can have mini wars and almost have a voodoo session all without the knowledge of your coworkers. Aww that would take the fun out of it!
Buy it while it’s hot!
The path to jail is short today
So reading along a fellow blog or two I caught wind of this little blog game. “Stalk your blog crush” Rules and description of game: the art of getting by – i find most people to be disappointing. surprise me.
So…now the question is; whom do I pick to be the stalkie??
.: the babbling dweeb :. 