A lot of outright lies, half-truths and well-meaning misconceptions masquerade as the truth about what it takes to be successful.
Probably the biggest one is: There is ONE way to be successful, and that way will work for you.
Lie.
What's true is:The IS a way to find ONE way that will work for you.
Big difference.
Because the one way that will work for you might be strikingly different from the one way that will work for me... or for someone else.
The NLP concept of "modeling" is dangerous because it's based on incomplete information. How can you know that you have duplicated all the conditions that made someone else successful... including, of course, all of their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences and points of view?
The saying "A goal is a dream with a deadline" is a lie because -- what happens if you have a dream and don't meet the deadline? Is your dream now suddenly unattainable?Kevin Hogan, a remarkably successful man in his own right, who has helped thousands of other people find their ways to success, has done some deep thinking about these issues.
And he's come up with some crisp, clean, easy-to-understand suggestions and solutions along the way in The 168 Hour Week.
What's great about this book is that Kevin cuts through the crap of these three approaches:
1. Left brain disconnected time-management and goal achievement systems, which work for robots and computers (in theory) but are frustrating for humans because they don't have anything to do with real whole-person life, and
2. The New Age, self-indulgent "Dr. Feelgood" systems that promise everything and deliver mainly hope and then, ultimately, disappointment (at least in material terms).
3. The gonzo, rip-your-world-to-shreds-and-turn-yourself-into-a-productivity-MONSTER systems! Their mantra: Because success is all that matters, people really don't. Your friends, your family members, and most important, YOU don't matter. SUCCESS matters. That's all. If you lose any hope of peace of mind the in process? That's not important, because you're SUCCESSFUL!
That's just ridiculous.
But wait. You don't have to settle for the above three approaches.
What?
You mean there's another way?Yes, and Kevin maps it out in great detail. It's not necessarily pretty. It's not always comfortable. But it is realistic, honest, doable, and in fact it will work.
Most important: It's socially responsible. Meaning, it takes into account that you may have a family and you live and work in a world with other people -- and they matter, too.
If you want to know why you've succeeded when you have... why you've failed when you have... and what you need to do to succeed more in the future... I can think of no other book or system that gives you clearer, simpler, more pragmatic information to help you do that than this one.
Kevin readily admits that he's not politically correct, and I heartily agree. But these days politically correct means coddling people into wallowing in their comfortable prejudices and misconceptions.
With goals, achievement, and quality of life, I can assure you that will not get you results if you demand that everything feel perfect every step of the way.
Kevin allowed me to post three pages of the book for download, so you can see for yourself what it's like and if it's something you'd like to get.
Get this book. It will do you a world of good and help you find the way to success (or new levels of success) already within your reach... and all you need is to be shown how to see it.
David Garfinkel
Publisher, World Copywriting Newsletter
Hello David
Your Blog is the first one I've seen with a disclosure on it.
Sign of the times I guess.
Cheers
Mark
Posted by: Mark Pocock | November 02, 2009 at 08:47 AM