Title and author: The principles of success by Jack Canfield
Contents synopsis:
It is very difficult to summarize the content of this 460+ page book in a few lines here. Canfield has put decades of study and experience into a fundamental success manual. It is one of the best writings in the last two decades. Like many great works of this nature, Canfield touches on every conceivable element of success and the reader can get a bit lost in the complexity and volume of it all.
The book is organized into 64 chapters, although most are short. More importantly, the chapters are divided into 6 main parts that describe the areas covered in the book: the fundamentals of success; Transformation of yourself for success; Building a team; Creating successful relationships; Success and money and finally the need to start Success now and how to do it.
You will recognize many of the tips and principles for the success of this book from other work by leading authors, both classical and modern. Canfield is not being very original here. He has collected disparate ideas about success and formulated them into a single compilation with a little glue to hold them together. Provide real-life examples of people who have shown that these principles work. The book is equally informative and inspiring.
Readability / Writing quality:
This book is very readable. The writing style is simple but solid. There are short chapters and many subtitles that help to organize the material very well. Most chapters end with some suggestions on how to put the principles into practice for yourself today.
Notes on the author:
Jack Canfield has established himself as an author beginning on a large scale with the Chicken Soup for the Soul Serie. Canfield combines a kind of scholarship with a softer philosophy of success and satisfaction in life. This contributes to its broad appeal. While his overall approach is solid, he has dabbled in some areas that could be considered fringe such as his appearance in The secret movie and book. Canfield is an unapologetic believer in the law of attraction and established concepts in The secretHowever, even if that aspect of his teaching does not impress you, the Success principles Will. He is also an accomplished personal trainer and emphasizes that service on his website.
Three great ideas you can use:
Even Canfield has a hard time narrowing this book down to a few key concepts. Here we will look at three of its principles that will be most helpful to you, however, there are many more in the book of equal importance.
Canfield emphasizes the benefit of truly taking full responsibility for your own life and its results. He teaches that you must end the blame game as it gets you nowhere.
Success leaves clues. You’ve heard that before and here you push it further. In many ways, his entire book is about those clues. Canfield passes on the lessons he has learned from both his experience and the experience of so many others.
Finally, perhaps the best financial advice he gives is one you’ve heard before, pay yourself first. Here he highlights the lessons learned from the successful ones about the importance of disciplined saving and investing.
Publication Information: Copyright: 2005 by Jack Canfield. Posted by Harper Collins.
General rating:Very well