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Book review - Double Your Success in 12 Months, Brian Lucas

20 May, 2008 11:56 AM
Brian Lucas is a local business coach, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. Double your Success in 12 Months is his fourth self-published self-help 'believe in yourself' title.

This slim volume tackles everything from enhancing your home-life (Tip number 9: help with the housework 10 per cent more) to increasing your fitness and boosting your bank balance. At its heart is the ingenious premise that if you pick ten areas of your life and increase your effort by just ten percent in each you will double your success in 12 months.

There’s nothing really new in this book but if you’re a self-help devotee it’s probably worth a look. Its message is in the 'write it on a post-it note and stick it on the fridge' genre of positive visualisation interspersed with well-known motivational quotes. To his credit, Lucas does say repeatedly that the key to success is to actually do something about improving your life. And he says we should all smile more – who can disagree with that? Proper Books, $29.95.

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Does anyone else see a resemblance to Brendan Nelson? The only thing is, he's almost doubled his success (from 9% to 17%) in a couple of months!
Posted by Tonks, 20/05/2008 5:49:16 PM
Is there anything original out there? all these books just seem to recycle the same old stuff. Just that they put their own spin on it... I can Google/ search all this at no cost!
Posted by Jen, 27/05/2008 9:17:47 AM
I've read the book, and you can't go past the 30 day challenge, it works! The author explains in simple terms what can work, after that it's up to you. The majority of self help books are just reminding you of what to do. All of us know what to do but very few actually do something to improve our lives.
Posted by Kirby, 4/06/2008 2:38:39 PM
Cant go past the 30 day challenge, it works? Brendan Nelson should go for it and go from 17% to 34% approval...
Posted by Albert, 4/06/2008 8:32:51 PM
Hi I very much agree with kirby. Its really true that most of us do not show the same amount of interest as we read such self motivational books but to apply ii into our lives or to follow them. If we follow them i am sure that we can succeed double times than what the author suggests. So lets stop blaming the authors and lets correct ourselves. Ofcourse most of the messages are the ones that we are aware already only thing is that we compromise with them and we do not practice them. ==================== Sharon Williams There are a lot of sites out there showing book video. BookVideoTV, BookTelevision and of course CSPAN, but I like how BN.com and Reader's Entertainment TV have specific genre channels and original shows. There's just more to see and I can be specific in what genre I'm interested in. Anyone else watch online tv? http://www.readersentertainment.t v
Posted by Sharon, 14/06/2008 5:02:13 PM

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