I just completed ‘Flight Plan’ by Brian Tracy.
Books on success are starting to look very similar to me. However, good ones always seem to tie things together well in a macro sense.
As usual, Brian Tracy has done that here. He does not pound the metaphor too hard, which would be quite cheap. However, he stays on the information and story very well.
The sequence he offers is good and clear, and for anyone seeking to succeed at a certain goal or goals, this would be a powerful plan to do it. It is similar to the order of actions as they have unfolded in my life, offers a ton of clarity, and offers the correct mindsets we need to achieve most anything.
However, I personally believe that succeeding at a goal is different than success, the ongoing set of feelings that carry us to great heights. I think that success (different from succeeding at something) is a state of being, a collection of the best in several areas of our life. It does not necessarily have a sequence.
If you read my article on the Total Life Experience, you will see that I have the four major areas as Relationships, Work We Enjoy, Fitness & Health, and Provisional Interdependence. Feeling a level 7 – 10 in each area, I believe causes us to feel successful. When they overlap, we feel something more; we feel significant. This is the TLE as I see it.
And there is no sequence. It could be that we start with Fitness & Health, cultivating that in our life, getting fit and eating right. Once we do that, and develop sufficient self-confidence, we could begin to create Relationships that matter, that add value to our lives. From there we may develop a business venture with those Relationships and create Provisional Interdependence, and then find ourselves doing Work We Enjoy.
Or, we could build a small business to do Work We Enjoy and find that we have more free time to work on our Relationships and Fitness & Health. You see, we really could start anywhere on the path to success.
Succeeding at a goal or goals is different. To accomplish our goals in our areas of the TLE will take a powerful plan, a checklist, and mindsets that will help us overcome turbulence. This is what Brian Tracy is talking about, and, because I am all for anything that helps us begin to feel a level 7-10 in any of these areas, I GREATLY recommend this book.
BAM!
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