Success is a Journey: 7 Steps to Achieving Success in the Business of Life - Softcover

Mayer, Jeffrey J.

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9780071365147: Success is a Journey: 7 Steps to Achieving Success in the Business of Life

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071365141 ISBN 13: 9780071365147

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

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Renowned business and time-management expert Jeffrey Mayer provides readers with a detailed and systematic 7-step plan for reaching goals and achieving success. Success Is a Journey identifies the characteristics common to all successful people and provides easy-to-follow guidelines for applying them to the most important goals in one's life. Straightforward and full of invaluable advice anyone can use, Mayer's book includes:
� Unique, interactive exercises designed to help readers determine where they want their lives to lead
� Easy-to-apply tools for developing an individualized plan of action
� Proven time-management tips and organizational techniques
� Inspirational anecdotes and motivational sidebars

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Review:

Most of us think about our careers as destinations: We'll know we've made it when we have the great job title, the successful franchise, the country-club membership, the bestselling novel. But few of us really understand the path from here to there. Hence, the adage that success is a journey. The process is what counts, because without it you'll never reach the destination.

The steps one takes during that process aren't always apparent, though, and that's where this book will prove invaluable. Jeffrey Mayer states that ambition should be matched to written goals. (Sure, it sounds corny, but if you don't understand what you want well enough to put into writing, how can you create the strategy to get those things?) Likewise, your plan of action for reaching those goals should be in writing, too.

But Success is more than an exercise in making lists. Mayer gives concrete tips, such as ways to unclutter your life (right down to what kind of file folders you should use to organize your papers) as well as how to become more effective in your daily work and make and keep friends who can help you throughout this journey.

Even if you're not particularly ambitious, Success might just motivate you to become more so; Mayer's advice on becoming better at what you do could help open entirely new career paths. --Lou Schuler

From the Back Cover:

Succeed In Business, Get Ahead in Life, and Live Your Dreams *
Learn how to use your skills, talents, and natural abilities to perform your life's work. *
Learn how to create a Master Plan of ACTion so you can make your dreams come true. *
Learn how to take control of your day, your career and your life, so you get the important things done and have a successful day, every day.

Success is a Journey is a practical, hands-on guide that will help you to set your priorities and stay focused so you can achieve your goals and succeed in the business of life.

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