Success Is a Journey: Make Your Life a Grand Adventure - Hardcover

Tracy, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890009490 ISBN 13: 9781890009496

Publisher: Executive Excellence Pub, 1999

Synopsis

It began when then 21-year-old Brian Tracy awoke one day with a powerful dream--an unrealistic or impossible illusion for most people his age who confine themselves to pursuing more practical goals--to travel the world with his friends and see things no one else ahd seen, and it ended in an unexpected and dangerous confrontation with reality and a struggle for life in the middle of Africa's Sahara Desert. He would recount to his friends and family what he learned that year about the meaning of life and love, the value of hard work, and what's really important when everything else has been stripped away.

A metaphor for any success in life, this fast-moving narrative is rich with insights supplied by the now-older and wiser Brian Tracy who has become famous world-wide for his expertise on personal and orgainzational developement. Find out how anyone, drawing upon this work to find similar lessons in their own life, can go from poverty and obscurity to wealth and respect, from frustration and failure to happiness and fulfillment.

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About the Author

Brian Tracy is chairman and CEO of Brain Tracy International, a multimillion-dollar training and consulting organization. Speaking to over 500,000 people each year, Brian is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the world. He has produced more than 300 audio and video learning programs on subjects such as Leadership, Mangement Effectiveness, Sales, Self-Esteem, Success, and Personal Acheivement.

Reviews

Tracy (Maximum Achievement and Advanced Selling Strategies) presents his thoughts about success and personal development in a form as old as literature itself: a man goes on a journey, and readers discover what he learns along the way. In this case the journey is a trip to Africa Tracy undertook with two friends when he was 21. But while Tracy provides a roadmap of the lessons he wants a reader to remember (the secret to accomplishing your goal is having a plan; you should never be deterred; etc.), the details get confusing. For one thing, you are never quite sure where Tracy started from or exactly how and why he traveled as he did. (The trip seems to have started from England, although Tracy was apparently raised in Canada.) And while some of the advice is sound ("People will often encourage you in a risky venture as long as it means nothing to them... the acid test is to invite them to invest their own money"), much of it is contradictory. We are told at various times that the secret to success is to keep plunging ahead, to wait and do nothing and to pace yourself. More worrisome, an overarching theme to achieving what you want seems to be "leap and the net will appear." While the details of the trip can be mildly engaging, the reader's journey would have been far smoother here if as much hard work had been put into ferreting out the inconsistencies and contradictions of the text as in trying to reach Africa. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Dec.) FYI: Executive Excellence will also publish Real Success: Based on the Writings of SUCCESS Magazine founder Orison Swett Marden, by the house's editor-in-chief, Ken Shelton, in November. $75,000 ad/promo. ($21.95 288p ISBN 1-890009-52-0)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Executive Excellence Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890009490
• ISBN 13: 9781890009496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240