Don't Just Dream About Success: Stack the Odds in Your Favor: Don't Just Dream About Success: Stack the Odds in Your Favor

Success is not the province of a chosen few. Success is available to every person willing to plan, think, and work. Award-winning college professor Joe Hoyle has spent 43 years in the classroom seeking to guide and motivate thousands of students to succeed. He shares those same practical ideas here as he introduces innovative concepts such as Level-3 goals, the Derek Jeter Rule, Joe’s Theorem for Success, and the Ebenezer Scrooge Question. As he states in the final chapter, “Success should become like breathing, something we do every moment as a natural part of life.” Written in a readable conversational style that is part storytelling and part autobiography, the book begins with the amazing tale of a student who sets out to be the youngest person in the world to climb the “7 Sisters,” the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Fourteen chapters later, Professor Hoyle ends with the four words most essential to us as we seek to stack the odds of success in our favor. In-between, he describes numerous techniques such as the use of mental visualization and the choice of a personality model that readers can use to create an overall success philosophy that will help them achieve those goals that matter most to them.

Joe Ben Hoyle is cofounder and president of CPA Review for FREE. The company has provided free preparatory material for the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam since 2008 to offset the high cost of entering the public accounting profession. He is also an associate professor of accounting at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. He is in his 43rd year as a college professor and has won many awards and recognitions over those years. -- Named one of nine favorite professors in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek, September 10, 2012. --Named the Virginia Professor of the Year in 2007 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. --Coauthor of Advanced Accounting published by McGraw-Hill and now in its 12th edition. --Coauthor of Financial Accounting published by FlatworldKnowledge and now in its 2nd edition. --Named one of the 100 most influential people in the accounting profession by Accounting Today (2009) --Blog "Getting the Most from Your Students," named the Accounting Education Innovation of the Year for 2013 by the American Accounting Association. --Named one of 22 favorite professors in the United States by Business Week, September 19, 2006. --Named Distinguished Educator at the University of Richmond five times: 1982, 1986, 1989, 1992, and 1998