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Aligned Thinking: Make Every Moment Count (Blanchard, Ken)

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To determine what you really want and work toward it, use the tools of "aligned thinking" - including the "MIN" or "most important now" secret - to reframe your attitude about your work and personal life. Tying your work to your long-term goals will make you more motivated to do things you once thought of as chores. The secret of success, according to author Jim Steffen, is to make every moment part of your master plan. In other words, "be here now." You have heard that advice before, but this book describes how to apply it. This is a short book (and could have been shorter), but nonetheless, it imparts useful techniques for getting more out of your time and life. Steffen takes you through a basic prioritizing and time management process to help you clarify where you're going in life, how to get there and how your daily tasks fit that goal. We recommend this book to you if you've really never sat down before to figure out your deepest desires and how to attain them.

The easiest self-help book to read and implement, that has ever come along. You'll wish they taught Aligned Thinking in Grade School. Provides you with the true confidence in knowing that all your daily actions are most important to you! The principles are so easy to implement, your chores become an adventure! No pushing through your comfort-zone, because what's most important to you IS YOUR COMFORT ZONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go get a few copies and pass them around to your friends NOW!

The book made me "stop and smell the roses". My schedule seems to mirror that of Ray's, and even though I have an understanding "Carol", time waits for no man. The excessive hours at work taking precious time away from family and friends is truly a wakeup call. I plan on "budgeting" my time and "make every moment count" and getting in more "R & R" with my wife and family. It reminded me of the old story I heard about the man who was told he had two weeks to live and his comment was "gee, I wish I spent more time at the office". I hope to follow my "MIN" and enjoy life to its fullest.

Great book!!!

What a great book. This is one of the fastest reading books regarding personal development, yet clearly delivering a very important life success concept. Adopting the concept conveyed here into your life is absolutly necessary if you want to live in harmony with that which is most important to you each and every day.

This book is much more than just more information, it lays out how you can live happy and satisfied every day through supporting what is most meaningful to you.

Jim Steffen uses the story of a couple discovering and integrating the "Aligned Thinking" process in such a way that you can do the same.

The most important thing is that you can go beyond just reading the enlightening story and use it as your own action guide to impliment the concept in your life.

Great growth tool,
John

This is a self-help business oriented book.

That probably turns you off, it sounds pretty dull, and that it's like about 700 other self-help business books.

But this one is honestly different. It is written in the form of a novel. A two career couple (Isn't everyone these days?) who are buried under work, family and other obligations that seem never ending. They use to-do lists to get things done, but then find that the to-do list is not only never ending, but getting longer and longer.

I especially liked the way it starts out, Ray, the leading character is looking back on his day. 'What have I really accomplished today?' I've asked myself that too many times, I know that I worked hard all day, but what did I really get done?

His approach to writing the book is to make it like an adventure story. Instead of simply dumping his theories out in the open, he leads you through a discovery. To me this makes the lessons he is trying to teach more meaningful, more clearly understood.

Now don't get me wrong, this isn't nearly as good a novel as say the latest 'Harry Potter.' But then again, its point is to teach a lesson, and it does that very well indeed.

I read this book and it has made a change in my life. I am a Real Estate agent with comstant demands on my time. Jim's use of the MIN enables me to priortize what is most important now and act on that. The concept of a "holding pen" works well as I list everything that needs attention but I don't lose my focus as I have had in the past with a to do list. Lastly, the concept of looking at my MIN throughout the day helps to really stay focused. This is a terrific book and a must read for everyone. Great job Dr. Steffen!

I could not DISAGREE with T. Tom more!!
Yes, this is a SIMPLE book, but simple is not SIMPLISTIC!! This book presents in story format a profound lesson for living ones life to the fullest. Although similar to other time management and accomplishment books/methods that tell you to set your goals and plan steps to get there, this is the only one I have found that provides the process to help you understand & envision WHAT you goals really are! In addition it is one of the few that emphasizes the importance of setting goals for your personal life as well as your business life.
Having taken one of the first courses with Jim Steffen many years ago, the Aligned Thinking method has made a tremendous difference in my life; through my years as a corporate manager and now as president of my company. And now this book makes it available to everyone. Read it. Then read it again and again.

If you like stories written at a 5th grade level, you might enjoy this book. I find this approach tiresome and annoying. I prefer tightly presented information that doesn't require me to wade through simulated conversations of slow-witted, idealistic characters.
When I eventually found my way to the actual content, I found it to be useful although I can't say it's much different than what I learned from Stephen Covey's 7 Habits.

While most of the information in this book is common sense, we all at times can use a reminder. The basics of "what's important now", "life balance", and "staying focused" are things that we often forget when dealing with everyday problems. Written in the story-telling method of the One-Minute Manager this book serves to remind us to slow down and focus our lives if we want to improve our quality of life.

I have read Aligned Thinking more then once. I bought copies for friends because this is a story about people that we all can relate to and learn from. One friend said, "it is so easy to read and makes so much sense. I pictured myself and knew I needed to become an aligned thinker." Most importantly she said, "I can see that you are an aligned thinker."
Roger Henson