Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success [Hardcover]

Brian Tracy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471251070 | ISBN-13: 978-0471251071 | Publication Date: August 16, 2002 | Edition: 1

Now in paperback, Create Your Own Future is a powerful book on self-empowerment that offers a wealth of ideas readers can apply immediately to take complete control of their personal and work lives. Intended for anyone who wants to make more money and get more satisfaction from life, the book offers twelve principles for success and real-world action plans that help you reach your goals. Author Brian Tracy is one of the most renowned and successful self-help authors and speakers in the world; Create Your Own Future presents all his accumulated experience in making success happen for others. Now, it can make success happen for you.

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From the Inside Flap

Brian Tracy is one of the most popular professional speakers and business authorities in the world today. In this fast-moving, practical book, he outlines a proven process you can use to set and achieve every goal you can imagine for yourself in the years ahead.

Tracy started off with few advantages. He left high school without graduating and worked at laboring jobs until he began asking, "Why is it that some people are more successful than others?" The answers he found changed his life, and will change yours as well.

What Tracy found was that all successful people follow a proven process. He has broken this down into twelve critical factors for unlimited success. Each of these factors is absolutely indispensable for anyone who wants to achieve their full potential in a world of virtually unlimited possibilities.

Each of these success factors is explained in detail, complete with examples and case studies that show them in action. In addition, Tracy gives you specific exercises that you can use immediately to implement each principle in your life.

Create Your Own Future will show you how to set goals, unlock your inborn creativity, and overcome any obstacle in your path. You’ll learn how to identify the key skills you need to master your field, and how to get the support of the most important people in your work and personal lives. Tracy shows you how to take complete charge of yourself and your environment, become an expert in your field, achieve complete financial independence, and develop the habits of all high-performing men and women.

This book is for ambitious people who want to get ahead faster than they ever could on their own. It brings together the very best findings of thousands of books and articles, combined with Tracy’s work as a consultant or trainer to more than 500 corporations and more than two million people in twenty-three countries.

No matter what your business or occupation, Tracy will help you reach new heights of success with simple, practical ideas and tools for maximizing your potential. You too will see how you can attain all your ambitions by utilizing the Law of Probabilities and turning it to your advantage. You’ll learn how to create your own "luck" by doing certain things every day that dramatically increase the likelihood that you will succeed at anything you attempt.

Create Your Own Future will help you build the positive, optimistic, and result-oriented attitudes and behaviors that virtually guarantee that you will achieve at a higher level. You’ll learn how to become the kind of person who attracts people, ideas, and opportunities that help you achieve your goals faster than ever before.

From the Back Cover

"Achieve your goals faster than you ever dreamed possible."
–Mark Victor Hansen
Cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul ®

Take control of your life, your career, and your future with Brian Tracy’s twelve critical factors of unlimited success

"As usual, Brian Tracy gets right to the heart of the matter. Success is predictable, but this powerful and practical book shows you how to create your own luck and take charge of your life."
–Lee Iacocca, Chairman, Lee Iacocca & Associates

"Brian Tracy has done it again. Create Your Own Future is another winner. This powerful, practical book shows you how to create your own luck, take charge of your life, and make your future whatever you want it to be."
–Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Whale Done!

"Brian Tracy has done it again. This work will change your life and accelerate your success if you simply follow the steps."
–Tony Jeary, Mr. Presentation™ and author of Inspire Any Audience

"Anyone who has the desire to be successful in business and life must read Create Your Own Future."
–Jeff Rosen, Executive Vice President, U.S. Bank

"Create Your Own Future is the most powerful way to skyrocket your success because it gives you twelve solid steps you can take to dramatically increase your results almost immediately!"
–Mitch Huhem, President, MIT

"Brian Tracy has done it again! In Create Your Own Future, you learn twelve powerful, practical steps to take control of your life and turbocharge your success. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to accelerate their accomplishments!"
–Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of The Platinum Rule and Charisma

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471251070
• ISBN-13: 978-0471251071
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. A dynamic and inspiring speaker, he addresses thousands of people each year on the subjects of personal and professional development, including the executives and staff of such firms as IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas, and The Million Dollar Round Table. Prior to founding his own firm, Brian Tracy International, he had successful careers in sales and marketing, investments, real estate development, distribution, and management consulting. Tracy is the author of thirteen previous books including the bestselling book Maximum Achievement. He is also the author/narrator of numerous bestselling audiocassette programs, including The Psychology of Achievement and How to Start and Succeed in Your Own Business.

Customer Reviews

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is amazing!, May 16, 2003

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Jack Zufelt (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success (Hardcover)

Brian is right on. As a best selling author I can attest to the wisdom Brian brings to the table. You CAN create your own future based on the decisions you make today and Brian helps you understand how to do that effectvely!Jack Zufelt

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this along with Maximum Achievement, July 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success (Hardcover)

This book is excellent and is based on Brian's "Think Big" cassette series by Nightingale-Conant. I would recommend that you read this after or with Maximum Achievement. MA is more complete, but this one has newer material and will help you Think Big and achieve results.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Textbook On Success, September 11, 2002

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Wayne Schulz "mas90 accounting software guru" (Glastonbury, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success (Hardcover)

The first time I heard Brian Tracy I thought he was awfully dull. Then I started to listen to his message and the ideas and concepts sank in. An awful lot of material is common sense and borrowed from other's ideas --- but what success literature isn't?

The things that you might find useful about Brian Tracy are:

- The ideas are all concise and to the point. These are easy reads and you don't get a lot of extraneous storytelling or religious fanaticism.

- His audio tapes mirror his writing. They are concise and contain many powerful yet simple concepts (How about his concept of repeating "I am responsible" over and over -- simple huh? Could never work, right? Try it!). Some of Brian's simplest concepts work great.

This particular book, Create Your Own Future, is almost a transcript of his great tape series - The Luck Factor. This is a great opportunity to get a nice written summary of Brian's ideas after listening to the tapes. I really enjoy that he has broken up the ideas into short manageable bits.

Give his books a try. They contain all of the success "secrets" in an easily readible format. Highly recommended (I have almost all of them).