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Get A Grip On Your Dream: 12 Ways to Squeeze More Success Out of Your Goals (Personal Development Series)

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This is a great manual for success! 12 steps with understandable explanations and a fun writing style. Acronyms are used throughout to make the message clear and add a nice twist to how we remember things. I especially enjoyed how the author used real-life stories of successful people to illustrate his points. A short book, a quick read, full of valuable techniques to help you succeed. Use all of it, or part of it. Any small bite will feed your ambitions!

This book invigorated me and touched my spirit. The author weaves acronyms, a system for success, and hundreds of quotes and facts from successful people we all know. I really enjoyed learning about famous and successful people who touched our lives because it empowered me and has made me feel that we all have the power to be successful, we all have the ability to be heros in our lives.

Jeff helps us to sort out confusion, disorganization, and the fear of failure that distracts most people from getting a GRIP on their dreams and goals. I love how the author plays with words by finding deeper meaning in the words we use everyday. The book is filled with acronyms to help us remember and understand the deeper meaning behind the words. Jeff's method organized me and helped me see INTO everyday words, it helped me focus more clearly on what needs to be done to achieve my goals.

The book is filled with quotes and facts about people we all know, presidents, sport ledgends, inventors, poets, musicians etc... Jeff pointed out their struggles and helped me see them as regular people like myself who succeeded either out of mistakes and failures or out of sheer determination and drive. After reading the book I felt that if these successful people can do it....so can I! Jeff made it sound reachable.

Making miss-takes (mistakes) are wonderful discoveries and insights! I love the quote from this book by Tom Watson, founder of IBM, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." Another quote from this book was from John Keats, " Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success."

Peter Jeff's INsight gives new meaning to everday words we use. His words get IN you. After you have read the book, you will know what it means to wear your BVDs in public. From now on I am wearing my BVDs in public! This book is very creative. It has added a lot to my life.

If your dream is still out of reach, Get A GRIP On Your Dream will rekindle your fire to perservere through every stage of making your dream reality. It's filled with dynamic examples for you to hang onto while you are climbing to the top.

This book contains many examples of people who have overcome adversity or persisted until they succeeded. Frustratingly, the examples are too brief to provide any real insight. The author mostly provides the facts of what happened, without delving into what made these people tick. Studies have shown that high achievers in music and sport practice more than anyone else. To do so requires persistence that seems almost unreasonable. What drives such people? Well, we're not about to find out by reading, "Get a Grip on Your Dream."

The author writes, "Passionate goal-setters don't give up, no matter how far behind they think they are." True, without persistence you won't succeed, but persistence is not a guarantee of success. It takes wisdom to know when persistence just might pay off, and it also takes wisdom to know when persistence is a delusion. Unfortunately the author takes a one-dimensional approach.

On the subject of risk, the author writes, "Risk making can exhilarate." and "Risk-making can rejuvenate." While both statements are true, it is not the whole story. By recounting the stories of only those who were successful, the author has diminished his credibility. There are few sadder sights than a boxer who has had one too many fights, such as Muhammad Ali's last fight in 1981 that demonstrated that his skills had departed. He took a risk in going back into the ring, but it wasn't a rejuvenation. And in 2010, seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher continues to tarnish his reputation in a lackluster comeback. Again, he has taken a risk in returning to a sport in which he was dominant for so many years, but it is neither inspiring nor exhilarating.

The author makes extensive use of acronyms as part of his GRIP system, but unlike the simplistic examples provided, these are almost too complex to remember. For example:
"Think of VALUES as a word that stands for:
Vital Assessment Leveraging Unique Expectations Systematically"
or,
"Write your OBIT (Optimum Biographical Information Transfer)."

Yikes! I doubt that many people will be able to grasp and remember that much information.

"Get a Grip on Your Dream" is not without some useful insights, but they are few and far between. If you see this book in your library, then browse through it, but time and money are limited. Don't spend too much of either on this book.