Kick Start Your Success: Four Powerful Steps to Get What You Want Out of Your Life, Career, and Business [Hardcover]

Romanus Wolter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 17, 2006

"If you want to propel your success and dreams to realization, read Kick Start Your Success."
—Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul and coauthor of The One Minute Millionaire

"Timeless wisdom presented in an extremely readable manner."
—Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books

"A wonderful little book filled with simple, transformational wisdom that will reshape all aspects of your life and work. You owe it to yourself to read Kick Start Your Success."
—Dr. Joe Rubino, bestselling author and CEO of CenterForPersonalReinvention.com

"I was lost. I knew I had an idea that would work but didn't know how to present it to the market. Kick Start Your Success allowed me to put my thoughts down in a concise way and discover an entertaining way to make them a reality."
—Anne Patrick, television executive

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Kick Start Your Success catapults you from "I want" to "I will" to "I did!" It shows you how to gain the discipline, skill, and mastery it takes to pursue your purpose in life. This practical, life-affirming guide gives you the tools and techniques you need to create conversations that inspire others to help you succeed. Kick Start Your Success helps you master the four steps to success:

• Step 1: Gain confidence by stating your intentions—define your goal and be motivated by your own definition of success
• Step 2: Obtain focus by creating your instant impact message—convert your goal into words to bring your purpose into focus
• Step 3: Find your voice by using your success script—start powerful conversations that catapult you forward with conviction
• Step 4: Triumph by becoming "inter-ask-ive"—acquire the tools necessary to stick to and achieve your dreams

Packed with easily accessible wisdom and actionable steps, Kick Start Your Success helps you pinpoint what you want—and then shows you how to go out and get it. It's just the kick in the pants you need to achieve anything you desire.

From the Back Cover

"If you want to propel your success and dreams to realization, read Kick Start Your Success."
—Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul® and coauthor of The One Minute Millionaire

"Timeless wisdom presented in an extremely readable manner."
—Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books

"A wonderful little book filled with simple, transformational wisdom that will reshape all aspects of your life and work. You owe it to yourself to read Kick Start Your Success."
—Dr. Joe Rubino, bestselling author andCEO of CenterForPersonalReinvention.com

"I was lost. I knew I had an idea that would work but didn't know how to present it to the market. Kick Start Your Success allowed me to put my thoughts down in a concise way and discover an entertaining way to make them a reality."
—Anne Patrick, television executive

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471773468
• ISBN-13: 978-0471773467
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,575,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly powerful tool for achieving success, August 13, 2005

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Stephanie Chandler "Author/Speaker: LEAP! 101... (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kick Start Your Success: Four Powerful Steps to Get What You Want Out of Your Life, Career, and Business (Hardcover)

I just read and worked through a preview copy of Kick Start Your Success and I can't believe how much more CLARITY I am developing! These steps alone are going to be tremendously helpful in developing all of my goals (there are many) and I am so grateful for this. My brain is cluttered with information and ideas, and this is the first time I've found a way to flush it all out. I might even start sleeping again!! The examples Romanus gives are right on. He truly have a gift for helping people with their goals. I am going to need a quantity discount when the book comes out because I can already think of a list of people I want to buy copies for!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 19, 2008

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A reader (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kick Start Your Success: Four Powerful Steps to Get What You Want Out of Your Life, Career, and Business (Audio CD)

I got this audiobook based on reviews given here, and maybe my expecations were too high, but I am disappointed in this book.

My first complaint is the author read his own book. Sometimes this works, but in this case, his voice failed to convey his ideas with enthusiasm. I recommend the author actually spend some money and get a professional voice actor next time.

The author's key to success is to write down not your goal, but your intent on what your goal will do to benefit other people. I found this to be helpful in preparing my elevator speech to find my dream job (which I have not yet found), but many other goals I found this to be non-productive.

Having a good intent and sharing with others may push me in completing my goals, but if some goals are selfish in nature (winning an award, having self-satisfaction with a personal hobby done well, writing that great novel), sharing whatever good intentions gets me no further along than before. The author's solution is for me to keep 'spinning' my intent until I get help.

A much better book (and audiobook for that matter) is Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. You want clarity? It is significantly better than Kick Start Your Success.

I know this review is going to be voted as not-helpful by all the author's shills, but I am warning you. This book is definately over-rated.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real help for real people., April 25, 2006

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Flower Frankenstein (San Fransassy Ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kick Start Your Success: Four Powerful Steps to Get What You Want Out of Your Life, Career, and Business (Hardcover)

This is not a "pat yourself on the back you can do it book." Romanus Wolter actually rolls up his sleeves and helps you get on track. I have learned how to create a method that helps me make decisions and his formula for developing an elevator pitch was the first time I was able to bring all my ideas about what I want to do into one cohesive sentence. It seems almost too simple but just follow the chapters and in a very short time you will be talking with the big cats.