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Many Miles to Go: A Modern Parable for Business

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Many Miles to Go combines a enthralling real-life story of Tracy's trek across Africa's Sahara desert and his reflective commentary on what he learned and what we could learn from his experiences. Unlike the typical business or personal development book, Many Miles to Go is a narrative that also has the remarkable ability to deliver Tracy's key points about success both in your career and life. If the book had to be summarized in just a few words, they would be to set a goal and begin moving towards it and to treat each experience along the way as preparation for something later. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to reach, as Tracy would say, their full potential.

Brian Tracy is the undisputed master of motivational, sales, and management training worldwide. His students love his practical, common sense approach to success. But have you ever wondered why? Does he have some kind of pipeline to the universe that we lack? No, just a lifetime of experience based on trial and error. Here in this book is the beginning of the Brian Tracy mindset, an epic journey that taught him lesson of life and success that he developed and taught throughout his life and to this day. But, hey, it's a great story too! Full of adventure, travelogue, colorful background, and shady characters. Just try and put it down once you start. Sure to become a classic and a must read in the field of motivational literature. Enjoy, and thanks Brian for sharing this wonderful portion of your life.

I read this book through in less than one day and found it essentially a pleasant adventure story with one very important message: you can be a naive idiot and still succeed if you have the correct attitude and strength. Brian and his colleagues made many undisputedly stupid decisions which burnt their fingers. However their response to the consequences was what saw them through. This message has value, since we all make less than perfect decisions on a regular basis (those of us who venture to actively make decisions, that is!). Brian Tracey hammers home that we should continue to make decisions even if it is apparent we are making wrong ones and proposes an attitude toward this, via the parable of his book.

Sometimes the book did seem to read a "truism" into every event, and often these "truisms" would contradict each other. I felt there was too much of this and it was not pointed out strongly enough that, sometimes, both "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "many hands make light work" could apply - it is up to one's judgement which has most weight in a given situation.

Generally a good read, and one I could relate to with my own life. Don't take every word of wisdom too seriously, but enjoy Brian's very good writing hand, and I hope you (as I did) will gain something worthwhile in terms of attitude from this tale.

First of all, I must admit that I am a true Brian Tracy fan who had read his books and attended his franchised seminars. Tracy and Robbins are the two best writers/speakers of the league, in my opinion. However, perhaps I am not flexible enough, I really could not connect myself to this travel log of Brian (the predominant style and content of the book) interwoven with his wise and encouraging messages. For those who like reading novels or adventure type of book, this can be a go. If not, please give this a pass and pick, "Victory!", my all time favorite, with satisfaction guaranteed.

I have listened to and admired Brian Tracy for years and have often wondered where he came from.He is so confident and self assured.And most of all extremely knowledgable about people and sales. Some of us go to the college of hard knocks instead of the University however Brian put those experiences to awesome use.It was nice to get to know him starting out along the path to success.
I urge anyone who is a seeker to read this. I hope he continues the story .

This is a story about Brian and a couple of his friends who travel the world and cross the Sahara as young guys who don't really know what they're in for. They all exit this adventure having found out a lot about themselves and each other. Kind of a story book with a message.

Great read, very inspiring...I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a little "lost" in life and looking for some direction.

This is about Brian's trip thorugh the Shahara desert and the lessons he learnt along the way. It's full of lessons and Brian tells how he invested this experience into his business life and the results he got!
Great fun read!

By Jeffrey W. Bennett, ISP, author of ISP Certification-The Industrial Security Professional Exam Manual and Under the Lontar Palm

Brian Tracy draws from his experience to give lessons on leadership and decision making. Faced with dissapointment, hunger, thirst, but armed with a desire for adventure, he and his buddies set out to discover Africa. Of the three adventurers only two complete the journey. He draws from this wonderful experience to with which he illustrates many fantastic teaching points.

Brian Tracy is the undisputed master of motivational, sales, and management training worldwide. His students love his practical, common sense approach to success. But have you ever wondered why? Does he have some kind of pipeline to the universe that we lack? No, just a lifetime of experience based on trial and error. Here in this book is the beginning of the Brian Tracy mindset, an epic journey that taught him lesson of life and success that he developed and taught throughout his life and to this day. But, hey, it's a great story too! Full of adventure, travelogue, colorful background, and shady characters. Just try and put it down once you start. Sure to become a classic and a must read in the field of motivational literature. Enjoy, and thanks Brian for sharing this wonderful portion of your life.