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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't quit before reading this book!,
By Betty J Little (Norfolk, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Split Second Choice: The Power of Attitude (Paperback)
This book explains the cycles each of us go through when we make a major change in our careers. If you can learn to recognize these cycles, you may be able to work through them instead of repeating past mistakes. It helps you realize how important your own attitude can be to a situation. Excellent book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Every Employee & Employer Should Read This.,
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This review is from: Split Second Choice: The Power of Attitude (Paperback)
I wish I had read this book sooner. My husband and I are self-employed with an average of 5 - 7 employees working for us at any given time. We have had a high turn over rate in years past. I actually picked this book up while in Dallas, TX at a Mary Kay conference (my fun job). I read it on the way home and then read it again to my husband. It was amazing that we could remember back to certain people and what they had done and say "Remember when so and so did this or so and so did that. They were in number _ stage." If we had had this to help us identify some of what they were doing, thinking and feeling then I think we might still have some of them as we would have been able to help them identify what was happening and to move beyond it. This book is written in plain everyday english and easy to understand. This was a great find for us and I have given many copies away over the years.
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The Four Phases of Attitude,
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This review is from: Split Second Choice: The Power of Attitude (Paperback)
Much of the everyday fabric of our lives contains patterns and connections. In his first book, Split Second Choice: The Power of Attitude, Jim Winner (yes, that's his real name) identifies significant patterns that influence every aspect of our lives. These patterns eventually become habits for us and often are followed with no conscious thought. They are interwoven into our daily routines and our personalities. Winner, a professional trainer for over thirty years, helps us to become aware of these patterns, take control of the behavior they cause, and find connections to the solutions that make these patterns work for us instead of against us. Winner is a man of dreams and goals, someone who has learned to deal with fear, and a mentor whose career is convincing evidence that what he offers in this book is effective.
Philosopher William James proposed that when we see a bear approaching, we run. He says (and this is simplified) that we feel fear because we run, not just because we saw a bear. Winner builds his success pattern on a derivative of James' bear theory - we can alter our lives by altering our attitudes of mind. Winner writes, "Many authors have written about how attitude makes the difference..." but that "...they leave us on our own for the most difficult part..." and "...they don't really tell us how to control our attitude." Split Second Choice explores the power of attitude and our personal obligation to control our own emotions. Winner encourages us to learn how to identify the decision point, make the right choice, and be successful in all our endeavors; then make a habit of the process. Ninety-six pages long, written in workbook format, Split Second Choice takes barely more than an hour to read. It could be a reference that you consult for years to come which is why I wish it was available in hardcover. My own experiences in the self-help field have taught me that you cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book, listening to a tape, or watching a video online. You learn to do by doing and this book is the recipe. The book, filled with flow charts, diagrams, and inspirational stories concludes with an indispensable chapter on dealing with frustration, something Winner says is as inevitable as ants at a picnic. James L. Winner lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife, Margaret, and family. He is still active as a professional trainer and is also involved in real estate.
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