Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices, Change Your Life (Paperback)

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Tommy Newberry's best-selling Success Is Not an Accident (self-published in 1999) has helped over 100,000 readers achieve higher levels of success in both their personal and professional lives. Reminiscent of best-selling authors Stephen Covey and John Maxwell, Newberry teaches readers the power of goal setting, time management, visualization, and "self-talk" so they can achieve peak levels of performance in all areas of their lives. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

The Choice Is Yours!

Success is not an accident!

This is without a doubt the single most important lesson you must learn, and really understand, if you want to develop your full potential and achieve all the success you were designed to enjoy!

Whether you want to strengthen your family life, improve your career, deepen your faith, or take your physical energy to a whole new level, you can do it!

With the help of America’s Success Coach Tommy Newberry, you’ll learn how to

• develop a life-changing mission statement;
• create, set, and achieve exciting and attainable goals;
• manage your time and stress levels to achieve peak effectiveness;
• unleash the amazing power of visualization and self-talk; and
• quickly boost your natural energy levels.

There’s no magic. The process of living your dreams is not complex or even sophisticated. It’s simple. It’s straightforward. It works. And the moment you fully accept it, your life and the lives of those you love will never again be the same.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 209 pages
• Publisher: Looking Glass Books (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886669090
• ISBN-13: 978-1886669093
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #569,303 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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159 of 164 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the VERY BEST books on personal development, December 25, 1999

By	C. M. Cotton (Europe and USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I sell 1500 audio visual training products and 1000 book titles from the worlds leading authors such as Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn etc etc. I have therefore listened to about 200 tape programmes and read about 90 books on success, in the last few years.

I recomend very few books as most are rehashed versions of classic authors such as Napolean Hill, Robert Allen etc etc.

This book by Tommy Newberry, is rehashed material. There is nothing new or mind blowing in this book. When reading it you will read Zig, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, N Hill, Maxwell Maltz etc.

What makes this book very very good is the way he brings you to conclusions, without you realising you have done it. An example; I have always struggled trying to set goals, usually the authors get you to brainstorm, pick a few suggestions and use them as goals. Newberry doesn't mention picking goals until chapter 3. By chapter 3, with your assignment work from the prevoius 2 chapters, the author has brought you to the right conclusions so you can EASILY set your 3 year goals.

His approach is brilliant, each chapter builds up to the next one, so logical are the conclusions, you never have to jump a massive mental valley to find answers to the questions posed in the assignments at the end of each chapter.

The author brilliantly takes you several steps futher than a mere goal setting book, he teaches you the basic fundementals of Physco Cybernetics and Visualisation. If you study success/goal setting and have failed in the past to get results, it will be down to the fact you have not reprogammed your "servomechanism" as in Physco Cybernetics/Visualisation. This book teaches you what other goal setting books do not, combing Maxwell Maltz's Cybernetics to Lee Pulos's work on visualisation.

If I could give this book 10 stars I would because this book has got it all. The only thing it does not have is an author who loves himself, and loves telling his audience how great he is. A refreshing change from some other authors!

HIGHLY RECOMENDED

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cuts to the chase and hits a homer!, January 12, 2002

By	Wayne Schulz "mas90 accounting software guru" (Glastonbury, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The reason I recommend this books is because it gets right to the point. The initial chapter spends a lot of time talking about goals - and follows it up with loads of bullet points, graphics and an appendix with several pages of things to think about when you develop your goal list.

I found the book easy to read and it hits on and reinforces all of the popular self-improvement topics.

This is the type of books that I am going to go crazy with the highlighter and then keep it out and refer to it constantly.

Especially helpful is the fact that Tommy doesn't just tell you to write down goals -- but takes you through the whole process.

Highly recommended.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lifechanging stuff, November 21, 2001

By	Thushar (India) - See all my reviews

The book has the potential to get u to the top,in any profession.It contains the basic fundamental truths about success.It pinpoints the way what to do and most importantly How to do it.I have been exposed to some of the best books in self help like Unlimited power,Success through a positive mental attitude,Think like a winner,Maximum achievement and my all time favorite Psychocybernetics(The original one)."Success is not an accident" contains all the great ideas from all of them.It is not a mere motivational book but also provides powerful tools to make your dreams a reality.
The author makes us feel that we don't have to compare to others regarding our potential instead we have to take action and calculated risks towards our goals .This advice helps to place our feet firmly on the ground and see what we have, for ourselves and strive to our goals with those qualities ,which makes smooth functioning of our creative success mechanism.
The book provides a valuable goal setting chapter and the visualizations that has to go along with working towards the goal.
Overall it is a very good book who seeks to explore his full potential and to stretch beyond his self imposed limits.

I also prefer books like Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz and Maximum achievement by Brian Tracy