I was quite excited while listening to the first 2 parts of the CD series, when Todd promised that he can increase the listener's motivation and gave numerous references to back up his claims. These references seemed very reputable, they include Peter Drucker, Steve Covey and numerous famous psychologists such as Jung and Marslow.
Well, that is as far as he goes, dropping names. When I carefully listened to what he said he actually didn't quite answer the real question here: how to increase your motivation. I really doubt that he even read the abstract of the researches he named, let alone the entire research. Because if he did he probably would have provided a lot more content then this. The one recurring theme of this audio program is: according to this research and according to that research... then that is as far as it goes.
Another criticism of Mr. Peeler's work is that it lacks integration. He probably dragged the results from various researches and just piled them into his CD. It simply jumps from one idea to another. This made me quite annoyed when I need to, as a listener, do the editing for him in my own head and put the various ideas in the right places.
Furthermore, it has a very heavy religious overtone. In the third part of the CD it talks mainly about why you need to commit to religion to be motivated and implying if you don't you have no chance. I am not against his religious conviction here, however I am against his deceptiveness. What I mean by this is that I am listening to this CD to get a scientific point of view of motivation and not to seek some biased spiritual guidance from Mr. Peeler.
I have graduated with a business and psychology degree and have read widely into the fields of human development and self improvement. I find this book/audio CD to be sub-standard and you are much better to not wasting 5 hours of your time listening to it.
