Letting Go of Your Bananas: How to Become More Successful by Getting Rid of Everything Rotten in Your Life (Hardcover)

by Daniel T. Drubin (Author)
Key Phrases: limiting bananas, resourcefulness rules, barrier busting, New York, Quality of Life (more...)

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Product Description
This is a book for anyone who feels they've fallen short of their career potential, or wondered if the things they do--or don't do--at work are sabotaging their careers. The truth is, most people learn their greatest lessons not from grasping the brass ring, but from letting go of negative influences and behaviors. Now, Dr. Daniel T. Drubin helps readers identify what he terms the "rotten bananas"--unhealthy habits, relationships, jobs, and beliefs--that are holding them back, while providing job-saving, step-by-step advice on how to get back on track, including ways to: Increase resourcefulness: Take responsibility and win "the blame game": Enhance fearlessness: Remain purposeful, passionate, and persusasive: And more.

About the Author
DR. DANIEL T. DRUBIN lives in Oro Valley, Arizona.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Business Plus (September 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446579572
• ISBN-13: 978-0641934896
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #840,643 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated by 1976, let alone 2006, December 16, 2006

By	Reader (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This book was published in 2006 but the world of self-help passed this guy by back in 1970. Too many strategies and technologies have been refined in the last 30 years for you to consider reading this text - read "Overachievement" by John Eliot or some of the latest NLP efforts instead.

But let's get back to the book, here is my synopsis of what Dan offers: believe you that can have more, visualize it, and then hustle and work hard.

He talks a lot about visualizing and nothing about how to hustle because somehow after you set a goal, opportunities will surround you if you are "open". I'm afraid that I don't find the world so magical that "thoughts attract like magnets" and "how to actually do something will take care of itself."

Dan does offer a few phrases that are helpful, but they are esconsed with stories that don't support them. And don't even get me started on the first 24 pages; even if you are a big fan of his I recommend that you start reading on page 25 or you may not have the willpower to get to the meat of the book.

I like to read books that have bullet-point summaries at the end of a chapter, but each of Dan's summaries contain phrases and points that are not mentioned or expounded in the chapter!

Don't count on much here when you've finished it.

2.0 out of 5 stars a disappointment, February 8, 2008

By	Arnold Fiornick "Indicant" (Whitehouse, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Letting Go of Your Bananas: How to Become More Successful by Getting Rid of Everything Rotten in Your Life (Paperback)

This book is short length as well as in its insight and substance. Basically, this book tells you to let go of things in your life that are not working for you and hang on to the things that are. Unfortunately, that's practically all the author has to say. I've read dozens of good self-improvement books over the years, but unfortunately, this isn't one of them. I would recommend Larry Winget as an author that has some substance to his writing and recommendations.

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple effective advice, October 18, 2007

By	Dr. A. Williamson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great book on how to not let the little things get you down. Great real life stories and action steps.