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Success for Dummies
by Zig Ziglar
Published by IDG Worldwide
1998
Reviewed by Leigh Kimmel
What is success? Is it having lots of money? Having a big house and a fancy car? Having lots of people bowing and scraping to you? Or is there something more, something more elusive?
Zig Ziglar, one of the world's leading motivational speakers, argues that success is more than any amount of material things. Rather it is a way of life that is filled with happy, fulfilling relationships with our fellow human beings and with the sacred.
Success is not an event, but a process. This is the central thesis of Ziglar's book, and permeates all aspects of the advice to be found between these covers. This is not a "get-rich-quick" program, but a system of lifelong transformation of the whole person.
Ziglar emphasizes the importance of motivation in success. No matter what we may be able to attain, we will never be able to attain it unless we are motivated to do the necessary work. This is why it is so important to understand our motives in acting, and to set our goals. Then we can make intelligent plans to act instead of wasting our time on futile activities.
After propounding the fundamental principles of success, Ziglar applies them to major areas of life, from physical and mental health to spirituality, friendships, marriage and parenting. Our personal commitments to true success can even become the foundations of a transformation of society.
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Review posted April 11, 2001
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