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Chargement... The Traveler's Gift : Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success (édition 2002)par Andy Andrews
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I really enjoyed this book. I borrowed it from my cousin and I enjoyed how it was almost a real story but clearly it was make believe. I had the honor of being on a private zoom meeting with Andy Andrews a few months ago, everything he says is motivational. If you're looking for it he can give it to you. I'm not sure I've read many (any?) motivational books so this is different for me. I read this because my husband brought it home after a work event and I thought it sounded worth a read. I definitely get the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure feeling here (there's nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned, I love Bill and Ted). A man is at his whit's end. He's feeling very badly for himself and his family. Before crashing his car he says "why me?" Then he starts hurtling through time. He meets several very inspiring historical figures and each one gives him a life lesson. So, then the reader asks, "why him?" Why was this man chosen to take this journey and to learn these lessons? I definitely feel that we are to believe that he is to do something very special with the lessons he's been chosen to learn. Um, is that something special to be a motivational speaker? It gets a little bit corny at the end, but I enjoyed it. seven decisions that determine personal success The buck stops here. I am responsible for my past and future. I will seek wisdom. I will be a servant to others. I am a person of action. I seize this moment. I choose now. I have a decided heart. My destiny is assured. Today I will choose to be happy. I am the possessor of a grateful spirit. I will greet this day with a forgetful spirit. I will forgive myself. I will persist without exception. I am a person of great faith. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: A New York Times bestseller with over 1.3 million copies sold! Only a few months ago, he was a successful executive. Now he's a desperate man. Join David Ponder on an incredible journey to discover the Seven Decisions for success that can turn any life around, no matter how hopeless a situation seems. Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure. Once a high-flying executive in a Fortune 500 company, he now works a part-time, minimum wage job and struggles to support his family. Suddenly an even greater crisis hits: his daughter becomes ill, and he can't even afford to get her the medical help she needs. When David's car skids on an icy road, he wonders if he even cares to survive the crash. But an extraordinary experience awaits David Ponder. He suddenly finds himself traveling back in time, meeting leaders and heroes at crucial moments in their lives??from Abraham Lincoln to Anne Frank. As David speaks with each of these historical figures, they share their personal philosophies with him. By the time his journey is over, he has received seven secrets for success??and a second chance. Among these crucial decisions for success are: The buck stops here, and I am responsible for my past and my future I will seek wisdom and be a servant to others I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit, and I will forgive myself Today I will choose to be happy and be the possessor of a grateful spiritThe message is simple: Life is about choices. While we have little control over the events that occur in our lives, success is determined by the choices we make daily. The Traveler's Gift will challenge you, inspire you, and give you seven decisions that you can employ to determine your own personal success. Acclaim for The Traveler's Gift: Good Morning America's "Read This!" book selection for May 2003 Hit the New York Times bestseller list and remained there for 17 weeks Reached #5 on the New York Times Business Bestseller list Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller Translated into nearly 20 languages, including BrailleAucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Of course, it is in some respects not quite written with me as the core audience in mind, although I do like “business” books and business fiction. Of course, it’s not too literary, and especially in the beginning can be a little sloppily put-together. That’s not quite what I mean, though. It’s just…. I don’t know, but a lot of the lessons are basically okay, such as: even though history and the collective level clearly exist, nobody has ever been empowered by blaming and claiming no power over their lives and their destinies. And plenty of men who are the core target demographic for this book ~do~ often blame people and life and claim that they have no agency over their lives—people don’t usually say it quite like that, but they do flip out like a burger sometimes, you know. Of course, the book does simplify life to some extent. But knowing who you are is basically more important than the details of “why you can’t win” and so on, and so I’d say it’s basically an okay book.
…. Some of the people I’m a little indifferent about, but Anne and President Abraham were great people, and Andy’s treatment of them is pretty good stuff too. Anne was on her best behavior with a stranger for five minutes, (the Solomon story about the whore-mothers was really Victorianized, you know), but it is fundamentally true that Anne did believe in choosing happiness, and that unhappiness is a sort of activity like listening to the radio, like saying the “beggar’s prayer” that there isn’t enough—and not enough to be grateful for. And it’s funny that Abraham’s speech was fundamentally about humility, not for some little nursemaid, but for wise men and leaders, functionaries: “We think that we’re doing the dead a favor by hallowing their graves, but they have done more by their actions than we can do by our words. It is rather for us the living to come here and be inspired, blessed, hallowed.” And forgiving yourself, and accepting your personal power to make the world a better place.
…. The study of business—the study of means, of action—is important, and so is the study of strange things. Both can be a sort of positivity. But I wonder if Andy spent too much time on that second kind of thing, you know—the imponderables, and didn’t quite bring it the business book back to business and doing, right. Sometimes even simple fiction becomes so “big”, plays such a big game. He plays such a big game, you know. It’s fine, but it’s really far more than was necessary, IMO. Or maybe it just needed more of a counter-weight; I don’t know.
…. Yeah; okay.