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Summary: The Book Is Always Better Than the Cassette
Review: Great advice culled from a variety of sources including Emerson, Schwarzenegger and Leonard Nimoy, Napoleon Hill, Groucho Marx and others. Also covers a wide variety of topics from taking action, using your imagination, setting goals, turning off your TV and so on. The best thing about this audio cassette is it's variety. If one point doesn't seem useful or strike your fancy then pick one of the other 99. Another plus is that the tape is 90 minutes long and appears to contain the entire text of the book since the wrapper does not bear the words abridged anywhere.
The book is read by the author Steve Chandler with each of the hundred ideas stated by Sheryl Bernstein. Mr. Chandler speaks in a monotone that frankly isn't very motivating. I would recommend that anyone considering this helpful tape buy and read the book instead. However if you're the type that knows they won't read the book but will listen to the audio than buy the tape - just don't play it while you're driving or while operating machinery because you may fall asleep and have an accident. It would have been preferable if Ms. Bernstein had read the book and Mr. Chandler merely stated the ideas. I also would have given it a higher grade had it been read by someone with a more motivating voice (say Tony Robbins)
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Summary: I write as someone who was undermotivated for years.
Review: I do not write 100 Ways as someone who was always great at motivating myself. I write as someone who was pessimistic, lazy and very cowardly most of my life. I agree with the reviews of the audio tape that say you should READ the ACTUAL book because I am not a professional audio guy. I am someone who found ways that work. Both for my clients and me. If these ways worked for me, they will work for you. No one was less motivated than I was when I started, except for maybe Cobain.STEVE CHANDLER
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Summary: Superficial
Review: I found the content of the book very superficial. It deals with eliminating the symptoms of lack of motivation: things like "Kill your television", "Read yourself a story"... (these are chapters titles from the book). Do not expect a deep philosophical of psychological insight about human motivation or even human nature in general from this book.
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Summary: This book is amazing!
Review: I have never written a book review before, but felt compelled after reading 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself! I have read many self help books over the years and this one just seems to be such a good compilation of all of them! After reading a page or two, I decided I needed a yellow high-lighter. I swear--I almost high-lighted the whole book! I got so much good information from this book, so many good ideas, and so many recommendations for other books that I would like to read. But best of all, it made me realize that I am not quite as lazy as I thought I was. Thanks you so much Steve Chandler!!
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Summary: Slightly disappointing, but effective...
Review: I read the book first and was looking for a tape to back up the concepts in the book. On that count, the audio version is right on the mark. The interesting (and disappointing) thing is that the author actually "reads" the pertinent text to you from each of the 100 items. In the book, he talks about overcoming a fear of public speaking and putting inflection into his speaking voice. I guess he feels qualifed to "read" to us based on his accomplishment. If reading his text was the selected approach, he should have let a professional narrator make this tape. I guess I was expecting excerpts from his speaking engagements (ala "7 Habits..."). Unfortunately, he sounds like Tom Boydette on the Motel 6 commercials. The content is there, the delivery is disappointing. If you have the book, make a tape yourself.
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Summary: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. I was preparing a lectture I had to give to 500 people and the book gave me great ideas. I only suggest to the author that he could combine a few of the 100 ways he gives us . The book helps you focus in what is important for you. My appreciation to the author
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Summary: getting busy
Review: I recently bought this book and I started reading it and highlighting all the sentences that I liked, and it seems like every page is yellow all the way down. There is actually that much good information in it. I also recently bought a book recommended in this book. The six pillars of self esteem by Nathaniel Brandon,but I haven't recieved it yet I hope that it is also as good as this one, I haven't even finished it yet and it has motivated me very much. I would like to extend my personal thanks to Mr. Chandler for his efforts and assure him that it does not go unmentioned. Sincerely Patrick St.Peter
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Summary: Wonderful book; hard to believe no one else reviewed it
Review: I try to reread this book at least once a year; sometimes more. I even wrote down a few of his best quotes for review. Hey, everyone needs to be picked up and charged sometimes, you know? Sometimes you just don't feel it or you get into a slump. This book talks about getting into action and staying in action. Really important b/c some people just want to do things but they sit around and do nothing. Highlights and favorites of this book: (1) watch less TV; (2) plan your day and rank it in order of importance; (3) live your life; (4) start your life over; (5) light your soul on fire; (6) keep all your promises; (7) strengthen your purpose Hey, some of these don't make sense, right? Well, you need to check out the book to understand it b/c it would take up too much space to type. So, get this book and read the 100 steps to motivating yourself. When you're grateful I recommended it, you can send me a check in the mail. :D
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Summary: 100 Ways wins audiobook of the year award
Review: I was delighted to receive the King Features Syndicate 1997 AudioBook of the Year Award for 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself. The award was announced in over 120 newspapers in a column by Dale Dauten. It took me by surprise because it was the first tape I had ever made, and I elected to deliver this tape in a voice that was my own. You can see that some reviewers are more tuned into the hype of a loud Anthony Robbins than to low key me, but I wanted to do what I appreciate most in others: be a real person and not a secular evangelist. I was a cowardly child who upgraded himself to a lazy and fearful adult caught in the horrors of all kinds of life failure, from addiction to much worse depths. 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself are the 100 ways of thinking that got me free from my old way of being and on to the path of energy and humor. My life is a testiment to Andre Gide's observation that "Sadness is never anything but a form of fatigue," and Dr. Thomas Szasz's discovery that "There is no such thing as mental illness, there are just varying degrees of irresponsibility." The book 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself is a summary of the final truth about life: you can think your way into or out of anything on earth. I love my readers and hear from them from all over the world. Some have written with compassion that they can hear in my audiobook what sounds like a speech impediment. It is merely the inability to say or speak how moved I have been by the enormous distance a single human can travel in spirit
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Summary: Depressed procrastinators beware
Review: I've had depression for over ten years - a disease that saps you of the motivation even to get out of bed - with heavy doses of anxiety over the things I had to do, wanted to do, "should" do... in fact, I was pretty much consistently overwhelmed and driven by fear. This book didn't fix that problem - meds and cognitive therapy books did - but this book was GREAT to read while procrastinating. After a couple of chapters, I'd lurch off my butt and get going. (Not an easy task with fatigued depression.) But this book had an unexpected side effect. Not only did it motivate me short-term, it gave me lots of long-term help. Steve Chandler's outgoing and fearless philosophies have etched themselves into my brain over countless re-readings. It's not just a "motivation" book - it's a book about living life to the fullest. Some of the tips have nothing to do with motivation, per se - like singing to get a great confident speaking voice, getting over social embarrassment, and finding what you love to do. In fact, I think those chapters outnumber his motivational pep talks. That would be a negative selling point, if it hadn't had such a great overall effect. There are also several chapters about planning. I swear, before I'd read this book I hardly ever wrote a list. Now, I've got them stuffed all over the place. Writing lists is a *little* motivational... but overall, I think it's done more for my career. I'm coming up with more and more creative ideas to make money. I wanted a kick in the pants, but what I got was an attitude adjustment. Oh well... thanks, Steve.
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