How to Plan Your Life

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Summary: Positive advise on taking responsiblity for your life.
Review: I mostly write this review only because no one else has written one. I can't say the book has profoundly changed my life, but it has improved my pessimism just a little. The biggest point of the book to me is the suggestion of writing down long-term and short-term goals, which I admit I've been doing since reading this book. If you have an adversion to God, then you wouldn't like this book. Though not overly Christian, Mr. Davidson makes it clear that he believes in God. If it helps, here's an abbreviated rundown of the section titles and chapter titles (not all chapters are listed): Section 1: Who Am I?; Ch.2 "Self-Image: How It Controls Your Life"; Ch.3 "Why Goals Are Important for You"; Section 2: Where Am I?; chapters in this section talk about taking a personal inventory of yourself, the need for good health, the workings of the mind, and the ability to choose; Section 3:Where Am I Going In Life?; Section chapters cover what success means to you, achieving success by helping others, how to set and reach goals, and asks if goals can be too big; Section 4: How Will I Get There? Chapters in this section include self-examinaion: values and priorities, your spiritual life, traditional American family, American free enterprise system, income for present needs and future security; Section 5: What Must I Do To Make Success Happen? The last section covers time management, personal habits, communication skills, and the life-long process of continuing education. The book is easy to read and like all self-development books, it all depends on how much of it you actually put into practice.If you know nothing about Jim Davidson, like I did before reading his book, here's a one sentence summary: He lives in Arkansas and is a motivational author and lecturer, and has a radio program by the same name as the book. The most referred to speaking engagements mentioned by him in the book are high school graduations.

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Summary: Mostly common sense
Review: I mostly write this review only because no one else has written one. I can't say the book has profoundly changed my life, but it has improved my pessimism just a little. The biggest point of the book to me is the suggestion of writing down long-term and short-term goals, which I admit I've been doing since reading this book. If you have an adversion to God, then you wouldn't like this book. Though not overly Christian, Mr. Davidson makes it clear that he believes in God. If it helps, here's an abbreviated rundown of the section titles and chapter titles (not all chapters are listed): Section 1: Who Am I?; Ch.2 "Self-Image: How It Controls Your Life"; Ch.3 "Why Goals Are Important for You"; Section 2: Where Am I?; chapters in this section talk about taking a personal inventory of yourself, the need for good health, the workings of the mind, and the ability to choose; Section 3:Where Am I Going In Life?; Section chapters cover what success means to you, achieving success by helping others, how to set and reach goals, and asks if goals can be too big; Section 4: How Will I Get There? Chapters in this section include self-examinaion: values and priorities, your spiritual life, traditional American family, American free enterprise system, income for present needs and future security; Section 5: What Must I Do To Make Success Happen? The last section covers time management, personal habits, communication skills, and the life-long process of continuing education. The book is easy to read and like all self-development books, it all depends on how much of it you actually put into practice.If you know nothing about Jim Davidson, like I did before reading his book, here's a one sentence summary: He lives in Arkansas and is a motivational author and lecturer, and has a radio program by the same name as the book. The most referred to speaking engagements mentioned by him in the book are high school graduations.

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Summary: Positive advise on taking responsiblity for your life.
Review: I read this book 14 years ago while facing some real problems and challagening issues in my life. I still re-read "The Optimist's Creed" at least once a month! This unpretentious book provides clear, positive advise on how to stop being a victim and how to start taking resposibilty for your life. It offers timeless, common sense advise on how to set goals for yourself, how important delaying instant gratification is to achieving goals, and most importantly how to be responsibile for your own life(personal and business) and stop being a victim. A great self help book!