The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your LIfe

 Shirley J.       Adult Non-Fiction       Self-Help  Applying Design School Problem Solving Skills to life

The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth

288 pages

Bernard Roth reminds me a little of Yoda from Star Wars.   He is a big promoter of the "Do or Do Not There Is No Try," school of Jedi fundamentals.   He is all about working things out by introducing his theories to you in very understandable ways.   He uses, stories, parables, recollections of his own and his family's experiences, classroom exercises and homework for the reader to complete to teach some very life changing theorems.  He is pretty hard on his students and I don't think I would want to take a class with him (he can be a bit of an insensitive jerk) but when he gets going  props where props are due he is pretty brilliant to have figured out how much better it is to stop making excuses for that which we screw up and just to take the stronger approach of owning your screw up and instead of laying all the excuses out just say and.    Not, the project didn't get done on time because the weather was bad, traffic was backed up due to accidents which made me 2 hours late getting here, then the report had to be typed up after locating all the statistics that (name) held up because they didn't follow through.  Instead say, "Yes, the project is behind because I failed to plan adequately to give myself the time to pull the stats together, to meet with everyone I needed for their feedback and factor in the time to type and edit the final report before turning it in AND I now have all the information I need to complete an accurate account and the project will be completed and in your hand by the end of the day.   Lots of other simple yet who thinks of them lessons that you will say to yourself that is such a perfect way of handling that.   Excellent book.   I highly recommend this one to mature teens and adults wanting to get their lives on track and achieve positive results.   So many amazing ways to look at situations and fix them - no muss no fuss just cut to the chase and DO IT.