middlebrow blamelessness: Review - Jack Canfield

The Success Principles ? Author Background

Jack Canfield is an enormously successful self help and inspirational author, having written or edited over 60 best selling books ? with a combined total of over 80 million copies in print around the world. He is also an internationally known speaker, delivering hundreds of keynote speeches, workshops and trainings each year.

He is best known for co-authoring the Chicken Soup For The Soul book series, which consists of inspiring short stories of ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. It was the success of the original book of this series that catapulted Canfield and his co-author Mark Victor Hansen to success in the mid 1990s.

Starting his career as a history teacher, Jack Canfield met his mentor W. Clement Stone. According to Canfield, it was Stone who first exposed him to the idea of a set of principles for success. He started to work for Stone, teaching Stone?s success principles to others. It was during this time that Canfield began to work on and develop his own principles for success.

Since the success of the Chicken Soup For The Soul Series, Canfield has written many successful self help books, such as The Success Principles, The Power of Focus, and The Aladdin Factor.

Book Overview

The Success Principles is a self help book aimed at giving you the principles, tools, techniques and ideas that you need to achieve success in every area of your life ? your health, career, finances, relationships, and spirituality ? whatever success means to you.

As the tagline suggests, the book aims to help you to get from where you are to where you want to be.

So how does it do this?

The book outlines fully 64 principles, separated into 6 sections. The sections are as follows:

The Fundamentals of Success
Transform Yourself for Success
Build Your Success Team
Create Successful Relationships
Success and Money
Success Starts Now

One chapter is dedicated to each principle, and in each chapter the principle is outlined, discussed, and illustrated with examples, personal stories, and quotations from successful people throughout history. Where appropriate, step-by-step instructions for implementing the principle are presented and exercises are outlined for integrating the principle into your daily life.

My Opinion of the Book

The Success Principles is one of my all-time favourite self help books. It truly is a tremendous achievement by Jack Canfield. The depth and breadth of the material is almost without equal in all of the personal development and self help books I have read.

From the beginning I was impressed with the fresh insight that Jack Canfield brings to the principles of personal development. First of all, Canfield?s extensive writing experience can be clearly seen from the beginning of the book ? this book is very well written.

The ideas that are presented form a complete and cohesive set of success principles. Each principle can be clearly seen to contribute to success in life, and the principles are listed in a natural sequence, so that later principles build on earlier, more fundamental ones.

Each principle is explained in plain English, and the benefits of implementing each principle are made crystal clear. Step-by-step instructions for integrating each principle into our daily lives are presented, and any obstacles that are likely to come up are highlighted. Each principle is brought to life with numerous relevant personal stories of successful people who have used each principle to get more of what they want in their lives.

The book gives a full and complete picture of what you need to do to get what you want from life.

How the Book Impacted My Own Life

I remember being tremendously excited when I first began reading this book. From the first page of the introduction, I felt like this was a really authoritative, well written self help book and I expected a lot from it.

It didn?t fail to deliver.

Since I bought the book, The Success Principles has become my ?bible? of self improvement. I can honestly say that I have learned more from this book and achieved more by applying the principles than with any other self help book I have read. I will give two examples of where the book has especially helped me in my own life.

Firstly, I used to get frustrated when the following process would happen in my life: 1) I would get really motivated from something I had read or listened to, 2) I would reconnect with what I really wanted, 3) I would take some definite action and for a few days start to make progress in achieving my goals, and 4) I would inevitably lose my focus and 2 months later I would have made virtually no progress.

The Success Principles helped me to realise more than ever the importance of practicing daily success habits ? that is setting aside time each day to practice the fundamentals ? such as reviewing my goals, visualising what I want, practicing appreciation, acknowledging my successes, planning my day the night before, and more besides. I learned that success is about getting the fundamentals in place first, so that I can keep my focus on what is most important to me, and maintain the right mindset where I will continue to make progress towards achieving what I really want.

Secondly, the section on Success and Money taught me some life-changing lessons about how to improve my financial situation, and where I should be placing my focus. It helped me to understand how my money habits were not supporting me, and gave me new insights into how I could change them for the better.

Conclusion

The Success Principles is one of the best self help books that I have ever read. It is extremely well written and contains a wealth of information on how to get from where you are to where you want to be in life. Whatever success means to you, this book can help you to find it. I highly recommend Jack Canfield?s The Success Principles.

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