Zig Ziglar (1926–2012)

金克拉從一個苦苦掙扎不太成功的商人，到幾家公司的銷售冠軍，最後成為了風靡全球，使無數人一生為之改變的演講大師。正如他所描述的自身經歷一樣，他確實把他演講中的精華應用到了生活中去：“如果我們能夠幫助別人夢想成真，我們自己就會心想事成。” show more 本書的標題是,很顯然,事情要從你開始.如果你期望在事業上不斷發展,你必須著手於提高個人的效率,並認識到你將成為別人的一個楷模. 如果你在目前的行業並沒有很好的表現,現在正是你打破僵局重新出發的時候,是你邁向成功的機會.無論你選擇的專業是什麼,這本書就是特別為你寫的! show less

This is a collection of talks by a variety of motivational speakers, so I expected it to be a bit of a mixed bag but thought most of them would be pretty good, having enjoyed some of Made for Success's other offerings. Instead, I found them almost uniformly disappointing.

Some are just bad (e.g., those by Jennifer Sedlock and Sarita Maybin). Some, such as Les Brown's, almost have the feel of a religious revival meeting, so that I half expected the audience (in cases where it was recorded show more live) to start shouting "Hallelujah!" That's more in terms of the style of presentation than the content, but even the content veers in that direction occasionally as Zig Ziglar, for example, insists on promoting some religious ideas and even quotes Bible verses. I found Charley "Tremendous" Jones's attempts at humor rather forced so that they mostly fell flat, and his over the top energy level to be kind of off-putting. I kept wondering what kind of drugs he was doing, so I could avoid them. Even Laura Stack, who's done some excellent work (I'd recommend her Ultimate Time Management System and The Exhaustion Cure over this), is not at the top of her game here. The sad thing is that there's actually some decent content here if you can get past all these distracting elements, but it's pretty difficult.

Probably the best contribution is Mark Victor Hansen's, who as far as I could tell had some really good material, but by the time I got to his at the very end, I had a hard time caring enough to really focus as much as I would have liked. What does it say about an audio program on motivation that its effect is that demotivating?

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I have read many of Zig Ziglar's books even though I am not much of a non-fiction fan. Mr Ziglar has a way of writing that lends a fiction feel to a non-fiction topic, its truly amazing. This book makes you think and feel your way through life's problems, and helps your reaction to each problem you face turn more and more towards a solution as opposed to just crying about it all. I do give it four stars because Mr. Ziglar is very religious and this book has a STRONG Christian undercurrent show more that, as being not Christian, completely turned me off for most of the actual message...but I did read it and I got the point, however heavily saturated, I just substituted my own religious Diety in for his and then it was great show less

Everyone should read this classic book. So much that you may have heard before comes from here. You can truly make the world better if you focus first on just building a better you! Then focus on what you can do to make other's lives around you better. As Zig says "you can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want."

It took a little while to get through, but that may have been that there is just a lot to digest, think about, write notes on, etc. And in show more the end I'm sure it will be one I read again (and again) show less