[.ca] Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, ... (ISBN 0814472788)

From Amazon.com:
Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified approach to simultaneously achieving improvement at work and at home. The crux is finding the "focal point" in all pertinent areas--business, family, finances, health--and then launching a seven-step "personal strategic plan" that "helps you identify exactly what is most important to you ... identify what you need to do to achieve your most important goals (and) determine the steps you have to take to get from wherever you are to wherever you want to go." Tracy shows quite explicitly how to incorporate the specific phases of the process, including Values, Vision, Goals, Knowledge and Skills, Habits, Daily Activities, and Actions, into a drive for long-term growth and overall advancement. Not all who follow Tracy's program will find their incomes doubled and work hours pared while their personal relationships blossom, of course, but anyone who applies it diligently should see definite improvement. --Howard Rothman

Tracy's Magnum Opus:
This is undoubtably Brian Tracy's best work to date, his magnum opus. In this great book, Brian Tracy shows you how to concentrate (focus) on what is most important and achieve your goals. With so many things to do, how do you determine where to concentrate your efforts? Brian explains how.

One of the best books on focus that I have ever read!:
Brian Tracy is one of this country's leading authorities on personal and professional growth, and he proves that in Focal Point. Here Tracy gives you a real plan for clarifying what matters in your life then maximizing your potential in those important areas. If you are not a high achiever, this work will help you become one. If you are a high achiever, the book will undoubtedly give you very practical tools for kicking it up a notch. Amacon you've got a winner in this one. Congratulations to all involved in this project!

Important System:
I read this book almost a year ago and I am happy to say that I am still using many parts of Mr. Tracy's system for productivity. Although the reading was sometimes a little "dry" I gave this book 5 stars because it is a very comprehensive manual for effective achievement.

Helpful, but not as outstanding as some of his other work:
This is the second Brian Tracy book I ever read. The first one is "Victory! Applying the proven principles of military strategy to achieve greater success in your business and personal life". I love that coz it's clever use of real war stories did help me much to remember the lessons/principles Tracy wanna teach. Dont know whether that made me expect too much or what. Though this book also carries sound theories about how focusing or concentrating your mind and effort can improve myself in different arenas of life, I just forgot them real fast. I got to refer to it always, making use of the suggested steps or questions under various circumstances. You can say that's characteristic of a good "how to" book. I did expect more and better from the same brilliant speaker/author. In short, a good book but there are better work from Tracy, like the one I mentioned above. p.s. I like the following exercise in pg 128 very much. Sit down with your loved ones and ask them these four questions. 1. Is there anything I am doing today that you would like me to do more of? 2. Is there anything I am doing that you would like me to do less of? 3. Is there anything I am not doing that you would like me to start doing from now on? 4. Is there anything I am doing that you would like me to stop doing?

Brian Tracy's best work to date:
I have many of Brian Tracy's books and audio programs. And while everything Tracy does is excellent, Focal Point, is in my opinion, his best work. It is Brian Tracy's magnum opus---Focal Point has had the greatest impact in my personal and professional life. I Focal Point, Tracy shows you to identify what your focal point is in each area of your life and then asks you to direct all of your energies with laser like focus. Focus is like a laser beam. Just like a laser beam can cut through steel when properly focused and directed, focus as descibed in Focal Point can help you cut through barriers that have been holding you back to achieving your goals.I have a lot of books that I have read and given away. I keep all of Brian Tracy's book and Focal Point is one that I refer to again and again.Good, no, excellent work Mr. Tracy!