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Book Reviews

If we are to become more, reading and listening to good audio programmes are essential ingredients to accelerating our capability.

Under this section I have highlighted some of my favourite personal development classics such as 'Think and Grow Rich', 'The Science of Getting Rich' and 'Psycho Cybernetics'. Also some more modern inspirational entrepreneurial books such as Richard Bransons 'Business Stripped Bare', Timothy Ferris' 'The 4-hour Work Week' and 'The 50th Rule'. The latter is fascinating if you want to earn more and work less.

If you like modern war stories and want to remind yourself just how lucky most of us are check out Milos Stankovic 'Trusted Mole'. His story is almost unbelieveable from decorated war hero to being arrested as an alleged spy. One day I am sure he will write another book about how he cleared his name. You can click on the link and hear a recorded interview that I did with Milos.

If you want to understand the psychology of influence which includes how to avoid being unfairly influenced yourself, read 'Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion' by Robert Cialdini.

'An educated person is not necessarily one who has an abundance of general or specialised knowledge. An educated person is one who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they may acquire anything they want, or its equivalent without violating the rights of
others'  Napoleon Hill

Here are my thoughts for your personal and business development journey.

I really enjoyed this book and it is innovative with using the story of 50 Cent. The book is about being fearless to succeed.

50 Cent grew up in the streets of New York with little option but to become a drug dealer. His mother was murdered when he was only 8. He was also shot 9 times and nearly killed. However, he overcame this and used his learning from the streets to become a hugely successful rap artist and businessman.

The book explores how he got to where he is and also uses some great examples of fearlessness from the historical world. Robert Greene has written this very well.

If you have had a tough upbringing and want to use your experiences positively to make the best out of yourself or you want to look at how to overcome your fears to succeed then it's a great read. Actually I would say if you like persnal development just buy it! I read it and then went back and read it again immediately!


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John Regan is a movie and theatre actor, Director, inspirational speaker, acting coach, author, musician and artist.

John Regan, Movie Actor, Inspirational Speaker, Acting Coach, Author, Jazz Musician, Artist. I could keep going. I met John several years ago on a speaking course. We quickly struck up a rapport and I began to realize what a fascinating man he was. He has been in 17 movies, including some very famous ones in his early career like 'The Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines' and 'The Heroes of Telemark' working with people like Richard Burton and Sean Connery.
His latest movie is a horror called 'Spiderhole' and he is playing the baddie! Which seems slightly in contrast to the reality of him being such a nice, warm and inspirational man.

I met John several years ago on a speaking course. We quickly struck up a rapport and I began to realize what a fascinating man he was. He has been in 17 movies, including some very famous ones like 'The Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines' and 'The Heroes of Telemark' working with people like Richard Burton and Sean Connery.

John has a real rags to success story. He shares his
thoughts on personal development in this book 'Yes You Can'. If you want to find out more about him personally check out the recording to the 29th March 2010  interview I am doing with John when it is loaded on the site.

A very positive insirational book. It has a number of good stories and inspiration drawn from John's life and leading personal development experts. If you drew on the thinking and applied it, you would succeed.

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I found this book very refreshing. If you are a business owner there are some really good ideas in the book about designing your business so that it delivers a great customer experience without being intensely focused around you.

Tim Ferriss has set up successful businesses as well as having had significant sporting success by not following conventional rules. His inspiring story shows how you can achieve success by having courage and confidence in yourself.
Chris Cooper

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Tribes, by Seth Godin, is one of my favourite new releases. Unusually written in a single chapter this book is about developing tribes of like-minded people to deliver great results.

'There are tribes everywhere, all of them hungry for connection, meaning and change. And yet, too many people ignore the opportunity to lead, because they are "sheepwalking" their way through their lives and work, too afraid to question whether their compliance is doing them (or their company) any good.

This book is for those who don't want to be sheep and instead have a desire to do fresh and exciting work. If you have a passion for what you want to do and the drive to make it happen, there is a tribe of fellow employees, or customers, or investors, or readers, just waiting for you to connect them with each other and lead them where they want to go'

Well worth a read I reckon.
Chris Cooper

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A fabulous book for those who want to create wealth. It contains some great content on how to become a millionaire providing some excellent study material.

Cleverly in parallel is a poverty to success story which
brings the material to life. I almost didn't bother reading it. However, was grateful that I did.

I love the enlightened principles in this book. Particularly towards giving a % of your income away. You literally
give to receive.

A great book and as the price is a mere £6 as I write this it is a bargain investment! Providing of course you apply some of the material.

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This is a fascinating book based on significant research. It explains the psychology behind why people say 'yes' and includes six universal principles and how to use them. It also helps us understand why we may have allowed ourselves to have been tricked into buying something we may not have wanted. In fact why sales has in the past had a bad image.

Having read the book I decided to invite a kitchen company to visit me to see if they changed their ways And yes they tried every trick in the book. Rather than operating authentically and professionally they were using the dark side of the principles. And judging by the volume of negative comments posted on the web were destroying their brand in the equation! Change your ways or there will soon be an empty 'space' in the kitchen sector!
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Trust, says Stephen M. R. Covey, is the very basis of the 21st century's global economy, but its power is generally overlooked and misunderstood. Covey shows you how to inspire immediate trust in everyone you encounter - colleagues, constituents, the marketplace - allowing you to forego the time-killing and energy-draining check and balance bureaucracies that are so often relied upon in lieu of actual trust.

A book with some very neat principles in it. Like 'Always make you future bigger than your past. A great principle to keep yourself growing.

Also 'Always make your enjoyment greater than your effort'. Creativity in all areas of your life being ultimately linked to playfulness. I believe we must take the maximum enjoyment we can out of every day. Though I must admit I do sometimes need to remind myself of the fact!

I was not familiar with Dan Sullivan before I read this. I shall now check him out. Plus read this book again shortly.

 

The Psycho-Cybernetics programme has helped millions of people achieve life-changing goals. Newly updated to include recent changes in our lives you will learn how to awaken your automatic success mechanism and: how to de-hypnotize yourself from negative beliefs, how to acquire the habit of happiness, how to have confidence on demand, how to live more courageously.

Well that is what it says on the tin. Definately a very good read. I have recommended this book to several of my coaching clients and the feedback is always positive.

A great personal success starter.
This book has some deep thoughts within it. It is one of the more spiritual books in my recommendations list.

If you are really into the 'law of attraction' the techniques in this book are a great way to help you relax and really energise yourself to move towards your goals.

Personally, I needed to have studied the level of personal development that I have had to take this book seriously.

However out all of the meditative processes I have tried out I think this is the best. Very quickly I can put myself into a relaxed and motivated state.

Get a copy if you are open minded and want to feel energised quickly.


Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
The must read personal development book. A book that has influenced many successful people and one I choose to read regularly. Napoleon Hill was a reporter who was given a great opportunity by Andrew Carnegie the steel magnate to write a book on success.

To do so he was given access to Andrews' personal address book including some of the most famous people of his time. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Dr Alexander Graham Bell to name a few. One of my prize possessions is a beautiful limited edition of this book given to me by my friend and mentor Helen Urwin.

An essential personal and business development read.

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I found out about this book having subscribed to Mike Dooleys TUT adventurers club daily emails. I have always found them inspiring. Then I read the reviews on Amazon and a lot of people really loved the book.

If you are looking for something inspiring. Also a book that is an overview of getting your life on track this is a great read. Personally I bought the CD's so I could listen while walking the dog.

It comes across as very authentic and definitely a good addition to your personal development book section. Get it, read it and apply what is useful.

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Trusted Mole, by Milos Stankovic.
This is a very different book to anything else on this site. I have selected it because it took me into a world that I can hardly imagine. A world that I would avoid at all costs. Why put it on 'Be More Achieve More'? Because we all experience life's up's and downs. However can you imagine being honoured with an MBE by the Queen for great bravery in securing the release of UN hostages and escape of families in danger in Sarajevo. And then being arrested on suspicion of being a serb spy. Also can you imagine the horror under which some people in the world sadly live. If you think life is tough it is a positive reminder to us all of just how lucky many of us are. For more information check out the link http://www.trustedmole.com/
Please note that the video contains some strong scenes from the Balkan conflict.

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Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson. A Sunday Times Bestseller.

An inspiration to us all. Richard has achieved so much. This book is full of great entrepreneurial business thinking. It also for me a wonderful example of 'enlightened wealth'. Check this book out and notice how much good in the world he is doing. Notice where the profits go from his transportation business. How Virgin is helping those suffering from HIV and Aids. If you want to 'be more to achieve more' then read about those people who have.

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Why am I recommending this book? Am I bonkers?

This book comes into the "Parental Guidance" category! It also is definitely not a traditional blueprint on how to successfully develop your life. I am confident Ozzy and Sharon would agree.

However, Ozzy has certainly achieved financial success, a very warm family life and lots of media attention. He also had a great impact on the quality of my hearing after one Castle Donnington rock festival.

His story is at times appauling, hilarious, sometimes sad and also honest. If you liked Ozzy or Black Sabbath it is a good read into a different world. Being a rock fan I enjoyed it and was inspired by how far some people will go to achieve their dreams. How you can be a rebel and still meet the Queen and be applauded by a US President!

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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

If you are analytical and like key messages to be backed up by statistics then this book is a fascinating interpretation about some of the factors that contribute to great success.


At the time of writing, this book is ranked number 124 in Amazon sales and is generating some interestingly polarised reviews!

 

Read it and make up your own mind about his theory and statistics of why some people achieve success.

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This book is great value with a CD included in my version.
Esther and Jerry Hicks are experts on the Law of Attraction. There is alot of wisdom in here.

However, again like the 'One Command' this was material that I personally wasn't ready for until I had opened my mind to more spiritual messages. Coming from a very practical commercial world 5 years ago I may have dismissed what was being said.

What is also interesting is that Jerry claims to be downloading this information from another source. This they call 'Abraham'.

You can either dismiss this as nonsense or open up and listen to what I believe is great wisdom. Delivered from a very authentic source. Wherever it comes from the universe or their intellect, listen and learn!

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'The Great Depression Ahead - How to Prosper in the Crash Following The Greatest Boom in History' by Harry S.Dent If you are interested in Economics or managing you own wealth. Or the scale of the recession for business planning then this book is for you. Harry is becoming my hero when it comes to understanding and predicting the market place. Back in 1989 he predicted the scale and timing of the current recession. He was the economist who predicted the decline of Japan and someone who many at the time ridiculed. Not now! He looks at the causes such as demographics and not the effects. For anyone interested in business planning and wealth I would recommend studying this.

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This book is about turning prospects into buyers with the use of content marketing.

It is a practical marketing book for developing content that will appeal to your target audience.

If you are an entrepreneur and wishing to engage with your audience this is a good practical book. The world of content marketing is a mine field.

'By delivering content that is vital and relevant to your target market, you will begin to take on an important role in your customers' lives'.

If you genuinely care for people and wish to develop products and services that will add great value to them it is important that you can capture peoples attention. Content marketing is therefore an essential skill. This book will help.

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"The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D Wattles. Again a book I read regularly and have run several tele-seminars on. It is a very thought provoking book about the accumulation of wealth. Its style may seem strange as it was written at the turn of the 20th century and is best studied in a tele-seminar group. If you are interested in studying this within a group then click here for more information.

Alternatively for a 'free' e-book version or to buy the book on CD click here

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This is a classic personal development book. It is claimed that Bill Gates read this book and decided to leave college to set up Microsoft.

This book is a fairly challenging read for someone new to personal development. If you have read 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napolean Hill and 'The Science of Getting Rich' by Wallace D. Wattles and enjoyed them, this will be well you worth reading.

It was originally intended to be a monthly study programme. Another classic that can be revisited many times.

I was recently approached by someone wanting me to market their products on this site. They were giving away a free mp3 version of this book and claiming it was worth £197. I was a bit uncomfortable with that claim when the book is only £5.49 at Amazon! However, if the Bill Gates story is true perhaps it is worth considerably more!

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Roger Hamiltons book Your Life Your Legacy is an excellent introduction to the world of wealth dynamics. It includes the stories of 38 of the worlds most successful multi-millionaires. This book is about discovering your life purpose and following it!