Ten Commitments to Your Success [Paperback]

Steve Chandler's Ten Commitments is like a fantasy retreat with the world's greatest poets, artists, philosophers, scientists, entrepreneurs and self-help gurus. You'll have seminars with Leonardo and Michelangelo, strolls with Gandhi and Buddha, workshops with Emerson and Thoreau, dinner with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, and fireside singalongs with Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen. The trick is that Chandler is there to make all the introductions and put every song, every story, every insight into the context of how an "average" life can be organized to achieve extraordinary outcomes through commitment. Written with uplifting wit and down-home simplicity, Ten Commitments is scarcely 90 pages in length, but contains a virtual encyclopedia of ideas and wisdom. It's a book that could define your reading list for a decade.

I've read this and most other of Chandler's books. Be forewarned....if you need a "system" or some magic tricks to lead a better, more purposeful life, you won't find them here. Chandler gives it straight from the heart (and mind). Make commitments, honor commitments. Inspire yourself daily to do more, to be more.

One of Chandler's finest attributes as a writer is his self honesty. When he has failed (either the past or present) he tells you so. Then he simply disects the reasons for it and offers a better way. That probably would have been a good title for this book, "A Better Way", as many of us could make simple changes to lead a happier, more productive life.

My favorite chapter is the last...a Commitment to Your Music....its powerful stuff....I'm commited to not dying with any of my music "still in me".

Great job Steve........let's hope your commitment is to keep doing this for years to come.

Unlike other books of the author, this book is much more sophisticated and is like a highly condensed dose for all who want to improve themselves. No matter how many self help books you had read before, you would still be satisfied. Great return for your time and money. Highly recommended!

p.s. Below please find some of my favorite passages for your reference.
Fuller found that when he created a plan, and then made a series of first moves, he was creating and producing his life with action. Most people wait for the first moves to happen to them. They let the the world around them make the first moves and then they respond, living a life of second moves, all in response to others. pg3
Children are unhappy about 12 times a day and they are happy about 67 times a day. But it is not permanent. And they know it's not, which is why they always very quickly move on from unhappiness to happiness. Adults try to make it permanent, like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall. pg8
We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion we have of things. - Epictetus pg8
You can find a third world person with the highest IQ in his country and he wont be able to use the Google search engine ...while a low IQ person who understands Google could have gotten it for him in twenty seconds...Because intelligence is vastly overrated as to how far it can take you...it didnt save me at all from being suicidal about my ineffectiveness at making the very basic things in life work for me. pg18
The past cannot affect you in any way if you are not thinking about it. Notice, when you step back, that you are not your thought. You are whatever is witnessing your thought. pg20
When I feel something unpleasant it is my body's signal to me that my thought is contaminated and I am not longer free flowing....my body is trying to tell me to shift my thinking back to its natural resourceful, whole-brain state. (Or, even better, to drop thinking altogether for a while) pg22
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon pg24
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi pg29
Without a plan, you run your day based on your fears. You check in each morning with your sense of dread....If people will take time, they will be able to come up with a way, a routine, a structure, to deal with any fear they ahve in grown up life. A way that does not scare them. But they dont take the time to figure this out because they're too afraid to even look at the fear. Avoidance feeds the fear. pg29/30
If my outcome goal is to have ten new clients every month, then that's the outcome that I want. I can use process goals to produce my outcome. Most people dont do this. All their goal setting is outcome based so their minds remain anxiously focused on what they dont have. They live in the future, which is the root of all anxiety. They cant relax into the process of now. pg32
The Buddha, the most practical of teachers, defined the wise man or woman in a thoroughly practical way: "One who will gladly give up a smaller pleasure to gain a greater joy." pg35
It's not how you feel. It's what has to be done. pg57
A committment to career is a committment to my communications always delivering value. pg70
What gets measured gets done. pg78
Discipline is remembering what you want. - David Campbell pg83

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