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Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals (Paperback)

by Brian Tracy (Author) "You can dramatically improve the overall quality of your life far faster than you might think possible ..." (more)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: AMACOM; Reprint edition (Sep 1 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814472788
ISBN-13: 978-0814472781
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 341 g

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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Tracy provides timeless truths that have been discovered by effective people throughout the ages....Readers who follow these simple steps will accomplish more in the next couple of years than most people achieve in a lifetime!"

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2.0 out of 5 stars Dispersed knowledge, Jun 9 2003

By	Peter Lorenzi (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals (Hardcover)

More cliches than constructive advice. Reads like the written translation of a coaching or motivational seminar. Chapters include "Unlock your full potential," "Double your productivity," "Simplify your life," "Enjoy superb health and fitness," and "Become everything you are capable of being," among others.

For a book on one's 'focal point', there seems to be a lot of cliches widely dispersed throughout the book, e.g., the 20/80 rule, "commit to excellence," "Work harder at what you do," "Identify your customers," and then "Fire your customers." Tracy includes what he calls "Perhaps the most famous mission statement of the twentieth century," as George Marshall said to Dwight Eisenhower, "Proceed to London. Invade Europe. Defeat the Germans." I prefer the Hollywood version of Marshall, from "Saving Private Ryan": "He's alive. We're going to go in there and get him the he** out of there."

Tracy offers "The Seven Rs of Simplification," which are actually seven "Res": Rethink, reevaluate, reorganize, restructure, etc. All this simplification sees to get pretty repetitive, and complicated. It is good to simplify and to control, but it is not clear that simplification comes from redoing anything and/or everything. And offering "Six steps to doubling your income and doubling your time off" seems like a pretty simple, powerful idea, but it includes steps like "Decide today to take at least one full day each week off work..." Nice work if you can get it.

Tracy tells a story about his dentist who "made a great sacrifice" to attend a seminar in Hong Kong and, as a result of what he learned there, retired five years later a multimillionaire. We should all wish that life and wealth could be that easy. What about all the other people who attended the seminar? When will they offer it again?

To cut to the chase: The focal power of goals does work. Let's face it, if we really want to simplify, control and focus, success comes down to three things: desire, direction and discipline. "Focal Point" is a bit about the first, a lot about the second, and not much about the third. And it is all over the place. If you are looking for focus, look elsewhere.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I wish this man was my grandfather, May 11 2009

By	LD "Book Worm" (ON, Canada) - See all my reviews

I like Brina Tracy. A lot of what he says seems so logical and obvious that that you wonder why you didn't think of it yourself. Like it was in the background of your mind but he brought it to the forefront...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tracy's Magnum Opus, Jul 11 2004

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This review is from: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals (Hardcover)

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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more

Published on Jun 2 2004 by ServantofGod

5.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more

Published on Feb 18 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more

Published on Jan 13 2004 by Asha Tyson

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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. Read more