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Achieve Anything in Just One Year: Be Inspired Daily to Live Your Dreams and Accomplish Your Goals

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Achieve Anything In Just One Year is a year long program with a page a day premise. The title sounds ambitious but I believe you can certainly change your thinking, preconceived notions and happiness by following this book.

I want to start by saying I have a 2 year old. So what? Try and read a whole book or even more than a page with a toddler and you will know what I mean. Therefore for me the whole page a day worked really well at this point in my life. I could, however, see how that would be a little frustrating if you had all the time you desired to read a book. Certainly the times when I could read more I did skip and read 10 or 20 pages. That is the reason I only gave it four stars because if you're already lacking motivation then sticking with a one year program might be a little tough.

I liked how the book started with inspirational quotes and then followed them with a few paragraphs on how you could take those words of wisdom and use them in your life. Some were trite but aren't many truths? I mean you read and think "duh" but then do the exact opposite in your life...well at least I do. (Thus reading so many self help books!)

There are sections on laughter, challenge, goal setting, truthfulness, breathing and playing to name a few each about covering about 5 days/pages worth. So in fact you do spend more time on one theme and can work with it over a few days. I liked that that gave me time to implement and layer the techniques I was learning. It's a great way to build your understanding and gives you time to fail and then retry again.

I'm also a big fan of being able to open and book and take that one discrete bit of wisdom for my day or apply it to a challenge I'm facing. This book is perfect for that. It's full of many small actions that if followed could absolutely help you achieve your goals. As they say "A thousand mile journey starts with one step."

So as far as self-help books go this is a good tool to own. Frankly if I walk away with one thought from a book that can help me improve I'm happy. I certainly got a lot out of it and still do.

When I sat down to read this book I had about an hour to read ... and I was shocked to find out I was actually only supposed to read one page a day! HUH?!

So I confess I actually read about 80 pages all at once - which is totally not what you're supposed to do but I was so curious about what I was supposed to do next that I couldn't help it.

So here's the thing ... I haven't done what the book said exactly. And I cheated by reading a whole bunch at once but I absolutely adore this book and the concept behind it. And I highly recommend you get a copy for yourself or for someone you love if that person needs some:

- inspiration
- direction
- items to act on
- the means to control their own life.

I believe the words chosen to begin the book were very wisely selected with the quote from Marin Luther King Jr. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

I think that is the foundation of success but most people don't know where to begin. This book gives you the beginning and I believe that if you follow this book each day you will achieve great things in a year ... which is a great gift to give yourself or someone you love. Plus you'll probably finding yourself smiling and enjoying the journey because I found myself smiling just reading the book and thinking about some of the exercises and I was cheating. :)

- I received a free review copy from the publisher -

If you are an over thinker or worrier, like myself, this book will show you how to clear your mind and learn to relax. It's okay to take a step back from life once in a while!

I'm not much of a writer but when I created a journal (as suggested on day 12) it really helped to organize my thoughts and create on order of importance in my life. It allowed me to express my feelings and emotions without fear of being judged or compared (as I would have felt speaking to a professional). I felt very proud of myself being able to work things out on my own!

The quotes used were very motivational and they made me feel like I wasn't the only one going through life's challenges. My favorite one is,
'The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.' 'Michelangelo

It's scary to think that YOU have the power to change your life by taking up a hobby, or just exploring new opportunities at your job. Any little thing can open new doors to you!
Achieve Anything In Just One Year: Be Inspired Daily to Live Your Dreams and Accomplish Your Goals, is a very motivational and inspiring book, I have already recommended it to my friends!

This treasury of home-spun truths is an excellent little guide for better living. Broken down into a series of inspirational messages to cover all the days of the year, this book addresses a number of different challenges for living. If you need direction or a sense of fulfillment in life, read it because it will encourage you to set goals and work them out through practicable activities over the course of a year. If you need greater affirmation, happiness or enlightenment, this book contains a plan by which you can tap that hidden potential that will make you a more complete person. This is a guide for people who need to develop a reliable philosophy that emphasizes the importance of planning one's life through building self-initiative and having moral purpose. Each daily passage contains a wise saying from some famous person in history, followed by a discussion of a relevant issue and an activity for the participant. At present, I am only through about a tenth of the readings but I am already finding them very helpful in getting me to focus on dealing with recurring problems in my life with a clearer idea of how to resolve them. In the process, there is an underlying need for self-discipline in order to apply these big ideas in an organized fashion. This is not a book for the faint of heart who may only want to perform a casual read now and then. Rather, it contains enough substance to radically change one's lifestyle from inside out. Both sides of the brain get tapped into when it comes to making serious adjustments to malfunctioning or underperforming character. It is written in fashion that easy to understand and apply at your own pace without a trainer standing over you. I have decided to use some of the material in one of my planning classes at school as a way of getting some of its underachievers to recognize their true potential for learning.

This should have been a easy read... very not interesting. Perhaps the inspiration needed just isn't a connection between book and reader. Sorry not for us.

This book is fun and is really helping me in the pursuit of my life goals. I guess I should be unreservedly grateful for it, but I am mildly troubled by the sayings attributed to the famous. Variations of the following one-man scenario keep popping up:

(First there is an almost audible raising of eyebrows.)
Did Gertrude Stein REALLY say "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
That doesn't sound like something she would say.
Not in a class with "A rose is a rose is a rose."
Gosh, if she did say that, I would really like to know WHERE she said it.

I am definitely grateful, just not unreservedly so.

I will regularly edit and update this review.

This publication by Mr Harvey was received as a gift. Most of us pride ourselves in being emotionally secure, emotionally intelligent, socially secure and intelligent etc. I am such a person and pride myself in who I am. I like most people, do have moments in my life where a stumble has occurred in the roller coaster of life. I can appreciate and value the insight Mr Harvey provides to all persons with this book.
It is formatted so that the reader reads one page daily, reflects, and in some cases performs an assignment. That is not to say that you can not forge ahead and read several days, flexibility is there.

I am at day ten of this 365-day exercise. I can already appreciate and value the notable quotes and lessons presented. Of the exercises presented, I am already performing some so I have moved on.

Day 10 Evaluation
Very good format, easy to read, understand and relate, regardless of your personal standing in life whether self perceived or other.

Day 40 Evaluation
Same consistent format. As stated every so wisely years ago - a picture will show you a typical day

A catchy title is a mixed blessing. Some will be inspired by it; others will dismiss it as hype. Of course, reading the book alone won't significantly increase your achievement, but putting in place some of the suggestions can certainly help.

I've skimmed through the book, just to get a sense of the layout, content and suggestions. This book is designed to be read one page per day over a year. Each page contains a quote, some questions and an assignment. The objective of each page is to learn to make small daily choices that will help you to get the most from your life. Will it transform your life? I guess that depends on how much change you think you need or want to make and how motivated you are towards making those changes.

I like this book, and I think the format is useful. Will I work through it, as suggested, each page in order at the rate of one page per day? I'm not sure. I've already incorporated a couple of suggestions, and I'm keen to explore some others.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

It's very easy to decide that you want to change your life. It's so much tougher to actually make the changes. Yes, you can plan and goal set but we all know that after a while we get tired, bored, or frustrated. Before long, the plan falls apart.

Staying motivated and focused is the key. Achieve Anything in Just One Year provides a bit of motivation for an entire year. For each day there is an inspirational quote. The author then explains the quote and presents a little exercise for the day.

Essentially, the daily entries are meant to keep you positive, to remind you that what you are trying to achieve is worth the effort. I love quotes and the author has picked some very poignant ones. Food for thought.

I have read a lot of inspirational books that did, indeed, inspire me, but they didn''t offer much in the way of practical application. I have also read some very practical 'how-to' books, but they didn''t really inspire me to take the actions that were recommended. And then there''s ACHIEVE ANYTHING IN JUST ONE YEAR. This book is not only full of helpful, actionable suggestions, but all 365 lessons are based on the truly inspirational thoughts, ideas, and teachings of some of the world''s most respected minds, such as Mark Twain, Goethe, Helen Keller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, and many, many more. If this book doesn''t motivate you to finally live your dreams and accomplish your goals, I don''t know what will.

Steven Lane Taylor, author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow