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The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You

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Downsizing as I approach 60 means culling those many books that promise much but deliver little, and very few books are more assured of a home in my library than this one. I was initially put off by the emphasis on selfishness in the first chapter, but I persevered long enough to learn how essential that strategy is becoming a blessing to others. By developing a "supereserve" I can readily serve others rather than just wish good things for them. I have read this book many times since I purchased it more than 10 years ago and I can look back and identify very clearly the benefits I have received from applying just a portion of his advice. This is definitely a keeper.

If you can get through the first chapter on "selfishness," this book really does have a lot to offer. Using charged words like "become incredibly selfish" and absolutes like "tolerate nothing" was an integral part of Leonard's in-your-face, we-don't-have-time-for-you-not-to-get-this style. So many of us in the professional coaching industry have been touched by Leonard. We owe him a big debt of gratitude for making the profession of "coaching" the big opportunity it is for us today. This book is a good legacy to the man, as well as to what he thought was important for us to understand in our lives and in the lives of our clients.

I first bought this book three years ago at a Coaching Tour stop in Denver. The late Thomas Leonard signed my copy, making it a treasure in more ways than one.

The primary way it is a treasure is that it is exceptionally useful both as a personal growth tool and also as a book to work through with the folks who I am privileged to coach. The writing is conversational and not filled with jargon.

It is destined to be a classic, even moreso with the untimely, way to early death of the author.

Most of us know the things in life that are preventing us from reaching our true potential. Then again, some of us simply don't care. However, after reading this highly informative book, I discovered that there are a few areas in life that required attention - absurdly simple areas, such as basics for caring for one and one's home and possessions. It astonishes how a dirty car, a non-existent filing system and a messy cloths closet can have such a negative affect on one's life. Thomas Leonard brings these apparently non-important basics to your attention and coaches in a friendly manner, gently instructing us to do something about it.

The text offers 28 strategies in 28 chapters, including numerous tests that help you to reflect on your current state or condition, and simple step-by-step guidelines to change your current condition for the better. The key notion in his strategy is to make oneself more attractive by living a fulfilling life. Rather than 'strive' and 'hard sell' your way to success, his method is more along the lines of taking the path of least resistance - that by being aware and sensitive to oneself and one's environment, you create an attitude of mind where living and success becomes almost effortless. His method more or less has a Zen quality to it - surrendering to the Tao and moving through life in a natural way. In other words, by attaining clarity of mind, one is more in a position to recognize opportunities when they present themselves, and because we have become more ourselves and in-flow with our environment, good things will happen. Put in other terms; remove the physical and emotional clutter in your life, thereby creating the space for success to occur.

It is impossible for a single self-help book to be the answer for everybody. Though Leonard has an approachable method covering general areas that most of us experience and have trouble with from time to time. If anything, it could well bring your attention to areas that you thought were under control and moving smoothly and are not. This book is worth having a look at...

Great book if you're looking for an insight to what Coaching is or want to use the proven strategies of a Master Coach in your own life. This also offers several insights and distinctions for even the experienced Coach. You'll find several tests that provide the How To of creating a life of "Attraction" for yourself.

As a Life Coach I found this book inspiring and directly to the point. I plan to expand on my own current practices with strategies from this excellent work.

Patrick Rodriguez, Life Coach
StepByStepSolutions.com

There is certainly a lot of content (i.e., "stuff") here, but one would be hard-pressed to see how this book really contributes to anyone's happiness or effectiveness. Maybe something like this would appeal to the kind of people who look up to ...as a "role model," but for anyone with an IQ over 90, I would suggest looking elsewhere for your inspiration...

If you are looking achieve something, improve something or change something this book will help provide you with a framework to a better you.

I've probably bought about 100 books in the self-improvement category in the last fifteen years. About ten of those books are ones that really changed my thinking and my life. This book is one of the ten.

The premise of this book is that success is a byproduct of your growth as a person. That by focusing on your physical, emotional, and spiritual health, you naturally become more attractive to yourself and others. And by being attractive, you naturally PULL success to you. However "impractical" this may sound, it really works. I seen it work in my own life and in the lives of others.

This is a very different approach to success if you believe that you have to fight and scrape to succeed. I used to feel success was a constant zero-sum battle and my success came at a great cost to my health, relationships, and peace of mind. In all honesty, the approach described in this book, not only works, but it works better than the old "success at any cost" philosophy. It does require some willingness to suspend judgement and try some things that feel uncomfortable but for me, it's been worth it.

The book also suggests plenty of practical steps you can do immediately to begin seeing results. Also check out related tools at Thomas Leonard's website. There's a lot of great stuff there.

This is a very impressive work! I've worked as a personal development trainer (Dale Carnegie and NLP) in the past and found this book to deliver more than it promises. You could read a ton of self-help books by a variety of well-known authors and easily not come away with half the high-quality material that is in this straight-forward book. I definitely think that this book should have sold much more and should be in every successful person's personal development library. I say that I wish that Tony Robbins had written this because he may have added a little more flair, stories, humor, and enjoyment to the writing. But as far as content is concerned, this one's got it. You couldn't go wrong buying this one. It's a gem.

I really felt this book was a breath of fresh air.......very well written.......easy to apply to everyday life. This is definitely a keeper. I actually found this book to be more enlightening than most of the "big " name authors of self help books that have been on all the Best seller lists for years.