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"Canfield and coauthors Mark Hansen and Les Hewitt recommend
that we concentrate on our strengths, set goals, and focus
on them. Canfield and Hansen created the Chicken Soup
for the Soul series, which now has 27 titles and has sold
47.5 million copies. They have added new ingredients to
their pot; their mix now includes a weekly television show,
electronic games, and even refrigerator magnets. All the while,
though, their basic stock has remained the same: inspirational,
heartwarming, and homey stories that make people feel good.
Now they detail 10 "focusing strategies" they say they used
to get their first books published and to build on their
success. The authors include new stories and their own
personal anecdotes to show the importance of having successful
habits, creating balance, maintaining confidence, building
excellent relationships, etc."
Reviewer: --David Rouse --From "Booklist" |
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Reviewer: --El Barto --April 26, 2000 --Houston, TX USA "I consider this book as the best self-help book which is actaually useful for me. Most self-help books use Top-down approach. You first set up the goals in your life, and solve the problem of how you may achieve them. While this works most of the time in building software, I do not think that it does in real life. Also, software engineers are trained to design software using top down approach. On the other hand, normal beings like us are not trained to construct our lives in top down approach. I am not saying that this approach is not good. It may work for highly motivated and well deciplined people. "The book, Power of Focus, uses bottom up approach. So, the small things, concrete, do-able things first. The authors tell us to find out our bad habits, and change them one by one. Their stories were so convincing that it looked so easy. And it was really easy. One problem I had with other books' top down approach was that I didn't feel comfortable in setting or writing down so-called "great ambitions". But I felt very comfortable with this book's bottom up approach." |
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