Success is a Journey: 7 Steps to Achieving Success in the Business of Life

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Summary: Success is a Journey Got Me Excited About Success
Review: I read Success is a Journey on my flight from Miami to Chicago.

As soon as I arrived I just had to call Jeffrey J. Mayer to find out more about his consulting services.

I found Success is a Journey to be very well organized. It just got me enthusiastic about success.

The 13 characteristics about successful people was very interesting. It helped me to identify my strengths and show me my areas of improvement.

The section about getting organized and using your time was excellent.

I get a good feeling about Jeffrey J. Mayer.

I also enjoyed his "Winning The Fight Between You And Your Desk."

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Summary: A Solid Effort!
Review: Jeffrey J. Mayer presents a series of success principles, time management techniques, and networking guidelines for becoming more successful. The book is easy-to-read and targeted to the individual in any type of business. A basic flaw of the book is the lack of originality in both ideas and presentation. Indeed, there are many well-worn platitudes about success and most of the time-management material will sound quite obvious. The workbook-type questions also have a familiar ring. Nonetheless, we [...] recommend the book to managers and executives who want to brush up on their time management skills.


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Summary: His Master List concept for success is simple and powerful
Review: Jeffrey Mayer has followed his own advice and become an expert on success through his own journey. He discusses specific tools such as ACT!that can be used to help structure one's path to success. I like his advice to work on important and sometimes hardest tasks first, that propel you forward to success.

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Summary: Practical Advice
Review: Many "success" books that I've read focus too much on philisophical changes or elaborate systems that the average person, like myself, have neither the time, nor patience, to implement effectively. In "Success is a Journey", Jeffrey Mayer gives you practical advise that you can put to work right away. A lot of the advice is familiar: set goals, keep a prioritized task list, maintain a good network of contacts. However, the book shows you how to do these things very easily, without having to adopt a cumbersome process. A lot of the advice just shows you easy ways to improve on the things you are probably already doing. I just finished the book, but already have put to use at least 5-6 of the suggestions which are already having a positive impact on my productivity. I strongly reccommend this book for anyone who wants to get a bit more organized and effective without redesigning their whole life.

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Summary: Practical Advice
Review: Many "success" books that I've read focus too much on philisophical changes or elaborate systems that the average person, like myself, have neither the time, nor patience, to implement effectively. In "Success is a Journey", Jeffrey Mayer gives you practical advise that you can put to work right away. A lot of the advice is familiar: set goals, keep a prioritized task list, maintain a good network of contacts. However, the book shows you how to do these things very easily, without having to adopt a cumbersome process. A lot of the advice just shows you easy ways to improve on the things you are probably already doing. I just finished the book, but already have put to use at least 5-6 of the suggestions which are already having a positive impact on my productivity. I strongly reccommend this book for anyone who wants to get a bit more organized and effective without redesigning their whole life.

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Summary: Success is a Journey is great book
Review: Success is a Journey has given me structure. I'm even taking sections - my analysis of my skills and talents - and putting them into a personal journal.

Jeffrey Mayer's book is very easy to read. I liked the anecdotes and cartoons, and the fact that it has a lots of bulleted lists. I also like the fact that I don't have to read it in one sitting.

Success is a Journey has given me a lot of food for thought about who I am, what's important to me, and where I want to go with my life.

I like the specifics about how to use the ACT! contact management program to get organized and improve my networking skills.

It's a great, and easily readable book.

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Summary: A Salad of Fundamentals
Review: This book is chock full of ideas and tips that have been around for a long time. This knowledge, that everyone SHOULD have already, is packed into pages full of success tips, anecdotes, timesaving tips and things to remember. Each of those categories has its own icon, with the tip appearing in bold-face type. The result of this design is that the book is difficult to read from a flow perspective. The presentation makes the reader jump from one category to another then back to the basic text that was interrupted.

And there's no listing of all the success tips or all the timesaving tips to give the reader this kind of value all in one place. Many of the anecdotes are short paragraphs about a minor life experience, presented without embellishment or a real tie to the text other than commentary. The book does have an index, but more could have been done to consolidate the highlights.

Mayer is also the author of four books on how to use the ACT! contact management software developed by Symantec. A significant part of this book is consumed with suggestions about how to use that program to be more organized and productive. The reader might get the feeling that this is yet another book on ACT! with some fundamentals of time and life management wrapped around it.

You'll find tips on time management, networking, conversation, master planning, and more. If you're just beginning life in the business world, you'll probably find this book quite helpful. If you've been around for a while, you'll pick up a few tips but may become bored with the simplicity and the continual shallow presentation of multiple tips to be a success at whatever you do.

In spite of the organization, it's all mixed up together like a tossed salad. Pick out the stuff you want to eat and leave the anchovies.

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Summary: Success is a Journey Got Me Excited About Success
Review: This book puts Jeffrey Mayer up there with Covey. He has a much better sense of humor and realism.