Slow Down: The Fastest Way to Get Everything You Want

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Summary: Intention, Gratitude, and Action
Review: Slow Down, The Fastest Way To Get Everything You Want by David Essel has seemingly an oxymoron for a title. However, the author, a Lifestyle Coach, speaker and TV/radio host on motivational programming nationally syndicated, shares his personal experiences of pushing too hard and working too many hours before discovering how slowing down can actually help you accomplish your goals and realize your dreams much more effectively and rapidly than stressing yourself with overwork and undue demands. He leaned to quiet his ego and realize that accomplishing more did not always equal success. By forming new habits of daily prayer and meditation, regular exercize and strength training, eating and sleeping correctly for good health and energy, he was able to build his life to be far more satisfying to himself and with time and energy to serve others and to form loving relationships. In his book and his coaching he stresses the three keys of manifesting what you want are Intention, Gratitude, and Action. This book is a wealth of lifestyle secrets for success for anyone who wants a do-it-yourself help plan. An excellent and easy book to read and follow.

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Summary: Give this book to people you love, especially yourself!
Review: David Essel has written a book that will positively impact anyone with a desire to be the best he or she can be. A quick review of his website will reveal that, through his writing, radio show and lifestyle coaching, David has dedicated thousands of hours to personal growth - something few have the opportunity to do. In Slow Down, David has provided us with an easy to read compendium of wise, practical and inspiring ideas that can guide us to making our personal dreams come true in all areas of life: health, career, love, spiritual growth. David doesn't try to tell us what those dreams should be, he simply shows us that through the Three Keys of Manifestation: Intention, Gratitude and Action, we have the ability to make it happen.
With a demanding job and a heavy community volunteer role, I have found myself rushing from one task to the next. Many of the positive habits that had helped me get where I am today had been abandoned - no time for journaling or long power walks on the beach. David has reminded me that to be the person I want to be tomorrow, I must first determine my intentions and then begin today to manifest that dream with action. Furthermore, by living intently each day I can operate at my peak performance. Ultimately what David invites us to do is to invest in ourselves. I am renewed, energized and refocused.
This book is the perfect gift for your best friend, your partner, your college graduate, your employees, but most of all for yourself.
Melanie Saxon


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Summary: A truly valuable gift
Review: In his 4th and latest book, "Slow Down: The Fastest Way to Get Everything You Want," David Essel has given us a very valuable gift. David takes us on a journey to examine different areas of our life that we may want to be more successful with, and through his own personal and other people's real-life stories, he helps us to open up our heart, soul and mind to all of the incredible positive changes we can make in every area of our life if we just SLOW DOWN. Unlike other self-help books, David doesn't outline the "answers" to our questions at the end of each chapter, he guides the readers to take a moment or two to "slow down," to recognize our own power of writing, and helps us look deep inside ourselves to answer a few questions about what we have read and how we can pertain this information to make powerful changes in our own lives. I couldn't put David's book down! David Essel is an amazing author, and I am learning to make positive changes in my life every single day by taking a few minutes each day to "slow down."

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Summary: absolutely useless book
Review: Maybe my expectations were not set accurately, but I wasn't looking for a touchey feely book that simply repeated the same silly message for 161 plus pages. waste of money and time.. now I am going to have to rush and play catch up with all the work I missed while spending quality time to read this dribble.