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203 of 209 people found the following review helpful:
Improve yourself in this gym without breaking a sweat!, 28 Feb 2005
This is the model for self-development books for the 21st Century. I have read many self-development books, to benefit personally and to support my work as a trainer and coach. Some have been based on academic research, others have been 'secret of my success' books. This one genuinely stands out. There is a solid underpinning of well-researched psychology, combined with dozens of practical tools and examples. The Mind Gym have taken the best, most useful theories and presented them in easy to understand ways, illustrating them with real-world examples from many of the participants at their 'Workout' training sessions. Some of the things this book can help you with: Develop a more take-charge attitude
Stop procrastinating
Sort out where your life is going and make big decisions
Make a more positive impact on others
Become more influential
Get on better with others, have more gravitas and resolve conflicts
Change other people's attitudes without upsetting them
Break bad news in a sensitive way
Reduce your stress levels
Become a better creative thinker It's full of interesting self-assessments and you get access to their website for even more useful tools. There's just the right combination of interaction, anecdotes and explanation; and it's structured as a book you can dip into and get ideas straight away for any particular life challenge you face. All in all, a book that will make a difference - if you USE all the good stuff in it. For some further reading, have a look at '(Inner) FITness and the FIT Corporation' by Ben Fletcher, also about 'mental fitness'.
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83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
Worth the money, easily, 14 Jan 2005
This is a very engagingly written, well designed book, which I would classify as "intelligent self-help". It also enables you to sign up to a web site, which contains some nifty self-assessment tools. The web site alone is worth the cover price of the book... and then some. The book itself is a refreshing take on questions like how to endow yourself with greater presence, how to manage stress, how to be better at influencing others, and how to be more creative. So why only four stars, rather than five? Essentially because most of what you will find here is common sense. That's not to say it isn't worth being reminded of it, but, as with any book offering to detox your mind or teach you new skills for dealing with people and situations, it rewards you for being balanced and sensible. That's good, but it isn't radical. Entering the Mind Gym is more like doing a good cardio workout than doing a sustained weights programme. In other words, the results aren't going to be astonishing. But they should be sustainable, and they are manageable. If you buy one book in this genre right now, this is the one to go for.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
So much more than the title suggests, 12 May 2006
Once I started reading this book, I quickly realized it's a book I should have read years ago. It's so much more than the title suggests.
The introduction recommends that you just dip into the book at a chapter that seems to fit what you're looking for, rather than taking the time to read the book cover to cover. I found an interesting chapter 'Manana' and began reading. Wow! It's a short chapter and I got so many good ideas out of it, that really do help to get things done. Typical for this book, it goes below the surface and exposes the real issue. This chapter alone made the book worth buying for me!
With that experience, I enthusiastically carried on reading from another section: 'Time Well Spent'. This comprises four chapters that logically follow on from one another - a course in itself. The first chapter of this section is 'Joy Division'. This chapter was revolutionary to me. It says: if we want to be sure that time couldn't be better spent, we have to know what we want; if we don't know what we want then it's going to be all but impossible to | |
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