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How to Succeed in 12 Months: Creating a Life You Love
An Inspiring, Practical Guide to Making Your Big Dreams a Reality.
How to Succeed in 12 Creating a Life You Love is your ultimate guide to turning your dreams into reality. Author Serena Star-Leonard is living the dream herself, having used the processes described to completely design her life.
In the book, she shares the secrets behind finding the steps you need to get you the life you've always wanted, and taking those steps in leaps and bounds. It's a killer one-year plan for stepping out of a rut and into a life you have previously only dreamed of. Star-Leonard provides a road map
Whether you've been looking for a way to work closer to your dreams, or are just looking for a way out of the rat race, Star-Leonard is your guide to make big things happen. How to Succeed in 12 Creating a Life You Love is the key that opens the door to a more fulfilling and exciting version of your life.
How to Succeed in 12 Creating a Life You Love is your ultimate guide to turning your dreams into reality. Author Serena Star-Leonard is living the dream herself, having used the processes described to completely design her life.
In the book, she shares the secrets behind finding the steps you need to get you the life you've always wanted, and taking those steps in leaps and bounds. It's a killer one-year plan for stepping out of a rut and into a life you have previously only dreamed of. Star-Leonard provides a road map
Whether you've been looking for a way to work closer to your dreams, or are just looking for a way out of the rat race, Star-Leonard is your guide to make big things happen. How to Succeed in 12 Creating a Life You Love is the key that opens the door to a more fulfilling and exciting version of your life.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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December 8, 2020
I don't know what I was expecting while reading this book. The book isn't bad but it's stating the obvious. I was hoping to find something that is thought provoking or transformational instead I found the same ideas repeated over and over again.
Half the book the author speaks about how she and her husband have achieved their lifelong dream of visiting South America and documenting some of the charities there. And the other half the author tells us that we can achieve our lifelong dream too and overcome the excuses that hold us back. That's the book in a nutshell.
It's not that I didn't like the idea of traveling and connecting with people in different countries, it's that I don't count this as a success. I love traveling but I refuse to present it as a success, which the author did repeatedly in this book. It's almost like if you're not into traveling, you're simply a failure. I hate the hype of self-help books that basically states that if you're not into unusual lifestyle then you're just like everybody else.
The other thing that I didn't like about this book is that it feels like a very long blogpost. It feels like the author has googled how to succeed in achieving your goals and wrote what she found like she does with blogposts. I feel like the author has little experience with most of the things she suggests in this book. I mean her goal was to document initiatives in South America and she didn't plan for learning Spanish, which in my opinion is essential to do the job. She had to rely on translators and didn't take actual steps to learn the language until the end of her trip. She didn't even plan for getting a translator, she simply contacted whoever she found.
You know what? Now I understand what bothers me.
What bothers me is promoting her trip as the amazing success story. Her trip is something interesting and I would've wanted to know about it but to sell it as the success manual is just not right.
Overall if you haven't thought much about your goals this book would be helpful, otherwise not so much and kinda boring.
Half the book the author speaks about how she and her husband have achieved their lifelong dream of visiting South America and documenting some of the charities there. And the other half the author tells us that we can achieve our lifelong dream too and overcome the excuses that hold us back. That's the book in a nutshell.
It's not that I didn't like the idea of traveling and connecting with people in different countries, it's that I don't count this as a success. I love traveling but I refuse to present it as a success, which the author did repeatedly in this book. It's almost like if you're not into traveling, you're simply a failure. I hate the hype of self-help books that basically states that if you're not into unusual lifestyle then you're just like everybody else.
The other thing that I didn't like about this book is that it feels like a very long blogpost. It feels like the author has googled how to succeed in achieving your goals and wrote what she found like she does with blogposts. I feel like the author has little experience with most of the things she suggests in this book. I mean her goal was to document initiatives in South America and she didn't plan for learning Spanish, which in my opinion is essential to do the job. She had to rely on translators and didn't take actual steps to learn the language until the end of her trip. She didn't even plan for getting a translator, she simply contacted whoever she found.
You know what? Now I understand what bothers me.
What bothers me is promoting her trip as the amazing success story. Her trip is something interesting and I would've wanted to know about it but to sell it as the success manual is just not right.
Overall if you haven't thought much about your goals this book would be helpful, otherwise not so much and kinda boring.
September 26, 2014
Practical and realistic guide to achieving big dreams.
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May 6, 2019Dear author, do not read this review. If are not the author, please continue.
This book is dripping in privilege and lacks nuance. It seems really gimmicky. I gave up after chapter 2, and then I started skimming and skipping around.
"Our attitudes to money directly define whether we are wealthy or just getting by." Yeah. It has nothing to do with the fact that businesses constantly screw over the working class so they can make more profits to give to the shareholders. Yeah. Okay, makes sense.
"Money has a magically fluid way of flowing towards those who are the most creative, positive and persistent about getting it and ebbing from those who are not." Yeah, okay. Has nothing to do with inheritable wealth. Cool. Donald Trump went to University of Pennsylvania because he had a dream and not because his dad paid off the school with a huge donation.
"In these situations, opportunities for money just seem to show up without the same sort of grind."FAIRY MONEY CAT IS REAL. REBLOG TO GET MONEY.
I've looked up her social media, website, and fivepointfive.org, and I've gone to the websites of people in her case studies. I'm generally unimpressed because it seems like a lot of these projects have been abandoned. How can it be a success if it's not active?
This book is full of misplaced hope that isn't useful in the practical sense. The author does provide some very basic, black-and-white checklists, but I don't think these checklists are very useful.
This book is dripping in privilege and lacks nuance. It seems really gimmicky. I gave up after chapter 2, and then I started skimming and skipping around.
"Our attitudes to money directly define whether we are wealthy or just getting by." Yeah. It has nothing to do with the fact that businesses constantly screw over the working class so they can make more profits to give to the shareholders. Yeah. Okay, makes sense.
"Money has a magically fluid way of flowing towards those who are the most creative, positive and persistent about getting it and ebbing from those who are not." Yeah, okay. Has nothing to do with inheritable wealth. Cool. Donald Trump went to University of Pennsylvania because he had a dream and not because his dad paid off the school with a huge donation.
"In these situations, opportunities for money just seem to show up without the same sort of grind."FAIRY MONEY CAT IS REAL. REBLOG TO GET MONEY.
I've looked up her social media, website, and fivepointfive.org, and I've gone to the websites of people in her case studies. I'm generally unimpressed because it seems like a lot of these projects have been abandoned. How can it be a success if it's not active?
This book is full of misplaced hope that isn't useful in the practical sense. The author does provide some very basic, black-and-white checklists, but I don't think these checklists are very useful.
March 1, 2015
I found the writing style of this book to be fantastic and engaging but I started to lose momentum 3/4 through. There is a lot that is the same as the other books on the same topic but Serena presents it with fresh energy! If you read this book, read it without stopping for maximum benefit . . . all in all a brilliant book!
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