Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals

by Alissa Finerman

IF YOU KNEW YOU WOULD SUCCEED AT ANYTHING YOU SET YOUR MIND TO . . . WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Regardless of where you are in your life, "Living in Your Top 1%" will give you the framework you need to turn your vision into a reality. In this empowering and thought-provoking book, Alissa Finerman shares the most powerful ingredients for success and translates them into nine simple and easy-to-implement rituals. Combining research from the best thinkers in the field with a collection of compelling stories, Alissa has created a comprehensive guide to reaching your true potential. The book helps to assess where you currently are in your life, identify the areas that you would like to excel in, and develop your own personal roadmap to get there. This includes identifying your core priorities, breaking down the process of pursuing meaningful goals, and teaching you how to overcome obstacles along the way. The book is divided into three Assess, Create, and Implement. Each section includes three rituals that will inspire you to create the reality you want. The nine rituals will challenge you to think differently, take action, and get RESULTS. "Living in Your Top 1%" is a practical and motivational “how-to” guide that can make an immediate impact in your life. The author has done extensive research in many self-help areas across the board to be able to provide you with a well-rounded framework available in one book. The quest starts by asking yourself, “What does my top 1% look like?” Ultimately, the "laws of success" do not change. The only thing that changes is how we practice them.

Genres: Self Help, Business, Personal Development, Productivity, Personal Growth, Nonfiction, Psychology

220 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2011

Reviews

[Leo Polovets · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is mostly a collection of cliches and platitudes: embrace a can-do mindset, be resilient, set goals, try things outside of your comfort zone, blah blah blah. First, I've seen all of this elsewhere. Second, it could have been 25 pages instead of 200 pages. Third, a lot of the advice is hard to act upon or plain silly. For example, in the section on becoming more resilient, the author suggests the following five steps: become more aware of your thinking during challenging situations, set meaningful goals, learn from experiences, build your self-confidence, and strengthen your relationships. Umm, yeah. Or, you know, you could just work on a progression of activities that require more and more resilience. Practice will improve your attitude much more than "friends who you can turn to for empathy".

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author organizes and draws out tried and true healthy habits and illustrates with examples on how to incorporate them into your life.

I wouldn't recommend this for someone expecting to see themselves successfully reaching their "1%" potential with these alone, but I would recommend this to someone as a start on their self-improvement journey as it is daunting. The neverending journey is particularly overwhelming now with the barrage of "helpful" business agendas often highlighting fringe success stories positioned on pedestals. So this book does an okay job of keeping things applicable for the general populus while giving scientific evidence and inspiring anecdotal evidence throughout.

[Larissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tips to living your best life. I like how she says it not about being in the top 1% but living in your top 1%. As I have read a lot of personal development books, there was nothing new here but all good reminders I need to implement. Having a growth mindset over a fixed mindset etc.

“The key message in this book:
To become your best possible self, you need to start by looking at yourself. What’s important to you? Then it’s just a matter of setting meaningful goals and taking small steps toward them, no matter what obstacles or setbacks you encounter.”

Books she also recommends -

Read Mindset by Carol Dweck and Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson.

[Jap Hengky · Rating 4 out of 5]

To become your best possible self, you need to start by looking at yourself. What’s important to you? Then it’s just a matter of setting meaningful goals and taking small steps toward them, no matter what obstacles or setbacks you encounter.

[BLACK CAT · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actionable and motivating - similar elements to other goal setting books.

[Arran Maran · Rating 1 out of 5]

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”

- Alissa Finerman apparently

[Nicole Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

One if my favorite books of all time! Alissa's strategies and tools for goal setting will change your mindset from "I want to do that" to "I will do that". If you want to achieve your dreams and beyond, I highly recommend this book.

[Ann Baxter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. It took so long to read this slim book because we read it together as a team at work. It sparked a lot of great conversation and actual improvement in personal and work related goals. A great motivator. Highly recommended.

[Jennifer Lahotski · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book!
Alissa Finerman will get your life into high-gear with goal setting and positive thinking!
Great, great read!

[Vanessa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Whilst I agree with some of the concepts, this just didn't resonate with me or my way of thinking