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Pull Your Finger Out: 101 ways to stop wasting time & start living your best life
What do you want to change today?
Want to stop wasting your time, talent and opportunities?
Want to break the cycle of almost, but never quite, getting things done?
Want to take control of your career, your body and your life?
Want to overcome your fears and succeed in your goals?
Craig Harper is here to tell you how.
He presents 101 no-nonsense, straight-talking ways to help you get the most out of yourself - from breaking habits and getting motivated to developing self-knowledge and learning when to say no,
Drawing on his vast experience as a motivational speaker, AFL conditioning coach, educator, corporate consultant and presenter, Craig offers practical, personal and effective advice that will set you on the road to realising your potential.
The self-help book for people who hate self-help.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 24, 2013
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April 20, 2014
The preachy, condescending tone of this book really got on my nerves. I take offence to being called "princess" by some guy who thinks he has all the answers but packages them in sarcasm in a book with a title that promises a lot yet delivers very little.
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June 14, 2015Some good stuff in here. I liked the short chapters, & where information was broken into smaller chunks. Maybe it suited me, cos I thought most of his jokes were funny. I like the way his brain works
March 15, 2018
This book was easy to read and gave good upfront advice on how to make changes in your life.
April 10, 2017
Could be otherwise known as Pull Your Money Out: 101 Ways to Waste Your Money because There Is Nothing New Here except a way to pay me your Money.
I thumbed through this book out of curiosity, it has a cover and title which gets our attention. Did the public need yet another book to reinforce how we are too weak to wreak positive change on our own lives, and reinforce how we've failed all our lives to date? According to those who keep writing these books as if they are the world guru. I wondered what another motivational book ("Course 101") could do what a zillion others may not have done, for people generally, who consume this type of book.
Aside from contributing to Harper's income if you buy this book, royalty income from which must make HIM successful (instead of YOU/us)... : 'thanks, buyer - you've given me your money, and I'm earning a living from telling you and other people how to do what I alone tell you what you ought to be doing for yourself and how to do it, but, you need me to tell you hee hee hee' ... as if this is a new concept. Do you need to be told by a total stranger who doesn't know you? If you do, buy it.
The style : I thought this is written by an American - it gabbles in never-ending- quips and short half-sentences in a jokey blokey fashion to make it more "fun" when he points out to you how bad you feel about yourself and that you need his help NOW ! He markets to those who are needy and who stick motivational affirmation stickers or Post-It notes on mirrors walls and light switches around their rooms to remind them to affirm over and over again, that they are worthy and abundant and fulfilled, because they don't already believe this, while they repeat that over and over again re-inforcing that they are worthy and abundant and fulfilled.... but really reminding themselves of what they actually LACK !! .... ad nauseum - they will remind people of what they perceive they lack because they have to go on convincing themselves ...blah blah, never-ending circle. He also targets your weight and your weakness to do anything about it. Basically, he's reinforcing to you that you are a weak failure in life, that's why you need his book.
I laughed how can this be helpful to anyone, or different than the other also-rans? Apart from reading another feel-good book with a few jokey funny toldya ways of saying the same old same old.... Motivation is good in theory. Action is action....
weren't we taught in school and by yur parents that we learn by Doing, and Practice, with Resilience and Perseverence? Yet people still buy books about how to do that. There's a whole industry "genre" called Motivational on Health and Lifestyle shelves. But how to persevere when it gets boring seems the eternal struggle against "easy" and "comfy".
We know the simple solution: Get moving. Move about. Work through the boredom and mundane. Don't be lazy. This author assumes we can't be bothered, and therefore, that's his Target Audience, who he "WILLS" to buy his book and give him income instead of spending it on a pair of walking shoes or swimgear or riding a bike. These motivational authors and speakers want you to sit down and read a book or go to their presentations, they reap your money in, instead of you taking a walk around the yard or the street or the gym or the pool, or to the beach.
I found the Author's first wrong assumption in Introduction page, sentence 1. "The fact that you're holding this book tells me that you're interested in changing something about your reality". Wrong, Author ! I was browsing into this book out of curiosity, explained above. All the usual cliches and assumpations followed. Turn to the next page: "I didn't invent these principles but I have given them my own spin and done my best to present them in a manner that is meaningful and, hopefully amusing to you...endeavoured to keep the language as un-jargon-y as possible".
There you have it, the author's admission that this book's content is nothing original. As for being un-jargon-y, it is FILLED with NOTHING BUT jargon, jokey asides, bad cute grammar, over-wordy, goofy "humour" (yawn), and complicated sentences and very busy jovial text, so that you'll "feel good" about being told, and you pay him money to be told, that you really have been a failure at self-improvement, so far, and that must be why you are buying his book, to be told yet again. Oh dear.
If it's for you, buy, read, enjoy, be motivated, I wish you success : if none of the other books and motivations have worked for whatever it is you want to achieve then if this one works for you, that's a success story and he deserves your money.
Apart from your own determination, Something has to work, he's telling you...don't give up! One day you'll find the very book that will transform your life completely, this might even be it, but if not, he'll write another and another, it's his profession. And having looked at a youtube clip of Harper about this book, yes, he's dynamic, fast-delivering and super-busy in his presentation, nteresting, fit, mesmeric, he's terrific in fact, if you can absorb all the words he's throwing at you in very fast motion. No wonder he's at the top of his field around the world, and must be doing wonders for those who he has helped to success of self-improvement and that is applause-worthy. People keep throwing money at motivational speakers to feel good, so that they get rich because people depend on them instead of being self-reliant.
There is nothing new in this book. It is filled with pages of 101 suggestions which can be read in any order, pick up/put down...it's all very familiar, with very contrived humour. One Star for the cover, which made laugh, designed to get people to pick up the book and look at it, it worked, clever marketing people. Shelves creak under weight of motivational books and if you want a really jokey one with nothing different, you could buy this one.
I thumbed through this book out of curiosity, it has a cover and title which gets our attention. Did the public need yet another book to reinforce how we are too weak to wreak positive change on our own lives, and reinforce how we've failed all our lives to date? According to those who keep writing these books as if they are the world guru. I wondered what another motivational book ("Course 101") could do what a zillion others may not have done, for people generally, who consume this type of book.
Aside from contributing to Harper's income if you buy this book, royalty income from which must make HIM successful (instead of YOU/us)... : 'thanks, buyer - you've given me your money, and I'm earning a living from telling you and other people how to do what I alone tell you what you ought to be doing for yourself and how to do it, but, you need me to tell you hee hee hee' ... as if this is a new concept. Do you need to be told by a total stranger who doesn't know you? If you do, buy it.
The style : I thought this is written by an American - it gabbles in never-ending- quips and short half-sentences in a jokey blokey fashion to make it more "fun" when he points out to you how bad you feel about yourself and that you need his help NOW ! He markets to those who are needy and who stick motivational affirmation stickers or Post-It notes on mirrors walls and light switches around their rooms to remind them to affirm over and over again, that they are worthy and abundant and fulfilled, because they don't already believe this, while they repeat that over and over again re-inforcing that they are worthy and abundant and fulfilled.... but really reminding themselves of what they actually LACK !! .... ad nauseum - they will remind people of what they perceive they lack because they have to go on convincing themselves ...blah blah, never-ending circle. He also targets your weight and your weakness to do anything about it. Basically, he's reinforcing to you that you are a weak failure in life, that's why you need his book.
I laughed how can this be helpful to anyone, or different than the other also-rans? Apart from reading another feel-good book with a few jokey funny toldya ways of saying the same old same old.... Motivation is good in theory. Action is action....
weren't we taught in school and by yur parents that we learn by Doing, and Practice, with Resilience and Perseverence? Yet people still buy books about how to do that. There's a whole industry "genre" called Motivational on Health and Lifestyle shelves. But how to persevere when it gets boring seems the eternal struggle against "easy" and "comfy".
We know the simple solution: Get moving. Move about. Work through the boredom and mundane. Don't be lazy. This author assumes we can't be bothered, and therefore, that's his Target Audience, who he "WILLS" to buy his book and give him income instead of spending it on a pair of walking shoes or swimgear or riding a bike. These motivational authors and speakers want you to sit down and read a book or go to their presentations, they reap your money in, instead of you taking a walk around the yard or the street or the gym or the pool, or to the beach.
I found the Author's first wrong assumption in Introduction page, sentence 1. "The fact that you're holding this book tells me that you're interested in changing something about your reality". Wrong, Author ! I was browsing into this book out of curiosity, explained above. All the usual cliches and assumpations followed. Turn to the next page: "I didn't invent these principles but I have given them my own spin and done my best to present them in a manner that is meaningful and, hopefully amusing to you...endeavoured to keep the language as un-jargon-y as possible".
There you have it, the author's admission that this book's content is nothing original. As for being un-jargon-y, it is FILLED with NOTHING BUT jargon, jokey asides, bad cute grammar, over-wordy, goofy "humour" (yawn), and complicated sentences and very busy jovial text, so that you'll "feel good" about being told, and you pay him money to be told, that you really have been a failure at self-improvement, so far, and that must be why you are buying his book, to be told yet again. Oh dear.
If it's for you, buy, read, enjoy, be motivated, I wish you success : if none of the other books and motivations have worked for whatever it is you want to achieve then if this one works for you, that's a success story and he deserves your money.
Apart from your own determination, Something has to work, he's telling you...don't give up! One day you'll find the very book that will transform your life completely, this might even be it, but if not, he'll write another and another, it's his profession. And having looked at a youtube clip of Harper about this book, yes, he's dynamic, fast-delivering and super-busy in his presentation, nteresting, fit, mesmeric, he's terrific in fact, if you can absorb all the words he's throwing at you in very fast motion. No wonder he's at the top of his field around the world, and must be doing wonders for those who he has helped to success of self-improvement and that is applause-worthy. People keep throwing money at motivational speakers to feel good, so that they get rich because people depend on them instead of being self-reliant.
There is nothing new in this book. It is filled with pages of 101 suggestions which can be read in any order, pick up/put down...it's all very familiar, with very contrived humour. One Star for the cover, which made laugh, designed to get people to pick up the book and look at it, it worked, clever marketing people. Shelves creak under weight of motivational books and if you want a really jokey one with nothing different, you could buy this one.
July 1, 2018
No nonsense advice with humour thrown in. Easy to read and steps to follow.
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April 22, 2020Love Craig and his down to earth Aussie accent. Great motivator and very inspiring not to just read it, but action it.
September 21, 2013
Good list with some genuinely funny moments. I'm about half way through and am glad I borrowed it from the library rather than buying. Just for the reason that once I have read through it I don't think I would read it again or go back to it
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