The Power of 100! Kickstart Your Dreams, Build Momentum, and Discover Unlimited Possibility

by Shaun King

Too broke or broken, too old or young, too stressed or busy to make your dreams reality? Join Shaun King and walk the transformative path to overcoming adversity and achieving success as he reveals practical steps to a life of unlimited possibility.

Have you lost a job that you loved, or never even gotten the chance to start? Are you in a rut of mediocre, status-quo living, too tired and stressed to find a way out? Do you wonder whatever happened to the dreams you once dared to dream?

Shaun King has been there, and he wants you to know that it’s not too late. Shaun knows firsthand what it’s like to see your dreams fade away right before your eyes; he’s lived through brutal spinal surgeries, had to survive on food stamps, worked four jobs at once, and he nearly died in a car accident that required over 400 stitches on his face alone. But he’s also emerged stronger and overcome the odds to become a successful businessman, social media pioneer, and humanitarian. Now he wants you to know that you can still take the dreams God has placed in your heart, craft them into goals, and actually make those goals into your reality.

In an entertaining and conversational style, Shaun King shares the trials, research, and years of practice that have helped him form practical principles and effective strategies for overcoming adversity and achieving success. He encourages you to grasp the truth that your life has more potential than you understand; you just need to face your weakest points and unlock that potential.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

Published January 6, 2015

About the author

An award winning entrepreneur and humanitarian, Shaun King is widely regarded as one of today's leading voices on how social media and a little bit of courage can make our world a radically better place. He speaks a message of hope and action over 150 times a year, has appeared in over 100 national and international press outlets, started and sold three tech companies, and raised over $10 million for causes all over the world. Currently a full-time writer for Daily Kos, Shaun recently won the Mashable Award for the Most Creative Social Good Campaign. An executive coach for a rich variety of leaders, Shaun is married to his high school sweetheart, Rai. Their young family currently lives in Los Angeles, but has called South Africa, Atlanta, Kentucky, and Manhattan home over the past few years.

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

King wants to see people pursue their life purpose with reckless abandon. He has written this book to help us do that. He wants us to create an audacious goal for each of seven life areas. Then he helps us write subgoals, easier to achieve and with a shorter time frame. He knows that writing goals is just the beginning so helps us light a fire under them and keep us going. The strength of this book is King himself. He lives every day with pain, the result of a severe beating in high school and a car accident as a young married. The he does not let that stop him from success is motivational.
See my complete review at http://bit.ly/1Hh3qD9.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher for the purpose of an independent and honest review.

[Heather Mary Baumgardner · Rating 5 out of 5]

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began reading, I must finish by acting."
- Henry David Thoreau

[Julie Bestry · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not a bad book, but it was a bad book for me.

Shaun King is a remarkable man, and I can imagine that his breezy and enthusiastic style of writing, combined with the basics of goal-setting and memoir-based narrative, might be appealing, particularly to teenagers and twenty-somethings. Similarly, it may be applicable for those who've lived lives where going through the methodical process of setting realistic (if large) goals is a new or perhaps foreign concept. But for me (a professional who reads lots of books on productivity and goal-setting for my field), this book brought nothing new to the table.

If you're a novice, or perhaps just a goal-setting book junkie, you might like King's book, and I don't wish to malign him. It's incredibly motivational in orientation, and again, the lack of novelty of this material is not King's failing, but just a mismatch for me. The book is full of motivational quotes (though at least a couple older ones were misattributed to 20th Century speakers), and King jumps in with vigor to inspire the reader to set YORGs (Your Outrageously Ridiculous Goals) in the categories he believes to be of the greatest value: generosity, health and fitness, spiritual and emotional, travel, friends and family, and accomplishments and experience. He then provides solid, if very basic, guidance for starting, getting momentum, obtaining support, making use of a variety of resources.

There's no way of saying this in a manner that doesn't sound elitist. If I were 17 (or perhaps 27), or if I had not had the benefit of ridiculously robust amounts and types of education and the benefits of an upbringing where I lacked for nothing essential and received emotional support for all my efforts, this book would be a boon. But I'm older, I'm over-educated, I've never been told (well-meaningly or cruelly) that there's anything I can't do (except ballet, but I am definitely a klutz, so that would be a given) and have achieved enough of my achievable goals and have enough sense of self to know that I don't have huge, ridiculous goals. I don't want to climb a mountain; I don't want to pay for strangers' college educations (or even my friends' round-the-world vacations). I have reasonably small goals, and the typical types of obstacles (laziness, lack of urgency) that one might be embarrassed to admit.

This book is superb for creating a mindset someone else might need for going forth; that someone wasn't me.

[Nurvita Ulfa · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me 2 months to read this book, type of book which you can not easily complete in days. Not only theoretical book - it also encourages you to create list of your goal after every chapter though I have not finished crafting my 100 life goals yet.

When you feel like you are drowned by your daily activities and drifted away feom your dreams, I highly recommend this book! But take it easy reading this😄

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

blergh. such blergh.

[Dawn Kravagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shaun King is an amazing man and has overcome heart wrenching obstacles with courage and grace. But he’s so amazing and seemingly a fountain of energy despite his difficulties that this book speaks more to similarly amazing people than to ordinary people as myself. He’s also quite talented technically, which means his default setting is to be well organized and systematic, a skill set a creative person as myself just cannot accomplish no matter how hard I try.

I believe this is a great book for people who think systematically. However, I need direction in how to steer in the correct direction without being well organized. But I admire this young man. I’m just not in his same league.

[K. Bonham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book to really focus you on strategic goal setting! I bought multiple copies for my friends!

[Christina Jovonn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Want to read again, it was so good!

[Shaun · Rating 5 out of 5]

The "law of attraction" in action, except Shaun King remembers to consider his socioeconomic consciousness, something Rhonda Byrne so severely lacked.

[Syntaxx · Rating 1 out of 5]

is this AI slop?

[Kerrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently received a copy of, *The Power of 100! Kickstart Your Dreams, Build Momentum, and Discover Unlimited Possibility by Shaun King and the timing was perfect. I always try to start the year exploring my long term and short term goals. I reflect back on the previous year to see how I fared and determine where I am headed in the New Year. The Power of 100! provides a fresh new take on many concepts I have read about and studied over the past decade related to living the life of your dreams.

King says, “Consciously or subconsciously, not having a hard-core life plan gives you the emotional space and permission to never really succeed at home, on the job, with your health, with finances or anywhere else.”

I believe this is so true. It is like expecting your GPS to give you good directions without programming in your final destination. We all agree, that would be ridiculous. Yet, we do this with our lives. I meet many people who dream of being writers, but when I ask more questions about what type of books or articles they want to write or what they eventually hope to accomplish with their writing, they can’t answer. If you don’t know where you’re going, then how are you going to figure out how to get there?

King’s book provides a road map to create the life you always dreamed about. He does this by helping you come up with a plan for seven key areas of your life. By focusing on all of these areas and not just a few, King says you will create a good balance in your life:

• Generosity
• Health and Fitness
• Career and Finance
• Spiritual and Emotional
• Travel
• Friends and Family
• Accomplishments and Experience

The first part of the book explains why it is important to set goals, some common fears and how to face them and some helpful tools in time management. It then moves into the seven areas and talks about creating your YORG’s in each one. A YORG is “Your Outrageously Ridiculous Goals.” Eventually you will come up with 100 (hence the name of the book). Now before you roll your eyes and think that sounds impossible, you can be reassured that once you read the book you will feel equipped and even excited to make your list of 100. King gives you everything you need to make this happen before sending you on your way to becoming the extremely successful, high-performing version of yourself.

Overall, this is an amazing book I highly recommend to anyone needing direction in their life or anyone needing a refresher course on the importance of setting life goals. Throughout the book, I was a little surprised at the occasional use of “dude” (I am clearly getting old), but this, by no means, lessened my view of King’s knowledge in this field and his talent as a writer. I look forward to setting some time aside over the next couple of weeks and coming up with my list of 100 YORG’s.


*I received a free copy of this book from Howard Books, for my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own."

[Jason Braatz · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author, Mr. King, has been quite a controversial figure in recent weeks & months (late 2019) and that alone admittedly began my curiosity to read his book.

This book is, with a unique approach, is about setting personal BHAGs ('big hairy audacious goals,') though he changes the acronym ( BHAGs were first introduced as a business concept here: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies ). The novel way Mr. King addresses it is to share his personal stories on near misses with death in a car accident and absorbing the consequences of being physically assaulted growing up. He leaves the reader no doubt that he's been the subject of bigotry, yet offers an extremely positive message throughout this tome.

Mr. King interweaves his memoir within in such a way that positively demonstrates that it's more than possible to set big goals in life and achieve them. What I enjoyed about his writing is that there wasn't a rally cry against racism nor was there a "poor me" thought when he describes his near fatal car accident. Quite the opposite, he shows that adversity, while undoubtedly a setback, does not represent a permanent barrier to achieving life goals, and how to push yourself to meet challenges faced along the way.

A good, quick read and there's not a lot of new meat on the bone here for someone who reads a lot of non-fiction books across many self-help or business categories. That said, the writing style is extremely positive and is inspirational. Clearly, as a master of social media, he's also mastered a way of expressing himself positively, despite recent controversies.

[Joanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5
I’ll save you some time. Dream big. Make huge goals and then make smaller goals that help you get to the large goals. If you need to hear - you can do it - multiple times while making your goals read the book. If not, save yourself some time and skip it.

[Kerry - Readkerryread · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really like the conversation tone of the book. The way he structured setting up your goals and the different categories provided. I found it really easy to read and got through the first half in one night. Then the harder work begins, dreaming up all your goals. My only critique is that a workbook for the Fireball section was mentioned and referenced to his site but it is not available, tried to contact via social media to no response. I ended up just using pen and paper.

[23skadoo40 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good read that promotes one to go for it---whatever it is that you have placed on hold. No more excuses! Do it now! Create an action plan and get to work!