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JumpStart Your Priorities: A 90-Day Improvement Plan
In this 90-day growth guide, #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell helps you prioritize your life to make each day count toward fulfilling your goals.
Based on his Businessweek bestseller Today Matters, John Maxwell offers his roadmap for success by helping you seize the present. The way you prioritize and spend your time each day impacts your ability to reach your goals. Whether you are a new leader or looking to expand on your success, this book will help you focus by exploring how to maximize the potential of the most important day of your life -- today.
Offering inspiring quotes and lessons, thought-provoking questions, and space for reflective notes, over the course of three short months this book will help learn to master the moment and set you on the path toward fulfilling your aspirations.
Based on his Businessweek bestseller Today Matters, John Maxwell offers his roadmap for success by helping you seize the present. The way you prioritize and spend your time each day impacts your ability to reach your goals. Whether you are a new leader or looking to expand on your success, this book will help you focus by exploring how to maximize the potential of the most important day of your life -- today.
Offering inspiring quotes and lessons, thought-provoking questions, and space for reflective notes, over the course of three short months this book will help learn to master the moment and set you on the path toward fulfilling your aspirations.
192 pages, Hardcover
Published August 16, 2016
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John C. Maxwell
998 books5,836 followersJohn Calvin Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Some of his books have been on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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September 21, 2019Jump Start Your Priorities : A 90 - day improvement plan ni aku beli dah lama. Rasanya tahun 2018 kot sempat la baca beberapa muka surat sebelum aku berhenti
Dua minggu lepas aku mula baca balik dari awal dengan niat aku nak perbaiki diri aku dari segi attitude, relationships, leadership & perkara perkara lain yang aku rasa perlu perbaiki. Pada aku buku ni selain daripada panduan untuk mengenalpasti dan mengurus keutamaan yang kita nak, dia lebih kepada refleksi diri
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Dalam buku ni ada disediakan: .
• quotes tertentu • penerangan ringkas • ruang untuk penilaian
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Penggunaan bahasa inggeris yang mudah untuk difahamj. Kalau kita nak ikut panduan dalam ini pun, arahan yang disediakan ringkas dan senang diikuti. Buku ni juga beri ruang pada pembaca untuk buat refleksi semula ap yang kita nak capai dan kita usaha untuk capai. Paling penting, buku ni menekankan tentang bagaimana seseorang perlu menghargai proses sebuah perubahan
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Perubahan dan perkembangan dalam diri kita akan berhasil apabila kita mampu buat keputusan yang baik berdasarkan keutamaan kita 🌱
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Dua minggu lepas aku mula baca balik dari awal dengan niat aku nak perbaiki diri aku dari segi attitude, relationships, leadership & perkara perkara lain yang aku rasa perlu perbaiki. Pada aku buku ni selain daripada panduan untuk mengenalpasti dan mengurus keutamaan yang kita nak, dia lebih kepada refleksi diri
.
Dalam buku ni ada disediakan: .
• quotes tertentu • penerangan ringkas • ruang untuk penilaian
.
Penggunaan bahasa inggeris yang mudah untuk difahamj. Kalau kita nak ikut panduan dalam ini pun, arahan yang disediakan ringkas dan senang diikuti. Buku ni juga beri ruang pada pembaca untuk buat refleksi semula ap yang kita nak capai dan kita usaha untuk capai. Paling penting, buku ni menekankan tentang bagaimana seseorang perlu menghargai proses sebuah perubahan
.
Perubahan dan perkembangan dalam diri kita akan berhasil apabila kita mampu buat keputusan yang baik berdasarkan keutamaan kita 🌱
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March 31, 2018
READ MAR 2018
Picked up last year. This is one of four in Maxwell's Jumpstart series. More of a daily workbook than straight reading. And, the daily questions/work can be challenging at times. Definitely recommend and look forward to the next one: Jumpstart Your Thinking.
Picked up last year. This is one of four in Maxwell's Jumpstart series. More of a daily workbook than straight reading. And, the daily questions/work can be challenging at times. Definitely recommend and look forward to the next one: Jumpstart Your Thinking.
February 27, 2018
Easy to follow exercises to follow to help you achieve your goals.
November 22, 2018
This is a book that isn't particularly deep or demanding on its readers, one that offers a devotional form to the self-help gospel of those who wish to view themselves as highly motivated and successful people. The more I read of Maxwell's writings, the more concerned I am that he spent so much time as a minister, because this book shows the form of faith-based materials without the content, unless the author's faith is in business leadership mantras and cliches rather than in the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. At any rate, it is not my intent to be hard on this book. I got it from the library simply because I wanted another book by the author to go along with one I had been loaned by a coworker of mine who finds the author somewhat more inspirational than I do, and this book was readily available, and so like Mae West said in "She Done Him Wrong," I said that this book will do. And so it did. It provided what I expected it to, nothing more and nothing less. It was not meant to provide insights into the author's character, but meant to motivate the reader, and it may do that for some.
In terms of its contents, this book offers little that is surprising. There are 90 motivational mantras included here, and each day is numbered and given a quote relating to self-leadership and personal motivation and priorities, with a couple of paragraphs or so of text following on the left side of the page, with a short question and space for the reader to write down various thoughts on the right side of the page, in workbook fashion. The various days are filled with excellent quotes, and the author's insight, if not spectacular, is at least serviceable here. The questions asked are obvious but also worthwhile to answer, and there are often cases where the same topics are discussed several days in a row. The author shows himself to be against debt, as he recognizes it to be a major drag on one's optimism and motivation, and the author in general writes in very short and direct sentences that are easy to understand and that provide some readers (perhaps) with something that they may not have thought about before about the importance of traditions and family in being high on one's priority list.
What one gets out of this book will likely depend on one's motivation. While I could see some people learning something from this book, for most readers this book (and others like it) are mainly more about two things. For one, the application of the principles of this book (and most of the author's body of work) is generally the more difficult part than knowing leadership principles or motivation principles. To know is easy, but to do is hard. Likewise, reading a book like this could easily be taken by a reader as being proof positive to oneself or others that one is taking priorities and motivation seriously and doing what one can to live the best life possible. Whether or not that is true is another story, but even to have confidence in oneself that one is taking life seriously is often desired by those who read such books. After all, it is not for the book's wisdom, which is scarcely different than one might fond from a book like Proverbs, that this book and others like it are being sought. There is not much new to be found here, as most of the quotes are familiar and some of them quite old. What this book seeks to provide to most of its readers is merely a gentle reminder and a nudge to go out and do what one already knows one should do.
In terms of its contents, this book offers little that is surprising. There are 90 motivational mantras included here, and each day is numbered and given a quote relating to self-leadership and personal motivation and priorities, with a couple of paragraphs or so of text following on the left side of the page, with a short question and space for the reader to write down various thoughts on the right side of the page, in workbook fashion. The various days are filled with excellent quotes, and the author's insight, if not spectacular, is at least serviceable here. The questions asked are obvious but also worthwhile to answer, and there are often cases where the same topics are discussed several days in a row. The author shows himself to be against debt, as he recognizes it to be a major drag on one's optimism and motivation, and the author in general writes in very short and direct sentences that are easy to understand and that provide some readers (perhaps) with something that they may not have thought about before about the importance of traditions and family in being high on one's priority list.
What one gets out of this book will likely depend on one's motivation. While I could see some people learning something from this book, for most readers this book (and others like it) are mainly more about two things. For one, the application of the principles of this book (and most of the author's body of work) is generally the more difficult part than knowing leadership principles or motivation principles. To know is easy, but to do is hard. Likewise, reading a book like this could easily be taken by a reader as being proof positive to oneself or others that one is taking priorities and motivation seriously and doing what one can to live the best life possible. Whether or not that is true is another story, but even to have confidence in oneself that one is taking life seriously is often desired by those who read such books. After all, it is not for the book's wisdom, which is scarcely different than one might fond from a book like Proverbs, that this book and others like it are being sought. There is not much new to be found here, as most of the quotes are familiar and some of them quite old. What this book seeks to provide to most of its readers is merely a gentle reminder and a nudge to go out and do what one already knows one should do.
January 19, 2018
This book was perfect to be my first book of the year. If you're studied Maxwell before you won't be surprised. It is filled with time tested principles but it was a great reminder of principles that I may be laxed on. Definitely got me back on track for the new year.
December 15, 2020
A nice “daily hack“ journal. I read it all at once though, but it does really make more sense to read a page a day and think of it on the way to work or so.
I enjoyed first chapters the most, beginning of second half (when it started to religiously) the book was weaker, but soon picked up again.
I enjoyed first chapters the most, beginning of second half (when it started to religiously) the book was weaker, but soon picked up again.
January 12, 2018
Quite good book with practical ideas to improve your life. Emphasis is on life long self development.
July 19, 2018
I'll have to get this in print, and not from the library so that I can do the 90 days and get these great habits in place.
October 10, 2019
A little repetitive in spots, but overall a very good book!
November 10, 2019
Good, quick and easy read.
November 10, 2019
So much useful information to integrate into your daily life
December 20, 2020
3.5 stars
June 17, 2021
The author presents a ninety day program to establish priorities that will lead to success. Each priority is explained and justified and advice on keeping your priorities in order is given.
October 21, 2021
Quick read on setting priorities. Good for accomplishing what's important.
March 22, 2022
A simplified view of the areas of life and how to express and achieve them well.pp
March 26, 2023
Good book! I’d get the hard copy not audio on this one. It’s not designed to be listened to in one setting. I did buy to go through slowly again!
December 8, 2016
"The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first." -Robert J. McKain
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." -Mark Twain
"Faith is trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse." -Phillip Yancey
"People give not from the top of their purses, but from the bottom of their hearts." -John C. Maxwell
"...you realize that the ladder you've been climbing is leaning against the wrong wall." -John C. Maxwell
"The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today." -John C. Maxwell
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." -Mark Twain
"Faith is trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse." -Phillip Yancey
"People give not from the top of their purses, but from the bottom of their hearts." -John C. Maxwell
"...you realize that the ladder you've been climbing is leaning against the wrong wall." -John C. Maxwell
"The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today." -John C. Maxwell
December 13, 2016
Valid tips (many) you heard before in different formats.
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