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Psychology of Success: Your A-Z Map to Achieving Your Goals and Enjoying the Journey
Struggle to stick to your goals, making new resolutions that always end up broken? This time, make them stick.
You’ll start by identifying what success means to you, building goals around what you really want and what you have the potential to achieve. With the benefit of expert insights, real-life case studies and powerful techniques, you’ll build day-to-day strategies to help define and reach your goals, overcome obstacles and succeed in the face of adversity.
If you’re looking to reach your full potential — whether it’s making a personal change, achieving a sporting goal, or putting a business plan into practice — this book will give you the map to changing your life, and enjoying the journey. This A-Z guide distils the top tips and guidance from a range of disciplines, including positive psychology, motivational coaching, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and sports psychology. Whatever your goal or ambition — whether its improving your quality of life, making a career change, or training for a sporting endeavor — this guide will help you first to recognize and define your goals, then to set out a plan for achieving them, with day-to-day strategies to reach your goals and overcome obstacles. Moreover, this book will help you learn to enjoy the process of goal-setting and to enjoy the success you achieve.
The tools used in the book are based on psychological principles and are put to use by the authors in their coaching practice.
Case studies help to provide perspective, to see your own issues and experiences reflected through the struggles and successes of others.
Exercises help you to recognize priorities, interests, needs and goals.
Psychological principles are introduced as key concepts throughout — to help you understand the mental processes that can help and hinder you from setting and achieving your goals. These are coupled with self-reflective exercises to make sure you understand the mental pitfalls and to help you put into practice more positive thinking.
The step-by-step approach means that nothing is left to chance: everything, from what makes a realistic goal to why you experience fear, is broken down into memorable tips, activities and guidance.
You’ll start by identifying what success means to you, building goals around what you really want and what you have the potential to achieve. With the benefit of expert insights, real-life case studies and powerful techniques, you’ll build day-to-day strategies to help define and reach your goals, overcome obstacles and succeed in the face of adversity.
If you’re looking to reach your full potential — whether it’s making a personal change, achieving a sporting goal, or putting a business plan into practice — this book will give you the map to changing your life, and enjoying the journey. This A-Z guide distils the top tips and guidance from a range of disciplines, including positive psychology, motivational coaching, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and sports psychology. Whatever your goal or ambition — whether its improving your quality of life, making a career change, or training for a sporting endeavor — this guide will help you first to recognize and define your goals, then to set out a plan for achieving them, with day-to-day strategies to reach your goals and overcome obstacles. Moreover, this book will help you learn to enjoy the process of goal-setting and to enjoy the success you achieve.
The tools used in the book are based on psychological principles and are put to use by the authors in their coaching practice.
Case studies help to provide perspective, to see your own issues and experiences reflected through the struggles and successes of others.
Exercises help you to recognize priorities, interests, needs and goals.
Psychological principles are introduced as key concepts throughout — to help you understand the mental processes that can help and hinder you from setting and achieving your goals. These are coupled with self-reflective exercises to make sure you understand the mental pitfalls and to help you put into practice more positive thinking.
The step-by-step approach means that nothing is left to chance: everything, from what makes a realistic goal to why you experience fear, is broken down into memorable tips, activities and guidance.
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2011
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About the author
Alison Price
5 books8 followersAlison Price is a Chartered Psychologist and an Occupational Psychologist, a university lecturer in Business Psychology and specialist in Leadership and Management Development. As a specialist in business psychology, Alison has advised prestigious organizations on behaviors needed for organizational success. She has worked with a wide range of personnel, from team members to Boards of Directors, exploring the mind-set and working practices that underpin success.
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August 27, 2022
Excellent book
I am about to launch a business and this book has given me a further push. I say Yes to challenges and I focus on my big goal knowing that research supports me in my choices to leave fear behind and concentrate on being bold and happy. Thank you to the authors.
I am about to launch a business and this book has given me a further push. I say Yes to challenges and I focus on my big goal knowing that research supports me in my choices to leave fear behind and concentrate on being bold and happy. Thank you to the authors.
October 30, 2022
“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
September 21, 2020
If this book is your first self-help book, then you got a jackpot. Otherwise, you may feel that you have read the concepts earlier somewhere, and the book is an another mashup of self help ideas. Rather than arranging the concepts in an alphabetical order, the author should have arranged them in a sequence of relevance. And that is my only complaint about the book.
November 23, 2022
I was recommended this little book by my sibling and i am glad i got this book. This book is easy to follow and sets some very tasks for you to complete in your spare time, it makes us question was is success to us as an individual and what it means to us. I have read a few books in this series and. would recommend those to for sure.
September 18, 2021
A great piece of self help book
Would recommend this book to all who wish to follow self development practice. This Is more like workbook, which help us to follow step by step process.
Would recommend this book to all who wish to follow self development practice. This Is more like workbook, which help us to follow step by step process.
April 7, 2020
Great read
I finished this in just a few days and soaked up every page. Really helpful bite size chunks on how to ahieve more.
I finished this in just a few days and soaked up every page. Really helpful bite size chunks on how to ahieve more.
February 25, 2021
This book gave a good definition of success and the examples and advices were helpful.
February 10, 2019
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Psychology of Success is my first non-fiction read of the year and I think it was a very interesting read. The chapters are divided nicely and none of them were too long or too dense. The tips and advice in the book are accompanied by anecdotes that make it easier to understand the idea the authors are trying to explain. While I didn’t think that any of the tips were terribly inspiring or enlightening, I do think that sometimes you need to read something that you already know because maybe someone can put it in a better way. And plus, it could be the reminder you need to finally take action because that’s what happened to me with this book.
It didn’t take me long to read Psychology of Success, it was a very fast read, though some of the questions do require some time to think about. I really like the exercises they give at the end of each chapter, I think it would make you put more thought into what you’ve just read. I can definitely see myself rereading this book whenever I need some motivation.
Psychology of Success is my first non-fiction read of the year and I think it was a very interesting read. The chapters are divided nicely and none of them were too long or too dense. The tips and advice in the book are accompanied by anecdotes that make it easier to understand the idea the authors are trying to explain. While I didn’t think that any of the tips were terribly inspiring or enlightening, I do think that sometimes you need to read something that you already know because maybe someone can put it in a better way. And plus, it could be the reminder you need to finally take action because that’s what happened to me with this book.
It didn’t take me long to read Psychology of Success, it was a very fast read, though some of the questions do require some time to think about. I really like the exercises they give at the end of each chapter, I think it would make you put more thought into what you’ve just read. I can definitely see myself rereading this book whenever I need some motivation.
November 23, 2021
While my last book review was my longest, this review will definitely be in the category of the shortest. Why? Well, Introducing Psychology of Success is a broad but not terribly deep book. There are important concepts that are revealed but they are concepts that I consider to be relatively obvious. To be fair, however, having read a great deal of psychology, self-help, and philosophy books what I believe are obvious at this point are probably not obvious to everyone. However, there’s another story with this book that I want to cover quickly before diving into details.
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March 22, 2020
This is the Little Book that Could - a reference to my childhood favorite the “Little Train that Could.” A small, simple or better said, straightforward book that sits in the nexus of career and selfhood. I read it in bite sized pieces but the overall feeling is a very cheerful positive outlook and pathway forward on achieving one’s goals.
November 16, 2016
Great tips! Enjoyed every pages.
March 5, 2018
Easy and fast read packed with incredible words of wisdom!
March 8, 2019
This book is just great. No words.
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January 17, 2020Success never felt so easy to understand. This book is one of its kind, the best in its genre. I would highly recommend this to everyone.
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