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Success Is a Choice: Make the Choices that Make You Successful
Are you tired of not reaching your full potential? Do you feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped?
Based on his New York Time bestselling book, Beyond Talent, John Maxwell asks if you are tired of not reaching your full potential and feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped. If this describes you, in Success Is a Choice, you can learn the right choices that lead to success from John Maxwell, the go-to-guru for business professionals across the globe. Take the next steps that successful people chose,
Believing in themselves
Firing up their passion
Initiating action
Focusing their energy
Cultivating good relationships
Embracing Practice
The choices you make in addition to your talent make the greatest difference. With authentic examples and time-tested wisdom, Maxwell shares fourteen choices you need to make to live the life of your dreams. It's time to go beyond talent by making right choices that will help you really stand out.
Based on his New York Time bestselling book, Beyond Talent, John Maxwell asks if you are tired of not reaching your full potential and feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped. If this describes you, in Success Is a Choice, you can learn the right choices that lead to success from John Maxwell, the go-to-guru for business professionals across the globe. Take the next steps that successful people chose,
Believing in themselves
Firing up their passion
Initiating action
Focusing their energy
Cultivating good relationships
Embracing Practice
The choices you make in addition to your talent make the greatest difference. With authentic examples and time-tested wisdom, Maxwell shares fourteen choices you need to make to live the life of your dreams. It's time to go beyond talent by making right choices that will help you really stand out.
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2020
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John C. Maxwell
998 books5,837 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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July 13, 2024
I liked it! Every Maxwell book has both nuggets and mindsets. The more I read of him, the more I am picking up on his mindsets, but also, the more nuggets, one-liners, quotes, and teaching ideas I glean. Love him or hate him, Maxwell is never going to be a Cal Newport or Theodore Dalrymple, but he never claims to be in that world. He sticks to his lane and provides something simple yet fresh each time. Fresh, as in, each book of his has its own twist that legitimately includes enough unique nuggets to be its own book. They all feel the same to me, but that doesn't bother me as long as each one helps me in at least a couple unique ways.
This one was worth reviewing. That's a good book in my world.
This one was worth reviewing. That's a good book in my world.
April 9, 2023
Great book full of very helpful insights to make your life a success
January 22, 2024
Everyone should read this book! Well done and well said. A lot of insightful stories and helpful information.
June 20, 2021
If you like quotes about success, this is the book for you. In about 180 pages, there are over 300 total quotes. While I love John Maxwell, this is the first book I've disliked. I would not recommend this read.
June 5, 2022
What I got from it:
1. Taking initiative, eases lifes discomfort.
2. If you follow your passion then you avoid the trap of 'died at 30, buried at 80.'
3. Schedule a particular time of day for difficult tasks (ie 6am work on memorization).
4. Wherever you are, be there. In a world of distractions, focus is a fundamental part of success.
5. You cant give someone motivation and passion, you can only hope to foster it.
6. If you cant imagine it, you wont be able to achieve it.
7. Sucesssful people do 'a little bit more' than what is required.
8. We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is a habit.
9. If you quit in the last meter of the race, it's as if you never ran at all. See things through to the end.
10. Courage is doing what's right over whats expedient.
11. Your life expands or contracts based on how much courage you display.
12. Pride acts as a barrier to learning and makes you less teachable.
13. Having a strong character enables congruence between who you are and who you present yourself to be.
14. There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscious.
15. Responsibility is the 'ability to respond' appropriately to a given situation.
1. Taking initiative, eases lifes discomfort.
2. If you follow your passion then you avoid the trap of 'died at 30, buried at 80.'
3. Schedule a particular time of day for difficult tasks (ie 6am work on memorization).
4. Wherever you are, be there. In a world of distractions, focus is a fundamental part of success.
5. You cant give someone motivation and passion, you can only hope to foster it.
6. If you cant imagine it, you wont be able to achieve it.
7. Sucesssful people do 'a little bit more' than what is required.
8. We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is a habit.
9. If you quit in the last meter of the race, it's as if you never ran at all. See things through to the end.
10. Courage is doing what's right over whats expedient.
11. Your life expands or contracts based on how much courage you display.
12. Pride acts as a barrier to learning and makes you less teachable.
13. Having a strong character enables congruence between who you are and who you present yourself to be.
14. There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscious.
15. Responsibility is the 'ability to respond' appropriately to a given situation.
January 21, 2025
another masterpiece by one of my all time favorite authors. if I am ever feeling kinda down, or if I am not feeling 100% mentally... I often will listen to an audiobook by John Maxwell and it is a great distraction from any negativity of dis empowering thinking I may be experiencing. Ever since the first book by this author that I ever read, John Maxwell always hits the ball way out of the park with every work he has ever printed. So much wisdom from every direction. Every book is filled with tons of amazing quotes and poetry and excerpts from other books. I fully recommend all printed works by John Maxwell. His writing is nourishing bread for the head (food for thought). I am so grateful that John Maxwell books have found me and I am grateful to have multiple books by him in my library. 2 thumbs up! I will most def be re-reading this masterpiece again the future. Check it out and you can thank me later. :)
April 15, 2021
Rich in leadership lessons
The book is rich in leadership lessons and it keeps bringing it on 🔥the lessons are very practical and inspiring at the same time.
The book helped me at the moment when I really needed to step up on one key moment of self leadership and I am grateful I was reading it at the right time.
The only thing that I didn't like about the book is that it felt like there was a combination of ghost writing and filling up of gaps with too many Quotes.
This came through the book strongly. It was just annoying as it interrupted the flow of thought in a passage.
The book is rich in leadership lessons and it keeps bringing it on 🔥the lessons are very practical and inspiring at the same time.
The book helped me at the moment when I really needed to step up on one key moment of self leadership and I am grateful I was reading it at the right time.
The only thing that I didn't like about the book is that it felt like there was a combination of ghost writing and filling up of gaps with too many Quotes.
This came through the book strongly. It was just annoying as it interrupted the flow of thought in a passage.
April 21, 2023
The book is a bit long in length but theres some keypoints that interest me here.
Character is the most important thing in protecting yourself. Your look is innate but your character could help you in all areas of life that can help us when we need it or can destroy us if we had the wrong character.
The relationship with a person and communication left frustrated with high maintenance relationship and if theres return from keeping it. When relationship saps energy, it will influence you negatively.
In conclusion, a good book. 4 stars review.
Character is the most important thing in protecting yourself. Your look is innate but your character could help you in all areas of life that can help us when we need it or can destroy us if we had the wrong character.
The relationship with a person and communication left frustrated with high maintenance relationship and if theres return from keeping it. When relationship saps energy, it will influence you negatively.
In conclusion, a good book. 4 stars review.
March 25, 2023
I love all the story that Maxwell included to illustrate a point. I never realized that "Alice in Wonderland" has good lesson that we could learn from. She asked for direction from the Cheshire cat, "Could you give me direction?"
Where do you want to go?" the cat asked.
"I don't care, anywhere," The cat said, "Then it doesn't matter which direction you go".
Where do you want to go?" the cat asked.
"I don't care, anywhere," The cat said, "Then it doesn't matter which direction you go".
April 12, 2024
Will power is path each one of us get to choose and walk in. "Success is a choice yet in that choice comes elements in sustaining it. Believe, responsible, talent, preparation, teachability, practice, teamwork, courage to name a few can help keep going because success is never a destination but more a journey.
December 8, 2023
Here are some of the notes I have gleaned from this fascinating book... Grab em and read more inside for yourself.
- Everyone can do one thing much better than the next person.
- Everyone has a talent.
- Develop the talent you have, not the talent you want.
- Everyone can do one thing much better than the next person.
- Everyone has a talent.
- Develop the talent you have, not the talent you want.
February 9, 2021
Packed with golden gems
Good read, packed with golden nuggets of wisdom and practile tips to be a better, more effective and efficient leader.
Good read, packed with golden nuggets of wisdom and practile tips to be a better, more effective and efficient leader.
May 12, 2021
Good, solid advice, but so much information it is overwhelming to take in.
October 7, 2021
Required Reading
Anyone who wants to be successful in business, or life in general, needs to read this book. There are many valuable lessons to be learned!
Anyone who wants to be successful in business, or life in general, needs to read this book. There are many valuable lessons to be learned!
January 29, 2022
Great life advice
May 4, 2022
Very informational book on how to be and achieve success. Love the knowledge gained from the book.
March 10, 2023
Several good nuggets!
January 26, 2025
Great book with lots of insights!
February 27, 2025
It’s an engaging read
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