Using The Power of Focus to Reach Your Business and Personal Goals - A Book Review

I picked up “The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty” in the bookstore because it was the first non-Chicken Soup for the Soul book I had seen from Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. While the Chicken Soup books are wonderful, they don’t cover the how-to’s in any way.

Well, here’s your “how to” covered in great depth and specificity. Written along with Les Hewitt, founder of the Achievers Coaching Program this book is more of a handbook, textbook or guide than anything else. If this was the only business book or life-improvement book you owned, you would have all the bases covered.

From beginning to end, these masters of storytelling have woven together stories, examples, and specific actions that will take you from developing habits, to knowing where to focus and to seeing the big picture.

This isn’t intended to be a book that you sit down with over a week or two and read from cover to cover. Oh, you could do that initially in order to get a big picture feel for where you are going. The narrative is interesting enough that you could get something out of it with this kind of once over. But the great value will be in wearing this book out.

Start from the beginning. Read the first section. Take notes. Highlight and dog-ear the pages. Then DO! The authors guarantee positive results. They know because they’ve been doing it. Between the three – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt – they have 109 years of business experience! You can trust them to help you.

I have to admit that I’ve only made it – as far as highlighting, making notes and taking action – through about the first third of the book. In my defense, ha ha, I am nearly done with Jack Canfield’s major tome, “The Success Principles™” which I have also reviewed.

If you’re not quite ready to take on the 473 pages in that book, pick up your own copy of “The Power of Focus.” While you’re at it, pick up a blank journal with a cover that you really like or one of the fabulous Moleskines and a good pen. Keep the book, the notebook and pen together. Take notes in the small book with the intent of taking this admittedly already dense book down to the very bones. Carry it around with you and review it while you’re in line at the grocery store or waiting at the doctor’s office.

Be focused on this one book and the powerful principles, exercises and ideas that you will find in it and you will reach your goals.

Using The Power of Focus to Reach Your Business and Personal Goals - A Book Review