As a Man Thinketh
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author was conveying “Thought is Tough” It has the power, potential, capabilities, and possibilities to make or mock, do or undo, create or destroy anyone or anything if rightly or wrongly channeled or harnessed! Secondly, the main idea is also about The Power of Thought. This power can be compare to that of a graed in his teaching about faith. Though (ideas) in the womb of the mind is power. This concludes that if thought is power and man is a thoughtful being then he is also a powerful being as well. Consequently, man is the greatest circumstance in the world and to himself. Microscopy from the preview of the mind, we should invest more in power of the mind (thought) rather than in political, religious, demonic, occultist and traditional powers, finally, the power of thought is the mother force that will birth out every other power thus realizing the fact that ever other circumstances are minor the major circumstance is the man himself.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
1. Thought 2. Character 3. Purpose 4. Vision 5. Health 6. Achievement 7. Serenity.
They are important because the reality of the Absence of these ideas instance in reaction as it relates to the failure, regrets personal injuries abuses, wounds woes and other negative implication and repercussion that have left scars on our society and individuals as well. And positively, these ideas have a clear and visible print or footmark on the shore of any true success or progress. Beside that, my thought and character are twin factors in my life that have academically molded my mind follow by moral standard screen through my characters. Also the effect of thought on circumstances has been a sense of security and confidence in dealing with challenges, complex issues as well as impossibilities the impart of thought on my health and body were prevention as the best treatment rather than drugs or cure to reduce risk or harm on my body thought and purpose are the pivot cardinal wheel that direct my actions directions and daily plans. In addition to that my enrollment and application is the direct examples of thought and achievement that whatever a man can conceive in thought the man can achieve even when it is though! Vision and ideas are the mental raw material that are the bed rock for every project and progress in my life. Is source for preservation and rescue for decadence or stench in life prov. 29:18 finally, serenity is the metal atmosphere that controls my spirit mood and move as my reaction to critics or oppositions.
i. Thought
It is the seat and seed of our mind and ideas that germinates into actions, decisions, emotions expressions and directions. It is also the remote for all of our efforts, endeavors and pursuit in life.
ii. Character
It is the mirror of our body that reflects our hidden and inner most thoughts, agendas and desires. It also reveals our true natures and grants credibility, dignity and authority or even vice versa.
iii. Purpose
It is the key objective of our existence, destiny, lives, professions, career, choices, desires and etc. It is the why of our being and who we want to become.
iv. Vision
It is the mental picture of our actual future. Visions attract success, progress and achievement. Finally, vision is the cure to confusion, division and frustration in life.
v. Health
It is the physical, mental, emotional, psychological state of our well being and body. It is a catalyst for success, progress and growth.
vi. Achievement
It is the peak, apex and crown for success and progression. It is the hallmark, stamp or signature of impact. Finally, achievement is the byproduct of labor, effort, pursuit, commitment, focus and passion.
vii. Serenity
It is the States of mental soundness, quietness, and a state of trans-quality. It is to also be void of distraction, confusion and noise. Serenity is the proof of confidence and intelligence.
Therefore, the summary of thought, character, purpose, vision, health, achievement and serenity can also be used as an acronym as a guidepost to true an lasting success, This acronym is arranged from back to the front: S.A.H.V.P.C.T. for easy comprehension and personal or public use.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas or lessons will help me in a practical way as follow: 1. Daily personal life. I must plan and read daily to improve my thought the state of my thought will determine me the status of my health and body through health practitioners and knowledge of sickness, diseases and remedy or care my thought will give birth to my purpose and sponsor my purpose. Besides that, these ideas or lessons will help me personally and the world as well in term of building a mental defense system and solution reserved research center for the future and the unknown challenges ahead of me. No doubt the fear of the future and the normal phenomenal problems are threats and factors that affects individual and our global community continually and gradually finally with these knowledge banks and reservoir of information’s, the is a guarantee for safety, security and a possible way out of any impending danger
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“As a Man Thinketh so is he.”
This statement sum up that the mind is a mine of wealth, health, and diverse resources or solution center. Contrariwise, the mind can undermine or erode the progress success or prosperity of a man.
“Man is made or unmade by himself.”
This statement also underline the fact that man is an auto being loaded and equip with everything to off load progress and prosperity from himself or being look down upon in regret and poverty this heavy loaded statement also mirriored to our mind the truth that a man is more or less.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagreed with and a so, why?
No! The book as clear as crystal, however I would just inject that thinking is free but not cheap! It is a responsibility no only an ability. It is tough not just a thought!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The exercises are: 1. to read the entire book from start to end and to understand it. 2. The assessment questions and answers and are did complete all and I really find them helpful, Exciting and pleasure to intensify my understand of my book
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Yes! This was that man was a product laws and not of luck! This laws is not the laws of nature but nurture, character and cultures.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 7
D. Would you recommend it to others? 5
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 8
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is that there is an unlimited potential locked up in every living creature, however, that potential is ignited up by key of our mental prowess. Thus, mentality is either majority or minority on the basis of time and conviction. Secondly also the main ideals the author is trying to convey is The Paths of Distinction which implies to be permanently distinct we must be temporarily extinct. This statement concords with the life of Jonathan Seagull who is the hero or focus point willing to be different to make the difference. He was not the only gull at the shore that morning they were many expose to the same environment, privilege, opportunities, fear and doubt.
We see that Jonathan First had to think opposite contrary to the other gulls that prioritize eating than flying. Naturally we all want to be seen, recognize, visible, felt, and welcome by other to show that we are alive and existing. But the true is that to stand out like Jonathan we need to be extinct, invincible, unrecognized, separate and be alone, if we want to make the most of our lives and selves. We need that extinct or extreme mentality that Jonathan Possesses contrary to that of his comrades even when he was encourage to yield he was not satisfied.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven ideas were: 1. Mentality 2. Individuality 3. Ability 4. Responsibility 5. Possibility 6. Regularity 7. Velocity.
Explanation, each of these ideas is important as rightly stated orderly. Mentality is the mental womb to birth out our true mental picture (individuality) which will then program our ability driving us to shoulder responsibility desiring possibility and be consistent (regularity) in urge or drive that will elevate us on the ladder of velocity. Besides, I possess the mindset of a global personality that drive me to hunt for every opportunity to develop my personality as well as panting for knowledge uncompromisingly with every iota of energy hoping to realize the possibility of this dream that have granted me from the this dream of myself to the global scene.
i. Mentality
Mentality has to do with our personal thinking faculty. It is the primary issue of concern, for we are prone to become what we think about most of the time. Mentality, determines and controls almost everything that happens in a mans’ life. Finally, mentality is the mental picture of my future.
ii. Individuality
It is the true personality of a person that makes him or her unique, distinct and un comparable to another person. Finally, your personality is your priority and your authority.
iii. Ability
It is the capacity to do what we are capable or incapable of doing .It is also to learn and know what one will be known for in life. Finally it is how well we will matter mush to ourselves and those around us.
iv. Possibility
It is the positive outcome of an adventure, event or a thought, job, work, task, assignment or the reality to end well or successful.
v. Regularity
It is the state of being constant, focus, and determined, never giving up, pressing, pushing forward against all odds until one can accomplish something tangible. Finally, it is to be part of something continually until that thing becomes a part of you
vi. Velocity
Velocity is the speedy rate of our progress as well as the height and scale of our success.
vii. M.A.R.R.P.V.
Thus, the summary of mentality, ability, responsibility, possibility regularity and velocity can be used as an acronym for success and achievement in our lives as: MARRPV used as a sign post to success or a mental compass that will directs our target and coordinates our daily plans, priorities and objectives.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas or lessons will help me in a practical way for the fat that the lessons are: inspiring, motivational, educating, transformational, mind shaping, and sharpening which will enhance my level of mentality, understanding and capacity after reading, studying and analyzing them. Truly , as provisional student currently, the proofs of these two books from now have switch a mental revolution that direct and coordinates all of my private and public schedules. Finally, I believed that this seed of knowledge will germinate to benefit those around me and beyond as I can see. Secondly these idea or lessons will help me to impact my family and generation thus leaving a legacy of principles and system. We lived in a competitive and challenging world. These ideas are my mental strength for the competition of the law of Dominion or Influence. This law states that the superior is master to the inferior and servants are subject to their master, with these ideas I am gradually developing into a leader that will give me an advantage to lead and make my followers leaders like myself. The law of positive impact will also benefit the world at large to transfer the baton of knowledge to the next generation. Like Jonathan Seagull was impacting others like: the two brilliants gulls in heaven. The dozen gulls, Sullivan, Jon, Elder Gull, Fletcher, Lynd Seagull, Martin Gull, Charles Roland Gull Terrence Lowell Gull, and Kork Maynend Gull. Finally, I believe that this seed of knowledge will germinate benefit those around me and beyond as I can see
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“The gull sees farthest who flies highest!”
This statement is loaded with volumes of ideas and facts to be decoded like he who sees with the mind (insight) sees father than he who sees with the sight. Furthermore, this statement also implies that my visions allocates my provisions, my perception will enhance my reception and anything I can sees. Secondly, this statement thunders across our mind that the higher we think in life, the more advantages, opportunities, and privileges we are expose to in life.
“The Top or Top most Top is the desire and Crave for every living creature. However, the top is free but not vacant there is a challenge, task, responsibility, effort energy discipline courage, and stamina to scale the top. Thus the top is available but not vulnerable, for it is the seat of the honorable and one must pay the require price to strive for such feat. Finally if one must be satisfied in life sacrifice must be part of his life. Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve!”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagreed with and if so, why?
No! Everything is as clear as day light I just need a clear understanding of the ideas.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes the book did contain exercises for the reader to complete one of such exercises is to read the book completely and understand it clearly. Secondly, the books also contain assessment question to be answered and I have this try my best to complete the reading exercises and the assessment comprehensions exercises.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comments.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 7
D. Would you recommend it to others? 6
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
PsychoCybernetics
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author was trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to convey in the book is: The Surgery of Self Image! Unlike the usual or normal surgery that is medical, physical, fleshly (skin), plastic as well as change of some physical body components (parts),this surgery is unusual, abnormal, mental, psychological, logical, realistic and auto(self) oriented in nature. Amazingly, as for this surgery, the patient and the surgeon is the same! What a miracle?, and requires gadgets such as :Ideas, the mind, brain, thought, emotions, imaginations, will power, and positive thinking to facilitate such surgical mental operation.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List the seven ideas followed by an explanation after each and as to why it was important to you. Use personal example from your own life.
i. The possibility of self image mentality surgery.
First, when there is a mentality of possibility, a reality is certain and sure vice-versa. Anything for me that is possible is portable. The possibility of this surgery must firstly be diagnose as possible before the operation ,for it is an invincible and imaginative surgery without blood ,fear ,pain ,operation ward and huge financial cost as well as traveling abroad for quality surgeon or surgery, This surgery is an automatic ,all encompassing and miracle surgery which requires no school to be taught medically, but technically requires one school of thought! For example, my marriage and enrollment in this Institution.
ii. The discovery and recovery of inbuilt success mechanisms.
Secondly, every discovery culminates into a recovery! This realistic theory reveals man as a bundle and package of success wrapped in a plastic of discovery to be unveil by the curiosity for prosperity. Besides that ,the greatest discovery that precedes every other discovery ,is the discovery of one self and fortunately, no one can better discover you than you yourself analytically. Thus, every human is an auto scientist for him self4.To hypothesize means to release from a hypnotic state. This means that a man’s mental state creates his united states of action (USA) in term of moral, financial, social, political, religious independence to be dependent in life.
iii. How to DE hypothesize and deliver oneself from false belief or theory.
Happiness from the philosophical, medical, social, ethical, financial and spiritual(joy) point of view is on of the principal catalyst in the fulfillment of any given achievement or accomplishment in life. However, it is not a gift, childish phenomenon of life, exclusive rights or privilege for the rich or wealthy, disadvantage to the poor or privileged or a substitute for joy. Finally, it is not require but acquire and a requirement for success and is the cure for hopelessness, stress, worry, and can be personal, learned, medicinal and lastly cultivated by desire, selflessness, charity, confidence and pure and clear thinking from personal experience.
iv. Cultivating and developing the habit of happiness.
Everyone desires success but not everyone is successful! Success is not a destination but a journey, not a gift but by the grace of God, not arrival at the peak over night-or illegal forceful accumulation of wealth or possessions but the attainment and accomplishment of a goal , task or assignment. Therefore, one must be possessed by the word success or diagnose with the word like: Sense of direction driven in a particular destination, Understanding the demands and price to deliver, Courage to resist discouragement, failure and fear, Charity to validate clarity of the fact that it is not a necessary evil or the jungle phenomenon of having the lions share. Esteem to exercise restraint, constraint and abstain from any stain for good success; Self confidence is evidence that success is not a transfer of responsibility but personal to alleviate from poverty, failure, fear and faults. Self acceptance is to see every disadvantages an added advantage in terms of weakness, shortcomings and strength.
v. Qualities of a successful prone personalities.
Emotional scars are invincible wounds reflected as worries, anxiety, stress, depression, regrets, unforgiveness and failure. All these wounds are developed in the womb of failure which when understood will help to heal and cure that we are not failure because we fail but because we fail to face the challenge. Thus failure is: Fear, Anger, Insecurity, Laziness, Unreliable, Risk less, Enemy of self and progress. A defense against these and the desire of the opposite can heal any emotional scars and wound.
vi. Emotional Scar Removal
The technical knowhow to remove emotional scars and give yourself a face lift or an advantage.
vii. The key to unlock the real per personality, converting crisis to opportunity and adopting the winning spirit to measure our life time for the best of our life time.
The last point can be further explained from the letter meaning of the word personality other than the literal meaning of the word, for the word personality means different thing to different people, however, from the content and context from the book , I would further like to define the word personality other than its literal meaning which is not also a person’s nationality but the: I, Me, My Mine and You of a person which implies the following meaning per letter. P-Personal particularities. E-everything that makes you different from others R-real and reliable. S -special separate self. O-original one and only kind being. N-not compare to anyone else. A- accurate acceptable ability. T -trust the truth about myself Y-years and yes of my lifestyles, I am what I am!
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in a practical and particular way in my daily personal life like:
A daily personal program to read every day including the Holy Bible and certain numbers of pages per day.
An increase in my mental growth and understanding and reasoning abilities.
Being solution oriented that the challenges of my life are advantages to look in for solution than more of out ward.
4. Quotes: Are the any statement which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote and comment as to why they were important to you?
Yes! It is from Dubious the famous French surgeon with this large statement in his operation room.
“The surgeon dresses the wound, God heals it!”
This statement triggers the possibility of every wound be being healed for God is the creator and specialist of the body and has the spare parts to change or substitute or replace any damage or affected part of our body. Secondly, with God all things are possible! Matt 19:26.Also, the doctor and drugs treat but God heals1 Every human endeavor requires the backing of God to be successful. Other than the medical field, my vision can be planned and written but by the grace of God through Long life and faith I can realize it. Finally, as being created in the image of God, He is the master surgeon, chief medical doctor of all doctors of life and destiny.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! The clarity of this book is the evidence and reality of my summary. Finally it is like a boat or ship that has sailed and crossed me from the deep sea of ignorance and problems to the other side on the shores of knowledge and solutions where I have arrived safe and sound aboard the vessel of Self Image! Thank God for this vessel captain by mentality and co captained by possibility with the passengers of imaginations and creativity.
6. Did the book contain exercise for the reader to complete? if so, did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful to you?
Yes! The book did contain series of exercises like:
The physical exercise to sit hourly; The discipline of quietness; .The search for a serene cool environment; The patience to read more than once, twice or thrice; The stamina to sit up for hours; The thoughtfulness and carefulness of compiling a summary with an estimated average word count. The accurate responses to all of the assessment questions as an invisible examiner and supervisor to proof how well one understands the book and further tutor to comprehend better,7,The careful management and investment of time to read , understand and summit summary and assessment in a given period of time frame and finally the completion to email this summary. However, all of these exercises have resulted to my progress and excellent mind set to excel and be set in life. Importantly, I did find these exercises helpful in the sense that it serves as a workshop, guide, tutor, instructor, counselor, lecturer, mentor, monitor and university to upgrade my mental prowess capacity and dignity.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 7
D. Would you recommend it to others? 6
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Success through a Positive Mental Attitude
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is understanding the reality of the philosophy of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and the psychology of Negative Mental Attitude (NMA) screen from a talisman (an Individual) ideology. Thus Success and Failure flow from the scream of the Mind of a Man. What a magical mystery and miracle!
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
These seven ideas are:
i. The seventeen principles of Success
The clusters as three manifold; Which implies a.PMA, Accurate Thinking, The Master Mind, Applied Faith and Controlled Attention; b. Definiteness of Purpose which implies: Personal Initiative, Creative Vision, Enthusiasm and Teamwork. c.Budgeting of Time and Money which implies: Learning from defeat, Maintain Sound physical and Mental Health, Self-Discipline, Pleasing Personality and using Cosmos Habit Force. Positive mental attitude, Definiteness of purpose and Budgeting of time and money is that these three principal set the basis for every initial and lasting success. Thus when the mind set is right or positive, then we write the ideas and work towards it with in a given period with success is in view
ii. Direct your thought with positive mental attitude to control your emotions and to ordain your destiny with the combination of PMA and The Definiteness of purpose.
The direction of our thought has to do with a specific target, we will not forget until we can get at the target that will be used to compass everything we want to come to pass and everything on time with sound management of time, money and resources
iii. PMA is a daily routine phenomenon through the Grace of God to get better day by day and one doesn’t need to be ashamed to fail but rather be ashamed to remain a failure.
Positive mental attitude is a regular routine of life as eating, drinking, and breathing. One meal a week cannot sustain the body or else, it will be weak. It must be a continuous, gradual balance diet so it is the same with positive mental attitude erected on the daily grace of God to be great.
iv. Have the courage to face the truth, as defeat may be a stepping stone or a bed rock of
Success rather than a stumbling block depending on whether your attitude is positive or negative. It takes hope to cope with life as well as the challenges, burdens and demands that life offers. Hope is the mother of faith that compels us to believe and propels us to work towards what we believe in. Hope is the confident back bone for success when the journey is tough. Thus to be hopeless is to be helpless, and to be hopeful is to be helpful. Finally, where there is life, there is hope and where there is hope there is life and light
v. The virtues of emotions
The two basic virtues of Desires and Emotions which inspires all human actions through the desires for: Self Preservation, Freedom of body and mind, Recognition, Self expression and Life after Death. And also, the emotions of: Love, Fear, Sex, Anger and Hate. The virtues of emotions and desires are principal contributing factors inevitable to every human success or actions. Importantly, they are remote on the basis of attitude and when positive can be of great blessings and benefits, on the contrary, when negative could be a stumbling block or burden.
vi. The Ten virtues
The ten virtues for self motivation for self suggestion using these Acronym First J.O.S.C.C.H. which connotes: Frugality, Industry, Resolution, Silence Temperance, Justice, Order, Sincerity, Charity, Cleanliness and Humility.
The Ten virtues for self motivation for self suggestion using the Acronym; First Joscch are to me the ten commandments for man to command or generate personal success. They are the success traffic regulator that detects and controls our behavior and attitude for success.
vii. Increase your PMA
Increase your PMA via opening our mind and learning to see, release to increase and awakening the sleeping ,dormant, untapped giant of attitude which is our Ability, Thought, Trust, Instinct, Talent, Understanding, Desire and Everything that represents anyone through PMA. Attitude is the ladder that determines the magnitude of our altitude in life as well as a little reference with a big difference any day any time for any one!
7.To increase our PMA, we need to engage our mind constantly in the quest of knowledge with on open mind and attitude to increase learning to facilitate our PMA correctly and accurately to be able to see the big picture instead the small temporal situation or challenge that come to dare or challenge us face to face. In Conclusion, I am generally applying these principles to my life in the following perspectives; a. Applying for a higher paid job which salary will be twice the current to enable me save 20% of my income with out being inconvenient. b. Targeting a plot of land to buy this year as well as start a self employ business of a stationary shop to help realize this goal. c.Every time and money will be wisely invested instead spend as usual follow by a daily, weekly and monthly dairy agenda for every thing I want to do.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas will help me in a personal way regarding my daily life in:
First, appreciating them; second accepting them; third absorbing them; fourth applying them practically and fifth accomplishing every spelled out instructions and statement in every step I take toward realizing my personal goal and achievement like, here are some demands from the book that I am now applying: First, to save 20 percent of my income monthly which is a bit challenging that I have to target a job with salary which must double what I am now earning and have applied two other places and optimistic about the response to fulfill my objective of saving twenty percent of my income with out being inconvenient! Secondly, there was a domestic family challenge where my son was snatched secretly by one of his aunt unknown to my approval and knowledge thus affecting his education just before the Christmas break and in my annoyance I remain angrily calm until time heal my stress and cooled my anger and with positive mental attitude by investigation, the boy has return to continued his schooling with out any force or violence. Besides, my time is budgeted as money now and I am investing my time wisely instead of spending it like before. Finally, my daily, weekly and monthly plans are all documented now unlike previous time.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Anything in life worth having worth working for.”
Thus means the desire to have, is the demand to work and work is the mother of wealth and justice of success.
“If a man is right his world will be right. This means that we are not just in a world, but a world is also in us. We create our own world with PMA. If your world cannot change you, then you can change your world. Also, every success begins with a man possessed the right mind set and having the right priority and objective accurately accompanied by a brilliant ideas that is channeled through his work. Finally, every man born into this world has his contribution to offer this like how he benefits from other ideas.”
“Any thing in life worth working is worth praying for.”
This statements underline the fact that Faith is one of the capital ingredients components for success, and God Almighty is the architect to design real and genuine success. Joshua 1:8 .Therefore, the peak we attain successfully will be determined by how we trust god in prayer as well as a solid faith fixed, firm focus and the commitment we maintain to success.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! Every thing in the book is clear and I must accept it to excel with it to benefit from it.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! It did contain several exercises which includes the following:
a.Creating a mental mobile reading lab to facilitate the physical one to be created from time to time. b.The challenge of experiencing and desiring success. c.The continuous war against failure, defeat and NMA Syndrome and the harassment questions and answers.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Keys to Success
Assessment by James S. Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author was trying to portray in the book was how to unlock the prison of failure by discovering the keys to success and directly applying these keys to lock up failures in our minds, heart, lives families businesses, careers, education and etc. Finally, the clues and keys to success in whatever domain and endeavor. “Farewell to poverty, shame, reproach disgrace and set back! The Dawning of a New Day for Success and Progress!”
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. A.C.T. – Assemble an attractive personality; Creative personal initiative; Think accurately naturally
Attraction is the mother for acceleration in the school of success. it also involves the 11 components of positive mental attitude beginning with flexibility to a keen sense of humor as well as the 12 components of infinite intelligence which begins with a keen sense of justice to personal magnetism. Also, the dual seven factors of our emotions that are opposite yet complement for positively for us. the positive being: love, sex hope, faith, sympathy, optimistic and loyalty while the negatives are: fear, hatred, anger, greed, jealousy, revenge and superstitions. All these mental factors of attraction provoke the physical aspect of our appearance and attraction, personally, I do try my best to always appear like i am going to take a photograph where ever I appear even during funerals so as to not to appear casual to become a causality of distraction and destructive personality. In addition to that, personal initiative is the idea a person initiates without external demands to do or not to do without supervision. This fact exposes the dual victims of those who wait to be told to do and those who don’t want even if they are told to do. it also involves the steps out lines from a definite major purpose to dependability which explains the ten basics human motives. Finally, the ability to think accurately, correctly and soundly is a true sign of responsibility and greatness. For, our thought forms the basis for our talks. The in ability to think accurately is to be vulnerable to failure for every success is born out of an idea that is birth out of the mental womb of the mind. The analogy of the mind compare to that of a plot of land to be cultivated or left to be vindicated is without exception here. in conclusion here, we learn the power of inductive and deductive reasoning that sponsors our ways of thinking and the dangers of the mistakes of credulousness, such as the habit of believing on the basis of little or no evidence and doubt such as disbelieving anything one does not understand lastly to focus our thought and control our enthusiasm. Man is a slave to his thought!
ii. B.U.C.- Budget your time and money; Use cosmic health force and Control your enthusiasms.
Time budgeting is money savings. Anyone that has time has everything with time. We must therefore have the correct attitude to time like that of money like the Doers who manage time well and possess the 11 Characteristics beginning with Definiteness of a major purpose and Recognizing our weaknesses and take appropriate steps to correct them, Contrary wise, the Drifters who misuse and mismanage time possessing the 11 Characteristics beginning with having no goal and failure to identify or know a weakness even if it hits him.
iii. B.U.G. Built a personal mental attitude; Using applied faith and Going the extra mile.
Building a PMA is like building a solid foundation to erect a huge and enduring structure. The exact opposite of PMA is the meaning of Failure. We also see the 2 Percent successful people who think and act toward a goal are the Minority from the Majority 70 percent who mere wish and fail. Finally, to build our PMA, We must engage the following steps wisely: Adjust; Ignore opposition; Establish control; Learn to advertise one self; Develop your heart.6.Analyze set backs; Concentrate on work; Remember to accept defeat; Turn adversary to anniversary; Look on the good and bad side of life; Release your thought for increase; Avoid negative association.13. Beware of dual nature personalities and Recognize the roles of prayer.
iv. C.E.M..- Cultivate creative vision, Enforce self discipline and Maintain sound health.
Cultivation is a normal step of civilization and agriculture for success. Creativity is the mother of responsibility and Vision is the mental picture we structure for the future to be successful. In this vein of vision, it involves the mental process of imagination which sets the pace for the race to the journey for success. It involves the synthetic and created method like the inventor of the electric bulb; Thomas Edison.
v. D.I.L.-Definiteness of purpose; Inspire teamwork and Learn from adversary or defeat.
The definiteness of purpose is the purpose we define to find for a purpose. It involves Time and money budgeting, Alertness to opportunity, Decision making capability, Cooperation, Faith, Success Consciousness, Having a working goal and A Plan to obtain the goal.
vi. E.M.A.- Establish a Master mind Attitude
A Master mind alliance is the unity of mentalities for profitability, capability, productivity, responsibility, accountability and dependability. It helps us to: Determine purpose, Select team mates, Determine rewards, Self preservation, love, fear, sex, desire for life after death, freedom of mind and body, anger, hate, recognition of self expression, wealth, set time for place and meeting, maintaining a thought of confidence, understandings, fairness, justice, courage and oneself manifesting in our marriage and education.
vii. T.S.P.O.S.- The Seventeen17 Principles of Success.
This principle highlights all of the previous keys in a nutshell and they are alphabetically Listed as: 1.Assemble an attractive personality.2.Budget your time and money.3.Build a positive mental attitude.4.Creative personal initiative. Control your enthusiasm.6.Cultivate creative vision.7. Control your attention .8.Develop definiteness of purpose.9.Enforce self discipline.10.Establish a master mind alliance.11.Go the extra mile.12.Inspire team work.13.Learn from adversary and defeat.14.Maintain sound health.15.Think accurately.16.Use applied faith.17.Use cosmic habits.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in terms of: 1.Mental Impact; 2. Private influential Guide to successes, 3.Success Orientation and 4.Solution consciousness. Globally, optimistic about reversing the 30 present successful people to rather 70 percent successful and 30 percent failure thus making the world vulnerable to success than failure.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“The valuable parable secret, If you want to plant for days, plant flowers, If you want to plant for years, plant trees and If you want to plant for eternity, plant ideas.”
This parable is important to me because it guides me what to plant and how long the harvest will come. The parable portrays that the duration of harvest is proportional to the quality of seed sown and some seeds are temporal while other are permanent. I must not take permanent decisions at temporary situations or circumstances and the greatest seed from time to time is idea which can only be planted on the soil of the mind. Thus I am destined for greatness!
“You don’t always get what you expect unless you inspect with PMA.
This statement implies that our expectations are directly connected with our imagination in one way or the other on how We will think.
“The worst thing that can happen to me may be the best thing that can happen to me if i don’t let it get the best of me.”
This statement also implies that the circumstances we encounter in life are general and common to all men. However, the outcome of our experiences After them are based on the basis of our personal expectations.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Every idea was ideal and explicit!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book did contain serious mental exercises that require a marathon of readings and reasoning that release from prison of ignorance to the pleasure of knowledge as well as the palace of understanding to think and answer the questions correctly.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comments.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 7
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Assessment by James S. Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main point the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is the psychology of dealing with peoples logic and the fundamental techniques reasonable enough to be compatible and sustainable in relationship with everyone. Secondly, it is also how to lose enmity and avoid the calamity of people negative or wrong behavior to transform them to true friends notwithstanding. Finally, how to avoid losing relationship to crises, arguments, conflicts or misunderstanding and gain more friends than losing more. Building long lasting relationship to everlasting relationship
2.What are the seven points or ideas the author highlights in the book? Name these seven points followed by an explanation as to why they were important to you and use personal example from your own experience.
The seven cardinal ideas were:
i. The fundamental techniques in handling people and the basics of dealing with human beings or mortals.
ii.The six steps to allow people like you and stay with you.
iii. The secrets to win people to your way of thinking.
iv. The nine ways to change people without giving offense or arousing resentment.
v. The letter that produces a miraculous results.
vi. The seven rules for making your home life happier.
vii. The eight missions of the book for a new life style points.
The explanation of these points are according to parts and points. The first two points focus on Part 1 and 2, while Part 3 and 4 follows later due to required words counts or limit. A .The fundamental techniques in dealing with peoples logic drives these three commandments as follows:1.THOU SHALT NOT CONDEMN! 2.THOU SHALT NOT Criticize! 3.Thou shall not complain! From personal experience as a pastor and teacher, criticisms is a kind of social racism that belittles, embitters and marginalize people including children and further breeds feelings of rejection, hatreds, grief , fear and repels people from anyone. It finally deprives one of his pride. Complaining on the other hand is an indirect way of disapproval and sends signals of incompatibility and wrong relationship in dealing with people. Lastly, to criticize is the worst reaction to any one at a given situation and its effect is tantamount to judgment and punishment even when it is necessary or not. Importantly, we need to adopt and adjust to the principles and theories of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin in dealing with others.1.I will speak evil of no man and speak the good of every man! Said Ben. And Franklin said we should not criticize for we would do exactly what others do if subjugated to the same pressures, circumstances or situations. Always. Let the secret of Abraham Lincoln guide us as well – Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do, and a great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man as well as to know all is to forgive all. Personally, I would treat everyone as though he were dead and the eulogy is preached by me and usually ,everything evil will be forgotten and only the good remember but it is in the dead absent not his present but mine would be the opposite. 2..The six points to allow people like you and stay with you please. This point will highlight points 3 and 4, and drives primarily, the six keys to attract others to you.1.Be selfless by having interest in other people.2.Be welcoming (A smile) is a sign of approval.3.Remember peoples names as you remember yours.4.Be slow to speak an be a good listener and let other speak.5.Be an advocate for others interest and 6.Make people proud of themselves and important. Secondly, the twelve secrets in winning people to your of thinking or attracting others to purchase your opinion. 1. Accept being the looser by avoiding arguments.2.Accept the view of others and respect it as yours and vomit the word wrong from your mouth.3.Admit your wrong quickly as you would do with your right emphatically.4.Have or begin friendly like the pre debut before a foot ball match before kicking off. Purchase a Yes, Yes, immediately from others by your proposal.6. Be a journalist in talking to others such as listen as well and don’t do all the talking like a radio who doesn’t listen to others but rather others must always listen to it.7.See you self more in others than in yourself, let them be the mirror of your self. 8.Use honesty as the referee and lines man in dealing with others. 9. Be sympathetic not pathetic in your dealing with others ideas and desires.10.Appeal to noble motives. 11. Dramatize or practice your ideas.12. Drop any challenge.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in a particular way for they are to me as the social formula to establish maintain and sustain relationships and relegate the attitude and theory of your best friend is your worst enemy belief! Naturally, as mortals we are all vulnerable and tempted to react to wrong wrongfully, but with these formulas of counsels I will react to wrong rightfully and do the opposite than the opposing as usual Also, these ideas and points will help me create a better world for the fact that our present world is victimized with the wounds of un forgiveness, hatred , bitterness, conflicts and etc all emanating from relationships that were once cordial and understanding and later due to the intrusion of conflicts and crises all sponsored by ignorance and those who are social illiterate and refuse to understand and tolerate others. With this knowledge available, I can help to enlist among the few schooled minority on crises management and handling for a better world.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Galileo-You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.”
This means that every man is the best teacher for himself, if coached by another man. Socrates to the Greeks, One thing only I know, and that is I know nothing. The most knowledgeable man is the most ignorant man and the most ignorant man is the best knowledgeable man. To know everything is to know nothing!
“Lloyd Chesterfield to his son-Be wiser than other people if you can, but don’t tell them. wisdom is the security of knowledge and even better than knowledge more I know, the less I think I know and I want to know more for knowledge is irrelevant or relevant with time and dispensation therefore no one is too old or too young to learn even if we do it is a sign that we are still ignorant!
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! Everything in the book is clear until those things I am yet to experience after applying these wonderful principles.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The exercise of literate discipline and mental stretch of the mind beyond my own limited thought and I did my little best to complete these profiting mental exercises and very helpful like the seven keys to secure a crisis-less home which are as follows:
1. Don’t nag or brag; 2.Don’t try to make your partner over; 3.Don’t criticize; 4.Give honest appreciation; 5. Pay little attention; 6. Be courteous; 7. Reading a good book on the sex side of marriage. These points were mentioned where I recently went to settle a little dispute between my friend and his fiancé and they both were able to see the reality of admitting and accepting their wrong and reconcile immediately after the mis- understanding and dispute despite the biting accusations against one another Besides these, another helpful aspect of these exercises were the nine social catalyst for a leader to transform hi s followers negative attitude or behaviors like: a. appraisal and appreciation at the debut of conversations; b. identifying mistakes as mistakes rather than directly; c. using your mistakes as an example for others to see an admit theirs; d.ask questions instead of direct orders erase shame from others and eradicate embarrass-
ment from others; f. be sensitive to improvement and acknowledge it; g. built other people image; h. use encouragement and see fault as appoint for rather than against; i. make people happy to do what you suggest than being angry if they don’t digest your ideas or orders.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comments.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 7
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Awaken the Giant Within
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is the unidentified and un recognized giant with in each and every human being and unfortunately, these human are victims, preys and vulnerable to defeat from a weakling or any less inferior vices, circumstances, belief or challenge. It is also an alarming call to the consciousness of a potent/potential giant captured by another giant(sleep) and risked being defeated not on the basis of failed strength or power but rather failure to maximize the strength and dormant power within. Thirdly, it is a paradoxical metaphor where a giant compatible to vigor or being sober and consciousness is drowned to sleep and the metaphor of comparing the sleep which is giant who is powerfully weak to weaken any one like poison to the human potential mental giant that despite his mental prowess, academic intelligence, physical strength and unlimited abilities can become a cheap victim or prey for this muscle-less giant sleep. Finally, to awaken the Giant within is the booting of our entire internal system to be active for creativity, productivity, regularity, ability, responsibility, individuality, priority and authority. This giant may have no eyes, nose, mouth ears, hands or legs, yet all of these parts are active and involved in the re awakening process. Lastly, let this intelligent, prudent, Sound, wise, profound, conscious, educative, empowered and informed giant revived.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven alarming ideas to awaken a giant are:
i. Decisions
The gate way out of mental sleep/slumber and initial-step to empowerment.
ii. Destination
A belief system that forces one to change, unconditional atmosphere and the will to desire, drive, strive and derive at calculated solutions.
iii. Determination
The power to dare, defend and deliver in transforming opposition to upper position, answer oriented questions that investigate, invest, discovers and recover from problem to possibility and doubt to belief.
iv. Dedication
The picture of ultimate success that keeps one on and on which implies: The power of life metaphor, the ten emotions of power, creating a compelling future and the ten day mental challenge.
v. Demonstration
Action oriented path to ultimate influence where you are a master to yourself to compel and command attention in the values to raise standards and stand out, the rules to govern one’s life more than government and the difference to be a reference in the fabrics of life.
vi. Direction
A pointer or arrow head of destiny. Identity is destiny and the key to expansion which highlights: Emotional destiny, Physical destiny, Relationship destiny and Financial destiny and
vii. Derivations
The Ultimate challenge what one person can do to master budget, time and life and rest, relax and release yourself.
These seven points were personally important to me because they were practically involved in my most recent personal decision to help support orphans relatives members as well as single parents nephews and nieces and this is my engagement: I Decided the specific areas of help which was food. I Determined to provide a half bag or a 50kg of rice every month. Destination is to begin with those in the hinter land and village first outside my district. Determination is to have a special budget for transport and rice. Demonstration which implies I pay an Easter visit to sensitize and visualize target as well as transport the rice myself or transport it indirectly and pay equivalent cost. The Direction was a driven sense of purpose and responsibility to help others in the family. Derivation is to be done at the end of every month to meet up with my expectations. Also was also challenged to be a part of a community awareness political campaign. Thoughtfully, I engaged these seven processes in awakening a giant which was a temptation to all of my academic and personal achievement and thank God I decided to focus on my studies and personal goals than being in the political campaign would thwart my vision and my commitment to my studies. Finally, my decision, direction, determination, demonstration and my destination has driven my focus and passion.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These points will help me in my daily personal life in the corridor or veins of these points:
They serve as the parameter of my pre conscious, sub conscious and conscious sense of sound judgment and decision processes. The regulations of my immediate and ultimate actions.The thermometer of the complements and supplements of pain and pleasure as well as favorable and unfavorable out comes. The catalysts of my activities and creativity to coordinate my movements and accomplishment. The Switch to develop right life metaphors in term of relationships, family, finance and friendliness. The book is the wheel that propels my adventure on the path to my success and anchor to keep me on course until I can reach the bus stop of my final destination of success. The book also other important and necessary practical steps that will complement and supplement my mental prowess as well as high lights key points to navigate my adventure of life such as :The first of these vital steps is the step of Neuro Associative Conditioning, The second is the power of focus to face the future, Thirdly, the vocal expressions of our vocabulary wisely and also understanding the weight of words to bullet, en bitters and to better, The steps of emotions mastery, physical-mastery, relationship-mastery, financial-mastery and time mastery couple with the strategy steps to: Raise my standards, Change my limited beliefs and Change my strategy. Finally, the book reveals the dual opposite actions propeller systems with avoidable and un avoidable situations, messages and solutions. Positively, we have: appreciation,
Cheerfulness, confidence, contribution, curiosity, excitement, gratitude, love, warmth and flexibility. On the contrary, there are: anger, disappointment, discontents, fear, frustration, guilt, hurt, inadequacy, overload or whelm and loneliness. With the compass help of these points acted upon correctly, there is a hope and guarantee for a better world and ourselves.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Yes! There are a dozens of statements made by the author all of which are essential to me. However, I will just quote a few of them and explain why these quoted quotes are important.1.A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chances, Benjamin Disraeli implies that destiny is not a function of Chance but Choice, Not Luck But Laws and the option is open to anyone to be consistent or capricious. Belief is contagious! 2. Man is born to live and not prepare to live. Birth is free as life but success in life is not free though part of life, there is a price to pay to succeed. Preparation is not a gift like life but a choice.3.Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg. Dream is inevitable to success and destiny. It is the seed for success.4.We are what and where we are because we first imagine it. Donald Curtis. Imagination is the predecessor of every great destination or adventure. Thought is a capital catalyst o transform the invincible into visible, the real to become a reality and the intangible to become tangible.5.Every man is an impossibility until he is born .Ralph Waldo Emerson .This means that birth is the greatest and first opportunity accorded to any one that coordinates every other opportunity to be alive is to be successful.6.We all have time enough if we will but use time aright – Johan woolgathering. Time is never more or less it is man that determines the duration of time according to how wise, well and careful he uses or invest his time.7.Wealth is the product of man capacity to think. AYNRAND. Every man’s wealth is store in his mind and the more he thinks the wealthier or wealthier he becomes. The mind is the great bank with diverse currencies to be check with thought , time and thinking.
5. Was there anything in the book you don’t understand or are unclear about or are there any ideas which you disagree with and if so, why?
No! Everything about the book is explicit, excellent, and splendid and interesting, I do believe with the passage of time in absorbing the book my adventure will prove these facts.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book did contain series of exercises like: Thorough reading, comprehensive skills to answer temporal blanks questions and written examinations with specific instructions with time tag and as usual above all the task to respond to our seven customary questions , summary and patience quietness.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing else.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Empires of the Mind
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author was trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to portray in the book is Mental empire or empire erected on the foundation of the mind which is the factory of thoughts and the capacity to transform these thoughts into experience and reality. Besides that, the author also tries to portray the inevitable phenomenon of Change in life and nature. Also, change is practical and evident in nature like, the gradual growth of a human being from infancy, child, adolescent, youth, young adult adult and elder. All these bodily change happen with In us and affect our look, appearances, desires, feelings, thought , emotions, fear, confidence and priorities.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
These seven main ideas are:
i. Embrace change as the universal law or rule that governs the universe, but never be ruled by its influence, impact or effect.
ii. Flexibility
Adopt and adjust to the psychology of change by preparing and planning for it instead of reacting or trying to think that we can postpone and avoid its inevitable influence.
iii.Acceptance.
We must accept responsibility for our actions but not the credit for the achievement what a paradox!
iv. .Financial discipline.
Get money to chase you , but never let it catch you.5.Be Individualistic or Personal. You must participate in person but lead invisibly.
vi.Time-priority and management. You must try to spend time wisely, never try to save it.
vii. .Change Challenge.
Change is unchangeable, unchallenged unbeatable and inevitable. We can benefit from it!
Explanation: Rightly and orderly stated, change is an unavoidable protocol of nature that affects plants, animals, humans, seasons, climate , weather, politics, religions, education, business, sports, cultures, customs sand etc either for the better or worst, good or evil, advantage or disadvantage, only with the right mind set and right attitude to comply rather than compete with change or response or rather than react to change the ball is on our court! Personally, our Liberian culture is prone to limited out put in learning or doing something or even pursuing a career, dream or vision. We always are vulnerable to weakness in learning that we just try to try only not going or moving beyond that trying philosophy, syndrome or theory like the trying syndrome. We believe in wanting to learn only learn one trade, pursue one career, know or do only one thing. A few years back I enrolled in a teaching college and immediate after my first year of experience, I traveled in a village due to some prevailing circumstances beyond my control to improving my standard of living from the city to the village for things were tight and tough in the city and upon arrival in that village, I discovered that what I have learned was not marketable in the environment I am residing. I was left with no other option in that rural setting as a trained teacher where farming and fishing were the norm and order of the day. What I knew my self to be best at was not in demand and value. I was finally left with no option but to rather adopt and adjust by practicing and learning to farm and fish until I register my respect among the local inhabitants for six months to brush, clear and cut trees and storms and began to plow until I Became a member of the society and resume tutorial classes for the children and adult literacy classes for adults. Fairly speaking, farming was not on my menu or mission, yet because of Change I saw my self farming and fishing! What the secret to these new experiences? Change, but my attitude and approach was positive to adopt and adjust to accomplish my mission as a teacher in that village.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in a practical way both in my daily and personal life as well as the world is to understand that change is inevitable and unavoidable,therefore, I must prepare for change as I prepare to: eat, sleep, live, school, travel and work. Naturally, as human we are vulnerable and prone to the familiar , normal and usual. Here is another personal truth to this reality. I was serving in a ministry fellowship with every iota of conviction that we were the best of the rest and satisfied with ourselves religiously. Surprisingly, as I was glued and custom to our style of worship, prayer, fellowship and doctrinal comfort. I urgently received a phole call from a beloved colleague to assist him pastor his people as he was on an urgent trip to the usa to visit his family. After the call and chart, he said the lord revealed to him that I was the vessel for that vacuum. I also went to seek the Lord in prayer and it was exactly as he said. I had no option but to disarm my self form all those religious addiction and by the grace of God this change in my spiritual life has stretch me beyond bound and limit to adopt ,accept and adjust to this change that is educative in my life and walk with God. Change may threaten our comfort but it equally tighten our strength! Change is the catalyst forward movement and achievement. In addition to my personal life experience, I would also like to buttress on these points in term of the need of flexibility in our plans and preparations. Some people fail in life because thy are too strict to certain plans and decisions that should have been adjusted but because of rigidity, they find them selves on the wrong side of the experience of change. Money is like a coin with the right side and the wrong side and they both constitute the coin and determine the value of that coin. In essence money can be a good servant to us as we relate and handle or a bad master with respect to our attitude in using and handling money. In relating with people, we need to be more careful of their weakness and be willing to accept their short comings instead being too harsh or judgmental. Finally, time is a universal currency that is used in virtually all nation of the world and holds the same value every where. Time offers every one equal opportunity to succeed if we manage and use our time wisely.
4. Quotes: Are there any statement which the author made that practically got your attention? If so please quote and state as to why they were important to you.
“Success is a journey not a destination.”
This statement implies that success is progressive with time, place and change. Success is not destine to a particular or fixed location. It is achievement by movement. This anchor of truth is widely needed for majority of the average Liberian and African as a whole. Most Liberian believed that success for us is destined in the USA Only. No wonder many are living under the threat of deportation and many African are drowned in the ocean in an attempt to escape responsibility for success and believed that success is in Spain , Italy, Portugal or Germany. Sarnoff.competition brings out the best in products and sometimes the worst in people. This statement belts the truth that every best product reveals a good manager or person and every worst product reveal a poor or bad manager but the referee is competition to decide which product is the best and which product is worst. Thus competition promotes quality and demotes and provokes Junker doubt, we live in a competing world where every one wants to be the best among the rest or best. Equally so, every one can emerge the best in his divine placement by the creator with out competing with any other person. We are all uniquely different that our finger prints can prove this truth.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Of course yes! Why is the book so interesting and has five or few pages. The book is brief and explicit. It is a rare success gem to prepare us for any or every change on our path for success.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! Mental exercises to read, understand, analyze. Brain-teasing, brainstorming and brain challenge to respond to all of the questions as instructed most especially when the pages are few.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comment.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1- 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Maximum Achievement
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to portray in the book is the appropriate strategies and skills to unlock the hidden, dormant and reserved power and potential within us to awaken and breakthrough the boundary of average success, near average success and failure options concepts of success syndrome to targeting the peak of whatever success for maximum achievement as well as discourage the majority scale of minimum achievement on the shore of satisfaction, complacency and arrival. Secondly, the author also tries to paint or portray the scale of achievements from the individual and general perspectives whose on a large percentage is nothing less or lower than no achievement, little or minimum achievement and is launching out a campaign call to break the bound of the average myth to the theory of truth of maximum achievement. Finally, in a competitive world threaten with four failures probabilities of possibilities of every five out comes of success adventures or attempt, indeed there is an alarming call for every candidates for success to dare this syndrome and desire maximum achievement which if not, minimum achievement will be vulnerable to the mercy of little or no achievement with time. Thus minimum achievement can be drown by time and further future challenges.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
All of these seven points are important to me because each point serves as a pivot to provoke a positive change in my life as well as a screw around my thought for positive and right thinking as I classified them as:
i. Make your life a mastery.
Make your life a worthy positive example for other to follow as a model.
ii. The seven laws of mental mastery.
Do all to earn a mental mastery degree in your life.
iii. The master program.
Establish a program that will program you for success and maximum achievement in life
iv. The master mind, power, decision, skills and goals.
Develop the atomic pyramid for success and achievement such as: mind, power, decision, skills, power and goal
v. Mastering human and personal relationship.
Belt and fasten the psychology of human and personal relationship.
vi. Mastering the art of parenting.
Engage the art of parenting, partnering and path finding.
vii. Mastery- the power of Love
Personally, I thank God for my humiliating and humble beginning in life as a member of a polygamous family setting and up bringing where the younger ones attract more support than many of us the grown up. These challenging early days left me and my many other male siblings with no other options but to push wheel barrow in a local market by transporting goods of buyers and sellers from one point to anther in order to complete my junior and senior high schooling as the bed rock for my education success. Furthermore, this difficult challenge posed a serious financial threat to further and pursue higher level of education at the University level. Notwithstanding, I personally strongly believe in the psychology and theory of personal and career development while doing menial or odd jobs to help advance myself personally as an adolescent. Finally, this personal development concept of life has help me up to date and proud to address, minister and speak to university graduates, professors and lecturers though with out any formal university education and yet still desiring. Thank the almighty God that has opened this window of education via IIGL to further improve my self. Thus, all of these seven points are reflecting in my current status and condition as I compile this summary.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in a personal practical way as well as my daily life and the world as a whole in that, they generally serve as my Dictionary Guide for Decisions when at the crossroad of decisions, distractions or indecisions. Some of these guarding tools are: The seven ingredients of success which includes: Peace of Mind; Health and energy; Loving relationship; Financial freedom; Worthy goals and ideas; Self knowledge and awareness and sense of personal fulfillment. Besides these, I also have the laws of : Control; cause and effect; beliefs; expectations; attractions and correspondence. Finally, the grand success formula (IA + AA) Times A=HP. This formula explains that our in born attributes plus acquired attributes multiply by attitudes is equal to our individual human performance. Finally, these ideas and lessons will practically help me and the world at large by absorbing the various principles, laws and principles into my life until they become a living testimony and proofs like those of others I have read about. It is a transit from the valley of minimum, little, average or no achievement to the peak plain of maximum achievement on a hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Globally, as this book is a precious germ or mental diamond of knowledge on the shores of our ignorant minds. I do believe the knowledge acquired will help transform, transition and translate our world into a safer and better place via quality leaders producing maximum achievement with minimum resources.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Yes! There are many and multiples of quotes invading this book thus leaving the reader with multiples of options vulnerable to wise choices and winning decisions. However, to comply with required instructions, I will mention a few appealing to me personally and explain why they are important to me.
“Life is hard!”
This implies that life is not an easy ride or a cheap privellege.The strong and tough will survive.
“Every thing you are and will be is up to you.”
You must sort out you self before you experience success.
“You can learn your way through the dark corridor of ignorance in life by becoming and achieving any thing there seem to be.”
This means that learning is a non transferable responsibility on the way to success and there is no limit to any success not even the sky.
“Necessity is the mother of invention, pain is the father.Any thing painful is gainful vice versa.”
“Do what you can with what you have right where you are.”
Excuses are not an option for success in life.
“If you believe you can do a thing or if you believe you cannot, in either case ,you are right.
Right and wrong thinking have equivalent effect but with different experiences.
“No one can make you feel inferior with out your consent.”
Everyone’s opinion about me is a fact but I can proof them as a truth or not.
“Beliefs create the actual facts. Beliefs make facts right or wrong.”
“The dual formula secrets for high success: Decide what is it that you want. Determine the price you are going to pay to achieve it.”
Within every adversity is the seed of an equal or greater opportunity or advantage. Failure is the true face of true success and every opposition is an opportunity for our next position.
“A man can bear any What, if he has the big enough Why!”
“The first law of motion which states that, a body at rest will remain at rest and a Body in motion will remain in motion unless there is an outside out ward force acted upon to keep it moving or stop it static.”
This law doesn’t only apply to the universe only but equally to an individual as well. It is the C.O.A.C.H. formula for our thought patterns and our thoughts and actions are directly or in directly subjugated to this law whether mental, physical, spiritual or otherwise.
“A body cannot assume dual positions at the same time or at once. Thus one cannot be sitting or standing at the same time. Nature is unique and focus one at time and every is confined to a particular state of position consciously or un consciously you decide.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Nothing I can think of.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Obviously yes! The book did contain series of complementary and supplementary exercises for the reader with a compulsory demand or reading once, twice or thrice and a broaden comprehension that is narrow to the book, assessment questions and ones personal life. Notwithstanding, I did find these exercise helpful for they are mentally contagious to the reader who will not remain the same immediately after reading and doing the exercises correctly. I did try my level beat to answer and do all of the prescribed required exercises.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing else.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful was the content? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to portray in the book?
I would like to begin with a comment to appreciate the worth, work and wealth of this book by saying: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a success catalyst gem in the lab of success to speed away from the drowning shores of failures up to the daring horizons of success! The main idea the author seeks to portray is: The power of the paradigm shift psychology theory and its impact on the parameter of our thoughts and behaviors pattern. Thus: Two people can see the same thing, disagree and yet both be right not logically but psychologically. Secondly, the success recipe of the consolidation of paradigms and principles as it relates with the individual personality and characters ethics in the school of success. Thirdly, the authors seeks to explore the integration of the basics principles that imbibe into our characters and habits that will identify and lead to ultimate migration of our lives from the borders of failures to that of success. Finally, the author lobby to mirror the shift from the traditional path of success view from an inherited norm to the era of personalities driven success on the wheels of: attitudes, behaviors, characters, skills, techniques ethics .Lastly, success begins with in us as revelation breathed through the nostrils of our characters and ethical behaviors before it is expressed as revolution outside or around our lives.
2. What are the seven points the author highlighted In the book? Name the seven points followed by an explanation as to why they were important to you? Use personal examples from your own life or experience.
The seven key points highlighted by the author in the book are:
i. Take initiatives or be Proactive i.e. the principles of personal vision.
This is the paradigm shift of self awareness or consciousness anchored from the Genetic, Psyche and Environmental determinisms compatible with our stimulus to situation around us. It is also maximizing our natural endowment of self awareness, conscience and our independent will. Thus to be proactive is our beyond initiative ability to function from personal decision rather than situation or condition subordinating our feelings to values.
ii. See the ultimate not just the immediate. Begin with the end in mind.
This is the concept of relating with life from the funeral or dead perspective anticipating that achievement that would matter to us most .Finally; it is having a clear concept of the dual creation theory of everything from the imaginative basis to conscience reality developing a personal psychology, creed or mission statement
iii. The priority of leadership and management. Put first things first. The principles of management.
It is the principle of putting first thing first or the marriage before the reception syndrome. It exposes the four quadrant of: The urgent and important, Not urgent but important, Urgent not important and the not urgent approach to crises and problem in life. Finally, it helps us to amplify the Gofer and Steward Ship delegation in management and leadership.
iv. The principles of interpersonal leadership. Think win-win.
This principle reveals the paradigms of human interactions which are: The win-win, win-lose, lose-win, lose-lose, and the win which is the absence of competition or contest.
v. Reasoning and being reasonable. Seek first to understand, and then be understood. The principles of emphatic communication.
This principle warns us of the danger of prescription before diagnosis analysis of life. It is the master key to effective communication
vi. .Synergy: The principles of creative cooperation.
Synergy is the activity in life and the true manifestation of all the other habits put together. It is the psychology that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The miracle secret that no one is an island and everyone is as important than someone. Finally, it is about valuing the psychological, mental environmental differences of people that everything else is related to everything else
vii. Sharpen the saw
This principle encapsulates the renewing of the four dimensional nature to preserve the individual. It promotes the rest and renewal of the physical, spiritual, mental and emotion regularly and consistently.
All of these seven habits or points are important because the serve as a menu guide for consultant and accuracy in any crucial decision or interaction I engage in my habitat or environment. Here is an example of my most recent personal experience to buttress the importance of these habits and why they are important to me. Currently, as a primary product of Quadrant 1 as well as a secondary product of Quadrant 2, 3 and 4, I would like to paint a picture and narrate a true event that recently occurred in my life that resonates and propel me for effective action and decision habit beneficial for me and the entire church. As the resident pastor of a local Christian congregation with average worshipper of eighty attendants of which the majority are financially impotent or less fortunate comprising 80% of the entire church and face with a project challenge of building a bigger edifice which is on our own purchase property of a plot of land to liberate us from the fear and threat of rent payment exposes me and the entire church building project at the mercy of the majority financially unfortunate always threatened frightened by the 20% financially potent members. This challenge of 80%majority decision to hope and wait until their financial ordeal is settle and continue the work in the indefinite future while the 20% minority decision to continue the work of the project with whatever recourses is available at our disposal left me the pastor between the scissor of the majority 80% decision to wait in the nearby future and the minority 20% to work. Immediatly, I engage the quadrant I approach to visualize the immediate and the ultimate as well as the habits of being proactive, leadership, management, sense of priority, and the judgment to understand and be understood, which meant for me to embrace these two decisions wisely by working every week on Saturdays as well as anticipate further funds and provisions in the distant future and the project is on going now thus taking advantage of every opportunity. Thus these habits are effective for success, progress and development.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me practically by viewing and harnessing as well as integrate, consolidate and absorb these habits into my personal habits and of more colonized my natural personal habits to these seven effective habits as a form of Menu guide for consultant, advise, counsel and wise decisions initiatives. Finally, as the greatest books of all books admonishes us not to lean on our understanding of issues, I believe that our world will be a better place for where no council is, purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of counsels and counselors like these effective habits they are established.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please wrote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Yes! There are many fascinating statements which the author used via quotes and would just mention a few of them and their significance.
“There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan.”
“.In the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil, the silent unconscious influence of life.”
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
“Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
Importantly, the first implies that success in life cannot be divorced from sound morality and up rightness no matter who is successful, where, when or how. Subsequently, the second thrives to drive the fact that every human actions, decisions, perceptions, interpretation of life and judgment is at the mercy of the inherent force of good and evil resident in his nature and there is no neutral ground. However, one can be predetermined his own side of the outcome of the coin by desire and disposition of personal will and finally the last statement by Aristole paints that habits is inevitable to excellence or failure.
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the questionable ability of a man to elevate his life by conscience endeavor.”
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
“Some times when I considered what tremendous consequences come from little things.”
The first quote here rides the fact that every man is responsible for his own success or failures in life, for he is the first and last step on the ladder of success others only come to complement or supplement his effort. Secondly, confidence is the back bone of friendship and integrity is the spinal cord for confidence Finally, the third mirrors the truth that implications are the correct scale to weigh or judge actions or intention and un fortunately, on this scale there is nothing like small or little weigh.
“The heart has it reasons which reasons know not of Pascal.”
“We have committed the golden rule to memory, let us now commit it to life.”
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
This implies that we are always exposed to multiples of reasons based on experiences, form thought, mind influences and then our hearts’ own reasonings. We must judge and weigh our reasoning from these spring of reasons with.caution
This point out that the golden rule of life is more concrete than abstract but the reverse is the usual case in execution or practice. priority is a responsibility and must not be compromised on the basics of sympathy, friendship, interest, greed, selfishness, nepotism, favoritism or of whatever ever the condition or situation may be or cost us lets first be first.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Absolutely no.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful to you?
Yes! The book did many quiet personal exercises such as the practice and habit of quietness, isolation from noise, distractions and relations for some time, the posture of sitting, reading and meditation for hours on a daily basis and the exercises of writing, typing and comprehension.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and 1 is poor
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful was the content? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Goals
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author was trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to convey in the book is the power of goals expressed through first, the mystery of goals orientation goals attachment. Second, the mastery of goals documentation or writing such as goals arrangement and finally, the magic of goals attainment or achievements through labor or work to fulfill goals. thus goals. The golden opportunity always look simple or good objective always leads to success. Goals are golds in the school of life and success. Goals are the atoms, cells and molecules for success. Goals are the raw natural resources or materials to materialize any dream visions or desire DVD easily, cheaply and accurately. Secondly, the author also highlights the seven steps relevant to achieving our goals to help distract us from the failure of attempting to do so many things or the big and bulky and the success of attempting to do the little, minor and usual target yet with great results and outcome. Finally, in the school of success, goals are the professors, lectures, lessons and success, it may be small but not little, cheap but not common and simple yet not ordinary. Goals are gold! they are the scale to measure true progress and success and subsequently scale new heights.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven points the author seeks to high lights in book are here by abbreviated by these acronyms which is as follow:
i. CUT-Create your own future.
Unlock your potential and Take charge of your life. This the ability to think and plan out your future without limitation, see the big picture and assume personal responsibility for every favorable or unfavorable outcome of your life status quo.
ii. CDD-Clarify your goals
Determine your true goals and Decide upon your major definite purpose. This point emphasizes the refusal to deviate from what is right and continue to devote oneself to maximize your major goals and crystallize it for happiness and high performances Besides, one must also understand that you and your goals are one.
iii. SAM-Start at the beginning
Analyze your belief and Measure your progress .A always start small to end big instead of vice versa..
iv. BAR- Become an expert in your field.
Associate with the right people and Remove every road blocks. This point drives us in the urge for the pursuit of excellence in attaining our goals, adopting the eagle’s mentality to be at the top or be among the top 10% in your field of profession and oriented with solution innovation.
v. MRM-Make a plan of action.
Review your goals daily and manage your time well. This point reveals the important of recognizing every day as a fraction of our success as the day of our success. It also implies that we should glass our goals continually as we have our eye glasses on to maintain focus and organize our activities as well as order our priorities aright.
vi. VAR-Visualize your goals continually.
Activate your super conscious mind and Remain flexible at all times. This point involves in tapping into ones auto intelligence, ingenuity and thought fullness and being adoptable and adjustable to the available changes in the pursuit of our goals. Furthermore, success involves personal responsibilities to think and dig out ones thought to the surface for reward and achievement.
vii. DUP-Do something every day.
Unlock your inborn creativity and persist until you succeed. Finally, this point drives our diehard attitude, never giving in or giving up in the pursuit of our goals with every day as the plus on the previous. This involves our creativities and activities to contribute to our personal success with taking advantage of every situation to fulfill our goals.
Unlike other post personal experiences which I do have many, many experiences, yet my experience here will be that of predetermined experience. This is my personal mission statement! My universal goal is to experience excellence in every outcome possible.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in my daily personal life as my calendar of success, Source of Courage for an in satiable desire and drive for success and the Formula for every day success system as well as the clock for evaluation and elevation in my life. I personally believe with every iota of conviction that I have no reason to become a failure or end up as a failure. Finally, I believe God to be one of the anti failure virus of the world to make it a better place for its inhabitants from generation to generation beginning from the local point I do find myself now to the global finishing point I want to reach engaging the potential principle of success in chapter 21 which states that once you start going, keep going on and on and on applying other relevant sign post on our way to goal attainment and achievement Finally, with the two questions strategy, developing dual alternatives or plan A&B System or methods in solving problems, such as long term thinking, The laws of compensation and attractions, planning my time carefully, conquering fear, The courage to begin, Taking risks, learning from the masters, Self discipline, persistence, perseverance knowing fully well that most success often com one step beyond the borders of failures..
4. Quotes: Are there any statement which the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and state as to why you think they were important.
Yes! There are many of them but I will comment on the few that appeal personally to me such as:
“A journey of thousands league begins with a single step.”
Every great ending is rooted in a little beginning!
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean un-sailed. A new continent unexplored, A world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.”
There is nothing like average potential but rather a person with an average mind set about potential
“My success evolved from working hard at the business ahead every day.”
Faith without work is doubt, so goals without work is failure or guess work.
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skills, great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance!”
The true meaning of diligence is skill or perseverance
“When I fully decide that a result is worth getting, I go ahead and make trial upon trial until it comes.”
Success comes from our attempt to try and keep on trying until our desired goal is obtained .
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book did contain series of exercises which may be categorized as the ultimate which has to do with the usual as: reading more than once or twice, seeking an isolated place, brain teasing and training comprehension with analysis to answer all relevant questions. The immediate has to do with prescribed recommended exercises from the author of the book like the exercise of writing a single goal with 20 different solutions option or alter natives to solve or fulfill that one goal and require a deep process of imagination and concentration engaging the conscious, sib-conscious and the super conscious to complete. Finally, it involves the practical steps written to be followed which I have started.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Here are my personal present major Goals
Obtain an ever increased financial advantage in wages monthly or yearly to face future financial challenges.
Ever increased education, skills, knowledge, abilities to complement and supplement my primary goals.
The courage to work and serve with every sense of humility and submission to realize my goals as I am doing right now by the grace of the supreme God upon my life.
Here are some secondary goals in the future:
To leave an inheritance for my children and grandchildren in terms of building a house, estates, schools, church and any memorial impact.
To visit my school campus visibly and be able to meet personally some of the authors who have motivated me to success as well as some of the staffs like Miss Deborah Rosen..
To be an evident of a millionaire and the testimonial product of all the realities of the books I am reading to teach others with impact and proofs.
To experience heaven on earth and in heaven.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful was the content? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Nonviolent Communication
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to portray in the book is communication with professional orientation void of complication and confrontation. This is implies using language that will not cause other to languish in pain, shame, regrets and utter frustrations. Verbally in our global world, words are the channels through which we express our selves via interactions and association. Therefore, the authors caution us to delete wrong, injurious, hurtful, harmful, negatives and other insulting words from our vocabulary menu. Finally, the author is calling on every reader to be incline to the use of conducive than abusive words. Lastly, words are as powerful as the word of God to pierce the heart, penetrate the bones and marrows as well as touches the soul where resides the emotions, will, power and feelings. We are encourage to use ballot words than bullet words thus words once spoken wrongly may be forgiven but not forgotten. Nonviolent communication develops anon violent associations, relationships and world. We must weigh our words and consider the weight of the ears of our listeners before speaking or using words. Words Connotes, Weigh your thoughts carefully, observe your tongue cautiously, Release words cleverly and smile cheerfully.
2. What are the seven main ideas the author seeks to highlight in the book? Name the seven ideas followed by an explanation as to why they were important to you. Use personal examples from your life.
The seven main ideas the author highlights in the book are:
i. Giving from the heart and communication that blocks compassion.
This first point helps us to give communication born out of the heart rather than our hurts taking into consideration the components of : Observation, Feelings, Needs, and request as well as expressing honesty through these components of non violent communication and finally receiving emphatically through same. Finally, this point helps us to avoid alienating communication like moral justice, comparison, denial of responsibility and expressing wrong without impunity.
ii. Observing without evaluating and identifying and expressing feelings
The second point gives us a sense of balance difference between observation and evaluation without condemnation or to shoot up criticism. Personally, observation precedes evaluation and that is why it is the highest form of human intelligence, however, it can be interchangeably use. It also helps us to understand how we express our feeling knowingly or silently revealing hoe vulnerable we are when we resolve conflict not mixing feelings with thought.
iii. Taking responsibility for our feelings requesting that which would enrich our lives
This point implies that whatever other do may be the stimulus of our feeling but not the cause helping us to understand the pain of expressing our needs versus the pain of not expressing our need.
iv. The power of empathy and receiving empathically
Empathy is the emptying our mind and listening to other with our whole being thus enabling us to express honesty and receive emphatically. Finally we must sense what others are observing, feeling, needing and requesting from us as well. The power of empathy is the power that enables us to re perceive our world in a new way
World in a new way and move on.
v. Connecting compassionately with our selves and expressing anger fully.
This point finally helps us to see an auto compassion of feeling developing within us to evaluate growth rather than developing self hatred.#2 Practical and personal experience. As nonviolent communication is communication with the right words addressing the wrong situation no matter how with a sense of auto reflection. To admit, I want to sincerely apologize for the countless violent communications I have interacted and exchanged with people before laying my hands on this guide of Nonviolent Communication. However, I was brought up in a society where violence was the key catalyst that remodeled the norms of the society and was even a more secure way of commanding respect, security and authority ranging from the infant to the adult like an inherent nature. Unfortunately, with so much pressure to respond to the stimulus of the society, on either defends himself or stand the risk of being the immediate victim or casualty of violence. I have had a huge profile of violence accredited to my past record but thank God for knowledge of Nonviolent Communication
vi. The perfect use of force, liberating ourselves and counseling others.
Recently after the first two days of reading the book nonviolent communication, I was invited to go and settle a dispute of one of our female fellowship member who is a single mother involved a fierce fight with her eldest daughter with wars of words using varieties of violent communication and I my self was also a victim of these words of nonviolent communication that baffle me with a shock and reflection on the book of non violent communication I have just finished reading.
vii. Expressing communication in a non violent communication.
Consciously, I called the daughter and told her the wrong of fighting older people including her own mother. After that I also turned to the mother to exhibit a good moral example to her daughter as a mother and road model. Later I call the daughter to apologize to the mother as a sense of remorse and the mother immediately broke down into tears regretting for the act of violence and erase all vocal and verbal curses rained on her own daughter with a successful reconciliation being expressed! In deed non violent communication is the cure, remedy, and the best way to sort out conflicts and differences resulting to the joy of conflict resolution.
3. How will these ideas or lesson help you in a practical way, daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
The lessons in the book will be a practical help to me in my daily personal life and the world as guide of thought in selecting the right word at the wrong time and at the right time like :Reflecting before reaction to stimulus even if the scene is violent in nature, a help guide in conflict resolution is in the case I narrated, to be a practical example in handling conflict wisely and promoting and building peace in our local and global community Also, non violent communication would be another source of world peace most especially for Africa that is known as the epicenter for all sorts of violence ranging from domestic, tribal ,civil, sexual, crime, religious, communal and moral. Finally, I Would like to personally appeal to the Media for a special air program or talk show with traditional and local indigenes following a drama or an episode exposing these various aspects of violence and how we can all contribute in our individual capacity to abolish and say no to every form or kind of violence like the campaign against polio, malaria, HIV and Aids and every other form of diseases that post a threat to our universal globe. on violence communication always flow with non violence association and expression. Therefore there is a need of non violent education and orientation that will be taught and cultured into our society to influence the communication of people in public or private..
4. Quotes: Are there any statement which the author made that practically got your attention? Please quote and state as to why they were important.
Yes, there just a few:
What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and other based on a mutual giving from the heart. Marshall Rosenberg. Compassion is reciprocal in the life of every human.2.Donot judge and you will not be judge, for as you judge others so you yourself will be judged. Matt7:7. Judgment is divine and it is only human when it is auto! 3. Let us become the change we seek in others. Mahatma Gandhi. If we cannot change our selves we cannot change others People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they have of them. Epicttus.our description of things are based on our perception of them. All these statement are important because each drive a truth in the process of non violent communication.
5. Are there anything in the book you don’t understand or ore un clear about or are there any idea which you disagree with and if so why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes, the book did contain some internal and external exercises for the reader to complete and I did attempt them all and find them helpful. The internal exercises are: Exercise One about observation and evaluation; Exercise Two of expressing our feelings; Exercise Three acknowledging our needs; Exercise Four expressing our requests and Exercise Five differentiating receiving emphatically from receiving non-emphatically.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful was the content? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Leadership for Dummies
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to portray in the book is Leadership for exploits, effectiveness, efficiency and excellence However, the term Dummies is relative of dual dimensions which are: paradoxical, strategic unconventional or negative dummies. This dimension of dummies is referring to the educated, intelligent, leadership illiterate who know it all but can do nothing at all. It is a dummies of leadership cultured and tailored in headship, hardship and harsh ship with strength in tradition, corruption, position, possession, delusion, deterioration, violence, strength, power, authority wars, bloodshed and destruction. These categories of dummies have authority without responsibility, boss with no buddy rulership without friendship, tyrants not technical, tragedy yet not strategic, judges of man no just men, lust for power without love for people, possession and un professional and exempted without example. This is the primary emergency dummy. The African continent is the factory and manufacturer for these category of dummies with board leadership not body leadership. I speak from Personal experience and as a direct victim of these dummies. The second dimension of dummies is the Orthodox, conventional and practical dummies. These are the urgent positive dummies which include: the ignorant, layman, simple, common, average, unskilled, uneducated, innocent, inferior, learners, fool, humble and servant leader. Every good and great leader is found in this later category and is the primary target of this book and author.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The leadership for dummies.
This the apex and peak interest of the entire book referring to dynamics, determined, diligent, do it yourself first, doubt clear, result delivery and examples, experience and empowerment leadership thus D=Doing things right than the right thing=Understanding the Auto or self and the All to serve; for example other leadership to be outstanding=Maturing to be a model, means and the middle man that holds and controls everything managing yourself, others and resources at your disposal=Mastering the art of being a good follower or servant leader for experience, examples and setting the path for good examples and excellence=Yielding yourself to the principles, practices, policies, patterns, protocols, positions, path finding and the psychology of leadership.
ii. Introduction to leadership.
This is the initial step or gate way for every great and good leadership with the leader taking the lead by seeing himself as a leader with competence, nature and nurturing, qualities, skills and balancing management and leadership evenly, equally and efficiently.
iii. Leading your self or the Auto or self leader.
This is the process of leading inside out or knowing your self to become a better leader. This also means that the leader be open and plain which is called the visible or body leadership by P.A.R.T. Planning, Acting, Reflecting and Theorising.
iv. Leading others
Leading others or Serve leadership which begins with developing a sense of Purpose with clarity balancing being effective and efficient as well as vision oriented with input matching correspondent out put and finally having the line drawn with the Urgent, Important; Not urgent and Not Important thus U.N.U./I.N.I.
v. Leading people through change.
This is the point of leading people to peak performance or competence to enthuse, engage and provide direction, guide and develop, focus and encourage autonomy as well as being specific, measurable. Achievable, relevant and time target based in a given task.
vi. Leading different types of team.
This process begins by firstly creating a huge performing team, separating the great from the good with shared sense of purpose and commitment to each other openness, honesty, and willingness to challenge each other as critical friends with a sense of fear identity, mutual accountability, high performance and achievement.
vii. The part of tens.
These are the triplets of commandment with the Tips of taking the lead like making leadership common sense common practice to keeping your head when every one is raising theirs. The commandment of leading one self and avoiding the lonely heart club and finally The commandment of engaging people, earning peoples respect and creating time for counting experience. Personally, my experience as it relates with this book is passive, active and pro active because leadership is a process rather than mere success. However, I cannot list the menu of mix experiences as it relates with the exposure of my personal dummy experience with regard to the time factor, yet importantly deliverance has come for the dummies experiences even right now as I am browsing and navigating through the pages of this book to be one of the leaders who understands the dynamics of leadership.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons have practically help me by exposing and expelling the dummy and dormant vacuum if leadership in leading myself and deliverance from this myth of leadership of struggling to lead others without firstly starting to lead one self. Importantly, besides being a classroom teacher, all of the school I do teach have all agreed and accepted as on of the leader in decision making and executing thus the world has started to benefit from my iota of leadership ability. Thank God for IIGL.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“If you want to be a part of our leadership team you got to do this.”
“The trouble is that they all want to be leaders.”
“Here is the business plan. Nigel takes charge of marketing, Tristman sales, Keith accounts and psyche makes sure that client pay on time!5.So you think you were born to be a leader.”
All of these statements are evident truth of dummies thus sponsoring the authority and dynamic power of the book to rescue leaders from the dilemma of dummies to dynamics of leadership.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! All of the statements in the book are all explicit; most especially the illustration and diagrams to picture and capture the ideas
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course the book did contain several interesting and challenging practical exercises that are complex and simple here is a little synopsis: I experienced and benefited from the immediate urgent exercises while navigating the pages of the book as well as the the exercises. Here are some of my practical results form the exercises contained in the text and how it practically related with me. The first table on leadership experience. I once face a situation with integrity check and character flaws from a leader with whom I have worked with over a year and was over burdened with this character flaw and integrity to the point of loosing some of my relationship with people that respected me with a very high esteem but later became suspicious with this leader being the head of one of the most popular senior high school in our community and finally invited the leader for a personal conversation to desist from all questioning behavior scrutinizing his integrity. Regrettably, this principal or leader of this give no heed rather held me in contempt to be with those frowning at his character and wrong attitude as a leader. Finally, I sent in my letter of resignation immediately after our close door conversation which also resulted to half a dozen of the staff leaving with and with out his consent as well as some parents transferring their children from the school and within the next two months or more I later heard that he has fled the school promises in question of financial mal practice with the grade 9 and grade 12 fees for the West African Examination Council that subsequently led to a student riot and hunting certain instructors like the coordinator for the examination classes and some of us that left before this financial scandal were safe from the threat and strike of the students of which to crown it all up the school is shut down now with only the frame building. The plague of bad leadership crises is an inevitable ill in our society to such an extent the an entire generation of future leaders future are in serious catastrophe! Secondly, the next exercise on the dual coined of leadership and management taught me to value every one as my self and treat every one with equal respect and dignity to avoid being in guilt with those we work with and are still working with. Everyplace I have I have always let my working relationship as a record and reward bond that gives me the courage and boldness to re visit and whenever I do meet some of former relationship and work mates the bond is tight because the principle of respecting and treating every one with equal values.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comment.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Law of Attraction
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to convey in the book is: The Law of Attraction in a thought world which implies compelling attention by magnetic imagination generating undeniable results and proofs. Also, The Laws of Imagination, Thought and Meditation ITM as a universal individual law as the law of gravity, and though unrecognized yet not hidden, unidentified yet with out recognition and ignore yet ever present and applicable. This law of Beauty thus transforming thoughts into things is inevitable to obtaining any results or dreams. Finally, the author drives the jealousy and beauty of all we desire through thought vibration being a pointer to success and achievement. Lastly, The Law of Attraction is an unavoidable path to achieving good results, success, achievements, accomplishments and impact without negotiation, compromise and ignorance. This law compared to that of gravity must be: workout, practice, obey, respected and acknowledged at all times any where! It is a defense against destruction and distraction.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The law of attraction in a thought world and the law of mental control.
These two laws point out mental vibration sounding through our imagination and thought. It is also the individual universal law to graduate and gravitate from being a mediocre to a celebrity and finally thus managing or damaging our mind via choices, focus and concentration.
ii. The thought waves and the process of reproduction, a talk about the mind and mind building.
This process is similar to the reaction of stones thrown into water and the pattern of waves created which implies that our mind is a vast ocean of diverse thoughts trigger by what we believe and do to become what we have dream of becoming or achieving as well as eliminating fear, worry and failure substituted by the magnet of strong expectancy in the seat of our mind to facilitate every effort in the positive direction for profitable results.
iii. How to become immune to injurious thoughts attractive and transformation of negative thoughts.
This point is building a healthy solid system of positive thought that will immunize us against the wrong thoughts of worry, anxiety, stress, failure, fear. This is the strategy of being positive minded to avoid the tragedy of negative mind set or thoughts.
iv. The secret of the will.
The will power is he strongest power resident within an individual. It is the remote for the dos and don’ts, negative or positive, able or unable. It is the possibility or impossibility specialist. For where there is a will, there will always be a way.
v. Asserting the life force.
This is the urge, desire and drive of life to muster courage, strength, health, force, vitality, power and energy to accomplish any feats or exploits with practical skills, ideas making our mental crease in the right direction.
vi. Training the habit mind.
This is developing and cultivating mental cultural habitual exercises to facilitate, necessitates and grow our mental muscles and thoughts that will be help ful and beneficial to our progress, development and life.
vii. The psychology of emotions
This projects the following points of: Developing new brain cells; the attractive power; –Desire Force, Claiming your own and Law not Chance. The technical psychology of these compound multi-points is that no good thing in life must be too good to be true to achieve or have in life. Control your emotion like habit and name it, proclaim it and have it or take it. Personal experience. Recently, there was an effective leadership diploma course at the winners chapel head quarter for a minimum of $35 and a great impartation climaxing at graduation. Unfortunately for me, I did not even have the first cent to purchase the form but had a very high expectation to benefit from the program. I boldly went to the leadership explaining the situation and constraint as well as my interest and pleaded to just start the first day and will meet all requirements before the end of the training. Miraculously, as I started on the third day I was blessed with a contract that financially facilitated my obligations for the training and was successful and graduated at the end of august. The law of positive attraction is a magnetizing force that compels and propels every positive desire to a dream and experience.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas and lessons will help me in my personal life and in creating a better world in that I must believe, apply and obey the instructions and principle documented as I Do with The Holy Bible. Though the principles here are not spiritual like the Holy Bible but they are true as the word of God and produce good and profitable results. Finally, I must not be selfish or self centered with these truths and principles’ but rather share it with other for a multiplying effect and the entire world will benefit from it as I do.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
The author did make some statement that magnetic my attention and here are a few and why they are important.
“Thought is a force!”
This statement implies that thought is not just a silent or dormant force wrap in the palm of our mind but equally an active mental force having influential effect like that of an earth quake culminating into a perpetual change in the life of an individual for the better or for the worst.
“We are largely what we have thought ourselves into being, the balance being represented by the character of the suggestion and thought of other.”
“The mind is set in the man himself!”
Where ever the mind goes the mangoes and whatever the mind does the man does and where ever the mind goes the man goes.
“Man has one mind, but he has many mental faculties being capable of functioning two different lines of mental effort. Thus the force of passive effort and the force of active effort determine the ultimate effort in the life of any individual as it relates with the scope of our focus and law.”
“Don’t waste your thought force, but use it to advantage. Stop attracting to yourself failure. Our thoughts are the magnets that give us the advantage or disadvantage in life and everyone is engaging in one kind of thought pattern or the other. The outcome is directly proportional to the faculties of thought pattern or system operational within the individual.”
“Your thoughts are either a faithful servant or a tyrannical master, just as you allow it to be. We are all direct or in direct replica of our thoughts. We are ambassadors of our thoughts and our thoughts are our representatives.”
All of these statements are mind-bugling and a fulfillment of the prophecy of the law of attraction of which if applicable and practice daily and regularly will culminate into tremendous positive results far beyond our imagination.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! The ideas in the book explain itself and understand the more if do and practiced the exercises and instruction given.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book did contain series of exercises some of which are while reading the book while others are after reading the book and the rest of the exercises are those given indirectly by the book through the challenges that will confront us in the future. However, I have the exercises during reading which involves repeated reading once, twice or thrice, creating a serene environment of quietness to enhance sound concentration and the patience to listen over and over and again to the audio of this book to capture any understanding or ideas that was not captured or understand while reading at first and finally the exercise of internet security to mail and follow-up the appropriate timing with a fast network connection which mostly at time here will be at the mid night when the network is less busy.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comment.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Goal Setting 101
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author was trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author tries to portray is that failure101 is the absence of goals setting reality rather than the disadvantages of abilities, fortunate privileges, parental lineage, continental disposition, religious techniques, racial supremacy or any other facts or factor of excuses. The author further encourages us to shy away from the psychology of myth of mere wishes and avoid air castles desires or dreams and navigating the shores of real goal setting, targeting and getting to achieve and experience true success. Success is not a mere human wish or description of fortune traceable to a magical witch or myth. It’s not a desire that drives itself ones way by a desperate anticipation but in born drive of goals to a specific target of success. Finally, success is neither a gift, call or an exclusive right reserved for a noble few nor the sudden arrival at the peak of life over night rather to have a goal, go the goal, do the goal, be the goal and become the goal which is success 101.
2. What were the seven ideas which were most important to you personally and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you? Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven main points the author highlights in the book are:
i. The dynamics or fundamental of success.
Explicitly, for the purpose of clarity and emphasis, I would like to merge these seven ideas into two key points followed by vivid explanation. These two key points for purpose of emphasis as well as the nature of basis using a fractional analysis description are the: i. The first point is the Enumerative aspect of success call The Dynamics Anatomy of Success by goal architect and ii. The Denominative Dimension of Success with our Focus of Thought as the fractional bar
ii. The dynamics of goal setting realities and being certain or specific about goal.
iii. Plan and point to plant goals to be successful.
iv. Prepare, pursue and promote the purpose of goal by vision and action.
v. Manage your way successfully by discipline, purpose, time and plan.
vi.The Dynamics Anatomy of Success
The Qualiditrail Qualities are: Qualiditrail Qualities of Goal-Vision-Mission-Choice Acronym {GVMC}, propelled by the dozens of fundamental formulas as (MARK DUC AS). Mission, accept the power of choice respect reality focus the facts, know holy goal setting is important, develop a vision, and understand the definition of goal. Ask the 1\2 dozen of important, goal setting question. Study the creator of a goal. The Enumerative primary aspect of the clusters of point s arrow out Goal, Vision, Mission and Choice. These orders begin with a Choice, the Goal, Vision and Mission. Choice is the vote of our will decision and desire that will promote a goal- inspiring a vision putting on a mission. They are the metaphor of the balance type psychology of a moving vehicle. The vehicle is like to human body which the four tires with 2 at the front are the choice ad goal at the vision and mission. Personally, at the transcend day of 2017 and 2018, the Lord give me a revelation of Gen. 8:20 and that verse of scripture usually is loaded with a heavy practical principle. However, most often when I read the verse, I am more spiritual with the practical principle imbedded in the truth and the Lord councils me about the practical reality about the scripture particularly the seed principle is 80% practical and 20% spiritual and I realize that I have been gambling with reality at the expense of spirituality. I took a practical step to enroll at the Teacher College called The Lacosse this year and decided this first day to visit the campus. As God had it, I visited the campus to my surprise that the first placement exam was a day after my visit. With all necessary information, I sat the exams and emerge candidate 1 0f 34 candidates that were successful and went through the interview and awaiting the matriculation. But I had a choice to improve my knowledge bank that gives me a goal of advancing my career as well as targeting a particular level which is a bachelor degree or Bsc putting on the mission of educational adventure. Thank God for the magic reality of goal setting.
vii. The goal setting training Process.
The Denominative aspects of success have to do with the triangular strategies of 1. An accomplishment to be achieved 2. A measurable outcome and 3. A specific date and time to accomplish a goal. These three factors are propelled and driven by the psychology of everything counts-which implies that no vacuum, no mistake, no-minor task, and everything is equal.
The ten commandment goal setting target of life when includes: personal, health, recreation, family, community, career, financial, household, and spiritual friends. The hexa interostretegy or the six interrogation strategies of whom? What? Where? When? How?and Why?
Who will help me in my academic aspiration? God, Myself, and Partners?
What is the goal? BSC in Education and Administration at the college.
Where am I now? Awaiting classes in February after Entrance Examination, Interview, Orientation and Admission.
How will I accomplish this journey, decision, courage, effort, partners, work, focus, discipline and rigurious study, financial obligation.
When? vision 2020, January or December by God grace and long life to obtain first degree.
Why? To obtain a second address apart from ministry being my primary and to contribute by quota career to the world.
3. How will these ideas and lessons help you in a practical way both in your daily personal life and helping you to create a better world?
The practical way these ideas and lessons will help me is to first kill the option of failure and skill the urgency of success by coaching, guiding, and pointing me to success continually and distracting me from failure even when visible. Practically, I have 2 hours of sleep for now, 2 schools I am working and teaching at as well as a student of 3 academic institutions and finally pastoring a church and supervising a project on going at the church premises. Besides these ideas or lessons are also going to help me by imparting and transferring what I have learned in this book to others around me like: my wife, children, friends, superiors, subordinates so as to leave a legacy which will in return be profitable for me to have people around me to think, act and do things the way I do to have a better understanding of our relationship and reason at the same pace promoting harmony of thought, compatible with same logic and think in the same direction to lengthen our relationship as well as smoothness in getting along and avoiding the path of confusion most especially in setting where violence, disorder and abuse of purpose and priorities are common among friends, colleagues and acquaintances.
4. Quotes: Are there statements which the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and comment as to why they were important to you.
“No decision is difficult to make, if you have all the facts.”
From the first quote, reprehensibility is the product of decision and information is crucial to decision, in so doing, every decision has an antecedent responsibility and consequence. The fact is therefore clear that consequences are important than decisions.
“You must walk the talk.”
“Make everything counts.”
Furthermore, these statements are also important to me because they will be used as a conversation formula guide in my daily communication with others as well as help to hammer these statement of truths in my friends that are illiterate to these facts and realities and guide them
5. Is there anything in the book that you don’t understand or unclear about or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercise for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all the exercises and did you find them useful to you?
Yes! The first exercise is the exercise of deliverance from being Goal illiterate to being Goal literate and oriented with a compelling pressure to identify a goal from a mere wish within the book.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous question? If so, please comment.
No!
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Monk
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to portray in the book is: The risky philosophy of not taking risk. The risk of not taking risk more risky than risk itself. It is more risky not to take a risk than taking risk. This philosophy will be branch into the following seven main points covered in Question 2.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The psychological paradigm shift of the benefit of lost at the mercy of gaining more but not having enough.
The wake up call and the mysterious wisdom of Julian Mantle (Anyone) to the sages (Anything worth desiring). The wake up call was a call from the slumber, complacency, satisfaction and sudden achievement of success to the fulfillment of the wisdom of potential. This call is label with a cost to give up or wave off everything wanting for one thing needed. This call becomes an invitation for any sudden visitation for anything worth desiring and aspirating. This call is the ignition or switch for a new dawn experiences or adventure for Julian Mantle. This call costs him his Ferrari (his prized possession, shinning red Ferrari, private island, castle and anything valuable than. It changes the name of Julian Mantle to that of a monk. It is of no doubt that we all have a kind or form of a Ferrari that is the valuable cost for fulfilling our own persona potential. Nothing in life is free or cheap not even salvation!
ii. The danger of accumulating wealth yet lack the health to match up the wealth.
The miraculous transformation of Julian Mantle and the magical meeting with the sages. A miracle here is the obstacles of stress, early aging and collapse of Julian Mantle that prompted his journey to India his long anticipation earlier in life to see himself in India to fulfill that dream subsequently encountering the yogi that guided him to a personal journey in the world of the sage wish was his request. Finally, the curiosity of desire and quest prompted the visitation of Julian with the long anticipated sage which in short was a diagnosis and symptom of his ignorance of knowledge awaiting the remedy, cure and wisdom of the sage.
iii. The joy, satisfaction, fulfillment and rest of who we are?, rather then how we are? Or what we have?
The spiritual student of the sage and the wisdom of personal change. This point propounds the matriculation and registration of personal involvement and engagement in the region of the sage by Julian Mantle in his earnest desire for wisdom and satisfaction provoking a sudden visitation with out any formal letter of invitation to the sage yet, he had a personal encounter culminating to being a cadet in the school of wisdom of the sages most especially his personal face to face contact with them verbatim. Further, under the tutor, nurture, guidance and leadership of the sages, the personal life of Julian Mantle sky rocketed for a change of story and destiny. A most extra ordinary garden. This garden was a metaphor to demonstrate the typology and psychology of the human mind. Naturally, uncultivated garden will turn out to become a wild bush or thorns, thistles, and grasses while a cultivated well watered garden will be attracted and prone or trim regularly. To live a life to the fullest one must stand guard at the gate of his garden (mind) and let only the very best information enter. Finally, as taught by the sages, the average person runs about sixty thousands thoughts through his mind and it is shocking to know and note that ninety five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones we thought the day before. We all have a mental raw material Of a Vast Reservoir thoughts that are imbedded within us.
iv. Buying the future at the expense, lost and cost of the present
These key points remain my focus:
Cultivate your mind it will blossom before your expectation.
The secret of the lake. Opposition thinking.
The heart of the Rose (The Kaizen of self mastery Rose).
There are no mistakes only lessons. See setback as opportunity for personal experience and spiritual growth.
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thought.
v. Losing the minority of everything to gaining the majority of one thing.
Kindle your inner-fire and the ancient art of self leadership. This point serves as a pointer that there is a gas and match relationship between our personal will and potential that is ignited or lighted with the strike of our decision and desire prompting a spontaneous wood burning urge to pursue and following that which appeals to us most or what we like or love doing and be willing to leave or give out every other thing to pursue that one thing with consistency, persistence and focus continually just as we would do with the literal wood burning fire that is being adjusted after a prolong period of burning to re kindle the fire for a continuous blaze. This rekindling is personal from within.
vi. Prioritizing the powerful wisdom of potential and personal life above the knowledge of profession, possession and public life.
The power of discipline our most precious commodity. Discipline remains the capital catalyst to ensure and secure our future as it serves as a defense against procrastination distraction and doubt.
vii. The adventure of thirst, quest, and request for reward.
The exchange of temporal value (The known, limited and visible for that of permanent virtue and value), the unknown, invisible and the unlimited. The ultimate purpose of life and the timeless secret of lifelong happiness. This final point is the reward for our endeavor.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so how?
These ideas and lesson are going to benefit me in a personal way even as this current moment serving as a Jack Pot to secure my destiny dictating my status, amidst the prevailing circumstances through my life.
First, I’m presently on a marital asylum separation due to priority in differences, conflict of purpose, financial challenges, parental conflicts handling children values and virtues. Wisely, I have seen all these as a lessons of experiences rather than a failure or set back maritally. Finally, my emergency situation of a change of location and as well other immediate challenges and needs have led to a push and place me under a pressure to be up as early as 4:30 am to trek at my current place of work which is an hour and half distance. Yet I have adjusted myself to it and is now part of my regular routine despite extra activities and engagement with current schedule. These lessons are mental muscles to built my emotions and decisions.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the Author that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they are important to you.
There are many amazing quotes in or from the books. However, I will just list or mention a few that caught and bought my attention and explain why they are important:
“Great dreamer dreams are never fulfilled they are always transcended .”
“I am an artist at living my work; my work of art is my life.”
“Most people live- whether physically intellectually or morally-in a very restricted circle of their potential being we all have reservoirs of life to draw upon of which we do not dream.”
“Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arrange mind.”
All of these quotes are a set of codes to cope with the circumstances challenges and pressures of life generating the maximum result from every form or kind of insults. Everyone success or failure in life is to compare to the lord’s final judgment that is personal. No one is to be blame for the outcome of anyone life whether negative or positive.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book contains limited and unlimited exercises. The limited exercises are the assessment questions from the book to answer while the unlimited exercises ere the exercises from the practical everyday questions from the book of life of which of which I am doing pretty well with now.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing else.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Power Within
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is the unusual inferior superior Unrecognized, dormant (casual) inner power that changes and challenges dummy to dominate their world known as the Will power” Using this acronym:
W- Will power
I- Individual potential packed
T- Thought manifesting power even with things are tough
H= Hidden not forbidder lost and yet visible
I= Internal yet international
N= No limit, No tolerance for failure power.
Lastly this power connote be voted, but provoked, not political but participial, not corrupt but correct not about leadership but legacy, not about money but relevant at every moment, not about game or blame but gain and fame, not about position but promotion, not title but a task one is tied to, not about importance of self but the influence of others, not getting the extra ordinary mark but going the extra mile, not selfish and conscious of contesting the opposition, but rather confronting oneself for the upper position on the pyramid of one’s success. This power empowers, not to over power or to have power over others.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal example from your own life.
i. The power with in
The internet individual power available to all yet not assessable by all. The power that gravitates causalities and casual reproach to candidates of catalysts for success, progress and achievement. The power within is the trailblazer for impact and intellectual relevance.
ii. Setting your priority right (by what one actually desires, drives and dream of coming true.
This explains the quest before our thirst that will generate or guarantee our testimony. It may be the quest of a goal, objective, ambition, desire, dream, project, or an initiative an endeavor or undertaken. It is the jack pot of life. Anything wanted is hunted, Anything desired can be driven after, any dream has a real picture antecedent. Every initiative requires one that is creative. Every project has a target. Ever endeavour mechanism
iii. Discover the power within by using the divine spectacle.
a. This is a mental x-ray orientation of tranquility (calmness) b. Re converting the five (5) senses to one sense of focus, Thus engaging the following laws of.
Vibration (no rest) Relativity (contact) (Action and reaction) Polarity (opposition/ opposite) Rhythm (natural cycle) Gestation (timing and maturity) Transformation (charge and change) with these seven laws of realities, luck is suspended and erase to give everyone equal right and access to the power with within.
iv. Speaking to Self
It’s important to speak to oneself disregarding the odds, limits and fear about bravery, risk and boldness survive.
v. Be Proactive
Accept one’s individuality by being proactive to initiate any journey venture or endeavor. Breaking the limit by challenging yourself. The unusual and abnormal act of listening and hearing yourself. This is because we see things not as they are but as we are,, Our imagination of ourselves is responsible for our limitation. This is further illustrated like the full armor of God in Eph: 6:12, that we wear from within out. The ultimate result of the discovery of our individuality is to accept responsibility which is the prize for greatness.
vi. Overcoming the forces of inertia against our initial initiatives or start.
These facts point to the engagement of one law to overcome another like the law of aerodynamics to overcome the law of gravity on the airport.
vii. Hope
Stay on hope on hang on held on until one can have in by beginning right where over is at the current moment.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you create a better world? If so, how?
These seven points are practically going to help me as I begin the immediate search of this Power Within by personal knowing my weaknesses and strength from now an equally apply these facts in the world around by helping other to discover this same power within them. Hope is the eye of the future to guarantee our success and dreams for tomorrow. Finally, all the seven points are secrets keys and strategies to the path way on my drive for success progress and promotion.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“What line is behind us and what lines before us are a small matters compared to what lines within us.”
“The greatest of our Journey , challenges, pains, Energy and Effort are all from within compared to without.”
“Knowing what you want to a great extent solves the problems of how to get it. The problem of what is holds the solution to how is, when is, and where is, .solutions are symptoms of real problems.”
“To everything that is, there is a way of knowing. To every one that does not know, there is a way of knowing, The problem is, who is ready and willing to know? Once there is a will and want to work, there will always be a way to arrive and achieve anything.”
“It has always been the hardest of all the task, getting started, The first step is always the hardest to take but also the most important of all the steps.”
“You can be what you want to be, only if you want to. No one has the power to walk on you when you are not down. Never sets limit, go after your dreams don’t be a afraid to push the boundaries.”
All of these quotes or inspirational words appeal to my course of action currently as I am anticipating my Bachelor Degree Climaxing the Associate. Initially, it was a mere wish abstract thought and band wagon dream. Fortunately the magic of manufacturing and transforming every iota of thought to reality is becoming real every day. I have learnt from experience that there is no substitute for aim or objective and the power within is a native of no race, continent or people. It is an equal opportunity available to all not assessable by all.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! All the statements are all pointer challenging any man of no state or status into a statesman!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Splendid, the book did contain several exercises that were mind arresting, body freezing, fear releasing and mental isolation or imprisonment of self. Thoughtful – The inner power to empower to become an emperor, or empire become the most challenging because this exercises query me to inquire how powerful or powerless this power is in my life and how much this power can help me achieve and accomplish.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Finally, as I am still in a state of silent guilt pondering the temporal causalities of the past for ignoring this power has equally sentence me for the permanent realities generated from the catalyst of this power. From now, from the verdict of the power within, I am here by declared a champion, Winner, king, conqueror, merchant and a hero. The sky is my starting point!
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Leader Who Had No Title
Assessment by James S. Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is painting From the book can be window or mirror via these: The leadership philosophy of the Leader Who Had No Title.
The unconventional theory of leadership where the leader is the follower or servant disrobed of his title yet functions well.
You don’t need a title to be leader you are a leader being a human being.
Leading without title and followers yet effective as a leader.
The paradox disorderly orderly fact of leadership where no one is blame or to gain after the game rather everyone is responsible for the spoils of if thing gets spoiled.
The minority strange concept of leadership contrary to our traditional norm yet with temporary application and permanent effect.
permanent effect The lay concept of leadership superior to that of the clergy man in effect. The illegal legal phenomenon of leadership, organization, Institution and structural hieratical wise. Finally, The democratization of leadership a transitional shift in the history of humanity. You don’t need a title to be a leader you are entitled to be a leader!
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The LWT Psychology of leadership which implies leadership with title
ii. The five rules acronyms teacher of; IMAGE; Innovation, Authenticity; Guts, Ethics.
iii. Turbulent Times Built Great Leaders using the five rules acronym teacher of SPARK
Speak with candor; Prioritize; Adversity Breeds Opportunity; Respond Versus React
Kudos for every one.
iv. The deeper your Relationships, the stronger Your leadership. The Five (5) rules acronym teacher of HUMAN. Human; Understanding; Mingle; Amuse; Nurture.
v. To be a great leader, first Become a Great person
The Acronym teacher of SHINE
Heath is wealth 1. Learning
Inspiration matters 2. Affirmation
Neglect your family 3. Visualization
Elevate your life style. 4. Journaling
5. Goal setting
6. Exercise
7. Nutrition
vi. Leadership and success are siblings that breath n us to produce our best.
vii. Mediocrity is inevitable when leadership not available or attainable and it is more costly to escape leadership that to surrender to the cost of true leadership.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Personally, my life is a kind of organization or institution that must be govern which requires no title for that leadership nomenclature. Secondly, I am a pastor of a church as one of the senior minister and asked to go full-time to confer the resident pastor title upon me of which I personal objected due to some personal reasons best known to myself and would continue my usual service, Therefore, failure on my part after three offers and options to serve full time ruled me out of key decisions and opinions even in organizing some programs. Not with standing, I do see myself as a leader serving but don’t require a resident pastor title to do what I am doing, Thanks a lot for this book that fuels my energy a ability to work or lead with out title.
Besides that, out culture has so much pace an exaggerated premium on title than task thus breeding more opposition from positions. The title of this book serves as a remedy cure and catalyst to cope with such tragic concept of leadership here. Finally, The seven keys points highlighted are not the only points beneficial or helpful to my life now, SEW, seriously exceptional work, The ten (10) human regrets, The 10 human victories, from the tablets at the grave early that morning. The four (4) Natural powers to emerge as a great self leader. S FONAB- The First, The Only, The most, The Best, The keep moving Forward and- KMF
Lastly from the third point concerning relationship and Leadership, I have recruited sound females in my relationship culture for belter understanding women to avoid the second failure in my marriage and a balance View about relationship:
Esther Williams; Gladys Williams; Dorine Cooper; Janet Dolo; Janet Cooper just to list a few!
The most common way people give out is to think they don’t have any Alice Walter. we like power because we fail to think well.
Money influence and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverance, orison sweet madden. The best and better of our lives actually manifest when we east give attention to those things, we other wise thought was mostly wanted! Like don’t seek money to get wealth but ideas and purpose.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her widest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”
Expectation is the true measures of success.
“The sight of a achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer other.”
Achievement is the ultimate proofs of success and commands respects from mediocre as well as the greatest identify of love in a daring and challenging world.
“Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how Every challenge to a leader is an invitation to present and put out his best at the moment at every and all cost.”
“The most common way people give out is to think they don’t have any.”
We like power because we fail to think well
“Money influence and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverance, orison sweet madden.”
The best and better of our lives actually manifest when we east give attention to those thing, we other wise thought was mostly wanted! Don’t seek money to get wealth but ideas and purpose.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
I do appreciate the book and really was touched by the unconventional aspect of leadership that has revolutionized my mind and reignited the hope of being a self true leader with out title. How ever, I don’t disagree rather I just want a further clarity on applying the leadership with out title in a strong traditional age long title leadership or, orientation in institution, The Police, the Military or Religious setting grounded on the opposite of this true philosophy. Just further clarity! For example, in Africa. Even in the family the title leadership grip is so strong, authoritative even abusively defensive. Please help me!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Surely! The book did contain series of spectacular exercises besides our usual regular oriented questions. Such as; the Instant action steps of being a victim by avoiding the leadership step in my family, finance, forward and freedom life, setting five leadership goals such as indentifying a true mentor in my environment, Identifying my personal mantra at age 40. Propagating the leadership without title philosophy in my culture and the exposure to several conversational mentors such as: Anna, Ty, Jackson and Jet. (ATJ2) finally, Building a strong solid relationship surpassing my quest and thirst for money…Follow more books on Robin Sharma
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7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing else I can think of.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Full Steam Ahead
Assessment by James S. Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea is the metaphor of a moving train with a burning steam ahead to that of a burning vision in the heart and head of a man going ahead or forward. The practical difference between a blurry or vision (on paper) and a burning (in a person). True vision perpetuates the life of an individual or entity and penetrates to generations. Every journey of success begins with the map of a burning vision. Vision is the engine of the mind that generates success and sign finance only when the elements of: Significant purpose, clear picture of the future and clear values. Is available true vision is the technical personal knowhow of where you are, where you are going and what will guide your journey. True vision is not the comparing hall mark of the success of others but the compelling inner drive for a worthy cause. The regular conversation of Jim and his co-workers in simplifying the dynamics and intricacies of a true vision.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven ideas I found most important were:
i. Vision a real beginning and a proper ending.
ii. The analysis dynamics and intricacies of a burning, boiling and compelling vision.
iii. The nomenclature crystal picture of a clear future.
iv. The inevitable reality of clear values and priorities
v. Creative tensions and references success
The developmental impetus stages in experiencing a burning vision with the aid of a preposition “From” – “To” beginning ending.The verb to have a vision and the stage “To Be” or become a vision
vi. The noun from vision to Realization and actualization.
vii. The vision triplets trinity of where you are, where you are going and what will guide you journey.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you create a better world? If so, how?
A real beginning to secure a proper ending. Personally, I have a SMART Vision that is small, measurable achievable reachable and timing in this statement vision 2017 -20121 to advance empower and develop myself in :
Family life
Ministry
Education
Finance.
How do I begin? This begins with where I am now as: a single person, lay minister, low profile of career development and less or low salary income. Importantly, every aspects of this vision is complementing and supplementary only with a sense of priority and preference.
Education becomes first here. What is my current level of education: less than a degree. What next? Enroll and begin the process. What do I seek to learn or pursue:
Associate Degree in School Administration
Bachelor Degree in Education
When to complete this first level of education by Gods help 2021.
Family – what kind of family do I envisage?
A spiritual standard with clear values for: Love – Respect, Self Esteem and Rewords.
A husband that reflects – (Love, leadership, mentorship, direction , examples support guidance (Vision for family)
A wife (Mother) that exhibits (respects, care, discipline, and service to the family and children.
Children (with a sense of direction of education, discipline, good morals early Christian parenting obedience and custodians of the legacy of the legacy from father and mother to perpetuate to the next generation. Like, every door post must portray a message:
Dad and Mom – Love and
Respect Children – Education, Discipline and obedience
Bath Rooms: Cleanness is Godliness.
The Kitchen – Don’t leave a recipe, leave a legacy.
Other Guiders: Family devotion; Family union; Family outing; Family program; Family values
Developing a western family in an African culture.
Personal Recent Experience: In bliss to observer the Easter season as a church. I was asked to addressed a topic on the commitment of our leaders during one of the session relating to the vision of the ministry. The theme was “Strategies to go forward as a team leadership during which I share vision I did a summary from the exercise in the book on the Game plan and steps to Create a shared vision. Honestly describing the current reality of weakness and lateness from leaders. The strategies of effective communication and personal involvement to forge ahead.
Secondly, I did the vision test scoring test and from the evaluation our team is forming with the actual score of 39-44. Finally, I pasted and posted the exact section from the book on our team group page chart and everyone saw it helpful and beneficial with the dual diagram of the content and process of during shared team vision.
Purpose is superior to support and drives priority. The words of a vision are important as the meaning of the vision in the lives of the people. A working vision in our lives does more good than a written vision hanging over our lives.
The power of a picture works more when you focus on what you want to create not what you want to get rid of. Every of our past or worst experience is a kind of picture and reduced to a mere image but our future expectations becomes clearer and real when create and count on the current rather than the occurrences. The end of a picture is louder and clearly reflected rather than the process to get the image. Pictures inspire, motivate, encourages.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Obviously, there are several statements like key facts the author make of which I will do by little best to list a quite few and their relevance to me.
“Program: The purpose is not a major vision to pause the rest but to rather keep the major business working. The options of beginning with: A scratch card” B. Cold water C. The sale of stationery materials on campus and working it out gradually weighing and sealing the capital intense.”
More besides, I am challenge to clarity my family and marriage vision to my wife to be from the game plan scheme to begin to get her involved even before our marriage data. I have written some statement of values, virtues and vision that I have a recently discuss with her but preparing a hard copy to hand her for her consent and contribution. To begin building a shared vision.
5. Are there anything in the book you don’t understand or unclear about? Are there ideas in the book you disagree with ad why?
This book is very clear because Jim and Ellie are practical about vision makes vision and leadership more practical than theoretical. Finally, I am personally using this exercise to appraise, evaluate and impact members of church leadership structure and even some of my colleague at school.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes! The book did contain initiative exercises besides the two major usual exercises of reading and responding to our traditional seven questions.
The Unusual Exercise: I am compelled to firstly create a vision about the content (purpose picture and values) and the process of how to create, how to communicate and how to live a vision. I have a vision to create “Personal Business” as a boost up for my bachelor and marriage.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Uncommon Leadership
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
Introduction: I write to firstly express my deepest gratitude and respect to the Leadership for the level of impact over these years prompting the birth of books and articles by product of this Institution. Equally so, being one of the cadets and emerging author of this noble Institution is pressed to express my view about the book Mindset Reset as well as Creating your Path through Leadership in a captioned article as I beg not to breach tradition but face the reality of creativity after reading such volume of books.
Firstly, I would like to express my personal view about the book Mindset Reset as a quick impact action that addresses the mentality crises of many in pursuit of life, destiny and excellence. I thank the author for such innovation. However, I have the conviction that if I were to contribute my view about the book would be the title: Research Mindset or Read Search Mind Set. This is due to the fact that every thing about the mind is set already urging us to assume responsibility to search and read to discover this settled phenomenon of our mind set out of curiosity, interest and discovery like what scientist do to rather discover ideas instead of manufacturing ideas. Second, our mind is set we just need the right information to settle with the right thought to improve our self worth, values and beliefs system. Finally I do admire the author for the amazing quotes and references all through out the book. I am proud of the book!
Importantly, from the testimony of the author and founder of creating your path through leadership, I am impressed to immediately respond following the series of testimonies from other leaders and students revealing the follower leadership syndrome. Thus Creating your Path Through Leadership is the discovery of an age long dilemma that has plagued our planet via the paradox of leadership from the orthodox concept yielding the result when the solution to be becomes the problem we have! The problem is the solution! The reality of this orthodox concept of leadership has left a trade mark of hardship, difficulties, famine, regrets, sorrow, violence, conflicts and continuous crises I am a victim of such now in many developing nations with Africa at the peak with such leadership chaos. However, the path of effective leadership is not established, gifted, burrowed or exclusively preserved for a reserved few or racial supremacy, continental advantages, socioeconomic values above all such that leadership is headship and power greed rather a personal self given task to effectively lead one self that speaks volume than words, power, title fame or position that will in other words and attract followers to naturally be magnetic to the leader to follow suit based on impact,: productivity, solution oriented and success driven positively.
I decided to focus on the Leadership article: Uncommon Leadership. The title Uncommon Leadership is a title that borrows its concept from one of the greatest leader that ever emerged in the history of humanity and that leader is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. His view of leadership was so foreign and opposite to leadership within our cultural context when he made this statement from Matthew 23:11: But He That is theGreatest Among You Shall Be Your Servant. Therefore, what is Uncommon Leadership? Uncommon Leadership is the Servant Oriented Leadership that master driven leadership! This concept of leadership is foreign to our traditional and orthodox concept of the leader being served and given the first preference. What a paradox!
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal example from your own life.
How do I become an Uncommon Leader? The following are helpful hints to become an uncommon leader:
i. Be a common servant any where, any how and anytime.
ii. Seek the interests of others rather than your selfish interest.
iii. Be humble and dedicated to the service of uncommon leadership humanity.
iv. Love people and have a positive mentality for all.
v. Follow the ten commandments of uncommon leadership
Lead to serve not to be served.
Lead your self first and others will follow you later.
Lead by examples not by exemption.
Lead beyond title, position, power, authority and words.
Lead by more works than mere words.
Lead to defy the odds, decide the even and deliver the good.
Lead with opposite mentality than opposition mentality.
Lead with humility to serve humanity.9
Lead to serve beyond the grave.
Lead with legacy beyond your leadership.
vi. five common signs of uncommon leadership
The sign of sensitivity to the realities of other needs and wants.
The sign of being reciprocal in approach to conflicts managements and resolution.
The sign of balanced leadership and friendship with out prejudice, compromise and familiarity.
The sign of being offense free to unreasonable and weaknesses flaws of others.
The sign of personal and self sacrifice to satisfy others.
vii. The five stages of un common leadership
Stage 1: The stage of servant hood and followership.
Stage 2: The stage of humility.
Stage 3: The stage of priority, timing and purpose.
Stage 4: The stage of rapture or departure.
Stage 5: The stage of legacy.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you create a better world? If so, how?
Uncommon leadership is the leadership beyond the big five: title, position, power, and authority and words. Traditionally, the cream de la cream or the glory of leadership is locked up in these five gems. Most leaders from the political, social and even religious concept all have these common characteristics to first secure, protect and give premium consciousness to these five gems. Majority of leaders feel insecure and relegated when the big five is not reflecting in their leadership style and in fact have a strong sense of commitment to the big five and the service consciousness is lost hidden or buried in the leadership style of this leader. There is an urgent emergency call to redress this big five erroneous concept of leadership. Finally, for this big five gems of leadership, the leader becomes the point of focus and center of attraction, best of the rest, latest of all and the central force to reckon with in term of opposition, oppression, rebellion and sharp contention when reverence is not given or recognize in the so called big five. The greatest challenge to such so-called leaders is to protect the big five psychology to the extent that the leader either finds it difficult to accept power or relinquish power to successor or leader ship transition. The reality is evident and clear that leadership with the vision to protect the big five gem is not free from manipulation, intimidation, oppression and abuse but rather risk protest, rebellion and uprising from the subjects or citizens. Finally, Uncommon Leadership is the leadership that is not common in identity but common in reality of service where the case is reversed instead the reversed being the case. The leader is more likely a servant, steward, slave, and followership highly exhibited in his leadership.
Thus Uncommon Leadership is a leadership contradicting and controversial to the usual norm of power, title, position, words and authority, but rather rides on tasks not title, people not power, authenticity not authority, post to serve on instead a position to sit on.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“True Greatness is not in being served but to be a servant!”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Nothing I didn’t understand.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
There weren’t any exercises.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing else to comment on.
Please rate following questions on a scale of 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to portray in the book is the multi dimensional thought beyond the senses, out of mind order of ideas, out the memory kind of reasoning. Secondly, he also drives the judicial, radical, comprehensive, winning case as well as the win legal court room mentality. Thirdly, it is creative thought beyond normal thinking, rational thinking that supersedes emotional thinking, individual that that excels cooperate or group thinking thus imposing logical, tactical technical thinking etc…..
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven key points the author seeks to highlight in the book includes:
i. The Truth, the Whole Truth and nothing but the Whole Truth.
The truth includes: Eye witnesses, true premises and appeal to authority and strong support.
ii. Scientific and casual Reasoning.
Scientific and casual reasoning has to with who is guilty as well as distinguishing causation from correlation as well as the method of science, randomized and prospective studies and making predictions.
iii. The Burden of proof.
The burden of proof has to do with the stress, burden fatigue and challenge to arrive at a conclusion for every argument, appealing and un appealing ignorance, guilt not proven and when she defendant does not testify the right to remain silence.
iv. The A Homien argument and The Straw man fallacy.
v. Symbolic Sentential logic.
vi .Slippery, slope, Dilemma and Golden mean argument.
vii. Analytical Argument and Relevant and Irrelevant reasoning.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Due to the critical reasoning and understanding gleaned room this book thus far, explanation to this question will be contemporary to each point as read and comprehensive summary of all points that has to do with personal application. Personally, I was summoned to the judicial court of yearly session of the year 2020 and was allegedly carded of breaking into the year 2020 illegally instead entering into the year legally. Therefore, in defense to this charge that requires critical thinking as well as declare my innocence to be set free of this alleged charge is to provide concrete critical twenty reasons why I did enter 2020 or else will be guilty and sentenced to a year of imprisonment. Not later I hire a critical thinker to help me out of this ordeal. Fortunately, my critical thicker has just completed reading a book tootled Critical Thinking: Considering the Verdict. A voluminous book compared to that of a library in content and anthology in size. Judicially, my hire critical thinker provided the following reasons:1.I was allegedly charged of breaking into the year 2020, notwithstanding, the year 2020 is more than a year rather the birth of a decade therefore, I did enter into a decade from 2020- 2030 instead of just 2020 I am just passing through
2020 is not my destination but the beginning if a ten year plan for me.2.Secondly, my age last September was exactly 20+20 this year making me a possible celebrant of this year being born on the 22 day of September 1979.All things being equal ,I have legal or illegal access to this year no matter how and will be given all rights and privileges this year 2020 has to offer.3.I have already started a decade academic program that was the foundation.
4. Quotes: Are there any statement which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
Obviously, there were many statements made by the author that were mind arresting. However, most statements were in the form of a topic or chapter that requires further or detailed explanation.
“The Greek philosopher in the 4th century BCE that we should focus on the Main that is the central point or core idea or focus of any argument or logic.”
Personally, this statement implies that I must have a priority I all that I do and begin prioritizing my priority in the midst of the many activities that I will be involved into as well as I should focus on the one thing that will mean every thing instead the everything that will mean nothing.
“In everything we do there will always be the mean or the extreme, hence we should conscious of the mean an avoid the extreme. The main or mean is it that matters in every Endeavour we undertake, embark or pursue in the course of life.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! Although the book has a voluminous comprehensive nature, with continuous reading the visibility of the ideas will surface from time to time as well as clearer to clarity.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course, Multi-dimensional exercises and extensive as well. However, I will share a gist or an iota of Exercise One. This was my personal output or response as a drill as I followed the exercises. Here are the questions from Exercise One: What are the evidences to proof my client guilty? Can a drunken man actually remember anything consciously as well as guilt? What was the actual time work is off? At what time did the incidence occur and how? Are there any audios, videos, photos or recording to episode? Are there eye witnesses to the account? Here are some additional Exercise Questions: What is the law of the state concerning travelling with gun as well as the purpose of travelling with silent weapon? Why travel with gun when there are police to track criminal and handle crime? What is the nature of the offence that the only alternative was shooting to kill instead to wound or injure? What are the evidences of videos or photos to show from the scene. Are there eye witnesses to the account? However, other exercises were part of my assignment during reading this book that are not recorded in this document. One thing that was certain in the book was that every topic or chapter had an antecedent exercise to match with vivid examples and explanation for the reader to follow as well as if all the exercises were document it would have exceeded the
actual content of the paragraph and thwart the summary of the entry work.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
Nothing Else.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
How Successful People Think
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author is trying to portray in the book is simply expressed as: Successful Positive Thinking 101 which can be further detailed as: 1.To think big is a big thing.2.why unsuccessful people don’t think.3.It is more difficult to think than to act.4.The thin line between successful and un successful people is not in the mammoth sum of money accumulated but the summary of thought lock up in the mind as a seed thought to germinate and bring forth those ideas into manufactured realities.5.Positive thinking is a multidimensional dynamics of engaging the gear of the mind at various waves length and frequencies at a given time in a given situation.6.Ideas are expensive and the raw material of every invention and revolution in the history of mankind. Thus, more value must be attached to our ideas similar to our personality, purpose, pursuit and pleasure.7.Nothing changes until the mind change which implies that the greatest change in any pursuit or endeavor lies within dormant and reserved awaiting to be un leashed to its fullest potential. Finally, thinking is personal ,yet never private, individualistic in nature and yet never selfish, original and yet out dated, inspiring as well as perspiring, easy in the thought yet tough to express as a reality. The beauty of our world lies within the minds of men as well as the sorrow and trouble of our world lies within the mind of man which is a matter of probability, possibility and choice.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List the seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven main points author Maxwell seeks to share from my personal point of view includes:
i. The eleven 11 multidimensional depth of thinking exercise.
Such as: Big picture, focused, created, realistic, strategic, possibility, reflective, popular, shared, unselfish and the bottom line depth of thinking.
ii. Changed positive thinking for success
It is a work not a gift and not automatic.
iii. Positive changed thinking is difficult as well as a good choice.
iv. Changed positive thinking requires and worth an investment and begins with placing a premier priority on our thought.
v. Always create the right conducive environment to think, shape and share your thought.
vi. Expose yourself to good inputs and positive thinkers remembering to always act on your good thoughts.
vii. Repeat the process of good thought through our emotions and creativity.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Gleaned from the first point of the multidimensional sphere of thinking, I am here by excited to share a recent experience that advertised the creative, big picture and popular thinking. Just recently, precisely the transient day of the year 2019 and 2020 Tuesday Dec 31, 2019. It was an unique occasion when I went to renew my acquaintance with a friend of mine for a long time since our high school graduation following two decades ago. Surprisingly, I was shocked by his chronicles of frustrations after all these years of passionate drive into one of the leading political party and was finally caught up in the web of political uncertainties and unrest not knowing what next to do with his life. After listening patiently to his plight for relief and needed an emergency rescue asked him; how would you evaluate and grade yourself after all these years of political experiences? As success or failure? Finally, he reluctantly accepted that his taste was not far from failing or failure. Not later, he also asked me personally as a bosom friend and brother how can I help in the reform of his life since politics have been the cornerstone and corridor for sudden success in Liberia while his was far from such reality and consequently the reversed. I later responded to him via a question if he can actually picture or see himself succeeding out of the political thought box! He thought for a while and said sadly yes! It was an adventure of questions that what can you start doing now? He was a driver and was thinking of a provision shop but had no idea about the capital to start and I told him to start with driving a commercial vehicle first. Although his political ambition left him with shame, yet he had fame and we contacted a familiar friend from the same political stream that entrusted him with a taxi that radically change the course of his life.
Just 21 days, he was able to secure spot and shop and gradually ordering goods for the shop while continuing his transport business. Finally as an act of appreciation for such visit that sparked a new dawn was his financial contribution of 50% of my graduation fees. Indeed, unselfish, big picture and unpopular thinking was manifested! Secondly, I am personally grateful for such a book most the turbulent times of metamorphosis of challenges .Subsequent to my first graduation that left me with little or nothing, there was a sudden un reasonable increment in the rent monthly that I personally could not cope with and was given a quick notice for the next tenant that left me with no option but a strategic place to continue my work and school as usual but against popular thinking of convenience where I am presently lodging in the dining room of a concern neighbor to at least help me better prepare and adjust.
My private comfort is arrested by this situation, my personal belongings is parked somewhere else and I am just free to think more then to sleep more. Thus this book came as a consolation to my current realities and certain that I am not a failure that the situation or condition now is just temporary but my goals are permanent. The most important and interesting part of the ordeal is the head way and achievement that is comforting me and building my courage like the 28 of march 2020 will be my next graduation with a diploma in public speaking. What a great book at such a time! Thus reflective, possibility and creative thinking is safety and guarantee for success!
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“There are no rules around we are all trying to accomplish something by Thomas Edison and thus implies that, there is no sanction, embargo or limit to our thinking or thought except the individual thinking.”
“We cannot hold a torch to light another path without brightening our path.”
Unselfish thinking is equally beneficial and helpful.
“None of us is as smart as all of us; shared and cooperate thinking is superior to personal thinking as well as thinking is also a team work.
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done. Possibility thinking is a reality once a nursery thought in the mentality.
“Most people spend time planning their summer vocation than planning their lives. Life is more about embracing the pressure of achievement the temporal pleasure of non- achievement.”
Besides these amazing quotes, here are other quotes I did find interesting at the end of the book, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”
“Realistic thinking is a lifelong process of an everyday exercise. Everything begins with a thought thus creativity and imagination is totally inevitable in the entire success marathon concept. It is contrary wise that we find more people talking the impossible all day instead of taking an hour to think the possibility.”
“What we think determines who we are and who we are determines what we do which implies that the action of man is the best reflection or mirror to surface or reveal his thought.”
“Our thought determines our destiny that ultimately decides our legacy. Our thought controls, remote pilot and compass our movement and achievements.
“People who go to the top think differently from other, thus a thought from mediocre result to mediocrity while a thought from a superior mind set results to excellence and supremacy.”
“It is always possible to change the way we think.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Consciously no.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Obviously Yes! The exercise of engaging the 11 dimensional depth of thinking since I received this book which continues…
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Five Second Rule
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to portray in the book can be further highlighted in the following points:
The risky courage to change your life in a Five Second choice and chance.
The dying confidence to deliver ones dream from the slumber of procrastination intimidation and frustration.
Obeying the silent voice of the instinct for a constant radical change.
The pathway of working more than your work, awakening before dawn, time or the alarm and being ahead of the time status quo.
The miracle reality of the fact that, a change, a way-out or greatness is not on how much time is allotted to one but how well we can maximize the time. Thus a 5 five second rule of decision that worth more than five decades of progress and growth.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The Five Second Rule counts down rule from five (5) to one (1) that make one’s life to count and not be cast or cut down.
ii. The 5 second rule of lesser time decision for a lasting result:
The five parts of the five second rule which includes:
Time 5 second.
Courage Power.
The impact of courageous behavior.
The courageous mind.
iii. The discovery of the 5 second rule and why it works.
Courage is a daily phenomenon and psychology of life thus the courage of yesterday may not be sufficient to handle the challenges of today.
iv. How to become a productive person.
v. The antidote of stress, worry, anxiety fear and depression.
vi. The secret of a most fulfilled life.
vii. The power of you.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you create a better world? If so, how?
Use personal explanation from your own life. After a quiet start of the year 2020 like a moment of silence observed as a courtesy of respect after the departure or demise of a clergy in a service consolidated with the economic quagmire as well as the insipid of political atmosphere crowned by the acute scarcity of essential commodities such as gasoline that affected every other thing in the country, I can now breathe an air of relief and sight a green light of hope as well as a jealous future much desired through the pages and content of these books most especially the recent Five Second Rule of which can now piece together the reality of immediate, ultimate, instant change downloaded emotionally and courageously. Consequently, I am still left with the feelings of remorse and guilt of previous years when such opportunity of these books was far from the shore of my consciousness and imagination picturing the ,ones that have been squandered in the bait of fear, procrastination, ignorance and delay thus promoting doubt and uncertainty. Not with standing, the time is right to do right. Besides, anything this book post the most pressing challenge to me for the fact that I am practically query for the Five Second Rule in every hour to determine the rest of the 55 minutes 5 seconds of a decision that will effect and erect a change in my life. Importantly, here are few quick benefits with instant result from this awesome time oriented book such as:
Developing courage on a routine basis daily in pursuit of my endeavors.
Eliminating fear, anxiety, worry, depression and stress as well as combating and overcoming fear.
A feeling of fulfillment despite temporal failures and challenges.
Building real self lasting confidence.
Pursuing my passion with a diehard passion.
Cultivating an enriched relationship. Thus this Five Second Rule has had an impactful emotional effect upon my life that instead of being stress with current challenges, I am equally stretch to think at the maximum peak to overturn the situation immediately.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell is admonishing us that fear is usually a positive signal of treasure and progress in life, however the reverse of this quote is the experience of many where fear is a stumbling block instead a stepping stone to our progress and success.”
All our dreams can come if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney. No Dream was actually destine to just go down the drain any how being far from the shore of fulfillment and reality but equally come true to fruition just as we had them without any effort. Notwithstanding, no dream is fulfilled on the bed but rather out of the bed, therefore we must pursue continuously effortlessly and tirelessly to subscribe to its reality. Thus dreams are not for the idle but an admission of responsibility that one has something to do.
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. A.A. Miline. This quote reveals that pressure and challenges are the true measure of the limit of our potential as well as in most cases the catalyst for progress and decision.”
From personal experience, I have done many things out of courage due to the inevitable option available and made hard decisions that I did not know such courage bravery and strength was already resident in me to take such step like where I am presently lodging was my lest expectation and decide but just with time I am moving on with life normally.
“There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you. Sure! There will always be these two groups of the majority minority and the minority majority on the two sides of the equation of our decisions and conception of life and is expose to the available option per time. The invincible personality with in us is the best judge with the final verdict on any issues of our life while those without are mere eye witnesses.”
We must know that when we are pointing a finger at someone for the outcome of our life four fingers are equally pointing to our very selves. Finally, lets always see the good in every case when it comes to our lives
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words listen RUME. There is a voice that we feel that appeals more to our senses and instinct for action that is not loud or audible but yet generate greater command respect and authority that we must obey promptly as well as developed a high level of consciousness about to maximize the five second rule.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain series of exercises as usual yet such exercises are instant, immediate, urgent and continuous. Here are two quick illustrations recently that authenticate the effect of this book in my life. Firstly, my son was angrily relocated by his mother from his uncle residence due to some misunderstanding without my approval and consent that eventually thwarted his academic process. After pondering over the issue to locate them and ensure his wellbeing and academic re admission seem fragile since the mother did not give any contact or address for the relocation of which I had little or no knowledge about. Out of interest and curiosity to trace their where about, I stumble on one of her relative not too close who give me a broad location of a place and the later trace and track the details for myself. Vigorously, it was a bright and early Friday morning the 13 of March when the sun came out in her full glory that ignited the switch of the five second rule and took off for the knowingly unknown journey and landed at the battery factory junction. I jumped down from the bus and started the strange walk in that part of the town only to surprisingly stumble on the mother unaware thus making my journey successful and impactful. All score was settled and the young man has resumed his education. Thus, this practical exercise is much inspiring. Secondly, I was to made a short visit to a friend involved in a tragic bike accident and Saturday the 14 of March was the appropriate day for the visit yet postpone the visit was my best option only to be lashed again by the five second rule and the visit was possible. Unfortunately, just the very Monday the 16, march I intended to post pone the visit, Liberia registered her first COVID Case as the latest talk of the time halting every activities in the city and all visitations was suspended for a period of time except intense emergency cases. Thus the Five Second Rule Exercise is working and loading.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comment.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Five Second Rule
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to portray in the book can be further highlighted in the following points:
The risky courage to change your life in a Five Second choice and chance.
The dying confidence to deliver ones dream from the slumber of procrastination intimidation and frustration.
Obeying the silent voice of the instinct for a constant radical change.
The pathway of working more than your work, awakening before dawn, time or the alarm and being ahead of the time status quo.
The miracle reality of the fact that, a change, a way-out or greatness is not on how much time is allotted to one but how well we can maximize the time. Thus a 5 five second rule of decision that worth more than five decades of progress and growth.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The Five Second Rule counts down rule from five (5) to one (1) that make one’s life to count and not be cast or cut down.
ii. The 5 second rule of lesser time decision for a lasting result:
The five parts of the five second rule which includes:
Time 5 second.
Courage Power.
The impact of courageous behavior.
The courageous mind.
iii. The discovery of the 5 second rule and why it works.
Courage is a daily phenomenon and psychology of life thus the courage of yesterday may not be sufficient to handle the challenges of today.
iv. How to become a productive person.
v. The antidote of stress, worry, anxiety fear and depression.
vi. The secret of a most fulfilled life.
vii. The power of you.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you create a better world? If so, how?
Use personal explanation from your own life. After a quiet start of the year 2020 like a moment of silence observed as a courtesy of respect after the departure or demise of a clergy in a service consolidated with the economic quagmire as well as the insipid of political atmosphere crowned by the acute scarcity of essential commodities such as gasoline that affected every other thing in the country, I can now breathe an air of relief and sight a green light of hope as well as a jealous future much desired through the pages and content of these books most especially the recent Five Second Rule of which can now piece together the reality of immediate, ultimate, instant change downloaded emotionally and courageously. Consequently, I am still left with the feelings of remorse and guilt of previous years when such opportunity of these books was far from the shore of my consciousness and imagination picturing the ,ones that have been squandered in the bait of fear, procrastination, ignorance and delay thus promoting doubt and uncertainty. Not with standing, the time is right to do right. Besides, anything this book post the most pressing challenge to me for the fact that I am practically query for the Five Second Rule in every hour to determine the rest of the 55 minutes 5 seconds of a decision that will effect and erect a change in my life. Importantly, here are few quick benefits with instant result from this awesome time oriented book such as:
Developing courage on a routine basis daily in pursuit of my endeavors.
Eliminating fear, anxiety, worry, depression and stress as well as combating and overcoming fear.
A feeling of fulfillment despite temporal failures and challenges.
Building real self lasting confidence.
Pursuing my passion with a diehard passion.
Cultivating an enriched relationship. Thus this Five Second Rule has had an impactful emotional effect upon my life that instead of being stress with current challenges, I am equally stretch to think at the maximum peak to overturn the situation immediately.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell is admonishing us that fear is usually a positive signal of treasure and progress in life, however the reverse of this quote is the experience of many where fear is a stumbling block instead a stepping stone to our progress and success.”
All our dreams can come if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney. No Dream was actually destine to just go down the drain any how being far from the shore of fulfillment and reality but equally come true to fruition just as we had them without any effort. Notwithstanding, no dream is fulfilled on the bed but rather out of the bed, therefore we must pursue continuously effortlessly and tirelessly to subscribe to its reality. Thus dreams are not for the idle but an admission of responsibility that one has something to do.
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. A.A. Miline. This quote reveals that pressure and challenges are the true measure of the limit of our potential as well as in most cases the catalyst for progress and decision.”
From personal experience, I have done many things out of courage due to the inevitable option available and made hard decisions that I did not know such courage bravery and strength was already resident in me to take such step like where I am presently lodging was my lest expectation and decide but just with time I am moving on with life normally.
“There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you. Sure! There will always be these two groups of the majority minority and the minority majority on the two sides of the equation of our decisions and conception of life and is expose to the available option per time. The invincible personality with in us is the best judge with the final verdict on any issues of our life while those without are mere eye witnesses.”
We must know that when we are pointing a finger at someone for the outcome of our life four fingers are equally pointing to our very selves. Finally, lets always see the good in every case when it comes to our lives
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words listen RUME. There is a voice that we feel that appeals more to our senses and instinct for action that is not loud or audible but yet generate greater command respect and authority that we must obey promptly as well as developed a high level of consciousness about to maximize the five second rule.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain series of exercises as usual yet such exercises are instant, immediate, urgent and continuous. Here are two quick illustrations recently that authenticate the effect of this book in my life. Firstly, my son was angrily relocated by his mother from his uncle residence due to some misunderstanding without my approval and consent that eventually thwarted his academic process. After pondering over the issue to locate them and ensure his wellbeing and academic re admission seem fragile since the mother did not give any contact or address for the relocation of which I had little or no knowledge about. Out of interest and curiosity to trace their where about, I stumble on one of her relative not too close who give me a broad location of a place and the later trace and track the details for myself. Vigorously, it was a bright and early Friday morning the 13 of March when the sun came out in her full glory that ignited the switch of the five second rule and took off for the knowingly unknown journey and landed at the battery factory junction. I jumped down from the bus and started the strange walk in that part of the town only to surprisingly stumble on the mother unaware thus making my journey successful and impactful. All score was settled and the young man has resumed his education. Thus, this practical exercise is much inspiring. Secondly, I was to made a short visit to a friend involved in a tragic bike accident and Saturday the 14 of March was the appropriate day for the visit yet postpone the visit was my best option only to be lashed again by the five second rule and the visit was possible. Unfortunately, just the very Monday the 16, march I intended to post pone the visit, Liberia registered her first COVID Case as the latest talk of the time halting every activities in the city and all visitations was suspended for a period of time except intense emergency cases. Thus the Five Second Rule Exercise is working and loading.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No further comment.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Questions Great Leaders Ask
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The core idea author Maxwell seeks to portray in the book is, Questions are indispensable of great leadership! This startling statement can be further detailed as such: The relevance of questions in making and molding a leader. Questions deliver leaders from personal limitations and ignorance through answers. Questions unleash and expose potential in great leaders that otherwise would have been dormant and buried. Questions are proactive mentors in the lives of great leaders thus connecting him with other great leaders .Questions create the corridor for cultivating the culture of humility in the lives of great leaders. Questions open opportunities for conversation with followers and team mates. Finally, a question innovates and initiates great and new ideas for great leaders as well as eradicates doubts and renews mind sets as no leader can know everything, be an expert in everything or do everything but rather asking and acting as a team player despite title, position or authority
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The inevitable roles questions play in the molding and making of great leaders as well as the questions they ask themselves, followers and team mates.
ii. How to successfully lead oneself as well as understanding how leadership works.
iii. Creating the careful initial step into the endless journey of leadership.
iv. How to resolve conflict and lead challenging people, followers and other leaders.
v. The secret success psychology of working under poor leadership.
vi. How to successfully navigate leadership transition.
vii. How to develop and deploy discipline leaders.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Importantly, the answer to this will have a paradigm shift only after the
Seven points with understanding Gleaned from the book while personal experience will be locked up in the questions I have to ask relating to my experience from reading this book.1he necessity of questions. Questions are crucial to good and great leadership because questions bargain for knowledge and exposes desire for growth by helping us understand the perspectives of others, desire success, add values to others thoughts, free of stress and threats of the strength of others emotionally handling quick changes, In conversation, appreciating the place value of others, bringing out the best thought of others thus possessing the We attitude rather than the Me attitude. Here are few important questions great leaders ask themselves: Am I Investing in myself? Personal GROWTH which has to do with self-image, dream, friends and values. Am I interested in others? Motivation. Can we help others? Competence. Do we care for others? Compassion. Can they trust me? Characters. Am I grounded as a leader? Stability which implies: humility, authenticity, calling having a purpose bigger than you. Am I adding value to my team? Team work to promote full commitment, environment and encouragement. More besides, identify adversity as opportunity to develop character considering each person strength and weakness. Am I staying in my strength zone? Effectiveness. Am I taking care of today: Faith, family, relationship, mission health, ROI Return on Investment? Am I investing my time with the right people? Which highlights several factors such as:Influences,capacity,attitude,chemistry,passion,character,values,teamwork,support,creativity, and the to 10% factor. Finally, some questions to ask team such as: What do you think? How can I serve you? What do I need to communicate? Did we exceed expectations? What did you learn?, How do we maximize this experience? What do I need to know? Did we add value? 2. How to successfully lead one self and understand how leadership works. This second points highlights the challenging ills to leading oneself first which includes: Having a singular perspective, Insecurity, An out of control ego, weak character and being aware of one blind spot and overcoming it. Secondly, the power of sustainability that controls: passion, principles, practices, right attitude, important priorities, healthy guidelines, care for family via communication, good thinking, proper commitments manage finances, faith, acceptance and showing responsibility, investments into solid relationship, generosity, good values ,experience and improvements. Thirdly, the focus of people generally categorized as: Believers, Achievers, Conceivers and Relievers. Finally, for leadership to work, one must be conscious of: Environment-Incarnation of leadership, Exposure; Inspiration for leadership, Equipping-Intention for leadership, Influence, Responsibility, Decisions- courageous, priority, change, creativity, Define reality, Remind them of the big picture, Help them develop a plan, Help them make good choice Value and promote team work, yet these levels of age range and preparation must equally be considered: At age 20- Alignment, Age 30; Adjustment, Age 40; Advancement, At age 50; Assessment, At age 60- Ascendance.3.The careful initial step into the endless journey of leadership. This one cardinal point remains clear to beginning anything besides leadership that hard thinking and hard work cannot be escaped or ignore. Therefore, the first step to leadership involves: Hard thinking, Hardwork, Demonstrate excellence, Follow through, Care about the people you lead, Make things right and tell the truth. Finally, here is the How to Go about the Initial Pathway to Leadership: 1.Pay attention to the need you see.2.Use your natural ability to help others.3.Make the most of your passion by developing your influence.4.Strengthen Relationship.5.Earn people Reapect.6.Position team members’ properly.6.Create clear expectations and 7. Determine people Capacity.4How to resolve conflicts and lead challenging people, follower or leader. Conflict resolution is crucial to leadership as the following points give clues to resolve conflicts such as: Meet privately aside to discuss behavior. Ask for their side of the story. Try to come to a place of agreement. Set out a future course of action with dead line and validate the value of the person and express your commitment to help.5.The secret success psychology of working under poor leadership. Although under normality it is even difficult to attain the bench mark under good leadership, yet this book provides solution to even striving for success even under difficult or poor leadership such as: Consider whether you might actually be the problem. Determine whether you have specific evidence to support your opinion. Assess your influence and credibility with your leader. Think through A very possible outcome. Make a decision to act. Ask to speak with leader privately. Determine whether it is time to stay or move on, and if you decide you can stay give your best and publicly support your leader.6.Navigating leadership transition successfully. For a leader to transition successfully, the following points must be taken into considerations: Consider your possibilities. Weigh the risks and the rewards. Receive affirmation from your inner circle and take action to move forward.7.How to develop and deploy discipline leaders. The legacy of a leader is paramount to his success which can be done through the following processes: Find evidence that they want to grow. Identify their strength. Increase their confidence. Give them a place to practice. Coach them improvement. Keep increasing their responsibilities. Show them a vision for their better future and treat them on not who they are but what they would become. Personal Experience on Questions:
1.What is the balance between personal leadership and professional leadership?2.Can a leader be successful in his personal life and fail in his professional life vice- versal?3.How can a good leader navigate through the path of failure to the shore of success in his leadership journey?4.who is the most successful leader of the 21st century?5.What are the signs and signal of failure and progress in the lives of good or great leaders?6.What happens when lectures from our leadership classes are inferior to the realities of our leadership crises?7.What hope to cope when the crises uprising are of higher standards compare to that of our leadership standards?8.What can a leader do when he or she is loved and cherished by every one yet not value on the plat form of familiarity breeds contempt?9.How can a good leaders distinguish followers that will change from followers that will not change?10.Where can we discover or detect the management or leadership gap in the life of a good leader?11.Do success and failure have different impact on different leaders as they occur to them?12.Can a great leader be actually void or free of errors?
4. Quotes: Are there statements or quotes the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
“The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.”
Questions are solution in disguise.
“The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
A major stimulation to creative thinking is focused questions.
“Any leaders who asks the right question to the right people has the situations to discover and develop great ideas.”
“Quality questions create a quality life.”
Successful people ask better questions and as a result they have better answers.
“Good questions informs great questions transform. They all imply that questions are coaches for great leaders.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
The book did contain several exercises such as reading, analyzing and deep creative thinking to ask probing questions and find solutions as I have done in question
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1–10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Governor: The Most Important Person on the Earth/The Holy Spirit
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
While it is true that I highly appreciated this book personally during such an unprecedented death toll of one of the most tragic recent pandemic in our world amidst our sophisticated improved advanced expert and expertise that has failed to provide an immediate rapid remedy to the COVID-19; hasn’t just intensify my curiosity of this crises manager Governor leader who is expert in managing crises and pro active in his approach in handling crises yet, my assessment will be of pure leadership analysis as well as appeal that my assessment will not be too religious or spiritual as the content and the nature of the book reveals.
The main idea Dr. Monroe is portraying in the book is Leadership incarnates which is further detailed in the following points: First, Divine Leadership: Leadership transcends beyond the natural sphere. Second, Divine Leadership is Supreme and superior to human leadership on the basis of the Supernatural is superior to the Natural. Third, Dynamic Leadership is delegated thus, any thing contrary subjugate leadership to be relegated. Fourth, Despite the countless change of governments in our Democratic world, until there is a change in Governance at times; the crises and dilemma of leadership continues. Fifth, the essentials of leadership is inevitable of the gems of Accountability, Responsibility and dependability. Sixth, Character and Charisma are Catalysts for True Leadership. Seventh, Leadership requires both natural and supernatural abilities for success and finally, the highest authority of leadership ability. An Influence orbit in the supernatural realm not the natural. On a planet plague with the germ of democratic leadership it is obviously a play trying to introduce the leadership of a monarch or Monarchy. The equilibrium of the visible and the invisible of leadership crises will be an ever increasing threat to leadership. The rest of my assessment will be sewed and piece together from these introductory analyses of my personal assessment on pure and real leadership rather than Kingdom or religious leadership.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The power of influence and the academic administration.
ii. The declaration of independence and the promise of restoring the governor.
iii. The rebirth of a kingdom and the king love for his citizens.
iv. Restoring and re instating the governor as well as the result of the reconnection.
v. Understanding the nature and culture of the governor.
vi. Understanding the administration of the governor.
vii. Understanding why the whole world needs the governor.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help me in a practical way, both in my daily personal life and in helping me create a better world? If so, how?
The power of influence and the Academic administration clearly spells out that since the foundation of the world. Influence is the sure, clear and true measure of leadership any where any time and any how; which equally implies that effective leadership is not awarded, appointed or actually assigned but revealed through influence. Besides, the Academic administration was the pioneer and parent administration on the earth that reveals the Creator King primary purpose of creating man on the earth which is leadership, yet notwithstanding this leadership was not free from independence only gains independence, with a free will yet not free at will, having authority yet subjected to higher authority and power, having power yet limited by sphere of influence of such power that led to worst unforgettable treason ever committed in the history of the corridor of leadership the entire world is yet to recover from. Any leadership with freedom of choice must not misunderstand or misinterpret that freedom as freedom of environment where the choice is exercise for every leadership system is at the mercy of: principles ,purpose, priority potential and not just the exercise of power alone.
The declaration of independence and the promise of restoring the Governor. This second point reveals that there is more and high possibility of failing or falling short of leadership responsibility most especially on the basis of management due to the temptation of independence without prudence. Thus, the management of authority in leaderships is as vital as leading people. The reality of this truth reveals first one position under authority which simply means that one must know the purpose of the authority place in him/her essential for success. Secondly, the resources to be managed because nothing is more terrible than a leader who doesn’t understand what he or she possesses. Here are the six elements crucial to leadership management:
1.The authority.
2.Tthe purpose o the authority.
3.The resources to be managed.
4.The value of the resources.
5.The responsibility that comes with the assignment and 6.the standard of expectation.
The Rebirth of a kingdom and the Creator King love for his citizens. The responsibility of leaders and leadership remain the same every where, the welfare of subjects and followers. However, though this is pointing at the reality of a spiritual kingdom this does not differ from the reality of leadership in the natural. The initial birth of the kingdom was destroyed under the leadership of the distracted leader leaving humanity vulnerable to the mercy of the crator king restoring the lost kingdom and leadership of mankind. Leadership always demands and assumes responsibility for cool time as well as crisis time……
Restoring and reinstating the Governor and the ultimate impact of the reconnecton. This Divine Governor being the third personality of the God-head or the trinity actually reveals the irreplaceable virtue of love in leadership from the creator to his citizen settling every score to return to the original plan, purpose and pursuit of leadership from the beginning love increases the values of a leader and increases his influence and followers. Finally, the personality of the Governor is the greatest reality of an individual as well as the source of all potential and empowerment for effective leadership. Thus, connecting to the Governor implies the following: 1.1Being subjected to a more superior leader.2.Empower to do exploits and the impossible.3.Developing and building confidence in the midst of crises.
The nature and culture of the Governor. The nature and culture of the Governor correlates with the original plan and purpose prior to the pre fall of man and his leadership domain. The nature of the governor reflects every aspect of the personality of man in terms of: being, reasonings, intellect, intelligence, feelings, thought, memory, imagination even on a scale ten times superior to man yet not limited to the falls, faults and mortality of man but beyond most especially this governor can be grieved….the culture of this governor is more of a kingdom concept mentality than democratic system orchestrated on the norms of votes rooted in the majority of the masses while the governor is the majority minority of kingdom citizens.
The Administration of the Governor. First and foremost, the Governor is an administrator all by himself and that is his primary expression in the lives of individuals and nations that welcome this divine governor who is the key to life on the earth for all humanity through his gifts and power serving the interest of the kingdom, humanity and custodians’ of these gifts and power.
Why the whole world needs the Governor. As the millennium clock struck measuring and recording the passage of time on the planet earth ushering us into the unchartered waters of the 21st century, everything in our world and generation seem to begin to unravel. All the secure foundations of our long-lasting institutions have been shaken to the core with the advent of global terrorisms, economic uncertainty and insecurity, wars, pandemic, epidemic, financial meltdown, natural disaster etc., we actually need some one in charge not only of the systems but much more the circumstances beyond the control of leaders and nations which the divine governor holds the key and remedy.
4.Quotes: Are there any statement or quotes which the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
“Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”
“The principle and purpose of delegated authority is accountability and responsibility.”
“The greatest threat to kingdom privileges and benefits is an independent spirit.”
“When the end becomes the means and the major becomes the minor, then injustice is inevitable.”
“The greatest motivation of the human spirit is to control its environment.”
“A person left to him self wills self destruct.”
“Any effective and appropriate help for our world and its plight cannot come from the outside world.”
All these quotes mentioned as well as those not mentioned all contain an iota of truth relating to the crises I have faced, I am facing and I will face thus they all important to me.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes the book did contain the exercise of pressure- crises reading, analyzing and understand yet not with out the hope to cope during such a time of global pandemic.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 7
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the creator is trying to convey in the book?
The main ideas Dr.Maxwell seeks to highlight in the book includes:
Leadership is both Art and Science.
Undeniable effectiveness in leadership is possible and pivoted on many laws at least 21 of them.
The guaranteed possibility of excellent leadership
Effectiveness in leadership is determined by ability not authority, knowledge not to be acknowledge, learning not leading, developing not desiring, growing not going, thinking ahead not being ahead
How to escape and avoid the path of being a Tragic-Icon on the ladder of leadership.
The 21 scientific, social, political, spiritual, individual, intellectual, collective, organizational remedy from the usual dilemma and collapse of leadership to the inevitable cure and rescue.
The long-short cut path to genuine leadership.
Success in leadership is indispensible of these 21 laws.
Successful leadership is possible if these Laws demands are met.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one to as why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The laws of lid, picture and process.
ii. The laws of influence, addition and innercircle.
iii. The law of solid ground, navigation.
iv. The laws of priorities, respect and empowerment.
v. The laws of intuition, connection and magnetism.
vi. The laws of sacrifice, buy-in and timing.
vii. The laws of explosive growth, victory and timing.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so how?
As these Laws are further cluster in a three-fold pair as a unit, my explanation will however vary with one point in particular especially compatible and proportional to my personal experience as well as a shallow emphasis on the other two subsequent laws.
Firtst, the Laws of lid, picture and process. I will firstly begin with the lid law which explains the effectiveness of a leader is directly proportional to his vision ability. The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership, the greater the impact you want to make the higher your influence needed. Lid also implies that to change the direction of an organization, change the leader first. Thus, personal and organizational leadership is directly proportional to the strength and ability of the leader. To go forward, look ahead, to go further think ahead, To be ahead always see beyond your eyes.
Here is my personal experience: The day was Thursday, March 19, 2020 when the government announced the forceful emergency closure of schools and churches following the threat of COVID 19 pandemic fear that have besieged our nation bringing every activity to halt and stand still. What to do next was the personal challenge after the national challenge. The Lid Law was enacted that allows me to see beyond my immediate environment when I had no clue or remedy to my current predicament but to embark on a three hours journey in a distant suburb to my elder sister whose environment was of no relevance to my professional life but personal life. I gradually sailed through the process and picture using the Lid strategy and things began to improve beyond my widest imagination though disrobe of every prestige and began to render some domestic chores serving my host well despite our blood line connection that have prompted another extended invitation for a permanent stay and even prepare to undergo some financial cost to subsidy my final departure… Leadership develops daily not in a day making this pandemic crisis a pendulum of positive change in my life. Thus the Magical Miracle of the Lid Phenomenon and Psychology.
Next, the Laws of influence, addition and inner circle. As influence has and will always be the picture of leadership, my personal experience will focus on the law of the inner circle which states that a leader potential is determined by those closest to him and my personal companion during this time of social distancing was Dr. Johjn C. Maxwell through the pages of this book as I isolated my self from every one to a quiet location the early mornings hours when many are still in bed and reason with the realities locked up in this book and began to apply. This law also echoes the quote of Mother Theresa that states, “you can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together, we can do great things. No leader rides alone. Only if you reach your potential as a leader do your people have a chance to reach their potential.” Upon my arrival, I took advantage of the closure of schools and initiated a tutorial class for my nephew and nieces even close neighbors validating my presence and generate pocket change as well as crowned by the law of addition which states that a leader add value by serving others through the following means:
We add value to others when we truly value others.
We add values to others when we make our selves more valuable to others.
We add value to others when we know and relate to what others value.
We add values to others when we do things that God values. The bottom line in leadership is not how far we advance our selves but how far we advance others…
Next, The Laws of Solid ground, Navigation and Big MO. In this third category of Laws, my focus is the law of navigation which states that, anyone can steer the ship but it takes a leader to chart the course. Initially, as stated, sailing through this emergency and lock down period was a difficult moment most especially even during the normal time when things were still difficult. As an emerging leader I have to navigate my way out of the virus crises as well as the vicissitudes of life. As a navigator, I have to see safety and remedy ahead, examine the conditions before making commitments, my conclusion representing both faith and fact and by planning ahead. Thus, if the leader can’t navigate the people through rough waters, he is liable to sink the ship in these areas:
By predetermining a course of action.
Laying out my goals. Adjusting my priorities
Notify key personnel.
Allowing time for acceptance.
Head into action. Expect problems.
Always point to the success.
Daily reviews your plan.
The Laws of priorities, respect and empowerment. The law of priority was active here which states that, Leaders understand that activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Pratically, I had many cards and decisions on my table loaded with activities that my most recent decision was far from, on the contrary, I had to fore go all my activities at the mercy of my sustenance and health. Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. There are many things that will catch my eye, but there are only few things that will catch my heart.
The laws of intuition, connection and magnetism. .The law of connection which implies that leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand. Prior to my emergency visit, I had always been rendering errands occasionally for my guest before my emergency visit such as: typing letters, domestic chores, responding to mails and etc. that even prompted my thought in that direction.
The law of sacrifice, buy-in and timing. The law of sacrifice which states that a leader must give up going up was part of my experience. Finally, the laws of explosive growth, victory and legacy. The law of victory is evident that a leader always finds a way for the team to win.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention, if so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
The book contains many quotes and striking statements. I liked this statement:
“Leadership ability determines a persons level of effectiveness.”
This striking statement is the entire book in a sentence summary and most important to me that destroys this myth that leadership is more of authority than ability.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so, why?
None.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain a series of exercises besides the regular exercise of reading and understanding. Interestingly, at the end of each law, there is an application exercise for the reader to boost understanding and personal evaluation of how well the law is applied or followed and the exercise is usually a continuous process to test the effectiveness of each of 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
7. Was there anything you need in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in their previous questions if so, please comment.
No.
Please note the following question on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Business of the 21st Century
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author trying to convey in the book?
The main idea that Robert seeks to highlight in the book is the latest concept, ideology, psychology and success of business in the 21st Century which is Networking and Democratic Wealth Building. Secondly, the author also enlighten us also about the transition shift of the old modern concept of business from the industrial age to that of the modern age of technology and business net working as the business with genuine equal opportunity of democratic wealth building in the future whose profit is beyond money, capital, cash flow and liquidation. Thirdly, the author also admonishes us of the failure and expiration of the previous formula of business success that prides in: education, job security, insurance policies, employment as well as dependency on the government or economy for safety and financial freedom to guarantee security, freedom, independence and stability that is now the current recipe for failure in the business world today. Finally, the author introduces us to the paradigm shift to the new era of entrepreneurship, networking, technology and a market beyond border, race, market, culture, currency, profit and loss with an advantage of silver lining opportunity during economic recession and melt down. Thus the business of the 21st Century is at the zenith above every other century with a democratic wealth building opportunity for every one at any level..
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The changed rule implies the paradox where the ancient formula for success in the industrial age such as: education, employment, job security, insurance policies, good grade and high income is no longer the way to financial freedom rather the quickest recipe for failure, set back, depression, insecurity global meltdown and recession.
Indeed the rules have change! The safety of business yesterday is the danger of failure today. The silver lining on the other hand equally implies the opportunities that entrepreneur recognizes and seizes during the economic recession as their advantage edge to soar above the prevailing economic climate. The silver lining also epitomizes the entrepreneur fever that has been kicking into high gear, because when the economy slows down entrepreneur action heats up. In fact, the entrepreneur flourishes during recession. Finally, the silver lining is the opportunity for those entrepreneur who are open minded enough to discern and understand the times when such economic cloud is pregnant with business advantages to start one business ,for there is no other time to begin a business than during recession, meltdown and crises.
ii. The mindset of an entrepreneur and where do you live.
The mind set of the entrepreneur is quite varied from the mindset of the average business man. The entrepreneur believes that you don’t have to raise capital to create your own business because that has already been done for you rather the relevant idea to built your business. Finally, for the entrepreneur the key function is to raise capital from customers, investors and employee Thus making things happen with the courage to discover, develop and denote your genius to the world most especially during crises .Where do you live describes and addresses the four business quadrants of:1. Employee.2.Self- employment.3.Business owner. 4.Investors.
The employee quadrant being the least is where the overwhelming majority of 60% is found hoping on education, research, grades, hard study and work, good jobs with some benefits with the ultimate of Security. The next quadrant represents the self employed or small business owner for more freedom and self determination as well as strikes their own deal. This quadrant is the rescue for those from the employee quadrant with their ultimate hope for Independence. The third quadrant being the business owner creates big businesses such as real estate, mining companies and etc. where the business works for the owner and their ultimate hope is Wealth Building. The fourth quadrant d where the investors are the Zenith and Apex; being the best of the best with the ultimate hope of Financial Freedom.
iii. Your core financial values is the correspondent antecedent for every business quadrant such as:
Security for the employee, Independence for the self employed. Wealth Building for the business owner and Financial Freedom for the investors.
iv. The eighth wealth building assets that includes:
First, a real world business education categorized under scholastic, professional and financial education. Next, a profitable path for personal development. Third, a circle of friends who share your dreams and values. Fourth, the power of your own network. Fifth, A duplicable, fully scalable business. Sixth, incomparable leadership skills that develop the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Next, a mechanism for genuine wealth creation. Finally, big dreams and the capacity to live them.
v. A business where women excel.
This point highlight six reasons why women need to get in the game called wealth creation or building beginning with: The statistics, Avoiding dependency, No glass ceiling, No limits on income, increased self esteem and Control of your time.
vi. The wise choice is all about the choice to start your own network marketing.
vii. What it takes and living the life.
This point implies that you don’t need an MBA or high power business background, you don’t have to be great at sales, you don’t have to quit your job, you don’t need to be rich or take out a second mortgage on your home, you don’t need to be a genius at negotiation or Wiz at numbers but rather being honest with your self, have the right attitude, real growth time and plan. And living the life means that it is not real estate, good stocks, hard work or money that makes you rich; rather what you know about real estate, good stocks, hard work and money that makes you rich. Finally, one must know how to make more money, protect your money, budget your money and leverage your money.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so how?
For me, this awesome book is a huge investment to my financial life and intelligence most especially as I am contemplating on beginning my personal business in these times of recession economic uncertainties and melt down. As a lay man and business illiterate, this book serves as a real formula for success; hope to confront the prevailing economic dark climate! I am delighted grateful and financially equipped to soar above the tempest.
4. Quotes: Are there any statement or quote the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
“Working hard at making money will not make you rich.”
This quote is the shortest summary of this book that led to the paradigm shift in my life and mind set, for everyone working hard in the business environment has no other objective than making more money of which this quote or statement completely erase such myth and general concept about the business world.
“Wealth is not measured by the size of income rather by time. From this concept I firstly accepted the reality that once I have time, I am wealthy and just need a business mentality to transform the unit of time to the currency of life. Thus time is the equilibrium point between the wealthy and non wealthy.”
Finally these quotes have been helpful and beneficial for the fact of producing a new image of my financial life among the wealthy as well as not place money as the peak priority in my business adventure.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so why?
No! This book is absolutely on path with the current realities of the present trend of events and happening in the 21st Century as well as the immediate remedy to the global economic recession and meltdown.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain the exercise of a routine marathon reading though with few pages yet heavy nuggets of truth that will require not more than seven times to first understand and adjusting as well as migrating to this new era of 21st Century business reality of net working that is not common today.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The 45 Second Presentation that will Change your Life Forever
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to highlight in the book is the ten 10 napkins presentations of 45 Seconds each that will impact your life for more than 45 years cutting across 45 millions interested individuals who want to make a mark in the business world embracing the paradigm of Multi Level Marketing or Net work marketing. The main idea can further be detailed such as: A. How to own and possess your life by building a home based business through a simple system assessable by any one. A business with less time advantage with higher dividends of returns, yields and profits ironically not require selling but sharing.C.How desire often leads to destiny in the business world of the reality of hidden success within D.The10 powerful powerful power points presentations of: Multiplication, Salesmen failure syndrome, The four compelling actions of: Getting in and getting started, Using the products, Shifting high gear and sharing with friends and retail, Digging down to the bed rock, Ships at sea, Third party Invitation, Where to spend your time, The sizzle sells the steak, Motivation and attitude, and The Pentagon of growth. And finally the heralding of the new business era of multilevel marketing on the plat form of network marketing phenomenon.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven main points the author seeks to highlight in the book includes:
i. The Multi Level Marketing generation and the multiplication theory of 2 times.
With no doubt, multi level marketing is the fastest growing methods of moving products in todays market where you are in a business for yourself yet not by yourself. It is also building an organization in which lots of distributors all retail a little which is far better than a few trying to do it all. Multilevel marketing is one of the viable ways for an inventor or manufacturer to put a new product on the market with out having a million dollars and without having to totally give up their products to some one else. Finally, this point supports the exponential geometric progression of each one influencing 2, 3, 4, or 5 others by teaching and training with the primary objective to replicate partners in that order
ii. The sales man failure syndrome.
This is the failure to go three steps deeper where you have successfully replicated yourself in others sales man in training. sales man failure syndrome is the logic where your absent is not a threat or even leaving the organization but rather building capacity in others for empowerment by sponsoring and getting them started like wise doing similar for others after benefiting from training sponsoring and teaching
iii. Four things you have to do and digging down to the bed rock.
This third napkin presentation opens with the initial and continual step in experiencing the multilevel marking with the first step of getting in and get started like the ignition switch in a vehicle before movement. Secondly, you must use the vehicle which equally implied using the products your self in net work marketing or multi level marketing. Thirdly, is to shift the gear from one which implies for multilevel marketing first and fresh start before further acceleration. Lastly shifting gear for increased speed from level to level progressively. Digging deep refers to a bedrock foundation start of training and teaching before venturing into multilevel marketing. Usually, one does not count his progress initially without considering the first months of training and teaching before venture into sales or sharing.
iv. Ships at sea and the Third party invitation.
v. Where to spend your time and the sizzle sells the steak, Motivation and Attitude.
This napkin presentation focuses on spending time on sponsoring than sales and one cannot set a blaze or flame without two or more pieces of wood together to start or set a blaze, which Further implies that one is nothing, two is flame, three is fire and four is blaze Lastly, motivation and attitude is the hall mark and spinal cord to connect and encourage the multitude in this level of business. Thus, the more the network, the greater the effect and the impact generated.
vi. The pentagon of growth, Going back to school and playing with numbers to make a point.
Its been the magic number throughout this book; therefore, it is appropriate that the pentagon of growth is a five sided fun trip of mathematical exercises for self motivation. The pentagon of growth also lays out an important view of how fast an organization can grow if one can adopt the principles of training session as out lined which cannot be further detailed and diagram in the book. Going back to school is the school of involvement rather than academic school which also supports the attitude of follow ups and strengthening those you have introduced in the net work
vii. Business training session vs. weekly opportunity meetings as well as important phrases and handling objections.
Most people in the multi level marketing get their start by attending a weekly opportunity meeting since this is how they came into business thus thinking that weekly opportunity meetings and getting people to them is what the business is all about Not withstanding, this opportunity is about three major objectives:1.Expose 2.Involve and 3.Upgrade.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
As multilevel marketing is an emerging giant in the business world, my personal experience with this book is one that is yet to be for ever remembered in the future since I am not personally into the business but anticipating to commence soon most especially personal or other wise. The summary of Multi Level Marketing in a five word syllabus includes: Teaching; Sponsoring; Exposure; Involvement; Upgrading or Growth.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
The book did contain two main quotes that are comprehensive of other quotes such as the quote of Zig Zigler that states that:
“You can have anything in the world that you want simply by helping enough other people to get what they want.”
This quote is very close to my heart that the principle this quote purports is a vital secret to the little improvement I am experiencing in my life where our cultural nurturing has taught us of selfishness, greed, jealousy and betrayal sponsored by polygamous up bringing that we must strive for the best for our selves and forget about the rest and the tragedy of such concepts is responsible for the untold sufferings, hardship and failure. This quote is one of the fundamental principles akin to the Holy Bible that do unto others as you would have them to do unto you Matthew 7:12.
The second fascinating quote from this awesome book was the quote written on the wall in the pastor office that states that only losers are quitters which suggests that failure is
“90% internal and 10% external.”
The importance of this quote is the reality of developing personal courage to persist, resist and exist despite all odds, or the disappointment threatening and scaring our victory, dreams, objectives and goals in life. Finally, winners strive to survive to see the end and reach the end contrary to the bend.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
Absolutely No! For Don Filla started his network marketing since 1967 with proven system for building a large organization by paying attention to what worked as he built his business and eventually travelling worldwide thus impacting the world with his Multilevel Marketing adventure.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain series of presentations that would require practical illustrations of the multi level marketing, yet, these exercises equally drive leadership development in producing and multiplying leaders than just raising followers. Finally, these exercises though business oriented notwithstanding are vital proactive steps to the acquisition of knowledge to safely sail and navigate with ease confronting the challenges ahead of leadership development to sustain survive and rescue other caught in the web of failure due to ignorance of the current realities of the hour in the business world as I did follow all of the exercises.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No there wasn’t.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good
and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Go Pro
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author seeks to convey in the book?
The main idea Eric seeks to portray in the book is the concept of migrating from the age of growing poor in the Network marketing adventures to Going in the net work marketing which can also be further stream down to the following points: First, Cultivating the culture of excellence in the net work marketing psychology by motivating and multiplying customers or distributors. Next, the enlistment of Net work marketing as one of the professions in the world as a determinant factors of success and wealth creation in the 21st Century. Third, understanding the Blue print for success in the Network marketing generation above or beyond average among the professionals. Fourth, if your objective is Network marketing in life, then there is none other option or negotiation other than reading or going Pro. Next, the direct success road map or recipe at the professional level in Network marketing. Finally, the easiest shortest and practical formula to What; How, Why, Where and When. Network marketing source and the sky rocketing enviable fortune available at the professional demand and The Septa- Pro Force or defacto for becoming an expert in the net work marketing profession or the seven fundamental skills for becoming a net work marketing professional.
2. What are the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. A full time manual for part-time and full time entrepreneurs in the net work marketing ranging from illiterate to professionals.
ii. The imperfection of net work marketing that sponsors the perception and decision to Go-Pro.
iii. The fundamental skills required for going pro as well as the prospect syndrome.
iv. Invitation to prospects for understanding your products or opportunity as well as equally presenting your products or opportunity to prospects.
v. Following up with prospects and helping your prospects become customers or distributors.
vi. Helping your new distributors get started right and promoting events.
vii. The time reality syndrome of any thing of worth and value of which net work marketing is of no exception.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
The first point paints the graphic picture that Go-Pro is more than just a book to read for pleasure or leisure time but more to that is the fact that the book serves as a manual or guide for every manner of men intending and desiring to endorse the latest revolution and evolution in the 21 century business world delivering an enviable outcome of success at the pyramid of financial fortune. Secondly in this first point, the book is not just an ideology of diverse research or a chronological sequence of events from facts and factors of knowledge not actually relevant to our culture and current realities but rather a clear picture of the practical life from the authors rise and fall to his level of professionalism and experiences equally proud of his fears, faults, feelings and findings at different stages and phases of his life that serves as the practical aspect of the book as an antecedent to the theory.
The second of the seven points reveals and exposes the three levels of categories of people this book is addressed to such as the following: A.The Posers: These are people who treat the profession as a lottery ticket or gambling myth to hit big with a little effort as possible. The conclusive bad idea as it relates with net work marketing. It is not absolutely wrong or bad to begin at this level but don’t bargain to remain here for the ultimate predictable end is failure or frustration, and the compounding shock is the tragedy that 80% of all net work marketing prospects are loitering and vulnerable to this first category. The second group in this column is The Amateurs: People in this category focus on different things at different or at the same time such as: luck, positions, timing or short cuts. The danger surrounding this group of people is the fact that they hope for every thing and yet cannot cope with the prevailing challenges to get things done. The truth remains that the first and second category is vulnerable to end up miserable. The third group is the professional and willing to GO –PRO.A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialized set of task and to complete them for a fee, on the other hand a network marketing professional is a person who is an expert at the skills required to built large and successful marketing organization.
The fundamental skills required for going pro and the prospects syndrome. This points list the practical three phases of: Having the company products, having the company compensation and you the person as a major variable in the net work marketing equation. Here are the seven practical skills or steps for Going Pro: First, Initiative for finding prospects. Second: Invitation or interaction with prospects. Third: Introduction and presentation with prospects. Fourth: Improvement or following up with prospects. Fifth, Impacting and helping prospects. Sixth, Increasing or creativity with prospects and Seventh: International or promotion. Importantly, this third point is a comprehensive summary of points 4 to 6 .The seventh point stresses the time reality syndrome of any thing of worth and value requires time development of which the net work marketing profession is of no exception. Here is a mathematical equation formula to illustrate and demonstrate the reality of time when it comes to net work marketing. The 1/3/5/7 .1 year to be competent and profitable in network marketing, 3 years of consistent part time effort to go full time.5 years of consistent effort to become a six figures earners and above and 7 seven years of consistent effort to become an expert.
Personally, I really appreciative the knowledge content of this book and others I have read that have directly or indirectly linked me with net work marketing. Secondly as I followed through the testimony of Eric, his exploits began when he started to interact with successful people in the net work as I am interacting with him through the pages of this book. The application of this book to my life is as real as day and light as I have already began the process of having a diary book of important acquaintances and relationship as my to do list of people I must interact with within the sphere and circle of my net work before presenting my products passes.
4. Quotes: Are there any quotes or statement the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote or state why they were important to you.
“In this world you are either growing or dying. So, get in motion and grow never stop learning, this quotes connotes that the vacuum of ignorance is tantamount to death we must therefore continue to increase our learning and knowledge capacities that will directly or indirectly diminished our level of ignorance proportionally. Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice which implies that it is better to fail attempting to do something than succeed in doing nothing. Everything changes when you take full responsibility of your network marketing career.”
This quote implies that the best ability is full responsibility. We are all only six contacts away from any person in the world relationship is the longest and shortest bridge to link any one any where. Dig your well before you get thirsty, don’t wait for the unknown future, but prepare for the future in the present that is known.
“You will become the average of the five people you spend the most of your time with… This quote implies that my future is predictable with the five people I think, talk, act and earn with for in every sphere of our society, social association is inevitable most especially we are both human and social being, thus must be place on our choice of companion or friendship and finally, There are no good experiences, no bad experiences only learning experiences.. Thus every experience is a teacher instructing us something new good, old, painful, gainful, powerful and so on until we can be the best we desire and want to be in our career, profession or life.”
5. Are there any thing in the book you don’t understand or unclear about, or are there ideas in the book you disagree with and why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all of the exercises and found them helpful?
Of course the book did contain the exercise of reading understanding and analyzing of which I Completed to the end.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Wisdom from Dr. Myles Monroe
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea Dr.Monroe seeks to portray in the book will be answered from the Expressive point of view or author analysis and Impressive point of view or reader’s analysis. The main idea from the book or author analysis is about the conglomerate beliefs, principles, ideology, philosophy and concepts about the:Kingdom of God, Governments, Politics, Religion, The Cosmos, Realities of life as well as Powerful statements and quotes from other authors, mentors and friends about Eternal paradise with parallel paradigm about life and how to live it to the fullest. Secondly , it is the compilation of every bits of wisdom received for over forty years of serving humanity and personal insight to empower, refresh and a secret guide to tackle life’s challenges with joy and hope on Divine promises with healthy benefits of a fulfilled life on earth
The Impressive or readers point of view is what I personally glean after reading the book and square the forty nuggets of wisdom into four Cardinal points apart from the seven main points in question two. Here are the four cardinal points: 1.The wisdom for everyday victory. This wisdom key judges us of the reality that every day and life challenges can be mirror from the battle stand point, a football match or a marathon where we are equally advantaged to win only with a positive mentality, possibility reality and preparedness to go on the offensive anticipating the unforeseen, un expected and the surprise package of life with our arsenal built in our ever available creator who is above all and understands all. .The wisdom key to become. As accident is the only reality of life that happens with out plan, Nature on the other hand supports the fact that any thing of worth and value is possible only with planning. Therefore, this wisdom calls to man to drop his ego of wanting to become with out the process of price, plan and timing leaving out the technical knowhow. There is a formula to dying empty and maximizing our potential of time, talents, thoughts, and talks to the discovery of what one was born to be and do by being it and doing it. The length of our physical life matches our Gods divine purpose on earth. Finally, we must discover our purpose and use our potential to accomplish it.3.The wisdom of Human Treasure. Every human by the creator design is a source of vision, dreams, plans and talents that attracts the envy and jealousy of the devil. Thus every bait of the devil is to destroy these hidden visions, dreams and talents from being a reality.4.The wisdom key of living beyond which highlights the reality that great minds and souls know always that what they have done must never be confused with what they can yet do. As a matter of fact, the concept of retirement is great myths that traps the untapped and bury millions of talented, gifted and valuable individuals. The enemy of better is the best and the tomb of extraordinary is the ordinary. Finally, all individuals who left their foot prints in the sand of history and destiny were driven by a passion greater than the desire for personal comfort. “Great Minds and Souls never settle for great works.”
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to
you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The wisdom of purpose, potential, priority and becoming.
This is the ability to know why something exists as well as seeing the end from the beginning. It is also description of the big picture than the smaller pieces. Without purpose, potential, plans, people and even protocol has no significance…
ii. The wisdom of Gods big idea, idea, The Kingdom of Heaven and the master Gardener.
Yet our globe is still spinning on these realities. Thus Gods big idea is the divine aspiration of celestial vision and eternal purpose of the creator for his creation and humanity on the planet earth
iii. The wisdom of body, marriage, intimacy and living beyond.
Our body is the vehicle to transport our value and worth to the world. Though vulnerable to deterioration and imperfection, yet there is a divine promise of a perfect body that will defy death and perpetuate eternity. There is always much more to our body than the physical covering of skin and flesh. Our creator is making us a new home for ever….
iv. The wisdom of Jesus, religion, government and democracy.
Jesus.coined from the chronicles of scriptures and history , this is the greatest man that ever impacted our world whose wisdom is that it is not how long one live on this earth that counts or matter but how well one live and fulfilled his purpose to the extent of bankruptcy to death and dying empty
v. The wisdom of handling crises, rebellion, greed, temptation, change and death..
Change nothing is permanents in life except God and his promises. Therefore, every happening in our lives is seasonal or temporary including crises and chaos. Thus, change must be embraced by human like plants fulfilling nature.
vi. The wisdom of faith, opportunity, management, seeds and working.
This challenging wisdom draws a sharp contrast between our jobs and work. Instead of prioritizing our work that gives us joy, fulfillment requires no employment and little qualification, we focus on job that robs us of joy, fulfillment, full of pressure, stress of being sacked, fired, layoff and require employment.
vii. The wisdom of focus, generosity, influence, not settling or being normal and treasure.
Our creator never created and designed us to be lost in the crowd of The Norm on the basis of fingerprints, genetic code and chromosomes combinations. We were designed to be distinctive, special, irreplaceable, and unique being satisfied with nothing less than your best.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Our academic calendar in Liberia according to the Ministry of Education and the Curriculum guide spins from early, mid or late September for resumption of schools both public and private and closes early, mid or late July. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 Pandemic broke this academic circle and left a scar of delay and shift on the system of reopening schools in December that is detrimental to the inconvenient of schools, teachers and students. Fortunately this chaos was an opportunity for me to reclined form the norm of awaiting the resumption of school before I work to establishing a Tutorial home base classes that have blown my mind with amazing result of income thrice of what I was earning under normal condition with stress and limit from schools. I am now self employed with two sessions of morning and afternoon with up to 15 pupils and soon to employ an immediate assistance or more. Thus, whether school re opens on not I have nothing to fear or worry about. Crisis is usually the womb that birth new opportunities and engaging the wisdom of not confusing my education with schooling. I really appreciated all of the wisdom nuggets.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements or quote the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
Unlike other books with few quotes, this book is rich with multiple of quotes where I selected my seven best quotes of the many quotes:
“Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the roots of faith.”
This implies that hope is the soil where the seed of faith is planted.
“Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success, thus if you love what you are doing you will be successful. Happiness is relative and means different things to different people.”
“The badge of courage doesn’t require that we walk through some thing dangerous, it simply requires that we continue to share Gods love whenever and where ever we are Courage is even display during ease and safety.”
“Satan like a fisher bit his hook according to the appetite of the flesh. We in our greed and lust invite the devil against us.”
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference. The road to success, influence and greatness is narrow.
“Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it. A past not mentioned is no acceptable.”
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much with how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
All these quotes are important to me because the all portray an element of truth directly or indirectly impacting my life and building courage.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercise and did you find them helpful?
Of Course! Yet most of it is the continuous process of filling the blanks at the end of each wisdom nuggets.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Reinvention
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea in this reservoir of knowledge from Brain can be further segmented but not limited to these seven key points such as: First, you are responsible for your self and every thing that happens in your life. Next, how to bury your past perpetually and reinvest to resurrect your future purposefully. Third, how to access enviable success and desires such as: jealous employment, happy relationship, good health, stable lifestyle and financial dependence. Fourth, seek to pursue the circle of knowledge available where ever in a any field of study relevant to your deficiency in business, psychology, economics. Fifth, how to reinvestigate, reinvest, reinvent and redirect oneself on the Platform for success. Next, Reinvention is not a process in a long straight line, but rather a preparation for temporal set back, failures, difficulties, dead-end expecting something else in different direction on the continuous offensive! Finally, get a good idea of where you want to go and take step to try again as to win, not giving up but keep moving forward.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. Your World in Transition
This initial point is about allowing the good time to roll, thus whatever we have accomplished up to now is just a shadow of what we would achieve in the exciting months and years ahead of us. Besides, we must take comfort and understand that whatever changes taking place in our lives today is simply Reinvention: Part of a larger plan to lead one upward fulfilling his potential. Finally, this point concludes that our world is always in a state of transition and we must thus be aware of: Changing jobs, Jobs and Industry can become obsolete, Life style changes will never stop, Think about the future and the turning point to Adapt, Adjust and Respond.
ii. You are Remarkable
Importantly, this point unveils to us the eight relevant thinking skills for the 21st century to cope with the turbulence and rapid changes such as:
Revaluating: the conscious process of reexamining all the details about our lives to fathom stress resistance, frustrations, future disappointment or difficulties.
Rethinking: investigating what has happened and why it happened.
Reorganizing: this is down to increase smooth operation and efficiency of personal work and life.
Restructuring: is the act of moving best talents and resources to area of greatest opportunity.
Re-engineering: is the act of targeting or continually looking for ways to reduce the complacency or number of steps in any process.
Reinventing: is drawing a line under your past and imagine what you could or would do if you were starting over today in any area with a clean slate.
Regaining control-is the reaction to fight or flight approach to any issue of life when it comes to: denial, anger, blame and guilt which can all be handle by the antidote of accepting responsibility.
Resurgence: which is reinterpreting negative events in a positive way or reinvention for short.
iii. Who are you?
This third point begins by self interrogation and examination by asking and answering the following questions:
What are the people idea or things that is the most important to you?
What are your three best qualities as a person?
What are the three personal accomplishments in life you are proud of the most?
What are three skills or abilities are you best at?
What has been the happiest moment of your life?
What do you enjoy doing most in your spare time?
What advice would you give your child or close friend who wanted to be successful in your field?
What is your best talent or skill you are excellent at?
What one quality would you most like to develop in your self?
What is the most important and business lesson you have ever learned?
What is the most important lesson you have ever learned?
How would you like to reinvent your self? Finally this point summed up with the law of three3 which states that three activities account for fully 90% with our contribution and benefit from life.
iv. What do you want?
This point reveals several laws at our disposal beginning with that of Aristotle in 300 BC also called the Aristotle principle of casualty, “The Iron Law or Cause and Effect. Later this law was also re enacted by Sir Isaac Newton as the law of action and reaction and finally, Ralph Waldo Anderson called it the law of compensation. For what ever one does in life, he or she will be compensated In equal measure which in other words suggest that the opposite or other side of this principle has been the experience of most people, that if you don’t do what other successful people do over and over, you will not get the result they get.
v. What are you Worth?
This points out that we are all equal in life in term of rights, liberty happiness and success advantage. Thus our labor is the most important commodity and valuable asset and we must have this correct positive view of ourselves as viewing the CEO of a company or director. Here, also is a recipe for success for strategic planning for reinvention in the business world.
Marketing: placing one values and self at a demand in a competitive world.
Production: give yourself the best by doing the best for your self.
Quality Control: increasing the quality of work.
Training and development: upgrading your skills and abilities regularly with staff.
Finances: responsible for income and use of money.
Organizational development: producing more products and services of a higher quality in a more efficient way. More besides, here are seven additional skills to boost our worth in the business world such as: Specialization, Differentiation, Segmentation, Concentration, Positioning, Branding and Innovation. Finally, this point is concluded with another seven elements of personal strategic plan. Value-belief, Vision-picture of the future
Mission: written objective, Purpose-reason to do or work.
Goals: Clear objectives.
Priorities: what to do first and Activities; get into action.
vi. How do you get the job you want?
Additionally, here are several other practical steps to emphasize previous points in other points such as:
Take control of your career.
See your self as self employed.
Analyze your self carefully.
Think about the future.
Set clear goals for your life.
The ten goal setting exercises.
Understand the job market.
Know that your skills can be obsolete.
Fish where the fish are and use time well.
vii. How do you get ahead?
This sixth point is about how to learn series of practical proven simple and effective ways to get paid more money for what you do and get promoted faster to higher levels of authority and responsibility. First, work for your self. Next, set specific goal. Finally, observe the following: Orientation; Solution; Goal; Result; Future; Idea; People; Excellence; Customer Profit, Power and action oriented.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Personally, this book has been helpful to me not just the knowledge content but the practical application where I was asked several questions at the end of each chapter and secondly, I was invited to conduct an interview for some teachers after conducting a refresher work shop and directly applying the practical guide to sitting interview learned from this book in term of dress code, confidence, friendliness, relaxation and boldness , I later realized that only five teachers out of the twenty candidates met 50% of the standard I learned from this book though the rest of them were a bit considered on second chance and given room for improvement. This book is a treasure!
4. Quotes: Are there any statements or quotes the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you?
With excitement, the book contains seven major quotes or statement beginning with the introduction of each chapter as well as other minor quotes and statement during the course of reading. Yet I personally fell in love with the first quote that from my perspective is the direct summary and clarity of the book and its title which quotes:
“Whatever we are doing, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and what ever we do however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.”
This quote has personally challenged me against all odds that I am just on the way and still far from arriving that has swallowed up every thought and feelings of complacency as I journey in my studies and way to progress.
5. Are there anything in the book you don’t understand or are there ideas in the book you disagree with and why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and found them helpful?
Yes! There was an exercise at the end of each chapter regularly and I did complete all of them at the end of each chapter finding them helpful!
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Power of Self Confidence
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea the author seeks to portray in the book but not limited to is that Self confidence is supreme to every other form or kind of confidence in life which is further detailed in these points that: self confidence is un limited, Self confidence is the cure to challenges and obstacles, self confidence supports the iron law of destiny or the principle of casualty, The root of self confidence is in the mind set of on self, Self confidence is not a gift calling or an exclusive right preserved for few. Self confidence is learned and developed.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The Foundation for self confidence
The foundation of personal confidence begins with a positive thought about our personalities and priorities about ourselves. It is equally about the mental image we perceive about our selves in term of personal values, a stable peace of mind, desire for personal growth and development in relevant and required skills to out source our potential within that will definitely boost our self confidence without.
ii. The principle of purpose and personal power
This point opens up with the law of indirect effort which states that almost every thing we get in life including people and circumstances come to us indirectly rather than directly. They come to us as a result of doing something else like happiness which is not directly pursued but rather experience in an attempt to do something of values worth and fulfillment that will inevitably grant us that emotional experience of happiness and joy within after meeting a schedule or achieving a set goal within in a defined period of time to accomplish the goal that have been set defying every other odds. Secondly, this point also amplifies other correspondent laws that coordinate the proven realities of said truth such as: The law of correspondence which states that one inevitably attracts into his life the people ideas circumstances and opportunities that are harmony with his/her dominant thought either negative or positive. The law of correspondence which states that our outer world is a clear reflection of our inner world whether it is health, business, wealth, relationship failure or success. The law of concentration which states that what any thing one dwells on continually gets into reality. The law of substitution which states that your conscious mind can only hold one thought at a time positive or negative and finally concludes with the theory of emotion which states that every decision, thought or action in our live is either based on the spectrum of fear on one side or the spectrum of desire on the other side.
iii. Achieving competence and personal mastery.
This point introduces us to the theory of the edge of the envelope that is witnessed in the world of test pilots and proto type pilot. The envelope consists of the upper edge which represents or marks the height and speed the jet or pilot has flown at a given time maximally during the time of the most current test run. It is the maximum out put of the height and speed deem possible for a new aircraft before it theoretically comes apart in the air, malfunctions or self destruct. The goal of this test pilot is to expand the edge of the envelope. Secondly, this point also exposes us to the four quadrant of our works life which has to do with: Works that are hard to learn and hard to do like public speaking and computer analyst or engineering. Next, work easy to learn but hard to do like digging a ditch with a shovel. Finally work that are hard to learn and easy to do like driving and Work that is easy to learn and easy to do which varies with our individual differences in career path, gifting, natural talents or abilities.
iv. The inner game of self confidence.
The inner game cycles begins with the law of belief which states that your belief becomes your reality which will require attracting positive people in your lives and feeding your minds and emotion with good thoughts, pictures and information.
v. Capitalizing on your strength.
Self confidence goes hand in hand with winning, self esteem, success and happiness in everything we do. The hallmark for this begins with consciously choosing your field or area of specialization as well as pursuing excellence. Secondly, one must be prepared and willing to have new skills, investment in knowledge, accessing one strength and weakness regularly and finally asking for the input of others
vi. Triumphing over Adversity
Persistence is essential and habit is crucial to survive in life or any thing of core or lasting values. Here are few practical skills that will help us triumph continually: Challenge response theory. Crisis management. Crisis anticipation and advanced thinking and planning.
vii. Self confidence in.
This step begins by trying more things, the importance of setting goals blended with the three great ideas of: Accept complete responsibility for your self. Accept that you can change your situation only by going to work or learning the things you need to know better and Set clear goals with time lines for the things you want and work every day to bring those goals into realities.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Personal Life Experience; I anticipated reality of a dream come true experience. I am James S. Trot man, a Liberian, and current level v student at the International Institute of Global Leadership. Since inception and enrollment precisely 2013/2014 at the institution, everything about my personal and career life dramatically sky rocketed on the positive quadrant of life that I am now an astonishment to my self as every experience is leaving me with a media touch experience of gold, goal and good. Not with standing, this current experience is a conglomerate of all the books I was privilege to have read since level one up to present rather than only The Power of Self Confidence I am reading now. To summarize, here is a nut shell scenario of my latest and most recent experiences from 2019 to 2020: First, December 13, 2019 Associate of Arts degree in school Administration. Second, Associate degree in English Grammar and Public Speaking September 24, 2020, and Wonderful wedding Ceremony held November 28, 2020 being the apex of my desire. I am now speechless yet with words of gratitude that even the words are still in adequate to express my gratitude and the amazing truth Is that all these experiences were almost like an attempt to fail willfully and willing because they all began from what could best be described as beginning from a stand point of disadvantage or constraints or cost effective.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements or quotes the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you?
Of course, the book did contain some wonderful quotes to be generally precise ,there are seven of them of which will be listed in the order form the outstanding to the most out standing in ascending order:
“Above all, be of a single aim, have a legitimate and useful purpose and define your self to it.”
“The miracle or the power that elevates the few to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of the brave determine spirit.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles, he has over come while trying to succeed.”
“Confidence doesn’t come out of no where. It is a result of something, hours, and days and week and years of constant work and dedication Goals.”
“The quality of a person life is in direct proposition to their commitment to excellence no matter what the chosen field. Excellence is supreme.”
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dare believe that something inside of them was superior to their circumstances; Challenge.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. The Power of personal perception.”
5. Are there anything in the book you don’t understand or are there ideas in the book you disagree with and why?
No!
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and found them helpful?
Of course the book did contain series of exercises of which I have completed and helpful to me.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
Goal Mapping
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea Felix seeks to portray in the book, is the technique to extract goal from the mind of a man to put the man on a go mission. Secondly, is the ability to correlate the left-brains using words with the right brains using pictures and images? Thirdly, it is the wisdom to transform goals from mentality to reality, from the intangibles or thoughts to the tangibles stuffs and finally, the step by step analysis to fulfilling, achieving and reaching your goals.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. Dreams or Objective.
Defining what do I want?
ii. Directions or Order.
Clarifying what is my priority?
iii. Description.
Draw what does it look like?
iv. Determination or purpose.
Why do I want it?
v. Duration and Timing.
When do I want it?
vi. Discretion or Wisdom.
Ways and Means; how will I achieve it?
vii. Dedication or focus.
Whose help will I require?
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Dream: This is the realm or womb where it all birth or begins. A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind will and emotions, thus empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it. Notwithstanding here are a list of few dreams that many pursue one way or the other:
Day dream; Distraction from current work.
Pie in the sky dream; Wild ideas with no strategy or basis in reality.
Bad dream; Worries that breed fear and paralysis.
Idealistic dream; The way the world would be if you were in charge.
Vicarious dream; lived through others.
Romantic dream; Belief that some person will make you happy.
Career dream; Belief that career success will make one happy.
Material dream; Belief that material or wealth will make one happy.
Actually whether one finds himself in any domain of the eight dreams forecasted, following these steps will help you sail at the end of your adventure safely:
Dream it-Everything begins in the mind.
Believe it – already done even if bigger than your imagination.
See it -The ability or habit to picture things before you capture them.
Tell it-Allow others to hear what you are up to doing that it motivates you to do or mocks you when un done.
Plan it-It wouldn’t just happen on it own accord. Planning is necessary.
Work it- Everything is full of labour.
Enjoy it-This only possible when the dream is a reality and goal is achieved.
Make a list of all goals such as: Desires in Healthy, Family, Business Relationships, Finance, Education and Recreation.
Direction or order: This is the bearing and compass stage of the dream.
Although there are many meaningful, important and necessary things in our lives, it is order that helps us identify the immediate or most urgent. In this case the first three goals will be of focus that will drive all the energy and even solve or reach other goals. It may be like what I personally listed as my priority goals:
Family and Financial Freedom. Next, Business success and personal growth. Finally Draw what it looks like. This is turning left brain or a written statement to right brain pictures and images.
Determination: Why do I want it? This is the step to identify your emotional reason why you desire to achieve your goals. You really need to decide why you want a particular goal. Every goal is first a thought no matter where or how.
Duration: When do I want it? Time is vital in the establishment and achievement of every goal. For this point, I am speaking of the starting time and the stopping or achieving time which may be a day, week, month year and so far the demand and nature of the goals dictates.
Discretion: How will I achieve it? Here are a few steps to guide one along this path; Search for information materials. Next, Take time out. Schedule a course either on line or off line. Third, gather resources for a particular project or education and finally, save your money for investment in the future.
Dedication: Whose help will I require? This final step is the reflection of the goal map template again and take actions you decide to take as well as determine those whose help and competence or assistance will be required. They may be parents, partners, teachers, spouse, boss, mentor, colleague, coach, friend, family or professional services.
Personal Experience: Personally, this book has been a tremendous guide most especially at the entry of a new year. Although, I have read books on goals and goal setting, there are two out striking features of this book I really admired:
The left brain- letter or word content and the right brain picture and images analyses.
The diagrams and illustrations that followed the explanations the even the illiterate can take advantage of. The month was December the day was Friday and the time was 4:pm in the evening when my phone rang with a sobbing and emergency voice that the founder and principal of mount Zion Christian academy suddenly collapse right in her living room a friend so dear to me as my name. Struck with awe pity grief and sorrow most of all not knowing where to start or say but to response as quickly as possible. I sat for a while and right at that moment began to imagine the kind of help I could offer in my own little world and how long the ordeal could last. .Immediately, I arrive at the scene where family friends and concern residents arriving before me were mournfully praying while the other left in a state of confusion. I quickly order for an emergency cab to rush the victim to the hospital first that took three days before any conscious response from her end after slow birth and convulsion. Subsequent to her little physical recover was a mental disorder that would led to the medical and spiritual asylum leaving a church and a primary school future oblique? More was now demanded from me most especially the task of assisting her associate pastor and thus handling the affair of a primary school that yet to resume after the pandemic. With this book at my disposal, I seized the opportunity and saw this crisis to apply what I have learned and is learning to quickly respond as order was restored for the ordeal lasted for six weeks and when visited her my next remark after greeting was there is nothing for you to fear or worry about. Everything is working smoothly and accurately from the church and school with some new inventions and innovations, Thus, I had an amazing journey with this book.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements or quote which the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
Rarely, this goal book did contain many quotes and striking statements but will focus on the seven major quotes in this book which includes but not limited to:
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Thus the future is for dreamers and not just any one fortunate to live for tomorrow.
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Thus order and change are inseparable.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Purpose is a defense against abuse and waste.
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discover the value of life.”
Time is life and life is time.
“When you are at a loss for words, draw pictures.”
Pictures are substitute for words and the why determines the how. Purpose generates support.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes I completed them.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No, there is not.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
1,001 Wisdom Keys
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author convey in the book?
The main idea Dr.Murduck seeks to portray in the book is the pursuit of personal and divine wisdom as we adventured through the vestibules of life. Secondly, the author also seeks to expose us to his personal life as a portrait to harness wisdom through his weakness, strength, knowledge, skills and personal experiences that were good, bad, ugly and strange so we can avoid some pain that cost him to be repeated in our lives. Thirdly, the author seeks from scriptures accessing Divine wisdom that covers ever strata of the human society in term of: Marriage, Relationships, Family life, Democracy, Characters, Deception, Greed, Passion, Pain, Business Religion and Leadership
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. Seven kinds of people who always fail.
The seven kind of people who always fail. Firstly, failure is the seed for humility. Humility births the willingness to listen to others. Therefore, in the success equation of life, here are seven people who fall in the ashes of failure instead of UN common success. They are: The persuaded. The disrespectful. The UN focused. The UN teachable .The UN thankful. Father non-reacher. The dis-respectable.
ii. Seven things that true greatness wills require.
Greatness is a choice .Everyman contains an insatiable passion to achieve significance, recognition and greatness. Greatness is a seed of change. The main points are: Recognotion of the divine difference that God created within you. The persuasion that God can turn anything evil for good. The willingness to pursue mentorship from uncommon achiever. Your passion to sow honor in the chain of authority and influence. The willingness to admit personal weakness, mistake and not blame others for the results of your decisions. The decision to personally and continually analyze the results of your decisions and effort. Your relentless pursuit of personal intensity toward God and man.
iii. The Seven powers of the mind.
Your mind is the factory of knowledge and decision making. It is the control tower and valve of the entire body. Your mind decides your feeling. Your mind will continually seek information and magnify it. The only way to change your life is through your mind. Your mind decides your wealth. Your mind have the incredible ability to gather information and see the difference. Your mind decides what it believes through repetition. Your mind helps you realize your dreams and experience.
iv. The Seven laws of success.
The Seven laws of success that you must know or never forget. Success is a place, an attitude, a journey or opportunity and continuous collection of experiences that happen daily such as: The law of difference. The law of protocol. The law of focus. The law of recognition. The law of servanthood. The law of honor. The law of seed.
v. The Seven hidden secrets in developing the spirit of excellence.
Excellence is the seed of recognition. Excellence is the bridge to every failure. Excellence is impossible to hide. For example; Excel in your conversation with God. Excel in connecting truly with people. Excel in listening. Excel at discerning the different mont. Excel in problem solving. Excel in presentation. Excel in learning.
vi. The Seven mistakes that will destroy the bridge of access.
Without doubt; all gifts come through a golden door of access. Your will never be promoted, respected or valued until somebody sees you. God will only change your life until he has changed what you have access to: Disrespect; Disagreement; Disruption; Divisiveness; Deception; Disappointment; Dis-interest.
vii. The Seven steps in taking leadership in your personal world.
Labor is to raise your present level of excellence and demonstrate dominion over your crises. You can: Identify your difference and strength. Identify when you are most vulnerable. Discern the sensitivities of those you love. Reward those who show true caring toward you. Identify what actually motivates you the most. Continually ask questions internally and externally. Reward those who actually deserve a reward and honor. The persona application of this book to my life is of a life time guide as a form of diary and personal agenda as it relates to the specific area of need. Have personally crafted seven personal areas of my life that are of paramount concern such as: Family, Finance, Failure, Friends, The Future, Favor and Fortune to make the difference where I am still rewriting every wisdom key that correlate with these areas and analyze my life for mistakes, weakness strength and where I am motivated the most.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
The author used the number seven as a repetitive form of his diction in compiling this book which will equally find expression in my seven points that I have consciously selected from the over seven hundreds key points highlighted from my personal perspective. Secondly, from the author style of writing, every points was backed with a scriptural reference of which I escape not because I don’t believe in the scriptures but to maintain my focus on the leadership content of my assignment instead of appearing a bit or more religious.
The application of these seven points as well as other points not mentioned in this assignment from the book 1,001 wisdom keys to my personal life practically covers three areas of my life which has to do with my past present and future. The Past: This aspect of my life is where I actually regretted when had my eyes on the pages of this book looking at the personally mistakes I made in marriage, relationships, finance, ethical behavior and personal philosophy of leadership before handling this masterpiece of knowledge. Though the pain is past, yet having such knowledge then would have cost me less or even none but that is ok because I also learn some lessons the hard way. The Present. Here, I am excited because this is my reward and joy.
In this column of my experience, I Have for now listed seven areas of my life such as: Family, Friends, Fortune, Favor, Failure, Foes and Fame as well as locating every wisdom keys that correlate with each concern scripturally and practically as presented by the author and the way out or solution to every challenge, constraints or predicaments in each area and finally preparing the next list of seven to connect and attach to these wisdom keys as formula for solving problems.
The Future: This aspect of my personal life is the hope for defense mechanism options against any or every crises to emerge or challenge my current level or status. For instance, I am now faced with a financial challenge whose demand and cost was what it cost or took me three years to obtain which is my current challenge to be settled in three months or less. The testimony and joy was that the challenge is more a wisdom challenge than finance challenge as the first quote in the book states that every problem is first a wisdom challenge. As I am engaging the act of asking questions internally and externally, courage, energy and innovation is stirred up instead of fear, blame and excuses before.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Of course the book is rich in thousands of quotes that are mind bulging and challenging. However, I able to select seven as the diction of this book depicts:
“Knowing only one truth can be deadly as knowing no truth. Another definition of ignorance from this quote is incomplete knowledge of the fact or truth in totality concerning a given issue.”
“Men does not decide their future, they decide the habit that gives birth to their future. Our habits are the habitat for our future.”
“The key to success is not seeing how much you can do but do but the one thing you love most. Excellence is unique rather than diverse.”
“Strife is the evidence that the belief system don’t matter. Disagreement is the reality of our mentality.”
“Promotion is not an increase in your responsibilities but a weapon for tomorrow battle. Our achievements are instrument for greater assignment.”
“Never make a permanent decision because of a momentary desire. Consequences out last decisions.”
“Never put in front of you what you don’t want inside of you. Don’t watch what you don’t want in your life or don’t focus on anything that will serve as a deterrent or embarrassment in the future.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No! The ideas, concepts wisdom, knowledge, truths, facts and information contain in the book is embracing.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises, and did you find them helpful?
None.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
None.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The Art of Being Human
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea Michael seeks to portray in the book is the importance and study of the course Anthropology 101. Anthropology which is the study of all humans in all times in all places. Secondly, it the conscious reality of our morality to ask questions, make connection and try new things.. Finally, it is the challenge to overcome fears, step out of the comfortable and get comfortable with the uncomfortable with the courage and strength to find your way into our new way of thinking where you will talk to strangers, do field works and break habits.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
The seven main points are hereby listed with each point having an antecedent challenge capitalized in bold letters.
i. Field Work
The art of connections and trying new things change-talking to strangers.
ii. Culture
The art of seeing. Field work of the familiar.
iii. Evolution who we are?
The unmaking of the modern body. The 28 day of challenge.
iv. Language
The power of language. World weaving.
v. Infrastructure
Tools and their homes. The un-thing experience.
vi. Globalization
How does the world work? Global connections.
vii. The Good Life
The power of telling story. Meaning making the art of being human.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
Fieldwork. The art of connections and trying new things. Talking to Strangers. This point reveals our difference as humans which represents the vast range of human potentials and possibilities. It also exposes us to the fact that our assumptions, values and abilities are largely a part of other cultures. Finally, this point coined three probabilities in our attempt in dealing with other culture that paint these realities: Ethnocentrisms. The act of viewing ones own culture as the best ideas and proper one. Cultural Relativism. This is the antidote of ethnocentrism which is to understand and accept the cultural ideas of others.
Participant observation. This is the hallmark and method of anthropology. We must join other people in an attempt to understand them rather than judge them. Culture-The art of seeing. Field Work of the Familiar. In this point, it is in our abilities to respond with our cultural lens of: hate, ignorance, openness to ask questions or love from our cultural views. Based on the view of anthropologists, we are to have these four views as we dive in the ocean of our cultures rather the drive others. To see our own seeing which is our own view of the world taking for granted the deception of our assumptions. To see big-This is to see the larger cultural picture from the global than local perspective. To see small-This is to pay close attention to the smallest details and pay attention to them. To see it all-This is to picture every thin we can piece together to see through every thing we can see to inter act from a holistic point of view.
Evolution-Who we are? The unmaking of the modern body. The 28 Day Challenge. Evolution has always been a touchy and controversial topic since Charles Darwin first introduced its idea in 1859.Darwin him self waited 23 years before publishing the origin of species because he knew it would contradict the story of creation in Genesis. While, it is still debated in public, evolution like any scientific theory is not something to be simply believed or dis-belief. Finally, it is to be understood and continuously re assessed based on evidence as it is not only a theory but an established scientific fact due to mountains of data and observation supporting it.
Language. The power of language and world weaving. While our most basic assumptions are embedded in the basic elements of our every day life, the Phonemes-The sound a language used which includes vowels and consonants as well as other clicks or tones pose a threat to other learning a language of which such barrier must not interfere in our attempt to marginalize who may not or cannot speak our language. Finally, our challenge is to invent a word phraser metaphor that would make the world a better place for others and try to speak it among our friends. Lastly, to change our perspectives of language barrier, we must: We must invent new words phrase or metaphor. We must introduce the word, phrase or metaphor in new conversation as if the word had always existed and see if your friends catch and start using it themselves. If they ask give them a strong pitch as to why it should exist. Show or tell about your adventure.
Infrastructure-Tools and their homes/mediated culture. Social structure-The world in four colors: Our selves, Identity, Race, and Gender. Get uncomfortable! Super structure-Questions about morality/The dynamics of culture, religion and understanding the world. Infrastructure-This represents the economy, technology and techniques used to harness food energy as well as how goods are exchanged and distributed. Social structure which represents social organization which includes: family structure, power relations, politics and social control. Super structure-This is the world view which includes: ideas, ideals, values, and belief of how people make more sense of themselves and their world.
Globalization: How does the world work? Through Global Connections. This point is largely about how me make the world and how we are making the world. Innovations has been the major plat form for globalization which travel in the circular path from innovation to structural society, food surplus and population growth. Finally, we are equally introduced to the various systems that drive or influence such innovation.
Hardpower: The power that controls the will of the people. Soft power: Gahdhi; The ability to influence others and shape their ideas. Structural power- power embedded in the structure of the economy, social, geographical and political relationship.
The good life: The power of telling story. Meaning Making the Art of Being Human /there are no accidents. The good life begins with seeing ourselves by stepping out of our cultural bias and assumptions to see that much of what we take for granted as a reality is vary different in other cultures. Thus, in doing so, we discover a tremendous life of possibilities in the human conditions. The good life positions us with the meaning, purpose and the future question of who am I? What am I going to do? Am I going to make it? Finally, The good life out line six virtue as a guide to a good life to cope with any culture any where: wisdom. Courage. Humility. Justice. Temperance. Transcendence. Personally, the practical application of this book to my life will be more from the cultural view as on of the cardinal message in this book. Practically, due the maturation of markets, the migration and integration of diverse cultural migration, our Liberian culture is drowning gradually leaving us with what may be termed as Kwasi or mix cultural values with its advantages on one hand and disadvantages on the other hand. Lastly, I do apologize for the misuse or abuse lavished on other cultures that did not synchronize with mine due to ignorance hate or strong cultural bond as African.
4. Quotes: Are they any statement which the author made that particularly got your attention, if so please quote and comment as to why they were important to you?
Yes! However, due to the economy of words as demanded form the questions, cannot mention or quote rather to sincerely admit that they are all beneficial. Yet, I did like to flash this quote from one of the professor of anthropology as an account and testimony of this quote that stated:
“You all have a little bit of I want to save the World in you and that is why you are here in college. I want to know that it is ok if you only save one person and it is ok if that person is you!”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about or are there ideas which you disagree with and why?
No there isn’t anything.
6. Did the book contain any exercise for the reader to compute? If so did you compute all the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain routine exercise of reading understanding and analyzing to answer the seven routine questions and required exercises at the end of each challenge from each point highlighted in red and posted on the website: ANTH101.1 Challenge.It was done and I found it challenging and helpful.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on, that was not conveyed in the previous questions if so please comment.
No there isn’t anything else.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
7 Keys to 1,000 More
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea Dr. Murdock seeks to portray in the book? The main idea Dr. Murdock seeks to portray in the book is as follows:
First, the wisdom keys to accelerate your capacity development from average, below average to an above average at the expanse of 1, 000 times more.
Second, How to upgrade your personal reasoning ability to that of a people concept.
Third, Experiencing UN conventional paradigm of success from a multidimensional school of thought just with in a person.
Fourth, Achieving progress beyond your wildest imagination as an individual.
Fifth, Ascessing the wealth of success stored in positive relationship anchored on the basis of mentorship through leadership…
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your life.
i. Know the true source of increase
ii. Define the uncommon dream that energizes you.
iii. Determine to whom you have been assigned.
iv. Invest in uncommon mentorship.
v. Cultivate the habit of hourly obedience.
vi. Create your daily success routine.
vii. Sow uncommon see expectantly.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a more practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping to create a better world?
Know the true source of increase. Every resource has a source which inevitably becomes the secret for surplus and increase as it relates to that resource. On the other hand, it is no doubt the earnest and selfish desire of every human to yearn for increase.Therefore, to have an access to the resource is good and limited, while having an access to the source is far better and unlimited. In addition to that, such increase or source may be a person of influence, a place of affluence, knowledge of excellence or a thing deck probably with brilliant aroma. Finally, here are few steps to recognize true source of increase: First, acknowledge your deficiency or limitation of the resource of that source. Second, Identify the available supply of increase. Third, increase your thirst, hunger and desire for more. Fourth, relate with the source by investing time and conversation for acquaintance. Finally, believe in the source of that resource.
Define the uncommon dream that energizes you. While common dream produces commoners and de energizes, uncommon dreams on the other hand produces stars despite the scars and energizes the stars to achieve the uncommon dream. An uncommon dream wakes one from sleep instead wanting to sleep more to dream common dreams. An UN common dream will betray, denied and crucify sleep detesting convenience and ease.
Thus to define such dreams brings us to the reality of writing and work out goals than just wishing and seeing the right things. Finally, here are eight facts about uncommon dreamed: It is anything good you want to become, do or have in this life on earth. It sponsors the reality that you are in your future than your present. It must be believed and pursued. Your future cannot begin until you start feeding the uncommon dream with in you. It deserves the highest standard of excellence possible. It must be visualize continually. It generates respect for every relationship connected to the uncommon dream to guarantee its fulfillment. It will require uncommon preparation.
Determine to whom you have been assigned. Every assignment in life has a parameter of geographical environment or location as well as a specific people confined within that environment as the benefactors of that assignment from the custodian. This consciousness destroys and dismantles the problem and follower syndrome of life and begins to generate the leadership gene within the leader to discover his assignment and mission with the problem solving perspectives.
This assignment consciousness further sponsors the awareness of complex and serious issues with great implications and consequences above the comfort zone myth of ease, convenience and relaxation. Everything created is a solution to an existing problem. An assignment is any problem you were created for and provided or supplied with the necessary passion to solve. Here are few facts about assignment: First, it is decided by your creator and discovered by you. Second, It is always to a person or a people. Third, it has a geographical sphere of influence and location. Fourth, It determines what is important to you. Firth, it is a clue to what saddens, irritates, anger and excites you. Next, It requires seasons of preparations. Also, it determines what you celebrate and who celebrates you. It guarantees provision with accuracy and pursuit. Finally, it always solves a problem.
Invest in uncommon mentorship. On the compass of leadership, it is no doubt that mentorship is one of the cardinal pointers for direction. Mentorship is often the succession of leadership to a generation. Here are four types of mentorship as outlined and explained from the book:
First, parental mentorship which is the foundation for the rest of mentorships as well as the proof of humility. It is a mentorship beyond choice, convenience and ones personal influence due to it birth advantage. Next, Pastoral mentorship. This mentorship has to do with ones religious or spiritual orientation that initially aided and decided by parental mentorship and with the passage of time, change, choice or experience is ones prerogative. Third, professional mentorship. This is the mentorship of skills, abilities, competence and unparalleled results in ones domain of life from a person with wealth of positive proofs and experiences a result of excellence. Also, prophetic mentorship. A mentorship based on spiritual guidance and divine guidance in solving or resolving complex or impossible humanly cases or situation beyond ones control. Here are few facts about mentorship: Requires the investment of time. Can create un common protégé., requires pursuit, Requires pursuit. A process to UN common dream. Can take place any where. Knows the true path of leadership. Measures the passion of the protégé. Can predict the pit falls and weakness of the protégé.
Cultivate the habit of hourly obedience. Obedience is doing anything commanded to do regardless of the cost or convenience. Here are few facts to remember about obedience: Obedience is never unreasonable, Obedience has no substitute. Obedience precedes promotion, Obedience does not always appear logical to the natural mind. Obedience is never impossible, Obedience guarantees provision and protection. Obedience is personal not private. The obedience of an individual can impact a generation.
Create your daily success routine. Success is the birth panting desire in general yet there are few little things we do daily that programs us on the path of success that is no instant, automatic or magical but rather on a gradual daily basis called routine. Here are few statements that that will help us evaluate and subscribe to our daily success routine such as:
We don’t decide the future but we rather decide the habits that decide our future. Your money habit is making you a pauper or a millionaire. What you keep doing daily is creating the future you have always wanted or the future you have decided. You can change a failure routine into a success routine within 21 days. What you keep looking at is deciding where you are going. Finally, You will always move towards the dominant picture in your mind.
Your habits are being strengthened or changed by the friends you permit daily close to you; How to Create Success Routine:
Recognize what is worthy of your total focus today.
Pinpoint the top three distractions that occur habitually.
Determine the core product of your life.
Embrace flexibility as an opportunity.
Become militant about keeping your daily routine.
Sow uncommon seeds expectantly. This is the principle that you can produce anything you want in your life and future from something you are holding today. Such seeds includes: Time, Money, Skills, Knowledge, and Kindness
My personal experience of this book is dotted on the reality of mentorship as highlighted in point seven .Actually to admit, mentorship is one of my deficiency or lapse that I would place my life on the scale of average. However, this lapse is not in the area of parental but pastoral, professional and prophetic due to my cultural surrounding and the ill myth of hatred, greed, and jealousy on the majority between the mentor and mentee relationship to even the extent of stigma and weakness from these selfish mentors.
I will not be able to lament my pain and grief in this assignment, yet I strongly believe in mentorship but due to the unfortunate experience, I am yearning after distance mentorship far from my culture and most especially book mentorship. By this I mean that IIGL is a foundational mentor to my life and destiny not just about leadership. Through this international organization, I have met distance mentors that have impacted my life up to present through their challenges and success experiences via their books. Finally, I do have direct mentors I am carefully following and investing into.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
Here are few important quotes from this book that are important to me while reading this book as well as beyond this while.
“Everything comes from a somewhere and everything comes from someone. Source is a strategic opportunity for abundance and more.”
“Your dream is the invisible picture within you. Your internal photo is more beautiful and important than your external photo.
“You were created to solve a problem. Assignment consciousness.”
“Where you are matter as what you are. Environment reflects achievement.”
“Were you are determining what grows within you, weeds, flowers, weakness or strength.”
“You will reap what you sow.”
“Great men have great habits.”
5. Is there anything in this book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Wonderful exercises and found than all helpful.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10
The 360 Degree Leaders
Assessment by James Trotman (Liberia)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in this book?
The main idea author Maxwell seeks to portray in the book is the holistic leader without boundary or border of ignorance that is expressed in the following points:
Holistic leadership that is above 45˚, 90˚, 180˚ or 250˚ but rather 360˚ minimum.
The compatibility of leading from anywhere in an organization whether down, across, middle, up or top.
The ability to develop your influence from anywhere in the organization among your peers, seniors, boss, and subordinates and even your work with an average and balanced level of excellence.
Leading beyond the myths of position, title, power, authority, rights,privelleges,supremecy,hiercrachy,age,gender,race,biometric or systematic advantages.
Understanding and overcoming the multiple challenges of the 360˚ degree leadership psychology, theory and concepts.
Heralding the virtues and values of 360 degree leadership.
Influencing people at every level of the organization as well as helping others help themselves with consistency, proficiency, accuracy, persistency, dignity and excellence.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you? Use personal examples from your life.
The seven main points the author seeks to highlight in the book but not limited to include:
i. Developing your influence from anywhere in the organization most especially with the paradigm shift of leading from the bottom, middle, across, top or up with maximum impact of influence and yielding exponential positive results.
This point challenges the leader personal theory or psychology about leadership holistic scale that will crucify and demolish any preconceived myth or misconceptions about leadership on the broader view to develop and erect his academic and dynamic skills about leadership such as: Influencing people positively to follow instead manipulate. Crucifixion of the position, power, placement, and gender based or religious myth about leadership. The ability and responsibility to adopt and adjust to the paradigm shift of leading from anywhere in the organization despite the status quo. Gravitate and graduate from the 45˚, 90˚, 270˚ to the 360 degree leadership theory nothing more nothing less, develop other to help themselves. Be compatible with your job or work, co-workers, superior’s juniors and even the boss given the minimum at the average.
ii. Demolishing the myth of leading from the middle of an organization and embracing the mystery paradigm shift of leading from the unusual or irregular.
This point exposes us to seven different myths every 360˚ leader in the middle faces which includes:
The Position Myth; I can’t lead if I am not at the top.
The Destination Myth; When I get to the top then I will learn to lead.
The Influence Myth; If I were on the top, people would follow me.
The Inexperience Myth; When I get to the top, I will be in control.
The Freedom Myth; When I get to the top, I will no longer be limited.
The Potential Myth; I can’t reach my potential if I am not the top leader.
The All or Nothing Myth; If I can’t get to the top, then I won’t try to lead.
iii. The inevitable challenges that everyone or anyone who dares the adventure of becoming a 360˚ leader as well as the relevant secrets to champion these challenges.
There are seven inevitable challenges every 360 degree leader who decides to lead from the middle of an organization faces.
The tension challenge. The pressure of being caught in the middle.
The frustration challenge: Following an ineffective leader.
The multi hats challenge: One head many hats.
The Ego challenge: You are often hidden in the middle.
The vision challenge: Championing the vision when you don’t create it is more difficult.
The fulfillment challenge: Leaders like the front more than the middle.
The influence challenge: Leading others beyond your influence is not easy. Here are few secrets from the book to overcome these multiple challenges most especially from the influence dimensions or point of view. Think influence not position. This point implies that people follow leader they know. Trust with character. This implies who you are. Respect. This implies leaders who are competent. Consistency. This implies leaders they can approach. Admiration. Leaders with commit mint. Influence-Integrity- built relationship on trust. Nurturing-cares about people as individuals. Faith-believes in people. Listening-values what others have to say. Understanding-sees from their point of view. Enlarging-help others become bigger.
Navigating-assist others through difficulties. Connecting-initiates positive relationships. Empowering-gives them the power to lead.
iv. Adopting and adjusting to the principles and practices of the 360˚ leaders to either lead up.
Before one can begin to learn what it takes to learn to lead across, one must learn to master the nine principles in order to lead up. The fourth points bring us to the principles of 360˚ to lead up which includes the following nine points: Lead yourself exceptionally well. This implies that the leader must manage his emotions, time, priorities, energy, thinking, words and personal life.
Lighten your leaders load. Be willing to do what others won’t. Do more than manage-LEAD!
Invest in relational chemistry. Be prepared every time to take your leader position.
Know when to push and when to back off.8.Become a go to leader.9.Be better tomorrow than you are today.
v. Adopting and adjusting to the principles and practices for the 360˚ leader to lead down.
This point includes the following principles:
Walk slowly through the crowd.2.See every on as a 10 over 10 person.
Develop each team member as a person.
Place people in their strength zone.
Model the behavior you desire.
Transfer the vision.
Reward for results.
vi. Adopting and adjusting to the principles and practices for the 360˚ leader to lead across
with the understanding and practicing the leadership circular loop of:
Caring-Take an interest in people..
Learning; get to know people.
Appreciating and respect people.
Contributing and add value to people..
Verbalizing and affirm people.
Leading and influencing people.
Succeeding and win with people.
vii. Accessing the values of the 360˚ leader which emphasize the following principles:
A leadership team is more effective than just one leader.
Leaders are needed at every level of the organization.
Leading successfully at one level is a qualifier for leading at the next.
Good leaders in the middle make better leaders at the top.
360˚ leader possesses
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping to create a better world? If so, how?
The personal application of this book to my life and leadership adventure is seen and view as an added advantage and plus. More besides, this book have change my perspective about leadership to the point that leadership consciousness that have beclouded my whole view about leadership that title, top, or up as I have been taught over the centuries and decades is the origin of leadership noting more nothing less.
This implies by direct application, I began as a 30˚ or less than average degree leader. Hopefully, My evaluation has sky rocketed to that of 200˚ leader rating my personal life from errors to efforts.
Recently, I have made decision to commence my B.T.H. program by a change of environment I was privileged to lead and exercise my leadership potential,yet no program for personal growth or development and this is a big move to increase my leadership lid to 200˚ plus! I am grateful for this book!
4. Quotes: Are the quotes and statement which the author made that practically got your attention? If so, please quote and say why they were important to you.
“99% of all leadership occurs not from the top but from the middle of an organization.”
“First and for most, leadership is people business!”
“Learn to lead despite the restrictions others have placed on you.”
“If you wattage ahead, leading up is much better than kissing up.”
“The key to leading yourself well is to learn self management of thinking, emotions, time, and priorities. Energy words and personal life.”
“People always move towards someone who increases their them and away from anyone who decreases them.”
“360 degree leaders take time and efforts earn influence with their followers just as they do with those over whom they have no authority.”
“To connect with people, you move at their speed. All these comments and quotes are helpful to me because they all served as catalysts in molding 360˚ leaders.”
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so did you complete all the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Of course! The book did contain multiple of exercises which I completed and found helpful but the most exciting was the True and False evaluation at the end of this book followed by an address and website for continuity www.360Degreeleader.com
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 – 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10