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Book: The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success :: Zig Ziglar|Books :: Book
Date: Thursday, 20 November, 2008 :: 08:53
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The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success
List Price: USD $29.99
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Product Group: book
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Studio: Thomas Nelson
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An Experience to Revolutionize Your Life from Marcus Buckingham - the World's Leading Expert on Career Success! Want to know what you are supposed to do with your life? The Truth About You is an experience to unlock life's toughest questions. The process this revolutionary toolkit teaches will create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. This cutting-edge product includes: Enhanced DVD. A high-energy film reveals how and why you must discover and prioritize your strengths and includes access to a wealth of downloadable resources, including five bonus Strength Tip videos. Interactive Book. With insightful exercises and tried-and-true life wisdom no one else will tell you, the book takes you to the location of your most powerful and unchanging talents. ReMemo Pad. Designed for a life on-the-go, the ReMemo Pad becomes your companion to complete the task of revealing your strengths using your everyday experiences. Perfect for high school and college students, young professionals, and people simply wanting to revitalize their career, The Truth About You helps you develop the kind of clarity and passion that drives a successful and satisfying future. Marcus Buckingham will help you discover the real truth, the truth about you . . . it will be your secret to success.
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Summary: A gift option for new grads and young professionals
Date: 2008-11-19 - 
Comment: Begin by watching the DVD. Frankly, I usually skip the enclosed DVD with this kind of book, but in this case, the DVD is essential. You'll be watching a compelling presentation by Marcus Buckingham, an excellent speaker, entertwined with a wordless tale of a group of kids who decided to play to their strengths.
Then move on to the book. It's a spare presentation of what's on the DVD, with places for you to stop and think and participate by filling things in.
Finally, grab the little notebook of pages for "love it/loathe it" jottings and carry it around with you for a week. Follow Buckingham's instructions to "scribble down the verbs" that describe what you're doing when you feel either engaged and in the zone or frustrated and bored.
At the end of the week, return to the book to find ideas for analyzing the things you've written to determine your strengths and weaknesses.
Now, instead of doing what you've always done with this information -- saying, "Well, yes, I am good at that" and then digging in to work on your weaknesses -- think instead of ways to play to your strengths more consistently. Partner with people whose strengths complement yours. And be on your way to a more satisfying and successful career path.
This giftworthy package is designed for those 17-25 (my kids' ages), but I found that I saw the world a bit differently after working through it.
Summary: Could not finish it
Date: 2008-11-18 - 
Comment: Having read my share of self help books, The Truth About You was a disappointment. The words simply did not inspire like a Seven Habits or Best Life Now. I felt like I was fixing a used Hyundai rather than upgrading to a new Lexus.
I completed self assessments in college and have done one everytime I changed careers. The advices and methods provided here are no longer applicable to me. If you've never done a self assessment before, this could be a good book for you. If you have, I would skip it.
Summary: There really is an "I" in team!!
Date: 2008-11-18 -
Comment: As a Marcus Buckingham fan, I was excited to read The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success. It does not disappoint!
An easy read (I read the book in a little over an hour), it encouraged me again to play to my strengths and learn to neutralize my weaknesses. I was also encouraged to make sure to put a Strong Week Plan in place to make sure that I live every week in my strengths.
I particularly love his (paraphrased) assertion on gage 104:
There really is an "I" an team: your team needs to know you are and what you have to offer. They don't need or want someone who brings nothing fresh and new to the table.
As a life and marriage coach, I work to help clients understand that they bring wonderful, fresh ideas to their situations and relationships. Yes, we work as a team, but we are individuals with creative selves that are needed to make the team be the best it can be.
Readers will walk away with a feeling of confidence and encouragement to learn what their strengths are and how they use them even more to design the life they were meant to live. And of course that desire will lead them to his book, Now, Discover Your Strengths!
Summary: The Truth About You Review
Date: 2008-11-18 -
Comment: As both an accomplished speaker and writer, Marcus always has some helpful new insight and thoughts to share, especially when it comes to the area's of business and personal development. I personally had the opportunity to hear Marcus speak at Catalyst a few years back and I have always enjoyed his upbeat attitude and positive approach to discovering what makes you tick.
This book is yet another example of exactly that...it takes you through a three step process in helping you to discover the truth about you and the key to your success. I do kind of feel as though Marcus was trying to give one of his motivational talks trough the pages of this book...and in some ways it worked for me, and in some ways it didn't.
I thought that the "nooma style" dvd that it started out with was a great illustration to setting the tone for the rest of the book...great story, very well done and well put together. Secondly, I thought that the book itself had some really good, life applicable, content...however, it is very short and some parts were a little elementary and would probably better suit high school and college students, or even just a younger audience in general (which may be exactly what he was trying to do).
Which brings me to my final thought on the book...I think that this is a great tool not only for self help and personal growth, but something that could possibly be used as a curriculum in a class or small group setting.
I would probably rate this one about 3.5 out of 5 and would say that it's definitely worth checking out...plus it won't take you long at all to finish.
Summary: A Good Tool For Teenagers and Young Adults
Date: 2008-11-17 -
Comment: An abbreviated version of many of his other works, Buckingham gives readers a fast, and inspiring overview of how to identify you strengths and choose fulfilling roles in The Truth About You.
This book is actually a packet consisting of a twenty-minute DVD, a short 110-page book and a notepad to help a person identify his or hers strengths and weaknesses. The DVD is a summary of Buckingham's belief that people need to play to their strengths, interspersed with a narrative about trombone player who really wants to play drums. I've seen Buckingham's presentation several times before, but this DVD is particularly inspiring. After viewing it, my wife said, "It was the most inspiring thing I've ever seen."
The actual book is short and to the point. Directed towards graduating high school students and younger adults, The Truth About You helps the reader explore his or her personal strengths, and offers practical advice on how to spend more time doing the things that energize you, and less time pursuing the things that drain you.
While there is no spiritual reference in the book, The Truth About You is a good tool to help young people (and not-so-young people) realize who they are and how God has gifted them. While a person can certainly know him or herself apart from this resource, it is a helpful stepping stone to understanding self.
Graduating seniors, and struggling professionals would make a great investment in their future to watch, read and participate in this book.
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