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I recently read the book called The Power of Focus:What the World’s Greatest Achievers Know About The Secret to Financial Freedom and Success by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt. Here’s what I learned from this amazing book…

The Power of Prioritization

I learned that we should prioritize the night before or the morning of, the important things that you want to do and rank them. I found a really good app for the ipone or ipod touch its called priority matrix which lets you put in tasks based on their urgency and importance, its really good!

Keep the Mind Engaged When You Are Free

It was suggested that reading as much as one can is good. This would include books, magazines, articles and it’s also good to listen to audio books on topics that are motivational and that would help you in being more knowledgeable. It was also suggested that we invest in getting better at things that you are good at. One example is that you could take classes. Keep learning and being curious, and it’s good to try to spend 1 hour if possible to improve at your skill and or learn how to be better. One technique was given where, in the morning, for 20 minutes you could read something in your field that would give you an advantage in your field.

 What do you want and need?

I learned that it is important for you to know what you want and need and then to be able to communicate it to others and you should also be open to asking for help from others in achieving what it is that you want, and then take action. In addition, you can explain why you are there and why you want what you want and then you can ask them, can you help… [or ask them] would you like to …[e.g. help …]. One good hint was that people like it when you give them options, you could say,”would you prefer .. or …..?”

What’s your target (daily, weekly, monthly)?

Setting goals is so important, in this book it was suggested that you make yearly goals, then monthly and weekly, and to try to make them in these areas (Financial, career, and Fun time ,relaxation, health and fitness, relationships and personal contribution – Here’s a link to a fill-in form: http://www.thesuccessprinciples.com/resource/AchieversFocusingSystem.pdf) and even with your spouse or significant other you can sit down and weekly you could make goals.

What’s your weakness?

I think they are saying that you should try to be more reflective, you could use a journal to note down what you need to be better at and then once you realize your weaknesses, to acknowledge them and then to get help to improve this area.

Do what your good at and improve your weaknesses

If you are good at something , to find that  out you should ask what am I able to do really easily and doesn’t require too much study and preparation for me to do, and then you should just do what you are really good at and then let others help you or use their talents and skills to help do those things for you that you are need improvement in.

True power comes from what?

Its all about knowledge, but not only that but to apply that knowledge is true power and then one idea is that once you learn something important you could then try to make a commitment it could be for 21 days where you write it down somewhere that you will apply that…

What would you rank me?

To boost relationships, they suggested that you do these things with some key relationships that you have in your life you can sit down with that person be it a week whenever is convenient and then you could ask that person if he/she could rank you out of 10 in terms of how good you were as their friend/spouse/son/etc..(depends on the type of relationship role) and then whatever mark they give you, you can accept it and then ask them for specific things they could have done to improve to a better number.

Do I like, trust and respect this person?

They were coming to the point that who you hang around with really is important and critical in your progress and that one can try to hang around with successful people but if you are trying to figure out who you would like to hang around with you can ask yourself, do I like this person, do I trust this person and do I respect this person? These are three things you could ask yourself to help you decide if you want to associate with this person or not.

 

Habits are important

Write down the bad unproductive habit and the long term consequences and then define the new habit you want and the benefits and then make actions steps at least 3 and then a start date.

What are the needs of others and focus on them

Criticize alone, praise in public

Mentor is important

It is important to have a mentor, its “someone with vast experience or unique talents, who is willing to share ideas with you on a regular basis…mentee [is responsible] to use it…[to] further career/financial status/…personal/family life”p.139

What’s our purpose?

Its’ important to have a purpose or a mission you could write it out, if you already have one they suggested to call it Our Purpose

Where to gain wisdom?

Talking to people and reading good books was what I learned from this book to improve one’s level of wisdom.  

Are vacations important?

Yes and it was suggested that we take 6 weeks off to relax and recharge where one would not think of doing work or any other related tasks.

Here are some more resouces you could check out: http://www.thesuccessprinciples.com/resources_index.php

Would you please leave a comment, I’d love to hear your response to this book review, thanks.

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