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A practical, easy-to-use guide to implementing positive thinking

Change your thinking chane your life

Great book-horrible author

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Brian Tracy has done it again! Amazon, you need to give more stars!!!!!! 10 stars at least!!

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement
Brian Tracy
Manufacturer: Wiley
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CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE

"Every line in this book is bursting with truth, wisdom, and power. Brian Tracy is the preeminent authority on showing you how to dramatically improve your life. Let him be your guide. I've learned so much from Brian myself that I can't thank him enough!"
—Robert G. Allen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"This book gives you a step-by-step system to transform your thinking about yourself and your potential, enabling you to achieve greater success in every area of your life."
—Lee Iacocca, Chairman, Lee Iacocca & Associates

"Once again, Brian Tracy has written an incredible book which shows individuals how to delve into their inner resources so that they can not only identify realistic goals but develop a plan on how to achieve these goals. This book promises to be a bestseller and to influence the lives of so many. It is must reading."
—Sally Pipes, President, Pacific Research Institute

"Outstanding! Brian Tracy's Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is a must-read. Use the powerful 'mental software' program in this book to tap your vast inner resources and bring the life you've been dreaming about into reality."
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Full Steam Ahead!

"As usual, Brian Tracy has hit another home run with Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. It's a must-read!"
—Mac Anderson, founder, Successories, Inc.

"Brian's new book, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, will show you how to attract the people and resources you need to achieve any goal you set for yourself."
—Tony Jeary, Mr. Presentation, author of Life Is a Series of Presentations

"This is a masterful book laden with wisdom and knowledge. It'll catapult you from intention to implementation. It arms you with the information and insights you need to achieve success and significance in your life."
—Nido R. Qubein, founder, National Speakers Association Foundation Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Company

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A practical, easy-to-use guide to implementing positive thinking.......2007-09-24

The power of positive thinking is highly touted in both personal growth and business management circles. But enthusiasts often use fuzzy language that blunts the application of this mental instrument. Help is here. In this easy-to-read book, Brian Tracy outlines a step-by-step plan for developing and applying mental power to professional and personal challenges. Although the text is marred by repetition and recycled material, his message is worth repeating: Mental images shape the physical world. We consider this book meaningful reading for professionals who are caught in a rut or seeking a path around workplace snares.

Change your thinking chane your life.......2007-09-06

This is an excellent book for personal development. It has really made me
think differently towards situtation I might not have.

Great book-horrible author.......2007-02-06

Love the work of this man; but do not like the man himself. Had an opportunity to meet him. I walked right past him not even knowing it was him---he doesn't stand out in a crowd or look like his photo. He is very short and thin. His presence is nothing short of ordinary. What is worse is his performance. What a negative, nasty, mean and opinionated man he is. I would never buy any of his books or products again or pay to see him. His remarks regarding overweight people ("fat nitwits and nicmpoofs") and unemployed people ("they just don't get it") were not only mentioned once but MULTIPLE times during his seminar. During the performance, several people had left their cell phones on (stupid on their parts, I know and rude too). He laughed outloud, slapped his hand on his knee and said something like "what kind of nitwit would take an entire day off of work and pay $--- to see me, and then spend half the day answering his cell phone and going back into the lobby?". I agree with him but it was just so, well, for lack of better words utterly unprofessional.

Immediately useful.......2006-12-29

The first half of the book is all you need. I benefited almost immediately as I shut off the whining negative thoughts and replaced them with positive ones. I borrowed it from the library before I decided to fork out the money to buy it.
The second half is a bit too specific in some areas to be generally useful, but still good.

Brian Tracy has done it again! Amazon, you need to give more stars!!!!!! 10 stars at least!!.......2006-10-13

I can truthfully say that two major behavioral changes made an impact on my life. The first was to shut off the tv, radio, stop watching the news and reading the newspaper and listening to negative politicians (especially the democrats) and the second was to read good quality books, listen to quality tapes and attend seminars by quality people like Brian Tracy.

Change Your Thinking Change Your Life adds and acompiments Brian's other work. It is different. It is 12 chapters and 270 pages chock full of powerful advice that can make a substantial change in your life.

Today, more than ever, people are polarized with popular opinion. Brian Tracy's new book can help change that opinion, help you change your thinking and change your life...for the better.

Based on 30 years of teaching to more than 2,000,000 people and actual application Change Your Thinking, Change Your life will help you make all of your dreams come true.

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Suculentas Recetas en un Abrir y Cerrar de Ojos

Le presentamos el complemento perfecto al libro La Nueva Revolución Dietética del Dr. Atkins con suculentas recetas que podrán pasar de la estufa a su mesa en treinta minutos o incluso menos.

Olvídese de la ensalada sin aderezo, o de las resecas pechugas de pollo sin piel y de las insípidas verduras cocidas. Olvídese de las pequeñas porciones, de los alimentos sin grasa o desabridos, y dese el gusto de repetir su platillo favorito. Olvídese de pasar horas en la cocina. Con las deliciosas recetas de El Nuevo Libro de Cocina Dietética del Dr. Atkins se regocijará con jugosos filetes, suculentas costillas, deliciosos huevos y platillos con queso; además podrá permitirse el placer de gozar de cremosas salsas y postres.

Cada receta especifica la cantidad de carbohidratos por porción, e incluso contiene una guía para convertir sus propias recetas de acuerdo al estándar Atkins. Este libro de cocina está diseñado para alimentarse saludablemente y le ayudará a preparar comidas deliciosas todos los días, con lo que se sentirá como nuevo.

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Buen libro.......2007-01-11

tiene buena cantidad de recetas e ideas asi como explicaciones del uso de alimentos.

Libro excelente!!.......2004-04-08

This is an excellent book. I have lost 20-lbs (from 167 - 147) and I just couldn't lose more than 5-lbs on low calorie diets. This one works and I'm never hungry because of the diet.

I bought this book for a dear friend of mine who only reads in spanish. I don't know if she'll be able to do the diet or not because of tortillas and black beans (she has a husband and two children) but we'll see how she does :)

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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 671 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Improving business performance. (Books).(Performance Measurement and Management Control: A Compendium of Research)(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Lance A. Thompson
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Volume: 84 Issue: 8 Page: 23(2)

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In the midst of the biggest bull market in history, many investors are wondering why they have not achieved better results. The reason, as Robert Markman clearly and compellingly shows, is that the financial services industry has promoted strategies that are doomed to failure.

Hazardous to Your Wealth: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the madness of Mutual Fund Experts is a fascinating expose of the misguided and ineffective advice that passes for conventional wisdom in todays investment world. Learn the truth about the delusions that can cost you profits: * Why international funds wont help your portfolio
* Why value funds are not the safe and prudent choice
* Why small-cap funds are doomed to lag the market
* Why advice from financial planners often reduces your potential for long-term profits

In Hazardous to Your Wealth, veteran investment adviser Robert Markman does more than just show that the mutual fund emperor has no clothes. He also helps you break out of mediocre returns by sharing with you solid, practical, easy-to-follow advice; the same advice that has generated millions of dollars of gain in todays market for thousands of investors like you. Before you make your next investment move, you must read this book...then give it to your financial planner and watch him squirm!

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Don't bother........2002-09-03

This book is useless. If you bought into Markman's scheme, you have been hurt...badly. Markman obliterated his investors (Markman Multi-funds) over the past 2 and 1/2 years and is merging all of his funds into one to bury his abysmal performance. This book is drivel and was written by Markman to market his money management business. Run, do not walk, away from this self-promoting fluff.

All the Wrong Stuff.......2002-03-29

This screed is filled with truly awful mutual fund investment advice. The book has two redeeming virtues. The first is its rich lode of unintended humor, beginning with its title. Its other virtue is the advice here is so bad that a completely contrarian strategy has much merit: Do use indexed funds and whenever possible avoid using actively managed funds. Do not overweight your portfolio with US large cap growth funds, instead diversify. Making sure to include investments in large cap value funds, small cap value funds, and micro cap funds.
Mr. Markman makes much of checking the historical performance of investment strategies. So lets check the historical record. Three of Mr. Markman's mutual funds have been in existence for over five years. Here are the five year annual growth rates for the three funds as reported by Morningstar in March of 2002, Aggressive -1.21%, Moderate -0.12%. and Conservative 1.76%. Had you invested $100,000 in each of these three funds five years ago, your $300,000 investment would be worth $302,611 today.
Mr. Markman vehemently disapproves of the diversified indexed investment strategies of the DFA family of funds. Consider three of their indexed funds in asset classes Mr. Markman beseeches investors to avoid. Namely,the DFA large cap value fund, small cap value fund, and micro small cap fund. They had the following five year annual growth rates in March of 2002. Large Cap Value 11.74%, Small Cap Value 14.64%, and Micro Small Cap 10.98%. (Morningstar was again the source of the data.) Had you invested $100,000 in each of these three funds five years ago, your $300,000 investment would be worth $540,559 today.
Avoid this nonsense like the plague. For sound investment advice read the books by Malkiel, William Bernstein, Swedroe, Bogle, and Charles Ellis instead.

Wrong-headed. It simply doesn't work!.......2000-12-08

All of the other reviews here were written within a few days or weeks of when the book came out, which leads me to believe that the readers were Markman's friends or clients. The reviews seem to stop once it got to roughly February, because that's when the roof came in on Markman's logic.

He was lagging the indexes for years before -- he lost a famous bet with Vanguard founder Jack Bogle that his Markman funds could outperform an index fund -- and so he came up with this garbage to justify his bad numbers.

It worked, for awhile, mostly because the market was being kind to the kinds of stocks he favored.

But about two months after this book came out, the market tanked. And now that Markman disdains diversification, investors in his mutual funds have suffered big losses in 2000 due to this strategy.

I recently attended a conference in Boston where Markman was on a panel, and it became clear that most of his ideas were easily debunkjed.

He gave away free copies of this book. I read it hoping to see more in it, to see some basic reason why he came to these conclusions and how maybe I had missed something when he got whupped on stage that day. It just doesn't stand the test of time.

Even though I got the book for free, it wasn't worth the investment of time it took to read it.

A Peek Behind th Curtain.......2000-04-09

The underlying message of this book is that for long-term results, invest in large cap US stocks, or funds comprised thereof. Chapter two effectively debunks using small caps as a significant part of a long-term portfolio, both with tight reasoning and solid data. Chapter 3 argues against using international funds for diversification, again with data for support. It would have been nice to include data supporting his contention that international funds' performances are due more to currency fluctuations than an increase in the intrinsic values of the stocks.

The rest of the book, besides a refreshing discussion of the difference between risk and volatility, was basically an expostulation as to why US is currently the best place to invest and will likely remain so. Again all very interesting and possibly true, but not a great deal of hard data was cited for support.

Besides wishing for more data to support his arguments, another quibble I have is his rather confident view on how effective and open the government and private regulation of the US market is. While our financial system IS amazingly honest (after serving 6 years as a Foreign Service Officer in Africa and a year in India, I know graft and corruption!), he doesn't even mention our S&L fiasco.

It's a book worth reading, though a serious editor could have reduced it to a longish magazine article. I am not about to jettison all my "myths...delusions and...madness," but I'm going to check out the other authors he recommends. It's clearly worth a peek behind the wizard's curtain!

A Breath Of Fresh Air.......2000-02-09

An enjoyable read, Markman skewers the prevailing wisdom in many areas. If you think you know what you should do about asset allocation, investing overseas, or snagging some small caps, Markman will set you straight with appropriate data and well-reasoned arguments. This is not a get-rich quick book, but packs more punch than anything I have read in the investment field lately.

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A conceptual framework to help you bridge the gap between faith and works--between what you do and what God does. It paints a picture for you to help you know you can partnership with God to do your dream-what's in your heart-what you were born to do. It addresses another whole realm to operate in and how to get there. It deals with the things that hold you back from doing your dream: money, communication, counsel and control.

You'll discover: If you dream is God-given, why is it so hard to pursue it? How partnering with God makes scriptural principles come alive. Business is a high calling of God. And what's the deal with gifts, skills, abilities and talents.

If you want more out of life-and you're willing to look to God to find it--this book is for you.

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Excellent reading about one man's experiences of God's guidance into enjoyment of Himself by being himself. .......2006-11-07

I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone seeking the heart of God in "business". Life is business, marriage is business, as well as our vocation/occupation, and this author takes you to the heart of what it takes to please God. I was touched and drawn with the intensity of sincerity, honesty and compassion to see God's people be everything they are created to be in every area of "business".

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on February 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1460 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: State Sales And Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis.
Author: Roland Calia
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2001
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: 17 Issue: 1 Page: 49

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The economic impact of replacing Federal income taxes with a sales tax (Policy analysis)

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The economic impact of replacing Federal income taxes with a sales tax (Policy analysis)
Laurence J Kotlikoff
Manufacturer: Cato Institute
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ASIN: B0006P1JJK

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1927. Historians and biographers have written many estimates of Andrew Jackson's career that might fairly be summed up in his mother's words: "The General kicked the kivers off and we cotch cold." The General kicked right lustily. He kicked off many of the warm wrappings that swathed the young republic from the bitter blasts of democracy. He kicked away the existing political system and substituted one more to his liking. He was the most uncomfortable of political bedfellows. The author tells the tale of Jackson in this light, with no holds barred. Illustrated.

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Andrew Jackson: An Epic in Homespun.
GERALD W.- JOHNSON
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RQCG4A

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Andrew Jackson. An Epic in Homespun.
Gerald W. JOHNSON
Manufacturer: (JACKSON, ANDREW). JOHNSON, Gerald W. Andrew Jackson. An Epic in Homespun. N.Y., 1927. Illus. 303pp. Orig. cloth.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S8UI6U

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Touching the Halo is a guide to the spiritual and emotional journey of parenting a child with a disability. Rebecca York has used the metaphor of living with an angel and enrolling in The University of Angel Studies to explain the journey and her struggle toward acceptance. The story follows personal upheaval and the steps involved in creating a meaningful lifestyle. Anyone who has experienced a catastrophic event knows that life is permanently altered. Although there have been many self-help books written on the cycles of acceptance (denial, bargaining, grief, anger, acceptance) texts on parenting a child with disabilities usually provide practical tips for managing a disability lifestyle. Ms. York has taken the steps of acceptance deeper. Her search for the answer to the big question, "why?", takes her to the heart of every parent's frustration. Ultimately, she achieves acceptance, not only of her son's disability, but of herself. Her admissions of less than perfect personal qualities are written with soul searing honesty. Without sugar coating reality this book leaves the reader with a sweet appreciation of life.

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