Terri Zwierzynski :: Personal Growth Princess

This 5-Minute Personal Growth Book Review was submitted by guest reviewer, Terri Zwierzynski.

First thing I noticed about Get Unstuck and Get Going, by Michael Bungay Stanier is it’s not really a book! It’s not something you sit down and read cover-to-cover – in fact I don’t even know how you would go about doing that, because the format is so unique. I was reminded of a learning tool I bought for my children to help them learn to spell simple words, where all the letters of the alphabet are arranged in 4 columns and they flip them until they get the right letters lined up. Except in this book, the columns are rows, and they contain three intriguing sets of tools full of awesome wisdom in easily absorbable “bites”.

The first tool is a set of 50 inspiring stories. Little real-life bites, some familiar, others obscure, but all emotionally powerful. The second is a set of provocative quotes. (I’m a sucker for quotes so this is my favorite section!) The third is called Powerful Models, and contains various simple but potent human dynamics models. So when you are stuck, you can open this book and flip through the various combinations (125,000 of them!) to find one or more that shakes loose your thinking, inspires you to action, or simply helps you let go of something that is holding you back. Plus there is a simple template called the Action Acceleration(tm) sheet that guides you through the process quickly and easily (you can download the sheets online, also.)

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Terri Zwierzynski, MBA (UNC-Chapel Hill) became a corporate refugee in 2001, after 15 years of employment with technology companies big and small. A non-conformist at heart, Terri Z is now The Solo-CEO: a self-employed internet marketing consultant to solo entrepreneurs and a grassroots promoter of the “solo entrepreneur lifestyle”. She runs www.Solo-E.com, the resource website for solo entrepreneurs which attracts thousands of visitors monthly from over 100 countries on six continents.

This 5-Minute Personal Growth Book Review was submitted by guest reviewer, Terri Zwierzynski.

Occasionally a book comes along that you just know you are going to keep, and read over and over again.

Many famous books teach the concept that what you THINK is more important than what you DO: Think and Grow Rich, The Power of Positive Thinking, Rich Dad Poor Dad. The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can The Jackrabbit Factor [book review] , by Leslie Householder, belongs on your bookshelf right alongside these classics. With a mesmerizing style that draws you in, this book is an easy and compelling read, and a clever use of a story to explain the Law of Attraction.

The Jackrabbit Factor tells the tale of a young father (Richard) who wants badly to make a comfortable life for his wife (Felicity) and son — and just can’t understand why his much-less-hard-working brother enjoys such easy successes, while he toils away. Even when he takes his brother’s advice to “do this” or “try that”, things just never seem to work out.

One day, he storms out of the house in frustration. With nowhere else to go, he takes a walk into the woods and eventually collapses into an exhausted sleep — a “power nap” that will change his fortunes forever. As Felicity has her own breakdown of sorts, Richard enters a dreamland full of encounters with cleverly-named characters, each with a lesson for him to learn.

This book can truly be a life-changing experience for the reader. I can’t wait to re-read it often and, at the right moment, share it with my children.

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