The Book

Personal Best

How ordinary people achieve extraordinary success and how you can too

Personal Best is the distilled wisdom of more than two hundred leaders, thinkers, CEOs and high achievers from around the world. All royalties go to our charity partner.

Overview

Personal Best provides key insights and lessons from global achievers to assist you to reach your full potential in business and in life. After two years of research, interviewing and testing the methods of leaders in business, sports, science, politics and management, Personal Best has been completed to serve as a powerful self-empowerment tool, that gives you not only an understanding of the characteristics of successful people, but direct, easy-to-implement strategies that you can employ to positively impact your life.

The book offers practical advice on what works and what does not. As well as gaining an understanding of the tactics employed by those that have achieved notable success, you will also begin to understand why you do what you do, what your drivers are and how you can harness your mindset to make quantum leaps forward in any area of your life.

Personal Best:

• The myth of natural talent and why intelligent action will win every time.
• The secret power strategies that have worked for the world’s most successful CEOs, greatest athletes and leaders.
• How to rid yourself of the fears that stop you getting what you want.
• Understand the one area in your life you must be clear about, if you are to reach your potential.

The ethos of Personal Best is that each of us, by making minor, incremental improvements, can bring about massive change quickly and sustainably. Your life is about private and personal victories, and if you commit to continuous improvement, you will make progress and gain pride in the personal success of having done something you have never achieved before. If you can do a bit more, be it in the work place, or within the home, if you strive just to be better than you were before, your life will open up and progress more than you can imagine. This commitment to being your Personal Best can be the cornerstone to incredible achievement.

Content

Personal Best the book will:

• Provide direct quotes and stories from those who have succeeded
• Give a simple, structured approach to personal and career achievement
• Show the four strategies that readers can model to make huge leaps in their life.

By understanding and following the guidance given in Personal Best, readers will be able to:

• • Identify their true purpose and passion in life
  • Understand the most important attitudes, principles, and skills shown by high achievers
  • Learn effective ways of identifying their personal niche and become better at what they do consistently.

Contributors

Personal Best would not exist had it not been for the time and insights of a large number of contributors who agreed to share their philosophies. Although some prefer to remain anonymous, I thank them all for their contributions and I am indebted to those listed below, who for no other reason than they felt that their ideas might benefit others, gave up their time and dedicated their minds to assisting in building the central themes of this book.