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You're So Money: The Skinny on Success
By MP Dunleavey Tuesday May 18, 2010
Cliff Notes with a kick Your potential is dazzling. Your will to succeed—a tireless force. So what will your pool-side reading look like this summer?
Check out "The Skinny on Success", part of a new series of short books on deep topics by entrepreneur Jim Randel, illustrated with stick figures, no less.
At first, cartoons seem like a flip way to approach a puzzle that the greatest minds in history have grappled with. (Can Bill, the unhappy stick figure CPA, succeed as a stand-up comic? Do we care?)
But Randel uses the conceit of striving for something you want to dig into the meatier issues that drive people to succeed.
Strength-training
In comic-book format, he uses pithy quotes, new research and nuggets from seminal books—"Do You," by Russell Simmons; "Outliers," by Malcolm Gladwell—to strip success down to its nuts, bolts and gears.
Never mind about innate talent and intelligence. Success comes from the strength and skill you source from within: being true to what you love to do, working your bootie off, enduring discomfort and failure—and keepin' on keepin' on.
"Success is not just about what is visible," Randel writes. "The true keys to success—heart and will—cannot be seen a first glance."
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Need to boost your moxie? "The Skinny on Success" will kick you into gear. Hmmm... just like another short-and-sweet resource you love.
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Written by Lina Pearson, May 20, 2010
I'm aware that what most often motivates me to look for $ success (a better job)are negative events (like the hour-and-a-half I spent in traffic yesterday)and surprise expenses.
I look forward to recommending this book to our library and borrowing it for some positive inspirations.
I look forward to recommending this book to our library and borrowing it for some positive inspirations.
I don't mean to 'hijack' this post...
But, I have a question related to the CNN calculator you cited several days ago, and I wasn't sure that you were still reading comments on that post.
I entered our info, and the response was 'your investments need to gain an average of -0.42% to attain your goal.' I don't understand how it can be negative. We do have quite a bit of money saved, but the asset total has to roughly double before we retire in 20 or so years to attain the goal (in order to account for the effects of inflation). Does this result mean that we just don't have to put aside any money annually into our retirement account? It certainly cannot mean that our current assets can lose 0.42% annually. (And, I am a compulsive saver, so I will save no matter what it means....)
THanks
Cynthia