Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life

Lisa Wysocky
Champion Press (2005)
ISBN 1932783423
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (9/06)

“Success Within” is written as a 52-week program that allows you to create the greatest moments of your life.  The book is separated into four sections.  Each section has about 13 weeks of exercises.  The first part is called, “It’s All in Your Mind.”  Wyscocky provides you with exercises to help overcome your limiting beliefs.  If you truly believe that you can do something then it can be done.  This section deals with your state of mind.  It sets the stage for the physical and mental work. 

In the second part, “Treating Others Well,” you work with the power that is involved with helping others.  By helping others, you will see improvements in your life in the areas of personal relationships, your work and your home life.  It is so important to treat others with respect.  In the third part, “Improve Yourself,” you explore the power of helping yourself.  In this section you address creating a plan, and then reevaluating it and updating it as needed.  You learn that it is okay you adjust your plan as changes in your life occur.  The last part, “Bonus Round,” gives you more exercises to help you create life changing moments.

Throughout the book, Wysocky incorporates practical advice based upon her experiences and those of her friends and colleagues.  She wants us to recognize that success is already within us.  It is not about how much money that you make, rather it is about how you make it.  Success and happiness comes from within, not from material possessions.

Even though the book is meant to be read over a 52-week period, I went ahead and read it all the way through.  I recommend doing this because it gave me an idea of the things that I will be working on in the upcoming weeks.  The exercises in this book are fun.  They are broken down into manageable sections.  I am really looking forward to getting started.  Some areas are already strengths for me, so when I get to those parts, the exercises will be very easy.  It is positive to see that I am already doing some of the work.  The other areas in which I need work are areas that I have wanted to improve on.  I think that anyone can do this.  They just have to be ready to get busy and do what needs to be done.  There is so much hope within these chapters. 

I recommend “Success Within” to people that are ready to make positive changes in their lives. It would work well for personal growth groups.   It will provide enough material to cover a whole year.  It can be started at any time; however, I think that it would make a great Christmas gift for someone that will get it in time to get started for the New Year.  I am going to start the exercises now because I can’t wait for the New Year.

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