Book Review Tuesday: Brian Tracy’s Flight Plan
I recently finished Brian Tracy’s book, Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success. It wasn’t my favorite Tracy book, but I definitely found it useful as it is loaded with some of Brian’s simple truths. The basic premise is that you can chart a course to a goal then follow the “flight plan” to said goal. Probably any analogy breaks down if you carry it too far. The weakness I saw in this book was that keeping the flight plan analogy the whole way through the book felt forced at times. That said, the content is solid. And timely since I read it at year end when, like many others, I was taking stock of my own plans and progress.
Here are a handful of Tracyisms from the book:
- “For you to change your outer world, you must change your inner world.”
- “You have more talent than you could use in a hundred lifetimes.”
- “The most valuable asset you have in achieving your goals and reaching your destination in life is your mind.”
- “Fear is , and always has been, the greatest enemy of mankind.”
At the beginning, Tracy guides the reader through choosing a destination and formulating a plan. Expecting turbulence and making continual course corrections were two parts of the airplane analogy that were especially insightful.
Overall, Flight Plan is well worth the fifteen bucks. In fact, I believe there is a paperback available now.
Tags: books, Brian Tracy
January 6th, 2010 at 9:22 am
A concern I have as I mature is that I continue to teach the same thing over and over with just some moderate change. Most of my heroes fell into this trap. I learned a lot about improving my speech by listening to tapes by Tracy, Peale, Schuller, I never felt Zigler was a good speaker but he was motivational. Dyer I followed from being a professor at Wayne State (an awful speaker) to the present and he is really clear on Self Talk and a better speaker. I never, ever saw him use a note. He just gets up and talks. Toastmasters International gave him the Golden Gavel Award in 89.
I just finished a book by Fran and Louis Cox about “A Conscious Life” Very good but for now, my favorite of all authors is Byron Katie. She has an answer for how I want to live and is easy to understand. Because she can write for herself there is little chance for her message to be distorted. http://www.thework.com