Today Matters
12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
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4.4 • 130 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerate yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. The truth is that the most important day you will ever experience is today. Today is the key to your success. Maxwell offers 12 decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can be learned and mastered by any person to achieve success.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maxwell (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership) serves up his usual dose of uplifting advice. This book's message is broader than some of his earlier business tomes, in that he uses his marriage, work experience and anecdotes from people such as basketball coach John Wooden, businessman Armand Hammer and actor Christopher Reeve to explore his theme of the importance of making sound decisions on a daily basis. Too many people dwell on what happened yesterday, according to Maxwell, who believes that, instead, people can maximize what they accomplish every day by focusing on a dozen key areas including family, finances, faith, values and growth. By having clear priorities in each of these areas, Maxwell says that people will actually have fewer decisions to make because their vision will be so clear. Maxwell's tone is straightforward and his advice is sound, if obvious. For example, he offers a list of negative phrases ("Maybe, I'm afraid, I don't believe ) that he thinks should be eliminated from one's vocabulary. As expected from this pastor, he also stresses religious faith and the importance of families. Readers hoping for creative and original advice in solving their problems are likely to be disappointed, but others may still find the book's message uplifting, especially amid today's corporate scandal and concern with declining ethical values.
Customer Reviews
AMAZING!
Excellent read! Very inspiring and practical information. I definitely will be implementing the lessons learned from reading this; ESPECIALLY the last chapter! Thanks John for sharing your thoughts with us and putting “pen to paper.”
Too much Christian dogma for a self-help book
Lots of good advice, but be warned that it’s pretty heavy on Christian dogma. There’s an entire chapter on why faith is important, and specifically why you should give your life to Jesus.
It’s hard to put much credibility into a self-help book that tells you to turn to the writer’s preferred deity for help.
Without the religious propaganda, it’s a decent read. Just be prepared for lots of its advice to be backed up by bible quotes and Billy Graham references.
Helpful, actionable and motivating
Love reading books like these. I feel so motivated to make a change.