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Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
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Sales rank 637,210
Customers rating (based on 36 reviews)
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When our "ordinary" neighbor, colleague, or cousin suddenly rockets to success, most of us chalk up their good fortune to pure luck, politics, or backbreaking work. But in most cases these factors have nothing to do with it. Author Brian Tracy lets us in on the true secret of high achievers: They know how to find their focal point--the one thing they should do, at any given moment, to get the best possible results in each area of their lives. In this powerful guide, Tracy brings together the very best ideas on personal management into a simple, easy-to-use plan. Focal Point helps readers analyze their lives in seven key areas and shows them how to develop goals and plans in each. This book answers those nagging questions that haunt us throughout our lives: * "How can I get control of my time and my life?" * "How can I achieve maximum career success and still balance my personal life?" * "How can I handle it all and still be happy and fulfilled?" Tracy provides timeless truths that have been discovered by effective people throughout the ages. He shows how to develop absolute clarity about who you are, what you want, and exactly how you can move quickly toward accomplishing those goals that bring you the highest level of personal satisfaction. Readers who follow these simple steps will accomplish more in the next couple of years than most people achieve in a lifetime!
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| Publisher | AMACOM | | Release date | 10/2001 | | Availability | | | Edition | Hardcover |
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 Perhaps Tracy's best book to date
This is undoubtably Brian Tracy's best work to date, his magnum opus. In this great book, Brian Tracy shows you how to concentrate (focus) on what is most important and achieve your goals. He shows you how to double, even triple your income while having more time off.
I have many of Brian Tracy's books and audio programs. And while everything Tracy does is excellent, Focal Point, is in my opinion, his best work. It is Brian Tracy's magnum opus---Focal Point has had the greatest impact in my personal and professional life.
In Focal Point, Tracy shows you to identify what your focal point is in each area of your life and then asks you to direct all of your energies with laser like focus on that area. Focus is like a laser beam. Just like a laser beam can cut through steel when properly focused and directed, focus as descibed in Focal Point can help you cut through barriers that have been holding you back to achieving your goals. I have a lot of books that I have read and given away. I keep all of Brian Tracy's book and Focal Point is one that I refer to again and again. Good? No. Excellent work Mr. Tracy!
With so many things to do, how do you determine where to concentrate your efforts? Brian explains how. How do you simplify your life? Brian shows you how.
This is a great book also recommend Time Power by Brian Tracy.
Focal Point Both Asks the Right Questions, and Provides Valuable Answers
In the first two pages of Focal Point, Brian Tracy tells an anecdote so powerful and real, readers could stop right there and still receive tremendous value. He walks the walk by making the focal point of his book crystal clear. But it's just as well he wrote the following 222 pages, as he provides so many ways to translate the core concept into everyday practices.
He applies the "Focal Point Process" to financial, spiritual, community, and personal objectives. Chapters include "Improve Your Family and Personal Life", "Enjoy Superb Health and Fitness", "Make a Difference in Your Community" and Spiritual Development and Inner Peace".
The ideas may not be novel, but the combination is robust, and the touchstones are useful in shifting to a more positive and effective mindset. For example, the "1,000 Percent Formula" offers the approach of achieving great change incrementally. The "Law of Increasing Returns" states that the more you focus time on activities that bring the most value, the better and more efficient you get at doing them, so your returns on effort and energy increase. "Zero-based thinking" means asking yourself, "`Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn't get into again if I were starting over today....If your answer is `yes', then your next question is, `How do I get out of this situation, and how fast?'"
Focal Point consolidates time management and prioritization guidelines useful in life and business. Collectively, the perspectives and questions both challenge current thought patterns (which may not be so productive) and suggest new ones (which are productive). Throughout, Focal Point encourages readers to concentrate on the activities through which they provide the greatest value, and accordingly, absorbing this underlying theme may be greatest value readers gain from the book.
Tracy does it again
Brian Tracy is my business mentor. I was pleased to see Focal Point go beyond his typical goal setting & business ethics focus and touch on personal, health, and spiritual goals as well. If you want to build a well rounded life, the Brian Tracy way, pick up this book. A great motivator and author indeed.
Powerful tools for any professional
I'm constantly reading books on small business trends and how to maximize productivity. A friend recommended I read Brian Tracy's book and I was impressed. This book is packed full of powerful techniques to grow your business and yourself. I recommend this book to anyone looking to take their work ethic or business to the next level. Byron Walker byron@UltimateResultsNow.com
 Tracy's SLAM strategy is selfish
Say I get married and afterwards my wife develops a debilitating disease. If I had known what I know now, I wouldn't have gotten married to her. Tracy's advice: dump her as fast as you can.
Say I agree to help my friend move. When I arrive at his place I find out that he's a packrat and has tons of stuff to move. If I had known what I know now, I wouldn't have agreed to help him move. Tracy's advice: get out of your commitment to help as fast as you can.
In both these cases, there is no regard for commitments you have made to other people.
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