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Book details for Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life Buy Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
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Larry Winget

Personal Success

Sales rank 91,601 Customers rating (based on 91 reviews)
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

Brief description of Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

This is not your typical self-help book. You won’t find any of your typical motivational platitudes or cute little business parables here. This is more of a "your results are your own damn fault, no one cares about your problems, get off your butt and go to work" approach that can help you achieve more success, make more money, improve your business, and have more fun.

Larry Winget doesn’t pull any punches here. He believes that business gets better when the people in the business get better--sales improve when salespeople improve; customer service improves when the people delivering it improve; and employees get better when their managers get better. It works the same way in your personal life--husbands and wives improve each other when they improve themselves and kids improve when their parents do. In other words, everything in life gets better when you get better, and nothing gets better until you get better.

This book can make you better. However, it will tick you off. Winget is direct, in-your-face, caustic, and controversial. You won’t like or agree with everything he has to say. Yet his advice is full of wisdom and truth that can’t easily be argued with.

Words from Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life that prove that this book is anything but typical:

"If you don’t have much going wrong in your life, then you don’t have much going on in your life."

"When you work, work! When you play, play! Don’t mix the two."

"What you think about, talk about, and do something about is what comes about."

"When it quits being fun--quit."

"Time management is a joke."

And that’s just the beginning!

This is a one-of-a-kind book, from a one-of-a-kind author, that will help you live a one-of-a-kind life.

Book details
PublisherWiley
Release date08/2004
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EditionHardcover
List price$24.95
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Comments by amazon customers about Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

I love people like Larry!
I laughed out loud more than once while reading this book. Even through the passages that could have been aimed at me! Any time bad things happen and I start feeling sorry for myself, I reach for this book and read through it again. Ouch. It stings but does help me get my head back on straight. Larry's right: dreaming doesn't make things happen in your life. DOING does. Gail Strumberger Author "Shock Therapy: Planaphobic"


Expensive kindling for the fireplace
Real disappointment here. If you're looking for any kind of consistent reasoning or argument, don't bother with this book. On his blog, Winget describes himself as a "fiscal conservative" who voted for Obama and is OK with paying more taxes. In this book, he goes from bashing most of the motivational speaker/self-help crowd ("motivational mumbo-jumbo") to feeding the reader New Age claptrap ("God is the Presence of Good and the Action of Love"), while dumping on mainstream religion, in the space of about 30 pages. Add in a bunch of "power of positive thinking" rhetoric and some generic health and fitness advice and you have (according to the cover) a "National Bestseller". You've got to hand it to him when he says "Some of the best-selling books today are total garbage" (p.111). He's apparently talking about his own product. It's a $12 firestarter for my fireplace.

A TRUE KICK BUTT APPROACH
I enjoyed this book. You must be really objective to appreciate this. If you are willing to make the suggested efforts to change your life, it will truly pay off. I feel that this approach to life is better than whining, complaining and blaming others for what is wrong with your life. I'm sure we all know at least one person like this. I also enjoyed Larry Winget's other two books "You are Broke Because You Want to Be" and "It's Called Work For A Reason" I would recommend this book for those who really want to change their lives, but it is not for everyone.

Re-Run
The first part of the book was good and kept you interested, but the second half was a sleeper. I have read all of Mr. Winget's books and this one doesn't meet their standards.

Nothing works till you do
I really like this book.After reaching the age of 54 & having read & listned to my share of"Self-Help" stuff this is refreshingly different.Larry doesn't try to fill your head with sunshine & you can do anything or metaphysical nonsense so popular lately.He's like the Uncle who wasn't afraid to tell you how things are.It's an easy read,but requires you to think & fill out forms to distill your values.I have a problem with some over simplified things though, like"You should forget hope & doubt & instead have faith & certainty & then step out boldly". Not an easy thing to do however in these trying times.



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