If you are ready to make a positive change in your life but don’t know where to begin I suggest you read Anthony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within. You will learn how to control of your life using your most important asset, your brain, and use it to take immediate action towards your goals.

Awaken the Giant Within will direct you towards achieving your goals and serve as a constant resource while achieving those goals. Learn how to reprogram your mind and change the way you view the world and thus changing your outcomes in life.

Anthony Robbins and the tools in this book have helped me achieve my dreams. Many talk of changing their lives in order to stop smoking, lose weight, or become financially secure. By reading this book you will take immediate action towards these goals. Once on the path toward your dreams you will realize your potential is limitless.

The most important lesson I learned while reading this book was how to change limiting beliefs in my life and start dreaming again. I learned you truly can achieve what your mind believes.

I recommend your reading this book and using it as a reference as you work towards your goals. Using the tools in Awaken The Giant Within you will produce positive change in your life.

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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne gives insight into how we can affect our lives through what we read, think, feel and do. Byrne’s book is an outstanding compilation of examples of how you can change your life through implementing simple “secrets” such as the power of positive thinking.

I always find it fascinating to hear stories of others success in life. The Secret is full of inspirational stories and practical advice on how to become successful in all areas of your life.

If you read a few pages of this book a day and assimilate the advice and practices described, you will lead a more fulfilling life. I recommend your keeping this book close at all times during the day to use as quick reference when challenges arise.

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Michael began his adult life as most of us do, graduating college and working for a large corporation. As many working professionals can relate, he discovered working in a large company was not his true direction in life. If you are stuck in a cubicle hard at work and are trying to avoid the political drama at work, you will share his angst when he speaks of attending unproductive meetings and his yearning to leave a boring job.

Katz attained his goal of leaving his “secure” job with a large company and striking out on his own. If you are thinking of leaving your job, or you have recently joined the ranks of solo professional, this book is a must for you. The greatest benefit to the reader is the authors ability to candidly tell us his experience, and make the reader realize he is not alone in his struggle to make it in the world as a solo professional.

Since I am also a mid-life individual who changed course in his professional life, I felt as if he was speaking directly to me, although I can’t relate to his struggle with baldness. My hair is all there, but has turned gray.

The chapter I enjoy most is entitled “Become a Leading Expert in Something”. Michael Katz is an expert in development of electronic newsletters, and one day found himself with a client who was a life coach. This life coach had lived the majority of her life with chronic illness, but had not capitalized on her uniqueness in raising a family and building a successful career while battling this illness. Michael while consulting with the life coach on a newsletter was able to refocus her efforts and declare her new expertise. Now the life coach can be defined as an expert in the field of thriving in the workplace while having a chronic illness.

If you are on the fence thinking of starting your own business you will enjoy his “10 Really Good Reasons to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business”. Some of the top ten reasons I enjoyed include: dancing to your own music, never having to retire, and finding your purpose.

This book is typical Michael Katz, funny, informative, and a great read. Although his book focuses on the solo professional, much of his advice transcends the sol proprietor and is good advice in being successful in both your personal and business life.

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Fishing for crabs is a simple sport and is quite rewarding. The hoped-for result is a bucket full of crabs and ultimately a sweet and succulent meal. Each feisty little crab seems like a precious treasure on the end of a string.

Early on I discovered crabs enjoy eating chicken as much as I did, so my brother and I would stop at the grocery store for some pieces of fresh chicken before heading off to the seawall. After tying a morsel of chicken to the end of the string, we would toss it out into the water and wait a few minutes, hoping the crabs would take the bait. Slowly we would pull the string in hand over hand until the chicken would reach the surface.

If the line felt heavier than when we threw it out, we know we probably caught something, hopefully a blue crab! As the chicken neared the surface I would hold a net attached to long aluminum pole with one hand, anticipating the crab letting go of the chicken when it reached the surface. And there it was, my first blue crab of the evening! I quickly place the net under the crab and pulled up on the string. Immediately the crab let go of the chicken and fell into my trap.

Swinging the net up onto the shore, I would flip it over on top of the bucket so the crab fell into the water-filled waiting room below. Sometimes the crab would fight and not let go of the net, and I had to carefully remove the netting from it’s claws, attempting not to slip and have one of the powerful claws attach to one of my fingers. After some experience crabbing I discovered a method of holding their sandpaper-like shell so they couldn’t turn their claws and bite me. Sometimes I had to do this, but always feared them slipping because they where wet and sometimes had mud or sand on them, making my grip precarious.

After the first crab fell to the bottom of the bucket, it would struggle and open its claws showing its displeasure with me, almost as if it knew it was about to become my dinner. The sound it made scrapping along the side of the bucket reminds me of a horror movie where this big mean man with claws on his hands would attack unsuspecting kids like me.

Inspired by my first catch, I’d continue on, becoming more excited with every crab I pulled out of the ocean and tossed into my bucket. Between my brother and me, it wasn’t long before we’d have a few dozen crabs – enough for a hearty meal. As a tribute to the crabs that got away I would toss the remaining chicken into the ocean, wishing the crabs well. I’d tell them to have an enjoyable feast because tomorrow I’d be back and they might not be spared.

On the way back from one of these crabbing ventures, carrying a particularly full bucket of crabs, something pretty astounding came to my young mind. When only one crab was in the bucket it would struggle to get out, clawing and scrapping at the sides. On this night when the bucket was full and a crab tried to get escape, the other crabs would pull it back down. It was as if the newly formed colony of crabs decided that any renegade crabs that tried to escape should be detained and forced to suffer the same fate as the rest of the group.

Now of course, these are crabs we’re talking about here and I’m not naive enough to expect them to realize that if they were to band together in support most of them could climb right out of the bucket. I can’t tell you how many times since my early-in-life “crab revelation” I’ve thought about that bucket of crabs.

When alone and not scrutinized by others, I would take risks toward a goal because I had no fear of failing. Unfortunately we are often surrounded by people who aren’t supportive of our goals, and may make negative comments or even create obstacles to our success. Because of these negative influences, we’re likely to get tangled in the bottom of the bucket, and lose our drive to rise to the top.

After fishing for many days I spotted a lone crab fighting his way out of the bucket. Breaking free of the other crabs, he scaled the side of the bucket and pull his way up and over the rim. He gleefully (I swear I saw him smile) scurried back to the ocean, no longer destined for my dinner platter.

That crab has long held a spot on my personal list of unlikely heroes, as he was exceptional in his drive to separate himself from the dismal fate of his community. He knew somehow, that he had a choice, in spite of what the group had to say, and knew as well, that he was destined for more. As people, the pressures of our lives and our peers may be more complicated than those faced by my crustacean friend, but his example is valuable, nonetheless. Similar to the way this one crab left the others behind, it takes a truly unique person to leave the crowd and excel in life.

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