Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-19
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Success and happiness are not accidents that happen to some people and not to others. They are created by specific ways of thinking and acting in the world. Paul McKenna has made a study of highly successful and effective people, and distilled core strategies and techniques that will help the reader to begin to think in the same way as a super-achiever. Learn how to master your emotions and run your own brain, how to have supreme self-confidence and become the person you really want to be. Paul McKenna's simple seven-day plan really will change your life for ever. Brilliantly effective self-improvement, in the bestselling tradition of "Unlimited Power and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".

From the Publisher
This book includes a free CD : CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN SEVEN DAYS MIND PROGRAMMING CD

Customer Reviews

This book tells you how to do it. But you must do it yourself.
I'll start by saying, I have all Paul's books, and I'm a massive admirer of his work and ethos.

There's one massive flaw with this book though. Reading the synopsis, the reviews and even the introductory chapter, you get the impression reading the book will change your life in seven days. If you just read it, you won't. I do feel if I was to knock one mark out of one hundred for this book, it would be that Paul doesn't make it clear enough, you can't just read the book. It's a manual you have to learn from and apply to your life.

Practise, and execution is the key. Paul will show you how to do it, but really you have to do it. I would consider needing 15 mins a day (best in the morning) to go through the exercises.

And when the going gets tough, don't give up. Go back to the methods.

I say this, because I've twice "failed" on the book. I'll go for up to a week, before falling back in bad habits.

Having just split up with my girlfriend, I'm taking on the book again (and Paul's other title 'I Can Mend Your Broken Heart'). And this time I'm going to take on the suggestions, and the life changes religiously. Life I breath air!

And when you do this with the book, its fully worth 5 stars.

Change your life ...at your own pace
I agree wholeheartedly with the rave reviews others have given this book/CD, and I second the notion that the "7 Days" part of the title is quite ambitious. But no one can predict how much reprogramming their own mind will need until the work gets under way. In my first few days of listening and reading, before I noticed any real changes in my outlook or my behaviour, I found myself looking forward to the time I would spend on this. So maybe there were changes already happening that were a bit too subtle for me to recognise them. Within about 3 weeks' time, there was no mistaking that my thought patterns were becoming more positive and now (about 3 months since I first bought the book/CD), it's clear that much of the content has stuck with me and plays itself in my head automatically.
The big message is that you can't just spend 7 days and imagine that your life is "fixed." Buy the book and CD, use it steadily for a week, then come back to it from time to time to make sure you don't take a backward slide into old ways of thinking.
The single most important thing that has stuck with me from this CD is that whatever occupies your attention most is what you will create for yourself. So you are the only one who can decide what that will be, but Paul's book and CD can certainly help make it positive and constructive.
If you find you get tired of listening to the same CD over and over (which did happen to me after about 10 days), try alternating this one with Glenn Harrold's positive thinking CD, which is a bit more relaxing. (I like Paul in the morning and Glenn at night. ;)
So off you go to change your life. Who else is going to do it?

Excellent Guide to Self -help
This book is full of inspirational and easy to read advice, which include many different subjects, and in my opinion, is well worth investing in. The book's advice reminds you that you are in control. It gives clear directions, and it's process really can work very swiftly!

All of the excercises recommended in the book, prepare you to adopt a positive mind frame for your day ahead. My absolute favourite is the 'inner smile' excercise, which when practiced, immediately brings light and helps you to look at situations in your life from a new, relaxed angle.

This is my second review of a book written by Paul McKenna, and along with Elizabeth Bailey's 'SACRED SPACE', I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to improve themselves.

An excellent guide to self-development.

Thank you.