I haven't read it

This was a gift, they seemed to like it. My friend did say though that the woman talks about her problems more than helping the reader. when she does help the read it's more like an abusive mother telling the 'child' what to do. they did say that's what she needed though.

Because you are worth it

Flip It is a really great read !<br />We are all unique ! Whether you are grumpy and enjoy your glass being half empty or you are an enthusiast who delights in your glasses being half full, you will find Flip It entertaining and challenging.<br />It can provide a brilliant opportunity to press your pause button and reflect on the hows in your life !<br />Why am I choosing to recomend Flip It ? <br />Like that famous commercial says" Because you are worth it !"

points us in a new direction

I love the direction Seth Godin is going with his recent books. Firstly 'The Dip' and now this complete gem. He takes a new angle on excellence and as always his ideas are fresh and invigorating. For most of this book I was feeling a bit confused as how on earth I could make this relevant to my job/career, but towards the end the ideas were flowing. Have blazed ahead and already received positive feedback on my work and have a new sense of direction. For someone seasoned in success & self management literature this was a welcome kick up the backside! Seth writes like a real person, not a jargon-filled boffin. This book goes deep as well, and I mean Pema Chodron deep. Should be given to kids at school it is that important. Buy for everyone (and your kids if they can read!)

Great book, simple message

Such an easy book to read but the message is clear and helps it to stick. A valuable guide for anyone in business no matter what level

It does exactly what it says on the cover!

The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook is a recommended tome for the writing course that I have just started, so this is the first copy I have ever bought. What a useful volume it is! It does exactly what it says on the cover; this splendid book is indispensable to anyone with half an interest in writing. Apart from the obvious lists of publications and publishers etc, it contains many really useful articles by well known authors, including J K Rowling, Bernard Cornwell and the great Terry Pratchett. Its 822 pages are jam packed with inspiration and practical advice from the real experts; every aspiring wordsmith needs one!

Bought it as a present

Have read the book a while ago and bought it for a friend as a present, so it's obvious that I would recommend it.

disappointment after using software and returning to the book

My interest was high up to and including using the software and reading the results. <br /><br />When returning to read the rest of the book I was disappointed to find it contained virtually the same information as the software reports and offered no further insights.

Stop working, start living

Great book, very inspirational, speaks my language! The working week should be less hours than our leisure time! Goes on a bit too long in places and I haven't got to the end of it yet but its very inspiring if you dream of getting out of the rat race and start working to live. Haven't put the ideas into practice yet so cannot say whether his techniques will work. I guess if you persevere and want it bad enough you will succeed. Some good sense practical ideas with a bit of philosophy of life too...of course you may need to change your outlook on life and attitude to pave the way for success, fulfilment and happiness......i.e money isn't everything, just a means to an end

a brilliant book

This book is a brilliant and should you read this, and tap into NLP and watch the secret your well on your way, this is a well researched book and it is modern lanuage so its not hard to understand. highly recommended.

Probably the best on the market.

I teach final year project at undergrad level and found this little gem not long back.<br />It's an easy and accessible guide for both dissertation writers and planners, both of which can be quite stressful. This should help to clarify the reasons you are doing a dissertation and thus help ease some of the stress.<br />If you are about to write one, get this book, oh, and good luck!

Slightly heavy to read but good

The message is very good. Quality of text is not that great. I don't mean that there is lots of spelling mistakes or such but I felt the text was heavy. Time after time I almost started to sleep or think something completely else than the book. That is really a bummer. Excellent ideas but boring package.<br />

Budding writer

This book was exactly what I was expecting and so is proving extremely useful as a source of viable publishers for my series of children's books. There is also much useful advice on how to cope with writing and publishing books.

Mundane

I don't really suffer from self-confidence problems, but I know people who do and did - so I thought I'd check out this book as a way of making some useful suggestions on conquering the problem. Alas, this book doesn't really provide them. The advice oscillates wildly between thoroughly obvious to only slightly useful, with the emphasis being primarily on the former. What content there is is unconvincing and in some cases I think actively unhelpful. On a positive note though, the book is quite short.

Religous Manifesto

As a career-guidance manual this book is OK, not great. It is very Americanised, with a lot of anecdotes and information quite annoying and irrelevant to a European etc audience. But what gets my goat is that this book reads like some sort of religous manifesto. Appendix A (20 green pages) goes into some long religous rant about finding your mission in life and"to seek to stand hour by hour in the conscious presence of God, the One from whom your Mission is derived". There are frequent God references throughout the main text and in the introduction. It is way over-the-top in my opinion for a book that should be focussed on the technical details of achieving a job and attaining one's goals....it is supposed to be a 'practical manual' after all. Obviously some readers will like the not-so-subtle-God-focus but not me.

smart, fun and provocative read

It's a fun book to read and to look in, the words are carried very well by the layout and choice of typography. I read it in one go. <br /><br />It starts off with some rather provocative pieces of advice but gradually build up great arguments. A very good philosophy on creativity indeed.

Love it or hate it.....

Okay so NLP has a huge debate around it and I think it is one of those things you either love or hate and this is most probably where the extreme reviews from 1 star to 5 stars comes from.<br /><br />I have completed an NLP practitioner course and read several books. I am not evangelic about it but do believe it is a useful tool to carry in your toolbox of life skills. <br /><br />This book does what it says on the tin. It is a simple introduction and overview to NLP. You can debate the scientific aspects of NLP endlessly and how effective it is but if you want to give it a go and begin exploring then this is a useful starting point. You may then be ready to move on to some other weightier tomes on the subject. <br /><br />Simple, cheap and clear? Then this is the book for you.

Very handy book!

I bought this book to help me with my interview technique as I was unsure of what to expect nowadays. It had been a few years since my last interview and i needed to find a book which provided realistic answers to difficult interview questions. I liked this book as it included some of the weird and wonderful questions which now seem to be part of the recruitment process for many employers. I also liked the fact that the book has a section on how to handle the offer process which I didn't feel confident with. All in all, a good entertaining book with helpful information. I thoroughly recommend it and hopefully you too can shine in interview just as I did!

Our genes do not control us

This is an exciting book that reveals a scientific basis for the demolition of the theory of genetic determinism.<br />In his work as a cell biologist Lipton discovered that the cell membrane and not the gene-containing nucleus is responsible for what happens in the cell. He thereby concludes that we are not controlled by our genes but that it is our interactions with the environment that are significant. His book thus provides a weighty contribution to the nature-nurture debate.<br /><br />He also refutes the old Darwinian beliefs that evolution occurs through combat and struggle, and confirms the validity of the work of the much maligned biologist Lamarck. <br /><br />I freely admit that many of the scientific details contained in this book are beyond my understanding. Nevertheless, Lipton's description of his enthusiasm when experiencing his big insight, and of the effect his revelation had on his beliefs, development and life as a whole make this book far from dry, and in fact fascinating. <br /><br />We learn from the book that regardless of our genes and our circumstances we can change our lives through our thoughts and feelings, though the author emphasizes that our subconscious programmes are a force to be reckoned with, re-programming thus being essential.<br /><br />I highly recommend this book!<br />

Very helpful

I really struggle with maths but one of my lecturers recommended this book. It has helped me overcome my fear of maths in relation to drug calculations. It starts of with a numeracy test, so you can test your level of ability and then moves on to review basic arithmetic skills. The way the author clearly explains each step of the sum helped me to understand how to do it. The following section moves on to applying arithmetic skills to drug calculations. I actually got full marks in a drug calculations test recently at uni and I'm sure this book gave me the skills and confidence I needed to achieve this. I have bought other nursing calcuation books in the past but none explain things as simply as this one. It was also very reasonably priced at £6.74. Well worth the money

Very useful resource for the serious job hunter

This book is a great resource for anyone wanting to change jobs or change careers and wants to make the best use of 2 pages of A4 to sell themselves. Corinne Mills goes through process in some detail helping you discover the skills you have but often either forget about or just assume that everyone has. She then helps you to blow your own trumpet concisely, in order to improve your chances of getting in the door to be interviewed.<br /><br />Well worth the money: the only thing i would like to have had more on would have been in the chapter on Specific Career challenges as many of us who have been working for a while might need to straighten up some career"hairpin bends".