Gary Ryan Blair

Everything Counts is an amazing book that details out 52 ways to inspire excellence and drive results. Each chapter is specific to a new way that you can improve in three different areas of your life: work, personal, overall.

There are so many amazing things about this book, and so many good points and quotes, it’s hard to pick out any favorites. I felt more drawn to the personal portion of the book and how I can better myself outside of the work zone. Sometimes I find I am more highly focused at work and less at home, which is where this book helps to motivate and inspire you to change habits, become more productive and live a happier life.

This is a great book not to just read on a personal level, but to also share with co-workers and family. Everyone can benefit in some way from the lessons, personal stories, and calls to action, to make everything in their life count.

We read this book for our work book club and it was perfect in all ways. Everyone benefited from Blair’s short and quick chapters. They are direct, to the point, and relate to a current event/business/person that has achieved such successes and made it count.… (altro)

What Are Your Goals? was a good guide that assisted me in categorically developing my goals. The book breaks down goal setting into the following categories:

Personal
Health
Recreation
Family
Friendship
Community
Career
Financial
Household
Spiritual

While the book never WOWed me with some neat system or process (that's a good thing), it made me think a bit on some topics that I would have likely overlooked without it. In essence, this book is no more than a series of questions under each topic for you to consider and develop a goal around. You then rank the importance of each and choose those which are most important as your primary goals. In the end, you have the ability to do some additional filtering and Mr. Blair also provides a planning guide (he calls it a "Goal-Planning Sheet") to assist you in mapping the course for some of the most important and/or complex goals.

It's very simplistic and that's really what I liked most about it. I bought at the same time a book titled The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals by Keith Ellis and found it too goofy and trying too hard to be a self-help book rather than a guide.
To my way of thinking, goal setting is not a difficult task, you just need some mental prompts and some guidelines.

If you're looking to develop goals, and have some sense of what a goal is and where you want to go in your life, this book can help you clarify and organize your thoughts. That was what I needed.… (altro)