No Excuses

No Excuses: The Power of Self-Discipline

Summary

No Excuse The Power of Self-Esteem by Brian Tracy is a book all about how to cultivate the discipline to live the life you want and to become successful in your endeavors. It talks about success, character, responsibility, goals, excellence, courage, work, business, sales, money, time-management, health, family, friendship, and piece of mind. It relates all of these things back to self-discipline.

This book has quotes at the beginning of every chapter which is very nice. It also has regular pauses and spacing which are nice. It reads decently, but it can be a bit dense and overwhelming at times. The author outlines how to get better at each area of your life and tells you what to do. If you follow this book I don’t see how you would not find success. It uses lots of research and devices to help you in your pursuit of discipline. It does a great job of telling you what to do to get at the top of your field in business and have the successful life you want. It really highlights the importance of discipline and why you must cultivate it and practice it daily to become the top achiever that you can be.

I am not going to go into the lessons this book teaches you as that would take quite long and you should just read the book for yourself if you are interested. Just know the basic point is that you need to be disciplined in life and put in a lot of hard work to get where you want.

Review

I loved the quotes that this book used. The devices to help us remember things, lists of importance, and tips to improve your life in each area are great. This book is a great example of showing you what to do in order to get where you want to get in life. However, I found that trying to do the things in this book would be quite difficult in the real world. For example you would need to spend a decent portion of you money on personal development, use an hour for personal development daily, constantly be listening to and reading learning materials, get to work early, stay late, put in more time and effort than everyone else, exercise daily, eat right, and so on.
 
The problem I found with this is that it is a lot. I would say that 90% of the people in the world do not have the willpower or the discipline to do and make all the sacrifices that this book suggests. I would have appreciated more help in the realm of cultivating discipline than just being shown the importance of discipline and told where to apply it. This book tells you what to do to achieve everything you want, the difficult part is the how.
 
Now don’t get me wrong I think that this book has a lot of good information, but I couldn’t help thinking to myself that trying to do all the things listed would be immense. The changes would be good, I’m sure. But even just reading about all the things I would have to do to follow what the book said stressed me out a bit.
 
If you want to know the things you have to do to become a top achiever in life and know that you have the discipline to carry through with them then this book is for you.