So, can 28 pages of one little book make dreams
come true? Welcome to my It Works review!
Well, this book is actually saying just that!
A famous little red book that makes dreams
come true called It Works was released in
1926 by an author called R. H. Jarrett and
this book basically says, if you read it,
follow its guidelines, it will make your dreams
come true!
I was recommended this book so I wanted to
read it. It's only like a 30 minute read,
if that. I wanted to read it, it's a book
off my list, I wanted to get as much as I
can from it because it says this 28 pages
is really, really powerful. It basically says
that a 300 page book is condensed into 28
pages and gives you everything you need to
know to make your dreams come true!
Or so it says. That's what this book is promising,
and it makes some huge statements. It really
does. If you go onto the Amazon link, it makes
some huge statements. It really does say that
It Works presents a concise, definite plan
for bettering your life conditions. It shows
how to use the mighty power within that is
anxious and willing to serve you if you know
how to use it. It Works shows you how to use
it. All scientific and psychological explanations
have been eliminated. 300 pages boiled down
is 10 minutes and basically is says that this
book is giving us a definite plan and three
short rules of accomplishment.
So, what's the book about?
It's about giving you a plan on how to achieve
your goals, how to actually achieve the things
that you want and what it comes down to is
three short rules to get straight into them.
Number one, write down everything that you
desire, everything that you want to achieve,
your goals.
Write down your goals and list them in priority,
so from number one to ten. Whatever you want.
Don't be shy about it, just list everything
that you could ever dream of and everything
you could ever want. This is what it says:
list it all down.
Then it says to read those goals and think
about them as often as you possibly can. It
recommends morning, afternoon, night. Keep
reminding yourself all the time. Read them
morning, afternoon, night.
The third is, don't share your goals with
anybody until you get some results.
Now, this is obviously a bit of an interesting
book, especially number three. I'm completely
the opposite. I'm sharing my goals, and I'm
just going to give you my thoughts on the
book.
Very simple to read, I literally read it within
20 minutes. It makes some good points, it
makes some maybe not so good points. I highly
recommend reading it anyway. People might
get different things from it but this is what
I got from it.
First of all, writing down your goals. I 100%
agree. I really, really do. I share that,
I have my monthly goals report. It's just
known now to write down your goals. If you
keep writing down your goals, you have more
chances of accomplishing those goals and I
think I've shared this before.
Basically, I have this folder, which is my
Ultimate Life Plan, and in this I have my
2017 goals I've shared in my monthly goals
report and then what I do is I break them
down into quarters so you can see, these are
my goals for quarter one, so January, February,
March and what is says is basically to think
about your goals and read your goals morning,
afternoon, night. Just do it as often as you
can, which I believe.
I look at these very often, I carry this around
with me everywhere, I'm always updating it,
I don't know whether you can see the ticks
and crossing out. I'm always updating it,
I'm always refreshing, reviewing where I'm
at. I genuinely believe that is important
and I don't think anybody watching this is
going to disagree. I think we all know that
by now. I think we're all living at the point
where we know that if we want to actually
achieve anything, you've got to set those
goals, you've got to keep setting those goals
and reviewing. Are you getting somewhere?
Are you not? Change your approach, we know
that.
It Works is always review your desires.
So what it means is if something else comes
in, if you want to do something else, it's
okay to refresh your goals. So let's say you
had a list of ten things and then you change
as a person, you no longer want to do something
and want to do something else. It's okay to
say I'm not going to do those goals anymore,
I'm going to do them instead and work towards
them. That's a sign of progress, which again
I do believe.
I think that happens to us all. It's already
happened to me this month. There's a few goals
which I'm going to be sharing in the February
monthly goals report, which will come in March
where I have already updates some goals, so
I totally agree with that.
The don't talk about your goals, this is where
maybe I disagree a little bit because I genuinely
feel that there is no right or wrong. For
me, it helps massively if I share my goals,
talk about my goals. I really do. I believe
in the Ultimate Success Formula. If I have
a master mind group and coaches around me,
if I have a proven step by step system that
works and a mentor who's footstep I can follow,
if I have a coach in as many areas as I possibly
can, I believe you have to share those goals
with them obviously to get those results,
so they know how to teach you.
So I don't believe in that one. There are
a couple of other things that I did believe
and I do agree with. For example, if you ever
doubt yourself, or the things on your list,
or being surrounded by negative people, just
take a moment, read your goals, think of your
reasons why, get yourself excited and motivated
again and I believe that to be true.
It also says to choose your friends carefully
because obviously if you have a negative person
around you who's always at you like a broken
record saying you can't do this, you can't
do that, that's going to play on your thoughts
and that's no good either. So I do genuinely
believe that.
Really, in total, this is the book summarised.
There's not a lot to it. Like I said, it's
all about writing down your goals, reminding
yourself all the time and it does say to not
talk about your goals, which I do. I do and
I will continue to do so.
So the main thing I would say really, first
of all, read the book if you want, it doesn't
cost any money. Read the book, get into reviewing
your goals. Don't just write down your goals.
Have them in as many places as you can. I
do genuinely believe that. I work on my white
board, I have my vision board here, I have
as many reminders as I possibly can for my
goals.
I do think that's a huge part in actually
achieving your goals. So that is the big take
away from this book. There's not an awful
lot more to say about it. It does come across
a little 
bit more spiritual in terms of the inner power
within yourself, which you've got to believe.
You've got to have a bit of faith. If you
are doing all the right things and trying
to do all the right things, take action, having
a positive outlook on life, be as good as
you can, work as hard as you can to achieve
your goals, life is going to throw some curveballs
at you, of course. You're going to have some
adversity, but in general, you're going to
be doing alright, you're going to get some
progress.
So if you have the faith and the belief and
you keep taking action, try and do the right
thing and keep reminding yourself of your
goals, then this has been a very powerful
little book.
So I hope that was worthwhile sharing. If
you want to know anything more, just go onto
the blogpost or even just buy the book yourself,
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day! This has been Kev from LifeSuccessEngineer.com,
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