Put Your Dream to the Test
(This is a book review of John C. Maxwell’s “Put Your Dream to the Test.” I am part of their blogger book review team.)
I’ve read a lot of leadership and personal development books over the past ten years and more recently blogs. While reading and surfing the internet I find a lot of fluff out there, but this book by Maxwell is, in my opinion, his best work.
The book is broken up into ten questions the reader must ask of their own dreams. As I was reading through it and answering the questions Maxwell poses throughout the book, I was being pushed to articulate my dream in be specific terms, but also to challenge my commitment to my own dream.
The questions stem around passion and commitment and clarity. The stories themselves are inspiring to go after my dreams even more, but it is the questions throughout the text that hits home.
I thoroughly enjoyed taking the time after each chapter to reflect on the questions posed and the challenges to my own thinking. I will definitely be using these reflections as I do my goal setting for 2010 and beyond.
The underlying value for me stems from the clarity question; do I really know what I want? Maxwell believes it is beyond important and almost paramount in the path to success for you to know your dream forwards and backwards before it can be possible. Two thumbs up!
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