Title: Yes You Can ! How to Be a Success no Matter Who You Are or
Where You're From
Author: Bill Townsend
Website: www.interminds.com
Genre: Self-help, motivational, business
ISBN-13: 978-1477659748
Reviewer: Naoto Takazawa, Accountant, Las Vegas, NV
For
9 years I have worked in the accounting department of a mid-sized
company. It
is a good job, it pays fairly well, and I am thankful for
it. But I have
often wondered if there is something else I should be
doing? Am I destined to
move to another company? Should I start my own
accounting firm? Should I
change careers completely? And each time I
ask myself these questions,
something holds me back.
No longer.
Last week I read "Yes You Can !
How to Be a Success no Matter Who You
Are or Where You're From" by Bill
Townsend (available at Amazon.com in
paperback and Kindle).
As a 37
year old with questions about my future, reading this book was
a revelation.
It gave me not only the motivation to take action, but
the inspiration to do
so. It also helped me determine how to do it, by
giving me tactics to follow.
I find that part of the book unique among
self-help books because most talk
about how to be better, but few give
you actual tactics to get
there.
The author, Bill Townsend, isn’t a Harvard graduate and wasn’t
born
with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up on a farm in
Western
Pennsylvania. His mother had a stroke when he was 5 years old
that
left her paralyzed and without speech. He taught her the ABCs and
how
to tie her shoes. He earned a degree in art, then worked
in
advertising. At age 27 ran for US Congress, almost winning. Then
he
got busy. He was the cofounder of Lycos.com, sixdegrees.com
(now
LinkedIn), Deja.com (sold to Google and eBay) and 9 other companies.
A
pretty successful person by anyone’s thinking.
"Yes You Can! How to
Be a Success no Matter Who You Are or Where
You're From" is a motivational
book that teaches you how to take
control of your life to become successful
in career, love, and life.
There are hundreds of stories of people who
started with nothing and
made it: people like John Paul Dejoria, who started
John Paul Mitchel
Systems with $700 and is now worth over $4 billion.
"Yes
You Can ! How to Be a Success no Matter Who You Are or Where
You're From" is
fun to read, nurturing, uplifting, regenerative, and
worth every moment spent
in your hands.
P.S. I’ve decided to start my own accounting and
bookkeeping service.
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