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New Sensational Review Of James Kerr Legacy

By Adam Smith

New Sensational Review Of James Kerr Legacy BOOK

How I Found This Book

A friend of mine introduced me to the book Legacy. Unknown to me the author James Kerr spent 5 weeks with the New Zealand Rugby team. A team normally surrounded in secrecy, this was a first to learn what makes the All blacks tick. Once I picked this book up, I just couldn’t put it down and after reading i couldn’t wait to give a new sensational review of James Kerr Legacy

A Brief History Of The All Blacks

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, was formed in 1892 and have amassed a 77% winning record in test match rugby, normally ranked the number 1 team in the world, they have under performed on a World cup stage until the last two tournaments in 2011 and 2015, lead by coach Steven Hansen they won in convincing style to show the rest of the world their dominance of rugby. Also in the southern hemisphere a tournament called Rugby Championship they have won 16/23 times.

The All Blacks are also famous for their black jersey with a silver fern.The team perform a haka, a M?ori challenge or posture dance, before each match. The haka has traditionally been Te Rauparaha’s Ka Mate, although since 2005 Kapa o Pango has also been performed.

Not only are they Rugby best team, they are also regarded as the best sports team across all sports.

Review

There are 15 chapters on leadership from All blacks past and present players and coaches,

I Sweep the sheds — Never be too big to do the small things that need to be done

II Go for the gap — When you’re on top of your game, change your game

III Play with purpose Ask ‘Why?’

IV Pass the ball — Leaders create leaders

V Create a learning Environment — Leaders are teachers

VI No dickheads — Follow the spearhead

VII Embrace expectations — Aim for the highest cloud

VIII Train to win — Practise under pressure

IX Keep a blue head — Control your attention

X Know thyself — Keep it real

XI Sacrifice — Find something you would die for and give your life to it

XII Invent a language — Sing your world into existence

XIII Ritualize to actualize — Create a culture

XIV Be a good ancestor — Plant trees you’ll never see

XV Write your legacy — This is your time!

Every chapter has amazing detail of how these 15 principles help the All Blacks become the most dominate team in world sport. This is not by luck, its a methodical analysis of what it means to be an all black and how the next generation can see the full benefits of their hard work. Present and future I can’t see these winning habits changing, a team hell bent on leaving their jersey better than they found it, is echoed amongst all.

What I Learnt

I learnt that sport and business are very alike and all these principals can be easily transferred into a business environment. With the right foundations any organisation can grow stronger through a personal connection with it’s people and a vision for people to follow. I also learned from this book, you as a person need to hold yourself to a greater level for other people to follow, like their captain Ritchie McCaw, who leads by example, “sweep the shed” is the guy you want to be. Actually there are so many points and tips within this book that it could last you years perfecting your business, it’s that good.

Action Goals

I would read a chapter at a time and spend a minimum of a month trying incorporate the most important chapters to you life and business and see the benefits unfold.

Conclusion

A new sensational review of James Kerr legacy shows how it’s a must read. Especially for any sports coach, team leader or head of an organisation. The benefits you will gain from this book could change your team or organisation into something that can turn into a legacy.

I give this book 10/10 as it ticks all the boxes of building an organisation and leadership within it.

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Book Review: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

Review Of The Success Principles By Adam Smith

In today’s article, we will Book Review: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. This was a fantastic read with clear and actionable strategies that can change your life. Your mindset will be forever improved by applying just a few of the principles written by Jack Canfield. I hope you enjoy my review!

Book Review: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

What’s It All About

The book review of The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. Is a book about 67 personal development techniques that the author has learned and practised throughout his adult life. He has become famous for being a successful coach who offers training and trains others to coach just like him. He breaks the book down into 6 chapters

  1. The Fundamental of Success
  2. Transform yourself for success
  3. Build your success team
  4. Create successful relationships
  5. Success and money
  6. Success in the digital age

All these chapters offer different life skills you can apply in every aspect of your life from personal to professional. Within the book, he antidotes from many different examples who back up his success principles working in their life too.

Why did I love it

It took me 67 days to read this book as I wanted to apply and take action on all the principles that he spoke about in his book. Some I already practised and it allowed me to improve even more with techniques like speed gratitude.

Others were brand new and now have become parts of my daily habits like visualising my goals as they have already happened. I have to say this is one of the best books I’ve read for an in-depth step by step guide to improving yourself. It even adds value to better your finance and how to build successful relationships.

An added chapter to the book is successful in the digital age. This offers tips on how crowdfunding is a great option for building your business. I love this book because every success principle works. One by one it can develop yourself into a better version of yourself.

My 3 Favourite Parts Of The Book

This was a hard decision and I probably could change them all to something else. There’s that many but the ones here are very valuable to me.

1. Take 100% responsibility for your life

This was the first principle and it hooked me in from the start. I think we can all say we have placed the blame game on somebody else or something within your environment. I suppose it’s an easy option to make when things go wrong. For me taking responsibility for my action is important but this chapter takes it to another level.

He says “If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings – everything!”

Jack Canfield

It allowed me to look deeper into parts of my life that I’m being held back in where I blame someone else for my failures. There was a major one when my business was going through a rocky patch and instead of taking 100% responsibility for it I just blamed my environment for the reason, it was failing.

This opened my eyes to take responsibility for everything in my life. It taught me we are the ones in control of it. You have to give up the blame game and understand everything you experience today is the outcome of a decision you have made in the past and deal with it.

2. Believe in yourself

Principle 5 is something that has been a constant battle within my adult life and what I like about this chapter is believing in yourself is a choice that you can control and it’s just another part of attitude. This allowed me to understand that this is something I can take charge of and not care what others have said or will say as it has no relevance to what I think about myself. From this, I now believe in myself a lot more. I choose to.

3. See what you want, get what you see

Principle 11 delves into the visualisation techniques that allow you to achieve your goals. Before this, I heard about it but never went out of my way to practice it as a habit. He goes on to use many examples and techniques of how it works and how it helps you to recall back to your own experiences.

Without consciously knowing it I have visualised in sport and business outcomes I’ve wanted and they have come true. I know that sports people do this all the time with great success especially a formula 1 driver when they visualise themselves racing around a circuit.

Since I’ve applied this technique I have achieved many of my short term goals and has allowed me to see further into the future of what I want in my life. The power of visualisation is an underutilised skill he says and I agree with that statement too.

Why You Should Buy It

When writing the Book review of The Success Principles by Jack Canfield I could write about every chapter in the depth of how it’s helped me in some way.

For me, this book has defiantly made a major impact on my life in such a short time and I would highly recommend buying this book for anyone open-minded to develop themselves into a better version of being a friend, spouse, parent, college or boss. They will see the benefits and these success principles if applied will change their life too.

Thank you, Jack Canfield, for writing this book I’m indebted to you and grateful for this continued experience.

If you have read this book I would love to know what you think about it? What was your favourite principle is?