Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

By Pete Greider and Steve Levinson

Book Overview

The inability to complete projects is an epidemic among Americans today. And while most of us believe we need more willpower or a better character, to-do lists or time management systems to finish what we've started, chances are we've already tried them...and they don't work. Now, Steve Levinson and Pete C. Greider, experts in motivating successful athletes and business people, have developed a revolutionary method of identifying your blocks to completion, as well as a step-by-step strategy for transforming goals into action. Highly effective, this unique approach will help you succeed where other techniques have failed.With this great guide you can learn how to: listen to the positive rather than the negative voices in your head; increase your willpower by taking one easy action today; create compelling reasons for completing what you've started; and more. From teachers to students, corporate executives to homemakers, doctors to patients, Following Through will help you take control of your life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575663481
• ISBN13: 9781575663487
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Ideas in an easy-to-read package

I'm a clinical psychologist and professional coach who specializes in helping people overcome procrastination. This is one of the first books I recommend (after titles by Burka & Yuen and a few other authors).Levinson and Greider do a wonderful job of helping us eliminate the guilt we feel about our "lazy" habits. They explain why procrastination is a natural and understandable phenonmenon. The reframing of procrastination has been useful for many of my clients and students. Procrastinators are often overextended perfectionists who continually beat themselves up for not being more self-disciplined. This book helps them stop the negative self-downing and provides ways for them to improve their habits.Over and over, Levinson and Greider provide accessible examples of how to make it easier to to the right thing. The answer is not willpower but brainpower.

Practical Strategies

This book outlines in detail several of the main strategies that really work to change habit patterns. The most helpful information comes in the form of explaining why we DON'T succeed, and what we can do about it. While the actual solutions don't appear until the second half of the book, it is important to understand the reasons for our failures, so that we will understand better HOW to succeed. This book does a great job of that.In our coaching program, DayToppers, we use many of the same techniques the book suggests. In fact, the concepts underscore how important it is for some people to change their support structures before they can see progress. We recommend this book to our clients because it helps them understand what may be getting in their way, and helps us work with them to create success strategies and action plans. Our clients really like knowing that there ARE solutions, and that despite their best efforts sometimes it's not them, it's the system they're using, because when the true source of the problem is uncovered, it's much easier to find the solution. This book, like our program, is focused on solutions that really work....

OUTSTANDING!

This is an incredibly useful book for those of us who have trouble following through. It contains practical advice on how to follow through that actually works. Its not just filled with "wishful thinking" but instead gives many different strategies to use to stick to what you want to accomplish. This is without a doubt one of the most useful and interesting books I have EVER read. If you have trouble following through, buy this book and read it.

This book helps you break through and realize your dreams!

Following Through is a powerful technique for helping you to achieve your goals. Because of this book and the powerful coaching I got from Pete Greider, I'm starting my own business and having a ball doing what I truly love. Life couldn't be better!

Completely new and different ideas about self-improvement .

This is the most practical,realistic and and fun to read self-improvement book that I've ever read. Their theory about human behavior especially related to the usual failure around good intentions makes so much sense.It explains inherent mechanisms that when we know how to use them -make following through on good intentions emrarassingly easy. Years of reading self improvement books had stilted me to the genre. They all seemed to be based on wishful thinking and frankly I never got much results from them.I read the book a week ago and have already seen my productivity go way up. For the first time in my life I have a clean desk and I know it is going to stay that way.My only suggestion would be summary pages at chapter ends but I strongly encourage everybody to read this book if you want to finally make some lasting changes. Personally I think its the best thing since Covey's Seven Habits.