ABOUT THE BOOK:
Blog Title: See You At The Top Summary By Zig Ziglar
Name: See You at the Top
Author: Zig Ziglar
Overview:
The book summary I am going to give today is one of the famous book for personal and business improvement, SEE YOU AT THE TOP BY ZIG ZIGLAR, Before starting to See You At The Top Summary let me share author’s background, Zig Ziglar lived a difficult life, he was 10th of 12 children his father died when he was 6, despite living tough life, he had achieved a lot in his life, he was a motivational speaker, writer and became global leaders in the realm of positive thinking and self-improvement.
He has written SEE YOU AT THE TOP BOOK to guide people, ON LIVING A LIFE OF HAPPINESS, HEALTH AND WEALTH. This book is cleverly written with many stories to illustrate his points. In this book, Zig has used imagery flight of stairs next to elevator which is out of order, the idea of using this imagination, was to make others understand that there are no shortcuts in life, here shortcut is linked with elevator, and stairs are used to explain that each step must be taken in order to reach close to your goals and in order to live purposeful happy life, Hence to live happy purposeful step you need to take stairs no shortcuts (elevator).
And further Zig explained what are things people must understand to live happy meaningful life, to make it easy for people he has written 6 principle’s, and zig’s 6 principles and steps are
SELF- IMAGE
RELATIONSHIP
GOALS
ATTITUDE
WORK
DESIRE
Now I will explain all the point, step or principle in detail so that even you all can live happy meaningful life.
See You At The Top Summary: 1. Self – image
Zig has spent more time on step 1 to 3, so through this you can understand how important this point must be, So let’s talk about self-image, zig says most of the people have very bad self-image because society, in general, feeds garbage in, here author is trying to explain we need to form positive image of ourselves, we need to think ourselves the way we want to become, nor the way we are.
We people normally get influenced by the society, hence author tries to explain us, that try to think yourself the way you want to see yourself, he has explained this point by 16 steps to a positive self-image which covers stuff like “positive self-talk”. To form positive self-image try to read positive life stories and success stories of others and try to connect yourself with them.
See You At The Top Summary: 2. Relationship
The second step talks about how to be best in your relationship, here zig talks about healthy relationship with his wife, he cheers his wife for his better life, Here zig says how important is healthy marriage life is, and also says that happy married life is a key to success, he talks about his wife and says she is the biggest helper in his business and who cheers him who motivates him to move ahead in life and grow and also says she is wonderful businesswoman in her own way.
Here author says you both need to work for your relationship and if your relationship is not healthy it will affect your overall motivation and which eventually affect your business and your success.
See You At The Top Summary: 3. Goals
The third step on the stairways is your goals, here author Zig want us to understand how important is your goal, how important it is to move in a proper direction so that you can at least reach somewhere, moving without thinking which direction you want to go, will end up confusing.
Not only this but he has also mentioned some principles of goal reaching.
Some of them are:-
Keep records where are you
Make a list
Specific with goals
Set big small goals which you think is achievable
Make a goal long range etc.
REMANING HALF SUMMARY IS IN SECOND PART :- See You At The Top Summary By Zig Ziglar (PART-2)
