Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

. Goethe once wrote, “Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.” Unsuccessful people have a hard time with this idea because they are so accustomed to looking for the reasons for their lives outside themselves. But the proof is all around us. Everywhere you look, you see men and women from every background — young and old, black and white, educated and uneducated — accomplishing great things and making valuable contributions to the societies they live in. At the same time, you see men and women with every advantage of background and education who seem to be going nowhere with their lives. They are working at jobs they don’t like, staying in relationships they don’t enjoy and functioning far below their potential for achievement and happiness