Summary of : See You At The Top

Zig Ziglar is an American author and motivational speaker. He has written SEE YOU AT THE TOP book. This book guides to lead a happy, healthy and wealthy life. 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. Hence to live happy purposeful life you need to take stairs and no shortcuts are available.

To live happy meaningful life, Zig suggests six principles :

1. Develop  a positive self-image.
2. Respect others as worthwhile.
3. Make  firm goals.
4. Develop a good attitude.
5. Invest the proper amount of time and effort to achieve your goals.
6. Have a true desire to get ahead.

POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE 

Zig says most of the people have very bad self-image because society, in general, feeds garbage in, we need to form positive image of ourselves, we need to think ourselves the way we want to become, not the way we are.
To form positive self-image try to read positive life stories and success stories of famous personalities and try to connect yourself with them.

RESPECT OTHERS

You 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.
Behind every successful man there is a woman. Happy married life is a key to success.

FIRM GOALS

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. So make a firm goal which you think is achievable.

GOOD ATTITUDE 

Attitude talks about how you approach the rest of the world. In this point, author also tells most of the problems you face is because of your own fault, you must change your attitude towards the situation you are facing, you must learn how you must react to life.

MANAGING TIME 

You will not get anything for free. If you expect someone to come and make your dream life come true for you then it’s not going to happen, you have to go out and need to find ways to achieve your goal. For getting success you need to work for it,  you need to work hard for that.

TRUE DESIRE 

You must have a burning desire towards your goals, towards the thing you want in your life, and you can do anything to make that thing happen.
Your desire should be at the top in order to achieve what you want in your life.

FAVORITE QUOTES : 

1. Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

2. Rich people have big libraries but poor people have big TV's

3. To be a winner, you must expect to win,  plan and prepare to win.