Kick Start Your Success: Four Powerful Steps to Get What You Want Out of Your Life, Career, and Business By Romanus Wolter Wiley (2006) Reviewed by Danielle Feliciano for Reader Views (3/06)

Kick Start Your Success is a book that lives up to its name. It is truly a way for a person to kick start his or her own success, whether it be personal or professional. In this small volume, the author provides the reader with a clear, concise outline of four basic steps to help turn goals into a reality. At the end of each step, the author provides a simple exercise for the reader to complete, which helps cement the concept in that chapter. These exercises are easy to follow, and help bring a clearer understanding of the principles in the book.

The first step really shows how important it is to recognize how your goal will help others, rather than just how it will help you. Also, this chapter points out the necessity of flexibility. We have to be willing to change and adjust our goals as we become closer to achieving them, and as our circumstances may change. Next, you are shown how important wording of a goal is. By showing the impact this goal will have on others in clear terms, it is easier for others to help you attain that goal. In the third step, the power of positive speaking is demonstrated. The author describes a success script as an essential tool in working toward a goal. In speaking positively, you are more able to attract success. Lastly, the author talks about taking action each and every day in order to make goals and dreams a reality. By putting these four steps into practice, and making them part of daily life, it is possible to achieve any goal a person may set.

Kick Start Your Success may be a slim volume, but it supports the age-old adage Good things come in small packages. There is not a single extraneous word in this book. The writing is clear and concise, and very easy to read. It is written in a friendly manner, and helps take the intimidating thought of an unattainable goal and helps break it down into small, manageable steps. Mr. Wolter has provided a wonderful reference to anyone who has great ideas, but a hard time making them a reality.