Live Your Dreams

Les Brown, in Live Your Dreams, presents a simple, straightforward work based on positive thinking and practical ways to find greater success in life. Whether the book is worthwhile or not depends on whether one needs the author's suggestions and is willing to put into action the suggestions Brown makes, or whether one is already aware of and taking advantage of such positive attitudes and action-oriented planning in his or her life. The style and insights of the book are no better or worse than other popular books designed to inspire, if momentarily, the reader who is dissatisfied with his life or too lazy or bored to think for himself and take action to accomplish his goals.

Of course, to be fair, at one time or another, all people do need such external inspiration. Brown's book is a good one to select for such a purpose, because he is a rather pleasant fellow, does not present himself as a guru, and presents his simple ideas and strategies in a way which mixes in a breezy style ideas and examples from his and others' lives to keep the reader awake and reading.

Brown does not suggest that life is a bowl of cherries. In fact, he accepts that life not only can be but often is difficult and profoundly discouraging. Such discouragement leads to the kind of surrender to unhappiness and lack of personal fulfillment which Brown's book is meant to stop and reverse. Brown is saying precisely that it takes great inspiration and motivation to overcome such habitual unhappiness.

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r the fact that a life can be changed not only if it is injected with a great surge of motivation and inspiration, but also only if that life is led by an individual who is willing to work hard and long to maintain that original change. Brown does not present an abstract work in which he distances himself from his ideas. He does not send prescriptions for success from on high down to the people to follow or be damned. To the contrary, Brown shows how he himself was able to climb up the ladder of success, and his warm, candid and straightforward presentation of important parts of his own life give his book an authenticity which draws the reader into the work. Brown is quick to credit those who have helped him and inspired him. At the same time, he emphasizes the spiritual dimension of happiness and success as a necessary component of the good life, as much as the practical, down-to-earth aspects of living one's dreams. Here, Brown discusses the help he received from his mother, help which played a part all through his life and work: Many times people back away from things they want to do, from the dreams they have nurtured, because they cannot envision a clear way to bring those goals to reality. Mama lived by the saying,

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