The Lifelong Project

After reading the first 3 pages I knew this book would be my new Bible, It is a must read for everyone and can bring a clear plan on how to improve your business or personal life, after the first few chapters my fears and anxieties that have held me back for years seemed like nothing and for the first time in years I have set some goals and on my way to achieving them.

Here is a book that is worth picking up. Mr. Phillips has created a think/take action book. ROI comes back early with this one. Believing in yourself is half the battle - the other half is this book. It helps you not only to get started on your path but helps you execute to completion. You can take his principles and apply to everyday life to make things happen. I myself have a project in place that was one that I found I could not get moving on until the tools were placed before me. Learning to plot things out to achieve a goal. MAGNIFICENT!

Sent as a gift to my son in prison. The subject and content seemed like a positive message to inspire constructive intraspecption.

This is a superb book, and the author should get an award for it. The book takes the reader through a project where the project is the readers life in a year. What project is more important? Along the way you create a project binder with various documents in it. Going through that process is challenging and revealing. This book would be great for high-school, college, graduate, and professional level courses on project management, and also other fields like logic, self-help, financial planning, and logistics.

This is not your fathers project management book. Nor is it one of those vapid self-help books that mostly just leave you empty with no real guidance. Joe captures your attention immediately with insightful anecdotes that lets you know he practices what he preaches. The meat of the book is in how Joe describes the sometimes unapproachable project management techniques in a way that allows them to work in your life. I can tell you that this is a book I will keep within reach so that I can stay on track with my personal lifelong projects. I highly recommend this book for anyone and everyone. I personally bought several copies to give out as Christmas gifts.

Good book, really made me think about the way I have been approaching challenging tasks... now I approach projects very differentl..... and definitely worth the price!

As a project manager and small business owner this book is a must read. Ive spent my entire career applying project management techniques to transform business operations and improve business productivity. It never occurred to me that I could apply these same techniques for identifying, managing and achieving personal and entrepreneurial goals. Since reading the Lifelong Project, Ive been using techniques described in this book to: * Manage a home addition project * Plan and execute a family reunion * Teach my daughter how to swim * Mange a new business venture The applications are limitless, and my personal productivity has increased significantly. The Lifelong Project enables personal success! Pick up a copy and start living!

I have always been one of those people who wanted to better my life, but didnt know how to approach such a monumental task. Instead of looking at my life as a total project, I would tackle different individual areas of my life as needed. I would often improve the area of focus, but other areas of my life would then suffer. If I focused too much on my career, my personal relationships suffered and I had no time for me. If I focused too much on my personal relationships, my career (and sales income) suffered. So, my life has been a constant struggle to improve while really only operating in emergency management when one aspect of my life was in serious trouble. I knew immediately, upon reading the description of this book, that I was about to learn something that could help me improve my life as a whole. Once I identified the goals I wanted to attain, I was able to begin work on a plan to attain those goals. I now take action every day to get farther along in my project and closer to achieving the level of success I want and deserve. I have set benchmarks that help me to monitor my progress, and I feel like I am progressing with each new day. If I hadnt found this book, I would have continued doing things the way I had always done them. Taking what I have learned in this book, I am more optimistic about 2010 (and beyond) than I have been in a very long time!

I recently had the opportunity to hear the author,Joseph, speak in Indianapolis. His talent in understanding and presenting project management skills works well towards implementing these concepts towards your personal goals, step by step, as you are the project leader of your life! Thinking as a one year project with a deadline of how you want your life to look differently in 365 days is a motivational, manageable timeline. Constant evaluation, tweeking, engagement and accountablility support will aid in making progress toward these established goals. I enjoyed his presentation and quickly sailed through the first 5 chapters in 2 days! I have started a binder to document the various segments of the project and set up accountablility partners! I highly recommend this book and Mr. Phillips as a speaker.

after reading this book, i could not imagine starting the new year without it! mr. phillips creates an amazing journey that you find within yourself. harold bell wright once wrote that there are thirtheen truly great things in life: dreams, occupation, knowledge, ignorance, religion, tradition, temptation, life, death, failure, success, love and memories. mr. phillips addresses all of these truly great things by giving you the tools needed to achieve and overcome. once you have read and enjoyed this book, you will be convinced, as i am, that this should not be classified as a self help book. this should be classified as THE self help book.