The Lifelong Project

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

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.

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!

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!

I thought this would be the PMPBOK for life management. But this was authors life story + PMBOK. Might be a great gift for someone you want to introduce project management , or the PMP exam. This book will get them interested in both . But for someone who knows PMBOK and PMP this felt like a repetitive grind. I applaud the authors effort , but the target customer for this product is not me , may be the title of the book has to be changed.

Great guide to follow. Expecting great results as I work through the process.