Introduction:
I choose John c. Maxwells’ Be all you can be because it spoke out to me the most. When looking through the list of books the others did not look as appealing, and frankly kind of boring. With the career choice I want to pursue sometimes I get discouraged in my abilities or compare my self to others. Other times I think I’m just not that talented or that Im not that experienced. But majority of the time I’m just too shy to peruse my dream and when I laid eyes on this book I knew It was for me. Besides motivation to pursue a career I felt like this book would help me spiritually or would help me in my spiritual walk with the lord. We all can get discouraged at times, especially myself and I felt like this book could help me get …show more content…
Maxwells Be all you can be is a novel that gives meaningful advice and guidance to “Be all you can be” through scriptural teachings, biblical examples and truths. Maxwell has a quirky of explaining his point as he uses many comparisons to get his point across. One being fruit. In one of maxwells teachings he goes in the topic of Purging.
With this topic he compares us to fruit and God being the vine dresser saying “ One of the things God does for us as a vine dresser is to purge us. His purging greatly increases our potential for fruitful living. “Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it so that it may bear more fruit”.
With his comparisons Maxwell also asks questions that may seem to have obvious answers formally, but with critical thinking these questions may apply to an individuals life if the reader is reading this book for “guidance” and motivational purposes. One of these questions being “ why do people fail?” And his answer was simple “ sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to succeed. A person who gets straight A’s on a report card sets a pattern of achievement and must keep achieving. Often we just don’t want to be responsible, so we shrink from …show more content…
One being how he describes success that I didn’t really agree with. This statement being “ many people just don’t feel the need to succeed. These people are secure they do not need to prove anything. They’re happy, content, and like what’s happening to them”. With this I would have to disagree because everyone’s point of view of succes is different and just because their view is different from yours doesn’t mean they’re not successful. Also his story about his fast food experience, I felt, was completely irrelevant to the rest of the
I choose John c. Maxwells’ Be all you can be because it spoke out to me the most. When looking through the list of books the others did not look as appealing, and frankly kind of boring. With the career choice I want to pursue sometimes I get discouraged in my abilities or compare my self to others. Other times I think I’m just not that talented or that Im not that experienced. But majority of the time I’m just too shy to peruse my dream and when I laid eyes on this book I knew It was for me. Besides motivation to pursue a career I felt like this book would help me spiritually or would help me in my spiritual walk with the lord. We all can get discouraged at times, especially myself and I felt like this book could help me get …show more content…
Maxwells Be all you can be is a novel that gives meaningful advice and guidance to “Be all you can be” through scriptural teachings, biblical examples and truths. Maxwell has a quirky of explaining his point as he uses many comparisons to get his point across. One being fruit. In one of maxwells teachings he goes in the topic of Purging.
With this topic he compares us to fruit and God being the vine dresser saying “ One of the things God does for us as a vine dresser is to purge us. His purging greatly increases our potential for fruitful living. “Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it so that it may bear more fruit”.
With his comparisons Maxwell also asks questions that may seem to have obvious answers formally, but with critical thinking these questions may apply to an individuals life if the reader is reading this book for “guidance” and motivational purposes. One of these questions being “ why do people fail?” And his answer was simple “ sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to succeed. A person who gets straight A’s on a report card sets a pattern of achievement and must keep achieving. Often we just don’t want to be responsible, so we shrink from …show more content…
One being how he describes success that I didn’t really agree with. This statement being “ many people just don’t feel the need to succeed. These people are secure they do not need to prove anything. They’re happy, content, and like what’s happening to them”. With this I would have to disagree because everyone’s point of view of succes is different and just because their view is different from yours doesn’t mean they’re not successful. Also his story about his fast food experience, I felt, was completely irrelevant to the rest of the