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Gumptionade makes your self-help plan work better!
You know what to do. You just can't make yourself do it.
Gumptionade shows you how to develop the grit and mental toughness you need to reach your goals. It works with your self-improvement plan the way Oxyclean works with laundry detergent. You'll get better results.
Gumption is the power to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done. Gumption is courage, resourcefulness, and common sense in harness together.
Gumptionade shows how you can build your gumption with an entertaining, touching, and often funny collection of practical life instruction and great maxims such as "Put excellence before success;" and "Don't lead with your wallet."
The advice is firmly supported by true-life examples of gumption-driven problem-solving (e.g., NASA's Apollo 13 rescue, Billy Beane's accomplishments with the Oakland A's, and Texas governor Ann Richards' victory over political foes and alcohol). The author draws lightly on his own failures and recoveries, then gives concrete ways to rewire destructive thought patterns.
Sixteen compact chapters, and rewarding worksheets, spell out how to cultivate what you can control (your character) and show how properly applied doses of gumption can root out fears, head off destructive responses, and help you do what needs to be done.
Don't start your diet, or any self-improvement plan without reading this unique willpower booster.
- Sales Rank: #1685231 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-01
- Binding: Hardcover
- 260 pages
Review
Gumptionade is terrific. So smart, smooth and well researched and well written. --Betty Sargent, BookWorks
Warm, wise, and witty, Gumptionade carries on the best American tradition of courage, resourcefulness, and common sense. Highly recommended. --Richard Smoley, author of The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness.
Gumption: here's a readable lesson on what it is, how to get it, and why it can be good for you.
Gumption requires courage, resourcefulness, and common sense in harness together, explains former advertising executive O'Connor in this debut self-help handbook. Americans waste billions of dollars and hours each year on self-improvement plans and products. We try and fail to lose weight, get organized, exercise regularly, be a better spouse, a better parent, save for the future or reach other important goals. The author attempts to offer a solution in this inspirational, handy collection of practical life instruction sprinkled with maxims such as "Don't confuse Easy and Magic with the work of real change"; "Don't lead with your wallet"; and "Perfectionism is a means of avoiding change."
The advice here is firmly supported by true-life examples of gumption-driven problem-solving success stories (e.g., NASA's Apollo 13 rescue, Billy Beane's Moneyball success, etc.). O'Connor draws lightly on his own failures and recoveries (marriages, business), then gives concrete ways to rewire destructive thought patterns. Not just a cheerleader, he's careful to note that "Enthusiasm is not gumption" because, like good luck, it's "great when you have it, but outside of your control."
Sixteen compact chapters, some with worksheets, spell out how to cultivate what you can control (your own attitude) and show how properly applied doses of gumption can root out fears and short-circuit destructive responses.
Sounding as persuasive as Mad Men's Don Draper, this well-crafted book offers a road map for those who feel lost in the middle of a mad, disappointing existence or those who just want lasting change for the better (in other words, everyone).
Readers can save grief and cash if they take this sensible advice to heart and nourish the positive joys of gumption. --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Robert B. O'Connor is a marketing consultant and philosopher. As a young man, Bob was Phi Beta Kappa at Kenyon College, an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble, and co-owner of an advertising agency whose clients included Kraft and Hard Rock Caf� Worldwide. Bob was also a high-functioning illiterate in the school of life.
Bob eventually fell pretty hard. Lost his family, lost his job, lost his self-respect. Misery. Then he read philosophy, read the Bible, undertook psychoanalysis, and started a small business that paid his bills. These and other experiences taught Bob the life-changing secrets of gumption, which he reveals in this astonishing book, Gumptionade - The Booster For Your Self-Improvement Plan.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Rx: read every six months or p.r.n.
By Keith Parsons
This is a remarkable book. More a conversation than a lecture, it offers first-person stories that are helpful without being condescending, second-person insights that are instructive without being judgmental or patronizing, and third-person illustrations that will firmly cement your own memories to the points the author is making. If you want to arm yourself for your next run at your favorite gauntlet, you could spend a few years and a few thousand dollars on intensive psychotherapy-- or you could spend $25 and a few hours reading this book. Thoroughly enjoyable.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Improve Yourself, And Your Self-Improvement, Through Gumption
By Lindsay A Graham
I had the unique pleasure of meeting and working with the author, as my company was hired to record the audio version of this book. As a result, my first exposure to Bob's concept of Gumption--courage, resourcefulness and common sense in harness together--was from the author himself, in his own voice.
We record a lot of audiobooks. And a fair number of those are self-help titles, a genre that usually gets an eye-roll from me. It was surprising to me then, that I was so engaged by Gumptionade. And more than that--it made so much sense. You'll nod your head in agreement throughout the whole book, even as you ask yourself why you didn't think of these things sooner.
And it's actionable. Bob puts forth a series of well-considered checklists and cognitive methods that are easy to integrate into your own life-improvement regime--even if you don't have one. I didn't. Not formally. But of course I wanted to change a few things. A pound or ten less. A beer or three fewer. A bit more focus on my family and my business. Trading out the things that don't matter to me for the ones that really do. Gumptionade gave me--someone who was not looking for them--some great tools to calibrate the machinery of my life.
Bob calls Gumptionade "the booster for your self-improvement plan." It is, of course, but it's also just a darn good way of thinking about yourself, your life, others around you, and how you can best manage it all.
After recording the audiobook, I bought a hardcover. It's on my shelf, waiting to help me out again.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Gumptionade showed me a way of thinking about choices – good choices, bad choices
By Amazon Customer
[Five Stars]
[Headline] A Help in Walking MY Walk
[Review] Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." I made a decision a few months ago to put finally distractions (certain people, certain things, certain habits) aside and pursue the long term goal that means the world to me.
And the universe promptly tossed me this book (I borrowed it from a friend, to be exact). I read a chapter a day for 16 days, and then read it again this time making some notes as I went along. I can’t say it more clearly than this: Gumptionade showed me a way of thinking about choices – good choices, bad choices, my choices, your choices – that I am convinced will – already has – showed me a path I can walk. I can walk. Not without effort, not without suffering (“Suffer Better” is one of the best chapters), not without mistakes or discouraging days. But A PATH I CAN WALK.
Yes Gumptionade is steely-eyed realistic about how hard it is to make real change. But it is also convincing that it can be done, and practical about showing how. And so well written that it’s a pleasure to read. I hope you can do what I’m doing now: walking towards where I want to be someday soon, with my eyes wide open. On the prize. Gumptionade is a boon companion on my walk. Maybe it can be that for you.
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