Personal Best provides inspirational insights and motivational success stories from global achievers to assist you to reach your full potential in business and in life. After two years of research, interviewing and testing the methods of leaders in business, sports, science, politics and management, Personal Best has been completed to serve as a powerful personal development and self help tool, that gives you not only an understanding of the characteristics of successful people, but direct, easy-to-implement strategies that you can employ to realise instant self improvement. The book offers practical advice on what works and what does not. As well as gaining an understanding of the personal growth strategies employed by those that have achieved notable success, you will also begin to understand why you do what you do, what your drivers are and how you can harness your mindset to make quantum leaps forward in any area of your life. Personal Best explores: The myth of natural talent and why intelligent action will win every time. The secret power strategies that have worked for the world's most successful CEOs, greatest athletes and leaders. How to rid yourself of the fears that stop you getting what you want. Understand the one area in your life you must be clear about, if you are to reach your potential. The ethos of Personal Best is that each of us, by making minor, incremental personal improvements, can bring about massive success quickly and sustainably. Your life is about private and personal victories, and if you commit to continuous self improvement, you will make progress and gain pride in the personal success of having done something you have never achieved before. If you can do a bit more, be it in the work place, or within the home, if you strive just to be better than you were before, your life will open up and progress more than you can imagine. This commitment to being your Personal Best can be the cornerstone to incredible achievement. Personal Best gives you immediate access to the thinking and key strategies of the world's best thinkers and achievers. The motivational stories and inspirational quotes allow you to understand not only the thinking of successful people but how you can replicate that success as part of your own journey of personal development and self improvement. The uniqueness of Personal Best as personal development guide is that the ideas and themes shared are not provided by one person or with a focus on one particular market, but draw on the lessons from high flyers from a wide range of backgrounds, all of whom have shown similar qualities in achieving their aims.