Steps to the Top

By Zig Ziglar

Book Overview

Beginning where the multi-million copy selling See You at the Top left off, Steps to the Top expands the message of that classic work on self-development.

Focusing on seven keys to personal improvement, each with specific action steps for today, Steps to the Top can guide the goal-oriented reader to higher levels of success.

Attitude: Develop a positive attitude by focusing on your strengths while not comparing yourself to others.Self-Image: Evaluate your self-image and improve it.Relationships: Develop effective your relationships with others.Goal Setting: Set specific goals and break them down into milestones and steps.Hard Work: Accept that success is the result consistent effort and learn to act accordingly.Desire: Cultivate a intense desire to succeed.Innovation: Be willing "change the recipe" when necessary.

For more than three decades, Zig Ziglar traveled the world delivering powerful self-improvement messages. His ability to encourage, uplift, and inspire audiences made him one of the great motivators of the age, cultivating the energy of change. Recognized by his peers as the quintessential motivational genius of our times, Zig Ziglar's powerful messages earned him many honors, and today he is still considered one of the most versatile authorities on the science of human potential.

Praise for Zig Ziglar:

"I have learned much from reading this book] and, of course, feel its strong motivational quality. It is unusual and different and is bound to do a lot for any person who reads and applies its principles."
-Norman Vincent Peale, founder, Guideposts magazine, and author, The Power of Positive Thinking

"See You at the Top is the very best book on life and motivation I have ever read."
-Lou Holtz, former head coach, University of South Carolina and Notre Dame University

"Zig Ziglar's optimism will be a legacy that will forever impact our history."
-Paul Harvey, Paul Harvey News and Comment

"Zig Ziglar is one of my heroes. His message of opportunity through optimism, preparation, and hard work has been a constant personal principle throughout my career from the gridirons of pro football to the halls of Congress and beyond."
-Jack Kemp, former NFL quarterback and congressman

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882894609
• ISBN13: 9780882894607
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A beloved Zig Ziglar classic on how to get ahead in life

Since 1970, Zig Ziglar has been speaking and writing to motivate and elevate others, and to help them get ahead. He does so with considerable enthusiasm and joie de vivre - and to notable effect. He has traveled more than five million miles delivering his upbeat, inspirational message around the world. He has written dozens of mood-lifting books, some of them bona fide classics, such as this one. An Alabama son of the Great Depression and one of 12 children, Ziglar is effective because of his common sense and old-fashioned country wisdom, as well as his ability to reach others with easy-to-understand anecdotes, stories and parables. Like medieval morality plays, Ziglar's books and speeches deliver powerful messages about the transformational perfectibility of humankind. Ziglar reminds getAbstract of a kindly, old-fashioned uncle, a wise family treasure known for his wit and sound advice. Feel like you're stuck in neutral lately? Not sure how to get ahead? Maybe it's time to sit down with Uncle Zig. He'll help you sort things out.