Book Review: Make Your Shift by Beverly Flaxington

13 Jan 2012 · 1 min

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In this concise YouTube review, speaker Jim Bouchard—media host, author of Think Like a Black Belt—introduces Beverly Flaxington’s personal‑development book Make Your Shift: The 5 Most Important Moves You Can Make to Get Where You Want to Go. Bouchard critiques the oversaturation of generic self‑help guides and positions Flaxington’s work as a clear, accessible system that helps readers identify both what they want and why they want it. He emphasizes that personal responsibility is the cornerstone of success, likening the process of change to martial‑arts training where continual improvement, not a final perfection, is the goal. Concluding with a motivational call‑to‑action, he urges viewers to add the book to their personal‑development library and “strap on your belt” to start applying its principles.

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Hi, I'm Jim Bouchard, speaker, media host, and author of Think Like a Black Belt. Look, the last thing the world needed was another personal development cookbook or some self-help guru telling you that he or she knew all the secrets of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well, thankfully, Beverly Flaxington gives us Make Your Shift: The 5 Most Important Moves You Can Make to Get Where You Want to Go. Because after all, the most important word in self-help is what? It's self. Ultimately, you're the person responsible. The only person responsible for your success and happiness is the same person brushing your teeth in your bathroom mirror every morning. Well, Make Your Shift, Beverly gives us an uncomplicated and accessible system that can help us not only identify what we want to do, but also to identify why we want to do it. You know, in martial arts, it's just like in life. Change is the only agent of success, really. Ultimately, perfection is not a destination, it's a never-ending process. I really appreciate the opportunity to share such a wonderful teacher with you, and you've got to make, make your shift part of your personal development library. Now strap on your belt and get to work.