Book Review: Michael Port’s Beyond Booked Solid
March 14, 2008 by Miki Saxon
It’s not that we can’t learn from the business advice and management practice flavors du jour, but it’s useful to revisit the basics, especially when they’re presented in an enjoyable, easy-to-read format by someone who isn’t into writing by the pound.
Focused on professionals and solopreneurs, Michael Port’s soon-to-be-released Beyond Booked Solid: Your Life, Your Way–It’s All Inside starts where Booked Solid ends by offering a sensible, flexible roadmap for expanding your business further without killing yourself.
And if reading Michael doesn’t convince you that the work/life answers you crave are found internally—not provided by external agents or floating like dandelion fluff in the air—then probably nothing will.
Beyond Booked Solid puts you on the road to personal innovation—showing you how to do more, work less, and make sure that the ‘do more’ is stuff you like doing.
Although the book offers excellent philosophical insights (including many ‘oops, forgot about that’ moments) it moves beyond that by providing the tools, including strategies, techniques, tips and resources, to turn the philosophy into reality.
Port’s comment, “…working on your business, while working in your business, while working on yourself,” pretty much sums up not just how you should earn your living, but how you live your life and grow. I can easily paraphrase that as, “Working on your life, while living in your life, while working on yourself.”
One last point. Beyond Booked Solid, like Booked Solid, is grounded in Port’s genuine desire to really help, not just sell books, so he also provides readers with another free, comprehensive, downloadable companion workbook.
What more can you ask?
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