How to find what you are good at and then use it to make your life better

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	• Tiger Traits: 9 Success Secrets You Can Discover From Tiger Woods to Be a Business Champion Nate Booth Harrison Acorn Press, 2007 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

How to find what you are good at and then use it to make your life better

One of the staples in the business - motivation literature is the use of sports and sports heroes to illustrate a set of constructive traits the author shares with you. Here, Nate Booth has written a book that motivates the reader by illustrating the nine principles he provides in the book (and a tenth bonus principle online) through the life and career of the phenomenal golfer, Tiger Woods. The author is clear that Tiger has NOTHING to do with the book, does not endorse it, and is in no way affiliated with him. I guess this disclaimer is necessary in this age of total marketing, branding, and so forth. However, if you go to your bookstore and look at all the books based on the lives of various people without their endorsement, you could fill many shelves.

The main focus of the book, as I read it, is about taking control of your life by finding out what you are truly good at (the author provides you with some sound ways to tell), to develop a compelling dream around that talent, to get the right role models - teachers - supporters who will help you along the path, being confident, getting the right mental models, talk through actions, continually improve, be likeable (as an aside, while Tiger is famous and charismatic, I am not sure he is necessarily likeable nor am I sure he is concerned about it), and giving back.

Booth provides a post nine-hole (nine-principle) cool down where he summarizes of what he was trying to teach through the book and hopes the reader has learned. He also offers some recommended reading.

The book is NOT only about Tiger. Booth provides some excellent quotes from all kinds of past greats, from Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and even Jiminy Cricket (and many others). I enjoyed these brief quotations a great deal.

If you enjoy motivational reading and are interested in Tiger Woods, this is a book for you.

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Tiger Traits

Dear Dr. Booth:

My name is Damien R. Euell, I'm 23 years young, and I wanted to just say "thank you" for your book, Tiger Traits. About a week ago I was cruising through the local Barnes & Noble book store and for some reason I was "drawn" to your book. Almost that 6th sense-- energy-- gut feeling that you get.

I've read a handful of self development books and this is by far my favorite read. Tiger Traits is a very simple, very applicable, and very true to its creed. Like most entrepreneurs, and young at that, I am continuously searching for that extra edge in mental development that will help me along the way. The stronger I am, the more I can offer to our family business. Warren Buffett says, "always finish the day a little smarter, if you're not, you're making a huge mistake."

Last year I moved down from Denver, Colorado to Katy, Texas to start working with the family business, Euell Energy Resources (www.euellenergy.com). We've been diligently working to rebuild the company; backlash from Enron almost caused bankruptcy. My father has instilled in me the values of never giving up, and to dream big dreams (Trumps version of thinking big). I'm excited about where we're going to end up.

Again, thank you for compiling all of the information, knowledge, and advice into one amazing book. Have a great week.

Best Regards,

Damien R. Euell

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Powerful traits for all ages

Tiger Traits provides such powerful success secrets that I will be buying 6 more copies to share with my two sons and four closest friends. Nate has written an easy to follow "recipe for success", which is inspiring for all ages!

Neil Wood
author: The Magic of Working Smarter

An excellent motivational and self-improvement guide

Written by success coach Nate Booth, Tiger Traits: 9 Success Secrets You Can Discover from Tiger Woods to be a Business Champion is a unique guide to business and life lessons that anyone can learn from golf prodigy Tiger Woods. From "Identify and Develop Natural Talents" to "Be Confident", "Let Actions Do the Talking", "Be Likeable", and "Be Grateful, Give Back", each of the nine positive character factors is scrutinized at length, its benefits analyzed and illuminated through real-world examples. An excellent motivational and self-improvement guide sure to especially resonate with professional golf buffs.

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TIGER TRAITS Reviewed by Ralph Williams

Nate Booth's Tiger Traits has a wonderful way of exposing the tiger inside each of us. Even better, Nate takes on the role of a seasoned, professional caddy and shows each of us how to play the championship course of life. As anyone who plays the game of golf will tell you, there's more than one set of tees to play from. After reading and applying Nate's observations, I will feel much more confident playing the game of life from the championship tees.

When Nate writes about discovering one's natural talents, he gives us clear direction on what we should look for. When it comes to our individual weaknesses, he shows us how to manage them with honor.

While many may buy this book because of its reference to Tiger, I recommend this book because it gives all of us a better chance to tap into the natural and developed gifts of the author, Nate Booth.

In closing, I bought a copy of Tiger Traits for each of our five grown sons. It's a club I want in each of their bags.

Ralph Williams
Bottom Line University
Colleyville, TX

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Tiger Woods success in golf (and in life) is not an accident. There s no doubt that he was born with a special talent, but Tiger also has nine traits that have allowed him to express that talent in extraordinary ways. These nine traits have helped Tiger become a champion, and they can help you lay a solid foundation for an outstanding business career and a fulfilling life. Tiger Traits describes how Tiger developed his natural talents and created a compelling dream for his life, who his heroes and mentors were, and how all of this helped him not just on the golf course but also in his journey to become a top entrepreneur in the world of sports. The lessons Tiger's life teaches us how to acquire confidence, use mental models to create success in advance, take intelligent and enthusiastic action, improve incrementally to produce massive results, tap into the power of personality to gain allies and build teams, and create greater success through giving to others can help any businessperson to attain greater success and satisfaction.

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