Here's A Book That Will Challenge Your Thinking

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J. Steven Tucker

J. Steven Tucker is a Certified Public Accountant. He has had his own CPA practice in Winston Salem NC since 1987. His areas of practice include financial planning as well as tax planning. Also, for several years now, he has been trading commodities.

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I enjoy reading books that challenge my beliefs or at least challenge me to think in a different way. I firmly believe that books that challenge me to think differently really help me to develop my problem solving skills. And, I always feel some encouragement in reading about the struggles others have gone through. The book "Shut Up, Stop Whining, & Get A Life" is such a book.

In "Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get A Life," Larry Winget describes his business and personal struggles and his life philosophy. However, you won't find any deep philosophical discourses about the meaning of life. What Larry Winget has done is take a close, realistic look at this own life, both his accomplishments and his mistakes, which he admits he's made, and then combined what he's learned from his own life with what he's learned from reading and studying other people and distilled all this into a book of hard hitting, nitty-gritty advice about how to create a more successful life.

Larry Winget has written an enjoyable and thought provoking book to read, but, be forewarned that reading this book is like an in your face rant at times. At times as I was reading this book, particularly the early chapters, I felt like a Marine drill sergeant was yelling at me. Larry will certainly not be gentle with you if you feel you haven't been successful with your life. He will not hand you a tissue and feel sorry for your pain. Instead, he will be in your face and tell you that if you are not successful it is because you are stupid, you are lazy, and, you don't give a damn. Ouch!!

There are places in the book where I think that Larry is overly harsh, especially with overweight people. He says that people are overweight because they are stupid and eat too much and are lazy because they don't exercise enough. Although in a lot of cases that's the reason for obesity, in some cases other factors are involved.

But, overall, Larry is well meaning and the advice he gives is just good common sense advice applied with a kick in the butt to make people take responsibility for their lives. After all, common sense and personal responsibility are two things that seem in short supply these days. And, that basically is what the book is, a slap in the face along with common sense advice to motivate you to take responsibility for your life.

Again, this is an enjoyable book to read as well as a different book that will make you think about your life and that's a worthy objective for any book to accomplish.