The Skinny on Success
Why Not You?

Jim Randel

Review by Molly

Jim Randel’s Skinny on Success: Why Not You brings focus upon what the author believes to be the 10 most important characteristics of successful people.  Characteristics setting successful people apart include persistence, preparation, maximize probability, take action, combat failure, mental fortitude, optimism, hard work, persevere, belief in right and wrong.

Randel has produced a series of publications each entitled The Skinny On® and offered as a work filled with a sequence of sketches, information flow and text all proposed to communicate data in a short and snappy as well as engaging approach.

Skinny on Success: Why Not You directs the spotlight upon those elements seemingly directing the lives of successful people along with showing how others cans also reach goals leading to success. 

Jim Randel’s Skinny on Success: Why Not You is a quick read designed to be read and re read time and again for comprehension, encouragement and amusement.

Filled with stick-figure images as well as graphs, chats, photographs, the skinny on success is a motivating force of a book, with just plain good counsel intertwined with entertaining sketches is meant to continue concentration and interest within the parameter of an innovative, authoritative approach.

Jim Randel's distinctive, inimitable methodology for relating information via use of stick people, leads readers toward seeing accomplishment in a new way as they become skilled with the tools that will assist them toward becoming victorious.  The Skinny on Success relates how to: Identify the steps victorious people take needed to achieve success.

A good resource; Skinny on Success: Why Not You is an admirable tool for business leaders, personal trainers, success coaches, as well as typical persons who may be on the lookout for straightforward albeit practical methods for improving their lives with a fresh blend of dandy recommendations coupled with down-to-earth optimism.

The Skinny On series encompasses a group of witty, entertaining, and engaging books designed to forward noteworthy tutorials in a simple, non preachy, succinct, and appealing manner often through use of stick figure drawings as they join in exchange of ideas.

Randel’s Skinny On works are to the point, fast reads most readers will want to read through quickly and then return for specific reading, or for more in depth study.

Randel points out that success is not necessarily attained by the brightest or more capable, more handsome or even the luckiest persons, rather it is more readily attained by those who clearly recognize what it is that they personally feel strongly about, and then recognize that they not only have prospective to achieve success, can take action, and set out with persistence to attain the goal notwithstanding setbacks not and then.  Successful people are those who recognize that disappointment is also a part of the process of success. Learn from it, pick yourself up and go forward.

I like the use of lots of illustrations, quotes and quotes to help drive a point home.