Here’s three letter to describe this book: F U N.

Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude by Jeffrey Gitomer is a highly readable book with information presented in a bite-size format. There are plenty of checklists to be had and each one hits the jackpot. Nice use of color, interesting graphics and cartoons, and yes, this is my favorite part: lots of quotes—by Gitomer and other people.

This is an action-packed book, meaning, you can’t just sit there and expect to gain positive attitude by reading a book. You have to take action. This book will make you think, and no prize for guessing, TAKE ACTION.

If you have trouble distilling information from all the self-help books you’ve read, this book would be a good place to get the whole idea or picture. If you’ve been overwhelmed by information overload in the past when you read multitude of materials, this book would be a good refresher or aggregator. It provides you with a framework to work on for your further expansion. Quoting Jeffrey Gitomer: “Create your own personal library.” I LOVED THIS!

I like the point he makes about working on our attitude a small amount each day. He gives an interesting illustration: “An apple a day. Not 7 apples on Sunday or 31 apples at the end of the month.” Great point. I can’t imagine stuffing a good 31 apples all at one go. But that’s precisely what most of us do—stuff everything all at one go and expect an overnight achievement.

I would like to highlight one particular point by Gitomer—a point he’d mentioned throughout his book—READING. Reading is fundamental to attitude self-awareness. In GitBit, a freebie offered on his website, he provided an attitude library consists of a list of 10 must-read books. These books have made a significant impact on his life. There are over 900 books in his library, but he pays special attention to these 10. I already owned a few of them and shipped for the ones I don’t already have. He’d recommended AbeBooks.com, a website that sells out-of-print and used books, where I found two of the titles I needed. Shopping at AbeBooks.com is a breeze.

Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude is easy to read and can be finished quite quickly. I chose to spend three days mulling over it. This books warrants pondering, lots of doodling, planning, and re-reading. In fact, one is supposed to read a particular section of the book daily for a year as a reminder of the things we need to do in our quest to achieve positive attitude, but I short-circuited the process. Happy reading y’all!