Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True Paperback – October 1, 2010

What a great way to set your priorities! I’d like to hand this out to folks who are just not sure what they’re about. It doesn’t dictate what you should do, it helps you find your own priorities about what you should do. Nice!

In my opinion there are two things that we need to do to achieve any goal in life - gain clarity of purpose and take focused action. In the Five Wishes, Gay Hendricks has given us a very simple but highly effective method to gain clarity of purpose.The technique is straight-forward and easy to implement. But that does not take away from the power of the process. If you will really focus on the five wishes, you will come face to face with the things that are missing in your life. Then turn those wishes into a goal by restating them and then taking focused action to achieve them will certainly change your life.The book is a little short on information about the steps involved in taking focused action. The average reader probably needs a how to guide to implement the goals developed from the five wishes.The book is easy to read and presents the information in a heart warming story. It is well worth reading. It is short and most people will be able to read the entire book in one sitting.It is more inspirational than instructional. Guy Hendricks really opens up about his own personal experience in discovering the five wishes and the impact they had on his life.On the last page of the book there is one sentence that captures the essence of the book. "From your deathbed, what matters is that your final breath comes in with the sweet satisfaction of a life fulfilled and goes out with the blessing of a life complete." If you have doubts about how you will view your life as you near your final breath, then you really need to read the book and implement the five wishes.

This wonderful little book is based on a life-changing conversation that the author had with a man named Ed Steinbrecher. When I saw Ed's name, it rang a bell. I suddenly remembered that in 1994 I also had a conversation with Ed. And yes, it was a life-changing experience for me, too. It took over a year for what Ed said to me to sink in, and only then did I slowly begin to fulfill a wish that had been on the back-burner of my mind for quite some time. So much time passed, in fact, that I totally forgot that it was Ed who first inspired me to live the life I truly wished to live -- as a spiritual teacher and author. So, Ed, I now offer you a much-belated, but no-less sincere, thank you! And, of course, I want to thank Gay Hendricks for writing this remarkable book, and for sharing Ed's question with the whole world. What a gift this book is going to be for thousands of people who will finally be able to make their fondest dreams come true!Steven Lane Taylor, author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow

Jack Canfield recommended this book to his email list, and I bought it. I find this strategy of looking back on your life many years from now on your deathbed, and asking the right questions about your life to be instructive and valuable.Using the future to discern now, what if anything is missing from your life that would make it worthwhile, and take the necessary action to attain those important goals.The author shows how he discovered five important wishes for his life following a chance encounter at a party. Pursuing these wishes helped him resolve lifelong issues which were holding him back, particularly in love relationships. If it worked for him it could work for you. Particularly valuable is the idea of completing, described in chapter 2, and I particularly liked that he shares his sticking points and breakthroughs, and I could relate his experiences to my own dilemmas.You are probably wondering what value you can derive from this book, and what ideas it might give you that you can apply. How much would learning what would make your life satisfying be worth? If you are like me, the answer is worth a lot more than what Amazon is asking.Hope this was useful.

Short, deceptively simple, and profound. I feel ready to do this. I can see it is already focusing me to drop the drama and the excuses and proceed forward. I’m excited!!!

There are few books that I say everyone should read at least once. This is one of those book.A friend recommended it to me after I'd been re-evaluating my short- and long-term goals. At that point, I thought I already knew what I was doing -- and I was making good progress -- but I ordered this book anyway.The advice in this book gave me far greater clarity about my goals, and helped me re-prioritize them in ways that made more sense. Without the "Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question..." book, I'm not sure that my visualizations would have been as rich, vivid, or helpful as they are now. My plans are certainly clearer now, as well.If you're a fan of "The Secret," or of Covey's "7 Habits" books, this is another must-read book... and I don't say that lightly.

This is a simple book with large implications for your life. " Was your life a complete success?".. What a great question to start your life with the end in mind and work backwards. I loved a quote in this book "The bigger the question the more important it is to answer it right now". Wow, what a powerful thought and an amazing way to look at your life. This book has many great "a-ha" moments and is a fast book to reset the negative influences in your life. Last thing I took from this book was not settling for anything less than what you truly want in life. Makes this commitment to yourself and you will reach levels of happiness you never thought was possible.

As described, good value!

Quizá la introducción me hizo formarme una expectativa muy alta.

This wonderful book exceeded my expectations in a profound way. Gay Hendricks shares a remarkable experience that changed his life, which in turn has now changed mine. Gay has a magical way of storytelling, I couldn't put the book down. If you ever wanted to learn a simple process to make sure you complete what you want to in this lifetime this book is for you!

It claims that it can change lifes .To be frank it may not changed my life completely but it helped me a lot to focus on the big picture of life and let me know myself

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