The Lifelong Project

I was a project manager during my career as an Accountant but didnt realize that I could apply all of my skills to my personal life! Mr. Phillips wrote a wonderful book that was easy to read and kept my attention. I actually read it at the most appropriate time...the start of 2010! I have my goals set and the direction on how to attain them. I would recommend the book to everyone.

This book is a great guideline on how to plan out your goals, step by step, and actually follow through on them. This doesnt just apply to the big goals in life, like buying a house, losing weight, or starting a business; this applies to *every* aspect of your life. If you have a hard time getting motivated, or you just dont know where to begin, this is the book for you.

I thought this would be the PMPBOK for life management. But this was authors life story + PMBOK. Might be a great gift for someone you want to introduce project management , or the PMP exam. This book will get them interested in both . But for someone who knows PMBOK and PMP this felt like a repetitive grind. I applaud the authors effort , but the target customer for this product is not me , may be the title of the book has to be changed.

Good book, really made me think about the way I have been approaching challenging tasks... now I approach projects very differentl..... and definitely worth the price!

The Lifelong Project is the solution to a question I ask myself daily--what if today were the last day of my life? As a person in their twenties, I often struggle with the giant picture of my entire life, but I still dream about someday. I have a feeling that someday is in the same place where the grass grows greener. So why not bring someday to today? By using project management techniques, this book displays how to accomplish giant goals by starting with a single step. Take a step everyday for one year and youll find yourself in a different place, Id imagine. What I love most about this book is Mr. Phillips own story of his Lifelong Project: he isnt just talking, hes sharing from experience. Aside from analyzing the vision, mission, and scope of your project, he mentions other things that will help you along the way--passion, forgiveness, and meditation. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is in the same place today, that they were last year.

This is a superb book, and the author should get an award for it. The book takes the reader through a project where the project is the readers life in a year. What project is more important? Along the way you create a project binder with various documents in it. Going through that process is challenging and revealing. This book would be great for high-school, college, graduate, and professional level courses on project management, and also other fields like logic, self-help, financial planning, and logistics.

Great guide to follow. Expecting great results as I work through the process.

Here is a book that is worth picking up. Mr. Phillips has created a think/take action book. ROI comes back early with this one. Believing in yourself is half the battle - the other half is this book. It helps you not only to get started on your path but helps you execute to completion. You can take his principles and apply to everyday life to make things happen. I myself have a project in place that was one that I found I could not get moving on until the tools were placed before me. Learning to plot things out to achieve a goal. MAGNIFICENT!

I have always been one of those people who wanted to better my life, but didnt know how to approach such a monumental task. Instead of looking at my life as a total project, I would tackle different individual areas of my life as needed. I would often improve the area of focus, but other areas of my life would then suffer. If I focused too much on my career, my personal relationships suffered and I had no time for me. If I focused too much on my personal relationships, my career (and sales income) suffered. So, my life has been a constant struggle to improve while really only operating in emergency management when one aspect of my life was in serious trouble. I knew immediately, upon reading the description of this book, that I was about to learn something that could help me improve my life as a whole. Once I identified the goals I wanted to attain, I was able to begin work on a plan to attain those goals. I now take action every day to get farther along in my project and closer to achieving the level of success I want and deserve. I have set benchmarks that help me to monitor my progress, and I feel like I am progressing with each new day. If I hadnt found this book, I would have continued doing things the way I had always done them. Taking what I have learned in this book, I am more optimistic about 2010 (and beyond) than I have been in a very long time!

after reading this book, i could not imagine starting the new year without it! mr. phillips creates an amazing journey that you find within yourself. harold bell wright once wrote that there are thirtheen truly great things in life: dreams, occupation, knowledge, ignorance, religion, tradition, temptation, life, death, failure, success, love and memories. mr. phillips addresses all of these truly great things by giving you the tools needed to achieve and overcome. once you have read and enjoyed this book, you will be convinced, as i am, that this should not be classified as a self help book. this should be classified as THE self help book.