“Many Miles to Go combines a enthralling real-life story of Tracy’s trek across Africa’s Sahara desert and his reflective commentary on what he learned and what we could learn from his experiences. Unlike the typical business or personal development book, Many Miles to Go is a narrative that also has the remarkable ability to deliver Tracy’s key points about success both in your career and life. If the book had to be summarized in just a few words, they would be to set a goal and begin moving towards it and to treat each experience along the way as preparation for something later. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to reach, as Tracy would say, their full potential.” – Source

My Book Notes & Scribbles

Ask: What are my assumptions? What wrong assumptions could I be making? What change could I have to make?

Couldn’t be satisified with one place until I’d grown tired at looking at many others.

Idea Killers – endless discussion, idle chatter, empty speculation.

Be clear about goals, yet flexible in the process of achieving s them. Each step toward an objective modified and influences the next step.

Unexamined assumptions life at the root of most problems in life.

Everyone has a Sahara to cross

Cast of all mental limitations

Take the first step.

Driving into the dark.

Need not die to have a tasted of hell

Bursts  of enlightenment

Call of the unknown

Lure of the little voices

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.

Integrated knowledge

“What goes on under the surface?”

Never wish for things to be easier. Instead, wish you were stronger or better.

Never seek the easy the way out. Instead look for the hard way through.

Don’t Quit Poem
by anonymous
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow;
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit;
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.