Network Marketing & Self Help Book Review - The Best Year of Your Life

Sometimes in life, you just need a "pick me up". You get discouraged and need to refocus. This is nowhere more true than if you also own your own network marketing business.

In multi-level (MLM) marketing, the needed "pick me up" can come from a hotel meeting with grand recognition, an expensive convention, or a push to "re-ignite" and "re-launch" your business. However, renewed enthusiasm can be much less expensive and much more helpful.

Debbie Ford's The Best Year of Your Life is a wonderful "pick me up". This book is full of step-by-step techniques that can help you reach your goals in your life, and can easily be applied to your business goals as well. It is one thing to read and absorb a "self help" or "self exploration" book. It is an entirely different thing to have the writing move you into action, elicit changes in your behavior, and make you feel like you CAN change your life.

Ford's book is a guide that takes you through the process of dreaming, planning, and doing, so that YOU can make this the best year of your life. She also provides the reader with downloadable worksheets, which I feel were essential for getting involved with the book to make it work for you.

Ford focuses on many ideas, but one of the topics that I feel is most influential is NCZs, or "No Cookie Zones": areas of our lives that are self destructive and difficult to eliminate (very bad habits or even addictions) that are counterproductive to reaching our goals. She gives the example of snacking on a donut while trying to lose weight. In network marketing, it could be any number of things, not making a call, working on an article, making a video, following through on emails. Here is more info regarding best self-help book check out our page.


Writing down and admitting my NCZs was very difficult but it has made an enormous difference in many aspects of my life. I had some pretty destructive NCZ behaviors and I am now working, because of The Best year of Your Life, to eliminate them. After acknowledging my NCZs, it was difficult to engage in them without being hyper aware of their destructive nature. A book is pretty powerful if it can do that to you and change the way you think. Before reading The Best year of Your Life, I was able to rationalize these behaviors, but once I read Ford's book, I realized I needed to change to reach my goals.

Sitting back and waiting for my life to change while I kept doing the same ole thing really didn't make much sense. The same goes for your MLM business. It is remarkable how much of an impact one short, easy reading book can have on your life (if you let it). Begin the book with an open mind and a true desire to be successful. As Ford says, "Dream It, Plan It, Live It!"