7 Checklist Items for Success: A Guide to a Richer and More Successful Life
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A U.S. Navy physician shares his secrets for a more successful life in this self-help work.
Mathurin conceived of his debut book when he realized how critical checklists are in the worlds of naval aviation and medicine. Itemized lists, he says, help avoid flight mishaps and operating room errors, so he wondered, “Why not apply this same concept to people’s lives to help them achieve their highest potential?” That epiphany resulted in this book—a kind of instruction manual for living that breaks achievement into seven “checklist items”: “Goals,” “Take Action,” “Courage to Consistently Commit,” “Value Resources,” “Investing in Yourself and Others,” “Giving Back,” and “Create a Legacy of Service to Others.” An introductory section helpfully explains each of the core concepts, in brief, and these same blocks of text are repeated at the beginning of each of seven chapters. The items themselves are unlikely to be new to most readers, as many of the ideas are common in self-help literature (such as “Have the courage to go the extra mile with everything that you do, each and every time”). But the presentation of the material feels more novel, as the overarching checklist concept isn’t taken literally; the book’s merit derives from the idea that one can systematically address several broad areas in the quest for a fuller life. At the very least, this notion gives the book a highly focused structure that makes it easy for readers to navigate.
Unsurprisingly, given the author’s military and medical background, there’s a sense of logic and precision to this book. Each chapter’s content is uniformly positive and always emphasizes proactivity, but it’s also clear that the book isn’t intended to highlight step-by-step procedure. Instead, it offers a wide-ranging, general discussion of each list item, using examples and personal anecdotes to illustrate specific points. To that end, Mathurin writes from a very personal perspective—sharing, for example, how he grew up in poverty in Haiti—and he explains with some eloquence how he used the principles that he lays out in his book to “transform [his] life from famine to abundance.” He writes with a great deal of insight, as well, offering not only accounts of his own experiences, but also the wisdom of others, such as investor Warren Buffett and the late self-help authors Zig Ziglar and Napoleon Hill. Mathurin’s style often takes an inspirational tone, as he exudes a sense of confidence in his approach to life: “Success,” writes Mathurin, “is only ten percent intention and ninety percent action.” About leading others, he writes, “always strive to be the leader you would want to follow; strive to be the calm voice in the midst of the chaos, and—while you are at it—strive to be the change that you want to see.” Finally, Mathurin stresses that you can “lay the path to your legacy by focusing on giving back the acts of kindness you have received along the way.”
A book of noble, sincere, and expressive advice for living.
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7 Checklist Items for Success - Jean Mathurin
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CHAPTER 1
GOALS
Have goals for your life, short-term (daily to yearly goals) and long-term goals (1-10 year goals). Most importantly, have daily goals. Always remember that even the most skilled pilot flying the most sophisticated aircraft in the world will not be able to fly to his or her final destination without a flight plan and a clear destination. Even the best shot in the world cannot hit a target without aiming. Yet many of us conduct the most expensive vessel ever created—our life—without any goals. To call this insanity may be an understatement.
STARTING IS HARD, BUT ESSENTIAL
You deserve to be congratulated for starting this book. At this point, you may not know what your goals are; you may not even be sure of how to develop your goals for a more successful life. This is completely okay. The important thing is that you have started, and you are reading this chapter.
I first started keeping specific goals for my life when I was 15. At that age, it was not easy for me to set long-term goals, so I defaulted to setting short-term goals that I could achieve within one year. Later, as I gained confidence in my ability to realize my goals, I started to set more long-term goals, which I planned to achieve within one to ten years.
When I was younger, my family and I lived in Haiti, where my options were limited. Some of the most intelligent upper classmen I knew were not able to afford to go to college, so setting goals to study in the United States at that time would have seems impossible; instead, I set up goals to excel in each one of my classes. I was the seventh of eight children who had not finished high school. So, my goal became to finish high school. When I was in high school, I had no money to afford college, and I felt that I was on a dead-end road. But by that time I was more confident in my ability to realize my goals, and even though it seemed impossible at that time, I set goals to go to college.
Your long-term goal may seem unrealistic based on your current situation, and that is okay because you want your goals to stretch you. What is not okay is to let yourself be discouraged by the naysayers or the people who don’t even know you.
My neighborhood friends and my classmates considered me lucky because my dad lived in the U.S. They believed that all my needs were met and, unlike them, I never went to bed hungry at night. This was only partly true. Although my mother tried the best she could to give my siblings and I at least one meal per day, the truth was that it was never enough to feed eight hungry mouths.
Even worse, I truly had an insatiable appetite, more so than any of my other siblings. I used to say I needed more food because I burned more energy walking forty-five minutes to school. This justification was immediately refuted by my siblings, because they also had to walk the same distance. Later, I came up with a better excuse: I explained that my brain needed more energy to learn than did theirs. They could not argue with that because I had better grades than them—though the real reason they kept quiet was that they were sick and tired of listening to me whine and cry for food.
Sadly, not having enough to eat was a common theme among my neighborhood friends and classmates. Even today, I still have to face the fact that while I am successful, many people that I grew up with still live in