The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Michael Masterson (Author), Erik Synnestvedt (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)

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Have you held dreams of success and happiness that you’ve failed to fulfill? Do you sometimes feel that, however much you’ve done, you are still, in part, an underachiever? If so, there is good news. Your past failures have no bearing on your future. And if you can change the way you approach your work, you can change the way you live.

In The Pledge, best-selling author Michael Masterson teaches you how to reinvent your life by putting together a personal master plan. It’s a formal contract between the person you are today (fed up with the problems and lack of success you’ve been having) and the person you have decided to be (the successful you who is healthy, wealthy, happy, and wise). Masterson’s unique approach to creating a master plan will change your life immediately and forever. It is based on the best principles of the great personal productivity masters (such as Dale Carnegie and Stephen Covey) and on discoveries he made during his climb from indebtedness to multimillionaire status. The Pledge is not a book on goal setting. It is a blueprint for fundamental change. Once you have experienced even one day of Michael’s revolutionary system, you’ll be hooked for life.Through his writing and personal coaching, Masterson has changed the lives of countless people. His office walls are covered with personal letters from people from all over the world who credit him with transforming their lives. Now it’s your turn. Once you set up your personal master plan, your effort will be minimal. You will start to see results immediately. You will have more money, more success, and more time to do the things you love.

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7 hours and 29 minutes
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Michael Masterson
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Erik Synnestvedt
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January 27, 2011
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English
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Gildan Media, LLC
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B004L5AFGY
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Listening Length	7 hours and 29 minutes
Author	Michael Masterson
Narrator	Erik Synnestvedt
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Audible.com Release Date	January 27, 2011
Publisher	Gildan Media, LLC
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B004L5AFGY
Best Sellers Rank	#165,356 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1,893 in Personal Finance (Audible Books & Originals) #8,661 in Personal Success #10,765 in Personal Finance (Books)

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Sean Van Zant

Incredible Book For Master Planning Your Life For Massive Success!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2022

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The author shares his way of creating a lot more success in your life in a much shorter way through a master plan.

He shares how he's achieved incredible success as a very successful NY Times bestselling author, extremely successful entrepreneur, master copywriter, real estate investor, written and produced four feature-length movies, created a nonprofit that has it's own community, and he's had several other successes just by creating and using master plans.

I highly recommend it to anyone I know that wants more success in their lives at a much faster rate!

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Christine E.

Contains the best goal-setting strategy available

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014

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The initial chapter or two on goal setting is very well written and actually, the best, straight-forward method I have seen on how to set and accomplish goals. The book is worth the money for those chapters alone.

This book had the potential to be an early version of "The Compound Effect" but it veers off on some unexpected tangents. Although I greatly admire the author's accomplishments and would love to emulate his lifestyle some day, he does recommend some time-saving strategies that are not viable for most people, including the 2-minute shower. But overall, the book is good. I especially liked that he wrote about additional topics you don't usually see discussed, such as how to get moving after you find yourself in a funk. That took courage and I think his strategy will work.

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John B. Gately

Reinventing Your Life for Dummies (Like Me)

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2012

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A mini-treatise on achieving your goals that reads like a compilation of Napoleon Hill, Brian Tracy, and Joe Vitale all in one easily read volume that you can process and enjoy during a cross-country flight. Are some of the tips simple and intuitively obvious? Yes, but how many times have we read great articles in magazines or newspapers and forget their vital lessons within a few hours. Sometimes, we need to be gently reminded of life's simple lessons. As a fifty year old lawyer who has watched his life savings dwindled while financially assisting several indigent relatives through their last years in assisted living, I am now starting over at ground zero and needed more focus on achieving personal goals for my family and me. This book is a great start. Now the rest is up to me. v/r Jack Gately ([...])

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ZEUS:GENIUS

We don't get rich by doing certain things,we get rich by doing things in certain way (s).

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2010

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Well Michael Masterson has done again this book book is full of gems,gold and provide the in and out of how to design and live a more enriching life.
What really got my attention here is to stay focus.He provides the right tools of asking the right questions which which help the reader understand why Peter Drucker once warned"The most serious mistakes are not being made as result wrong answers .The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions."and above and beyond setting strategic boundaries that Steve Jobs coined" People think focus means saying yes to the thing you have to focus on."he later said "But that it is not what it's means at all.It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.".The Plegde gives you the steps by steps tools to build wealth.I highly recommend it to any executive who is willing to things happen in their life and the customers they serve.

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Joe I. Hancock

THE Master Plan for YOUR Life

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2011

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In the 64 years I've bounced around this planet I have read hundreds of self-help "How-to" books, and I can tell you this is absolutely the ONE! In one week with this book I've learned more than with all the others combined. If you are struggling with who you are, and where you want to go, this is THE book for you. I guarantee it will help you and guide you to the right track for your life. Don't wait!

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Stanley Richardson

Abundant life is now yours for the taking...

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2010

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Michael Masterson has been a long-time favorite. I've enjoyed his newsletter and other books and would recommend them too, but this book is a bit different. It is more of his life and life ideals. An abundant life if more than wealth...and more than just enjoying life more. He helps the reader to figure out what they were meant to do so they can be congruent and therefore have a deeper inner sense of satisfaction.

In "The Pledge," Masterson takes the strategies that he has used and put them forth as a system to follow...almost like a recipe. He also provides tools that can be used to "discover" yourself. It is a way of engaging your mind and heart as you create a better and more fulfilling plan for your life.

I felt "The Pledge" was inspirational as well as motivational. It reminded me that you do have to work and add value to the world around you, but that when you work hard in the right way, the level of success is higher and it comes to you naturally. Your quality of life is much more to your satisfaction all the time, because people were meant to help other people.

I would highly recommend getting this book along with another that I read early this year and has meant a lot to me. It seems that there are a lot of similarities between what Masterson writes here and the concept of Serendipity as described by Madeleine Kay. The book I'm referring to is Serendipitously Rich: How to Get Delightfully, Delectably, Deliciously Rich (or Anything Else You Want) in 7 Ridiculously Easy Steps . It too moves you positively on a path of change in your life and it also gives you practical steps that teach you how to make decisions based on serendipity.

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Aaron Sim

Part Six must read

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2018

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"Part Six Skills of the most successful" is priceless! Masterson engaging story telling conversational style and using plain short simple phases are extremely powerful way to communicate.

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Jerry Lynn Harrison

A must read

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2013

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If you are looking to making deep positive changes in your life, here's the book to get you on the path to success. It's an easy book to read, keeps you interested and will energize you to make change for the better.

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Anwar B

First class and Top Rated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2019

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This is an excellent book, I would hasten to add that the pledge is far far more than a business or a personal development book. This a blueprint for success. If the advice and blue print laid out is implemented this has life changing potential. Seriously!! The author has the credibility and proven track record to write with Authority on the subject and share his success system. I would not hesitate to highly recommend this for those serious about success.

Mark Olsen

Playing the Devil's advocate

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2012

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This book is amazing; it's life-changing and WILL make you more productive. But I don't feel that many of the reviews here show the book for what it really is. As I've said, this book changed my life, and I believe it will change yours, too, so definitely buy it. But for the remainder of this review, I'm going to be playing Devil's advocate and talking about the many downfalls of this book.

The biggest negative of all, honestly, is that the book itself is poor. Don't get me wrong, it's life-changing and I still strongly recommend it. But what I mean is this: there is only ONE chapter that you need to read in the book, and that's the second one: 'How To Turn Your Biggest Dreams Into Reality'; this is the chapter which tells you how to set your goals as according to your core values, and how to work towards those goals every single day - it's amazing. The rest of the book, however... well, let's just say I didn't remember any of it after reading it. Apart from that essential second chapter, the rest of the book is basically fleshed-out generic "positive thinking", "do as I say" diatribe, with Masterson showing his age; gloating rabidly about his own achievements and telling you what's good for you. Masterson comes across as an old-fashioned elitist who mistrusts anything that isn't work - it's as if he's been following his own system for so long, that he's become quite literally obsessed with it, and he strongly encourages, if not demands, that you do EXACTLY the same. It seems to have turned him into quite the robot.

His obsession with productivity and his outright terror at anything unproductive is quite laughable; for example, he recommends limiting your shower to two minutes per day (since that extra 13 minutes could be spent working on a novel or something). He tells a story about how he and his wife decided not to buy a television until all their kids were out of the house, in case it turned them stupid, and even with his last kid leaving for college, he still tells of his paranoia that he may become "addicted" to it, thus corrupting his perfect 'goal-setting' system. One imagines that if you interrupted Masterson with a five-minute chat, he'd become enraged at you for putting him five minutes behind his daily schedule. At one point, he shows that he even schedules "dinner and conversation" with his own wife, and the way in which he writes, one assumes that he sticks to the time restraints of such a dinner and conversation very strictly. He also makes a distinction between 'Golden activities' (i.e. activities which he thinks EVERYONE should do because they WILL make them better people) and 'Acidic activities' (activities which he thinks NOBODY should do because they WILL turn them into idiots); 'golden' activities include meditating and appreciating art, while 'acidic' activities include watching TV shows that aren't documentaries, and listening to - and he makes it specific - rap music. At no point does Masterson even hint that any of this is opinion, so he basically comes across as a boring, rich, elitist old man telling you what he thinks is good for you.

At one point, the book delves into the... purely surreal. There is a point in which he goes off on a several-page tangent about how you should (nay, MUST) have lights with dimmers on them in your office, and how you should kit your workspace out with a whiskey bar and/or a Chinese tea station. Seriously. Now it doesn't take an idiot to work out that... most people simply just can't get away with doing this. This book is meant to be aimed at average people like you and I, so why on Earth is Masterson even entertaining the idea that you 1. even have your own office, 2. can afford your own whiskey bar, 3. have space in your office said whiskey bar, and 4. will not be fired on the spot for ripping out your office's light fittings and dragging in your own whiskey bar?! He also recommends carrying a pillow around with you so that if you're tired, you can just lay down under the nearest table and have a 20-minute power nap... especially if you're at work - no, that won't get you fired on the spot.

I'd like to remind you here that I still strongly recommend this book. In fact, this isn't the only Masterson book I've read - I recommend them all, but I have similar complaints with all of them. To summarize, definitely buy the book - it'll change your life. But only read the second chapter, since Masterson himself isn't a fun writer to read; the rest of the book is fleshed out with generic self-help buzzwords and diatribe and Masterson being pretentious and weird.

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JulzB

Long Time Fans Won't Love This Book

Reviewed in Canada on April 7, 2011

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This book is a good, easy and enjoyable to read. It's full of thought provoking suggestions and ideas. I like that it takes emphasis off wealth creation to focus more on quality of life and creating an ideal average day. I love when he shares what happens in his day and how certain things like 15 minutes of Yoga and a protein shake are rewards for himself after some work. I have been following his early to rise and productivity secrets for years and my day, while different, is structured in a similar way to his days and it's tremendously powerful. And reading what he sees as a reward is a cool way to give yourself perspective.

And if you're looking to get unstuck in your life I do believe it can help. There are some great tools, exercises and stories in here to inspire you and give you what I think is a much needed perspective in the world full of get rich quick promises and I need it now mentalities.

So if I like the book and think it's good and useful why the 3 star rating? Well - if this was the only thing I had ever read from Michael Masterson I probably would have given this a 4, but I have read every business book he's written. His ideas have changed my business and my life. I am a HUGE fan and admirer of him and his work.

But, as a long time fan of Michael Masterson, I would highly recommend so many of his other books before I would recommend this one. I am a pretty practical person and feel that books like Automatic Wealth and 7 Years to 7 Figures have FAR better applications than this one. I like the tone and overall message of this but just feel Automatic Wealth is a game changing book for anybody that takes it and uses it. This book plants seeds that you may harvest later but I bet most people will read it, enjoy the read and move on. Lives remaining the same. It really depends what you're looking for in a book, but for me, this isn't as hard hitting, to the point or as structured as some of his others. (Automatic wealth being my personal fave)

Plus I had read at least half of this book before - whether through his newsletters or his other books. It felt fairly regurgitated to me. I kept waiting for the big new idea or the cool story I didn't know and it wasn't there.

If you're new to Michael Masterson or you have only read a bit of his stuff to date then you will probably REALLY like this book - but I would still suggest you pick up one of his other books first!! :)

Nicole James

REALITY check

Reviewed in Germany on November 2, 2021

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love the reality check i got from it, and the explanation of present day economic and educational advantage I see today but was not able to figure out clearly wny, its a most. have , it this will enable you to see the society as it is , why the economic offorded some opportunites and but others . Its enhenced my reasoning ability and also i am able to make more inform decisions. Thank you to the author for this enlightenment.

Nicola S.

Libro spettacolare

Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2018

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Libro fantastico, probabilmente il miglior libro di crescita personale e gestione del tempo che abbia mai letto in vita mia

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