The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You

By: Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Publisher: HCI/Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: April 23, 2024
ISBN: 978-0757324802
Reviewed by: Lily Andrews
Review Date: December 28, 2024

The motivational, award-winning book The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino offers advice on how to envision and achieve success in both your personal and professional life.

Elizabeth spent years studying the essential elements of success and how they manifest in various people. She, however, found the conventional metrics for success irrational and unreachable. She aims to present success in this book in a fresh, genuine way as a multifaceted phenomenon that is closely related to several factors that, when obeyed, consistently result in enduring and life-changing impacts.

Elizabeth was from an affluent family, but an unforeseen event caused them to lose everything, including the home she had lived in since second grade and other properties on Minnesota's Lake Vermillion. Following this sudden shift, she developed a fresh viewpoint and redefined success, not in terms of wealth or notoriety, but rather as implied by the famous statement made by the late, great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden: "I knew what success was not. I didn’t see recommendations, promotions, points, scores, trophies, medals, and money as accurate measurements. Such items may result in status, but status isn’t necessarily success.” He went on to say, “Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.”

Drawing from her experience as a master coach and the creator of The Best Ever You Network, Elizabeth provides 10 tried and true strategies for taking creative action to help the reader envision, achieve, and magnify success and excellence. She breaks out her deep realization into three sections: Imagining your success, Actualizing it, and Amplifying it. She further deconstructs it into smaller subjects, which include Believe and Focus, Ask and Network, Sustain, and Adjust among others. These well-explained issues are both educational and intriguing, drawing heavily on her own and others' experiences in what she refers to as "Stories from the Heart." These featured stories show individuals who have persevered in the face of adversity and managed to create a life that inspires others.

The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You promises to assist you in letting go of the need to prove yourself to others or disprove their beliefs. Furthermore, it guarantees permanent understanding and alignment with your true self. You are prompted to take action by this fantastic tool, which also informs you that you are already very successful. Significantly, it deviates from the conventional definition of success, which the author has discovered overrides a great deal of our personal lives.

Quill says: In her exquisite work, Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino offers a groundbreaking discovery that ensures lasting life happiness and fulfillment. Her skill as a writer and desire to convey simply understood information to her audience is reflected in her word choice and timely topics. She stands out as a mentor and potential multi-award winner whose work will change your mindset.

For more information on The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You, please visit the author’s website at: www.besteveryou.com/successguidebook/