Robert Glover – Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Nice Guys rarely finish last. In reality, they usually get stuck somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Identifies the ineffective thought processes and behaviors that keep Nice Guys from realizing their passion and achieving success in work and career

You will learn to identify the ways in which you prevent yourself from living up to your full potential, and you will begin applying new ways of thinking and acting that will start you on your way to becoming a Full Achiever.

What you’ll learn in Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last

Lesson 1: Why Nice Guys Fail to Live Up to Their Potential

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Understand the difference between genuine niceness and “fraudulent niceness.”
• Identify how you use “covert contracts” in work and career.
• Identify and illustrate how being a Nice Guy has had a detrimental effect on your work and career.

Lesson 2: A Roadmap for Becoming a Full Achiever

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify and discuss how you were trained to be nice by your family and by society.
• Recognize how your core beliefs get in the way of the success you want.
• Understand and begin to apply the two fundamental premises of success.
• Identify how Full Achievers are different from Nice Guys.

Lesson 3: Develop Integrity

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Understand and illustrate how the “Committee of Mediocrity” works in your life.
• Define the concept of integrity.
• Apply the principles of integrity to every area of work and career and open doors for success and accomplishment.

Lesson 4: Think Abundantly

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify how deprivation thinking affects your ability to experience abundance in work and career.
• Identify ways of changing your worldview in order to become a Full Achiever.
• Develop an accurate and realistic definition of abundance.
• Apply new skills for embracing the abundance that is all around you.

Lesson 5: Cultivate Courage

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify how your early life experiences can make life seem frightening.
• Understand the core belief behind all fear.
• Explore the differences in the ways Nice Guys and Full Achievers respond to fear.
• Practice handling fear in work and career.

Lesson 6: Stay Focused

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify the ways you lose perspective on what is important in your life.
• Explore the unconscious payoffs of staying unfocused.
• Identify a work or career goal and develop a plan for achieving it.
• Begin embracing your passion and purpose in life and career.

Lesson 7: Do Something Different

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Understand and begin to accept the chaotic nature of life
• Visualize life as an adventure
• Recognize and walk through the open doors of opportunity

Lesson 8: Build Support Systems

Objectives

After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Recognize your childhood survival mechanism of trying to be available to support needy, dependent, or overworked people in your life, while at the same time trying to create a way to occasionally escape from these overwhelming demands.
• Identify how you stay tethered to dependent systems.
• Start creating a support system that will help you realize your full potential.

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