People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity Paperback

By Alan Fox

Nowadays most people are very skeptical when it comes to these self help books and their outrageous promises. I took the leap though and went ahead and got a copy of People Tools by Alan Fox. Boy am I glad that I did, as I got a pleasant surprise. You will be engaged right from the beginning and you do not have to endure any useless nuggets of information. He teaches you how to learn, recognize and put into into practice skills for building happy relationships.

At only 208 pages this book is a short read. Altogether Alan shares 54 tools or strategies, and what do you know that is exactly how many chapters the book has. Most of these should be common sense, unfortunately this is not the case in real life. Although, he uses funny titles for the strategies like “Fry Another Egg” the actual lessons are no laughing matter. If in doubt on how to or where use them, he covers that too in each chapter.

Are you familiar with the saying ‘Do unto others, as you would like done unto you’? For the most part this is what Alan explores in People Tools. These simple concepts are taken apart and presented to us, in a way that makes it easier to learn and employ them in our daily lives. When you read this book, you can immediately adopt these ideas and start seeing some positive changes in your relationships with others around you.

Who is Alan Fox? He founded the Rattle magazine. Over his lifetime he has worked for accounting firms, and has owned a law firm as well as a real estate company. He also possesses university degrees in several different fields. Alan Fox has been married three times and has nine children. His latest book People Tools, draws on his life experiences from the past seven decades.

I really enjoyed how he injected many personal stories throughout this book. He uses them to help explain his strategies. As a reader, you begin to feel like you personally know Alan Fox. You feel like he is an old friend with whom you are having a conversation about life. Although each chapter explores a different strategy, they all lead on to each other as if you are reading a novel. I also love that he kept the chapters short and concise, no extra fluff purely wisdom.

The one tool that really resonated with me was ‘Shrink the Glass’. As I read through this chapter, I was thinking to myself, why did I never think to think like this before. That is the other good thing about this book. You will find yourself beginning to apply some of these tools unconsciously, whilst you are still reading through it. I think this is exactly what Alan was trying to get us to do, instantly turn the theory into practice.

Overall, People Tools is very well written. It will give you a new perspective on all your relationships both personal and business ones. Not only is it thought provoking, it is entertaining too. You are provided with a refreshing look at ideas that should ideally be common sense to many of us. Regardless, you are guaranteed to learn a lot of practical strategies that you can start using, right away. Sharpen your people skills today, grab yourself a copy.Read More Reviews Here…