Life’s Golden Ticket audiobook

I had come across this book at Goodwill and opened it to the front page with all the praise from some of the leaders in business development and success. I knew I had a winner.And boy did I!Everything I have learned over the years from self help books, life coaches, business coaches, lectures and videos were all crammed into an ingenious novel. Trying to distill the very essence of success and inspiration through fiction is a quite a feat. What Brendan Burchard has done is nothing short of a miracle; to have a character so thoroughly self evaluate his life through the lenses of a multitude of characters at an improbable and impossible amusement park.At points in the novel you can not help but to evaluate your own life. I did so at several points and realized my life so parallels that of the main character in many ways despite very different circumstances. I can not highly enough endorse this novel to anyone searching for purpose and success in their life.To say anything more would diminish both the satisfaction and revelatory nature of the book. Go read!

I finished this book at an impossible to predict time in my life where I lost my brother to suicide. We had been estranged for a number of years due to his struggle with alcohol addiction. Calling this book life changing with the ending and my own golden ticket is an understatement. Thank you for reminding me I have the choice to make a difference.

it's a novel about second chance actually.don't we human make mistake every once in a while, and sometime we are just too numb, or too tired, or too self-absorb to change it.therefore we should thank people who care enough to be the living reminder. who never gave up hope on us, while we already gave up with ourselves.and it won't be easy,we have to fight and we have to have courage, like Larry the lion-tamer said: ""hidup ini sprti di dlm kandang singa, kawan.takutlah, mundurlah, larilah dr apa yg ada didpnmu, maka tamatlah riwatmu."somehow, Harun was right, Brandon Burchard is better than Mitch Albom. Albom talked about death, while Burchard talked about life. And as we all now, life is harder than death. We have to fight to stay alive, to have a good life,meanwhile for death all we have to do is to give up.So live ur life to the fullest fellas :D

Every once in awhile, something happens that really touches my life! Well, today I read an amazing book -- Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard! It's a fascinating story that takes place in an amusement park with little, life messages tucked away in the story! There is a special envelope that cannot be opened until the story is completed! The style was so unique -- it was a story, but it was also self-help too! What a gift reading this book has been :)

Such an uplifting and powerful message! Highly recommend to all! My Rating: 5 stars

Tengo tantas cosas para decir sobre este libro que incluso en mi blog la reseña es larguísima.Esta es una novela sobre segundas oportunidades. No solo la que nos dan los demás, sino más que nada la que nos damos nosotros mismos. Es un libro sobre tener la fortaleza de cambiar nuestra vida para poder ser lo que queremos ser, sobre el coraje necesario para dejar atrás lo que nos ata y dedicarnos a lo que nos libera. Es un libro para perdonarnos a nosotros mismos y a los que nos lastimaron para poder sonreírle al mañana.Es una novela de fantasía, es ficción, pero está pensada para tocarnos de una u otra forma.Los que me conocen saben que a mí los libros de autoayuda no me gustan ni un poco, que todo el tema espiritual y de superación suele aburrirme. Pero esta novela pegó en el palo. Tal vez se debe a la ambientación de un parque mágico o al perfil de los personajes, no lo sé. La cantidad (y calidad) de preguntas que nos hace el libro, al hacérselas también al protagonista, se meten en nuestra mente incluso si queremos evitarlo. Nos hacen reflexionar sobre elementos básicos y cotidianos que muchas veces pasamos por alto. Y aunque lo que nos represente a nosotros no tenga relación con la vida del protagonista, no podemos evitar notar que también actuamos como él más allá de tener un contexto diferente.Recomendadísimo.Pueden leer una versión MUCHO más completa de la reseña acá: http://pardonmispanglish.blogspot.com...

This is the best book I have read this year, reminds me not to be automatic and be present to the people I love around me, my wife and sons. About forgiveness and liberation, if you are not a reader and won't ever go near a book, I am telling at least go through this one. As you read the story you will be taken through a journey of life which gives you an opportunity to introspect on your own life.one of the phrase that haunts me from the book is, "You will never change if you don't have a Goal", and a person without a goal is a drifter.

I received this book for free, had only paid shipping and figured why not. It gave me much more than I expected. I was humbled and honored by the perspective and value it has gave me to improve and change my personal outlook on my life

How often do you feel happy? How often do you get stuck in a negative loop that created by yourself? Simple things like this become the main point of this book. Normally I don’t read any motivation/inspiration/self-help book since I found that those kinds of book don’t have any permanent effect to “motivate or inspired or help myself” which means it IS has a effect for certain moment, like few days or weeks and I’m gonna end up thinking what I am doing is suck and won’t change anything that it’s easier to told than actually do it. I’m pretty sarcastic and skeptical though.Well, apparently more or less, this book also don’t give any permanent effect (by means I finished read this few… weeks ago?) but indeed inspired me and the moment when the very first time done reading it, I feel my heart warmed a little bit and makes me wonder that life is not, and will never be easy. I mean, it is a lovely story. And the synopsis in the back cover has nothing to do with the story (yeah I’m going to give a bit spoiler….)So, this man (I don’t know his name, is it Brendon?) is normal, common man that live in America, confusing with career and relationship mainly about his life and he has a fight with his current fiancée and just blow things up and right after the fight, his fiancée (Mary) just got in a car accident near an abandoned amusement park and can’t help clinging in a bed and machine and dying in the hospital. She gave him a mysterious envelope and told him to go there (the park) to know what actually happened to her and, and yeah sadly then she died.The man visited the abandoned and deserted amusement park and well it suddenly, magically turns out into a life and every single rides is working and there are a lot of people there (I know how stupid and childish it sounds but…) then he met an old, wise and friendly ground housekeeper and also other park employees (circus dudes, and gypsy fortune-teller you know, kind of people you meet at the amusement carnival park) and in every time he try the rides like roller coaster and other carousel it just teach him more about his life and people around him, especially Mary what follows an unforgettable journey of personal transformation and finally uncover what happens to Mary and discover what’s inside the mysterious envelope and find out the people who gives her that. And the ending, it is happy ending I guess. Happy and touching ending indeed (;_____;) *sob*I was cried because I felt exactly feeling like the way the main character feeling about his life, his lost, redemption, and finally, let go. And I just love the way Brendon mix things up between reality and fantasy. Frankly speaking, it was the first time I read sort-of-self-help-book that written in such a touching fictional and a lovely story. I mean, I’m glued to it like literally can’t stop reading. P.S : I just hate it the background story about Brendon got car accident, I hate professional motivator (even Brendon Burchard is actually good looking) and the drama about him almost die in car accident in developing country is overexposed and overrated  I mean yeah if he weren’t crashed his car this book will never be existed but the content and the story and the message behind the story is most valuable thing compared to anything. The book presents a fictional fantasy and philosophy that is lightweight and gives a little insight for those who want to make sense of life is soo simple: the courage to forgive yourself and confront the past to achieve a desired life. Highly recommended :)And I don’t know if self-help book and inspirational book are the same.

When my friend suggested I read this, I was a bit skeptical. She assured me it was a quick read and that I would learn a lot from it.Okay, I gave it a try and was more than pleasantly surprised. Brendan Burchard has written a truly great book. I laughed, I cried, and I thought. It brought memories to the surface that had been long buried and made me think about where I am going with my life.The main character narrates his fantasy trip which takes place in an abandoned amusement park that isn't abandoned when he arrives. The people in the park give invited visitors a second chance at changing their lives for the better, hence the golden ticket.He is at the park at the request of his dying fiance who had been missing for 40 days. Each person he meets at the park and each carnival ride he takes shows him his past both good and bad. Each lesson he learns will help him - risk changing his life, forgive both himself and others, be bold, see the other person's side of an argument, learn how to contribute and a host of life skills one needs to be successful.This is a very good self-help book that is easy to read, easy to understand, and inspirational for people who would like to change but hate self-help books.

4.5 Stars... really really good

Best book ever! Read it to experience the magic of second chances!

I thought this book was amazing. Some of it was a little like ok so everyone is explaining their life story, but ultimately it made you look at yourself. it was simple to grasp the concepts in the story and exciting to read. you wanted to read the story because well, theme parks are cool. It was lovely, not in a way where you would cry or anything like that. But just on the realisation that you know things can be different. I read it thinking about people I know living lives they find unfulfilling and I thought, you know I've always refused to lead my life that way, however in the last few years I can see how people get caught up in that "rut". They needn't. I needn't.Anyways, I think everyone, especially my husband and closest family should read the book.