Seven Steps to Inner Power: A Martial Arts Master Reveals Her Secrets for Dynamic Living

This is my favorite book of all I have read. I stumbeled over it beeing an exchangestudent in the USA. It give you great insight to life and encourages everyone to be all they can be and enjoy life. A better book I don't know if it exists. If your in to life or not this is one great way to go ! Love, live, prosper as one as in you and as one as human beings as a whole Enjoy life !

This is an outstanding book due to Ms. Kim's practical view of our lives and how we can achieve our own success in the 20th century. She presents her ideas in a very straightforward manner, yet, she leaves one with the freedom to apply her ideas to our own lives. I was very impressed at the simplicity of the tools she proposes we use. In the section on purity she tells us that if we are feeling down a very useful tool is to ask ourselves what would make us happy. This process is so basic it has helped me to lower my stress by allowing me to focus on what I wanted instead of feeling that I was the victim of something uncontrollable. Grandmaster Kim is one of those very special authors who has the capability to help us influence our own lives. 7 Steps to Inner Power is a powerful book that I will be passing out at our next Manager's meeting.

I first read this book when it came out seven years ago and have read it again over and over. It has helped me see the ways I have held myself back in my life (I can't do that.... what will other people think?... but what if....) and shown me that, rather than be bitter or frustrated with my life, I can take charge and make the changes I want and be the person I want to become. This book, coupled with Tae Yun Kim's second book 'Silent Master' have helped me achieve things I only dreamed about and never really thought possible before. This is a must read for anyone who wants more in their life and is looking for the inspiration and tools to get it.

I scoffed at every self-help book I ever read until I read this book. In a time when book-learned personal development "experts" seem to make everything either totally mystical or overly simplistic, Grandmaster Kim delivers honest answers from a whole lifetime of her own personal experience and spiritual martial arts training. She is direct and thought-provoking, and has a way of making some of the most difficult personal issues very clear. Seven Steps is now absolutely one of my favorites, and I have re-read it many times -- I'd recommend it to anyone!

I came across this book when I was going through a very difficult time in my life. Grandmaster Kim's wisdom rings so true and was stated so simply in "Seven Steps," that the big, scary life-changes I was in the middle of at the time (a divorce, moving, and changing careers), became not so big or scary anymore. Today I still pick up and read this book a lot becuase each time I open it, I find something 'new'.