Turn Your Dreams Into Realities

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (5/07) Sue Augustine writes with a passion. She is genuine. Sue is an international speaker and an award-winning author. She will stimulate you, the reader, to discover and implement your innermost dreams and desires. She then arms you with powerful ideas and practical steps to help you attain these dreams. The book offers help in developing new habits of success and discipline to move closer to reaching personal dreams which result in powerful changes and positive choices that will transform lives. Just for starters, I was moved to examine myself and challenged to stand taller, as I responded to the probing questions throughout the chapter on personal integrity. Throughout the book, Sue helped me to take steps to triumph over doubts, to conquer fears, and move beyond my insecurities to accept my God-given strengths and abilities. The book is divided into one-hundred and one topics: from getting started to continuing the dream. Each chapter is crammed with ideas, suggestions, and recommendations. Sue provides inspiration and motivation in logical, organized, and easy-to-follow steps. Her own accomplishments in bringing her visions and dreams to realization validate her credentials to write this book. The principles presented are practical in areas of finance, hobbies, careers, spiritual growth, relationships, educations, politics, or social change. They can be applied to your life at home, on the job, at school, at church or in the community. Sue includes inspirational, meaningful quotes from the scriptures, classic writers, well-known contemporary authors, entertainers, and leaders in industry. "Turn Your Dreams into Realities" is more than a "how to dream big book" with lots of fluff. This is a solid book. It is a guide book, a resource, and ready reference manual for developing a long-term vision and purpose to "Turn Your Dreams into Realities." Sue reminds the reader, "The key to success is to take the 101 strategies and principles in this book and put them into practice" -- stimulating, inspirational, and motivating.