Three Simple Steps

A Map to Success in Business and Life

By: Trevor Blake

Narrated by: Matthew Dudley

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

How many self-help books are written by authors whose biggest success is selling self-help books? Three Simple Steps is different.

Despite stock market crashes, dot-com busts, and the specter of recession, the author started a virtual company from home, using a few thousand dollars of his savings. A few years later, without ever hiring an employee or leaving his home office, he sold it for more than $100 million. As the economy slipped into another free fall, he did this again with a company in a different field. He accomplished this through no particular genius. Rather, he studied the habits of the many successful men and women who preceded him, and developed three simple rules that, if followed diligently, virtually ensure success. Using them first to escape poverty, then to achieve a life of adventures, he finally turned them toward financial independence.

Written in a straightforward and no-nonsense style, Three Simple Steps shows you how to take back control of your destiny and reshape your mind for increased creativity, serenity and achievement. While building on the wisdom of great thinkers and accomplished individuals from East and West, Three Simple Steps isn't a new age text or guide to esoteric fulfillment. Rather, it's a practical guide to real-life achievement by a pragmatic businessman who attributes his incredible successes to these very simple ideas. Three Simple Steps is a must-listen guide for everyone who wants to achieve more, live better and be happier.

©2012 Trevor Blake (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"...an inspirational and thought-provoking read..." ( Publishers Weekly)

“I've read dozens of personal fixer-upper tomes by business gurus and New Age self-helpers, but this one is different in one important way: Blake actually followed his own three simple steps to get to where he is today - a happily married multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist. Finally, a self-help author who's done more than write self-help books!”(Blogcritics.org)

"Offers sound advice and clear steps that could be applied to one’s own life." (Lani Relucio, Examiner.com)

A road map

This book is like a road map to the world of invisible that guides our lives as humans. Trevor is a generous heart,he discovered the steps and shares them with readers. The steps teach self discipline, commitment to the dream and the possibility of bringing magic into reality.

3 steps story

It's a good book but need to be prepared to hear a personal story more than a well-defined process that lead to success. At some points I felt the failures are the expected results of the writer

Simple but not Easy

3 Simple Rules is just that. Simple. But not easy. The author delves into them with personal anecdotes and examples of well deserved self-made successes. Great read and listen.

Life Changing in a totally positive way

This is an amazing book. practical and scientific!

I have seen great changes in my attentiveness, synchronicity, and clarity since practicing the the simple steps.

I have listened to the book many times and read the trade paper back. Each time I learn something new and exciting!

I am working too be more disciplined with my steps rack day. I'm sure I will see even more impressive results very soon!

Enjoy The Simple Things

If you could sum up Three Simple Steps in three words, what would they be?

Simple Success

What was one of the most memorable moments of Three Simple Steps?

The history of some of the other successful people in the book. It was a bit of an eyeopener to hear their stories.

Any additional comments?

This is great book to allow you to get focused on improving your life with Trevor's "3 Steps". However, like most things in life they may be simple but there are not always easy. I recommend this to anyone who has been studying goal setting and getting frustrated with your success. It is not just the goal, it is the actions you take to achieve it. Trevor's lessons and experience will open a whole new process for you. It has for me!

great read but with a pinch of salt

not all the lessons of this book are exactly true, there is something to be said for thinking positively and visualizing your goals but at the end of the day you go searching for ways to get there, things don't just come to you as the author suggests. still I learnt a lot and worth a read if you're starting your own business.

One of the best books I have ever read!

If you could sum up Three Simple Steps in three words, what would they be?

Authentic, captivating and motivating

What did you like best about this story?

His lesson on how your reaction determines your fate

Which scene was your favorite?

The story of his mother

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Riveting story on how to overcome even the worst of life challanges

Any additional comments?

This author is now one of my all time favorites. As a business coach I will always recommend anyone I encounter to read this book.

Wonderful

I was hooked from start to finish with Trevor's honesty and refreshing take on true success. I found his advice to be in integrity with my core beliefs and very powerfully explained.

Consciousness ("Mentality") is the key

The three simple steps revolve around the ways you can consciously use your mind (or "mentality" as Blake calls it):

1. Focus only on what you want, not on what you do not want. Filter out negative conversation, people and media. Cultivate internal views of scenes and conditions you enjoy, love and wish to have more of.

2. Set aside quiet time each day. Quiet is the ground of potentiality.

3. Develop *intention* to attract your desired results and circumstances. Not a goal; a goal is inherently separate from us and has doubt attached. Intention -- or as Blake also puts it, a state of knowing -- is part of us and does not include doubt. Intention brings itself into being.

The book includes inspiring stories, including the one at the beginning that I will refrain from spoiling by not revealing the surprise ending. He relates being bullied as an English boy growing up in poverty in Wales (with some truly harrowing anecdotes), and how he overcame trauma by learning about and following the examples of others from oppressed backgrounds who discovered secrets to phenomenal success.

A modern take on some age-old ideas, the "Three Simple Steps" are refreshingly straightforward, but there is also nuance to this book. Blake encourages us to pay close attention to our internal and external experience, and to become the selectors of the circumstances and lives we want.

The voice performance is adequate, although to hear Britishisms read in an American accent is a little odd at times. Overall there is nothing negative to say about Dudley's narration; it is easy to listen to without sending the listener to sleep.

Recommended for those who wish to set their lives on an upward trajectory.

A great read

What made the experience of listening to Three Simple Steps the most enjoyable?

The simple steps highlighted by Trevor Blake

Who was your favorite character and why?

Trevor himself. He tells it in a humble way.