Review of The Noticer by Andy Andrews

"When you focus on the things you need,” he went on to
explain, “you’ll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate
your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will soon be concentrating
on other things that you had forgotten you don’t
have—and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more
likely to lose . . . But a grateful perspective brings happiness and
abundance into a person’s life.” Jones from The Noticer by Andy Andrews.

The Noticer is a book that is a fiction book filled with the right blend of allegory, inspiration and true story. Andy Andrews takes you inside the small town of Orange Beach, Alabama and introduces you to a man name Jones, not Mr. Jones, just Jones. Jones is a noticer and he notices things about people that they can’t see themselves.

In the book Andy talks about how he once lived under a pier until Jones came into his life and taught him to look at his life with a different perspective. He read over two hundred biographies and founded what he calls the seven principles in which he passed his book The Travelers Gift on.

In The Noticer Jones shows people how they can change their life’s by looking at things in a different perspective. He taught Andy that there was a great many people before him that had a hard time like he was going through, but because they had a different outlook on life they became people that others admired like Winston Churchill, Will Rogers, and George Washington Carver. Jones impacted Andy’s life and Andy became a different person, but Andy also realized that Jones helped a lot of people around his small town.

In each chapter of the book you will find different life scenarios and how Jones helps those people turn their lives around for the better by just taking things in a different perspective.
I would have to say that The Noticers is the best book I have read all year. Once I started reading it was so easy to just want to keep reading it. I was learning so much and it was so easy to learn. I am not one to read self help books or many non-fiction books and I would probably never read a book on The Seven Principles, but because Andy Andrews takes what he knows and turns it into a fiction book it makes it so easy to grasp.

If you read this book and don’t learn something about yourself and look at life with new eyes, then you really didn’t grasp anything he is trying to say. Life is a gift and its your life, and only you have the choice to make it what it truly can be. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

Five out of Five stars!