Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

by Gerry Spence

Renowned trial attorney and bestselling author Gerry Spence offers a potent, practical guide to liberation

Beloved author of, among many other books, the bestsellers How to Argue and Win Every Time and The Making of a Country Lawyer , Gerry Spence distills a lifetime of wisdom and observation about how we live, and how we ought to live in Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom . Here, in seven chapters, he delivers messages that inspire us first to recognize our servitude--to money, possessions, corporations, the status quo, and our own fears--and then shows us how to begin the self-defining process toward liberation.

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom is a powerfully affirming, large-hearted, and life-changing book that asks us all to take the greatest risk for the greatest reward-our own freedom.

Genres: Self Help, Law

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Gerry Spence is a trial lawyer in the United States. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case in the over 50 years he practiced law. He started his career as a prosecutor and later became a successful defense attorney for the insurance industry. Years later, Spence said he "saw the light" and became committed to representing people, instead of corporations, insurance companies, banks, or "big business."

Reviews

[Ayana Mishelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter introduced me to Gerry Spence's How to argue and win any time " when she attended Georgia Southern University. I have just about every book the man ever written . I am a fan. This is not a children's book , it is a read to write book for adults and inspiration and a book that just gets you to thinking about how you feel about social issues, yourself and our precious freedoms.

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reminder of what is important in life. He describes most people as slaves to work, to government, to religion, to advertising... Especially liked the chapter "Becoming Religiously Irreligious". I do not really picture his work utopia in "Redefining Success". Maybe I'm just not as optimistic that corporate greed can go away completely and that it will be acceptable for workers at all levels to come and go as they please.

[June G · Rating 5 out of 5]

The jury (that's me :) finds overwhelmingly in favor of this ever timely little tome. "Country Lawyer" Gerry Spence touches on topics dear to this free spirit's best-intentioned little iconoclastic heart. Read it and be free at last...until the world at large breaks the spell. That's when it's time to read it again! Come to think of it, that's why I'm moving it immediately to my "books I'll always be reading" shelf.

[Shirley · Rating 3 out of 5]

As always, just another one to scan for possible tips for my talks. Nothing new, but then each author may just resonate with a particular reader,hence the number of self-help books out there.

[C.j. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite books ever.

[John of Canada · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just some good ol'advice from a very smart man

[Rick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deeply thought-provoking

Even though I've been a criminal defense lawyer for some years now, and I knew the name Gerry Spence, I did not really know WHO he was.

I had the opportunity to meet him in September 2017, when I attended the three-week program at the Trial Lawyers College on Thunderhead Ranch.

I had heard that going would be a life-changing event, and it has been. Gerry's core philosophy is that you cannot be a better trial lawyer until you become a better person. Self-knowledge is the key to that.

This book is about becoming free. Free to know, and to develop, the self.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn to be truly successful. I'm not talking about money-successful, though I believe that is an inevitable byproduct for many. I'm talking about becoming a succesful, developing, growing self.

As the Skin Horse said in The Velveteen Rabbit, "It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. ... [But once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

This book is a great way to get started on becoming your real self.

[Clement · Rating 5 out of 5]

great content love it!

Great book to read. Lots of practical information very well worth the time! I highly recommend it be sure to read it!!! Grab one!