able to master skills in four areas: Relationships, Equipping, Attitude, and Leadership. Those are the four subjects I write books about, and that’s why I say that anyone can be a REAL success. After I was done speaking, Mike Hyatt, the publisher of Thomas Nelson, and Pete Nikolai, the vice president of backlist development, came up to me and said, “John, people are always asking for small books that they can read in one sitting. You really ought to do a short easy-to-read book on each of those subjects.