Shiv Khera’s latest book You Can Achieve More is a self help book that aims at encouraging the potential within you, and to create a life for yourself instead of being a victim of your circumstances. Mr.Khera is not just an author but an Educator, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and Business consultant. His idea of living a successful life is,”Winners don’t do different things. They do things differently”. His book You Can Win sold over a million copies in 21 languages.
You Can Achieve More is a guide on how to take responsibility for your actions, plan and organize your life. It is about evaluating the bad, and appreciating the good. At the end of every chapter, the author has posed several questions to its readers that help them introspect about their behavior, and life. It’s an action plan aimed at a deeper understanding of oneself. It is more of a self-realization technique that propels individuals to ponder over past situations, and self-evaluate. The questions are well-thought and often point out things one would have otherwise missed. In one of the chapters, the author talks about internal validation. In a world where we live off of facebook comments and instagram likes, it’s important to understand the need to be whole by yourself without an external validation.
However, the book appeared too preachy. Most of the quotes used have become redundant or are no longer applicable. The author’s intentions are very clear but he offers no practical advise on how to live a life by design and not by default.
Author: Shiv Khera
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
Rating: 3/5
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Blurb:
A person with a positive attitude cannot be stopped and a person with a negative
attitude cannot be helped. Both success and failure have a limited lifespan. Success
is neither a miracle nor a mystery. It does not depend upon special skills, formal
education or superior intelligence. It is the natural outcome of consistently applying
certain principles on an ongoing basis. The ultimate goal is to sustain success and
eliminate failure.
Acquiring facts is knowledge, understanding facts is comprehension, and the proper
application of facts is wisdom. The principles in this book can help you to:
1. Live by design, not by default
2. Gain confidence and optimize your potential
3. Become proactive and develop a winning attitude
4. Balance your health, wealth and relationships
5. Overcome day-to-day problems and make better decisions
6. Make positive choices and avoid pitfalls
The secret to a meaningful life is in your hands. Through inspiring ideas
and basic values, this book will help empower you to Achieve More and
become unstoppable.
