Title: Prepping For Success: 10 Keys for Making it in Life
Author: Anmol Singh
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1642370959
Pages: 126
Genre: Self-Help
Reviewed by: David Allen
Pacific Book Review
Prepping For Success: 10 Keys for Making it in Life is a spiritual/life style workbook that packs a walloping punch. I love this book. Here’s why. For better or worse, many – or most or all – of us are looking for answers. As a society, we are dieting, we are working out, we are trying to do all the right things for ourselves and others. It’s not even end-of-century and apocalyptic and portentous statements are rife. Recipes and cookbooks for self-realization and success are legion!
At some point, or many points, one stops for air, and catches one’s breath. It would be great to have a Kind Aunt or Uncle to tell us what’s what. That’s exactly what Prepping for Success does: the book combines and collapses the collective wisdom of many lifetimes and traditions into ten golden rules that MAKE SENSE AND WORK.
The writing is terse, epigrammatic, pithy: I truly felt like I was encountering myself again and again in these memorable pages. For example: Success is the outcome not so much of genius, as of persistence and self-discipline. The author cites the case of Dr. Seuss, the renowned author of children’s books whose work was rejected by 27 publishers before his grand success – six million readers and counting.
Good habits — and the success that can follow — are positively infectious. Get in the habit of happiness, and of physical, emotional and creative routines that result in OUTPUT, serenity, and contentment. Procrastinators and those plagued by indecision and ambivalence — watch out. The remedy, in the form of this book, is now in your hands.
Granted, readers pursuing self-improvement and lifestyle bricolage have alternate universes of choices when it comes to learning. Aphorisms, words to live by, and mottos have become the eminently replaceable calling cards of a supposedly new and better life. Prepping for Success not only serves these up better than the rest (the author acknowledging at the outset that there is ‘nothing new under the sun’), but is extraordinarily compact, readable, and loaded with wisdom. And fun, too. I suggest diving right in and seeing how many of these homilies are received wisdom, and how many reflect important game changes you’re already on top of.
