Well, quite early into
this morning, I was replying to a string of emails in all earnestness.
One such mail that I loved replying to, was from one of my past students!
He was one of my best students!
An ardent reader as well!
While giving him a few
guidelines on his research, I also added a note towards the end, saying,
Dear R,
‘While working on
new thoughts
and new ideas towards your Research, make sure your thoughts and ideas also
help towards making the world a better place!’
The world needs such minds! Such
hearts, ain’t it?
Minds and hearts with such
guts and such mettle!!
In fact, the world today
requires people who could proactively engage themselves with Nature, with humanity
and with everything around them, without being judgmental or pessimistic or
cynical in any way!
Change makers, we call them!
And one such book that will
help motivate you big-time to be an effective change maker, is by Sam Bennett and it’s titled, Start Right Where you Are!
If you were going to allow yourself to make a
one-degree shift today, what would that be?
Would you choose to be 1 percent more courageous?
Pick a word that you would like to be able to say describes you, and now — right now — find a way to be 1 percent more that way!
Says Sam in this, her
book!
The subtitle to the book
is equally intriguing as well!
How Little
Changes
Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated
Overachievers, and Recovering Perfectionists
One of her famous
quote-lines that’s done wonders to any many ‘Overwhelmed Procrastinators’, ‘Frustrated
Overachievers’, and ‘Recovering Perfectionists’, all over the world goes thus -
There’s really no
such thing as being creative
or not-creative. Everyone is creative. It’s just a matter of how you choose to
use your creativity to have a happier and more impactful life.
Quite a motivation, ain’t
it?
Each of the 65 little chapters
to this wonderful book are ponderables and deliverables in every way with
self-help exercises along the way!
Sam real works on your
motivational levels over-time and makes sure you put your hands on the plough,
and rightaway at that!
What’s her hypothesis then, you
may ask!
Well, as she explains it at the
start of the book,
When you decide
that
you want something and you move toward it physically, emotionally, or
spiritually, then your movement opens up new pathways by which things can
appear in your life. Even a very small step (physical, emotional, or spiritual)
can cause a radical change in your relationship to the thing you want.
Even a small
shift in perspective
can allow you to see new opportunities.
And those times
when you
wished and hoped for things to change, but nothing happened?
It’s because you
never
actually moved. You stayed put.
So your relationship
to the
potentiality of all things remained the same, and you kept getting the same
results, over and over and over and over again.
Something akin to Paulo Coelho’s, but here
it is not only the universe that conspires, but your conviction and resolve that
inspires you to move on, and move ahead!
Personally, I would suggest
that, you read just two chapters from off this guide book, per day!
And please remember that, a novel
could be read at a stretch! On the other hand, self-help books that double up
as motivational guide books, require much time for reading!
That’s a cue and a clue to
reading Bennett, Sam Bennett, for y’all!
So how pray, does Sam Bennett
work on your potential big time?
Simple!
She starts off with her own
life story.
How she was a miserable, dejected
wretch and how she was able to move across her failures, and become the
successful lady that she is, today!
I WAS TOTALLY
MISERABLE.
In the vise grip of depression, broke, exhausted, and completely fed up with
myself. It was 1998, but it could have been any year of my adult life,
she starts off on her introduction,
and adds on,
My life was a
chronically overscheduled mess of part-time jobs, gigs, classes, auditions, projects,
and shows. I usually made just barely enough money, but not quite. I remember
bursting into tears in the middle of Target because I couldn’t afford the
sixteen bucks for a new pair of yoga pants...
And guess what my
life is like now?
Let me put it this way — in the past eleven days I have:
• started writing
a new book because
I got a great idea in the middle of the night that will not leave me alone.
• bought a new
car because it was
time to retire my wonderful 2000 Honda Accord with 184,000 miles on it.
• paid a giant
tax bill — which
was great because it means business is good and getting better all the time,
and plus I had salted the money away over the course of the year, so I could
pay in full. My tax dude is very proud of me.
• taught seven
classes — six online,
one in person — to a total of over 1,500 brilliant, creative people from all
over the world.
• had a crown
replaced (ugh), got my iPhone
fixed (also ugh), had two short, effective team meetings with my fabulous crew,
and finished reading two novels.
So that’s what this book is for:
to help you make the little changes that will lead to big joy.
And big joy can make a big
difference. It could even change the world.
Since the changes that she suggests
to us all are so small, you might want to try each of them at least once, and
then you can keep doing the ones you like and jettison the rest.
And each of her favorite
‘little changes’ that she suggests to her readers are worth their weight in
platinum and more!
So why wait?
Start right where you are!
Today!!
Rightaway!!!
All the best, folks!
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