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Empty Your Backpack: Unpack Your Beliefs, Take Consistent Action, and Create a Life of Meaning
In Empty Your Backpack, Sam Demma demonstrates that your dreams are in reach, and it's the beliefs you carry and the actions you take that determine whether you will achieve them.
Demma provides a guide on how to move closer to your dreams faster than you ever imagined. He shows that by cultivating empowering beliefs while committing to consistent actions that fuel your creativity and growth, you can make things happen in your life the way you envision.
Are you weighed down by people dismissing your dreams as unrealistic? You have big dreams. There are things you want to accomplish, but maybe they feel out of reach-especially when people tell you they're impossible. That heavy feeling of doubt is your backpack. It's full of limiting beliefs and dreams crushed by the opinions of others. It's time to empty your backpack and release that weight from your shoulders.
Demma's guide offers actionable ideas to help young people keep faith in their dreams even when those around them lose theirs. He reveals pathways that can help bring dreams to life and empower you to be the best version of yourself.
Empty Your Backpack is an easy-to-follow guide filled with tried-and-tested principles and inspiring stories from Demma's remarkable life that will help you optimize your beliefs and actions to get you where you want to be.
Demma provides a guide on how to move closer to your dreams faster than you ever imagined. He shows that by cultivating empowering beliefs while committing to consistent actions that fuel your creativity and growth, you can make things happen in your life the way you envision.
Are you weighed down by people dismissing your dreams as unrealistic? You have big dreams. There are things you want to accomplish, but maybe they feel out of reach-especially when people tell you they're impossible. That heavy feeling of doubt is your backpack. It's full of limiting beliefs and dreams crushed by the opinions of others. It's time to empty your backpack and release that weight from your shoulders.
Demma's guide offers actionable ideas to help young people keep faith in their dreams even when those around them lose theirs. He reveals pathways that can help bring dreams to life and empower you to be the best version of yourself.
Empty Your Backpack is an easy-to-follow guide filled with tried-and-tested principles and inspiring stories from Demma's remarkable life that will help you optimize your beliefs and actions to get you where you want to be.
156 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2022
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August 4, 2025
3.5⭐️ rounded up. All pretty basic stuff but he’s such a likable guy that he’s easy to take advice from. What he says really makes sense & the guy seems to have a heart of gold. I started following him on social media and I always like to see the nice guys succeed.
February 2, 2025
This a good book for young adults still trying to figure stuff out.
March 20, 2023
really 3.5
Usually, I take a hard opposing stance to motivational speakers, but I actually found this guy's book quite engaging. There were a lot of good messages in this book and I especially liked his specificity---where there was a lot of room for his words to be misinterpreted, he made sure to clarify and say exactly what he meant.
However, there were quite a few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, which I can usually ignore in fictional works, but in non-fiction, I feel like it is important for establishing the ethos of an author. I also felt that some of his stories kind of hindered his point at times. Like, he'd say, "don't take no as an answer and here's an example of me doing that. Except, my desired outcome didn't come from that but also I was better off." So I felt as if that kind of made me like 👀 like it didn't work for you so why should I bother? But maybe that's just my pessimistic nature. It was obvious that it was written by a white middle-class guy, but I think his messages were general enough to apply to a vast group of people.
The writing was simple, easy to understand, which I think is good for non fiction books. Very easy to grasp. But it's very motivational speaker-y so if you're not into that, you might not be into this either
Usually, I take a hard opposing stance to motivational speakers, but I actually found this guy's book quite engaging. There were a lot of good messages in this book and I especially liked his specificity---where there was a lot of room for his words to be misinterpreted, he made sure to clarify and say exactly what he meant.
However, there were quite a few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, which I can usually ignore in fictional works, but in non-fiction, I feel like it is important for establishing the ethos of an author. I also felt that some of his stories kind of hindered his point at times. Like, he'd say, "don't take no as an answer and here's an example of me doing that. Except, my desired outcome didn't come from that but also I was better off." So I felt as if that kind of made me like 👀 like it didn't work for you so why should I bother? But maybe that's just my pessimistic nature. It was obvious that it was written by a white middle-class guy, but I think his messages were general enough to apply to a vast group of people.
The writing was simple, easy to understand, which I think is good for non fiction books. Very easy to grasp. But it's very motivational speaker-y so if you're not into that, you might not be into this either
September 27, 2025
🌮 Beyond expectations 🌮
🌮🌮🌮 be someone's taco, that's this book, the book is my tacos 🌮 🌮🌮
I've read more than just a few books, but this one I'd put at the top of my list to read again.
So much encouragement, and many moments to make you stop and "smell the leather" as Dan Pena says to do. This book encourages the stop moment.
Or maybe not a full stop, more a pause and inhale. With tips to exhale and go forward.
I'd recommend it to anyone starting life's journey, or for someone who is having a life moment.
Very much liked this book, will put in my "read once a year stack"
Stacking tacos 🌮 🌮🌮🌮
🌮🌮🌮 be someone's taco, that's this book, the book is my tacos 🌮 🌮🌮
I've read more than just a few books, but this one I'd put at the top of my list to read again.
So much encouragement, and many moments to make you stop and "smell the leather" as Dan Pena says to do. This book encourages the stop moment.
Or maybe not a full stop, more a pause and inhale. With tips to exhale and go forward.
I'd recommend it to anyone starting life's journey, or for someone who is having a life moment.
Very much liked this book, will put in my "read once a year stack"
Stacking tacos 🌮 🌮🌮🌮
June 13, 2023
Good job Sammy! This book is real! I think it will be very helpful to those who are trying to figure “life out”. It helps to give direction. It also gives you hope! Hopefully one day I’ll hear you speak live!
October 2, 2025
I didn't finish because this book is aimed at a different age range.
The main takeaway was be yourself and don't pay attention to what other people say. What they say isn't about you, it's about them.
The main takeaway was be yourself and don't pay attention to what other people say. What they say isn't about you, it's about them.
February 5, 2025
Easy to digest and is a great starting book for youth interested in the personal development world.
June 5, 2025
Sam is an impressive speaker. This book helps young people set realistic goals and gives strategies that help motivate and encourage.
August 27, 2025
One of my favorite books!
September 21, 2025
Energetic young man. Interesting.
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