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Reboot Yourself!: Turn Off Negative Habits, Turn On your Motivation and Confidence, and Turn UP to the Life You Always Wanted!
Reboot Yourself! helps you move from stuck and skeptical to unstuck and genuinely passionate about your life.
Too many people never experience the life they want because they are trying to turn ON something new, without turning OFF the negative factors that stand in their way.
Taking the advice of every IT guy – and some of the world’s best-loved self-help books – Reboot Yourself guides you through the process of Turning Off, Turning On… and Turning Up.
Reboot Yourself is a refreshingly hype-free guide to personal growth, overcoming negative habits and building positive life patterns of confidence, productivity and emotional intelligence.
In Reboot Yourself, you’ll discover
The 4 P’s that are holding you back12 steps of your personal hero’s journeyWhat to do when you resist the change you wantHow to program your brain, and have fun doing itRead the book and join the Reboot Yourself community at www.rebootyourselfbook.com
Don’t stay stuck. It’s time to Turn Off, Turn On and Turn Up… press the BUY NOW button at the top before the price changes.
Too many people never experience the life they want because they are trying to turn ON something new, without turning OFF the negative factors that stand in their way.
Taking the advice of every IT guy – and some of the world’s best-loved self-help books – Reboot Yourself guides you through the process of Turning Off, Turning On… and Turning Up.
Reboot Yourself is a refreshingly hype-free guide to personal growth, overcoming negative habits and building positive life patterns of confidence, productivity and emotional intelligence.
In Reboot Yourself, you’ll discover
The 4 P’s that are holding you back12 steps of your personal hero’s journeyWhat to do when you resist the change you wantHow to program your brain, and have fun doing itRead the book and join the Reboot Yourself community at www.rebootyourselfbook.com
Don’t stay stuck. It’s time to Turn Off, Turn On and Turn Up… press the BUY NOW button at the top before the price changes.
172 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 15, 2023
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About the author
Simon Young
1 book1 followerSimon Young is a multicultural, multimedia storyteller who brings an irreverent twist to very serious subjects.
Simon has written for The New Zealand Herald, Management Magazine, Idealog and NZ Marketing Magazine, and his training material has been used by the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM) and the Marketing Association.
Simon lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his wife Marie and their adorable ginger cat Smidgeon.
Reach out to Simon at www.simonyoung.co.nz.
Simon has written for The New Zealand Herald, Management Magazine, Idealog and NZ Marketing Magazine, and his training material has been used by the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM) and the Marketing Association.
Simon lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his wife Marie and their adorable ginger cat Smidgeon.
Reach out to Simon at www.simonyoung.co.nz.
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February 20, 2023
I have read a bunch of self help and business philosophy type books over the years and there are two pet peeves that make a lot of them very sucky:
- First they try so hard to convince you that their idea is scientifically valid that they make the language so complex and garbled that even if valid it still comes across as snake oil
- two - the author has a single idea and then just completely repeats it over and over for 20 chapters (might have been a good ted talk but just a weird deja vu type book)
Reboot by Simon Young suffered from neither of these common problems. It was written in a flowing and easily digestible format which made it easy to consume. The fact that it is a process rather than a single idea is good too (and I liked the parallels to commonly understood or heard of things like the heros journey and the 12 step process)
The combination of overview, metaphor and "real world" examples made this an engaging useful book that I think anyone could get some benefit from.
If you have read self help type books before some ideas may seem familiar but they are presented as a more bare bones idea without Simon disappearing up his own backside to over complicate them.
A good read for anyone who has never read self help before but also refreshing for anyone that has but just wants to cut out a bunch of the bs.
- First they try so hard to convince you that their idea is scientifically valid that they make the language so complex and garbled that even if valid it still comes across as snake oil
- two - the author has a single idea and then just completely repeats it over and over for 20 chapters (might have been a good ted talk but just a weird deja vu type book)
Reboot by Simon Young suffered from neither of these common problems. It was written in a flowing and easily digestible format which made it easy to consume. The fact that it is a process rather than a single idea is good too (and I liked the parallels to commonly understood or heard of things like the heros journey and the 12 step process)
The combination of overview, metaphor and "real world" examples made this an engaging useful book that I think anyone could get some benefit from.
If you have read self help type books before some ideas may seem familiar but they are presented as a more bare bones idea without Simon disappearing up his own backside to over complicate them.
A good read for anyone who has never read self help before but also refreshing for anyone that has but just wants to cut out a bunch of the bs.
February 21, 2023
I think there are a lot of people like me who want to do more, to achieve more but a) they are their own worst enemy, and b) distrust hype in all its forms.
I wrote Reboot Yourself based on my own personal reboot that has me trying new things and facing new challenges in ways I could never imagine before. I also drew on some of the timeless things that have helped many people: the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (and other twelve-step programs) and The Hero's Journey. The great news is you don't need to be an addict to benefit from these principles. We all have things we do that we won't want to do, or things we don't do, that we want to do.
I hope that Reboot Yourself finds itself in the hands of many more Rebooters. Or perhaps, because of the big, world-changing themes of the last chapter, I should call us Reboot-ifiers. We bring beauty - if not booty - to the world when we sort our own sh*t out. Intrigued? Read the book.
I wrote Reboot Yourself based on my own personal reboot that has me trying new things and facing new challenges in ways I could never imagine before. I also drew on some of the timeless things that have helped many people: the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (and other twelve-step programs) and The Hero's Journey. The great news is you don't need to be an addict to benefit from these principles. We all have things we do that we won't want to do, or things we don't do, that we want to do.
I hope that Reboot Yourself finds itself in the hands of many more Rebooters. Or perhaps, because of the big, world-changing themes of the last chapter, I should call us Reboot-ifiers. We bring beauty - if not booty - to the world when we sort our own sh*t out. Intrigued? Read the book.
July 15, 2023
Generally good but with inconsistencies
This is almost a self-counseling book. Lots of good tips and practical takeaways. My one gripe really are the inconsistencies. Early in the book Young mentions that he is a Christian but seems almost apologetic for it. This is particularly pertinent when he is asking the reader if he is a people pleaser, and then almost apologises for introducing a Bible verse from Romans 13. To be fair the atheistic corporate culture that the author has spent many years in probably doesn't help, but I would encourage the author to own his faith and lean into it. I did like the stories woven in to help illustrate the 12 steps and I appreciated some of the modifications to the 12 steps along the way.
This is almost a self-counseling book. Lots of good tips and practical takeaways. My one gripe really are the inconsistencies. Early in the book Young mentions that he is a Christian but seems almost apologetic for it. This is particularly pertinent when he is asking the reader if he is a people pleaser, and then almost apologises for introducing a Bible verse from Romans 13. To be fair the atheistic corporate culture that the author has spent many years in probably doesn't help, but I would encourage the author to own his faith and lean into it. I did like the stories woven in to help illustrate the 12 steps and I appreciated some of the modifications to the 12 steps along the way.
March 9, 2023
Simon is a great writer and this is an important topic. The characters he invents to illustrate various unhelpful thought habits are believable and relatable despite the necessity of presenting them concisely.
Having had my own shocking re-boot seven years ago, (I had abdicated all responsibility and given my autonomy to someone I trusted .... a very bad move as it turned out), I can fully relate to the processes that Simon discusses. I found myself nodding in agreement at every page.
The willigness to follow the hero's path has to come from within. This book will not cajole you into taking the necessary steps to transform your life unless you are willing to put in the effort. But as someone who has surveyed the view from the top of the mountain and carried that knowledge back to the world of other people, I can wholeheartedly confirm that the steps Simon lays out in this book WORK. I am now living the life I always dreamed of, the contentment and sense of purpose I enjoy daily came about following a kind of death, followed by continuous effort to rewire my brain and construct new thought habits.
Great book, great author and helpful 'further reading' list at the end.
Great job.
Having had my own shocking re-boot seven years ago, (I had abdicated all responsibility and given my autonomy to someone I trusted .... a very bad move as it turned out), I can fully relate to the processes that Simon discusses. I found myself nodding in agreement at every page.
The willigness to follow the hero's path has to come from within. This book will not cajole you into taking the necessary steps to transform your life unless you are willing to put in the effort. But as someone who has surveyed the view from the top of the mountain and carried that knowledge back to the world of other people, I can wholeheartedly confirm that the steps Simon lays out in this book WORK. I am now living the life I always dreamed of, the contentment and sense of purpose I enjoy daily came about following a kind of death, followed by continuous effort to rewire my brain and construct new thought habits.
Great book, great author and helpful 'further reading' list at the end.
Great job.
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