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You Can Do This: Daily Affirmations to Live Recklessly Alive
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Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
This is a nice collection of daily affirmations. They are divided by weekly topics and each one starts with a few paragraphs about some time in his life and then there’s an affirmation in all caps and then a little action to take or question to ponder.
It’s hard to review a book like this that’s meant to be read a tiny bit at a time, because it quickly becomes monotonous. I found myself skimming more and more and ultimately gave up reading. The affirmations seemed very generic to me and not like affirmations that would make much of a difference for me personally.
I also grew frustrated because it read like yet another self help book by a privileged young white man that could not touch on so many of the experiences that other people have to make it through. When I went to his author page I saw that he had another book where he apparently wrote about some serious things he went through. More mentions of those sorts of things might have made this book more relatable for me, rather than stories about things like how mean his voice teacher was to him, how he got motivated for CrossFit, how he didn’t use to speak up in relationships about things like not wanting pizza, and how he paid off his student debt.
One other note: There are two types of affirmations that people use. The first kind is where you say what you want for yourself as if it is already true (Money comes to me in new and unexpected ways. I am surrounded by love. I am healthy and free of cancer.). The second type is where you repeat little life lessons to yourself (I will surround myself with people who support me. I trust my inner wisdom. I will say yes to new experiences.). This book is the latter type, while I mostly prefer the former.
It’s a well written, motivational book, probably best suited for his followers and for folks who just need a friendly push to feel better about themselves and make good life choices.
I read a digital ARC of this book for review.
It’s hard to review a book like this that’s meant to be read a tiny bit at a time, because it quickly becomes monotonous. I found myself skimming more and more and ultimately gave up reading. The affirmations seemed very generic to me and not like affirmations that would make much of a difference for me personally.
I also grew frustrated because it read like yet another self help book by a privileged young white man that could not touch on so many of the experiences that other people have to make it through. When I went to his author page I saw that he had another book where he apparently wrote about some serious things he went through. More mentions of those sorts of things might have made this book more relatable for me, rather than stories about things like how mean his voice teacher was to him, how he got motivated for CrossFit, how he didn’t use to speak up in relationships about things like not wanting pizza, and how he paid off his student debt.
One other note: There are two types of affirmations that people use. The first kind is where you say what you want for yourself as if it is already true (Money comes to me in new and unexpected ways. I am surrounded by love. I am healthy and free of cancer.). The second type is where you repeat little life lessons to yourself (I will surround myself with people who support me. I trust my inner wisdom. I will say yes to new experiences.). This book is the latter type, while I mostly prefer the former.
It’s a well written, motivational book, probably best suited for his followers and for folks who just need a friendly push to feel better about themselves and make good life choices.
I read a digital ARC of this book for review.
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