Get Out of Your Own Way: How to manage the most powerful person in your life – yourself

by Alan Hester

Alan Hester's insightful statement will ring bells with many people. So many of us will regularly and repeatedly stop ourselves from doing what we most want to do. We will get in our own way.

We may compare ourselves with more successful people and look for unfair advantages that they have and we don't. We may bemoan our luck or be plagued by any number of common conditions, such as starting something and not finishing it, making bad decisions or no decision at all. We may lack self-belief and think we don't deserve success, that we may be ridiculed or judged, that there is no point in even trying, or feel uncomfortable trying. These are just a few of the ways in which, through fear, ego and lack of confidence, we get in our own way.

The author's argument is that although we may not be able to control certain events in our life, we can control our response to those events, and thereby decide the outcome. He has written this book so we can learn how to get out of our own way and become our own best adviser, motivator and friend.

Genres: Nonfiction

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 19, 2018

Reviews

[Elizabeta · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book mainly contains recycled ideas, but they are quite well synthesized, so it's still worth a read as a reminder not to drift through life.

[Rajiv Vohra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent book, slow paced and covers a lot of basics on the topic of self-management. The later chapters are good, liked the chapters 6 onwards as these have lot of good advice.

[Suzan Vasvieva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall it is just a nice book. Did not learn anything new, and did not get any motivation to get out of my own way.