Book Review!

Have you ever felt lost, hopeless, completely frustrated with yourself, your life and the people around you? Well, if you answered yes to most of the above, good news, you’re not alone.

So in my last blog post, I told you about how I was inspired to create Frankly Speaking after coming across the wonderful wisdom of Marie Forleo. Not only did I join her B-School programme, but I eagerly anticipated the launch of her self help book, Everything is Figureoutable. Let’s just say that those three words have been my mantra, saving grace and go to over the last month.

I pre-ordered the book from Book Depository and I could not wait for it to arrive.  I knew it was coming out, but I feel that the timing of the launch was so perfect for me because I was facing some very important life decisions, like whether or not to renew my work contract. Always longing for freedom, I would be lying if I did not tell you that I was not fantasising about my final day on the job. I remember thinking at the beginning of this year,

Whatever, March will be here before I know it and I’ll be out of here.

However, as the end of the academic year loomed, I felt more and more confused. I’d just signed a new lease on my house, I bought a car, my dog needed someone who he could rely on to feed, bathe and house him. If I quit my job with no real game plan, then what?

I probably spun on this idea for close to a month! I thought well, you have your business.

Yeah that’s true, but it’s still in its infancy.

You could move back in with your mom.

True, that’s always an option, but I love my space.

Plain and simple, I just didin’t know what to do.

I think it was the beginning of October, three weeks after I ordered the book that it finally arrived, I was so relieved! I had a hell of a month, I could feel myself spiralling downward into a black hole of negativity and I needed some sort of a miracle, enter Everything is Figureoutable.

Not to sound like a total ‘corn ball’ or anything, but the minute I opened the book and read the first page, I was hooked. I thought, this, is, what, I, needed! It was straight forward, down to earth and practical. None of this new age, phycological jargon, simply put the book is relatable.

What I loved most was the simplicity of her writing as from the onset, it all seemed to make such perfect sense. While I am eighty percent finished, I am sure that in addition to myself, this book will inspire in each and every reader who decides to pick it up the idea that we need to get real and get responsible for our lives, hell I know  I do! And while 90-100 percent of it wasn’t anything I already didn’t know, I found that the exercises and personal stories from Marie and others really made me realise how powerful I am in shaping my life. In many ways, it showed me that my life is designed from the inside out, not the outside in.

So, while I am still waiting for my answer about my job, I can and will say this about her book: If you’re looking for a rejuvenating pick me up, go get your copy! Borrow it, buy it, get the audio copy but whatever you do, read it, live it, practise it because I know I will! Enough said! #micdrop!