Written by retired Navy Command Master Chief, submarines, John
Gregory Vincent this book just received a strong, positive review
from Kirkus Review. Read it below: Vincent's self-help debut
challenges readers to find peace in a focused, "one-life approach
to living." The author had a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy and
personal battles with divorce, debt and alcoholism before he became
a keynote speaker, productivity expert and inspirational author.
He's a firm believer that "almost every influence in our lives
encourages us to be anything but unique," and in this book, he
offers a series of questions and life lessons to help the reader
find his or her purpose. "One-size-fits-all fits no one," he
asserts. Early on, he suggests that readers build lists of their
skills ("combination s] of experience and knowledge") and their
talents ("the innate abilities that allow you do things well the
first time you do them") and use these lists to help figure out
their "unique potential." In other chapters, he explores the
importance of accountability and communication in interpersonal
situations, preaches prioritization over "balance," provides "the
critical fundamental basics of nutrition" and introduces the idea
of "moving with purpose" to keep one's body as fit as one's life.
He points out that he isn't attempting to provide "a guide to
Nirvana"; instead, he aims to highlight "common threads in people
who seemed to have found happiness, success, and a peace of mind."
The author prefaces most chapters with quotations from the writings
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the biggest influences in his own
life, but the philosophical reach of his book is vast, using ideas
previously proposed by psychologist Carl Jung, author Stephen R.
Covey and the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book. Indeed, the author
borrows so liberally from other self-help tomes that when he offers
the equation "event + reaction = outcome," he can't say for certain
where he came across it-although he thinks he saw it in Jack
Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen's Chicken Soup for the Soul (1993).
"I write like I think, a bit all over the place at times," he
admits, but his conversational tone and easygoing sense of humor
make such moments come off as endearing rather than distracting. A
breezy, appealing self-help guide. -Kirkus Review
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