Never Give Up No Matter How Hard The Situation Is: 'Believe It to Achieve It' Review

In today’s rapidly changing world, we face a lot of problems ranging from work, family, relationships, health and finance. Often, the most common advice we are given is to ‘be positive’ and our problems will eventually be gone. I am sure most of us can relate to more than one situation in life where we have received this advice from our near and dear, but the real question is ‘how’. When we ask how, the answer we receive is that we should ‘never give up no matter how hard the situation is’. “Believe It to Achieve It”, is a good 214 pages of insight on ‘how’ to apply this advice in the right way.

“Believe It to Achieve It”: a Reflection

The entire time I was reading this book, I felt like I was in a therapy session on how to deal with the important aspects of my life – the RIGHT way. The authors help us understand the importance of letting go of our negative thoughts which are mostly rooted from our past and without us realizing, it has been haunting our present decisions and state of mind. Brian Tracy and Christina Stein, this amazing father and daughter duo has revealed a plot that starts off to be very general but slowly becomes very personal and relatable to our current life and situation. They reveal that no matter what our negativity roots from, including a traumatic childhood, we can learn to make our brain to ‘un-remember’ the trauma and still be the human being we desire to become.

The 7 chapters of this book will make us realize that the negativity bottled up inside us can affect our outlook, our thought, our decision making and eventually our entire life goals. It helps us identify the negativity in us and helps us turn it around positively, which allows us to unlock our maximum potential in all the aspects of our lives. By reading it, we will be able to realize the factors that create these negative emotions and learn the methods to overcome each one of them. The authors also educate us on how to refrain from destructively criticizing others and the book is nothing but positive, so I am not going to offer any negative comments in this review. Towards the end, we will learn that we are brought into this world for a great course and all the talents to achieve success are within ourselves. We are what we put our thoughts into, and we can take full control of our destiny. Often times we are told that we are what we eat, and this book actually talks about ‘mental protein’ and the fact that we are what we think. The authors help us realize why it is important for us to keep thinking of happy and positive thoughts, because without it our brain will go back to a default mode, which is a negative mode. My favorite line in this book is a very simple concept about our mind that is explained in a powerful way. ‘Your mind is like a garden: Either weeds or flowers will grow. But if you do not deliberately plant flowers, and tend them carefully, the weeds – the negative thoughts –will grow without any encouragement at all’, says one of the authors, Brian Tracy on pages 207 and 208.

The authors used simple words throughout their writing. In my opinion, none of the sentences will require us to read it twice to understand the context, and I love this style of writing as I personally believe that knowledge should be easily imparted and understood. The book comprised of a total of 7 chapters excluding the Introduction and the Conclusion. Typically, each paragraph contained a maximum of 6 sentences, and each sentence had a minimum of 4 words and a maximum of 43 words. I loved how in between the chapters they have included a total of 30 exercises which felt like having a personal coach who is talking to me and helping me to identify my areas of improvement. Towards the end, the book will make us realize that we already have It within us, the ability to do just anything because we control our lives. We are made to understand that we are our own psychologist and within ourselves, lies the ability to achieve everything we put our thoughts into.

Conclusion

Reading this book, I can tell that the authors have vast knowledge and experience dealing with a lot of people. This book was also written based on the results of the workshops and therapies they have conducted. So, one could tell that the authors absolutely knew what they were writing about. I personally would advocate for this book being a true believer in positive vibes myself and experiencing how being positive had given me a good life. However, only until I read this book, I learnt the ‘how’ part, so I consider myself to be lucky that I was able to find this book out of a shelf from the Popular bookstore, I randomly walked into. I am also happy to share, it was not until I read this book that I truly learnt that completely letting go of the past is how I can unlock my full potential and there is a method on how to let go of the past for those who have been struggling with it, just like my former self. One will also be surprised that being positive has a whole deeper meaning to it, from reading this book. Ultimately, the core motivation of all human behavior is to be happy, and without eliminating the negativity from our mind, we will never be truly happy. Brian and Christina will guide the readers to identify the negativity that is within and no matter how deep the negativity is rooted from, one can overcome it and start living the life they have always dreamt of. It is almost unbelievable that a single book can radiate such a high intensity of positivity, but, you really have to read it – to believe it! 

References

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