Master the Day: A Review
The book starts with a promise that this new kind of self-help book is about diet, but proclaims to not be about diet. It discusses some ideas like routines, systems, and goals of which the author emphasizes that the latter would help well. An important point he repeats is giving time to your goals and dreams. Talking about giving up habits after a couple of weeks of exercise, the author highlights that real changes show up only after a month’s workout.
In fact, the time taken for the actual results to show up is crucial. Never give up means enduring the process until the results are the whole idea of the book. In a nutshell, focus on the day and do your best. This will eventually track you to success.
Most of the plans end up as flop shows because our inner belief doesn’t change that easily. This could be the reason for not mentioning food and diet. The author sets forth the same argument throughout the book as well.
Master the Day reiterates the idea shared in the Happiness Equation regarding doing and then feeling motivated.
The linear approach is what we’ve been schooled for a very long time. For instance, if only a person believes that he/she can do something, they will want to do it and finally will end up doing it. But Neil recommends that if we start doing it, we have the confidence to do, and eventually get better at it.
I would give 3.5/5 for this book.