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Zeledón offers a blend of memoir and goal-setting guide, wrapped in a promise of transformative insights.
The author takes readers on a transformative journey from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, exhausted, and unfulfilled to discovering alignment and purpose, encouraging her audience to pursue their own dreams rather than ones set by society, culture, or family. Throughout the book, readers are counseled to silence their inner critics, embrace their unique strengths, and surround themselves with supportive communities of champions to work toward crafting a purpose-driven life and leaving a lasting legacy (the book’s central theme). Drawing on her experience as an international diplomat “trained to help countries, communities, and organizations accelerate their development” and as a life coach helping “high achievers embark on their limitless journeys, surpass the boundaries that hold them back, and embrace and nourish the extraordinary within,” Zeledón helps readers redefine success, align their actions, and chart their course toward fulfillment. Among other useful tools, the author offers the formula to her “secret sauce” for balancing all of her life demands: analyzing her purpose, plotting out the steps to take her in that direction, and aligning her actions to that purpose. Though this approach to goal-setting isn’t new, Zeledón does a solid job of simplifying the process, offering strong examples of how to break down larger goals into actionable segments, providing value to both beginning and experienced goal-setters. (Some readers of self-improvement literature will recognize the influences of Carol Dweck’s Mindset and Simon Sinek’s Start with Why.) Additionally, the author is proficient in helping readers recognize the need for limits and boundaries. Overall, there is worthwhile advice to be gleaned from this book; it just requires getting through more than 100 pages of the author’s personal narrative before reaching content applicable to one’s own life.
A memoir-heavy self-help guide that (eventually) provides some solid life advice.
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