LIVING ON PURPOSE

Leadership coach and debut author Wong offers five life-changing questions to help readers clarify their purpose.

The author, who’s worked with companies such as Salesforce and Facebook, presents a work that highlights five choices for improving one’s existence: ​​“Even if your life is already pretty fantastic, I want even morefor you,” Wong writes. “I want you to wake up each morning excited to sink your teeth into life rather than feeling burdened by it.” To that end, the author structures her book in three parts—“The Power of Deliberate Choices,” “Discover the Life You Were Born To Live,” and “Making the Ultimate Choice.” She then describes the five essential choices that readers must make to achieve purpose—from “Choose to feel it out, not figure it out” to “Choose to know, not believe, your worth”—along with substeps to integrate these notions into one’s life, such as acting on “inspired thoughts.” Along the way, Wong offers examples from her work, including anonymized stories of clients whom she helped guide into dream professions; one pursued a career as a stand-up comedian, she says, because she “was set free by the simple realization that there was no legitimate reason not to go for it.” Over the course of this book, the author presents impressively revealing anecdotes from her personal life, too, including her struggles with an eating disorder. Overall, the book is a remarkably well-balanced affair, as it successfully juggles these true-life stories with findings from outside research, easy-to-follow activities, and clear applications, and it does it all in a charming, conversational tone. Throughout, Wong gracefully invites readers to explore their capacity for radical acceptance, self-awareness, and worthiness, and she effectively encourages readers to “Commit to knowing that you are already complete.”

A pleasant and practical self-help guide to making mindful, deliberate decisions.