Book Review - Discover Your Destiny: Big Ideas to Live Your Best Life (Robin Sharma)

Discover Your Destiny: Big Ideas to Live Your Best Life (Robin Sharma), is a sequel to his best-selling book, The Monk who sold his Ferrari.

In this book, Julian Mantle, works with someone who is called Dar. In the story, he shared with Dar the Seven Stages of Self-awakening. After going through the seven stages, you would be transformed and live a life that brings you great happiness and comfort, a life that you would strongly believe that you are to live, the Meaning of Your Life. As always, all transformation process will take great effort, go through great pains but at the end it would be all worth it.

How many times we have made choices so that we make the people around us love us but such choices made us more miserable? How many times have you chosen your choices through fear and in the end found out that these choices are not making you happy? If we truly want to live a life that we are meant to live, we need to stop "cheating" ourselves. Start to be conscious of all the choices we are making. Make these choices that will make us happy, take the path that will bring more meaning in our lives. That is what this book is all about.

Some of the key takeaways I gotten from reading this book is

1) Face your fears. Do not run away from it. Acknowledge the fear and make choices to conquer it. Usually after the fear subsides, what lies beneath are great comfort and happiness.

2) All setbacks have lessons that we need to learn, to bring us to the lives we meant to live. If we manage to learn these lessons that are hidden in those setbacks, the setbacks with the same nature would not repeat itself.

3) Do your best and let life do the rest. This reminds me of the Circle of Control which I think I read from 8th Habits by Stephen Covey. Inside the Circle of Control, we should give it our best, do our best so that we do not "betray" or shortchange ourselves. Whatever results, which is outside our Circle of Control, that we get, if we tried our best, we can feel proud of getting it.

There are still many nuggets of wisdom in books which is I share it with you in this blog, would meant putting the whole book in. So I strongly urge everyone to get the book, read it, practise on those takeaways that strike you the most. Remember, wisdom without execution is worthless.