My father loves motivational books. For a person at his age, he reads a lot more than me. Every year, I have no problem doing my tax returns claims for books - not that I do not fulfill all the rebate quota of RM 1000, but my dad has way more than this in books and he's retired.
I grabbed this book from him last week when I was having a virtual break. It grabbed my attention because of the short blurb besides the title - "finding power and purpose in a stressed filled world".
I read the first chapter while having a foot massage (!!!). Of course, this being a rather thin book it comes in form of business parables. It started off with a character called Angus, who was a type A character, always impatient, did not attend his daughters school sports sessions, is always late and annoyed when the alarm clock rings, etc. Classic stress-maniac stereotype.
The major learnings of the book was very simple, and presented in a very logical manner - it was all about focus and breathing which drives the focus when you are surrounded by manufactured stress :
The first breath - A centering breath - a breath to calm you and bring you back to the present
The second breath - A possibility breath - to imagine the you that you want to be
The third breath - A discovery breath - to discover new things, to not pre-judge, to learn...
I thought I needed the book.
