Life Is Tremendous by Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

★★★★☆

Self-help books are easier to read. It becomes simplest if you keep reading many of them. About 100 pages long, I was happy the moment I got book “Life is Tremendous” since I felt I would finish reading this book in few hours. That was indeed done. But what surprised me is the spark of inspiration found in the book here and there and powerful enough.

Major portion of the book deals with the 7 laws of leadership and the rest is to discuss about the three significant decisions that we need to take in our life time — “Who is your life long partner?, What is going to be in your life?, and what is your life for?”. I am still not in a position to have my personal answers but these decisions make sense.

Here are the 7 Laws of Leadership mentioned in the book:

You must get excited about your work
If you don’t use something you have, you will eventually lose it.
Get your work to perfection
Give and you will get more
Allow yourself to experience more
Fixed plans don’t work. Let them be flexible
Be motivated to inspire yourself first and others

Some of the anecdotes and quotes used by the author are already well known like the scholar and the freeman story. Yet there are few good quotes which I liked and noted down.

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.
If you can’t be happy where you are, it’s a cinch you can’t be happy where you ain’t.
You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Don’t spend your life trying to make right decisions; invest your life in making decisions and making them right.

I am sure you would love to read this book for its length (about 100 pages) and inspiration within those pages.

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