YOUR SUCCESS ROUTINE

A quick-start guide to achieving and maintaining success, no matter how big or small the goal.

Swinton-Witkovic has seen a lot of curveballs, but finding and implementing a routine has enabled her to navigate them. Using a mix of personal stories, from actors, political figures, and high-achieving friends, the author gives readers a framework for creating their own routine for greatness. As an aspirational example, she cites Michael Phelps’ routine—six hours of training six days a week and unending perseverance led to 28 Olympic medals. She provides short, easy-to-digest chapters that help the reader to eliminate self-doubt, reframe obstacles, find a solid support system, and even reconsider financial strategies. She also gives examples from her own life: She started her own YouTube channel, which helped her understand that good habits, such as maintaining strict personal guidelines and schedules, yield solid results. In each section, the author includes easy-to-follow lists, exercises, and charts that outline useful practices, such as keeping a running budget, and bad ones, like placating overly demanding friends (“You can’t thrive in toxic ground”). Coming in at a short-and-sweet 165 pages, the guide doesn’t dig too deeply into any particular subject, but it may work for readers that need something succinct and straightforward to get them motivated. Throughout, Swinton-Witkovic provides actionable suggestions, like taking continuing education classes and finding good mentors, and the brief chapters, tales of others achieving their goals, and concise tips make this an accessible work for those intimidated by other books that seem too wordy or complicated. Anecdotes about Malala Yousafzai and Oprah, who overcame very tall odds, remind readers that resilience pays in large and small ways. The appendix provides planning sheets, financial charts, and references.

A short, practical, and encouraging manual for getting unstuck.