Reclaim Your Dreams Book Review

I stumbled upon Illuminated Mind after reading one of Jonathan’s posts on Zen Habits and was thoroughly impressed with his powerful voice. The  book explores the question of “Why do you live?” Unlike the majority of personal development books today, Reclaim Your Dream’s gets straight to the point, challenging us to go against conventional wisdom and instead pave a path of our own.  Ultimately we must decide what makes us happy.

I have read a lot of personal development books over the past few years and to be quite honest many of them proved to provide no lasting value. This is not the case with Reclaim Your Dreams. Jonathan has a unique voice that I find to be particularly inspiring.
The book is both convincing and enlightening. Taking into account how many personal development books I have read that’s saying something.

If you have been a long-time-fan of personal development much of what is in the book can be found else where (Jonathan openly acknowledges this fact), however the books superb organization and Jonathan’s distinctive style makes this book worthy of your time. I promise you have never read anything like it.

If you’re looking for a book with all the answers, I kindly suggest you look elsewhere. Reclaim Your Dreams doesn’t pretend to have all the answers but rather calls for you to search within yourself. Reclaim Your Dreams is a guide not a map. As Jonathan aptly states “True happiness is unique. What brings me contentment won’t be the same for everyone else.”

What I like about Reclaim Your Dreams is that it is simple and straightforward. Jonathan makes sure that every sentence counts resulting in a book that is 100 percent fluff free. The book is pleasantly refreshing.

Much of Reclaim Your Dreams is spent, as Jonathan puts it “unbrainwashing.”  We are so brainwashed into believing that life has to be a certain way, when in fact it is up to us to create our own path. One of my favorite quotes in Reclaim Your Dreams is,” We don’t need wholesale unhappiness vaccines. We need uncommon sense. We need to follow our own hearts.”

Clearly “unbrainwashing” can be a rather difficult task but Jonathan does a sensational job. If nothing else this book will expand the way in which you view the topic of personal development. It did for me.

At the end of each chapter Jonathan conveniently provides the reader with “points to mediate on“ and places numerous exercises throughout the book. I found this to be extremely helpful as it allows you to reflect on what you have just read. Many times books provide you with a ton of information but no points of action. If you read this book I promise you will be very busy.

Without going into too much detail: One of my favorite suggestions in the book is to “stop caring.”  Seriously think about it. We have to do this. We have to do that. But do we really? Why do we care so much? We need to stop worrying about things that are largely irrelevant to our lives greater purpose.

Is Reclaim Your Dreams just “another” personal Development book?

No. If you read and complete the exercises in the book I promise that you will see tremendous improvement in your life. That is what you want right?

I highly recommend this e-book.

As Jonathan says “It’s time to get off the hamster wheel.”

So go on. Reclaim your dreams. 20 bucks is small price to pay.

If you would like to purchase Reclaim Your Dreams please visit: Illuminated Mind

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