Book Review: Jolt!

Jolt! is a book about change. It is in the genre of the self-help pull you up by the bootstraps mantra that has been around for years. The author provides 25 vignettes that you can use to help deal with change, overcome difficulties in life and in general change your thinking about things to help you get on the right path.

What this book seems to do is offer a solution for those who fell like they have hit a wall in their pursuit of goals. The author even talks about his own experiences with hitting the wall. His change was the loss of a job, but the overall theme is that in any situation where you are stagnate or just content with where you are unless you have a jolt, you will not change.

One of the things that I like about this book is the faith based aspect of it. Instead of it just focusing out what are dreams are it reminds us that we need to understand God’s bigger plan for us and how we pursue it. I also like the short chapter set up. Instead of feeling that you have to sit down and read the whole book, you can read a chapter, think about it and consider how you might apply it. Or maybe after some reflection, you decide it is not for you and you move on to the next. The book setup gives you the flexibility to do this.

While the book at times may seem like a rehash of yesterday’s self-help, I think that it is a very good book for today’s fast paced, technology savvy world that needs short jolts to help them along the way.

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