He doesn't blow smoke up your arse and tell you what you want to hear and he doesn't feed you bullshit.

To give a James Smith like analogy, this book is like me reading his 'not a diet' book then writing a diet book myself as though I know what I'm on about. Not everyone can understand the laws of physics, martial arts and mathematics, all 3 hobbies that Smith definitely shares a lot of knowledge about and I percieve it he is passionate about all subjects too.Only you can take the reins of your own life and choose to make a change, but with invaluable experience, a hunger for genuine happiness, and a drive to be the kind of coach he needed when his life was broken, James can give you the tools to do it. All in all an incredibly bland listen from a stereotypical personal trainer, providing absolutely no original thoughts or highlights. Some of the aspects in the book were interesting and actually made me look at situations in my life differently. ISBN: 9780008467029 Author: Smith, James Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers Publication Date: 2nd September 2021 Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers Cover: Paperback Dewey: 158. I quickly realized that I’m not the target audience for this book, and that influenced my perception of the material.

I’m sure I will dip in and out of it in the future for a bit of inspiration, as I do love James’s “why not? James repeats and summarises a lot of “wisdom” from various sources and adds his own lens to it, but ultimately it is not original. Time to stop sleep-walking through your life; to challenge the status quo; and to truly ask yourself if you're on the right path to success, happiness and fulfilment. I'm not disputing that he has earned his success and has done the hard graft to get where he is today but he talks as if he lived in the trenches of slugging it out in the corporate world for 20 years, a poor pt for 20 years until he finally made it.

Thank you, James, for unknowingly being the person spouting the words I need to hear at just the right time in life. It’s time to reassess and decide in the end will you look back and say working 60 hours a week was so important?

From his Facebook Lives with Brian the bird in Bondi to a brief stint as a JSA member during the first Bali competition where I learned all I need to know to maintain and improve my fitness level.I would describe this book as a gateway book for people who haven’t read many self help or self development books and who don’t read much non fiction. Would recommend to anyone who wants to change their life, whether minor or majorly, but is sitting in the fence/living in fear.