Book Review: Living Forward by Seth Godin

I have a lot of people who recommend books to me. I order many of them. If the book has impressed one of my friends, I’m keen to see what they liked about it. That’s how I came to read Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life you Want by Seth Godin.

The title is making a pretty big claim, but the content? It’s ok.

There are a great number of books that suggest you need to do some basic things:

• Decide where you are
• Decide where you want to be
• Fill in the gaps

So from that point, there’s nothing Earth-shattering there. I did like the way though that Godin provided a pretty specific methodology for achieving the outcomes you want. It’s based around being both deliberate and proactive.

The friends that liked this book, particularly mentioned that it helped them break out of a cycle of procrastination. We all can suffer from that, but some suffer more than most, and this could be the prompt they need.

Godin also, of course, keeps concepts of a balanced life in mind, but he talks about just how easy it can be to simply drift through life.

The Verdict?

I’d give this one 6 out of 10. I didn’t find anything very new, but I did like the structure it provided. I know I have a number of friends who could benefit from the thinking.

2021-03-24