We all need a 15 minute pause in our lives right now. This is the perfect book for our lives during our recent pandemic. Thank you to Netgalley for this free ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Of we all could just take 15 minutes to help reboot and reset ourselves, we might be a little less stressed. This is a great book with good information and some good quotes.

This was a great book. I really liked the idea of taking 15 minutes to just stop and just...pause, as the book says. I did struggle with some of the 'big issue' points that it tries to make you consider, or feels like it does at least, but I did enjoy working through it. Compelling questions need compelling answers so I'll be reviewing it again to see if I can find deeper insights as I work on.

Overview:

— I got this book as an advance review copy. Michelle and Lilamani have done a great job in writing this as a workbook..

Ease of reading:

— The book is written in a very simple to read language. As this is written in the format of a workbook, this is best read over a long period of time, doing the exercises that they suggest, reflect on the questions that they pose and trying out some of the ideas that they suggest. So, this book will not be effective or useful, if you just read through the book.

What I loved about the book:

— This book is about a topic that is most relevant in today's world we live in. Everyone seems to be too busy to take care of themselves. Everyone is in a hurry. So, taking a 15 min pause every now and then is a good metaphor to slow down and think and reflect on where we are going so that we are sure that is the path we want to be on.
— The book covers all the different spheres of life that we need to think about if we want to live a fulfilling life.
— The book starts with guided reflections to help readers figure out what is important to them and then allows them to work on those areas where they need the most help. It also lists down a about 175 ideas that we can borrow from or use to come up with our own ideas so that we can address the areas where we really need to work upon.

What would I have done differently:

— Knowing myself and everyone around me, I know that it is not easy to sit down and reflect any so called important questions. This also means that this book would best be used as an accompaniment to a guided course. That would be the best way to help the readers to go through the reflections, Without that guided course, readers could potentially become overwhelmed at the amount of thinking and reflections that they need to do and will end up doing nothing.

— So, if I were the author of this book, I would also create a course (online) that gets offered to the readers and the book gets offered to people who sign up for the course, so that the readers can benefit the most from the content of the book.

In Conclusion:

— Reading this book and doing all the exercises is a good start to bring back balance in our lives. This book is strongly recommended, if you have the patience and the discipline to do most, if not all the reflections and the exercises that the authors share in this book.

— This is a 4 star book for me.

I love the idea of taking a daily pause from life. This book shows you how to do just that. It is filled with wonderful exercises and inspirational quotations. I highly recommend it.