GET SAVVI - REVIEW

GET SAVVI - REVIEW

A REVIEW OF “GET SAVVI” – a book by RITA CHOWDHRY-

The book “Get Savvi”, by fantastic author and even savvier Rita Chowdhry, a brand new read, was presented for me to review. And being a Lifestyle Blogger, whenever possible, I follow quality reading with insights into life. This helps me to learn more about transformation in life and this is a continual process. Therefore, I was very eager to read and review the book.

The Author is motivated to write this book by the loss of her mother, who is her first love and teacher in life.

The Author has been working for more than three decades with variety of people in professional and personal development, teaching, coaching, training and mentoring environments in helping others to grow and transform their lives, to be the best they can be and to succeed.

At least once in life there is spiritual awakening and one feels it important to revaluate what one is looking for in life, where to find the most happiness, and what kind of success one has achieved. And for that purpose, one needs to “Get SAVVI”.

The Author shares with the readers her own journey to becoming SAVVI which is really insightful and inspirational.

The book is exploration of the lessons she learnt through her own personal trials and tribulations, the impact her professional experiences have had on harnessing the core principles to a fulfilling life.

The book in itself is a symbol of the Author’s immense desire to communicate with a wider audience and to inspire and help others to achieve the desired transformation in life.

The book follows three characters, Zara, an unfulfilled wife, Jay, a successful businessman and Arun, a self-entitled son, on their respective journeys to self-discovery and what that means for their subjective satisfaction.  All based on real clients the Author herself has worked with, she presents a nurturing and respectful approach to finding what one values the most and being better for it. 

Apart from these, several real life cases of successful and achievers in different fields of life are discussed in details – their hard work to fulfill their dreams, their adhering to the life values they have chosen in spite of challenging circumstances and the effective way-out they have discovered leading to their fullest fulfillment in life. And have also realized that this is a continual process.

It is contrary to the common misunderstanding that successful and achievers, having great wealth, have no problems in life. And therefore they get more engaged in various activities which involve trying to do justice by helping eradication of poverty in the society, providing health services to the poor, free education and other such charity works serving humanity. 

The Author strongly believes that success is achieved in many forms- personal happiness, loving relationships, good health, career satisfaction, wealth, charitable acts and nurturing spiritual life.

Being a true Teacher, the Author intends to share the importance of these principles with the readers who get confronted in life with questions like -

• Why life is like this?
• Is this state of affairs going to be for ever?
• Who will decide the fate of my life?
• Why I should be blamed every time?
• Am I responsible for all this state of affairs?
• Can something be done?
• What can I do?
• What exactly should I do?
• Should I seek guidance from somewhere? And from whom?
• Why my spouse is behaving like this?
• How to communicate with my spouse effectively?

And slowly, more specific and significant questions may be arising in their mind –

• Why do I fail?
• Can I avoid my failures?
• Why success is so far away from me?
• Will I be able  to achieve success at all?
• Have I effective strengths?
• Have I enough strength to tackle the situation?
• What are my possible weaknesses?
• How can I overcome them? 

Such questions lead to self awareness.

And there are also questions that haunt the achievers and successful in their respective fields –

• I have everything I can desire. What next?
• What am going to do with all my gains and achievements?
• What if this huge wealth I have created falls in wrong hands?
• How far I should go on earning?
• Is this all one can achieve?
• Why I feel stagnated?
• Is there something beyond and above this?
• If yes, what is it?

The Author answers all such questions in a painstaking yet purely academic manner in the form of sharing the interactive sessions with the main characters in the book. The fact that some of these characters are even real life achievers and leaders in their own fields makes the book significant and interesting.

As stated by the Author in the Introduction, this book is a guide to becoming SAVVI, through:

• Self-awareness;
• An Achiever's mindselt'
• The power of Verbal communication;
• Being guided by the best Values for you and
• Seeking Inspiration and inspiring others

In this book GET SAVVI, the Author explores the five principles of her SAVVI framework.  In her extensive experience as a coach, working with individuals and businesses, the Author has many clients like Zara, an unfulfilled wife, Arun, a self-entitled son and Jay, a successful businessman struggling to find a healthy work-life balance, to achieve a more fulfilled life.

This book charts the true stories of people, who have made transformative journeys guided by SAVVI principles: of real-life SAVVI people, who epitomize these principles, or who have achieved success in the face of adversity. 

And the readers, whatever their life stages and levels be, may easily get connected with the above characters.

It is significant that the Author has made use of real-life case studies of successful achievers epitomizing SAVVI principles. They include politicians, billionaires, and the individuals who have achieved success in the challenging circumstances. The Author discovered that all those successful achievers in different individual, family, social status levels follow the five principles of SAVVI framework.

Fortunately, having realized the significance of these five principles, and having implemented them to become the best and the most fulfilled version of herself in every aspect life, the Author has not stopped there.  Her aim of coaching individuals about how to control their mind positively, and how to use pain as a force for happiness and success is noticeable and praiseworthy. 

She firmly believes that having realized the significance of these five principles and having implemented them in practice, the readers also can become the best and the most fulfilled version of themselves in every aspect of life.  

The abbreviations are very interesting and meaningful – like SAVVI, DISC, GRIPP, SMART Goals, and I found the same very helpful in having clear understanding of the complex nature of the knowledge imparted.

The Author’s knack of effective teaching while imparting the knowledge to the willing student is evident throughout the book in display of necessary diagrams, models, flow charts. And the readers with academic inclination, having been kindled with enthusiasm to assimilate easily the ideas at a glimpse, surely will find it very useful. 

The most interesting and significant chapter I find is “Creating a Family Charter”.

To quote the Author- Having shared values gives families a collective identity, and helps them to occupy their shared space and time more harmoniously and productively. What’s more, members of a family with overlapping, agreed-upon values can support one another in striving to live according to their respective individual values and beliefs. Having a set of shared values creates a built-in compass that keeps each family member aligned and focused as part of the family unit.

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I am sure, readers will read this chapter again and again. It has so much insight, significant on the path towards attaining transformation in life, as sharing with family members, acknowledging and honoring the same in life is a continuous process.

In our Indian culture, there are values which are held high in the family tradition, although they are not written anywhere visibly. The senior members of the family are well aware of and tend to hold high these values at any cost.  However, the younger ones learn about the same only in the challenging circumstances that may endanger the family values that leads to disaster. The basic reason being the strong belief that “everything need not be told now and again”.

There are famous quotes of the authorities in various fields relevant to the points being discussed, like Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein. Robin Sharma, Pele, Michelle Obama, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs,  JK Rowling, Barack Obama, Roy Disney, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sadhguru and so on, and certainly the unmissable and our own Mahatma Gandhi.

Further, the Author has shared her own personal life, especially watching her mother and mother-in-law take their last breaths which made her reflect and take action to enter the business world. 

Her personal loss and her training as a coach acted as a catalyst to overcome obstacles giving her courage to form her own coaching company that offers a blend of training, coaching and profiling. The Author also supports private clients, particularly women and minority ethnic groups to help fulfill their personal and career goals and promote positive changes. 

However, the Author could have included more real life cases representing blue collared and white collared class, lower middle class and middle class individuals. Because the individuals belonging to such classes of society may not even be aware of reading hobby. Such class of the society far away from reading will be able to receive suitable guidance and help from the SAVVI readers. Because, such readers know well that gaining wisdom is not enough but it must be implemented and shared with others to achieve fulfillment in life. That is what Mother Nature expects us – to bloom and help others to bloom.  

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For the readers who do not want to miss the opportunity of learning wisdom earned through life experiences that enable them achieve the  desired and coveted transformation in life, this is a must read book.

I am sure, having successfully achieved the stages of Get SAVVI, for the quality readers the next steps are –

·       to Implement and achieve desired transformation in life and

·       to Share among the near and dear ones and the peers.

 towards becoming SAVVIIS.

I reckon this book as one of the best I have come across recently on the topic of Achieving Transformation in Life

And I will not be surprised seeing the book tagged # 1 BESTSELLER

RATING: 9.5/10

Review of ‘GET SAVVI’ by Narasinh Purohit, sarasarvivek.blogspot.com