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.
GET SAVVI
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.
GET SAVVI
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
