Book Review: Mindfully Successful by Margo Boster
Rating: ★★★
Summary:
Genre: Self Help
Publication Date: 14th January 2025
No. Pages: 168 pages
Photo Credit: Barnes & Noble
Review
The book takes you through the journey of mindfulness being an overarching idea, enabling you to acknowledge challenges, change mindset and learn from setbacks.
I must admit, I’ve fallen into the trap of proactively giving ‘mindfulness’ a go whether that’s practicing meditation, taking deep breaths, or practicing gratitude… and it doesn’t always stick! Particularly meditation (which most people struggle with!).
This book provides practical techniques on bettering your wellbeing informed by mindfulness and neuroscience, a great read if you want to understand the WHY behind these techniques. Aka ‘why am I being told to breathe like this?’.
Margo Boster, author of Mindfully Successful, completed a yearlong yoga teacher training program in 2010 which is where her story began. She later took classes in neuroleadership which led to complete a bachelors degree in psychology.
The book takes you through the journey of mindfulness being an overarching idea, enabling you to acknowledge challenges, change mindset and learn from setbacks.
I’m sure we’ve all heard how we can retrain our brain, in which many of us are skeptical about, however the tips Boster puts together along with the science behind it and case studies of who she’s helped before, enforces how this is truly possible for the everyday person to implement.
For example, here’s a few breathing techniques mentioned…
To feel calm and relaxed - exhale longer than inhale
To feel energised - inhale longer than exhale
To feel balanced - inhale and exhale for equal duration
And this is all linked to interrupting our thought pattern to awaken parasympathetic nervous system.
So whether you’re curious on how you can self-improve, or perhaps struggling in your current situation, this is a great read.
The Round Up
Read If: If you’re the kind of person who is always trying to better themselves, but you feel like you’ve tried all the tips and tricks out there, reading this book might provide you with fresh insight.
Lasting Impression: A great read on how you can self-improve based on science.
Written by Tamara Lawrence