Girl, Stop Apologizing: A shame-free plan for embracing and achieving your goals - Book Review

“𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚢. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕! 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏. 𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎.”

Blurb:

In Girl, Stop Apologizing, #1New York Times bestselling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people—whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee—instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself. 

Review:

Girl, Stop Apologizing is my second book by Rachel Hollis, I quite liked her previous book - Girl Wash your face and was very excited to read this one when it came out.

The general outline of this book focuses on how to let go of excuses that hold you back, developing habits that will make you successful, and acquiring great skills that will boost your success.

Since Rachel is a motivational speaker she’s undoubtedly great at pumping you up and in motivating you to dream big and achieve big.

The first part of the book is all about the excuses you give and the lies you tell yourself such as – I don’t have time, I’m not goal-oriented, it’s been done before, I’m scared of failure, etc

She shares about how she started her blog and the work she put into it which led to her great success.

She emphasizes mainly on why women shouldn’t depend on other’s appreciation and compliments to believe they are beautiful or seek others approval to follow their dreams, and that for a woman to be a good person, she doesn’t have to be necessarily good for other people.

She lists a set of behaviors and habits to adopt such as – stop asking permission, asking for help, embracing your ambition, etc. Furthermore, she encourages women to not be ashamed of their dreams, not be scared to hustle in order to achieve their dreams.

Girl wash your face, was a little preachy but highly motivational and so naturally I expected the same from this book as well, no doubt this book is good at motivating, but there were certain things that I couldn’t accept such as her obsession with a certain body image and first-class facilities.

I also felt she was sort of contradicting herself on a few concepts and wasn’t sure of what she really wanted to convey to her readers.

In conclusion, if you need a kick in the butt during those unmotivated gloomy days, this book will definitely do the job.