“Twenty five years ago I wish someone had told me that the enduring meaning in my life would be found in shaping my children’s values not in my professional success” – Rabbi Harold Kushner, is just one of the many quotes in motivational guru, Robin Sharma’s Family Wisdom.

This book is a beautiful narrative in the form of an inspirational story that motivates you to revive the inborn potential in your children, enriching your own living experience with life’s simple joys and pleasures that otherwise go unnoticed in the mad rat race to climb the career ladder and the subsequent pressures that cast dark shadows on your own life as well as that of your family.

The protagonist, Julian Mantle, the enlightened monk from the renowned book ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,’ is back in all wisdom, this time, to help his sister Catherine Cruz rekindle the spark in an otherwise dull marriage and family life, turning her life in a celebration. In one of his many notes and advice to her, he says: “Catherine, your children are the greatest blessings of your life and they will only be young once. Put them first and your life will soar.”In the words of Sharma: “Happiness is nothing more than a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret the events of your life.”

Sharma’s Family Wisdom is indeed happiness redefined up until the last word.

A book worth reading that will guide you to discover your ‘best you’, helping you rearrange your priorities, bring about simple yet effective lifestyle changes that open doors to a healthy wholesome life, a fulfilling career and a happy family life, inspiring and moulding your children to become tomorrow’s leaders.

 

— The reader is a homemaker based in Dubai.