The first 10 chapters or so feel like directed procrastination. Lots of exercises like writing and re-writing bios, going to network groups, writing mottos and mission statements, meditating, journaling, asking people you know stuff etc... at least half of each chapter is just continuing the road trip metaphor or is basically just filler. Some whole chapters feel like filler.

The book refers to desires as goals at the beginning then we don’t really do anything with them for about 10 chapters. From chapter 10, we start to go over short-term goals (benchmarks/tasks) and long-term goals including brain dumping all goals. 14 & 15 we start to talk about prioritising. Chapter 20: planning & deadlines. Chapter 21: rules & rewards. Chapter 22: challenges/set backs. Chapter 23: support system. Chapter 24: balance.

A small amount of examples are interesting but there’s a lot of waffle around helpful steps. Feels like something that could have been a blog but was turned into a book, because that was the author’s goal to write another book.

Personally, I think this book may, in part, be helpful for people who’ve never journaled before, don’t know how to freewrite and have no idea what goals are. They can treat this as a 4+hour introduction to getting started or just do lots of exercises to put off the actual actionable steps part for a while but still feel they’re being productive.