The Obstacle is the Way - Book Review

This is a new book that I have just finished and I really enjoyed it. At a time when I was lacking motivation and enthusiasm it was just what I needed to get me excited about life again! Lockdown 3.0 has been tough going, and I have really found it difficult to think of reasons to get out of bed some mornings.

"The Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday is the first book I have completed on kindle which has been a different experience to reading my usual books but it wasn't a bad one! This book is full of great wisdom from stoicism mixed with real world examples of names we know, using the methods of the ancient stoics to achieve success. This is something I really appreciated as I find in my usual self-help and law of attraction books the examples used are "Sally" and "James" rather than real-life people that we know to be successful!

The lessons I learnt from this book were that no matter what is put in front of you, you can use this to your advantage and it becomes a part of your path. Circumstances make us. Challenges are there to teach us and help us grow, encourage us to think uniquely. There is nothing that cannot be overcome. Personally, this book spurred me on to use lockdown as a time to learn, to do something I have always wanted to do rather than just waiting for it to end for my life to begin. And that's where this blog came from!