Do This. Now.

1. It will change your life. Seriously. It will show you (not tell you), through extraordinary true stories, how to live your life more intentionally. How to stop doing what’s merely urgent and start doing what’s really important, to you. How to become who you really are, and do what you were intended to do. It will empower you, not by telling you what to do, but by making you believe, passionately, that you can be better, can do more, can be more authentically yourself. And how to start.
2. It’s enormous fun. Patti is funny. Her stories (some about her own life, some those of people she knows) are more than instructional, they are entertaining. This book will make you laugh, cry, and do lots of other things you didn’t think you would or could do. It will move you.
3. It is extraordinarily well written. If you are a writer, and want to learn how to write well, this is your model. Every word in this book counts. There are no false notes. The stories are surrounded by stunning colour graphics submitted by dozens of different artists on the stories’ themes, and by quotes and poems that are such perfect complements to the stories that you will treasure the book just for its collection of the most succinct and powerful turns of phrase on subjects that matter you will find anywhere. A 200-page bravura performance of clear, precise, concise, transporting prose.

I could give you other reasons, such as that this is going to be a best-seller, a blockbuster, and if you buy now she’ll sign it for you and you’ll be able to show it off to others (“I was reading Patti’s work before she was famous”). Or that this is the book that accomplishes what the acclaimed Eat, Pray, Love merely hinted at: it creates a whole new genre — something like Inciting Narrative. Or that I’m so convinced you’ll be blown away with it that I’ll buy it back from you if you aren’t, and give you the address of someone to pass it forward to. Or that you really need to buy a bunch of copies because you’ll be giving copies away to people you love, for their good, for your good, before you’re half way through it.

But enough.

You haven’t bought a copy yet? Go, now. It’s only $20. What’s holding you back? Suspicious of my motivations? I have never met Patti, and I don’t get any royalties. This book is just that good. You read this blog because you have some trust, some expectation, that you’ll learn something useful. So trust me. You’llthank me. Promise.

Fund your own revolution. Risk your significance. No excuses. Just do this. Now.