From Stuck to Unstoppable
The Power of Intentional Decision-Making in Life and Leadership
With experience-based advice for cultivating awareness and intentionality, From Stuck to Unstoppable is an inspiring self-help text.
Corporate executive and researcher Trish Hunt’s leadership book From Stuck to Unstoppable is about making conscious, intentional decisions—both at work and at home.
Arguing that everyone has the innate ability to address both major crises and minor difficulties with decisiveness, this book delivers advice designed to support general life satisfaction. It also addresses fears of failure and ways to turn one’s dreams into realities. Though partially geared toward business leaders, this is heart-centered work that focuses on what it means to be human. Its delivery is both welcoming and firm, introducing strategies that are based on principles of self-reliance, personal accountability, and taking personal ownership.
Taking a principles-based, people-over-profits approach, the book includes step-by-step suggestions for becoming the best human being possible and then modeling the same behavior for others. On the personal side, Hunt includes the example of her mother, who, while raising her children as a single working parent, imparted lessons about resourcefulness and self-reliance—lessons that Hunt applied when her dance lessons were threatened by her family’s financial troubles, making a novel proposal to her teacher.
Indeed, the book’s life advice ends up outweighing its work advice in terms of persuasiveness and even in terms of the language that it chooses. For example, it uses the image of a home’s structure to suggest a comfortable mental environment for exploring how each topic serves a purpose in creating a strong life. Its recommendations are based in experience rather than research and are supported by stories about people overcoming great challenges themselves and creating new lives after tragedies. These anecdotal supports also incorporate Hunt’s story of choosing to thrive after the death of her husband at the age of twenty-nine. Each story is used to suggest what implementing the book’s strategies might look and feel like. Instances of humor humanize them, as when Hunt recalls how, while wanting to be closer to the team she managed, she abandoned her imposing but distant office and made space for herself in a nearby broom closet, transforming how her role in the company appeared to others. And the book includes probing questions so that its audience can explore areas in which they are stuck, and opportunities to reflect on what it might take to get themselves back on track.
The self-help text From Stuck to Unstoppable is filled with advice for transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
Reviewed by
Kristine Morris
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