Grow. Grow Right. Grow Right Now.
Practical Wisdom for Cultivating Character and Sowing Success
Illuminating a way to personal growth and discovery through clear examples of personal and professional successes, Grow. Grow Right. Grow Right Now. is a supportive self-help guide.
Jaime Hepp’s motivational self-help guide Grow. Grow Right. Grow Right Now. is about improving one’s work and personal lives.
This illustrative book collects lessons on how to be successful, based on Hepp’s growth across three decades—he progressed from novice salesman to leading business owner. The lessons were first written as letters for Hepp’s three children. To make their points applicable to a general audience, the book expands on them with practical tips and exercises for introspection. It also includes outside perspectives from recognizable figures to illuminate a way to personal growth and discovery.
Career success is addressed in terms of fostering values like productivity, time management, and identifying what’s important. The book advises people to limit their number of priorities and to use a “proactive calendar” to manage their responsibilities. It also emphasizes attaining a positive work-life balance, using Hepp’s prioritization of his marriage and rejection of ego to pursue spirituality as examples. And the book’s message that professional growth is proportional to one’s efforts to improve one’s character is tied to familiar themes of gratitude and service to others, refreshed via personal stories of perseverance, confidence, and accountability, and examples such as Princess Diana, whose service to people in need made her beloved.
Its tone pragmatic, the book is made up of succinct chapters with clever titles to introduce and reinforce their messages. In “Thankful for Alcoholism,” Hepp writes about strength from his father’s “attitude of gratitude” while overcoming alcoholism. Time management is the subject of “Bananas, Dry Cleaning, and Mom,” which includes a story about how three items on a client’s calendar impacted their productivity. References to Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, and leadership classes are used to further support the book’s ideas about self-improvement: While encouraging reflection on one’s core values, the book points to a FranklinCovey class as inspiration.
Running throughout the book is a push toward active participation in one’s own life. The book encourages people to attend to their drives for self-improvement and those traits that define strong leadership. Some clichés arise: Strong moral character is equated to rich soil that nurtures life to grow in the “right direction,” while elsewhere, the metaphor of a butterfly breaking free of its cocoon is also used to encourage the acceptance of struggles that lead to personal progress. Further, notable weight is given to sports references, limiting the book’s otherwise broad appeal at times; UCLA basketball coach John Wooden and his leadership lessons, and basketball players Michael Jordan and LeBron James, are all held up as examples of the values the book names.
Grow. Grow Right. Grow Right Now. is an enlightening self-help guide with advice for opening one’s mind to greater self-awareness and improved personal growth.
Reviewed by
Katy Keffer
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