The Crossroads of Should and Must

Inspiring and practical tips for going from Should to Must.

Although for me I wouldn't call this book ‘life-changing', it was a very thought provoking look at finding your passion and how to pursue it. I liked that the overall message wasn't to just drop everything and every responsibility in life (you need a day job to pay bills? That's okay.), but ideas and inspiration on how to work around the responsibilities you have and your own created barriers and walls to start the path toward making your dreams a reality. Short and filled with quotes and small activities, this won't take you long to read, but it will help you think about and start putting in action a plan to pursue your passion. Elle Luna encourages at one point to write on your mirror, and if I picked one quote that spoke loudest to me in her book that I'd write on my own mirror, it would be this: “If you feel a knot in your stomach, because you can see the enormous distance between your dreams and your daily reality, do one thing to tighten your grip on what you want - TODAY.”

Eh, the concept is useful but the book itself is superficial. Not a lot in it you couldn't glean from the description.

I'm also unreasonably annoyed that like half the book is in image form (like, a drawn image of words: a set of guidelines or an important point or a list of questions or a quotation). Makes it impossible to highlight it in order to refer back to later, and also makes it harder to read on Kindle (I guess they might be in color or something because they are often in lighter shades of gray).

Anyway for $2 and like a 20 minute read if you get a couple good insights out of it you're getting a good deal.

Great book! I picked it up after hearing her interviewed on the unmistakeable creative podcast and I was not disappointed. I picked it up in a Barnes and Noble and read it all the way through in the store. It's a quick read, but I got a lot out of it. Very inspirational, I had many ideas while reading it and wrote them down for the future.

Although the art in this book is really beautiful, I feel that the information in it was really shallow and didn't have practical tips to really follow your “musts” instead of your “shoulds”.