Morning Zen by Adrian Gonzalez - Book Review
Adrian Gonzalez is no stranger to helping people with the challenge of self-motivation, as he has co-founded numerous companies, had a career as a telecommunications engineer and worked as a mentor and marketing consultant. In the process, he’s also earned an MBA. However, and as explained in a video on his website, Adrian is equally open about his past struggles with anxiety, stress, and depression. All of these combined into one life experience, allowed him to develop a set of compelling habits that brings out the best, calmest, and most empowered version of himself, in order to face the challenges of everyday life. The greatest thing about this technique is that is 100% replicable, meaning anybody anywhere can use it, even more so now that Adrian Gonzalez has penned his discoveries and teachings in the form of an easy-to-follow routine in this exciting new book called Morning Zen.
Morning Zen is a concise guide based upon the ideals of health/self-care, a positive attitude, and consistency in personal goals. For instance, from the moment you wake up in the morning, you are encouraged to leave your electronic devices emerging into the magic of practicing habits that have been tested, understanding the facts of why we should wake up with no alarm, and digging deep into the concepts of sleep diets. As if that wasn’t enough, you will experience how to create your own peak of happiness, life order, and your own manifesto, resulting in an improved mindset that Adrian successively coaches across the book. And the best part is, that you are doing all of these before your work day begins.
Adrian breaks the Morning Zen program into blocks, divided into short chapters, making this book very easy to read and encouraging to practice it while reading it. In other words, it is an easily digestible flow of instructions that will lead you to understand, what he explains as “a new meaning of success”. Which consists in focusing on the process of the things that we can control. Meaning once you perform all these habits that are under your control, then you already succeed the day, and what happens after, during the rest of the day, the majority is not under your control, then your mood or zen, should not depend on it.
Bulking out the observations and wisdom delivered in Morning Zen, where you can observe the variety of testimonies, icon references, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s motivation and more, you can definitely delight the way on how Adrian Gonzalez involves you in the story-telling of his own experiences, until you start feeling almost like you are having a life conversation with him, sensing his voice, and his humble experience of the why and how he found and select these habits to follow and share with all of us.
The important part is that, at the end, Morning Zen should be define as the set of positive habits we should include in our mornings. And with this, it doesn’t mean that you have to follow all the 11 habits covered in this book, but being aware that one of the best parts of the day is the early morning and if we fulfil it with good and compelling habits, you will understand (as Adrian says) that happiness is not a decision but a construction of steps, that we can choose to include into our mornings, to be better partners, parents, siblings, sons, daughters, managers, teammates and human beings. Conveying that Morning Zen is not just a book, but a new noun, that will make us understand, what are the habits we are doing in the morning to be that better person we are pursuing to be? Participating in social questions like: What is your Morning Zen? or What do you include in your Morning Zen? or as simple as… Did you Zen today?
It is clear that Adrián González is the living experience that this method and morning routine definitely works, being so, that we have been able to observe, how it has evolved into an international book, and how many people around the world are enjoying of better mornings and more fulfilled lives, because of Morning Zen . Gonzalez puts himself across as a competent and experienced coach who projects his intent to help others in the kindest and most patient manner possible. With the intention to share to other people world-wide, how to empower their life, just by transforming their mornings. Those looking to start their new year with new goals, new changes, new attitude, we strongly advised to check this out, and those who have a path already started, but will like to boost and continue thriving that positive energy, for sure you will find a noble allay in Morning Zen.
Visit the Morning Zen website to find out how and where you can buy a copy. You also find out more about Adrian Gonzalez and his motivational tips at his podcast.
About the author:
Adrian Gonzalez is an entrepreneur and life coach specializing in workplace well-being. After co-founding several businesses, Adrian began researching and developing a set of skills, habits, and disciplines to counteract stress, balance mood, and become goal-focused. Having worked first-hand in busy, high-pressure IT and marketing careers, Adrian understands the need for fostering effective habits that ensure a healthier and happier professional and personal life. His Morning Zen routine helps managers, CEOs and business leaders alike increase their motivation, achieve balance and embrace a new meaning of success.
Morning Zen: Empower Your Life by Transforming Your Mornings is available in paperback, priced at £13.90, and in Kindle, priced at £6.79.
