How full is your bucket

Every year we make resolution when the new year begins. In the year 2025 my resolution was to read more books. To fulfill this resolution I decided to visit the library at my office. The library had most of the books for the domain knowledge improvement and technical skill enhancement. However, there where some books which also were for soft skill improvement and self help. Of the self help books I pick up a book called as "How full is your bucket" by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton.

This book was an international bestseller. I had never heard of this book. Nobody had ever spoken about this book. Generally the self help books are often celebrated and recommended. Yet I had not heard about this book. So I thought of trying it out.

When I read this book I was impressed with it. This book focuses on the positive aspects of the life rather than the negative once. The book specifically mentions filling the persons mind with positive thoughts to get better outcome. Metaphorically filling the bucket with diper. It mentions that how positive thoughts can improve the performance. How positive thoughts can lead to motivation. Positive thoughts and interactions result in better outcome. This book also includes some of the stories where a person had negative experiences which led to decreased performance of that individual. Some stories about how positive interactions and positive thoughts led to personal growth and improvement. This book also has provided some of the technics for becoming a positive person. It gives us some details with respect to how we can create a positive impact on other. It also talks about how small acts of positivity or kindness would have a great or impact on someone's life or someone's perspective even without us noticing it.

This book has changed my entire worldview. After reading this book I tried to implement some of the lessons in my own life. I had made a decision to have positive interactions with everyone. Even if someone has done something good however minute I would still highlight it in front of others so that the person would feel motivated. I ran this as a social experiment in my office and I could see that how people got positively affected because of it. Simple reason is that everybody likes to receive compliments. Everybody likes being recognised in front of the crowd. Everyone likes it when someone takes a notice of their efforts and praises them. Simple acts lead to a bigger impact. I was definitely impressed with how wonderful the results were.

This book is a very good guide for a person who is facing challenges in life. It will definitely help anyone to have a positive approach towards life. I wonder why this book is not as appreciated as some other self help books. It definitely deserves more recognition. I recommend this book to every person. It should be read by everyone irrespective of which stage of life they are at. If someone is a positive thinker they will continue to have positive impact on their own life as well as others life. If someone is not a positive thinker they will realise the value of positive thinking after reading this book.

Despite being a best seller I still believe that this book is underleative and it should receive more recognition because it deserve it.