31 Mantras For Personality Development: One Step a Day to Better Yourself

Name of Reviewer: Kolhe Arpita Popat (IInd Year B.A-LL.B.)
Name of the College: M.C.E. Society’s A.K.K. New Law Academy, Pune

It is a self-help book that enhances personal growth and development. The book provides 31 practical tips and techniques each designed to be implemented daily, guiding readers towards becoming more successful, happy, content individuals.

Themes: The book highlights 31 mantras that are useful to each individual. Each mantra is designed to be practiced daily or at least one each day. The book emphasizes living in the present moment and provides actionable steps to help readers live each day.

Setting: The book has content much needed by readers. The book has 31 chapters in total, each chapters explains each mantra in detail. At the same, it is short, consisting of three pages per chapter, keeping it simple and straightforward. Also, the author has provided some practice guides to help implement these mantra in the readers’ life. The book is written in general English to reach every corner and easy to understand and implement.

Practical Application: All the mantras and the practice exercise given by the author are mostly free of cost making them easily applicable by everybody irrespective of class, gender, age, and profession. The author has effectively
highlighted the most observed issued and given their presently acceptable solution.

Message: The message that author highlights through this book is that it takes these 31 simple mantras in life of any individual to bring in about most important and life-changing development in the reader.

Emotional Impact: The book had a highly positive impact in my life and also my thinking process. The thought of change was always a big question in life. How? When? Where? Is it even possible? Will it even have any impact on me
and people around me? Many such questions were easily answerable through this book. And the biggest part where I felt grateful towards the author will reading this book was the effort he took to mention simple ways through which
one could inculcate these habits/ mantras in the life of readers.

Strengths: The book even though written in the year 2010 is easily relatable even today in 2025 almost after 15 years. Many current issues experienced by all generations have been mentioned in it. The book gives guidance to youth to grow strongly and positively in their respective field.

Weakness: Every coin has two sides. As there are strengths there are weaknesses too about the book for instance repetitiveness. The mantras at some point overlap with each other and there is observed repetitiveness. Also, those
readers who are familiar with the concept of personality development may find this book simple or geared towards beginners.

Recommendation: I would always recommend this book to all those beginners for self- help books and personality development process. It may be the most simplistic book available for change in any stage of life giving at least some start process for change.

Ratings: I would rate this book 3.5 out of 5 because though the book is good it may not be that effective to people who have done basic changes in life for development and need some selective change.

Final Thoughts: This book overall highlights a concise and practical guide for anyone seeking personal growth and self-improvement. It’s simple, actionable tips are accessible to readers of all backgrounds, making it an accessible starting point for developing a positive and confident personality. By focusing on daily

practices, the book emphasizes the importance of consistent efforts in creating lasting change. Whether you are looking to boost your self-esteem, cultivate gratitude or adopt a more optimistic outlook, the book provides a structured simple pathway to achieve these goals.