This is the smallest book I read that you can read in one sitting. The funny part is I completed this book on a Badminton court while waiting for my friends to come. This summary contains some bullet points that I wish I remember every time. I hope it helps you as well.

Here's the book link.

Summary

1. Get on your deathbed

A method carried out by psychotherapists that, Imagine yourself on your death bed.

• I wanted to live as if I might die at any moment.
• Be thankful and if you wish anything do it immediately.
• Your own ideas and things you wish, you do.
• Pretending you aren't going to die will prevent your enjoyment of life.
• Eg: Consider if a batsman thinks he can never be out. Think of his play style. He loses Focus, and intensity and becomes lazy, and has no fun at all. Same for life.

2. Stay hungry

• The story of Arnold Schwarzenegger that before getting famous he said to the interviewer that "I'm going to be the number one box-office star in Hollywood." (Rest is history)
• What you should do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.
• Better now than later. Motivate yourself.

3. Tell yourself a true lie

• The Lie poem to 12-year-old about How great they were. (Read the book for more context)
• Think up some stories about who you would like to be.
• Soon you'll create blueprints and sketches.
• Fake it until you make it.
• The lie will become the truth.

4. Keep your eyes on the prize

• Focus is very difficult these days. The team/person with more focus wins.
• Rather than focusing on our goals, we get distracted by worries and fears.

5. Learn to sweat in peace

• The harder you are on yourself, the easier the life is on you. (My fav in this book)
• The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.
• The story of kids suffering from senior's fast-paced bowling in tournaments.
• They got an idea, "What if the balls we face in games were slower than the ones we face every day in practice?".
• As their practice is with youngsters and no one is a fast pacer like they face in games.
• Decided to change a golf ball (aerodynamic) and reduced the pitch length. Now the practice balls are faster than game balls. (Really a good small story to read)
• "Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I did the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun. 😃
• The same did Muhammed Ali. Chose his practice partners boxers who are more difficult than in matches.

6. Simplify your life

It's hard to be focused/motivated when you are confused.

When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you focus on life the more motivated it gets.

• Remove all weeds, delegate, and eliminate all activities that don't contribute to your goals.
• Do everything right on the spot. Don't put anything unnecessary into your future.
• Do it now. So the future is free and always wide open.

7. Look for the lost gold

Whatever happens, look for the hidden good in them.

• Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives.
• Because we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

8. Push all your own buttons

Make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons.

• Make a note of everything that inspires you.
• That's your Control Panel.
• Those operate your whole system of personal motivation.

9. Build a track record

Golden words: "It's not what we do that makes us tired - It's what we don't do".

• The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.
• Don't always think of yourself as lazy or never capable of anything.
• If you look carefully, daily you will be accomplishing some good activities that others are not even trying.
• So keep track of them which proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do.

10. Welcome the unexpected

• Don't say you are not creative.
• Even a famous composer said, He never wrote an original melody. All were combinations of old folk melodies.
• See yourself as creative
• Come up with all possible unexpected solutions to the challenges that life throws at you.

My top 3 takeaways

1. "Learn to sweat in peace" - This was an eye-opener for me. After reading this I started to practice/train/tried one step ahead than expected.  Yeah, it is hard and takes a lot of time. But it pays!
2. "Look for the lost gold" - I usually follow this in my life at almost every occurrence. While completing an activity/task/event I'll usually be a pessimist and try to give my best. But once the activity/task/event is done. Then I'll be an optimist on those results. If it went well, I'll be happy that I did a good job and go ahead, If it wasn't then I'll try to improve from my mistakes and try to move forward better.
3. "Welcome the unexpected" - I used to think sometimes that, I'm not creative. But this made me that It's not a void. Even I at some point did some exciting engineering, discoveries, and inventions in the daily things that I do. (Will cover them up in the following blogs 😉)