Power Your Life With the Positive: Life Lessons and Secrets for Success From Luminaries and Everyday Heroes

by Cyrus Webb

Drawing on his relationships with industry insiders and those in front of and behind the camera in the entertainment industry, author Cyrus Webb has compiled a compendium of encouragement. Power Your Life With the Positive is filled with stories of amazing life turnarounds from real people proves the importance of optimism in an often negative world. As one of the world’s most positive people, Cyrus Webb is perfectly suited to remind readers that it is possible to find the silver lining in every cloud through the advice and insights in this book. Power Your Life With the Positive is pure inspiration that will lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on positivity and happiness. In these times of economic uncertainty, civic strife and political turmoil, it more important than ever to offer people hope and ideas on how to believe that the best is yet to come.

The notables featured in Webb’s book faced their own fears, believed enough in their goals and dreams to pursue them and reaped rewards by sticking to their guns and not allowing their own doubts and those of others to stop them, including:
Supermodel Tess Holliday, E! News Correspondent Ken Baker and Grammy award-winning singer/actress Stephanie Mills, Paul T. Scheuring (creator of Fox’s Prison Break), LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow/Roots/Star Trek: The Next Generation), Jeryl Prescott (The Walking Dead/Birth of a Nation), Peter Engel (Executive Producer of Saved By the Bell), Antonique Smith (Notorious/Fox’s Shots Fired), Actor Darrin Dewitt Henson (Soul Food the TV show/author)/movie Stomp the Yard), John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard/Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots), and more.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published November 15, 2018

Reviews

[Kelly Lexa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book suffered from lack of focus. It didn’t know what it wanted to be, so it ended up being a compilation of interviews about fame with a few minor nods to positivity. There was very little original thought from the author.

The editing was HORRENDOUS. There were missing words, incorrect words, tense discrepancies, and POV discrepancies to name a few. (I think at one point the author referred to himself as he/him?) The text boxes felt completely random. Some of them had quotation marks and some didn’t, but they were mostly quotes from the interviewees, so that wasn’t consistent. The author used about 6 different fonts. There were questions near the end of each chapter that were intended to be thought-provoking and allow time for self-reflection, but there was no natural pause; these would have been better suited for the end of the chapter. There were a ton of quotes at the end of each chapter instead. It felt like the author was just trying to fill pages to make the book long enough for publishing. One quote at the beginning of each chapter would have been more appropriate. There was also no consistency between how the interviews were presented in each chapter. Some were straightforward Q&A and some were quoted, and it really didn’t seem like the author knew what he wanted his readers to get out of each chapter.

Overall, this felt like a big waste of my time, with a few random nuggets of positivity in the mix. On the plus side, I felt like the writing and arrangement got slightly better as the book progressed. I feel bad saying this, because at the time of this review mine will only be the 2nd one on GoodReads, but I read a lot and there is a lot of variety to my selection and this just didn’t do it for me.

[Marlene Wagman-Geller · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the 1960s Petula Clarke's signature song was "Downtown" the place where you can go to forget "all your worries and cares." Cyrus Webb in his new book Power Your Life provides an alternative solution for dealing with the curve ball fate throws our way. The volume offers inspirational quotations, golden nuggets of wisdom and examples of celebrities who have pulled themselves up by the proverbial bootstraps. The message is even though we may be on our knees we don't have to stay there. I highly recommend this book if you are finding yourself in that horrible place known as the doldrums or if you have friends or family members arm-wrestling with their demons. As an educator I feel this volume should be on the bookshelves of teachers, school psychologists and guidance councilors as well as professionals working in the field of mental health care. Having Webb's volume on display will help counteract the naysayers, the pessimists and the mean-and reading is, after all, less hassle free than going "downtown."