Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

Written by Sahar Hashemi

Narrated by Colleen Prendergast

Life is too short to just come in for the pay check

Let's face it, you work for the best years of your life and spend most of your waking hours on the job, so make sure you are energized, fulfilled, and buzzing. Switched On will help you leap outside your comfort zone and awaken your creativity.

Blast through the old thinking

Switched On shows you how to think like an entrepreneur-have ideas, spot the opportunities, see the future, and make things happen. The future belongs to fresh thinkers, so turn your receptors on and get ready to bring the real you to work.

They'll love you for it

Go on, unleash yourself-you'll be surprised at how indispensable you become. You have it in you-you just need to switch it on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: Aug 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781663731487

Reviews for Switched On

[sassybrit · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Get Switched On - for that Light Bulb Moment

Sahar Hashemi shares her insights and knowledge on how to use the entrepreneur mindset within a company as an employee. She uses her own entrepreneurial business success the "Coffee Republic" as examples of her experience, alongside the views of other former, successful entrepreneurs. Hashemi's 8 habits of a "Switched On" mindset (the habits of an entrepreneur) are about behavioural change and adopting new habits to inspire the reader to get motivated, creative and above all persist by taking action. The key word here, as always in success, is "action". She looks at how being "Switched On" within a large organisation can help step away from the usual barriers, and avoid the "how we always done it" mentality to achieve success. Yet is is done in a way that where one will still be seen as a team player while dumping he bureaucratic baggage of large compartmentalised corporations. True light bulb moments.

I loved this book in that the advice given can be "switched on" and is eminently actionable, by anyone, in any organisation at any level. And there is nothing to prevent the lone entrepreneur getting some great tips from this book either. Of course there is a level of engagement and emotional involvement required to not just read the book but act upon what is read.

I must add that Hashemi's 8 habits are like a British version of Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, of which there is now an 8th habit, but with less of the unnecessary spiritual guff. Everything learned can be used within a large organisation and by going that extra mile in a new, fun way which reignites one's enthusiasm for the job, can't be bad.

Overa ll: This is one of those books which excited me, hence the 5 star review. So, if like me entrepreneur books switch you on, I highly recommend you getting "Switched On" by this. Unless of course, all the lights are on, but nobody's home.