Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome

by Venus Williams

Overview

An inspiring and innovative guide towards living your best life—made easy—from Venus Williams, one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Throughout Venus Williams' incredible career in tennis, she's been asked almost every question imaginable. What she eats, how she trains, what she does to unwind, and most frequently, how does she manage to do it all?

Venus harnessed a rich blend of hard-won wisdom and core discipline to achieve her goals while keeping a simple promise to herself: to keep things fun. But after being diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disorder that affected her emotional and physical wellness, Venus's vow was put to the test. She came up with the STRIVE strategy—a winning combination of holistic and scientific approaches to wellness and performance that focuses on making self-improvements reachable and sustainable.

In STRIVE, readers will learn how eight tiny but essential tenets can help turn smart choices into habits. And once that happens, you’ll forge a lifestyle you return to because you want to, not because you have to—and that’s when you start winning.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063278233
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/10/2024
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

With seven Grand Slam titles and four Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. Venus was the first African American to reach a number one ranking in the Open Era and has been a profound advocate for gender equity throughout her career. Off the court, Venus has several successful business endeavors including plant-based protein company Happy Viking, where she can showcase her passion for wellness and empower others to embrace healthier lifestyles.

Editorial Reviews

06/24/2024

Tennis star Williams debuts with an uneven guide to making “smarter” health and wellness decisions. After being diagnosed with Sjögren’s syndrome in 2011, Williams set about testing “philosophies and strategies both traditional and untraditional” to create sustainable nutrition, health, and wellness habits. She divided those routines into a system of eight “steps”—observe, appreciate, balance, enrich, soothe, believe, inspire, and strive—to be practiced daily. Her recommendations include observing one’s own helpful and harmful habits and social influences, as well as creating a more balanced diet by using smaller plates to help decrease portion size. Readers will be fascinated by the insights into Williams’s own routine, and her success lends credibility to advice that might otherwise feel rote (“Transforming your health and your physique by being more active may be a slow process, but it’s one that is guaranteed to work if you’re patient”). Unfortunately, some of the suggestions are tone-deaf or vague, as when Williams encourages readers to conduct an “off-the-cuff” audit of each meal to see how the “pendulum swings between good and bad,” and suggests that if readers are not “satisfied” with “where at physically,” they’re “most likely not doing enough in terms of being active.” It’s a mixed bag. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly