An Award Winning Book
You Are Capable of More was named the winner of the How-To category at the 2026 Paris Book Festival, an international competition open to major publishers, independent presses and self-published authors alike.
2026 Paris Book Festival
The Paris Book Festival honors the best of international publishing, judging books from every corner of the industry side by side across categories that run from fiction and memoir to business and how-to. Each category names one winner, followed by runners-up and honorable mentions.
You Are Capable of More took the top spot in How-To, the category for books that set out to teach readers how to do something and then actually give them the means to do it.
A book you keep using
Most books about potential leave you feeling good for an afternoon. This one was written to be picked back up, with every chapter closing in something you can do that week and a playbook at the end that turns the whole book into a working plan.
Principles
Ten chapters across three pillars, ownership, discipline and growth, each built around one idea you can put to work right away.
Inside the bookPlaybook
The closing playbook pulls every principle into steps you can come back to, which is what readers and endorsers keep pointing to first.
What they saidFree Tools
Assessments, worksheets and guides on this site carry the book past the last page, free to use for yourself or your team.
Free resourcesHonors for the book
Use the award freely
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You Are Capable of More.
A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. Winner of the How-To category at the 2026 Paris Book Festival. Available now in paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
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