2026 Paris Book Festival
You Are Capable of More took the top spot in the How-To category at the 2026 Paris Book Festival, the book’s first international award, announced just weeks after its August release.
A book you keep using
How-To is the category for books that set out to teach readers how to do something and then actually give them the means to do it. That is the line this book was written on.
Every chapter closes in something you can do that week, and the playbook at the end turns all ten principles into a working plan you can come back to. The free assessments, worksheets and guides on this site carry it past the last page.
Judged side by side
The Paris Book Festival honors the best of international publishing, judging books from every corner of the industry across categories that run from fiction and memoir to business and how-to.
One Winner
Each category names a single winner, followed by runners-up and honorable mentions.
Every Kind of Publisher
Major, independent and self-published books compete in the same field, judged on the work itself.
Other awards for the book
You Are Capable of More.
A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. Available in paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
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