ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF WHAT YOU SHOULD CONTROL

ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF WHAT YOU SHOULD CONTROL? Your

Time, Habits, Words, Reactions, Money, Health and Discipline Should Be

Under Your Control. The Real Question Is—Are They? For years, fitness

coach Megha Kapoor kept giving Dr. Abhishek Gilara one deceptively

simple instruction during his exercise sessions: “DO THE MOVEMENT

PROPERLY. DO IT IN A CONTROLLED MANNER.” He heard it again.

And again. And again. Until one day, the instruction escaped the gym. He

began asking: If controlled movement produces better exercise, what could

controlled action produce in life? Are we controlling our time—or is our

schedule controlling us? Are we controlling our habits—or are our habits

controlling us?

Are we controlling our money—or are impulses controlling our spending? Are we controlling our words—or is

anger speaking for us? Are we controlling our reactions—or have we handed the remote control of our emotions to

other people? Are we responsibly controlling our health behaviours? And is our discipline strong enough to survive

when nobody is watching? Drawing from approximately 35 years of exercise, years of coaching, business leadership,

spiritual learning and everyday observations, Dr. Gilara explores one powerful principle: EFFORT WITHOUT

CONTROL IS LIKE EXERCISE WITH BAD FORM. Working harder is not always the answer. Sometimes we

need to correct the movement. Sometimes we need to reduce the weight. Sometimes we need a coach who can see

what we cannot. And sometimes the greatest act of control is accepting that something was never ours to control in

the first place. This book is therefore not about controlling the world. It is about something much more difficult:

CONTROLLING YOURSELF WITHIN THE WORLD. Because self-control is not the opposite of freedom.

SELF-CONTROL IS ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM. Control what is yours. Accept what is not.

Find people capable of correcting your form. Remain coachable. And never become so experienced that you stop

being a student. Because whether in the gym, business, relationships, money, health or life itself—THE QUALITY

OF THE MOVEMENT MATTERS. And thousands of properly controlled actions, repeated over years, can gradually

build the strongest version of you.