'You first’ is about respecting and understanding what you really want—and then going out to achieve it.
In Brunette Ambition, Lea Michele shared a lot of the secrets and stories behind her success, and how she manages to live a balanced and healthy lifestyle despite her hectic schedule. Now, in her second book, she will teach readers how they, too, can be their best selves. In Lea's opinion, keeping a journal and asking yourself the hard questions about what you want out of life is the best way to achieve your dreams, so she has outlined a series of exercises, prompts, and lists based on her own personal program. Lea's guided journal will address all the topics she wrote about in Brunette Ambition, including fitness, diet, work, school, and relationships, but with all-new material to help readers reach their goals. Peppered between the advice and exercises will be fun personal anecdotes from Lea to motivate and inspire readers to put themselves first and live their best life.
Since Lea Michele of Glee fame picked up journaling (during her days starring on Broadway in Spring Awakening), she has stuck with the practice. Now, she wants to share it with you. Michele's guided journal, You First: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life . The book shows readers how to tackle fitness, healthy eating, personal goals, and relationships through the power of the (private) written word. "I want this to be a space where you shut up all the noise," Michele stresses, "and you take time to just listen to yourself."
The 30-year-old is no newcomer to show business (at the tender age of eight, she played Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway), but her transition from stage to small screen has not been all high notes. Even after Michele scored her first TV role, as the high-maintenance-but-good-hearted diva Rachel Berry on Glee, "people were telling me what I could and couldn't achieve based on my looks and ethnicity," Michele tells us. "I started journaling to really have a safe space to write down my goals." We spoke with Michele about her new book, Scream Queens, how Broadway prepared her for Hollywood, and why she won't give up her L.A. lifestyle anytime soon.
