Description
Your journey to success doesn’t end when you arrive—it evolves.
This exclusive 2-book Journey set by Samir Deokuliar combines Getting There: Ten Nuggets for Long-Term Success and Staying There: Ten Nuggets to Avoid Life’s Pitfalls, giving you everything you need to reach success and stay grounded once you’re there.
Book 1: Getting There — Ten Nuggets for Long-Term Success
You want to be successful, don’t you? You need a roadmap. Getting There offers ten practical insights—each paired with real stories, reflection prompts, and simple illustrations—to help you navigate toward a more meaningful, fulfilling life.
What’s Inside:
10 actionable life lessons with reflection prompts
Real stories of impact and transformation
Simple illustrations to spark reflection
Endorsements:
“I resonate with each part and message deeply.”
— Roshan Abbas, Media Veteran & Author“Reading Getting There was like sitting with a coach who gives you all the reflection and reality check you need.”
— Ragini Das, Co-founder, leap.club“Genuine, authentic, and truly achieves its goal of getting people to think deeply about their lives.”
— Sharad Mathur, Senior Director of Engineering, Google.
Book 2: Staying There — Ten Nuggets to Avoid Life’s Pitfalls
Getting to success is one thing—staying there is another. In this powerful follow-up, Samir reveals how to sustain character, integrity, and purpose once the applause fades.
What’s Inside:
10 powerful principles for long-term success
Practical guidance to remain humble, ethical, and grounded
Reflect & Act sections to turn lessons into practice
Endorsements:
“Whether a leader, student, or homemaker, this is a must-read for lasting achievement and impact.”
— Kaushik Mitra, CFO, PepsiCo India“Meaningful perspectives for today’s context of balancing remote work, productivity, and collaboration.”
— Farha Ahmad, Director, Nagarro“Each nugget is so well explained – simple but powerful. Thank you for helping me become a good finisher .”
— Arun Samuel, Chairman, Wings Group of Companies
Manav Das –
I’ve read and absorbed the journey. If you have a heartbeat, then these books are for you. In our hearts, we aspire for purpose.
While the first book “getting there” is to settle with the purpose of our life, the second book “staying there” is even more important, as it talks about the tough part that is successful achievement of our purpose and that happens with staying there.
Samir has a knack for hitting the right note that touches our inner core and resonates with our purpose of life. He has vulnerably and honestly given the views of his life to inspire us to stay there.
Ashwini George –
In an age increasingly defined by speed, visibility, and relentless achievement, Samir Deokuliar’s companion books Getting There and Staying There offer a quieter and more reflective framework for thinking about success, purpose, and character.
Rather than presenting abstract theories of success, these books function like compact mentoring conversations. Accessible and reflective, they invite readers to pause, examine their motivations, and consider what it means not only to succeed, but to do so with integrity and endurance. Key themes that stayed with me include redefining success beyond money, status, or visibility, listening and relational depth as essential life skills, sustaining character and integrity in positions of influence, navigating relationships, finances, and expectations wisely and honouring one’s parents.
Where the Getting There clarifies direction, Staying There builds endurance. Together, they create a natural progression: beginning well and finishing well. The books are particularly suitable for personal retreats, leadership development spaces, or small-group discussions where reflection and conversation are encouraged.
Readers looking for rigorous academic analysis or extensive research citations may find the books intentionally simple. Their purpose is not scholarly argument but personal reflection and practical life application
For readers today, for whom mentoring is frequently an Insta reel or YouTube short or video away, these books will fasten a rhythm to a more natural pace of growth, perhaps one that your heart and mind will appreciate in the long term.
The writing feels less like reading a traditional self-help text and more like sitting in a mentoring conversation that invites introspection without pressure. Eventually, it calls to mind the question: Will you choose short term comfort for longer term discomfort or short term discomfort for longer term growth. For anyone who want to make their life count for the long term, the ‘discomforts’ these books advocate will be critical milestones on your journey.
Gurmeet Dhanowa –
Having known Samir for thirty‑five years, and worked closely with him for a significant part of that time, I’ve had the privilege of watching these principles lived out in his everyday life. For me “More was caught than taught”. It is a joy to see them now gathered into these two books. Each chapter is simple to read yet prompts deep reflection and honest questions about your own life. A must‑read if you want your life to truly count.
Sumit Bhosale –
Staying There is a crisp book. I like the honest confession in the ‘why I wrote this book’. These Nuggets are precious ones to live by- a reflection of what we all do or don’t do most of our lives. We still keep influencing the world around us. The nuggets that resonate with me were handling finances, staying relational and honouring parents. I liked a practical tip in managing anger bursts…. and the author reiterating: ‘Make your expectations known while knowing that they may not be met in others always, allowing them the necessary freedom and a breathing hole through these relationships.’
It calls us all to introspect at every important milestone using these nuggets as mirrors of our unclothed reflections.
So, accolades to Mr. Samir for stepping up a few notches above his previous book, Getting There.
Benny Thomas –
These books teach us first to love ourselves in a wholesome manner and the positive consequence is we can inspire those around us to love themselves
They have the potential to not just change individuals that we impact but the potential to change societies and cultures.
It is in the practice of its lessons the aroma of change radiates.
Samir’s personal and other illustrations tells the reader the folly of going for only knowledge. But the skill is the opportunity to practice these principles so that they become the reader’s only nature.
Wow a self-awareness seekers delight. The legacy they leave is rich.
The best way forward in life is not just getting but “Staying there”