Have you ever started reading a book and all of the sudden you feel this synthesis and culmination of all you’ve read before and all you’ve experienced melting together into one perfect idea? That it just totally makes so much sense and you’re feeling like you’ve just won the lottery of ideas? Well this is…
Category: Mindset
The Seeker And The Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton
What if you could sit down in a comfy chair next to the fire with your favorite hot cup of something delicious, and directly across from you was someone you’ve longed to have a deep conversation with about life or any other questions you’ve longed to ask? Who would that person be? Oh, and they’d…
The Artist’s Way
All my life, I have been in a constant battle with the two sides of my brain. Who’s going to win out, my left-brain or my right-brain? When I was growing up, I was incredibly right-brained, creative, was in art shows, played the piano, took photography courses, was a photographer, and had my own darkroom. …
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Sitting in the audience at a direct response marketing conference, I was engaged by the speaker’s talk on how you can market using some pretty interesting and what seemed to me like ninja tactics. One of the resources he mentioned that he highly recommended everyone in the audience get a copy of is a book…
A Guide To Rational Living
We had invited a friend over for dinner, and we’re going to make hamburgers. The challenge was we didn’t have any ground meat. I suggested we get some already made. She went to the store, and that was the end of our discussion. Our friend came over, and we were hanging outside because it was…
The Top 6 Books That Helped Change My Life
This was a REALLY hard exercise – to look at all the books I’ve read so far in my 56 years and pick out the top five of all time that truly helped change and shift my life in some amazing directions. The reason I decided to do this because I needed a graduation gift…
A Life At Work
I was a middle child growing up. I remember when I and my older brother and sister were all in high school at the same time. They started having those classes about college and appointments with their counselor about what they wanted to do for their career. I remember watching them anguish over the decision…
How to Own Your Own Mind
One of the things I love is reading books that have been published a long time ago. Especially when the topic has been written about by hundreds of authors recently, and they have been riding their coattails for years. Do you know what I mean? When you listen to personal development, folks like Tony Robbins…
The Fortune Cookie Principle
I love the title of this book – The Fortune Cookie Principle: The 20 keys to a great brand story and why your business needs one. I mean, who doesn’t love fortune cookies and getting that awesome fortune inside. Forget the cookie. (They are quite tasty, though.) Just give me my fortune, please. The author…
A Still, Small Voice…
Reading this book was almost like magic was happening every day. I think that coupled with me being on week 8 of The Artist’s Way (By Julia Cameron) morning pages, it all certainly spurned by right-brain onwards. Interestingly, I only picked this book up after my niece’s insistence, an artist and art teacher. I’ve been…
