A chance meeting with a new friend led me to this book – Put Your Ass Where Your HEART Wants to Be, by Steven Pressfield. He also wrote a classic for creatives – The War of Art. A different take on The Art of War by Sun Zhu. While reading this book, it was like…
Think & Grow Rich
This book is a classic for ALL entrepreneurs. If you are an entrepreneur, this is a MUST read. This opened my eyes a lot when I started my business. I needed inspiration and a kick in the butt to get started. I was so glad my mentor recommended it to me. It starts with the…
Wishes Fulfilled
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…
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
I have been in a constant battle with the two sides of my brain all my life. Who will win out, my left brain or my right brain? When I was growing up, I was incredibly right-brained and creative, was in art shows, played the piano, took photography courses, was a photographer, and had my…
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 is getting a copy of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by…
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. I decided to do this because I needed a graduation gift for my…
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 their anguish over the decision…
How to Own Your Own Mind
One of the things I love is reading books that were 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 or…
