I’m so glad we’re doing this together! A little community of accountability. I started to read this book six years ago, and the chapters that I read truly revolutionized my life. But, for some reason, I never got around to finishing it (which is the opposite of being a highly effective person!).

Perhaps I should pose some questions to make this a bona fide book club?

Let me see:

1. Which ideas from the chapter resonated with you?
2. Did you disagree with anything?
3. How will your life be different now that you’ve read this chapter? In other words, what are you specific action steps that you generated from reading this chapter?

One of my big, hairy, audacious goals in life is to start a public, Montessori charter school in Austin, TX. For those of you who aren’t too familiar with charter schools, the short story is that they are free, public schools that receive per/pupil funding just like schools in districts but they are not part of the school district. They do not have to use the same curriculum, the same hiring and firing procedures, the same technology, etc. They are still held accountable by the same state assessments that the children take each year, but beyond those required tests, they are pretty much free to innovate.

There’s a lot of