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Book Recommendation: Little Bee
A Little Free Library popped up in our neighborhood, and Henry and I were very excited about stopping by. We finally did one day after school, and we each got a book. I grabbed Little Bee by Chris Cleave.Right before bed on Saturday night, I started reading the first chapter.And then I teared up. I cried because I couldn’t remember the last time I held a fiction book in my hand to read it for fun. Seriously.I remember when Tate was born (almost two years ago now!) and I read lots and lots of fiction books in those early days of middle-of-the-night breastfeeding (on my phone, using… Read More -
Self-Help Daily Digest
I love receiving daily updates from Brian Johnson. He reads self-help books and synthesizes them into brief summaries and videos. A lot of the concepts he covers are things that I grappled with in my twenties–things that now enable me to set ambitious goals and break them down into smaller next steps.One of the updates from last week is still something I’m thinking about:——from Brian Johnson——
… Read More“The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can -
Change the Way You See Everything
Yesterday’s post reminded me of a book I bought many, many years ago. Although I’ve cleared out a lot of the books I’ll never read again, I did save several of my self-help books that I never made it through. Change the Way You See Everything through Asset-Based Thinking is one of those books.I think it’s exactly what I need to focus on right now, both in my professional and my personal life.
… Read MoreJust think what could be possible if people focused their attention on:
- Opportunities rather than problems
- Strengths more than weaknesses
- What can be done instead of what can’t
When you decrease your focus on what is
