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Category Archives: Great Books
“Father Forgets”
“Father Forgets” is a short story by W. Livingston Larned. I found out about it because Dale Carnegie included in How to Win Friends and Influence People. It illustrates the importance of compassion, perspective, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness. I love … Continue reading
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Tagged "Father Forgets", compassion, Dale Carnegie, empathy, forgiveness, How to Win Friends and Influence People, perspective, understanding, W. Livingston Larned
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Always Do Your Best
The final agreement Don Miguel Ruiz covers in The Four Agreements is “Always Do Your Best”. Like the other agreements, this is one I try to follow even though I don’t always succeed, but an occasional reminder helps get me … Continue reading
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5 Books That Will Help You Succeed This Year
Happy New Year! I hope you all had fun and safe celebrations last night. Since we’ve officially enter 2019 now, I thought I would dedicate my first post of the year to a subject I’ve talked about quite a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, 2019, books, Charles Duhigg, communication, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eckhart Tolle, freedom, Gary Chapman, habits, inner peace, love, mindfulness, mindset, New Year's resolutions, personal freedom, Presence, Stephen Covey, The 5 Love Languages, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Four Agreements, The Power of Habit, The Power of Now, time management
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Reflections: My Favorite Things from 2018
It’s safe to say that 2018 was the best year of my life. So many amazing and wonderful things happened from beginning to end. Like every year, there were also challenges, but I was able to handle them much better … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Great Movies, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged 2018, Airplane!, Athens, Atlanta, blog, blueberries, books, Christmas, Classic City Swing 7, communication, day trip, Duolingo, escape room, event planning, family, friends, growing, highlights, How to Win Friends and Influence People, ideas, Interlachen, journey, learning, Life Hacks, organizing events, Palatka, personal growth, reading, Reflections, Reflections: My Favorite Things from 2018, Secret Santa, self-improvement, self-improvement work, sharing ideas, Spanish, St. Augustine, swing dancing, World Juggling Day, writer
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And Action!
I’ve had a lot of personal growth this year, probably more than any other year of my life. This isn’t the first year that I wanted to make progress or tried to do it, but it has been by far … Continue reading
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Tagged action, And Action!, Bible, Book of James, How to Win Friends and Influence People, knowledge, progress, self-improvement, work in progress
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Becoming Free, One Book at a Time
I’ve read a lot this year. As I write this, I’ve read twenty six books (twenty seven if you count my annual reread of How to Win Friends and Influence People) and, by the time the year ends, I’ll have … Continue reading
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Mental Toughness
I’ve always been interested in people who choose to do things in a more difficult, uncomfortable, or even painful way. The people who work all day in blazing heat or freezing cold, push through immense pain to get where they … Continue reading
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Tagged cold exposure training, David Goggins, Joe Rogan, mental toughness, Wim Hof
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s is coming up soon and with it come New Year’s resolutions. Many people make them but most fail to follow them for more than a month or two at most. I think I have some ideas as to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Rules for Life, habits, How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions, New Year's, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's resolutions, Presence, Rescripting, self-care, self-improvement, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Four Agreements, The Power of Habit, The Power of Now, thinking
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The Power of Loving-Kindness
Tim Ferriss has a big book called Tools of Titans in which he interviews over 100 extremely successful people to learn the things that work for them. This excerpt was written by Chade-Meng Tan, an expert in mindfulness, among many … Continue reading
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Tagged Chade-Meng Tan, loving-kindness, mindfulness, The Power of Loving-Kindness, Tim Ferriss
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Don’t Make Assumptions
Time to revisit The Four Agreements. This time, we’re looking at the third agreement: “Don’t Make Assumptions”. Don Miguel Ruiz talks about how easy it is to make assumptions and how real they appear to be, even when they’re completely … Continue reading
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