“Embrace the importance of now and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions…The cost of inaction is vast. Don’t go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.”Most of us live with the stubborn idea that […]
The Emperor of All Maladies
– Siddhartha Mukherjee
June 14, 2014 By
“History repeats, but science reverberates.” The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines […]
The Woman in the Mirror
– Cynthia M. Bulik
June 13, 2014 By
Wouldn’t it feel great to be free of fixation on your body image and simply feel comfortable in your own skin? Well, it’s time to discover the release of disentangling your body esteem from your self esteem and letting your personality, values and accomplishments come to the fore. In The Woman in the Mirror Cynthia Bulik shows […]
Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance
– Rosie Molinary
June 12, 2014 By
As a child, you felt comfortable in your skin. Your body was an instrument, an extension of your wholly unique mind and soul. You used it to take you where you were going, to express what you felt, to get things done. The world, for you, was hopeful and certainly not limited by the way you looked. But then, […]
The One Thing
– Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
June 11, 2014 By
“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls– family, health, friends, integrity– are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” Since its April, 2013 publication The ONE Thing has made more than 125 appearances on […]
Crazy Sexy Diet
– Kris Carr
June 10, 2014 By
The New York Times bestseller by Kris Carr, author of the best-selling Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor, takes on the crazy sexy subject of what and how we eat, drink, and think. Infused with Carr’s signature sass, wit and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health, happiness […]
Hungry for Change
June 9, 2014 By
Earlier in the week, as part of my postings about good books for a good life, I wrote about the book on the McDonald’s business which is a great story about a very well constructed business. The BUSINESS, not the junk they produce. Only the business. A reader wrote me saying “Thanks for the MacDonalds recommendation, but […]
Hate Your Job? Here’s help…
June 9, 2014 By
12 Ridiculously Awesome Jobs You Didn’t Even Know Existed! Yes it’s from BuzzFeed… and most jobs probably don’t pay much… But hey, holidays are for dreaming…
Emotional Intelligence
– Daniel Goleman
June 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to monitor one’s […]
Execution
– Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
June 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals?….It’s rare to […]
