By Marc Shaffer "Die With Zero" by Bill Perkins offers a refreshing counterpoint to traditional personal finance advice. Rather than focusing on maximum wealth accumulation, Perkins presents a philosophy centered on using money as a tool to create meaningful life...
"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read." — Charlie "Tremendous" Jones Books are more than just pages bound together—they're gateways to new perspectives, skills, and possibilities. Each book on...
By Brenda Carrico It's said that the average person has around 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, and research suggests that a significant portion of those thoughts—up to 80%—can be negative. That means we could potentially have tens of thousands of negative thoughts...
By Marc Shaffer Embarking on a journey of self-improvement and goal setting can often feel like navigating a maze without a map. However, with the guidance of Jon Acuff's insightful book, "All It Takes is a Goal," readers are equipped with a compass to steer through...
By Marc Shaffer
Connections. This book is about connections and their immense value. I tend to think my life is also about connections, which may be why I am so drawn to “Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork,” by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy.
The initial opening of the book is a story about Michael Jordon, who I grew up idolizing as a child as the best basketball player that ever lived. You see, although he was arguably the greatest player, he couldn’t win a championship for his first six years in the NBA.
By Jessica Searcy Kmetty
Sometimes we stumble across a book and it turns out to be really good! I’m thankful that I saw a friend was reading The Energy Bus from a post on Facebook and since I love reading, I wanted to check it out.
The Energy Bus is about a manager who became complacent in his complaining and walking aimlessly through life with a bad attitude. His behavior was sabotaging his success in work, life and his marriage and relationship with his kids. His car breaks down one day and needs to be serviced and he finds himself on public transportation with an enthusiastic group of strangers. It’s a how-to guide for fueling your life, work and organization with positive energy.
By Alex Graham
I received Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck as a gift from my dad a few months after I had graduated college and moved away from home to Portland, Oregon.
This isn’t your classic “self-help” type of book, but a book where Dweck shares her research on the power of our mindset and the physiology/science behind it.
By Marc C. Shaffer
Promptings is a book by Kody Bateman, the founder of a company called SendOutCards. The book’s main premise is to act on impulses as a way to avoid regrets and to create opportunities. So many people have promptings but seldom follow up on them. Some examples of these promptings may be: telling someone you love them, visiting a relative that is sick in the hospital, sending a personal note of gratitude, taking a break, slowing down enough to be thankful. The author founded SendOutCards as a way for many to act on their promptings by making it easy to send greetings cards and gifts to family and friends, building relationships and forging bonds.
By Jessica Searcy Kmetty
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a pretty quick read that is packed with great ideas. It’s all about being intentional and not allowing things you may do by default to hijack your productive time.
The authors provide abundant details, tips and tricks to help you pick and choose what strategies you might utilize in your own life. It also includes a multitude of good ideas we should all probably be doing a better job of: exercise, drink water, watch less TV, get good sleep, etc.
By Brenda Carrico
What does spiritual well-being mean to you? According to an article from HRZone, “Spiritual well-being means the ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through a person’s connectedness with self, others art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than oneself.”
If you are already attending services, meditating, spending time in nature or participating in an activity that gives you a sense of peace, well-being and purpose, then you likely understand the importance of incorporating these things into your daily living.