I’m reading Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher. It’s about getting use all your interests, passions and hobbies and is way more helpful than I anticipated. She calls people who are interested in lots of things “scanners”, separates scanners into cyclical and sequential scanners, and separates those into subtypes.
I love her examples of talking to [...]
I’m reading It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now by Barbara Sher which is just the thing if you are having a mid-life crisis (or, if you are advanced like me, if you are having a 1/3 life crisis.)
She says to ask yourself: “What would be the best thing for me?”
My plans for [...]
In my recent quest to learn everything I can and finally be totally perfect and have a wonderful life! I’m reading: First Impressions: What you don’t know about how others see you by Ann Demarais and Valerie White.
It’s very informative and I can see many blunders in the people around me, but the authors said [...]
My food resolution this year is simple: eat food. What else would I eat, you ask? Well, according to Michael Pollan in his book In Defense of Food, there is now a lot of edible non-food available in the grocery store.
He writes about the history of food in America and how the idea of what [...]
Last week I went for some bookstore therapy with a gift card in my wallet. I got some great books including “Finding Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chik-SENT-me-high-ee.) I find it to be a very encouraging book and it’s motivated me to get off my butookus and get some exercise the last few days. ChiksSENTmehighee also reassured me this morning [...]
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