Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School John Medina – 2008, Pear Press Finished January, 2014. http://brainrules.net/ http://brainrules.net/dvd (short videos summarizing each chapter/rule) @BrainRulesBooks Chapters have summaries at the end Chapter 1: Exercise – Rule #1 – Exercise Boosts Brain Power “one of the greatest predictors of successful aging […]
Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity Tina Seelig – 2012, HarperOne Finished December, 2013. Author: @tseelig – http://about.me/tinaseelig Introduction “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Hay “Creativity is an endless renewable resource.” “The parts of your brain that are responsible for self-monitoring are literally turned off during creative endeavors.” (118) […]
How to Click with People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and in Life Dr. Rick Kirschner Brief Summary: Use a variety of techniques to “click” with people. Blending is the most comprehensive and powerful of these techniques. I found the first four chapters to be the most helpful. Finished March, 2012 Outline/Summary: Chapter […]
The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer Jonathan McKee Thomas W. McKee I read the first edition in March 2012. A second edition is out now linked above. Brief summary: Empower volunteers to serve in ways they feel serve their needs as well as your needs. The New Breed wants to do it […]
What has got me to take 4 cold showers this week, drop glass on concrete for the heck of it, and enter a place with my son, that I had previously been scared of going before by myself, let alone with my son? The answer, is this wonderful little book, The Flinch by Julien Smith. […]
A few weeks ago I finished listening to Stuart Diamond’s Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World. It had lots of great ideas to help one not only negotiate, but generally do well in the area of human relations. The major ideas were: Define your goal and make it […]
If you are a user of Gmail, you’ve probably learned the value of not deleting your email. The main benefit is being able to search through all your emails later. You can take this archiving productivity even further. I send myself lots of things that I’d like to be able to pull up later for […]
I love Gmail and swear by it to organize my life. One of the keys to using Gmail effectively is the filters you can set up to handle incoming mail that you either don’t need to read (but might want to search for). I have well over 100 filters set up to automatically archive certain […]
I love spending time with my 3 year old son, Carter, but sometimes I just need to get some things done when he is around. Here are a few tips I’ve come up with to get some things done when I have an antsy preschooler with me. I hope this doesn’t seem too manipulative to […]