Revisiting Purpose
Achieving a meaningful purpose produces joy.

Commencing
Now that’s a perspective that allows me to charge into the breach, and face the unknown with courage!

The Hierarchy of Personas
Observing, The Self keeps perspective.

From Approval to Acceptance
Is this process the meaning of life? Well, that's clearly up to you. Get it? You decide.

I Choose
I choose what they mean. If they mean anything at all.

Be a man
Talk very little, but be decisive. Only raise your voice to be heard. Be fiercely loyal.

Mr Rogers Was an Assassin
Today, in this midst of this chaos, I'm going to look for the helpers because they are there.

How to motivate kids
Tell your children who they are.

We Write Ourselves
We literally write ourselves. With reflection, we create our identities. Or, our habits do. It’s all in the stories we tell ourselves…

Why must we ROCK
Identity - Perspective - Purpose

Thanks for making it my best year of writing ever!

Books I Have Read And Enjoyed

Read a book, read on a device, or listen. Whatever. I complete a lot more books I enjoy when I consume them in the format that is most comfortable for that book. Lately my favorite is Audible because it’s connected to kindle for reference so I can use BOTH. With Audible I can hear a native speaker saying words I don’t know, but every book is different. Sometimes I really need the charts and tables provided by print. I linked to my favorite format for the below books. I hope you enjoy reading them too.

2019:

• The Bhagavad Gita Translated By Eknath Easwaran


• Who's Pulling Your Strings By Harriet B. Braiker


• 12 Rules: An Antidote to Chaos By Jordan Peterson


• The Upanishads Translated By Eknath Easwaran


• Atomic Habits By James Clear


• The Dosadi Experiment By Frank Herbert


• Everything Is Fucked By Mark Manson


• Making Work Visible By Dominica Degrandis

2018:

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius


• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck By Mark Manson


• A Higher Loyalty By James Comey


• Get Some Headspace By Andy Puddicombe


• Margin


• Dune By Frank Herbert


• How To Fight a Hydra by Josh Kaufman


• Emotional Intelligence 2.0

2017:

• Getting Things Done By David Allen


• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco


• Dune Messiah By Frank Herbert


• Manage Your Day-To-Day


• Enough by Patrick Rohne


• The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo


• Chapter House Dune By Frank Herbert


• God Emperor of Dune By Frank Herbert


• Heretics of Dune By Frank Herbert

Older:

• Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace


• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace


• Essentialism By Greg McKeown


• Making It All Work By David Allen


• Freakonomics By Stephen J Levitt and Stephen J Dubner


• The Art of Possibilities


• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo


• The Girl Who Played With Fire


• Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson


• The Real Frank Zappa Book


• No Easy Day by Mark Owen


• A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin


• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin


• Ready For Anything - By David Allen


• The Art Of Possibility - By Rosamund Stone Zander And Benjamin Zander


• The Hero With Thousand Faces By Joseph Campbell


• Always Talk To Strangers By David Wygant


• Love Signals By David Givens


• Mindfulness In Plain English By Gunaratana


• Joseph Campbell - The Power Of Myth With Bill Moyers


• Man And His Symbols By Carl Jung


• The Essential Jung By Anthony Storr

Currently Reading:

• The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish


• In Sheeps Clothing by George K. Simon