Man, I’m on a serious book kick. I love books and always want to read them, but it’s an obsession these days. I won’t surf on the Internet. As soon as I get work done, I’ll go read. Since my eyes have been aching a lot in the last month or so, it’s been a way for me to get off the computer. I’ve discovered some inspirational and high quality books especially the following:
* The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life
* The Holy Man
* The Water Hole – Beautifully illustrated children’s story that has lots of discoveries: ecology, geography, and math.
* The Eleventh Hour – same author as The Water Hole. The whole story is a mystery and every page has a puzzle for solving. The puzzles may or may not contribute to solving the big mystery. It kept me absorbed for hours and I couldn’t let go! It’s funny, reading the story was not interesting at first—so I started doing the puzzles. As I worked through them, I read the story. When I solved the big mystery, I found another puzzle and got busy again.
* The Art of Undressing (my summer fun book — plus I reviewed it for Blogcritics, which made me feel less guilty about reading it — lol)
* All Marketers Are Liars (I try hard to criticize Godin, but it was good)
* Call to Action
* QBQ – read it a while ago, but it still sticks with me.
I love geeky books, but maybe I needed a break from it. I’ve updated my list of books read [pdf file], which has notes on most of the books. Been keeping this list since ’92, but I added some from before then based on what I could remember.
I love talking about books with others. Not a book club where everyone reads one book and talks it to death. Rather, I like to discuss books in general… what we’ve read, what we liked and didn’t like, what we recommend, and so on. Sadly, there aren’t many people in my life to do that with.
Mom is one of the few and I love talking about books with her. She’s my book review editor. The reading she’s done since I started my list makes my reading list look piddly. But of course, I’m the youngest, so she had us kids all out of the house. Maybe it will be a different story when my kids are grown… but I try not to wait around to “till the right time” to make things happen that I enjoy. I just have to do it in moderation while I balance other important things in life.
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Here’s a great book I often recommend – The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live Within Your Limits. It is written from a Christian perspective and is valid in both Christian and secular worlds.
Dr. Swenson’s philosophy on margins:
Overload is not having time to finish the book you’re reading on stress. Margin is having time to read it twice.
Overload is fatigue. Margin is energy.
Overload is red ink. Margin is black ink.
Overload is hurry. Margin is calm.
Overload is anxiety. Margin is security.
Overload is the disease of the 90’s. Margin is the cure.
Okay, so this doctrine is dated, but it is as true in the 21st century as it was in the 90s if not more so.
Obviously, Type-A overachievers are the most subjected to this as witnessed on pages 31-32.
How many people can relate to this?? 🙂
There is also a predecessor – Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives.
Stress: realizing the mistake in parking on the top floor of a downtown parking garage to watch fireworks and forgetting to bring a cooler.
Margins: calmly driving unobstructed out of the garage 3 hours later after escorting the 3 walkers plus the 10-week-old out of the vehicle for the 2nd time to enjoy an appetizer and several glasses of water/Coke/milkshakes across the street at TGIFs. 😉
Here’s a great book I often recommend – The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live Within Your Limits. It is written from a Christian perspective and is valid in both Christian and secular worlds.
Dr. Swenson’s philosophy on margins:
Overload is not having time to finish the book you’re reading on stress. Margin is having time to read it twice.
Overload is fatigue. Margin is energy.
Overload is red ink. Margin is black ink.
Overload is hurry. Margin is calm.
Overload is anxiety. Margin is security.
Overload is the disease of the 90’s. Margin is the cure.
Okay, so this doctrine is dated, but it is as true in the 21st century as it was in the 90s if not more so.
Obviously, Type-A overachievers are the most subjected to this as witnessed on pages 31-32.
How many people can relate to this?? 🙂
There is also a predecessor – Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives.
Stress: realizing the mistake in parking on the top floor of a downtown parking garage to watch fireworks and forgetting to bring a cooler.
Margins: calmly driving unobstructed out of the garage 3 hours later after escorting the 3 walkers plus the 10-week-old out of the vehicle for the 2nd time to enjoy an appetizer and several glasses of water/Coke/milkshakes across the street at TGIFs. 😉
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sorry for the double post, the script was giving an error