Why I Love The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

Last week I wrote about mindfulness and how we can use it to stay focused on what is actually happening, without inserting our past-based judgments and interpretations into our experiences as we do when we are on automatic pilot. Mindfulness empowers us to make more appropriate and productive choices because we are reacting to what

6 Mar, 2014
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My Recommendation for a Great Book about the Future

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the most important books I’ve read in years. I was in my 30s when I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave, and they were epiphanies for me. Toffler discussed the physical, psychological, and social

20 Feb, 2014
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An Inspiring Book I Just Read: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

A new business colleague read an advance copy of my new book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, and sent me a sweet note along with a copy of his favorite book, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which he said he thought I would like. I was intrigued and then found the

30 Jan, 2014
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Aha Moments

I’m reading the new Malcolm Gladwell book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, and I’m getting a lot out of it,with two points really hitting home. My first “Aha” came from Gladwell’s description of an extremely successful Hollywood mogul and the values and experiences that formed the character traits

12 Dec, 2013
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Recommending a Book That I Love

Illusions, written by Richard Bach and first published in 1970s after his enormously popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is one of my all-time favorite books. I believe its wisdom contains answers to all of life’s problems. In the book, Richard – Bach’s alter-ego protagonist — is a burnt-out writer who chooses to live as

5 Sep, 2013
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