I’m not a huge fan of vague, flowery, New Age jargon, so I’ve gone to great effort to keep this book practical and rooted in reality. ~ Tiny Buddha I absolutely loved and heartily recommend that you too devour Lori Deschene’s Tiny Buddha. I loved it precisely because Lori means what she says above. The [...]
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How to create a personal brand that’s so UNFORGETTABLE, it actually MAGNETIZES more business to you. Scott Ginsberg Different people inspire us to do different things. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally. Or else why would we expand our inner circle, widen our network horizons and continuously seek the human connection throughout our lives. In the [...]
A picture. A few words in a book. A flashback. That is all it takes for our memories to be triggered from their dormant existence in the quiet corners of our mind. It can be nearly 30 years later and much may fade away in this life but some memories are pertinacious. No sooner had [...]
Reading “Blink” made me more confident in trusting those instant first impressions. Gladwell put some logic and reason into what I could only describe as instinct. Agree or disagree with him, Gladwell knows how to tell a compelling a story, and it is the stories that grasp his readers, or at the very least, me. I read [...]
I distinctly remember my dad constantly begging us to take a trip to Athens, Greece when we lived in Turkey with my family for 3 years in the 1980s after we had left Iran. For some inexplicable reason, the whole family was against going anywhere else. Perhaps the unexpected move from Iran had left us [...]
How do we reach the critical point in our endeavors where we can tip the scale of success to reach not just mediocre success but one of colossal size? How do some people reach success, wealth, fame of enormous proportions, while others just as likely, just as probable, barely tip that scale? What is the defining distinction [...]
When I was first invited to join the Amazon Vine program, I was sure it’s a scam: Amazon wants to send you free products to keep and enjoy, so long as you promise to review 75% of the items you receive. I contacted Amazon directly and to my surprise, it was no scam. Now, 5 [...]
When I saw Azar Nafisi‘s “Reading Lolita in Tehran” on the shelves in my beloved Maui, Hawaii, I distinctly heard it beckon me. The time has come to read this book. I was in paradise, as anyone who has ever set foot in Hawaii knows well. The warm perfect breeze combined with Mother Nature’s pristine beauty [...]
The Charlotte Symphony at Belk Theater was playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major on October 3rd, 2008. The conductor was the remarkable Andrew Grams and the pianist was the talented Ingrid Fliter. This was not my first symphony. Or my second. My husband’s passion for classical music [...]
It was nearly two years after I had received “On Writing Well” that I started to read it. William Zinsser is not just writing a book on writing well; he is in love with the art of writing and using the English language. This passion comes through clearly in every page and invites the reader [...]
A salute to Rhonda Byrne, the author of “The Secret”, for superbly over-promising and under-delivering on every single page of this trite book. The transformation that I experienced was being awed at the mastery of her powers of influence by connecting dots where no dots exist except for her say-so
“Getting to Yes“ is quite possibly one of the best negotiation books you will ever read. First published in 1981, the authors founded the first Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School and have been successfully teaching their negotiation technique globally. I enrolled in a one-day course at my company. The course teaches the fundamentals of [...]
I am in love with raw foods [affiliate link] and the sweet bouts of energy they give me. This is my second reading by Natalia Rose. I read most of the sections from this book, ”Raw Food Life Force Energy“, which is very similar to the first one, ”The Raw Food Detox Diet“. If you have the first [...]
You are what you eat? I think so. Maybe our hearts save room for forgiveness but our bodies will reflect reality, often too late for reversing poor effects. So with care and discipline: Faites-attention to what you eat! I came across Natalia’s raw food diet by accident months ago, and it was not until I [...]
