In our house, we have two camps:
(1) You can read more than one book at a time
(2) You can ONLY read one book at a time.
I’m in camp one. My kids are with me. Which is how this week five books were finished (not read cover to cover but finished)
“The Block Party” by Jamie Day
In recent years on roadtrips my husband and I have started listening to books together. A bit Desperate Housewives with a murderous twist. I’m glad I listened to the end 🙂
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“Goodbye Things” by Fumio Sasaki
❤️ There is a sense of wonder about the things that we truly value.
🧠 There are limits to the capacity of your brain, your energy & your time.
❓How can you remove noise from your life?
‼️ Be quick to admit mistakes; they help you grow.
🤔 The things we really need will always find their way back to us.
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“Effortless” by Greg McKeown
I read this book in 2021 and was still in a bit of a tired COVID fog. I was inspired to try it again & appreciate how when you read a book multiple times, you can find new things in the same content or story.
😊 How can you make something that may not naturally be “fun” more “fun” to shift your mindset about doing it?
💤 Sleep matters. (Haven’t read a book yet that says to sleep less …)
❤️ When we are fully present with another person, we see them more clearly. And we help them see themselves more clearly as well
📕 Absorbing yourself fully in a book changes who you are, just as if you had lived the experience yourself.
🤔 Being good at what nobody is doing is better than being great at what everyone is doing. But being an expert in something nobody is doing is exponentially more valuable.
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“Good Girl, Bad Blood” by Holly Jackson
The sequel to a book I read earlier this summer. It’s fun when four of the five us in my family reading the same book or series. Another fun book with twists or turns. While I don’t subscribe to you have to read every book to the end, this one was worth it 🙂
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“Now and Not Yet” by Ruth Chou Simons
🤯 The most life-transforming practices are ones that take time. They change your mind before they change your course.
🌸 You don’t have to be blooming to be growing.
‼️ Passion alone cannot produce what time and intention will.
🤔 You can’t become experienced without actual experience, or wise without the testing of knowledge over time, or consistent without opportunities to stay on course, again and again.
✔️ Practice is both promising and prescriptive for anyone longing to become good at something.
❓Instability offers opportunity.
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