by Thatcher Wine If you find yourself overloaded with to-do lists and and multitasking more often than not, and feeling stressed and unproductive as a result, you are not alone. This book teaches us to return to monotasking (as opposed to multitasking), starting with basic daily activities. By monotasking these twelve activities, we will become… Continue reading Reading Journal: The Twelve Monotasks
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Reading Journal: A Cosmic Kind of Love
by Samantha Young About this book When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find in the files are digital videos from Darcy's ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it's wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and… Continue reading Reading Journal: A Cosmic Kind of Love
Reading Journal: How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie This book is filled with important life lessons about getting along with people and is a must-read for everyone. The book teaches you fundamental techniques for handling people, how to make people like you, how to win people to your way of thinking, and how to change people without giving offense or… Continue reading Reading Journal: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Reading Journal: Beach Read
by Emily Henry About this book January Andrews, a romance writer with writer's block, is trying to come to grips with the fact that her late father had an affair and now her perception of romance and happily ever afters is now broken. She moves into the beach house left behind by her father to… Continue reading Reading Journal: Beach Read
Reading Journal: Book Lovers
by Emily Henry About this book Nora Stephens is a literary agent who works in the city. She agrees to take a break and go for a month-long vacation to a small town with her sister Libby. There she meets Charlie Lastra, an editor whom she knows from the city and has not had great… Continue reading Reading Journal: Book Lovers
Reading Journal: Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell Many years after the introduction of gender equality, we still find that women are held back in the pursuit of their ambitions, usually hindered by gender stereotypes and expectations perpetuated since childhood. This book is written for women who want to pursue their goals and for men who want… Continue reading Reading Journal: Lean In
Reading Journal: Eat that Frog!
21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time by Brian Tracy When we are overwhelmed with too many things to do and too little time, we start to procrastinate and this starts the spiral into piling up backlog and feeling even more overwhelmed. How do we break this cycle? "If… Continue reading Reading Journal: Eat that Frog!
Reading Journal: Made to Stick
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath If you are looking to improve your writing, I highly recommend this book. What makes some ideas stick in your mind and some so easily forgotten? Are ideas born interesting or made interesting? It's easy to come across guides on the delivery of an idea - presentation skills, body… Continue reading Reading Journal: Made to Stick