For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: (Proverbs 23:7) Book Review Title: Mindset Author: Carol S. Dweck, Ph. D Publisher: Random House, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0345472328 The main idea of this book as expounded by the author is that our minds and beliefs determine in no small measure what we eventually achieve or become…
Image source: Kokorevam ©Instagram I grabbed the above shot from Instagram courtesy of Kokorevam. (Look carefully, and you will see the © source in the graphic above) If a picture (non-photoshopped) is worth millions of words, then an (appropriate) equation could be worth millions of pictures (or nearly so). The math in this graphic succintly…
Hi every one. This is my first blog post for the year 2017. How far did you go with your Goodreads resolution for last year? For me, I scored 76%. That is 38 out of 50 books I projected to read. Actually I did more than this. I really can’t list all the titles covered…
Book Review Title: Surviving Information Overload Author: ©Kevin A Miller Publisher: Zondervan, 2004 Written well before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the other plethora of the web’s social networks, the issues highly and effectively addressed by Dr Kevin A. Miller are as relevant today as when the book was first published. Fortunate…
Book Title: NO! How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life Author: Jana Kemp Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association Year of Publication: 2005 “” I do not know where this song originated, but I can remember singing, rhyming or hearing it sang by kids in lower classes. That was over 40 years ago. Even my kids…
Title: Grit – The Power of Passion & Perseverance Author: ©2016 Angela Duckworth Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Amazon Kindle e-book ) Attaining success and realizing lofty life and society transforming goals are not exclusively reserved for those we may consider naturally gifted trail-blazers. In her book, Professor Angela Duckworth explained that through the dint of endurance and…
The ride from home was uneventful. Or almost. This afternoon there was a light-shower. Now the “bombed-out roads” are flooded. The dry season is barely over, the heavy rains are still several weeks or months away. Just a light shower and the roads are already flooded. That means we are in for a very bad…
Book Title: THE DISCIPLINE MANIFESTO Conquering Procrastination and Harnessing Willpower in 5 Steps. Julio Lara ©2015 Julio Lara. All rights reserved I was fortunate to get this free on Amazon Kindle First some months back. Vital and practical points are succintly set forth and the reader can quickly relate to them and also put them…