Books

What Motivates You?

Check out Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly! It’s a well written, entertaining book about a new theory of motivation based largely on autonomy. It’s the kind of book that will truly changed how you think.

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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness

I bet you imagine that you’re an island and uninfluenced by other or external circumstances. I’d like to think that too, but this book and my personal experiences have convinced me otherwise. It’s full of stories that illustrate how minor changes dramatically influenced people’s behavior. See the video for one very memorable example.

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A Few Things You Ought to Know About… Books

That I love books is no shocking revelation for anyone who’s been a regular visitor here… I write about books a lot, and I’ve even set a reading goal for the end of the year. Here are some great things I’ve found online about books!

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Escape from Cubicle Nation

While I wasn’t quite prepared to talk about Cultivated Living then, the workshop was the push I needed to start talking about it. There’s plenty more that I learned from reading Escape from Cubicle Nation and attending the workshop, but this has made a huge difference.

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My Mother’s Living a Beautiful Life

For my mother, the advice extolled in Living a Beautiful Life, by Alexandra Stoddard, was virtually a way of life. Anything worth doing was worth doing well and beautifully. Living a Beautiful Life is different than my standard read, but I have to admit that my mother was right about it…

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Finding Flow

Finding Flow is the kind of non-fiction I love to read – informative and ACTIONABLE! It’s easy to make real changes in your life based on the overarching idea of increasing the number of flow experiences by increasing the amount of active v. passive leisure activities you pursue

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