I love listening to audiobooks while I’m driving. It is something I have been doing for decades—yep, I started listening to audiobooks when they were on CD—and since I use that time in the car to learn new things, I have been able to consume hundreds of books over the...
If you have read through some of my other Book Brew posts you know that focus and productivity are high on my list of things I find interesting, so it is no surprise that I selected these quotes for this Quote Vault installment.
Do we ever really listen anymore? Truly, deeply, connected listening? Not listening while doomscrolling, not while the TV is on or music is playing, not while multitasking, but being totally and fully present for the person you are communicating with? We seem to have lost...
Continuing deeper into the vault, I look through the themes of happiness and purpose.
I feel a bit behind the times with this, but the information is still valuable to me, even if it is decades old. I recently read about Covey’s concept of a Time Management Matrix, in which tasks/goals are placed into four quadrants based on importance and urgency (see...
As we continue this Quote Vault series, we explore the theme of challenges and growth.
I believe I have already mentioned this, but Brian Tracy’s Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is full of amazing tidbits of advice. One of the things he talks about in Chapter 1o: Supercharge Your Thinking is becoming an inverse paranoid - “A...
Similar to the Word Treasure series I wrote a few weeks ago, in which I shared my list of unknown (to me) words that I come across while reading, I am going to share a short series of quotes that I have kept track of over the years. These are quotes that I have found to be...
I will start by saying that I am well aware that the book Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by Brian Tracy is old. However, it is amazing, and everyone should read it. And I mean, go out and find a copy of it now and read it.
The last Book Brew post discussed beginning with the end in mind and mentioned how we can fall victim to “climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” Another piece of this is falling into what Covey calls the “Activity Trap.” He...
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