There was a lot of interest in this book from my Nonfiction November post about books on habits and productivity, and since I’m finding this book quite useful, I thought I’d share a little more about it. Brewer is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies habit formation and mindfulness. His website says he is “passionate…
I loved everything about this book. You’ve probably heard of Jenny Lawson by now, but if you haven’t, she writes a blog as The Blogess and a couple of years ago published her first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. Lawson’s writing is really unique; it’s humor combined with memoir, but that description doesn’t really…
Since I haven’t finished a book lately, I thought I’d go back to my New Years resolution on stress management. We’re a third of the way into 2012 so it’s a good time for a check-up. How am I doing? I was taking a lot of my work-stress home with me, and I’ve made a…
This is a rare non-book-related post, but I wanted to write about New Years’ Resolutions. I had no time to think about resolutions in December but the “quiet” of January (meaning cold weather) has given me time to reflect and establish some goals for myself. Last October, I was thrown into a new position at…
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