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Updated: 07/22/2025 The website/app, Goodreads, setup a reading challenge at the beginning of each year, since 2016. If you are unfamiliar with Goodreads, it is a social website centered around books and reading. The idea is that you can upload your personal library of book titles and arrange lists by the books you’ve read, the books Continue reading

Body, Mind, Spirit

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February 17, 2018

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, by Scott Adams “Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.” As many of you know, and if you don’t, Scott Adams is the creator of the comic strip, Continue reading

Mind

Books, Failure, Goals, Goodreads, Habit, Personal Development, Quotes, Routines & Rituals, Scott Adams, Willpower, Writers
February 9, 2018

Manvotionals

Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice On Living the 7 Manly Virtues, by Brett McKay “So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen Continue reading

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January 27, 2018

Daring Greatly

Photo Credit: TED.com “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” The title, Daring Greatly, is from Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech, “Citizen in a Republic.” Considering the focus of this book is on the courage to live vulnerably, the title’s source is hugely appropriate. “It Continue reading

Mind, Spirit

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January 12, 2018

Tools of Titans

“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress-stress this is healthful and the stimulus for growth.” ~Tim Ferriss A year ago Christmas, my wife surprised me with the book, Tools of Titans, by Continue reading

Body, Mind

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February 15, 2017

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt poses on a 1903 trip to Yosemite with naturalist John Muir. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to Continue reading

Mind

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December 7, 2016

As A Man Thinketh ~James Allen | Book Review

A century-old book that still cuts to the core of discipline and responsibility. As a Man Thinketh reminds us that thought precedes action, and character precedes circumstance. The mind is a forge, not a mirror — what we allow to take root there will shape every part of life. Continue reading

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November 8, 2016

The Snow Leopard ~Peter Matthiessen | Book Review

The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen Originally published: 1978 Genres: Travel literature, Natural history Awards: National Book Award for Contemporary Thought, National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback) Description: In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 Continue reading

Mind

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