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2021 Book Reviews: A Year in Review
In November of 2020 I wrote my first book review for our Forward Fitness newsletter. At that time I mentioned that I was branching a little out of my comfort zone for…
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Book Review: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter was an interesting read. It is a book about extremes and pushing yourself to the extreme. While there were some ideas in the book that I found a…
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Book Review: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
When I looked up a bio on the author of The Willpower Instinct, Kelly McGonigal, this is what I found on the Stanford website, “Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at…
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Book Review: Burnout – The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
As with many of the books I have reviewed this year, I learned about this book when I was listening to the Brenê Brown podcast “Unlocking Us” last summer. After listening to the authors…
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Book Review: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene’ Brown
“The Gifts of Imperfection” is the second book written by Brene’ Brown but it is the book that jump started her career. The book was originally published in 2010 and an updated version was recently…
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Book Review: Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
This month’s book review is of a book that was recommended to me by Coach Cati and instead of reading this one, I listened to the audio version of the book. The first…
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Book Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
I thought it was time to try a different type of book for my book reviews. The idea of the book reviews came from the virtual book club that we had last…
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Book Review: Grit by Angela Duckworth
I need to start out by saying that I really liked this book and honestly, I wasn’t sure that I was going to. In the first few chapters I kept finding myself…
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Book Review: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
This is one of those books that just makes sense. Even though the book was written over ten years ago, I would argue that all of the premises in the book hold…
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Book Review: Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Carol Dweck is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and she has been researching the concept of the fixed mindset versus the growth mindset for over 30 years. On the surface the…
