Tag / Book Review
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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 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…
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Book Review: Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
How are you feeling? That question starts most of the chapters of this book and is at the very core of what this book is about, which is learning to recognize, express…
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Book Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Wow! That is my one-word summary of this book. I am so motivated right now and I have so many ideas that I want to try after reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. Suzanne talked about…
