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Beyond Busyness
How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Peggy Sullivan
2025 Finalist
224 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
With busy work schedules and the fast-paced nature of modern life, people barely have enough time for themselves. This has led to a significant rise in anxiety and stress levels among the global populace. Peggy Sullivan is a keynote speaker, trainer, and thought leader with a background of working with multiple Fortune 500 companies. It took a broken marriage, a near-fatal heart attack, and car crashes for her to realize that "busyness" defined her life. In Beyond Busyness, Peggy reveals the detrimental effects of busyness addiction on people's lives. She provides practical tools and strategies to help readers overcome busyness and discover their path to a more fulfilling and rewarding life. Prioritize your core values, foster a growth mindset, be authentic, set boundaries, and cultivate accountability and reflection.
With an increasing number of career-driven professionals becoming prone to burnout and mental exhaustion, Beyond Busyness offers a way toward a life of meaning and purpose that aligns with one's values. In this book, Peggy Sullivan introduces the Busy-Busting Process, an actionable three-step model that focuses on guiding readers toward the "sweet spot" of peak performance, wellness, and happiness. You will learn to eliminate low-value activities, activate the power of happiness, and align your values with actions to pursue the life you were always meant to have. Through personal anecdotes and real-life stories, the author demonstrates the practical applications of her framework. This is one of the most accessible, pragmatic, and motivational self-help guides I've read in recent years. If you think your life is too hectic or you're feeling overwhelmed with work, this book is for you.
With busy work schedules and the fast-paced nature of modern life, people barely have enough time for themselves. This has led to a significant rise in anxiety and stress levels among the global populace. Peggy Sullivan is a keynote speaker, trainer, and thought leader with a background of working with multiple Fortune 500 companies. It took a broken marriage, a near-fatal heart attack, and car crashes for her to realize that "busyness" defined her life. In Beyond Busyness, Peggy reveals the detrimental effects of busyness addiction on people's lives. She provides practical tools and strategies to help readers overcome busyness and discover their path to a more fulfilling and rewarding life. Prioritize your core values, foster a growth mindset, be authentic, set boundaries, and cultivate accountability and reflection.
With an increasing number of career-driven professionals becoming prone to burnout and mental exhaustion, Beyond Busyness offers a way toward a life of meaning and purpose that aligns with one's values. In this book, Peggy Sullivan introduces the Busy-Busting Process, an actionable three-step model that focuses on guiding readers toward the "sweet spot" of peak performance, wellness, and happiness. You will learn to eliminate low-value activities, activate the power of happiness, and align your values with actions to pursue the life you were always meant to have. Through personal anecdotes and real-life stories, the author demonstrates the practical applications of her framework. This is one of the most accessible, pragmatic, and motivational self-help guides I've read in recent years. If you think your life is too hectic or you're feeling overwhelmed with work, this book is for you.
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The Reset Mindset
Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
Penny Zenker
2025 Honorable Mention
192 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Zahid Sheikh for Readers' Favorite
The Reset Mindset by Penny Zenker is a complete tool for anyone who would like to make changes in their life, are unhappy with where they are, or want to be more effective in achieving their goals. The book explores realistic paths for professional and personal growth, emphasizing the necessity of reviewing and rearranging one's life in light of the world's perpetual change. Readers are encouraged to adopt the ideas of using the mind for handling hardships, reducing stress, and making better decisions with the author's considerate examples and uncomplicated methods. The objective of the book is to help people find meaning in many aspects of their lives by guiding them through the process of reinvention and offering a path toward purpose and intention.
I found Penny Zenker’s writing style both reader-friendly and filled with profound information based on her extensive knowledge of personal transformation and change. This level of writing makes the book not only a theoretical manual on how to bring change but also a practical tool for initiating transformations. A strength of this book is her clear and comprehensive instruction on difficult theories and her focus on the application of these theories. It includes helpful and inspiring anecdotes that elucidate her points and give people something to look forward to. Zenker’s approach is practical, which enables readers to apply the strategies described by her to their everyday lives. I highly recommend The Reset Mindset for anyone wanting to improve their lives or careers as it offers the perfect blend of best practices and inspiration.
The Reset Mindset by Penny Zenker is a complete tool for anyone who would like to make changes in their life, are unhappy with where they are, or want to be more effective in achieving their goals. The book explores realistic paths for professional and personal growth, emphasizing the necessity of reviewing and rearranging one's life in light of the world's perpetual change. Readers are encouraged to adopt the ideas of using the mind for handling hardships, reducing stress, and making better decisions with the author's considerate examples and uncomplicated methods. The objective of the book is to help people find meaning in many aspects of their lives by guiding them through the process of reinvention and offering a path toward purpose and intention.
I found Penny Zenker’s writing style both reader-friendly and filled with profound information based on her extensive knowledge of personal transformation and change. This level of writing makes the book not only a theoretical manual on how to bring change but also a practical tool for initiating transformations. A strength of this book is her clear and comprehensive instruction on difficult theories and her focus on the application of these theories. It includes helpful and inspiring anecdotes that elucidate her points and give people something to look forward to. Zenker’s approach is practical, which enables readers to apply the strategies described by her to their everyday lives. I highly recommend The Reset Mindset for anyone wanting to improve their lives or careers as it offers the perfect blend of best practices and inspiration.
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Cultivating Audacity
Dismantle Doubt and Let Yourself Win
Anne Marie Anderson
2025 Bronze Medal
225 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
Procrastination and self-doubt are the twin threats that hinder us from following our dreams and accomplishing our goals. Free yourself from the shackles of fear, doubts, and societal expectations and make bold choices to enact your vision and enrich your life with Cultivating Audacity. Anne Marie Anderson is an Emmy award-winning broadcaster and seasoned keynote speaker. In this book, the author encourages readers to be fearless and take "worth it" risks that align with their vision for the future. You will learn about the components of audacity, envisioning your future, the freedom funnel, embracing your fears, redefining your fears and failures, the four big barriers, the difference between urgent and important tasks, time management, crafting a new money story, managing your inner critic, planning your audacious move, and much more.
Cultivating Audacity will guide you as you make bold moves to fulfill your dreams and claim your vision for the future. Through personal anecdotes, insights, and observations, Anne Marie Anderson presents a roadmap for success and fulfillment that builds on the foundation of being bold and fearless. The stories help the reader relate to the topics discussed in the chapters. Whether you're a corporate executive, an aspiring business owner, or someone trying to break into the artistic world, this book will help you tap into your strengths and bolster your instinctive drive for growth and success. Anderson's engaging and accessible writing style ensures that the book appeals to a broad and diverse audience. I found it informative as well as motivational. In conclusion, it's an empowering book to transform your life!
Procrastination and self-doubt are the twin threats that hinder us from following our dreams and accomplishing our goals. Free yourself from the shackles of fear, doubts, and societal expectations and make bold choices to enact your vision and enrich your life with Cultivating Audacity. Anne Marie Anderson is an Emmy award-winning broadcaster and seasoned keynote speaker. In this book, the author encourages readers to be fearless and take "worth it" risks that align with their vision for the future. You will learn about the components of audacity, envisioning your future, the freedom funnel, embracing your fears, redefining your fears and failures, the four big barriers, the difference between urgent and important tasks, time management, crafting a new money story, managing your inner critic, planning your audacious move, and much more.
Cultivating Audacity will guide you as you make bold moves to fulfill your dreams and claim your vision for the future. Through personal anecdotes, insights, and observations, Anne Marie Anderson presents a roadmap for success and fulfillment that builds on the foundation of being bold and fearless. The stories help the reader relate to the topics discussed in the chapters. Whether you're a corporate executive, an aspiring business owner, or someone trying to break into the artistic world, this book will help you tap into your strengths and bolster your instinctive drive for growth and success. Anderson's engaging and accessible writing style ensures that the book appeals to a broad and diverse audience. I found it informative as well as motivational. In conclusion, it's an empowering book to transform your life!
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The Remembering
A Journey Back to Self
Peter Kennedy
2025 Silver Medal
Kindle Edition
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self by Peter Kennedy is a raw, introspective memoir-meets-guide that explores the spiritual and emotional transformation of a man disillusioned by the trappings of corporate success. Kennedy doesn’t offer a perfect formula for change but instead invites readers into the messy, unpredictable terrain of true growth, marked by synchronicity, surrender, and profound inner shifts. This is a story of peeling away societal masks, rediscovering buried truths, and listening to the quiet voice within. As Kennedy’s journey unfolds, it becomes an invitation to readers to embark on their own path of remembering and of reclaiming authenticity, peace, and connection with something deeper. Gentle, vulnerable, and inspiring, this book speaks to anyone navigating their own awakening.
Author Peter Kennedy has a keen talent for bringing readers into his world with confidence and gentility, and he writes with honesty and spiritual depth from cover to cover of this comforting read. This is bound to be useful to those amid personal reinvention, but it’s also a great starting point for anyone who’s feeling lost and wants to slow down, listen inward, and live with greater intention. Kennedy’s writing is naturally warm, but it also has a quiet confidence that allows readers to feel they’re in safe hands, and his soulful and courageous invitation to look inward was genuinely inspiring to read. I felt there was a lot to take from the journey that reflected on my own life, and this book will certainly resonate well beyond the author’s personal experience for its blend of memoir and universal truth. Overall, The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self is a highly recommended read and a beautiful companion for those seeking meaning beyond external success and certainty. I’m confident it’s a read that will bring peace to many.
The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self by Peter Kennedy is a raw, introspective memoir-meets-guide that explores the spiritual and emotional transformation of a man disillusioned by the trappings of corporate success. Kennedy doesn’t offer a perfect formula for change but instead invites readers into the messy, unpredictable terrain of true growth, marked by synchronicity, surrender, and profound inner shifts. This is a story of peeling away societal masks, rediscovering buried truths, and listening to the quiet voice within. As Kennedy’s journey unfolds, it becomes an invitation to readers to embark on their own path of remembering and of reclaiming authenticity, peace, and connection with something deeper. Gentle, vulnerable, and inspiring, this book speaks to anyone navigating their own awakening.
Author Peter Kennedy has a keen talent for bringing readers into his world with confidence and gentility, and he writes with honesty and spiritual depth from cover to cover of this comforting read. This is bound to be useful to those amid personal reinvention, but it’s also a great starting point for anyone who’s feeling lost and wants to slow down, listen inward, and live with greater intention. Kennedy’s writing is naturally warm, but it also has a quiet confidence that allows readers to feel they’re in safe hands, and his soulful and courageous invitation to look inward was genuinely inspiring to read. I felt there was a lot to take from the journey that reflected on my own life, and this book will certainly resonate well beyond the author’s personal experience for its blend of memoir and universal truth. Overall, The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self is a highly recommended read and a beautiful companion for those seeking meaning beyond external success and certainty. I’m confident it’s a read that will bring peace to many.
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How to Think & Succeed by Empowering your Mind
Discover your Secret Mental Tools to Enjoy a Life of Happiness & Abundance
Lori Gradley
2025 Gold Medal
150 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
How to Think & Succeed by Empowering Your Mind is a work of non-fiction in the self-help, inspirational writing, and positive thinking genres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Lori Gradley, this engaging work offers a comprehensive guide to overcoming self-doubt, fears, and negative thought patterns to achieve happiness and abundance. The book provides a step-by-step roadmap to harness mental tools, enabling readers to transform their self-image and tap into their inner strength. Gradley's 35 years of study culminate in this wellness book, designed to inspire and educate adults on personal growth, resilience, and cultivating a positive mindset.
Author Lori Gradley has crafted an enlightening journey into the power of positive thinking and self-improvement that flows off the pages in confident and enthusiastic narration. Gradley’s approach to addressing self-doubt and negative thoughts felt practical and accessible at every turn, making the transformative process seem achievable for anyone with a great logical build-up of ideas and easy-to-grasp language that explains concepts in plain terms. The step-by-step guidance was clear and easy to follow, providing tangible tools to harness the mind's potential. Gradley's insights, drawn from her extensive study, were both profound and inspiring, encouraging me to look deeper into my own mental barriers. The emphasis on reshaping one's self-image is sure to resonate deeply with readers who have struggled to see themselves in a positive light before, highlighting the importance of self-perception in achieving happiness and success. There’s also a good organizational flow to get to key sections swiftly, offering strategies that feel relevant and quick to implement. Overall, How to Think & Succeed by Empowering Your Mind is a work that paves the way for a more fulfilling life, and I’d certainly recommend it to readers seeking actionable, positive change.
How to Think & Succeed by Empowering Your Mind is a work of non-fiction in the self-help, inspirational writing, and positive thinking genres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Lori Gradley, this engaging work offers a comprehensive guide to overcoming self-doubt, fears, and negative thought patterns to achieve happiness and abundance. The book provides a step-by-step roadmap to harness mental tools, enabling readers to transform their self-image and tap into their inner strength. Gradley's 35 years of study culminate in this wellness book, designed to inspire and educate adults on personal growth, resilience, and cultivating a positive mindset.
Author Lori Gradley has crafted an enlightening journey into the power of positive thinking and self-improvement that flows off the pages in confident and enthusiastic narration. Gradley’s approach to addressing self-doubt and negative thoughts felt practical and accessible at every turn, making the transformative process seem achievable for anyone with a great logical build-up of ideas and easy-to-grasp language that explains concepts in plain terms. The step-by-step guidance was clear and easy to follow, providing tangible tools to harness the mind's potential. Gradley's insights, drawn from her extensive study, were both profound and inspiring, encouraging me to look deeper into my own mental barriers. The emphasis on reshaping one's self-image is sure to resonate deeply with readers who have struggled to see themselves in a positive light before, highlighting the importance of self-perception in achieving happiness and success. There’s also a good organizational flow to get to key sections swiftly, offering strategies that feel relevant and quick to implement. Overall, How to Think & Succeed by Empowering Your Mind is a work that paves the way for a more fulfilling life, and I’d certainly recommend it to readers seeking actionable, positive change.
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Good Awkward
How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You
Henna Pryor
2024 Finalist
200 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Foluso Falaye for Readers' Favorite
Good Awkward by Henna Pryor is a deep exploration of the various ways awkwardness can hold one back and how best to handle feeling awkward on the path to success. Henna shares her SUCK Framework and how she uses humor, levity, and improvisational skills in awkward situations. The lessons in Good Awkward are a result of research, personal practice, and learning from others. The book exposes the irony of trying to escape awkward situations and how this leads to more awkwardness. It offers exercises to help readers focus on building the mental muscle of awkward tolerance. Additionally, Good Awkward sheds light on the origin of awkwardness and its link to empathy, how to tap into the benefit of awareness, using an improv mentality to infuse "good awkward" into teams, and more.
Henna Pryor's writing style proves she practices what she preaches. She's a master at using humor and awkward situations to get her message across to the reader. Apart from sharing her own awkward stories, Henna writes about various celebrities and successful individuals and how they dealt with awkward moments, revealing that they are not exempt from embarrassing situations. These stories are quite engaging, funny, and educational. The book is rich in information that is useful for growing at work and other areas. I hope to always see my discomfort as "a sign I’m playing at my growth edge." After reading Good Awkward, your attitude toward awkwardness will never be the same. The book is a paradigm shifter and a rich resource that will benefit readers who wish to make moves despite fear of failure and take more risks to achieve more goals in life.
Good Awkward by Henna Pryor is a deep exploration of the various ways awkwardness can hold one back and how best to handle feeling awkward on the path to success. Henna shares her SUCK Framework and how she uses humor, levity, and improvisational skills in awkward situations. The lessons in Good Awkward are a result of research, personal practice, and learning from others. The book exposes the irony of trying to escape awkward situations and how this leads to more awkwardness. It offers exercises to help readers focus on building the mental muscle of awkward tolerance. Additionally, Good Awkward sheds light on the origin of awkwardness and its link to empathy, how to tap into the benefit of awareness, using an improv mentality to infuse "good awkward" into teams, and more.
Henna Pryor's writing style proves she practices what she preaches. She's a master at using humor and awkward situations to get her message across to the reader. Apart from sharing her own awkward stories, Henna writes about various celebrities and successful individuals and how they dealt with awkward moments, revealing that they are not exempt from embarrassing situations. These stories are quite engaging, funny, and educational. The book is rich in information that is useful for growing at work and other areas. I hope to always see my discomfort as "a sign I’m playing at my growth edge." After reading Good Awkward, your attitude toward awkwardness will never be the same. The book is a paradigm shifter and a rich resource that will benefit readers who wish to make moves despite fear of failure and take more risks to achieve more goals in life.
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Build Resilience
Live, Learn, and Lead
Lucy Chen
2024 Honorable Mention
Kindle Edition
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Build Resilience, Lucy Chen explores resilience through personal and historical lenses. At her daughter’s graduation, she feels her late father's absence and reflects on his WWII hardships and her mother Xiaoqin’s perseverance during the Cultural Revolution. Chen's own difficulties, including adapting to the US, caregiving for her mother with dementia, and the COVID-19 pandemic, highlight her resilience. She speaks on self-care, mindfulness, and hope in stress management. Chen’s career shift from environmental engineering to quantitative analysis, discussions with friends, and conversion to Christianity are put forward as proof of her evolving pliancy and faith. Her involvement in Toastmasters and community support, along with advocating simple living through Grace, Yasmin, and Master Min, marks the benefits of continuous learning and connections.
“God answered my heartfelt prayers, and for that, I hold a profound sense of gratitude.” Lucy Chen does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive view of three generations in Build Resilience, providing a strong intergenerational perspective that allows us to genuinely appreciate the progress made over time and understand the continuity of her values and resilience. Chen's inspiring memoir is embedded in a foundation of Christianity, and she employs scripture and moments of prayer and thanks throughout. Her work feels like a heartfelt testimony and there is a clear sense that she knows her journey and that of her parents were part of a divine path through frequent reflections on God’s providence and by expressing gratitude for the blessings received. This continues even in dark moments and is what makes her memoir a beacon of hope. The writing is intelligent, accessible, and engrossing, and will undoubtedly be embraced by readers who are looking to be inspired. Very highly recommended.
In Build Resilience, Lucy Chen explores resilience through personal and historical lenses. At her daughter’s graduation, she feels her late father's absence and reflects on his WWII hardships and her mother Xiaoqin’s perseverance during the Cultural Revolution. Chen's own difficulties, including adapting to the US, caregiving for her mother with dementia, and the COVID-19 pandemic, highlight her resilience. She speaks on self-care, mindfulness, and hope in stress management. Chen’s career shift from environmental engineering to quantitative analysis, discussions with friends, and conversion to Christianity are put forward as proof of her evolving pliancy and faith. Her involvement in Toastmasters and community support, along with advocating simple living through Grace, Yasmin, and Master Min, marks the benefits of continuous learning and connections.
“God answered my heartfelt prayers, and for that, I hold a profound sense of gratitude.” Lucy Chen does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive view of three generations in Build Resilience, providing a strong intergenerational perspective that allows us to genuinely appreciate the progress made over time and understand the continuity of her values and resilience. Chen's inspiring memoir is embedded in a foundation of Christianity, and she employs scripture and moments of prayer and thanks throughout. Her work feels like a heartfelt testimony and there is a clear sense that she knows her journey and that of her parents were part of a divine path through frequent reflections on God’s providence and by expressing gratitude for the blessings received. This continues even in dark moments and is what makes her memoir a beacon of hope. The writing is intelligent, accessible, and engrossing, and will undoubtedly be embraced by readers who are looking to be inspired. Very highly recommended.
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Take Back Your Brain
How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head--and How to Get It Out
Kara Loewentheil
2024 Bronze Medal
320 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Jennie More for Readers' Favorite
Take Back Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil is a self-help book empowering women to take back their brains, choose their emotions, and become the unique force they need to be for themselves and the world. Loewentheil, a life coach, takes you on her journey of a flawed body image and how she reclaimed her identity amidst the societal noise imposed upon women for generations. The author covers the major insecurities that ravage women’s minds and lives, including relationships and sex, financial and time management, and self-image and self-love. Though women have been freed legally in terms of laws allowing them financial agency, centuries of indoctrination have kept women imprisoned in a loop of dependence on the approval of others, including close relations and even people they couldn’t care less about. Take Back Your Brain will empower you with step-by-step processes to tackle the rhetoric that is keeping you trapped and limited.
Take Back Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil is an absorbing, bold, candid, charismatic, fascinating, memorable, and powerful resource that will resonate with women seeking to reclaim control of their lives. The sections I particularly enjoyed were Take Back Your Money Mindset and Take Back Your Time. After reading this book, I felt empowered and reassured by Loewentheil’s strategies. The book is well-written, and I particularly enjoyed the conversational and empowering tone of her writing. Her analytical approach to explaining the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, and actions made me feel that the transformation she and her clients experienced is possible for me and all women with the persistent application of these strategies. One of her exercises that stood out was saying, “How human of me,” whenever you overthink and overanalyze a mistake. Take Back Your Brain is undoubtedly one of the best self-help books I’ve read.
Take Back Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil is a self-help book empowering women to take back their brains, choose their emotions, and become the unique force they need to be for themselves and the world. Loewentheil, a life coach, takes you on her journey of a flawed body image and how she reclaimed her identity amidst the societal noise imposed upon women for generations. The author covers the major insecurities that ravage women’s minds and lives, including relationships and sex, financial and time management, and self-image and self-love. Though women have been freed legally in terms of laws allowing them financial agency, centuries of indoctrination have kept women imprisoned in a loop of dependence on the approval of others, including close relations and even people they couldn’t care less about. Take Back Your Brain will empower you with step-by-step processes to tackle the rhetoric that is keeping you trapped and limited.
Take Back Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil is an absorbing, bold, candid, charismatic, fascinating, memorable, and powerful resource that will resonate with women seeking to reclaim control of their lives. The sections I particularly enjoyed were Take Back Your Money Mindset and Take Back Your Time. After reading this book, I felt empowered and reassured by Loewentheil’s strategies. The book is well-written, and I particularly enjoyed the conversational and empowering tone of her writing. Her analytical approach to explaining the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, and actions made me feel that the transformation she and her clients experienced is possible for me and all women with the persistent application of these strategies. One of her exercises that stood out was saying, “How human of me,” whenever you overthink and overanalyze a mistake. Take Back Your Brain is undoubtedly one of the best self-help books I’ve read.
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Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow
Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children
Holly Swenson
2024 Silver Medal
248 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Amy Raines for Readers' Favorite
Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow: Forming Deeper And More Joyful Connections With Yourself And Your Children is a parenting and self-help book by Holly Swenson. Holly and her husband welcomed a total of four baby boys into the world. Holly discovered that parenthood is not only about raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted children, but is also about raising yourself. She understands that her own childhood helped to shape her into the person she is now. This included being sent to live with her father, who lived with addictions to smoking and drinking. She later discovered that she learned just as much from her children as they learned from her.
Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow is an inspiring book that will help parents learn to cherish every moment with their children, even through difficult times. I enjoyed the way the author used personal experiences to back up her points about parenting. I loved how this book shows that there are many things that we can only learn from experience. As much as I enjoyed the whole book, The Parenting 12 is one of the best sections because Swenson shares the questions and answers from other parents who have learned so much from raising their kids, just as she has. I recommend Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow by Holly Swenson to anyone who has children or is considering starting a family. This book will inspire others to take care of their children and the life they’ve built, as well as take care of themselves while raising a family.
Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow: Forming Deeper And More Joyful Connections With Yourself And Your Children is a parenting and self-help book by Holly Swenson. Holly and her husband welcomed a total of four baby boys into the world. Holly discovered that parenthood is not only about raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted children, but is also about raising yourself. She understands that her own childhood helped to shape her into the person she is now. This included being sent to live with her father, who lived with addictions to smoking and drinking. She later discovered that she learned just as much from her children as they learned from her.
Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow is an inspiring book that will help parents learn to cherish every moment with their children, even through difficult times. I enjoyed the way the author used personal experiences to back up her points about parenting. I loved how this book shows that there are many things that we can only learn from experience. As much as I enjoyed the whole book, The Parenting 12 is one of the best sections because Swenson shares the questions and answers from other parents who have learned so much from raising their kids, just as she has. I recommend Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow by Holly Swenson to anyone who has children or is considering starting a family. This book will inspire others to take care of their children and the life they’ve built, as well as take care of themselves while raising a family.
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The Half-Known Life
What Matters Most When You're Running Out of Time
Ryan Lindner
2024 Gold Medal
Kindle Edition
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Non-Fiction - Self Help
Reviewed by Nino Lobiladze for Readers' Favorite
We often feel our lives get stuck in a routine that never changes. Sometimes, only a disastrous, shocking, or life-threatening event urges us to change our way of life. We hold on to the labels that define us, like the title "Doctor" before our names. We prefer to live in a sphere of comfortable and familiar habits that include the sources of information we receive and we reject any different opinion so as to keep our comfort zone intact. So, what should we do to break the vicious circle we have built around our egos and change our lives for the better? How can we obtain the needed confidence without losing our true identity? The Half-Known Life by Ryan Lindner is a thought-provoking read for fans of the self-help genre and motivational books.
The Half-Known Life is an eye-opening book. Ryan Lindner is almost painfully honest and very open with his readers. Ryan tells about the challenges he faces every day after two cardiac arrests he experienced at a young age. I appreciated Ryan's thoughtful observations regarding our dependence on what others think about us and the roles we play for them at work and home. It is essential to leave our "bubble" or comfort zone and open up to other opinions, even if they seem alien or unacceptable. Otherwise, our perception of the world will be distorted. Thus, The Half-Known Life helps attentive and brave readers become more tolerant and confident. Ryan shares unorthodox views on time, happiness, life goals, and what it means to truly forgive those who wronged us, which deserve to be explored. The Half-Known Life offers simple solutions to break bad habits, make the right choices, and finally start living our lives to the fullest, realizing that our time on this earth is limited.
We often feel our lives get stuck in a routine that never changes. Sometimes, only a disastrous, shocking, or life-threatening event urges us to change our way of life. We hold on to the labels that define us, like the title "Doctor" before our names. We prefer to live in a sphere of comfortable and familiar habits that include the sources of information we receive and we reject any different opinion so as to keep our comfort zone intact. So, what should we do to break the vicious circle we have built around our egos and change our lives for the better? How can we obtain the needed confidence without losing our true identity? The Half-Known Life by Ryan Lindner is a thought-provoking read for fans of the self-help genre and motivational books.
The Half-Known Life is an eye-opening book. Ryan Lindner is almost painfully honest and very open with his readers. Ryan tells about the challenges he faces every day after two cardiac arrests he experienced at a young age. I appreciated Ryan's thoughtful observations regarding our dependence on what others think about us and the roles we play for them at work and home. It is essential to leave our "bubble" or comfort zone and open up to other opinions, even if they seem alien or unacceptable. Otherwise, our perception of the world will be distorted. Thus, The Half-Known Life helps attentive and brave readers become more tolerant and confident. Ryan shares unorthodox views on time, happiness, life goals, and what it means to truly forgive those who wronged us, which deserve to be explored. The Half-Known Life offers simple solutions to break bad habits, make the right choices, and finally start living our lives to the fullest, realizing that our time on this earth is limited.
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