📚 Adventures in reading … week 6 of 2025

I listened to books I started while in New Mexico, I read in the car on the way to cheer adventures & I managed to read a book in 24 hours. It was that good. (My kiddo did the same & said if I wanted to read it, I had to finish it by end of Sunday. Special thanks to the teacher that keep diversifying what we all read.)

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

I borrowed it from my kiddo, who borrowed it from a teacher and read itin just over 24 hours.

What a beautiful story about real-life struggles and the many judgments that could have been opportunities. This book brought me laughs and tears.

Loved this thought:

“None of us are hiding from the world. All of us are shining despite what it took us to earn our way here.”

Read the book: https://amzn.to/4iSELfj

Please Unsubscribe by Julio Vincent Gambuto

This book makes you rethink all the things that suck up your time and energy. I found it by accident & am glad I did.

🤔 Our families and our homes are each precious ecosystems of opinions and ideas but also of emotions, expectations, dreams & dollars.

⁉️ We have to ask ourselves is what we automate helping us?

🔎 Automation magnifies: if you automate an inefficient process, you will magnify the inefficiencies.

‼️ Play a bigger game than you think you are ready for.

💕 Where you work will influence your personal mission, vision & values; are they aligned?

💯 It’s important to find support outside of your work environment.

🤯 We need to be mindful that not everything that swirls around in our heads is worthy of the emotional investment of our belief.

🤔 It is our choice to believe the messages that are sent to us.

One of my favorite thoughts:

⭐️ Growth and change and progress and reflection are not linear.

Read the book: https://amzn.to/3FuUv9T

Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross

Neuroscience fascinates me … from neuroplasticity & the pruning our brain does to help us. Growing up with my mom as an artist, I learned so much in this book.

‼️ We all have agency in what we engage with and surround ourselves with.

🖍️ Coloring for just 20 minutes can reduce general anxiety and stress.

⚡️ We are driven to learn.

💥 The best kind of learning sparks curiosity & endless discovery. Learning is your own renewable energy source.

⭐️ You can’t learn if you don’t pay attention. You can’t remember if you don’t learn.

‼️ When you are flourishing, you are curious, creative & open to new experiences.

⁉️Curiosity is the building block of flourishing.

‼️ Attention is essential for sparking curiosity.

🔎 Your conscious life becomes what you pay attention to.

Two of my favorite thoughts:

💡 The mistake we consistently make as a society is to tell people who they are.

📗 Knowledge is more than cognitive intelligence. The best learning is a knowing that cultivates wise discernment and understanding and evolves and grows over a lifetime.

Read the book: https://amzn.to/3DF8c5L

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