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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
George Guidall, Recorded Books LLC, Steven Pressfield
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondō

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle - George Guidall, Recorded Books LLC, Steven Pressfield

life-changing

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo; The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondō

tidying up while listening Cover of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

 

What is The One Thing?

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

Fasting&Feasting

The Spirit of Food: Thirty-four Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God - Leslie Leyland Fields, Nancy J. Nordenson

Food for feasting and food for fasting.

 

The Spirit of Food: Thirty-four Writers

on Feasting and Fasting Toward God

 

-On the Way to the Table

-In the Kitchen

-The Ways We Eat

-Fasting

-At the Table of the Lord

-Feasting

 

"Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchen, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation."  (Excerpt from back cover)

 

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-Food&Cooking

Money Matters

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford

A reboot of life and finances.

 

Your Money or Your Life:

9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence

 

Begin: Steps 1-3.

Step 1: Making Peace with the Past

Step 2: Being in the Present---Tracking Your Life Energy

Step 3: Monthly Tabulation

 

 

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-FinancialMatters

If you haven't got your health...

The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young - Gary Small, Gigi Vorgan

Motivation to stay on track with this book's eight essentials for keeping the mind sharp and the body young:

1. Sharpen Your Mind

2. Keep a Positive Outlook

3. Cultivate Healthy Relationships

4. Promote Stress-Free Living

5. Master Your Environment

6. Body Fitness - Shape Up to Stay Young

7. The Longevity Diet

8. Modern Medicine for Feeling & Looking Younger

 

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-Fitness&Health

If at first you don't succeed...

The Christopher Parkening Guitar Method - Volume 1: The Art and Technique of the Classical Guitar Book/CD Pack - Jack Marshall, Christopher Parkening

You have to keep trying until you get what you want. This is the first in a series of yearlong commitments to once-and-for-all learn and/or apply a particular skill and stick with it until I have attained proficiency. Today I commit to learning classical guitar well enough to play beautiful classical pieces . Therefore I shall dust off my guitar, crack open my trusty, old, tattered  Christopher Parkening Guitar Method, Vol. 1  and proceed to read, study, and practice, practice, practice!

 

There it is. My commitment.

Now, the hard part...

 

2014Nov-2015Mar: GM41.5

Nov-Dec:31 / Jan:8 / Feb:2 / Mar:.5

 

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-Commitments

Read&Do!

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time - Brian Tracy

Sometimes reading is not enough; one must do.

I have read the book. Its contents seem useful. Today is the day I take action - it's all about the work that needs to get done.

The audio/book: Brian Tracy's  Eat That Frog! 

Five days of frog eating it is! What to do:

Monday- Get to work.

Tuesday- Keep working.

Wednesday- Work some more.

Thursday- Work, work, work.

Friday- Finish the work.

Saturday: Evaluate the work, plan and prepare for what to do next and celebrate!

 

2015

 

Organize Now!:

A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify

Your Space and Your Life

by Jennifer Ford Berry.

 

 

 

 

 

2016 is the year to apply...

 

 Cover of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

 

 

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-TimeManagement/Organization

                        

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                   Still Life with Bible  (c.1885; Vincent Van Gogh)  

  Tolle Lege - Take Up and Read  

 

MyBookLog - a place where I hold myself accountable to learning via the use of a variety of books. Posting to my b(ook)log is one in a series of reading-related goals updated whenever possible.     -Revised Monday, January 19, 2015

 

     Daily: ReadLiveLearn* /Read&Do!/If at first you don't succeed...

     Begin:  Jan-Fitness / Feb-Finance / Mar-Food / Apr-Faith

 

*Isaiah 53;

 Psalm 32;

Proverbs 9:10;

Ecclesiastes 12:9-14.