{"id":3733,"date":"2014-06-27T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:36:41","slug":"my-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2014\/06\/my-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"My Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #222222\">I don&#8217;t create a huge summer reading list any more. \u00a0but people still ask. \u00a0So as I&#8217;m\u00a0making my selections, I&#8217;m sharing. \u00a0Here are some books I&#8217;m reading while on the beach this year:<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">For personal transformation,\u00a0<b>Daring Greatly,\u00a0<\/b>by Brene Brown. \u00a0Everyone who has read this insists I will love it &#8212; about being vulnerable and showing up powerfully in the world.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">To feed my need for post-apocalyptic vampire\/zombie novels, I&#8217;ve got the paperback of\u00a0<b>The Twelve,\u00a0<\/b>Justin Cronin&#8217;s sequel to The Passage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">And for business, I&#8217;m re-reading Seth Godin&#8217;s\u00a0<b>The Icarus Deception<\/b>, which blew me away last year and has at least thirty post-it markers sticking out of it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">And let&#8217;s not forget about my Kindle, where I&#8217;ve got multiple short books. \u00a0I&#8217;m finally going to finish\u00a0<b>Bird By Bird<\/b>, Ann Lamott&#8217;s classic on writing; and\u00a0<b>The Atlantis Gene<\/b>, which is the first of a science fictional series on the origin of mankind &#8212; true escapist beach fiction!<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">Enjoy your summer as well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">Oh, and if you are still reading this message and are looking for some happiness along with your Reading List, keep going.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">~*~*~*<b>BONUS<\/b>*~*~*~*~<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">Here are three ways to kick off your summer on a positive note:<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><b>1. Smiling is the quickest path to feeling better.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Put a smile on your\u00a0face to activate your positive emotional systems.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><b>2. Remember, you can&#8217;t change other people, but you CAN change you.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And when you change you, you&#8217;ll notice everyone else shows up differently.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">3.\u00a0<b>Nurture a Breathing Practice.<\/b>\u00a0 When you take a deep breath, it clears your mind, calms your emotions, and feeds oxygen to your system. \u00a0It makes you feel better and more centered in mind, heart, and body. \u00a0Do it on PURPOSE several times each day, and notice how you feel more grounded and confident by the end of the month.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">In Happiness,\u00a0Jim<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t create a huge summer reading list any more. \u00a0but people still ask. \u00a0So as I&#8217;m\u00a0making my selections, I&#8217;m sharing. \u00a0Here are some books I&#8217;m reading while on the beach this year: For personal transformation,\u00a0Daring Greatly,\u00a0by Brene Brown. \u00a0Everyone who has read this insists I will love it &#8212; about being vulnerable and showing &#8230; <a title=\"My Summer Reading\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2014\/06\/my-summer-reading\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about My Summer Reading\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,34],"tags":[180,281,115,169,308],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Summer Reading - The Executive Happiness Coach\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2014\/06\/my-summer-reading\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Summer Reading - The Executive Happiness Coach\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t create a huge summer reading list any more. \u00a0but people still ask. \u00a0So as I&#8217;m\u00a0making my selections, I&#8217;m sharing. \u00a0Here are some books I&#8217;m reading while on the beach this year: For personal transformation,\u00a0Daring Greatly,\u00a0by Brene Brown. \u00a0Everyone who has read this insists I will love it &#8212; about being vulnerable and showing ... 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