Monday Mentions 3.13.23
Hi friends,
This week’s Monday Mentions includes a book, dad jokes, and a great podcast.
What are you reading?
Bobby
How to Grow Your Small Business
Written by New York Times bestselling author, Donald Miller, this book makes growing a small business accessible to anyone.
From Amazon
Running a small business is no easy feat. As a small business owner, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the number of hats you have to wear to be successful. You started the business so you could share the product you love with the world, but logistics are getting in the way.
Donald Miller knows this frustration all too well. He faced the same challenge when starting his company. While he knew his time was best spent creating content for small-business owners, he was constantly being torn away to focus on things he didn’t understand. After several years of figuring it out, Donald has decided it’s time to share what he learned. In this book, you will learn:
- An easy-to-understand framework that can be applied to any business.
- How to navigate the ins and outs of finding and hiring the best candidates available to you.
- The best way to organize your company structure to maximize your skills and allow you to identify areas best handled by someone else.
- How to identify your and reach your key customers.
- Areas where you can increase capacity to better serve your customer.
- And much more.
Growing a successful business is not easy, but it’s not impossible. With the right guidance, anyone can expand their company and reach new customers.
Have a Good Laugh Today – Dad Jokes
Do you need a laugh-break today? You might want to check out this short video from my friends. What’s Forrest Gump’s password? Check out the video!
A Fantastic Podcast – The Positive Talk Podcast
In a world full of anger, anxiety, and negativity, we could all use a positive word. Each week, co-hosts, Chuck and Julie unpack the integration of faith and psychology. With encouragement and truth, you can discover your best you.
Monday Mentions 3.6.23
Hi friends,
This week’s Monday Mentions contains several books I’ve recently read or intend to read soon.
What are you reading?
Bobby
Live No Lies by John Mark Comer
I am re-reading John Mark’s latest book for a group I am part of. John Mark does such a great job of outlining the battle we are in. If you’re not familiar with the battle, I highly encourage you to check out this book.
From Amazon
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial intelligence hell-bent on taking over the world. No, it’s a war we feel deep inside our own chests: we are at war with lies.
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we livethem. We let them into our bodies, and they sabotage our peace. All around us in the culture and deep within our own body memories are lies: deceptive ideas that wreak havoc on our emotional health and spiritual well-being, and deceptive ideas about who God is, who we are, and what the good life truly is.
The choice is not whether to fight or not fight, but whether we win or surrender.
Ancient apprentices of Jesus developed a paradigm for this war; they spoke of the three enemies of the soul: the devil, the flesh, and the world. Live No Lies taps into this ancient wisdom from saints of the Way and translates the three enemies for the modern era, with all its secularism and sophistication. As a generation, we chuckle at the devil as a premodern myth, we are confused by Scripture’s teaching on the flesh in an age where sensual indulgence is a virtue not a vice, and we have little to no category for the New Testament concept of the world.
In this provocative and practical book, bestselling author John Mark Comer combines cultural analysis with spiritual formation. He identifies the role lies play in our spiritual deformation and lays out a strategic plan to overcome them.
Do you feel the tug-of-war in your own heart, the inner conflict between truth and lies? The spirit and the flesh? The Way of Jesus and the world? It’s time to start winning. It’s time to live no lies…
A Cool YouTube Stream – Nambia Waterhole
Take a look at this live feed from a waterhole in the heart of Namibia. I find it very relaxing to watch.
A Cool YouTube Stream – Bald Eagle Nest
Take a look at this live feed from a bald eagle nest in Big Bear Valley.
Monday Mentions 2.27.23
Hi friends,
This week’s Monday Mentions contains several books I’ve recently read or intend to read soon.
What are you reading?
Bobby
The Coaching Habit by Michael Stanier
I think every team member deserves a coaching leader. This book will help you become one!
From Amazon
In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how–by saying less and asking more–you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
- Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question
- Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question
- Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
- Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question
- Finally ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question
A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioral economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work–and your workplace–from good to great.
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
I am working on a writing project this year. This book comes highly recommended by writers. I plan to read it very soon.
From Amazon:
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.
Monday Mentions 1.30.23
Hi friends,
This week’s Monday Mentions contains several books I’ve recently read or intend to read soon.
What are you reading?
Bobby
Mind Your Mindset by Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller
I read a pre-release version of this book and it is incredible. It is packed full of science and practical insights.
My biggest takeaway is this quote:
“You are not stuck with the stories you have about yourself. You can train your Narrator to create a newer, truer storyline for your life.”
From Amazon:
Do you trust the voice in your head?
Our brains are remarkable. They subconsciously translate the events around us into meaningful storylines that inform what we think and how we live. The problem is, the stories our minds feed us as facts aren’t always true.
Worse, these stories turn into false beliefs about others, the world, and ourselves that keep us from our true potential.
These limiting beliefs confront us all. But what if you could harness your brain’s operating system to tell a new story? Not just any story. A true story that empowers you to overcome limitations and surpass your goals.
Drawing upon the latest insights in performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as case studies from their own clients, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller outline a framework anyone can follow to test their own assumptions and start living better, truer stories that shape superior outcomes in business and life.
How (Not) to Save the World by Hosanna Wong
From Amazon:
A practical, straightforward guide for Christ-followers who want to talk about Jesus without feeling weird or pushy.
Ten years ago, Hosanna Wong packed her life into suitcases and started traveling the country to talk to people about Jesus. She quickly discovered lies she had believed that held her back from actually sharing God’s love.
It turns out, believing lies that you’re not enough, your story doesn’t matter, and there’s no way for you to make an impact… that’s how not to save the world.
Through faithfully studying God’s Word and fumbling through her own flawed progress, Hosanna uncovered what the Bible says about revealing God’s love in our everyday lives.
With honesty and humor, Hosanna will help you:
- Embrace your unique story to naturally talk about Jesus through your real life and authentic relationships;
- Discover the three most effective steps to take when fighting for a loved one who is in a tough place;
- Overcome the lies that hold you back so you can step into your calling and empower people to encounter God.
It turns out, you can naturally share God’s love in your everyday life. You can fight for those you love, and a world Jesus loves. There is a way for every person you know to realize how valuable they are to God. You’ve been created for it, equipped for it, and you’re ready for it. Let’s go!
Monday Mentions 12.19.22
Hi friends,
This week’s Monday Mentions contains several books I’ve recently read or intend to read soon.
What are you reading?
Bobby
The Journey Toward Wholeness by Suzanne Stabile
From Amazon:
In everything from health care and politics to technology and economics, we are experiencing feelings of loss, anger, and anxiety. In the Enneagram’s wisdom, our number determines how we respond. We automatically move to another number when we’re feeling stress and to yet another when we’re feeling secure. Such moves may help us feel better temporarily but don’t last.
For those who want to dive deeper into Enneagram wisdom, expert teacher Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence: thinking, feeling, and doing. When we learn to manage these centers, each for its intended purpose, we open a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, growing spiritually, and finding wholeness. Drawing on the dynamic stability of the Enneagram, she explains each number’s preferred and repressed Center of Intelligence and its role in helping us move toward internal balance. Using brief focused chapters, this book provides what we need to deal with the constant change and complexity of our world to achieve lasting transformation in our lives.
No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
From Amazon:
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agreement on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues – a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes.
With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administration’s intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day – and the tumultuous days after. No day was ever the same. Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.
The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the country’s preparedness for – and immediate response to – the 9-11 attacks. Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nation’s perception of the Administration’s competence during the crisis. Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness.
From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administration’s most effective champion.
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