What I am reading – and you? Let's learn and grow!
I love books!
What are you reading?
What are you learning?
I have a friend who regularly greets her friends with the question, “What are you reading?”
This is one of my favorite questions because it assumes that the person is a learner and a reader.
I think we should be both. So, the second question that goes with the first is “What are you learning?”
That really leads to pre-questions:
· Why are you reading these books?
· What books are next in line?
· What are your goals?
· What books and articles are you reading that lead you to your goals?
· Also, what courses, lectures, YouTube videos, webinars might you be “attending” to reach your goals?
My reading and my goals
One of my biggest goals is always to work on being a better coach, supervisor, consultant and spiritual director for my clients, so I am reading books that better my work, even though I am fully certified. Life is about learning and re-learning the most important things.
We are all constantly learning and changing
– and I believe change is possible for everyone.
We learn through many ways and one is via input (reading, or YouTube, and TED or Coursera and Udemy, for example).
· So, what are your goals for 2022?
· What are doing to reach those goals?
· What else do you want to do?
· What are you reading and what are you learning?
Have a great New Year!
Patricia Jehle patricia@jehle-coaching.com
PS, here are some of the books I read in 2021 (into 2022):
The LSP Method by Michael Fearne
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
Holier than Thou by Jackie Hill Perry
Is it Me by Natalie Hoffman
Room of Marvels by James Bryan Smith
Adaptive Leadership by Ronald Heifitz
Transitions by William Bridges
PLUS Some books for fun
· This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
· The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
· The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old-Man by Jonas Jonasson
· The last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
· The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett (& npresently re-reading Pillars of the Earth)
This is what’s on my table (what’s next or in the process):
· Mastering the Lego Serious Play Method by Sean Blair
· Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
· Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
· Untwisting Scriptures (book 3) by Rebecca Davis
· Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
· Three Theories for Everything by Ellis Potter
· Kife Kinetic by Horst Lutz
· Spiritual Practices for the Brain by Ann Kernion
· Lebensplannung für Fortgeschrittene by Markus Müller
Plus two books for fun from my school for Christmas presents: Freckles by Ahern and Sooley by Grisham.
AND – What I read two years ago… good to remember!
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Changes that Heal by De. Henry Cloud
The Resilience Factor by Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte
When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd
Grounded by Diana Butler Bass
It can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
A different Kind of Happiness by Larry Crabb
Letters from a Skeptic by Greg and Edward Boyd
Veritas by Dean Edstrom
Rethinking Positive Thinking by Oettinger
The Upside of Stress by McGonigal
Wolfpack by Wambach
Introvision Bei Stress – Und Angst Bewaltigung by Neumann
Reinventing Organizations by Laloux
Arriving Well by Brubaker, Cumberford and Watts
Passionate Supervision by Shohet et al
Supervision in Action by deHaan
Selbstmanagement-Resourcenorientiert by Storch and Krause
PLUS Some books I read for fun
Sky and Stone by Hickam
Ireland by Delaney
Z. by Fowler
The Abbey by Martin
Also by Martin: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
Hallelujah Anyway by Lamott
The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out of the Window by Karlsson
