This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …
First category I added when I started this blog many moons ago. I jot stuff here I can't otherwise categorize.
The section you will see a swear or two in. Not that I am a big fan, but sometimes situation can't be helped
Here you will find books that I have read, reading or intend to read. More Recent Reads => CLICK HERE.
I intend to use this area to catalog my writing journey and collect tidbits of information on the authoring process.
These are areas I am very much interested in. From time to time, as I am so moved, I free think here as well
Comment Spammer
Got hit by spammers over the last couple days. No sweat – will just turn it off…so there now!
Title: Economics in One Lesson
Author: Heny Hazlitt
Date: 27-Nov-04
Called by H.L. Mencken, “one of the few economists in history who could really write,” Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for his brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic …
Title: The Book of Investing Wisdom
Author: Warren Buffet, Jim Rogers and More
Date: 27-Nov-04
Listen to writings by Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, George Soros, and other leading figures of finance. In their own words, these legends of Wall Street share their …
Title: Who Needs God
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Date: 20-Oct-04
In today’s high-pressure world the odds are that you may feel overwhelmed, dissatisfied or unable to cope with unforeseen problems in your life. Harold Kushner’s challenging philosophy has brought inspiration to …
Title: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Date: 20-Oct-04
As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through pain and grief. But not until he …
Title: Hegemony or Survial
Author: Noam Chomsky
Date: 23-Sep-04
For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as …
Title: America
Author: Jon Stewart
Date: 23 Sep-04
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.
Termed a “political king-maker” by Newsweek, …
Title: Mind Wide Open
Author: Steven Johnson
Date: 18-Aug-2005
Brilliantly exploring today’s cutting edge brain research, Mind Wide Open allows readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal …
Title: American Soldier
Author: General Tommy Franks
Date: 18-Aug-2004
Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all.
The Commander in Chief of the …
Title: How to Talk to Anyone
Author: Leil Lowndes
Date: 22-Jul-04
You’ve admired successful people who seem to have it all, seen them chatting confidently at parties and being listened to in business meetings. They’re the ones with the best jobs, …
Title: My Life
Author: Bill Clinton
Date: 22-Jul-04
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public.
It …
Diary Gap Period (May-July)
Haven’t written in some time; also have fallen off my workout train. I have been really focused at work on getting things to a manageable situation. It is pretty much there now tho.
At …
Title: The Wisdom of Crowds
Author: James Surowiecki
Date: 19-June-2004
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no …
Title: Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Date: 19-June-04
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in …
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Date: 20 May 2004
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling …
Title: Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
Author: Henry Kissinger
Date: 20-May-04
In this timely, thoughtful, and important audiobook, America’s most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be …
Title: Against All Enemies
Author: Richard A. Clarke
Date: 17-May-04
The real war on terror has happened largely behind closed doors, run by the White House, drawing on secret intelligence and operations around the world. There is no man …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 4.8 km (3.0m)/24 min
Mood: Not a bad run got to get back to the treadmill tho. Runing outside here is not really fun.
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Week 14: 4.2km [this week] – [Phase IV- 4.2 …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 2.4 km (1.5m)/10.15min
Mood: Just a great run for the PRT today. Really could have lopped off another 30 secs or more if I had pushed, but I did not. At …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.2 km/30min
Mood: Still pushing thru getting ready for PRT. This somewhat of a slow down week (interphase) to my improved conditioning. Goal to run below 10.o minutes
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Week 13 (0): …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 3.0 km/15 min
Mood: Haven run in a while been working quite a bit. Once I get thru next week. Will get back on a good schedule.
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Week 13 (0): 3.0 …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 12.0 km/65 min
Mood: Great…run…best feel and longest so far. That’s all I have to say about that.
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Week 12: 27.2 km [this week] – [Phase III- 105.9 km / (All – 308.9km)]
Week …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 6.0 km/35 min
Mood: Not too bad …..not great either. After thougth run walk. Didn’t really have a good eating day, so my run was pretty weak – walked a …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 6.2 km/30 min {E}
Mood: Too a while to get up to it, but once I got up there, it was a great early morning run…..not too bad. First in a …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 3.0 km/15 min
Mood: Very happy! I literally willed myself thru this. I really felt like taking the day off, you know – make it up later on, but I came …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 7.2 km/35 min
Mood: Pretty aweson run today as well. Feel real good about my accomplishment over the last couple days. I was able to stay on point for the …
Title: Bush at War
Author: Bob Woodward
Date: 17-Apr-04
With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September …
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 11.2 km/60 min
Mood: Great run today – well worth the effort. Have not run in the last few days. Think this is my first real 60 min run….really good. …
Workout and Other Things…
Today’s run – 6.0 km/30 min
Mood: Pretty tired but had to get the run in. Had a big greasy double bacon and cheeze for lunch, plus had an omlete for breakfast. Won’t be …
My DareBee Journey
