What are you reading?  What are you learning?

 I have an old 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 and consultant for my clients, so I am reading coaching and supervision books and am now finishing supervision course with EASC certification.

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 for example).

So, what are your goals for 2020?  What are doing to reach those goals?  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 2019 (2020):

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

Some books for fun (again, not all)

Sky and Stone (really 2020- Just finished)  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

 

This is what’s on my table (what’s next or in the process):

Heroic Leadership by Lowney

The Imposter Cure by Hibberd

Critical Moments in Executive Coaching by deHaan

Ten plus fiction books and – many other subject books, too