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