I’ve been struggling to read this year. I don’t know why but ever since the beginning of this year, my reading has slowed down drastically. I set myself a target to read 80 books this year but already, I’m way behind. However part of me isn’t too concerned because in its place, I’ve been knitting […]
Books and Identity
The home office has served me well since 2014 when I left the corporate world to start my own consulting business (which then miserably failed) and then when I started with Adopt & Embrace and now, Rapid Circle. I like going in there every day to do my work. It’s a good space with plenty […]
Second Hand Books
I love old book stores. Yesterday I found the City Basement Book shop hidden away between a couple of shops. A small single non-descript door and a long flight of stairs down into a squirrels den of musty, dusty books. I remembered going into this store back in the early 1990s and now that I’m […]
Struggling Through Certain Books
‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss without Losing Your Humanity and admittedly, I’m really struggling to get through this book. I’ve read […]
Welcome to My Bookshelf Tour
This week I decided to do a bookshelf tour of three shelves in our lounge room and although most of the books are my husband’s, you can instantly tell how different our tastes are! Enjoy!
Be Like Eyam
A few days ago we marked the 200th day in lockdown in Melbourne. That’s 200 days over six periods of separate lockdowns not consecutive days. If it was the latter, I would have gone mad already. As it is, I look forward to the days when lockdown ends because it sends me in a frenzy […]
My New Obsession with Orwell
Sometimes I think that school texts are wasted on the young. I remember that many years ago, I read 1984 and Animal Farm which were high school texts and their meaning was totally lost on me. I guess as a young teen, I had other things on my mind that were much closer to home […]
What Did You Miss in July?
It’s been a relatively quiet month because methinks it was the lockdown that really got me down….again. So I wasn’t my usual chirpy self. Most of the time, I just wanted to throttle stupidity I saw on Twitter and on television so I decided to vent my anger by starting a Covid Art Diary where […]
Be Continuously Surprised
I’ve been reading Martin Amis new book called Inside Story which he calls a novel. I’ll do a video review on it once I finish but so far, all I can say is that the writing is beautiful. It’s as if I’m catching glimpses of his life and in particular, the moments he shared with […]
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
This year, I’ve been slowly doing a slow declutter of our home and contents [no books, artworks, music or yarn has been thrown out so you can all breathe a sigh of relief] but also of all the digital detritus that was making me go slightly crazy. You see, I noticed my attention waning and […]
When Do You Give Up Reading a Book?
For the last few years, I’ve been changing my reading habits to try and force myself to: Read widely Read fiction Read classics The reason I wanted to do this was that I was finding that I tended to be influenced by others in my network who were reading the same books which were usually […]
Reading Challenge for 2020
My year in 2020 consisted of a LOT of reading much of it due to being in lockdown for much of it. Every year, I set myself up a Reading Challenge using the GoodReads app. Over the years, the pace of reading books has increased however, it means it’s at the expense of doing some […]
Books Are My Drugs
Recently I’ve been spending more hours reading than doing anything else. Truth be told, this year, my reading of novels had taken a turn for the worse. The recent books on the seller’s shelves were really doing nothing for me. In the last couple of months, I was unable to finish the novels selected by […]
Reading Books as Sense Making
Many of you already know about my return to fiction reading after becoming so frustrated with reading only what other people were reading in the area of Learning and Development, Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurship. I think I reached a saturation point with those because it was the same people talking about the same books, talking […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts. Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning December 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for December 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Slow Reading
I have been tweeting for a while about my need to slow down my mind because I felt scattered over the last year or so. It was my fault mainly because I struggled to keep up with doing all the things I felt I needed to do. I also had FOMO if I wasn’t on […]
Work Book Clubs As Social Learning Experiences
I’m putting it out there. I don’t understand people who say that they never read books – or even worse, “never have time to read a book”. They may as well say that they don’t value their own growth and personal development. The easiest way to learn something new and incorporate it into our lives […]
January – A Month of Books & Back Pain
What I have Been Working On? My main achievement was completing the development of 4 modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program for Coca Cola Amatil. This took me over 8 weeks to complete with various edits and version controls as well as exploring and learning more about SharePoint 2013 and Lync. This project […]
Books, Books and More Books
Ever since I was a young girl, I loved to read. My parents used to say that I carried a book everywhere. This hasn’t changed but rather than carry a book, I carry a library. Having all your books on one device is both a blessing and a nightmare. Confronted with so many choices to read, […]