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Part of my secret Santa today!

It‘s a good book. It was kind of scattered and sometimes hard to follow and stay with but it had good information. I took some good away from it. The ending had me in tears.

I usually generally really like Rachel Hollis and her books. She is very motivational and she can be super relatable. There are times where she comes across as a little bit “preachy” and it makes me lose interest. This was personally very interesting to me because she touched on things that I have been through and it made me connect a lot to what she was saying and going through. Overall, I liked this one!

Good book with practical advice! Wish it was more religious like her other books, but it was still good.

#popsugarchallenge

Book 6: A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube

Audio cross stitching this afternoon.

I haven't cross stitched in YEARS, but this Schitt's Creek inspired pattern pushed me to pick up the hobby again 🙂

The book was okay. Typical Rachel Hollis. I admire her honesty, but didn't find anything to be particularly earth-shattering.

Fantastic first book of 2020. Rachel Hollis is unapologetically honest. I recommend this to anyone going through divorce.

I enjoyed Didn‘t See That Coming like all of Rachel‘s other books. Hollis uses real world examples from her life and personal stories others have told her to help the reader. This book has a lot of useful advice for dealing with grief, loss and uncertainty.

Thank you Dey Street Books, Harper Collins and Edelweiss for Didn‘t See That Coming.

Full Review: https://justreadingjess.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/book-review-didnt-see-that-comi...

QOTD: What was your favorite book you read this week or what are you currently reading?

Review of my week! Books I read and blog posts.

Full post on blog. Link in bio or https://justreadingjess.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/sunday-post-8-weekly-update/

Won‘t be wasting my “dumb” earned money on this book! How could she bite the hand that fed her MILLIONS?! To call network marketing dumb, after speaking at events and supporting women in this industry....THATS dumb. Praying for the millions of women in DS who looked up to her and prayed for her, that are now heartbroken and disappointed. Definitely wouldn‘t want to be her waking up today. I bet she “Didn‘t See That Coming” #Disgusting

Last line: Please, live this beautiful, hard, wonderful life--and since you will ilve it, as you were always meant to do, resolve to live it well.

This. whole. dang. page!

I want you to understand that you haven't lost control of life...because you never had control to begin with.

[!!!!!]

If you look to me (or anyone else) as a resource to motivate you, you won't ever build true confidence in yourself. You'll trick yourself into believing that you need me or a podcast or a conference to make you feel like you can do it and it's just not true.

Motivation is fleeting. Motivation is situational.

...I'd rather be broke and working three jobs then stuck inside of the life I'd come from. Better broke and free to live in an authentic life.

...a truth that the things we build in times of crisis are often the sturdiest, because your desperation gives you clarity. All artifice is ripped away. All ego is gone. When survival is the only focus everything becomes very clear.

...focus on what is in your control, what you can affect, what you do have instead of obsessing over all the you don't

[this is where I feel social media is a killer]

...go Edward Scissorhands on your expenses.

[haha!]

Financial fear is a prison that many people will spend their whole lives locked inside of, not realizing that they are the ones who hold the keys.

[I like this quote, however, I think her white collar is starting to show here]

You must be FANATICAL about developing daily habits that will allow you calm space...

...processing grief is an action you take, not a destination you stay in, unmoving.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear“ (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

...choosing to do nothing is a choice in and of itself.

Perspective is the way you see the world. Mindset is what you think about what you see.

“A person who can turn a negative into a positive can never be defeated. It's a super-power“- Greg McKeown “Essentialism“

Your perspective and your body will react this way every time if you don't do anything to change the instinct.

... but you've never had a conversation with them that's deeper than a puddle.

[haha!]

When we keep our feelings locked up they work like a pressure cooker. The more you try to suppress them the more the pressure grows until it bursts, causing way more damage than if you'd just had the courage to admit the truth in the first place.

When people don't like a book written by a man, they say the book is bad. When they don't like something created by a woman, they say she is bad.

[what do you guys think?]

I truly believe it's possible to achieve anything you want, with hard work, but you don't get to control the variables that will make it so or the time frame in which it appears.

Just because the thing attached to that identity was removed doesn't mean that the role you earned was taken away.

...good will always be good, and one of the most awful, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship, we'll never truly appreciate and remember the good that was always good.

When you're trying to survive this moment in your life, anything longer than today seems impossible.

It often takes a life-changing crisis to remind us which parts of our life are worth living.

[so true]

Stop trying to cover up your emotions, or, frankly, anything you don't like about yourself or your feelings, with a new coat of paint. You want a remodel? You want to build something new of your own design that is absolutely possible...But in order to do that, you've got to be real. You have to allow yourself to truly feel what you feel before you can feel what you'd like.

It wasn't small and it wasn't petty. It matters that you're disappointed because you matter.

...an old expression that says we should teach or write or share only from our scars, never from our wounds...

Have you ever sat in a parking lot so u could finish a book? I just did! I got off work late and wanted to finish this before going home to do the dinner dance etc.
Anywho. Absolutely loved this and love Hollis althought there wasnt much to relate to in this one like her others. Her books always send me into deep reflection

Mondays call for the BIG coffee and good reads before work.

Book 173 of 2020
#newrelease