Book Review: Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
We kicked off 2020 with the launch of an internal book club at ABJ, and our first read was everything I could’ve asked for. Marie Forleo’s Everything is Figureoutable literally lay the perfect groundwork for me and this new year, new decade, and provided me a much better strategy to face my own life’s new chapter with.
I’ve always faced situations I’m not particularly versed in with optimism and assuredness, even if I was slightly terrified that I might fail in it. That’s just the way I am. But I’ve also never been in the situation I am now, where I’ve been thrown multiple life-changing circumstances at once. I definitely needed some guidance to get me through all this new territory.
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Simple Ways to Build Your Brand and Expand Your Influence
Your personal brand can make our break a career. There are few other investments you can make in your career that can have such a big impact. But there’s something about this nebulous term, personal brand, that makes many of us a little uneasy and rather lost when deciding how to proceed.
The foundation of any strong personal brand is adding value, helping others.
Here are a few simple ways you can expand your influence and become just a bit better known for the work you do.
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You Have to Listen for Opportunity's Knock
You’re just lucky.
When my friend said this to me recently I detected a distinct hint of disdain — or at least snark — in her voice. We had been discussing my recent invitation to travel to Bangladesh as part of a delegation with the Richardson Center for Global Engagement
Well, luck isn’t something that simply happens to you — especially not without your active participation. You have to keep your eyes open for those chance encounters and keep listening for that proverbial knock at your door.
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Throw Off the Bowlines: Why facing your fears might be the best thing you do
When you’re afraid to do something — try a new activity, go to a new place, meet a new person — and you do it anyway, you learn that you can withstand more than you were giving yourself credit for. Facing your fears, pursuing your dreams, braving the unknown help you realize you are stronger, smarter, or more capable than you thought.
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Book Review: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
Gender inequality is a topic we see addressed more and more in the press these days, but there are still so many situations out there in which women are treated unfairly—and that news barely sees the light of day.
Caroline Criado-Perez does an outstanding job of bringing such issues out into the open in her book Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, and her stories of bias and discrimination are backed with statistics and substantial evidence.
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Why You Need a Morning Routine - And How to Start One
A morning routine helps you create a process and a structure that lets you set yourself up for success every day. Discover what a morning routine actually is, why they are so powerful, and how to create a routine that helps you be a more productive, more grounded, and a more joyful person.
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Book Review: Extreme Ownership
In the book Extreme Ownership, two former U.S. Navy SEAL officers share stories from their time on the battlefield in Iraq, and detail how readers can apply strategies and solutions used in the war to their own leadership roles in business, and personal life.
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Become the Influencer You Deserve to Be!
Personal branding is a pretty hot topic these days, but can seem like something you don’t have the time or resources to do for yourself. Good news: This couldn’t be further from the truth!
A Better Jones CEO Kasey Jones is now hosting the weekly webinar series Everything You Need to Build Your Personal Brand, and it’s packed with valuable advice and strategy tips. Join us each Thursday to expand your influence!
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Kasey's Book Catalog
You probably know by now that we’re pretty obsessed with growth of all kinds. That’s why we’re big believers in making time to read more. It’s how we learn, how we progress, and how we grow in all areas of our lives.
And if you’ve followed us for any length of time, you know our CEO, Kasey Jones, reads a ton of books. She shares a lot of book reviews on our site, talks about her lessons learned on social, and really advocates for us all to read more.
That’s why she’s taken the time to catalog all the books she reads - and for most of them, includes ratings and reviews, as well as some information about the authors.
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It’s a Pivot, Not a Crisis
I recently finished Jerry Colonna’s book “Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up,” and it has transformed my thinking about the period of transition I’m going through in my life. I recently wrote about what I'm lovingly calling my “midlife existential crisis,” and I explained that following a period of one challenge, and one tough blow after another, I went through a career upheaval that left me reeling.
It led me to spend several months consuming memoirs of people - mostly women - who reached similar points in their lives for one reason or another. The insights gained from these authors have definitely improved my way of thinking towards this “crisis.”
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