This morning someone asked me, after I’d mentioned it in an Instagram post, why I’d been reading self help books over the summer. It’s a pertinent question because apart from being coerced into reading the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People on a management course (it’s still a useful book) I’ve never read a self help book until this year.
‘The answer to ‘Why’ is long and involved and probably very dull for you all. Maybe a little of why can be found in my post about Valentine’s Day. There are also some events in my past, the kind we all have, that I’m not ready to share yet.
But ‘what have you learned’ is a question I can definitely start to answer. I’m going to post on Sunday about the amazing revelation I discovered in Gretchen Rubin’s book ‘The Four Tendencies’. But the other, really revelatory book I read was Playing Big by Tara Mohr. This was recommended by Sara Tasker in her Hashtag Authentic podcast and I was immediately drawn to it. Turns out, it really lives up to its reputation. And the main reason for this post is to share the following passage. I’m still digesting how important this could be as a manifesto for women to live by. I think, in time, it might just shape the course of my future years. I feel like I was lost but baby, now I’m found …