3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

PIE SARK (2002). Prosperity Pie:                                How to Relax About Money and Everything Else SARK is a pen name for Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy. SARK is a self-made artist and writer (i could not find information about her education)...she's authored 16 books as of 2024...she is the CEO of a successful organization called "Planet SARK." in this book, "prosperity pie" refers to our experience of living in the abundance of life's gifts/blessings/resources and sharing them with others...there is enough...we are enough. of the many ideas, some of which can be practices/experiments: go through all your STUFF, and recycle everything you don't use or love give yourself the CARE you need everyday for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health gather your inner children, find out what they need, and meet their needs as best you can call someone out to PLAY engage in joyful mastur...

JUMP START Doug Hall (1995). Jump Start Your Brain . Hall has a BS in chemical engineering and worked a decade for Procter and Gamble before retiring at age 32 and starting his own organization that consulted with many Fortune 500 companies. This book shares some of his secrets about creativity. Throughout the book, Hall uses quotes, especially quips from Benjamin Franklin and quotes from himself and his employees. Some of the ideas that resonated with me: to brainstorm creative ideas, instead of pulling ideas out of our brain, stimulate the brain with new ideas and link them back to the problem, decision, issue, topic, or idea at hand--the stimuli can be ANYTHING--pictures in a  magazine, newspaper headlines, tv shows, words in the dictionary, titles of books, famous people...in one section, Hall lists 1,090 items in categories for an activity he calls, "Dr. Disecto." part of creativity is learning to PLAY like a kid again, creating a comfortable environment to play is esse...

JUMP TIME Jean Houston (2004). Jump Time:                                             Shaping Your Future                                             in a World of Radical Change. Houston has doctorates in both psychology and religion, and is an international author, consultant, and speaker. In this book, she defines "jump time" as an evolutionary shift from the old to the new, a time of potential radical transformation/evolution on every system level. Her use of metaphor and vocabulary makes engaging reading, and her references to other researchers and people of indigenous wisdom fills the pages. Another book is needed that takes her ideas and turns them into specific, concrete practices. To her credit, she does include ...

HONOR & LOVE Mary Balogh (2003). Slightly Married. Even though it is a novel, there are many truths within this book, and a spell-binding plot with heroes and heroines. Set in the time of the Nepolianic wars of Europe, most of the story takes place in England, near London, with Colonel Aidan Bedwy and Eve of Rigwood Manor being the principle characters in the story. Through odd circumstances, they enter into a marriage of convenience out of honor, and over time, they begin to fall in love, eventually, in the last chapter, finding their home with each other. It is a delightful tale with the themes of honor and love throughout the book. For the practice, when you need to make a decision, consider how much of the decision is honor-bound and how much is motivated by love...ideally, you can maximize both, but sometimes, honor and love appear to be in opposition, and one must lean more in one direction than the other with honor as the "right" thing to do, and love as the ...