Here’s some of my favorites.  I’ll be adding more.

Bounce:  Failure, Resiliency and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success by Barry J. Moltz - Great book! Especially in today’s economy when so many really good people are out of work, this book puts a new face on “failure” and helps us to understand that it’s just part of life.

I’ll be sharing some quotes.  Like “I was never trained to ride the rollercoaster while growing up.”

As a baby boomer, I know exactly what that means. Our parents wanted our lives to be better. They taught us that is we worked hard enough we could be anything, do anything. For a long time I believed that. But the reality is its’ not true.

No matter how much I work, I will never be able to do what Colt McCoy did in leading the Longhorns to a last minute victory over a very solid Ohio State defense. And that’s OK. There are things that I can do that Colt McCoy can’t.

Accepting our limitations and failures should be just as much a part of life as celebrating our abilities and sucesses.

A Whole New Mind:  Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink  -  Interesting concept. For the short version check on the December 2008 O Magazine. Oprah did an interview with the author that prompted me to pick up the book. Lots of intresting new paradigms to consider for the future - what Pink calls The Conceptual Age, where creativity and innovation will rule, in a nutshell because they can’t be outsourced. We have an abundance of knowledge, facts and information. The future will be for those who can put it all to use in a better, easier, faster, more productive, more pleasant way. One comments he makes is that the MFA will be the new MBA. Interesting.

The Platinum Rule by Tony Allessandra, Ph.D. and Michael J. O’Connor, Ph.D.   - This is a interesting book.  The golden nugget that I got out of it is “Treat others not as you would like to be treated, but rather as they would like to be treated.”  Understanding the different personality types profiled in the book - Director, Socializer, Relater, Thinker - will help you to decide how others want to be treated.  Big aha moment - It’s not always like you want to be treated.

The Dip by Seth Godin - This is a cute little book, with funny line drawings that illustrate the author’s points.  It’s an easy, fast read.  The golden nugget that I got out of it is ” Don’t make the decision to quit when you are in the down position.”  While it is sometimes the best decision to make - to quit - know when and how to make that decision.