On the first day of many years, I write down a few annual goals on a piece of paper. On the last day of the year, I was often surprised to discover that some goals have either started or achieved.
My top goal for 2020 is to stay healthy and to live with a high level of well being. Just because I enjoy learning, for things that are challenging and less enjoyable, I want to translate the hardship into a journey of learning.
After reading the book “The Gratitude Diaries”, I have wanted to start my own gratitude journey to write things to be thankful for everyday. And what better day to start this habit than Chinese New Year day, and that was exactly what I did.
The Gratitude Diaries
By Janice Kaplan
Janice made a New Year resolution to live the year with a gratitude mindset. From marriage, family, money, career to health, caring and connections, Janice narrated how her year of gratitude has transformed her life. The mindset shift not only has added to her own happiness, but also deepened her connections with family and friends. With a journalist background, Janice is a great story teller. She brought in a range of experts, and adds their stories to her own gratitude experiments from winter to autumn.
Gratitude has no end. If we choose to look for it, gratitude is everywhere.
Range
by John Epstein
The world is not lacking experts for every topic and specialization is happening earlier. This book unveils a refreshing theory that in the modern world, the environment is complex and unique (aka wicked); challenges are no longer repeating itself and they cannot be overcome by the same specialized solutions. The author debates the wicked world need the range of generalists to bring in the breadth, the creativity, the leverage from different domains to tackle super complex problems that remain unresolved by specialists for decades. While hyper-specialization works in a repetitive “kind” environment, it argues, with plenty of real-life stories, that the current world problems require the range of generalists as much as the narrow depth of specialists.
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