Hi Friends, 

Whew! Already a whirlwind start to 2019—I guest lectured at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for a two-week course on Strategic Pivoting, and was deeply honored that the professor Allison Kluger chose Pivot as the course textbook! Former Yankees player Alex Rodriguez was the co-teacher—check out a fun Facebook live we did here and here :) For those up to speed on pop culture, that also means there's a tiny chance Pivot breathes the same air as J-Lo in one of their apartments! ;) 

Michael and I moved into a bigger place uptown at the end of January. We shared a studio and both worked from home for two years (!!), so I'm just now digging myself out from under all the boxes. With a few big client projects underway, and second semester at Union in full swing—my courses this semester are Double Belonging, Socially Engaged Buddhism and Mark and Healing—I am just barely keeping up with most everything else! As you can tell with this newsletter and podcast shifting to monthly(ish) for a little while :) 

That said, I was delighted to find time to celebrate these four fabulous authors and their new books!! If there's one thing I can't live without, it's brain food :) 

FOUR RECOMMENDED FEBRUARY READS

• Laura Garnett's The Genius Habit: How One Habit Can Radically Change Your Work and Your Life. Laura is one of my closest friends in the city, and I followed her journey from inception of an idea to publisher rejections to landing a book deal to launching — all while having her beautiful baby girl in-between! Here's my blurb that says it best :) 
  
  Give yourself the gift of genius—not through inborn luck, but through Laura Garnett’s powerful, practical system to build a lifelong Genius Habit. Bored at work? Instead of berating yourself, consider that your plateaus are signals pointing toward greater purpose. This book will help you dismantle barriers to find what really lights you up, as you click into the contagious joy of doing the work you—and only you—were born to do.
   
• Alan Stein Jr.'s Raise Your Game: High Performance Strategies From the Best of the Best. You can also listen to our recent Pivot Podcast here »
   
• Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. I just love his philosophy on Deep Work, and reigning in our all-consuming tech! Check out our February Pivot Podcast here »
   
• Tosha Silver's It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance. I've been part of her private forum for over three years now, and this view has completely changed the way I live and do business! 

RECENT PIVOT PODCASTS

• Digital Minimalism with Cal Newport
• Raise Your Game and Ditch Compare-and-Despair with Alan Stein Jr. 
• Mantras in Motion with Erin Stutland
   

• NY Mag's The Strategist: The 8 Best Books for Career Advice, According to Executive Coaches
• GQ: How to Career Pivot to a New Job

TOOLS

• Smart Traveler Enrollment Program: "a free service to allow U.S. citizens and nationals traveling and living abroad to enroll their trip with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate."
   
• iTunes App Store's round-up of Games to Soothe Your Mood

 

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FINAL THOUGHTS
That's it for now . . . THANK YOU again for reading, for your support, and for being part of this adventure with me.

 

And please feel free to reply and say hello any time! I would also love to hear what's on your mind and what questions you have so that I can address them in future newsletters :) 

Warmly,