Book Review - Elevate Your Emotional Intelligence: A Parable That Reveals the Path to Better Relationships and a Happier Life

About the Book

Did you know that Emotional Intelligence is a better predictor of success than IQ?

Cultivating emotional intelligence is central to achieving lasting success, whether you're navigating personal relationships, progressing in your career, or striving for personal growth.

The great news is - you CAN RAISE your level of emotional intelligence. AND it's not that difficult!

As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, In Elevate Your Emotional Intelligence Kathy Stoddard Torrey takes us on a five-step journey into the fascinating realm of Emotional Intelligence. This insightful and compelling parable provides practical strategies and tools for self-discovery and transformation.

You'll follow the story of Maria, a life and leadership coach who passed away unexpectedly and returns post-death to help her husband, John, navigate the complexities of human emotions. You'll watch John's progress as he ultimately transforms himself, his family, and his workplace through simple exercises that Maria suggests.

My Take on the Book
In this book you get a story that allows you to truly see the impact that we have on other people and the impact that they have on as too. The author does a great job of creating a story that really allows you to better understand emotional intelligence and the need for this in your personal and professional lives. The book provides actionable lessons in a parable format that make the concepts easy to understand and incorporate into your life. I found the book to be something that I kept thinking about after reading it and I am already seeing myself incorporate the lessons into my life and you will find this to be the case too!

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Book Review - Name, Claim & Reframe Workbook: Your Companion Guide to a Well-Lived Life

About the Book
Take a deeper dive into self-discovery with this new workbook offeringa revolutionary pathway designed to better help and guide people to handle stress, distress and life's turbulent plot twists.

Selected as the Best Motivational Read of 2023 on the Today Show, Andrea Mein DeWitt's book Name, Claim & Reframe presented a simple yet powerful strategy to help one navigate life's challenges through her breakthrough 3-way model which guides people to:

• NAME the source of your pain point; your triggers and limiting beliefs.
• CLAIM resonant actions that align with your core values.
• REFRAME your thinking so you can proceed with strategic and visionary optimism.

The Name Claim & Reframe Workbook goes deeper into this model by breaking it up into smaller, interactive modules that allows readers to experiment with new approaches to deepen their understanding about what works best for them.

With each consecutive module, readers will find prompts and exercises to help them to process what they are learning and to better understand how this model applies to them and the life they hope create.

The Name, Claim & Reframe Workbook gives readers the opportunity to call up a more responsive mindset so they can navigate dissonate interactions and plot twists with more attuned awareness. They will feel more balanced emotionally because they are leading from the inside, by choosing to listen first to their truth so they can approach adversity with a calm, cool and collected mindset.

My Take on the Book
I love practical books that allow you to really step up your own game when it comes to being better personally and professionally. This book does just that. As a workbook, it challenges you to take actionable steps that will help you identify, name, and externally express the things standing in your way so that you can take the next step in removing the challenges and barriers. The book allows you to face the challenges head-on, and in the end, you leave with a plan of attack to help you be your whole self regarding your life journey. This powerful book will move you positively in the right direction!

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Book Review - Aliveness Mindset: Lead and Live with More Passion, Purpose, and Joy

About the Book
Jack Craven’s Aliveness Mindset is an invitation for anyone feeling stuck to awaken to a life of renewed passion, greater purpose, and authentic joy.

When did you last feel truly alive? What if you could experience that feeling not just once in a while but every single day?

That is the promise and goal of an Aliveness Mindset. You are fully capable of bringing the best, most vibrantly alive version of yourself into the world day after day. Aliveness is already within you, but you have to define it and find it, guard it and grow it. It must be discovered because you are unique and so is your experience of aliveness.

In Aliveness Mindset, executive coach Jack Craven shares the principles and strategies he has used to lead countless CEOs and high-level business leaders into a more fulfilling, authentic life. His practices are not a series of impersonal steps or a formula to blindly follow but rather an organic process of self-understanding and personal growth.

In Aliveness Mindset, you will:

1. Create your own Aliveness Mindset.
2. Learn the simple yet powerful components of the Circle of Aliveness.
3. Discover the unique way you experience aliveness and how to remain in this “Optimal State” despite the ups and downs of life.
4. Understand the seven components of an Aliveness Mindset and how they work together to power your aliveness journey.
5. Receive practical, proven strategies to restore and expand your experience of aliveness.

My Take on the Book
What I loved about this book is that it allows you to work on yourself on a much deeper level and create a better version of yourself both personally and professionally. The book allows you to see that you cannot always control everything in your life but that there are things that you can do to take control of your mindset to be able to better align all aspects to create a better you. The book is easy to read and the author is very transparent on his own journey and things that have worked well for him as well. The framework is one that you can start implementing right away which makes this book one that I plan to keep using for years to come!  

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Book Review - Kingdom Keepers Inheritance: Villains' Realm: Kingdom Keepers Inheritance Book 2

About the Book
The second book in this all new KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy follows our young heroes to parks around the world as they work to stop the most villainous villain of all—Ursula—from taking over for good!

In this latest book in the series that has sold over a million copies worldwide, Ridley Pearson expands the Kingdom Keepers world in ways no reader—or Disney Parks fan—could have imagined.

Home from their adventures abroad in book one, Eli and his friends are safe and sound at Epcot with their families—or are they? When Eli learns that the CEO of the Walt Disney Company has mysteriously done a 180 and ordered Villains Realms to be built in every park across the globe, he and his friends know something is amiss. It turns out that Ursula, the baddest of the big bads, has recruited an evil chemist to recreate Walt's magical ink, which would allow the Villains to travel between parks and end Disney magic as we know it.

With the help of Cinderella's very own Fairy Godmother—the notorious FGM as she's known in this world—they set out to stop Ursula—jumping from Epcot to Disneyland to Disneyland Paris, where the ultimate battle between good and evil plays out. Will Eli and his friends prevail, or will the Villains finally have their way?

My Take on the Book
This send book definitely brings back feelings from the first series. In this book you get to see the Overtakers coming back and how the characters have to work together against them. I also liked the character growth that you saw in this book, especially between Eli and Blair. The book had adventure, action, humor and more. The Overtakers were great to see and I was happy to see that we even got a new Overtaker in the mix, Narissa! All-in-all this is a great addition to the trilogy and I cannot wait to get to read book three!

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Book Review - Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance The Shimmer

About the Book
The first book in a new Kingdom Keepers series.

In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney's imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents—and some of the parents were once known as the Kingdom Keepers. Their identities are carefully guarded to raise their children without special treatment; most of the Kingdom Keepers work for the Walt Disney Company and have settled into "ordinary" and rewarding lives. When a messenger carrying a secret communication coincides with both a solar eclipse and Eli Whitman's thirteenth birthday—a few "ordinary" kids are thrust into a battle to save Epcot and find their friend who has mysteriously disappeared. With their friend missing and their parents acting strangely, the Kingdom Kids discover they are in possession of unusual powers as they forge a bond to rescue their friend and uncover the truth about how real magic has entered their lives.

My Take on the Book
I really enjoyed the original series and was excited to see what they would do with this new rendition of the series. You get brand new characters that are the fun, but you also get new Overtakers (along with the old ones as well). You can tell in this first book that the author is setting up the premise for the books to come. You get to see and learn about the creator of the Overtakers and his grandson and you can easily tell that he will be bad news in the future. While this book did not have a lot of Disney characters within it, I know that things will continue to progress in the future and in the end I am really looking forward to seeing what comes next in the series. 

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Book Review - Kingdom Keepers VII: The Insider

About the Book
The final title in the original KINGDOM KEEPERS series is back with an all-new look and new content!

The Kingdom Keepers’ senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced–albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews.

Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory—a lost icon. It was believed to be gone forever. The Keepers have one last chance to preserve the heart of the Kingdom—Disneyland—from a terrifying destruction decades in the making.

My Take on the Book
I have been a big fan of the Kingdom Keepers since the series began. In this book, you see the original characters, still rocking from the loss of their friend, Duncan, come back together as villains of the parks continue their attacks and, this time, take their attacks to the next level. One of the things that I love about the book is that, as a fan of the parks, you get to relive some of your own experiences in the parks and intersperse things that you did not know about too. In this book, I loved how the characters all have to work together to bring all of the work they have done throughout all of the books together to keep the parks safe and to allow the parks to be the shining gems that are.


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Book Review - Fate Be Changed: A Twisted Tale

About the Book
What if the witch gave Merida a different spell? This New York Times best-selling series twists Disney•Pixar's Brave into a fast-paced story in which Merida is sent back in time.

If you could change your fate, would you? Merida understands that as princess of Clan DunBroch, she has certain obligations—but that doesn’t mean she has to like it. Especially when one of those obligations means losing her freedom by becoming betrothed to a man she has never met. Merida balks at this tradition, but her mother Queen Elinor insists that Merida must do this to embrace her role as future queen.

Determined to chart her own path, Merida follows magical wisps to a witch’s cottage, where she is given a magic pastry and promised it will incite “a great transformation” in her mother. But instead of feeding Elinor the pastry, Merida eats it herself.

Merida awakens in the past, a now-teenage Elinor holding a knife to her throat and accusing her of espionage. She’s been transported to a time when the Clans MacCameron and DunBroch are bitter enemies. And it just so happens that the timing of Merida’s arrival has kept Elinor and Fergus from meeting.

Will Merida be able to bridge the rival clans, help her parents fall in love, and change her own fate?

My Take on the Book
I love these twisted tales and in reading this, this is no different. I loved how this book brought forth the story of Merida in a whole new way. The story had a ton of twists and turns and makes you keep guessing about what might happen until the very end. The book is a ton of fun and Merida gets to learn so much more about herself, her parents and the clans too. All-in-all this is a great book that keeps brings you back for more!

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