Last year, one of the most checked out shows….and good feedback on some of the recommendations. And it wasn’t planned.

This year, I thought it would be good to do it again. So….with some planning and tracking over the year, I kept the list.

Now here they are. In 2 parts.

Many of these influenced podcasts and in some cases, the authors became guests of the show. How cool is that.

So, I’ll read a little piece from each, like last year, a piece that I heavily underlined at the time so it must have been good!

Go out and buy these. Most of them are linked on the website – the books page – if these are you things…

Here are the first five. Enjoy!

1.Mindful Walking – Hugh O’Donovan (link to it HERE)
•One of the first I read in 2019 and interviewed Hugh shortly after reading it
•Liked the writing style
•A Great introduction to mindfulness and how you can practice it
•For me, it’s always useful to keep reading deeper into this subject and reinforce it’s value
•Example of a mindfulness practice you can do from the book

2.Recreate Your Career Story – Mary Butler
•An ex-work colleague and friend shared her work with me
•Was delighted to read this and found it full of useful tips and a solid approach to take when thinking about changing career
•Well written – a great sense of Mary’s personality coming through too
•Here’s a piece from it

3.21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harrari
•Discovered Yuval last year and was hugely impressed with Sapiens where he talks about the history of humankind – well worth a read
•This one as the title suggests dives into 21 different areas that are important for us to understand
•Liberalism, Globalization, Nationalism….
•But the piece I’m going to read is, to further espouse the value of mindfulness, from his experiences with the practice and how it’s impacted him!

4.Awareness – Anthony De Mello
•This is one I actually re-read and dip into on occasion in 2019
•It’s a guide to spiritual life
•It’s very different view on many of the every day subjects we look at or in many cases don’t examine
•There is one piece from it on ‘negative feelings towards others’

5.The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz
•Had this on my shelf for a while and only got around to reading it in Sep this year
•I was instantly hooked on it – one of those reads that gives you so much to think about and makes so much sense – I love the idea of Maximizers v Satisficers
•Highly recommend this one –
•I was honoured to talk with Barry for the podcast a month or so back too and get a deeper dive into his mind and work
•You can listen to that here – https://robofthegreen.ie/episodes/barryschwartz-ep138/
•You can buy the book - https://amzn.to/2qeNS5p
•Here’s a piece from it