Small Steps Big Impact : One Minute Rule

I came across the one-minute rule in the book The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. The one-minute rule is a simple tool for procrastinators. 

Small Steps, Big Impact

A few days back, I had been reading a particular book and there was a mention about one-minute rule. Ever since I read it, it stuck to my mind and kept haunting me(in a good way) whenever i faced a similar situation. (More on One-minute rule in the next post).

That got me thinking, that I should post such 'Small Step, Big Impact' pieces that I read randomly in books and elsewhere. These small steps doesn't make a big difference in your everyday schedule yet the cumulative impact is huge. In a way, these are habits that one should develop but are often postponed or overlooked. So, let's get ready for Small Steps, Big Impact!

The Guernsey Literary And The Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary And The Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

256 pages

Published Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited (2010)

It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of life in Guernsey under the German Occupation, Juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name.

For reasons unknown, I seem to adore books that have a story behind its title (Ponniyin Selvan - a Tamil magnum opus, The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan and Lemon Girl by Jyoti Arora).

Many Lives Many Masters by Dr.Brian Weiss

Many Lives Many Masters
Dr.Brian Weiss

224 pages

Published July 15 1988 by Touchstone

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the “space between lives,” which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss’ family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career. With more than one million copies in print, Many Lives, Many Masters is one of the breakthrough texts in alternative psychotherapy and remains as provocative and timeless as it was when first published.

We Should All Be Feminists

We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie 

64 pages

Fourth Estate; 1st edition (9 October 2014)

‘I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently…’

What does “feminism” mean today?

In this personal, eloquently argued essay – adapted from her much-admired Tedx talk of the same name – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now – an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Thank you so much SRR(Senior Reading Raccoons group on Facebook) for introducing me to books like this. Every time I browse this group, I start making a mental note of the books mentioned in the posts and comments to look up later(as in minutes later). In a couple of minutes though, I realize I have such limited memory.