What books you give as gift
  • Your personal favorite book
  • Looking at the profession the receivers have
  • Geology – The map that changed the world
  • Running – Born to run
  • Want to turn their finances around – The Barefoot Investor
  • Soul searching – Man’s Search for Meaning

You may prepare your own list ….

What purchase of $100 or less impacted your life in recent memory

  • A pair of Bears Solo headphones
  • The Brain.fm app

Do you have a ‘favorite failure’ of yours

  • Speech coaching
  • Flying to the wrong City

These failures teach you it’s okay to make mistakes – the earth doesn’t stop spinning because you made a mistake!

Mistakes are more useful than success – mistakes point you falliability and, you can learn and improve from them.

In last 5 years what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life

Gratitude – do your gratitude practice every morning, and you will feel better.

Listen to your gratitude playlist: any song, e.g.,

  • Breathturn by Hammock
  • Your Hand in mine by Explosions in the Sky
  • Devi prayer by Craig Pruess and Ananda
  • Horizon by Tycho
  • Recurring by Bonobo
  • Hanging on by Active Child
  • Long Time Sun by Snatam Kaur
  • Angels prayer by Ty Burhoe, James Hoskins, Cat McCarthy,Manorama, and Janaki Kagel
  • Twentytwofourteen by The Album Leaf

Music helps  to get into the right frame of mind

Suresh Shah, Pathfinders Enterprise

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My thoughts in writing above are influenced by exceleent write by Turia Pitt, a TEDx Talk speaker, Ironman World Champion in Kona Hawaii, and a writer

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