2024… Your Year of More: Plan your goals and invest your efforts by Noah William Smith

★★★★★  The publisher provided a copy for review. 
Forget the date. We're halfway through the year and I'm still finding the questions in this A-Z book helpful. If you like coaching yourself or others, you'll find a topic that resonates.

I liked that I could choose a topic - an emotion, action, or idea - and work through it at my own pace. I'm stingy at giving 5-star reviews but this has been useful all year. And I plan to go back to it next year and in the coming years.

If you're stuck, trying to get to the next level in goal-setting and self-understanding ... or if you're doing practical get-in-motion counseling to encourage your employees, grown kids, or friends to take the next step, grab a copy.

Me We Do Be by Randall Bell

★★★★★  The publisher provided a copy for review

This book was a shocker in a few ways: the clarity of writing and appeal of the stories. Best was:
*The logical premise - that there are several factors of success.
*The encouragement and inspiration with practical steps toward a life we want to live. (I really enjoyed the incremental "can-do-this-today" approach.)
* The holistic internal and external factors we choose to put in place - physical, spiritual, mental, and otherwise - are covered with stories of people every American would know.

I'd recommend it for anyone who needs motivation or coaching on moving forward toward a better life or better work.