A friend of mine recommended Michael Strahan's book, Wake Up Happy, as a book that my adult students might like to read. Most of my students have had a fair to good amount of failure in their lives, along with daily struggles just to survive. I wanted a book that would be encouraging, but also provide an inside look of someone who has had a fair amount of struggles in his own life.
Michael makes a lot of good points in the book and encourages readers to examine themselves in regards to where the current and future are taking them. We're reading the book as a book study and the guys are eager to discuss what they learn from each chapter. Mike provides a lot of quotes that can easily be used as a self-reflection writing task.
I also like that the book is written at a level in which most of my students can read it. This is very important. Adult learners want to be able to read material like anyone else. If it becomes a struggle, they usually give up on the reading and have no desire to finish the book no matter how good it is.
I recommend Wake Up Happy for any adult or late teen to read. It's a good review of things that we already know, it's packed full of encouraging ideas, and it motivates readers to make positive changes. The book is a quick read. I read it in 3 days, for just an hour or two at time.
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20 take-a-ways
Recently, I stumbled on a discounted copy of Wake up Happy by Michael Strahan and Veronica Chambers. It was stuffed in a pile of unknown debut novels and children’s books that Albertson’s Grocery positioned in the middle of the medicine aisle.Ever the fan of Chambers and convinced that Strahan is my nephew’s elder twin, I knew buying the book would be worth the huge discount — not to mention the pair as authors gave me an extra reason to grab it. Initially, my thinking was to give it to my nephew. By the time I’d reached the register, I’d prepared my Look-what-your-big-twin wrote speech and was ready to pass the book on.Then, of course, my insatiable reading habit wouldn’t allow me to give away a book I hadn’t read. So, I indulged.While reading the first two or three chapters, I stopped several times to think through the writing until I finally surrendered to grabbing a pen, marking up the margins, doodling emotions, and underlining paragraphs, page after page.I honestly was not expecting the wealth of insight Strahan laid out.Here are the best take-a-ways:1. It is the attitude with which we pursue our goals that gives us our biggest boosts of happiness (Strahan quoted Shawn Achor)2. Start today with music, words, movements use the power of pause. Don’t rush your day.3. True love multiplies the joy in your life4. Find ideas and inspiration everywhere you go. Visualize by using all your senses. Be conscious.5. Just because no one’s screaming your name, doesn’t mean you can't win. We count ourselves out waaaaay too soon.6. We hold ourselves back and doubt ourselves more than anybody else will.7. There’s more power in your attitude than your bank account8. Your role of agreement is to find a way to say yes.9. Process information given and readjust. Process the opportunities, failures, observations.10. It’s your life, drive it like you own it. Project your purpose to the world.11. Happiness is the joy we feel while striving toward our potential.12. Do not be afraid to bet on yourself. Win or lose, take joy in striving toward your potential13. Be around people who encourage you to talk about your dreams then pushes you to dream bigger14. A little nibble will give you hope; A line in the water gives you hope.15. Having something to strive for breeds its own kind of joy16. Figure out what are the untapped resources that could change your life.17. Pay attention to detail, the specifics of techniques, and develop a mental toughness. The art of mental toughness is finding focus and confidence to attack whatever challenges arise with everything you’ve got and then some.18. That juice is worth the squeeze!19. Answer: what did you do to get better today?20. Indulge your playful side.And of course, wake up happy.@JozefSyndicate
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