While the subtitle of this book (How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action) suggests that the content is for leaders of large organizations, I believe the book's details can apply to all kinds of leaders and businesses. The main mantra of the book is: People don’t buy WHAT you…

I’ve been doing a lot more writing than I had in the past, so I thought this book would be a great book to read. This book had a lot of good information about different ways to communicate to help readers stay interested in your writing and keep them reading…

This month’s read was another book that’s been on my “to read” list for quite a while. I purchased the paperback version of the book on vacation several years back. I started to read it then but didn’t finish the e-book version until this past month. I enjoyed reading the…

When you start working with Microsoft Excel, one of the essential things you need to understand about the program is cell references and how they work. To understand cell references, you first need to understand the composition of an Excel worksheet. Excel worksheets contain columns that go across the page…

Introduction Microsoft Excel has several functions categorized as lookup functions. Many of them can be replaced by the versatile XLOOKUP function. The XLOOKUP function can replace the VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and INDEX + MATCH functions. However, the XLOOKUP function is only available in Excel for Microsoft 365. …

I heard about mind mapping probably a few decades ago but never took the time to really look into it. It turns out there’s not much to it. In a nutshell, you just: Place your main topic in the center of the mind map. Place subtopics around the main topic. …

After reading the Four Agreements, I was pretty excited to read The Fifth Agreement. I was a little disappointed, though, because a lot of the content rehashed the first four agreements, and not very much of the book was dedicated to the fifth agreement. …

The book Ultralearning teaches the reader how to learn better and get better results from what they are trying to learn. “Ultralearning is a strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge that is both self-directed and intense.” I read this book more from the perspective of a teacher rather than a…

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom I’ve wanted to read this book for some time, and I’m sorry that I waited so long to do so. Reading this book and applying it to my life are two separate things. …