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365 Ways to Live Generously: Simple Habits for a Life That's Good for You and for Others
"Sharon Lipinski highlights a path to greater personal and professional success."―Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take Create Your Best Life through Generosity The only thing standing between you and the life you want are your habits. 365 Ways to Live Generously features lessons each day that focus on one of the seven generosity Each habit appears once a week, giving you a year to practice and make them all a part of your daily life. Learn why the habits are important, discover tips based on the latest research about making positive change, and explore simple exercises for building new routines. Improve yourself and make a difference in the world with journaling prompts and generous acts. Using this inspiring book, you'll develop the habits needed to create a life that's good for you and others.
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480 pages, Paperback
Published January 8, 2017
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December 9, 2016
I received an e-copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the kind of book you want to purchase two copies of--one for you, one for a friend. The daily tasks in this book are easy for anyone to try, and the author provides relevant, thoughtful, and simple ways to be generous. I enjoyed how accessible the ideas are, and how few focus on money. Time, energy, and intention are equally important. Although the topic of the book is living generously, the book also encompasses mindfulness, self-care, connection, gratitude, and inspiration.
If generosity is on your to do list for 2017, I recommend this book. You'll definitely want a journal to go along with it, because the author offers prompts throughout the book.
This is the kind of book you want to purchase two copies of--one for you, one for a friend. The daily tasks in this book are easy for anyone to try, and the author provides relevant, thoughtful, and simple ways to be generous. I enjoyed how accessible the ideas are, and how few focus on money. Time, energy, and intention are equally important. Although the topic of the book is living generously, the book also encompasses mindfulness, self-care, connection, gratitude, and inspiration.
If generosity is on your to do list for 2017, I recommend this book. You'll definitely want a journal to go along with it, because the author offers prompts throughout the book.
January 29, 2018
365 Ways to Live Generously: Simple Habits for a Life That's Good for You and for Others Kindle Edition by Sharon Lipinski
This is a great book packed full of practical, useable ideas to live a fuller, happier, more generous life, with as much emphasis on generosity towards yourself as to others. Being generous isn’t about giving away money and gifts however, it’s about taking care of yourself both physically and mentally, living life mindfully, reflecting on behaviours and boundaries in your relationships with others, and accepting people for who they are, and much, much more.
I bullet journal regularly, and this book is a perfect companion for me to not only look at the practical organisation of my day and manage my tasks and priorities, but also to bring in self-reflection and development as a person. I’m excited at the thought!
My only thought is that the daily reflections contain some pretty big ideas, ideas that I feel might take more than one day to reflect upon and develop, so I will adapt accordingly.
An easy four out of five stars.
This is a great book packed full of practical, useable ideas to live a fuller, happier, more generous life, with as much emphasis on generosity towards yourself as to others. Being generous isn’t about giving away money and gifts however, it’s about taking care of yourself both physically and mentally, living life mindfully, reflecting on behaviours and boundaries in your relationships with others, and accepting people for who they are, and much, much more.
I bullet journal regularly, and this book is a perfect companion for me to not only look at the practical organisation of my day and manage my tasks and priorities, but also to bring in self-reflection and development as a person. I’m excited at the thought!
My only thought is that the daily reflections contain some pretty big ideas, ideas that I feel might take more than one day to reflect upon and develop, so I will adapt accordingly.
An easy four out of five stars.
June 24, 2017
I liked this. Not only for the simple self-improvement reminders about health, diet, meditation etc, and daily quotations, but as it says in the title 'live generously'. In this day of the endless selfie and self-absorption that seems to possess many, it is surely a good thing to have reminders about sharing and thinking about others perhaps less fortunate than ourselves. The author says we need a journal to go along with this, and although some may see this as an unnecessary addition to the book, I think it helps this kind of process to get your thoughts on paper. I will continue this day by day, and look forward to a better and more generous me at the end of it!
Review of an advance digital copy from the publisher.
Review of an advance digital copy from the publisher.
December 28, 2017
A good book. Not like other 365 day books, this is things to do in 51 weeks not day to day things. It is connecting different habits together.
June 18, 2019
I liked the Seven Elements of a generous life- physical health, mindfulness, relationships, connection with self, simplicity, gratitude and philanthropy
February 6, 2017
365 Ways to Live Generously Simple Habits for a Life That's Good for You and for Others by Sharon Lipinski will be released this January 8th by Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
It's the story of a lady plenty of success born in a family with a mom very generous with everyone.Her mom, tells Sharon helped everyone in every possible ways and necessities, while the author grew up pretty selfish and without any kind of compassion for other human being.
Sharon doesn't know the reason why from a mom such generous she became at least someone so closed with other people. Maybe it was because of work, maybe it was because absorbed by a full-time job with zero private life and plenty of responsibilities. Sharon started to get up during the night with frequent panic attacks. Responsibilities, pressure was very high, she couldn't cope anymore with all of it: living in a system like that one, constantly under pressure and she decided to resign starting a more spiritual and real trip along the USA.
Once she met a man abandoned to himself with a very sad story behind. That man wouldn't have been invited tells he author to spend any minute at the house where he previously lived in with his dear ones, he was considered a sort of failure from his dear ones, and so Sharon invited this man for the Thanksgiving dinner in the closest place they would have found, and there she discovered what it meant to go out with a stranger that it is not anymore a stranger but a friend and someone with which you are able to establish a great and good connection thanks to his human story that it is after all also your human history because each of us is in this world for a certain purpose.
Not only: Sharon discovered how a little gesture of generosity like spending some time with a stranger since at few minutes before could mean the world to him.
The book is very captivating, because after this experience Sharon learned what it means to be generous with other people and now she wants to give to all of us the opportunity to change our mind, our body for becoming best people and for becoming great new generous helpers in this world.
Create your Best Life thought Generosity one of her motto.
I found the story touching and the entire book stimulating.
Change is possible just we must want it.
Buy it if you think to be a little Scrooge in every sense, and you will start a new real beautiful chapter in your life!
I thank NetGalley and Llewellyn Publishing.
It's the story of a lady plenty of success born in a family with a mom very generous with everyone.Her mom, tells Sharon helped everyone in every possible ways and necessities, while the author grew up pretty selfish and without any kind of compassion for other human being.
Sharon doesn't know the reason why from a mom such generous she became at least someone so closed with other people. Maybe it was because of work, maybe it was because absorbed by a full-time job with zero private life and plenty of responsibilities. Sharon started to get up during the night with frequent panic attacks. Responsibilities, pressure was very high, she couldn't cope anymore with all of it: living in a system like that one, constantly under pressure and she decided to resign starting a more spiritual and real trip along the USA.
Once she met a man abandoned to himself with a very sad story behind. That man wouldn't have been invited tells he author to spend any minute at the house where he previously lived in with his dear ones, he was considered a sort of failure from his dear ones, and so Sharon invited this man for the Thanksgiving dinner in the closest place they would have found, and there she discovered what it meant to go out with a stranger that it is not anymore a stranger but a friend and someone with which you are able to establish a great and good connection thanks to his human story that it is after all also your human history because each of us is in this world for a certain purpose.
Not only: Sharon discovered how a little gesture of generosity like spending some time with a stranger since at few minutes before could mean the world to him.
The book is very captivating, because after this experience Sharon learned what it means to be generous with other people and now she wants to give to all of us the opportunity to change our mind, our body for becoming best people and for becoming great new generous helpers in this world.
Create your Best Life thought Generosity one of her motto.
I found the story touching and the entire book stimulating.
Change is possible just we must want it.
Buy it if you think to be a little Scrooge in every sense, and you will start a new real beautiful chapter in your life!
I thank NetGalley and Llewellyn Publishing.
October 31, 2016
This book was literally a day-by-day list of small paragraphs helping people to grow their generosity through 7 habits that they will work on, one for each day. None of the ideas and exercises are spectacular or new (I recognized most of them from other self-help books I've read; I read from a wide variety and it appears the author does too) and include meditating, journaling, and specific exercises for donating both time and money. I was honestly hoping this would be more of an overarching book (by week, not by day).
It's an okay book if you haven't read anything like it before but really nothing new under the sun.
It's an okay book if you haven't read anything like it before but really nothing new under the sun.
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January 19, 2017Sharon Lipinski has written a wonderful book about the seven generosity habits.(Physical health, mindfulness, relationships, connecting with yourself, gratitude, simplicity and philanthropy) Each day of the week covers a different topic and each week builds off the previous weeks. The daily tasks are very easy to complete and don't require a lot of time. I plan to go back through the book day by day and do each item.
October 18, 2016
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This book did have some great ideas for improving your life, giving more, and being more grateful, but there are also plenty of “out there” ideas that just don’t sit well with my personality. Your mileage may vary.
*Note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book did have some great ideas for improving your life, giving more, and being more grateful, but there are also plenty of “out there” ideas that just don’t sit well with my personality. Your mileage may vary.
*Note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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