Editors Note: Heading for bed in a hotel in Austin, TX, I asked the front desk if he had any books and the young man gave me this short read about the life of Stieg Larrson, highly acclaimed author of the Millennium trilogy crime series (“The Girl With/Who”…). It is a brief and fascinating book by Larrson’s business partner about the author who died of a heart attack a month before the first of the books was published. Larrson was an extremist and his books somewhat parallel his life lived obsessively fighting right-wing extremism, anti-Semetism and neo-Nazi organizations in Sweden. If mystery interests you, as it does me, this book is a good read.

Editor’s note: Some fun ones, some wrong ones and a few that really blew me away, such as: The universe can only do for you what it can do through you. Hope you enjoy 20 or 30 of these fifty sound bites as much as I did. Thanks to Bob Mramor for passing this onto us.

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a list of people who have given me confidence and courage and I’m still updating that list at 63.

Editor’s note: There are probably many reasons this became the theme of a generation and perhaps asking my sixties friends I’d find a few more. But to me, this song always simply said to me “keep on moving.” And if you don’t know any other song by the Grateful Dead, it’s likely you’ve heard this if only because of its catchy tune. Enjoy.

Editor’s note: My friend, Glen Warner, suggested I’d like this book and I did. Since it was written in the 1920’s and the writer’s style is unique, it was a little hard to get into. But its parabolic teaching engaged me by the end. The moral of the story is typical serving something greater than our self but there’s more – the book suggests by doing so we become capable of greater achievements ourselves and that further, if we insist on confidence in our giving then the one to whom we’ve given becomes more likely to pass such “personality” on to others.

Editor’s note: I read Daily Good most days and like the things they lead me to. It’s a volunteer organization that collects and publishes quotes and commentary regarding social good. This is an interview with now-famous Brene Brown, the behavioral research scientist who wrote “Daring Greatly” (featured book of the month some time ago). Dr. Brown is always a tough read because she studies and deals in emotions like shame, guilt and vulnerability. These are universally felt but largely ignored barrier emotions to courage and authenticity so I plow through her work in hopes I can learn more and change my own reaction to such emotion over time.

In MBA school in my mid-fifties, some of what I learned was just attaching bigger words to stuff I already knew from experience. Others, such as the three-legged stool lesson taught by Jay Barney in Organizational Architecture class planted fundamental lessons that will never leave me.

Editors note. This song by Bob Dylan was first released on The Band's first album Big Pink and has been covered by many since then. My love for it comes from listening to my son Kevin cover it at some of his gigs over the years. Enjoy a great roots rock song.

Editor’s note: I’m a little skittish about self-help books anymore, especially from an associate of “Dr. Oz” and so before reading “Wise Mind Living,” Dr. Olivo’s 200 page advice to moody people like me, I tried this little 19 pager to see what she’s like.  Everything here is known and has been written before elsewhere, as I’d suspected but it really was helpful to me to see how Olivo suggests I process my emotions, including my triggers and the after effects of the eight key areas she accounts for – six negative and two positive.  My twenty years of mindfulness practice keeps me noticing my emotions more but it will be pretty interesting to see if understanding the process helps me “name the emotion” before I let it go.  

Editor’s note: Simply the best article I’ve ever read about God.