{"id":755,"date":"2019-12-15T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2019-12-15T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:54:22","slug":"im-reading-week-december-15th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-december-15th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of December 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read, watched or listened to this week.<\/p>\n<p>(pic: Client off-site meeting in Santa Barbara last week)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-756\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jg.png 1080w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jg-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jg-768x663.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jg-1024x885.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emotional Flexibility<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;In a nutshell, emotional flexibility is about holding everything at once \u2014 happiness, joy, and enthusiasm at the same time as anger, sadness, and frustration \u2014 and being able to feel differently at various points throughout the same day and perhaps even the same hour.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrowtheq.com\/emotional-flexibility-how-to-hold-everything-at-once\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/thegrowtheq.com\/emotional-flexibility-how-to-hold-everything-at-once\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most Accomplishments Are Invisible<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;I achieved the ability to do certain everyday things most people do with ease. But they took an enormous amount of work, and I wouldn\u2019t trade a single one for a million bucks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2019\/12\/most-accomplishments-are-invisible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2019\/12\/most-accomplishments-are-invisible\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overcoming Your Demons<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Inside of every struggle is the seed of some of the happiest moments of your life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/overcoming-your-demons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/overcoming-your-demons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Dark Horse Path to Happiness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Whenever you find yourself seeking, or wanting a certain outcome out of life, note what you\u2019re doing and then refocus on practicing your core values.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2373876\/three-steps-happiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2373876\/three-steps-happiness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram for daily quotes, book and product reviews, and knowledge bombs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Overcoming Your Demons: &#8220;Inside of every struggle is the seed of some of the happiest moments of your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Emotional Flexibility: &#8220;In a nutshell, emotional flexibility is about holding everything at once \u2014 happiness, joy, and enthusiasm at the same time as anger, sadness, and frustration \u2014 and being able to feel differently at various points throughout the same day and perhaps even the same hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Most Accomplishments Are Invisible:  &#8220;I achieved the ability to do certain everyday things most people do with ease. But they took an enormous amount of work, and I wouldn\u2019t trade a single one for a million bucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Dark Horse Path to Happiness:  &#8220;Whenever you find yourself seeking, or wanting a certain outcome out of life, note what you\u2019re doing and then refocus on practicing your core values.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,66],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[61,558,559,488,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}