​I love to read both fiction and non-fiction. One recent fiction book, The Midnight Librarian by Matt Haig, struck me boldly as a wisdom practice. The practice is to use the power of your mind to imagine your future self if you’d only made the choices you thought were better than the ones you made.

​One of my all-time favorite books authored by Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Relax, describes a practice that made me laugh out loud and ponder my perceptions simultaneously. The practice is to replace the statement, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” with “Don’t just do something, sit there!” 

​​One of my favorite books this year was authored by Pema Chodron called Welcoming the Unwelcome. She describes a practice that made me laugh and ponder my perceptions simultaneously. She calls it the "just like me" approach. Whenever I harshly judge someone, I add the phrase "just like me"