So, I'm browsing one of my shelves of knitting books in search of the Last Minute Knitted Gifts book when this book, Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement, fell from one of the top shelves and hit me smack on the head. I'm not exactly sure why the book decided to make its leap from the shelf, but I have my theories. Serendipity. Fate. Divine intervention. Whatever the case, I'm taking it as a message from above (no pun intended).
Several years ago, I purchased the book to fulfill the so many books for free book-club membership deal. Back then the book called out to me because of the snappy title and the ransom note lettering on the book's cover, and I suspected that I had become a bit of an adult underachiever. I'm sure the fact that the book's author is a PH.D. is part of the reason I never read the entire book as most writings by PH.D.s put me to sleep before I can get to the "D" that goes with their PH.
That is not the case with this book. It is well written and entertaining. The book also includes real life examples and case studies. As I read this book and thought about my life and those areas I would like to improve, I found myself realizing that I will need to realign my priorities, which will likely cut into my knitting time. I will still knit and blog as much as I can, of course, but my life can't be all about the knitting all of the time. It just can't.
It might take a smack upside the head to wake me up, but I'm awake now.
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