Comic Art in America by Stephen Becker
The 80/20 Manager by Richard Koch
500
Books Reviewed on Keenan’s Book Reviews
Get
Your Sh*t Together by Sarah
Knight
The How of Happiness by Sonja
Lyubomirsky
Investigating Lois Lane by Tim Hanley
It’s
Not Always Depression by
Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Late
Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard
Metering
for America by Alfred Leif
500 Books Reviewed on Keenan’s Book
Reviews
I’ve posted reviews of 500 books on this blog. Here are links to the 50 most recent posts. Further down are links to more reviews.
First Time Reviews
A Mind for Numbers by Barbara A. Oakley
Anxious
for Nothing by Max Lucado
Become
a Better You by Joel Osteen
The
Beethoven Factor by Paul
Pearsall
Bigger than Life by Marilyn Cannaday
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and
Bradley Hope
Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
Chief
Engineer by Erica Wagner
The
Computers of Star Trek by
Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg
Contents
Under Pressure by Sylvia F.
Munson
Enchantress
of Numbers by Jennifer
Chiaverini
Feeding
the Fire by Mark E. Eberhart
The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman
Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight
The
Girls of Atomic City by
Denis Kiernan
Happiness
is a Choice by Barry Neil
Kaufman
Haunted
Jefferson City by Janice
Tremeear
The Instinct to Heal by David
Servan-Schreiber
It’s Not Always Depression by Hilary
Jacobs Hendel
The
Johnstown Flood by David
McCollough
Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard
Learn
Python 3 the Hard Way by Zed
A. Shaw
Living Low Carb by Johnny Bowden
Lost Connections by Hari Johnson
Loving
in Flow by Susan K. Perry
Making
the American Body by
Jonathan Black
The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions
by Andrew Hacker
Metering for America by Alfred Leif
Move
Ahead with Possibility Thinking by Robert H. Schuller
Pascal’s
Wager by James A. Connor
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by
Richard P. Feynman
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by
Patricia Highsmith
The
Revenge of Analog by David
Sax
Scan
Artist by Marcia Biederman
Scott
Pilgrim's Finest Hour by
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Smarter
Faster Better by Charles
Duhigg
Super
Attractor by Gabrielle
Bernstein
Unimaginable by Jeremiah H. Johnston
Why
We Get Fat and What to Do About It by Gary Taubes
Write
Naked by Jennifer Probst
You
are a Badass Every Day by
Jen Sincero
Additional
and Expanded Reviews
The
Introvert’s Way by Sophia
Dembling
Continuation of list of 500 books reviewed
The title of Sarah Knight’s
book, Get Your Sh*t Together,
suggests what is inside. There is cursing on practically every page. There is
tongue-in-cheek humor.
There is advice
on how to set goals
and achieve them.
If you’ve read many books on self-help, getting organized, setting goals and success, Knight’s recommendations won’t be new to you. However, many will find her style helpful and appealing. She writes with directness, simplicity and humor.
She has a take on motivation that you don’t see everywhere: focus on what annoys you. A lot of people advise that you conjure up a richly detailed vision of the life you want. That is hard. The vision can seem out of reach. You don’t have to imagine annoying things; they are right there bothering you. If you can do something to reduce the annoyance, you’ll want to, and if some series of steps will eliminate it, they’ll seem worth the effort. The life you want may reveal itself as you shed the annoying things you want to get rid of.
Once you have a goal (stop this annoying thing by taking some action), you need a plan that breaks into manageable steps. You’ll also need to set aside time to give your energy and attention to taking those steps. It also takes commitment to follow through.
Because it takes time to get things done, you may need to make time by spending less of it on other things. Knight discusses priorities. I’ve observed that the people who are the worst at having it together seem to have no priorities. If you can learn to spend more time on what is really important, and focus on it, you’ll be way ahead.
Knight’s book isn’t for everyone. The cursing starts in the title and doesn’t let up. However, I appreciate her brevity, simplicity and directness. The concepts are easy to grasp; the challenge is in implementing them.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
The
Procrastination Equation by
Piers Steel
Secrets
You Keep from Yourself by
Dan Neuharth
Succeed
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
You
are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Knight, Sarah. Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
