This is by no means a definitive book list. These are the seven rather eclectic books that I’ve found indispensable in my work over the years. What are the books you find crucial to your work as a personal historian? Add your list to my comments box below. I’d love to hear from you!
- The Non Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice. 2nd Edition by Robin Williams: “Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design–proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast–in an illustrated volume that features before and after examples of page design. Original.”
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen: “… offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists–all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on.”
- Legacy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Personal History by Linda Spence: “Through a series of thought-provoking questions about each phase in human life, Spence helps readers record their personal history, think back to feelings that any number of snapshots could never capture, and reflect upon their lives.”
- Get Clients Now: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants by C.J. Hayden: “… a very precise marketing and sales system actually designed to be completely customized for optimal effectiveness by anyone in the service industry.”
- Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper by Barry K. Baines: “A step-by-step guide to writing a document that communicates personal values, beliefs, blessings, and advice to relatives and to future generations.”
- The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron: “…a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.”
- What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom For The End Of Life by David Kuhl, M.D. “… Kuhl shares his education on this topic by focusing on the daily experience of patients who are learning how to broach such discussions with their caregivers and families while coming to terms with their own mortality.”
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