Gina Meyers' 3 favorite reads in 2023

• 2023
• 2024

I read Don Miguel Ruiz's, The Four Agreements. I also listened to his book on tape and watched YouTube videos that further dive into the agreements we make with ourselves and others. 

This book reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the book offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

Don Miguel Ruiz has dedicated his life to sharing the wisdom of the ancient Toltecs. I initially started reading this book while visiting friends in the Bahamas. As I have been out and about, I noticed a young woman reading this book at a grocery co-op in Isla Vista next to UC Santa Barbara. I also ran into another young woman who works at Target, and both young women and myself agreed that this book is life-changing.

The most critical part of this book is the tapes we play in our mind in regard to our own identity and how other people's tapes about us are fictional in nature. Breaking through the bonds of these "character analyses" we must learn to grow outside of the "tapes we replay in our minds." We must rewrite our story to grow.

I just finished listening to the book, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. In the book, it teaches us to live in the now. How often are you living with intent? Often, based upon life stressors, we live by the seat of our pants, everyone becoming amateur firefighters, dealing with whatever emergency is critical to extinguish in the moment.

Living with a life full of gratitude helps to calm the nerves and build a plan for each day. By having an attitude of gratitude, we can have the life of our dreams.

Mallika Choprka, daughter of Deepak Choprka, recounted a story of arranging a meeting in San Francisco with Eckhart Tolle, which was nine months in the making. She described not feeling great and needing to catch a plane from Southern California to Northern California for their very important meeting, which she hoped to use some tidbits of wisdom from Mr. Tolle for her Power of Intent book she was still in the process of writing. What she learned from Mr. Tolle, as I too have learned, is to live in the present moment and all its’ glory and joy.

Living in the now has helped me to enjoy each moment.

I absolutely loved this book because it really followed the lives of many American families and how they became millionaires.

It gave simple and yet effective strategies to become wealthy. It dispelled many rumors as well. I loved the fact that the book talked about how most, if not all, families valued education for their children. The families, no matter what, made sure their children had education paid for so their children could focus on education.