Do The Books You Read On Holiday Keep You(R) Mindful?

In a way, mindful was one of the reasons that I wanted a one week holiday in Nuevo Vallarta because my mind was just too full and too busy with business development projects and it was time to give my mind a rest.

According to the book, The Mindfulness Revolution mindfulness means; conserving the energy of the mind.

Our eight days of rest in Nuevo included sitting and reading by the pool, going for beach walks and romantic dinners.

By the fourth day of our holiday I was still looking for the book that would give me the reading bliss that I was looking for.

I had started looking for that special book a few weeks before our holiday and picked up a few books in my travels that included:

• Drive by Daniel H. Pink

• The Mindfulness Revolution edited by Barry Boyce

• Tell To Win by Peter Guber

Feeling that I hadn’t quite found the book two days before leaving for Nuevo, I went searching between flights at an Edmonton airport bookstore and really felt like I had found the perfect book:

• The Dreamseller – The Calling by Augusto Cury

Still not feeling sure about which book would do the trick, I brought them all on our holiday.

I had read three quarters of The Dreamseller, the best parts of Drive, the first chapter of Mindfulness and the first chapter of Tell To Win and again I just wasn’t feeling it the fourth day of the holiday.

Laura wisely commented that I had unconsciously brought along books that were too closely related to my work and as an example, even though The Dreamseller is a fictional inspirational book, it is too closely related to coaching.

So what to do?

Laura pointed out that someone had left a book behind in our condo called Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill author of The Book Of Negroes. Laura had read The Book Of Negroes and she just loved it.

Thank you to Laura for your wisdom, to the person that left behind Any Known Blood and to Lawrence Hill for the incredible writing that allowed me to conserve the energy of my mind and take me on an eye opening and heartfelt journey through Any Known Blood.