{"id":2681,"date":"2025-09-14T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:51:10","slug":"19th-book-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/19th-book-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"19th book, Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finished reading my 19th book today, 19 books this year &#8211; wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While this was a pretty quick and easy read, many of my books are not.  I get into the big technical books, several hundred pages &#8211; and they take some time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I take great notes on everything and jot them down in detail so I can later review them and refresh my memory if needed.  (I never do) but they, they are there in case I do need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to do one good technical topic (The last one I just finished was Microsoft Teams) to keep my brain pumped, and then I love to read personal improvements books &#8211; they always give you new ideas to better yourself and it is always fun to learn what other people do and feel, and how they apply things to themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I just love learning, fill this old brain up with more knowledge and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why not, keeps me going strong!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WoW (Words of Wisdom): Day 24 \u2013 Change the world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What starts here, changes the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, don\u2019t be afraid of the circuses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, don&#8217;t back down from the sharks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, you must be your very best at the darkest moment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, start singing when you&#8217;re up to your neck in mud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">If you want to change the world, don\u2019t ever, ever ring the bell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading my 19th book today, 19 books this year &#8211; wow! While this was a pretty quick and easy read, many of my books are not. I get into the big technical books, several hundred pages &#8211; and they take some time! I take great notes on everything and jot them down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}