Sorting Your Beans, Lifes Little Lessons, creatively reveals the bean-sorting process as analogous to making daily life choices and decisions. The correlations are thought-provoking and depicted using inspirational themes, quotes, colorful images and carefully crafted text that challenges readers to not only re-think beans, but to also re-evaluate their own choices and decision-making processes.
Readers are inspired with each message/lesson Examine the current selection of beans/choices; Embrace each bean/choice received as an opportunity to break free of habits or patterns that have outlived their usefulness; Listen to the little voice within and follow its leading; and, Replace any outdated, automatic responses, habits or patterns with beans/choices that serve and honor the individual in her/his present state.
Erin Tobin, MA, is a first-time author whose writing until now has been confined to dry, analytical business documentation in the Legislative, Legal and IT fields. Motivated by her own journey of self-discovery, Erin has stepped outside of her comfort zone to share a few of the lessons she’s learned on her path from dysfunction and codependence to awareness and happiness.
Inspired by a number of authors, teachers and thought leaders, Erin’s quest for greater purpose and meaning lead her to a surprising revelation; many complex, eternal truths can be understood by taking a closer look at the properties of simple beans. In this book, she shares her inspiration and bean insights in a unique, light-hearted and thought-provoking way.
Erin has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts degree from Texas State University. She is a native of Colorado and currently lives in the Austin, Texas area.