Timothy Ferris: The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
This book will change the way you think about work and possibly your purpose. As a result of reading this book I started Smooth Stone Resources to help better fulfill my purpose. (*****)
Richard A. Swenson: Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
We all need it...few have it. How do you create margin in your life. Swenson touches on the four areas in our life where we need to have margin. If it is not present, he will give you the prescription in which to create it. (*****)
David J. Rendall: The Four Factors of Effective Leadership: Revised & Updated
This is the best overall leadership book I have read. It does a wonderful job showing you the four areas in which effective leadership is derived. As Rendall points out this truly is a mental filing cabinet in which you can put just about everything you have and will learn about leadership. (*****)
Stephanie O. Hubach: Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability
This book looks at the Biblical view of disability. The points that were made we so clear and truth driven. I learned a lot even though I work in this field full time. (****)
Steve Farrar: How to Ruin Your Life by Forty
This book I will give out to every high school or college graduate I know from now on. It is on of those books that clearly and plainly communicates what decisions will need to be made early in life and how to make them most effectively. Even if you're over 40 get this book and read it. (****)
Craig Groeschel: Chazown: khaw-ZONE - A Different Way to See Your Life
This book really give a Biblical way to see your life differently. Groeschel creatively and humorously presents the five spokes of Chazown. (***)
Philip Smith: A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty
This is a very new investing opportunity. This book will open your eyes to some of the good things going on in 3rd world countries. Who knows, you might even choose to invest after this read. (***)
Jerry Porras: Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
If you have not ever read books on personally effectiveness then this will be a good one. Some of the ideas I have heard before, but overall solid. (***)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkerd by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great."
--Mark Twain
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."
Mike Ditka
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
Bertha Calloway, Founder of The Great Plains Black Museum
"Focus, Focus, Focus! You will only have significant success with something that is an obsession. Success comes from having passion and having fun creating your objective!"
Rev Run
"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."
David Starr Jordan (Editor and Writer)
"Disturb us, Lord when we are too well pleased with ourselves. When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little. When we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord."
Prayer by Sir Francis Drake
"If you're big enough for your dreams, then your dreams aren't big enough for you."
Erwin McManus
