A list of my favorites:
Books – I read mostly non-fiction, with the exception of Stephen Colbert’s book and Dan Brown’s novels listed below. Here are the books that have influenced me or which I simply think are very interesting. I will, of course, keep adding to this list when I come across something I really like.
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
– Stephen R. Covey
- First Things First – Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill
- Principle Centered Leadership – Stephen R. Covey
- The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
- The Christ Commission – Og Mandino
- Empires of the Mind – Denis Waitley
- Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- Smart Couples Finish Rich – David Bach
- Personal Finance for Dummies
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t – Jim Collins
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
- Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child – John Gottman, Ph. D.
- Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Children in Language that Builds Self-Esteem & Encourages Responsibility – Chick Moorman
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- I am America (And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century – Thomas L. Friedman
- A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World – John Wood
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Bookmarks & fridge magnets – see my blog entry on this
Quotations – Gosh, I have so many that I absolutely love. Most of them I post as status updates on facebook, but here are just a few of my favorites:
- The only real prison is fear, & the only real freedom is freedom from fear. – Aung San Suu Kyi
- God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die. – (I can’t remember where I saw this)
- If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. —Nora Roberts
- Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you’ve lost it. – Sandra Bullock
- Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. – Oprah
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
