Yeah, I wrote in my journal today.
For the first time since September.
I'm not very good at that. Let's hope this goal thing helps me keep it up!
The Bombing of Jasper Street
14 years ago
Thursday, June 11, 2009
#15 Nonfiction books: Burying our Swords by Kevin Hinckley
Anthony and I read this book together. He loves it when I read to him before bed time.
It was a great book. Short and simple, but with a pretty powerful message about a man struggling to cope with a wayward son who learns to examine himself first.
I've read a few stories like this before - extended parables, so to speak - and I really enjoy them. The whole book is centered around a single verse of scripture, and the few chapters before and after it. It has so many deep insights out of so little initial information!
I love how the scriptures work like that. Take a single statement, and you could study it for hours on end! Entire reference works could be written about each and every chapter in the scriptures, I'm sure. It wouldn't be hard.
That is what makes the book so thought provoking. And even though it is a really short read, I've found that the book affected me in more ways than one. It wasn't just the message of the book, but more the content. I've found that in my own personal scripture study now I'm thinking a little bit more outside the box and applying the same principles toward other scriptures. It makes it so much more meaningful and enlightening.
It was so funny while I read, because a certain insight would hit me and I'd pause for a moment to think about it, which of course would make Anthony quickly exclaim, "hey, don't stop, I'm awake, I promise!"
Great book. And a big THANK YOU to my MIL for recommending it and buying it for us for Easter!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Mini Challenges
Its kinda difficult to keep up with all of the different goals that I have and make sure I'm sufficiently working on them every day.
So I have a new idea to help myself stay on top of everything: mini-challenges.
These mini-challenges I'm creating are designed to help build the habits that will allow me to accomplish my goals. Most of them do not directly meet my goals, but ultimately help me work toward them.
Research shows that it takes approximately 21 days to form a habit.
One of my biggest problems is taking on too much too quickly, so in this way I'm going to somewhat limit myself, but also help to create a more manageable foundation to work with.
So I'll start with 6 daily disciplines that I want to work on, and focus on only those 6 things (along with some of my other one-time goals or goals that don't require daily practice) at a time. I will track each of the goals and work on them until I have practiced them every day for 21 days straight. If I miss a day, I have to start over. So I could likely accomplish the goals in just 21 days, or it may take a few months before they really set in and become habits. Once I accomplish a goal, I will continue to work on it, but shouldn't need to track it or really focus on it (it should be a natural daily thing for me now) and I can replace it with a new daily goal.
The tracking will be as follows: 1 2 3 X 1 2 3 4 5 6 X 1 2 etc. Numbers as I count up the days in sequence and an X any time I miss a day. Some activities, like going to the gym, are not things I really do on Sunday, so if I am skipping Sunday, I will put an S there instead and it won't count against the running tally.
So here I start!
1. Read at least 10 pages from a good book
2. Say my morning prayers
3. Take my daily vitamins
4. Cardio workout
5. Read scriptures
6. Wake up by 5:30AM!
So I have a new idea to help myself stay on top of everything: mini-challenges.
These mini-challenges I'm creating are designed to help build the habits that will allow me to accomplish my goals. Most of them do not directly meet my goals, but ultimately help me work toward them.
Research shows that it takes approximately 21 days to form a habit.
One of my biggest problems is taking on too much too quickly, so in this way I'm going to somewhat limit myself, but also help to create a more manageable foundation to work with.
So I'll start with 6 daily disciplines that I want to work on, and focus on only those 6 things (along with some of my other one-time goals or goals that don't require daily practice) at a time. I will track each of the goals and work on them until I have practiced them every day for 21 days straight. If I miss a day, I have to start over. So I could likely accomplish the goals in just 21 days, or it may take a few months before they really set in and become habits. Once I accomplish a goal, I will continue to work on it, but shouldn't need to track it or really focus on it (it should be a natural daily thing for me now) and I can replace it with a new daily goal.
The tracking will be as follows: 1 2 3 X 1 2 3 4 5 6 X 1 2 etc. Numbers as I count up the days in sequence and an X any time I miss a day. Some activities, like going to the gym, are not things I really do on Sunday, so if I am skipping Sunday, I will put an S there instead and it won't count against the running tally.
So here I start!
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| x | x | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | x | 1 | x | 1 |
| x | 1 | 2 | x | 1 | ||
1. Read at least 10 pages from a good book
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | 1 | |||||
| x | x | x | 1 | 2 | x | 1 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | x | 1 | x | x |
| x | 1 | x | x | x | ||
2. Say my morning prayers
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| x | x | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 | x | 1 | x | x | x |
| x | x | x | x | 1 | ||
3. Take my daily vitamins
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | 1 | |||||
| S | x | x | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| S | 5 | 6 | x | x | x | x |
| S | 1 | 2 | 3 | x | ||
4. Cardio workout
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| x | 1 | 2 | 3 | x | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | x | x | 1 |
| x | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
5. Read scriptures
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | 1 | |||||
| x | x | 1 | x | x | 1 | x |
| x | 1 | 2 | x | x | x | x |
| x | x | 1 | x | x | ||
6. Wake up by 5:30AM!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Movie List
STATUS: 1 of 100
Previously Watched: 32 of 250
Haven't watched yet
Previously watched
Watched
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Dark Knight (2008)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Casablanca (1942)
Star Wars (1977)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Goodfellas (1990)
Rear Window (1954)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Up (2009)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Fight Club (1999)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Psycho (1960)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Matrix (1999)
Memento (2000)
North by Northwest (1959)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Se7en (1995)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Léon (1994)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Taxi Driver (1976)
American History X (1998)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Vertigo (1958)
WALL·E (2008)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
M (1931)
Double Indemnity (1944)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Alien (1979)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Departed (2006)
The Shining (1980)
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
The Third Man (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Pianist (2002)
Chinatown (1974)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
City Lights (1931)
Aliens (1986)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Das Boot (1981)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Rashômon (1950)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
All About Eve (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
Gran Torino (2008)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Der Untergang (2004)
Metropolis (1927)
The Prestige (2006)
Amadeus (1984)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Apartment (1960)
La vita è bella (1997)
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Trek (2009)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Wrestler (2008)
The Sting (1973)
Sin City (2005)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Braveheart (1995)
Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Jaws (1975)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Blade Runner (1982)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Green Mile (1999)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Gladiator (2000)
Notorious (1946)
High Noon (1952)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Oldboy (2003)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Fargo (1996)
Die Hard (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
The General (1926)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Smultronstället (1957)
Yojimbo (1961)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Heat (1995)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Annie Hall (1977)
Ran (1985)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Into the Wild (2007)
Platoon (1986)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Les diaboliques (1955)
Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Life of Brian (1979)
8½ (1963)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Snatch. (2000)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Graduate (1967)
The Killing (1956)
Stand by Me (1986)
Ratatouille (2007)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Amores perros (2000)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Gandhi (1982)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Trainspotting (1996)
The Lion King (1994)
Scarface (1983)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
V for Vendetta (2005)
The Thing (1982)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Sleuth (1972)
Harvey (1950)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Terminator (1984)
Toy Story (1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Kid (1921)
The Hustler (1961)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Incredibles (2004)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Children of Men (2006)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Duck Soup (1933)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
The African Queen (1951)
Casino (1995)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
In Bruges (2008)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Conversation (1974)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
King Kong (1933)
The Exorcist (1973)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
La strada (1954)
Rope (1948)
His Girl Friday (1940)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Changeling (2008)
Crash (2004/I)
Safety Last! (1923)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Frankenstein (1931)
Network (1976)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Patton (1970)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Manhattan (1979)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Magnolia (1999)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
Big Fish (2003)
Great Expectations (1946)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Glory (1989)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Mystic River (2003)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Laura (1944)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
La dolce vita (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Rocky (1976)
Harold and Maude (1971)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Previously Watched: 32 of 250
Haven't watched yet
Previously watched
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Dark Knight (2008)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Casablanca (1942)
Star Wars (1977)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Goodfellas (1990)
Rear Window (1954)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Up (2009)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Fight Club (1999)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Psycho (1960)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Matrix (1999)
Memento (2000)
North by Northwest (1959)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Se7en (1995)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Léon (1994)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Taxi Driver (1976)
American History X (1998)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Vertigo (1958)
WALL·E (2008)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
M (1931)
Double Indemnity (1944)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Alien (1979)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Departed (2006)
The Shining (1980)
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
The Third Man (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Pianist (2002)
Chinatown (1974)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
City Lights (1931)
Aliens (1986)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Das Boot (1981)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Rashômon (1950)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
All About Eve (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
Gran Torino (2008)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Der Untergang (2004)
Metropolis (1927)
The Prestige (2006)
Amadeus (1984)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Apartment (1960)
La vita è bella (1997)
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Trek (2009)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Wrestler (2008)
The Sting (1973)
Sin City (2005)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Braveheart (1995)
Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Jaws (1975)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Blade Runner (1982)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Green Mile (1999)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Gladiator (2000)
Notorious (1946)
High Noon (1952)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Oldboy (2003)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Fargo (1996)
Die Hard (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
The General (1926)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Smultronstället (1957)
Yojimbo (1961)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Heat (1995)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Annie Hall (1977)
Ran (1985)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Into the Wild (2007)
Platoon (1986)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Les diaboliques (1955)
Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Life of Brian (1979)
8½ (1963)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Snatch. (2000)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Graduate (1967)
The Killing (1956)
Stand by Me (1986)
Ratatouille (2007)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Amores perros (2000)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Gandhi (1982)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Trainspotting (1996)
The Lion King (1994)
Scarface (1983)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
V for Vendetta (2005)
The Thing (1982)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Sleuth (1972)
Harvey (1950)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Terminator (1984)
Toy Story (1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Kid (1921)
The Hustler (1961)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Incredibles (2004)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Children of Men (2006)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Duck Soup (1933)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
The African Queen (1951)
Casino (1995)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
In Bruges (2008)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Conversation (1974)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
King Kong (1933)
The Exorcist (1973)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
La strada (1954)
Rope (1948)
His Girl Friday (1940)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Changeling (2008)
Crash (2004/I)
Safety Last! (1923)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Frankenstein (1931)
Network (1976)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Patton (1970)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Manhattan (1979)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Magnolia (1999)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
Big Fish (2003)
Great Expectations (1946)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Glory (1989)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Mystic River (2003)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Laura (1944)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
La dolce vita (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Rocky (1976)
Harold and Maude (1971)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Non-Fiction List
STATUS: 4 of 100
Unread
Currently Reading
Currently Listening
Completed Reading
Completed Listening
GENERAL SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success by Napoleon Hill
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
First Things First by Stephen Covey
Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Thinkertoys by Michael Micalko
Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn
Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
All Things are Possible by Glenn Turner
Cultivating an Unshakeable Character by Jim Rohn
Empires of the Mind by Denis Waitley
The Flex Brain Method by Nightingale Conant Systems
Seeds of Greatness by Denis Waitley
Psychology of Achievement by Brian Tracy
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Aladdin Factor by Jack Canfield
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy
Dare to Win by Jack Canfield
The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey
Failing Forward by John Maxwell
The Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Breaking the Rules by Kurt Wright
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The 60 Second Procrastinator by Jeffrey Davidson
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey
Bonds that Make us Free by C. Terry Warner
FINANCIAL
Debt Free on Any Income by Lyle and Tracy Shamo
Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Shift by Gary Keller
Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
21 Secrets of Self Made Millionaires by Brian Tracy
Millionaire Real Estate Investory by Gary Keller
FLIP by Gary Keller
The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Rule #1 by Phil Town
SALES/MANAGEMENT RELATED
Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Swim with the Sharks by Harvey Mackay
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gittomer
Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Loyalty is Priceless by Jeffrey Gittomer
The Oz Principle by Craig Hickman
Ziglar on Selling by Zig Ziglar
Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun by Wess Roberts
The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
Good to Great by Jim Collins
First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
Discovering the Leader within You by John Maxwell
The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell
Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute
The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
RELATIONAL
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
The Art of Mingling by Jeanne Martinet
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura
Behind Every Good Man by John Bytheway
Without Offense by John L. Lund
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Between Husband and Wife by Douglas Brinley
For All Eternity by John L. Lund
Strangling Your Husband is Not an Option by Merrilee Brown Boyack
SPIRITUAL
To Draw Closer to God by Henry B. Eyring
Daughers of God by M. Russell Ballard
The Continuous Atonement by Brad Wilcox
Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
A Marvelous Work and A Wonder by LeGrand Richards
The Holy Temple by Boyd K. Packer
The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
Moving in His Majesty and Power by Neal A. Maxwell
6 Events By Stephen Covey
Infinite Atonement by Tad Callister
Believing Christy by Stephen E. Robinson
Be Your Best Self by Thomas S. Monson
Burying our Swords by Kevin Hinckley
The Peace Giver by James L. Ferrell
The Holy Secret by James L. Ferrell
21 Days Closer to Christ by Emily Freeman
If Life Were Easy it Wouldn’t be Hard by Sheri Dew
Better than You Think You Are by Ardeth G. Kapp
No Doubt About it by Sheri Dew
Being Enough by Chieko N. Okazaki
Simplify by Carolyn J. Rasmus
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
EDUCATIONAL
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
YOU: The Owner’s Manual by Mehmet C. Oz
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Unread
Currently Reading
Currently Listening
GENERAL SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success by Napoleon Hill
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
First Things First by Stephen Covey
Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Thinkertoys by Michael Micalko
Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn
Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
All Things are Possible by Glenn Turner
Cultivating an Unshakeable Character by Jim Rohn
Empires of the Mind by Denis Waitley
The Flex Brain Method by Nightingale Conant Systems
Seeds of Greatness by Denis Waitley
Psychology of Achievement by Brian Tracy
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Aladdin Factor by Jack Canfield
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy
Dare to Win by Jack Canfield
The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey
Failing Forward by John Maxwell
The Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Breaking the Rules by Kurt Wright
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The 60 Second Procrastinator by Jeffrey Davidson
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey
Bonds that Make us Free by C. Terry Warner
FINANCIAL
Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
21 Secrets of Self Made Millionaires by Brian Tracy
Millionaire Real Estate Investory by Gary Keller
FLIP by Gary Keller
The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Rule #1 by Phil Town
SALES/MANAGEMENT RELATED
Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Swim with the Sharks by Harvey Mackay
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gittomer
Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Loyalty is Priceless by Jeffrey Gittomer
The Oz Principle by Craig Hickman
Ziglar on Selling by Zig Ziglar
Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun by Wess Roberts
The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
Good to Great by Jim Collins
First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
Discovering the Leader within You by John Maxwell
The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell
The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
RELATIONAL
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
The Art of Mingling by Jeanne Martinet
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura
Behind Every Good Man by John Bytheway
Without Offense by John L. Lund
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Between Husband and Wife by Douglas Brinley
For All Eternity by John L. Lund
Strangling Your Husband is Not an Option by Merrilee Brown Boyack
SPIRITUAL
To Draw Closer to God by Henry B. Eyring
Daughers of God by M. Russell Ballard
The Continuous Atonement by Brad Wilcox
Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
A Marvelous Work and A Wonder by LeGrand Richards
The Holy Temple by Boyd K. Packer
The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
Moving in His Majesty and Power by Neal A. Maxwell
6 Events By Stephen Covey
Infinite Atonement by Tad Callister
Believing Christy by Stephen E. Robinson
Be Your Best Self by Thomas S. Monson
The Peace Giver by James L. Ferrell
The Holy Secret by James L. Ferrell
21 Days Closer to Christ by Emily Freeman
If Life Were Easy it Wouldn’t be Hard by Sheri Dew
Better than You Think You Are by Ardeth G. Kapp
No Doubt About it by Sheri Dew
Being Enough by Chieko N. Okazaki
Simplify by Carolyn J. Rasmus
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
EDUCATIONAL
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
YOU: The Owner’s Manual by Mehmet C. Oz
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Fiction List
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1984 by George Orwell *
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell *
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury *
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Stand by Stephen King
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Trial by Franz Kafka
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Persuasion by Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Emma by Jane Austen
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Light in August by William Faulkner
Already read: 19 of 100
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1984 by George Orwell *
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell *
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury *
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Stand by Stephen King
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Trial by Franz Kafka
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Persuasion by Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Emma by Jane Austen
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Light in August by William Faulkner
New Rules
So, once again, if any of you know me, you know I never do anything at a minimum. I always have to make things more complicated.
But, in this instance, I think I'm improving my goals.
So, as an extra incentive, if I complete all of the goals before the specified time (Feb 27, 2012), then I get an extra $5 for every day early to spend on my shopping spree.
Also, every time I complete a goal, I will set a new secondary goal in its place.
I decided to do this because even though it was really hard to come up with the 101 goals, once I got to about 90, they just started flowing like crazy and I had to cut back on several. So I have a lot more things that I'd like to accomplish in the next 2.75 years and I want to make sure I can document them, so I can have a sense of accomplishment and completion. Some of these I know I won't finish by the end of the time frame, but any that are left outstanding will become the base line for my next project.
Thus for every secondary goal I achieve before the end of the first 1001 days, I will get an additional $10 toward my shopping spree!
(The monetary goals in my list will be very important for this - otherwise I know my husband won't let me spend any money....)
The rule for the secondary goals is that they do not have to correspond exactly with the previous goal, but they have to fall in the same category. For example, my first goal is to run a 5K. Once I accomplish that, I don't have to necessarily choose a goal that has to do with running (i.e. run a 6 minute mile), but the goal does have to be a physical goal (i.e. swim 5 miles).
The last extra incentive is that every time I finish any 10 goals, I get to treat myself to something special. It can be any little thing I want to go do at the time - a pedicure, a massage, etc. Something not too expensive, but to reward myself for a job well done! I can't wait 2.75 years to celebrate!
So there's my additional rules. If anyone else is participating, you don't have to do these things. However, in my study of psychology, both in school and on my own, these things are very helpful in actually attaining and maintaining motivation and accomplishment in long term projects.
We'll see how it goes!
But, in this instance, I think I'm improving my goals.
So, as an extra incentive, if I complete all of the goals before the specified time (Feb 27, 2012), then I get an extra $5 for every day early to spend on my shopping spree.
Also, every time I complete a goal, I will set a new secondary goal in its place.
I decided to do this because even though it was really hard to come up with the 101 goals, once I got to about 90, they just started flowing like crazy and I had to cut back on several. So I have a lot more things that I'd like to accomplish in the next 2.75 years and I want to make sure I can document them, so I can have a sense of accomplishment and completion. Some of these I know I won't finish by the end of the time frame, but any that are left outstanding will become the base line for my next project.
Thus for every secondary goal I achieve before the end of the first 1001 days, I will get an additional $10 toward my shopping spree!
(The monetary goals in my list will be very important for this - otherwise I know my husband won't let me spend any money....)
The rule for the secondary goals is that they do not have to correspond exactly with the previous goal, but they have to fall in the same category. For example, my first goal is to run a 5K. Once I accomplish that, I don't have to necessarily choose a goal that has to do with running (i.e. run a 6 minute mile), but the goal does have to be a physical goal (i.e. swim 5 miles).
The last extra incentive is that every time I finish any 10 goals, I get to treat myself to something special. It can be any little thing I want to go do at the time - a pedicure, a massage, etc. Something not too expensive, but to reward myself for a job well done! I can't wait 2.75 years to celebrate!
So there's my additional rules. If anyone else is participating, you don't have to do these things. However, in my study of psychology, both in school and on my own, these things are very helpful in actually attaining and maintaining motivation and accomplishment in long term projects.
We'll see how it goes!
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