Better Ways to Pick a Good Book and Reading Suggestions

Good morning, Live Better than a Billionaire-a-Holics!

Are you feeling motivated this morning? I certainly hope so. I know that I am!

The average American reads one book a year.

Look at The New York Times best seller list over time, and you'll see what people are buying. See http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/

But only a fraction of what is bought is ever read. Why?

Most books don't appeal to their readers!

What should that one book be?

That's a question I'm asked all the time as Amazon.com's leading reviewer of non-fiction books.

What's my answer?

Read a non-fiction book that will improve many aspects of your life.

In fact, many successful people never read fiction. They view their time as too precious to waste on fiction.

Naturally, each person needs something different to improve many aspects of life.

Here's a short list to help you focus:

1. The Bible -- No other book contains as much wisdom, practical advice and inspiration.

2. The Essential Drucker -- Excerpts from 10 of Peter Drucker's books on for-profit management that will help you improve your enterprise if you are in business. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006093574X/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

3. Relationship Rescue and Relationship Rescue Workbook -- These books will give you the edge in smoothing out problems with your family and loved ones. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078688598X/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance
and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786886048/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

4. The South Beach Diet -- Using this diet will lower your weight, improve your energy and help you avoid diseases associated with overweight people. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579546463/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

5. Common Sense on Mutual Funds -- Use stocks to improve your wealth. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471295434/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

6. Developing the Leader within You -- Become more effective in leading whatever you do. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785266666/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

7. How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life -- Time management for the overwhelmed. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451167724/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

8. How to Read a Book -- Make your reading more effective. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671212095/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

9. The Success Principles -- Time-tested lessons on being more effective at everything you do. See
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060594888/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

10. The 2,000 Percent Solution -- Accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and effort. This is the first major book I co-authored. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595291139/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

11. Getting to Yes -- Negotiate anything successfully. See
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140157352/104-5889592-2919129?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

Can a billionaire do any better? I doubt it.

A billionaire can certainly afford to buy all of these books. But how much time does she or he have to read?

I suspect that fewer than one person in 100,000 has read all of these books. You can be that one person without being a billionaire.

Even if you cannot afford to buy the books, you should be able to find all of them through your public library.

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N.B. As you can tell, I'm experimenting with color. Let me know what you like and what I should change about my use of color. Many thanks to Linda Grace for her suggestions which I am following!

Please let me know what else you would like to learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog entries.

Here are some upcoming subjects:

Tomorrow, let's look at how to run a short meeting better than a billionaire.

On Wednesday, you and I will look at how non-billionaires can do more than billionaires to solve some of the world's most difficult problems.

Thursday, let's look at a public high school that's better in many ways than the world's most elite academies where billionaires send their offspring. You'll be thankful that such a wonderful approach is available to our young people.

Friday, I'll write about how to do your Christmas shopping as inexpensively and luxuriously as possible.

On Saturday, let's explore a beautiful living check list that will put you ahead of any billionaire you can think of . . . and make you the envy of your family and friends . . . as you enjoy delight after delight.

If you are new to this blog, be sure to check out the updated table of contents entry that I posted on November 16. The table of contents will help you find earlier entries that may be of interest. I'll update this table of contents every week or so for your convenience.

August 31 was the most frequently read blog entry to date. Be sure to check it out!

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May God bless you.

Donald W. Mitchell, Your Dream Concierge

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