This is the year I am returning to my book-loving roots! I recently saw an ad that claimed the average CEO reads 60 books a year, and part of me was like, challenge accepted. So I want to develop a habit of reading again. I mean when I was a kid, books were my friends, the library was my home away from home. As an adult, the first thing I always did when moving to a new neighborhood was to get my library card. It’s like a passport, people. To encourage my new goal, I opened my Kindle library last night (okay, confession: I have about 700 non-fiction books in my library) and made a list of the books I want to start and finish this year. Finish being the keyword.
So in no particular order, here is what I plan to read this year:
BUSINESS
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams and Thrive
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT/IMPROVEMENT
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Finish: Giving Yourself the Gift of Done
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life & Business
The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind & Life
10 Steps To Transforming Your Life Through The Power Of Mini Habits!
Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity
Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
Power Over the Pillow: 7 Secrets to Master Your Goals, Achieve Success and Become Unstoppable
The Time Chunking Method: A 10 Step Action Plan for Increasing Your Productivity
Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
FAITH
Hello Mornings: How to Build a Grace-Filled, Life-Giving Morning Routine
The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land
Discover Your Destiny: Let God Use You Like He Made You
5 Word Prayers: Where to Start When You Don’t Know What to Say to God
Women of the Word: How to Study the Word with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
How to Let God Solve Your Problems: 12 Keys for Finding Clear Guidance in Life’s Trials
She’s Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You
I Want it All: Exchanging Your Average Life for Deeper Faith, Greater Power, and More Impact
Deborah: A Woman in a Man’s World
Jonah: A Life Interrupted Bible Study
Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero
New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
FITNESS/HEALTH
Healthy By Design: Weight Loss God’s Way
Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food
Full: Food, Jesus and the Battle for Satisfaction
Think & Eat Yourself Smart: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking and Health
Intermittent Fasting for Women
The Day My Shorts Fit My Dad (my awesome cousin wrote this book)
Clean Eating: 1000 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes
INSPIRATION/ENCOURAGEMENT
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (reading it a second time)
Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
So what’s on your reading list this year?
This list is very ambitious! (Not saying it can’t be done by the way.) I noticed there’s no fiction listed. I’m just curious how you stay motivated to read so many non-fiction books. I read 80 books this past year, but maybe only 6 of them were non-fiction. I love books, but I seem to collect non-fiction that pile up in my nightstand. I can’t seem to motivate myself to read them.
Cori—-I have signed up to receive the monthly scripture writing plans. I want to get started with January 2018 scripture but am not able to print—- nothing has been sent to my email ..please help.
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Mary L. [email protected]
Hi, Cori! Don’t know if you’ll see this comment, since the post is older, but I, too have resolved to read more in 2018 (something besides home school curriculum and teacher’s manuals!). Anyway, I’m making a
“Reading Log/Journal” from a regular ol’ composition notebook, but want to decorate it like your Commonplace Book. It will have a list of “Want to Reads” in the front with an index of favorite passages from books that I’ll write out. SO…… I’D LOVE TO SEE A COLLECTION OF READING/WRITING HONEYS, etc…stacks of books, glasses, typewriters, notebooks and pens, etc… if you haven’t done that already. What do you think??? Thanks for all you do!
Rhonda
ps- just heard about a new podcast called “Bible Binge” with Knox and Jamie that you might want to check out.