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Summer Vacation Reading

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Education & Training with Advantage Solutions Group

One of my summer vacation goals is to read. I have a pile of books that have come highly recommended or that I have been meaning to get around to. I don't know about you, but I still love to read and had not been making the time to do it. Or leaving it to before bed when I could read about 5-10 pages and then got too sleepy to read more.

While in Florida a couple of weeks ago, I read a couple novels. It is almost like going on vacation to be entirely sucked into a story and time outside my reality. The fun of being in other lives unseen and without risk is a delicious treat! I plan to do more fiction in the coming weeks.

And, then there are all the business books and mind stretching books. These are my favorite! I just finished How Would Love Respond?: Imagine If You Were Given a Gift So Powerful That You Knew You Had to Share It with the World by motivation speaker Kurek Ashley. Kurek shares his own powerful story of awakening that begins with a helicopter crash where he loses his best friend and is forced to question his purpose. If you could use a useful perspective, especially when you've been having a abda day...this is a good read!

There are other recommendations in the bookstore on my website, including the book I've got a chapter in, Conversations on Success (along with Tom Hopkins and Dr. John Gray).

What are you reading?????

 

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License Retired
Lebanon, TN

In this political year, I'd strongly recommend "The Fair Tax Book" and its sequel (can't exactly remember the title) which addresses questions raised by the first book. Both are by Neil Boortz and Rep. John Linder, are very fast reads, and offer a dramatic view of what the United States could very reasonably be if we quit using the current tax system as a method of rewards and punishments doled out by our "betters" in Washington.

I cannot imagine a larger paradigm shift for this country unless an alien spacecraft were to land on the White House lawn. Regrettably, one of the biggest lobbyist opponents to this is the National Association of Realtors. Doing away with our present structure and going to a one-time-per-finished-item sales tax on all goods and services would negate the need for lobbyists (working in D.C. to get special tax treatment for their special interest), and the NAR is the biggest lobbyist.

Jul 16, 2008 01:50 AM
Larry Bettag
Cherry Creek Mortgage Illinois Residential Mortgage License LMB #0005759 Cherry Creek Mortgage NMLS #: 3001 - Saint Charles, IL
Vice-President of National Production

I'm a voracious reader for things that will truly help and that aren't just feel good.  thanks

Jul 16, 2008 02:06 AM
Frances Flynn Thorsen
eXp Realty LLC - State College, PA
Author | REALTOR | Educator

I am reading The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukov.  It comes highly recommended. ;-)

I recently finished a fun novel by John Grisham, King of Torts. I am a hopeless courtroom novel addict! This is the first novel I have read in three years. I believe that summers are made for fun fiction.

When I finish that one I have some real estate books that I want to read. I am creating a "Read Soon" shelf in a bookcase in my office for books I have collected in the last few months that are screaming to be read. I will keep you posted.

Jul 16, 2008 05:56 AM
Mike Jones
SUNSTREET MORTGAGE, LLC (BK-0907366, NMLS 145171) - Tucson, AZ
Mike Jones NMLS 223495

Joeann,

You're putting me to shame.  I have no reading list.  I'm on it!

Mike in Tucson

Jul 16, 2008 10:46 AM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

Joeann - I'm also an avid reader.  But must admit this Summer the pile of unread books continues to grow on my desk.

However, there is one book, which I feel is a must read.  The title is, "The Secret."  It's about the capacity we all have to draw into our lives those things we require using the law of attraction.

I had also watched the video version of this book, and it is fascinating.  There are interviews with the great spiritual leaders of the world.

Myrl Jeffcoat
http://www.myrljeffcoat.com

 

 

Jul 16, 2008 04:55 PM
Lisa Wetzel
RE/MAX Realty Affiliates - Carson City, NV
CDPE, SFR carsonvalleyland.com

Joeann,

I'm a reading fan but suffer with my eyes and reading so I tend to rely on audio books more that print.  I love to listen and have several going all the time ... one at the office, one in the car, one at home.  Like people I know who read several books at a time, I listen to several at once and find it very inspiring.

Jul 30, 2008 12:26 AM