Brain Food

Every year many of us map out audacious goals, dreams, and resolutions for the new year.  What I'm learning is achievement is 10%  the stuff we do and 90% mindset.  My personal thoughts are if we can control how we think and what goes into our mind, we can do anything our minds set out to do.  Mental food or food for thought is the books we read.  In high school and college I may have read 9 books throughout my entire time... total!  Once graduating from college one of my mentors shared with me the power of reading and the impact it has on our thoughts and our future.  I'm grateful for him influencing me to read. If we change our mind, we change our world.  

Below you'll see this year's book list I've committed to reading for 2014.  I've already read a handful of these and will re-read because they were so powerful, and others will be completely new reads.  Here are the core topics of the types of books I read:  leadership, personal development, business, real estate, spiritual growth, and of course my favorite, the Chronological Life Application Study Bible - NLT version (this version of the Bible has made the Bible come to LIFE for me).   My reading habit is 10 pages of the Bible daily and 15 pages of a book daily, 5 times per week.  Romans 12:2 urges us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds...

I'll be posting recaps of each book as I complete them.. so check back throughout the year. 

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What books are you planning to read this year?