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Last time I talked about goals and mentioned that about a goal that I originally didn't start off with but was influenced by an acquaintance. That person is Rich Hopkins who is an outstanding public speaker and motivator who set a goal of reading one book per week for the whole year and gave a list of some of the books he was thinking of reading.
At first I didn't think that I could even come close to reading a book a week but I decided to put my one hour back and forth to school on TriMet Route 44 to good use. While we still have a couple of days till the half way point of the year, I have actually read 28 books so far this year and am currently working on one although I don't know if I will have it done by Monday.
Here is a list of the books that I have read by category:
Motivational:
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age By Dale Carnegie Institute
Life Reimaged By Leider and Webber
Wishes Fulfilled By Wayne Dyer
Break Out! By Joel Osteen
Life Without Limits By Nick Vujicic
How Full is Your Bucket? By Raft and Clifton
Hijacked by Your Brain By Ford and Wortmann
Be the Miracle By Regina Brett
The Millionaire Next Door By Stanley and Danko
Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
Barefoot Executive By Carrie Wilkerson
Political :
That Used to be Us* By Friedman and Mandelbaum
Democracy and Populism By John Lukacs
Urban Planning:
Portland Edge Edited by Connie Ozawa
Planning With Complexity* By Judith Innes
Planning And Diversity in the City* By Fincher and Iveson
Ethical Land Use* By Timothy Beatley
Planning a New West By Abbott, Adler and Abbott
Zoned Out* By Jonathon Levine
Fiction:
Daybreak Zero* By John Barnes
Star Trek: The Original Series: No Time Like the Past By Greg Cox
Star Trek: Voyager: Protectors By Kristen Beyer
Star Trek: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms By Dayton Ward
Star Trek: From History's Shadows By Dayton Ward
Misc.
Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
By Carl Abbott
Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World By Zig Ziglar
The Message of You By Judy Carter
The 5 Love Languages By Gary Chapman
*Titles that I was required to read
I am currently reading the book Planet of Slums and may have it done by Monday which would make 29 books so far this year. I currently have a stack of books that I hope to be reading over the next few weeks most of which are either motivational books or Urban Planning/Design in nature along with one fiction book called "Tomorrow, When the War Began" which is the Australian version of Red Dawn.
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