I believe you can learn what is important to a person by what he reads, watches, and listens to. Below you will find a partial list of important items in my personal library, some of which make up my “mind menu” or my “success library.” When I read, I read with a purpose, highlighting passages, making margin notations, taking notes, and writing summaries to maximize what soaks in. Do you?
My Mind Menu consists of books, periodicals, recordings and Web sites that I use in my personal development program.
“From the neck down, very few people are worth more than $100.00 a week. From the neck up, there is no limit to what an individual is worth. So what do we do? We feed our stomachs, the $100.00 part below our necks, every day. How often do we feed our minds, the part that has no limit to its value, earning and happiness potential? … Most of us feed it accidentally and occasionally, if it’s convenient or we don’t have anything else to do.”
-– Zig Ziglar (1926- ), American author, salesperson, motivational speaker. See You At the Top, 1978, p. 245.
All successful people I know have such a collection and use it almost daily. I love Books! Audio recordings are great, too. They can turn an ordinary car into a university on wheels.
- “101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life” by David Riklan
- “101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2” by David Riklan
- “5000 Year Leap, The” by W. Cleon Skousen
- “15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, The” by John C. Maxwell
- “7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The” by Stephen R. Covey
- “7 Secrets of a Phenomenal L.I.F.E.” by Howard Partridge
- “8th Habit, The (Miniature Edition)” by Stephen R. Covey
- “Art of Exceptional Living, The – Unabridged (6 CD Set)” by Jim Rohn
- “Attitude Is Everything: 10 Life-Changing Steps …” by Keith Harrell
- “(The) Autobiography of Zig Ziglar”
- “Book of Virtues, The: A Treasury of Great …
” by William J. Bennett
- “Born to Win” by Zig Ziglar and Tom Ziglar
- “Busy Being Busy” by Michelle Prince
- “Circle Maker, The” by Mark Batterson
- “Creating Magic” by Lee Cockerell
- “Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion …” by Alex & Brett Harris
- “Drive” by Daniel Pink
- “E-Myth Revisited, The” by Michael E. Gerber
- “Embrace the Struggle” by Zig Ziglar and julie Ziglar Norman
- “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect” by John C. Maxwell
- “Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping …” by John C. Maxwell
- “Fish!
” by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen
- “Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The” by Patrick Lencioni
- “Flight of the Buffalo” by Belasco & Stayer
- “Fred Factor, The” by Mark Sanborn
- “Go-Giver, The” by Bob Burg
- “Graduate Edge, The” by Joshua Mackenzie
- “How Successful People Think” by John C. Maxwell
- “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
- “Incredible Bread Machine, The” by Brown, Keating, Mellinger, Post, Smith & Tudor, 1977.
- “Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from …” by Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges
- “Leader of the Pack” by Stephanie Zonars
- “Loving Monday” by John D. Beckett
- “Mastering the Seven Decisions” by Andy Andrews
- “Noticer Returns, The” by Andy Andrews
- “Our Iceberg is Melting” by John Kotter
- “Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, The” by Susan Thurman
- “Over the Top” by Zig Ziglar
- “Power of Positive Thinking, The” by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
- “Put Your Dream to the Test” by John C. Maxwell
- “One Thing, The” by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan
- “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and …
” by Tony Dungy
- “Richest Man in Babylon, The
” by George S. Clason
- “See You at the Top” by Zig Ziglar
- “Simple Truths of Service: Inspired By Johnny the Bagger” by Ken Blanchard
- “Think and Grow Rich
” by Napoleon Hill
- “Tipping Point, The” by Malcolm Gladwell
- “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom
- “Weird Ideas That Work — 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation” by Robert I. Sutton
- “Who Moved My Cheese?
” by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
- “Whole New Mind, A” by Daniel Pink
- “World is Flat, The” by Thomas L. Friedman
- “Hoosiers” (movie)
- “Facing the Giants” (movie)
- “Remember the Titans” (movie)
- “Cool Runnings” (movie)
- Success Magazine
- Various Websites (see: X-tra Links)
More Books:
- “A Brief History of Time
” by Stephen Hawking
- “The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation …” by Lee Strobel
- “Chicken Soup for the Golfer’s Soul” by Jack Canfield
- “Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
” by Michael Behe
- “Down the Fairway
” by Robert T. Jones, Jr. and O.B. Keeler
- “Darwinism Under the Microscope” by James P. Gills, M.D. & Tom Woodward
- “Hoodwinking the Nation” by Julian Simon
- “Killing Kenedy” by Bill O’Reilly
- “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly
- “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis
- “Refuting Evolution 2” by Jonathon Sarfati
- “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an …
” by Dinesh D’Souza
- “Shadows of Legion
” by Vernon Buford
- “Surprised by Faith” by Dr. Don Bierle
- “The Biblical Basis for Modern Science” by Henry M. Morris
- “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as …” by Thomas Sowell
- “Who Moved the Stone?” by Frank Morison
More Books (with my comments):