Current Books I am reading.

I usually do not have too much time to read just for pleasure but have recently been able to find a bit of extra time and I am currently working on two great books simoultaneously. Here goes a little bit about them.

The first is Freakonomics which is a knock you on your behind, completely different view of the world around us. Written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner this book takes the ordinary, mundane and sometimes comical and makes you see relationships which you ordinarily would never have caught. Click on the link to Amazon and take a look at the summary you really will be surprised, a book written by economists is a page turner. Seems unlikely but then again "Why do crack dealers still live with there mothers?" Well the book dives into that and other off the wall questions. Like what does the KKK and a real estate agent have in common?

The second book I am working on is more along the lines of self help, personal growth and is entitled The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. This book creates a connection between a corporate executive and a professional athlete. The authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz spent years helping professional athletes work on their sprint/rest routines and then figured out that these same routines could truly help the Corporate Athlete. This book is written in the form of small vignettes which allows one to sit down read a couple of pages and continue on with whatever you were up to. Each small story of a different individual allows one to create parallels with one's own faults and try to adopt some of these changes. I have found that using the spring rest mentality, if at the very least, is a great way to brain wash myself to focus on the task at hand by promising myself a rest doing something I enjoy whenever I reach a certain predetermined goal. Give it a try it came highly recommended to me by a Senior Executive I truly respect and I too highly recommend it.