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Reading List: A Few Of My Favorite Books Volume 1

01/28/12Filed under: Reading List

I always have people asking me for a good reading list. I’ve read a couple of books per week for the past 4 or 5 years so sometimes I have a hard time telling people where to start. I think a book hits you hardest when you need it the most. Like the saying goes, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Some of my favorite books set on my shelf for years or I read them years ago and they didn’t impact me. Then a few years later when I read them, due to my life circumstances being different or different trials I was going through, the same book hit me hard.

So, while all the books in my next few posts have drastically impacted my life, except for a few that were funny or just a good read, they may mean very little to you right now. I hope you will give them a chance or at minimum come back and check them out later to see if the message has value to your life as you grow and evolve and your circumstances change.

Maybe later I’ll come back and clean up these posts and put these in better categories so this isn’t such a daunting list where you don’t know where to start.

Click on the links and go read what each one is about before you decide to read them all. I don’t suggest buying them all and trying to force yourself to read them all. Start with the one’s that peak your interest the most when you read the description.

I also hope you will at least force yourself to be open minded before reading the cover or a weird title and thinking, “I’m not reading that…that weird shit would never help me. I hate spiritual books.” 5 years ago you would have been preaching to the choir. But after forcing myself to read a few books some of my mentors said were must reads, I changed my perspective. Some of the weirdest titled/looking books on the lists to follow shook me the hardest and had massive positive impacts and forced me to have paradigm shifts I didn’t expect.

I would also suggest that if a book on this list hits you hard…READ IT AGAIN! Some of the books on this list I have read 4 or 5 times and bought the audio book and listened to it countless times, because I knew the message in the book was something that I desperately needed to apply to my life.

Skimming a book once and having the knowledge….without implementing that knowledge into your life through proactive action is a waste of fucking time. I would argue that it is actually very unhealthy and actually makes you worse. I think you will see much stronger changes in your life if you were to pick a couple of books off the following lists and read them until you know them by heart and you can see that you are doing the things in the book in your day to day life.

I hope these lists help. If you guys like these reading lists, give me some feedback in the comments section and I’ll post more.

I promise you if you read these books, take notes, review them often, and simply try…don’t beat yourself up when you don’t make the changes….just try your best every day to implement the big ideas and your life will be drastically different.

If I could only keep my college degree or the knowledge, skill, and self mastery acquired from my leisure reading…..I would EASILY give up my college degree over what these books have taught me.

I hope they hit you as hard as they hit me.

-Braddock

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