This is Your Life

My Top Ten Favorite Books of All Time [Podcast S02E04]


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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of the This Is Your Life podcast. In this second episode, Michele Cushatt and I discuss my top ten favorite books of all time.



John Maxwell says that readers are leaders and leaders are readers. I believe that is true. That’s why I make reading an important priority. It is something I do literally every day.

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The biggest challenge was narrowing down my list to these ten. Here they are in no particular order. (You can listen to the podcast to see why I chose these books.)

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin


The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr


A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller


The War of Art by Steven Pressfield


Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs


Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin


The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber


The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell


Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown


The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9- to-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss




I didn’t include the Bible, but that would be the most important book on my list. I re-read it every year and never cease to make new discoveries that are helpful in my life and business.




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