2018 Book-a-Week Goal

2018 Reading List

  1. Multiply Your Business
  2. 15 Laws of Invaluable Laws of Growth
  3. Do It Now
  4. Archetype Guide
  5. Give and Take
  6. Sacred Contracts
  7. Your Gameplan
  8. Getting Noticed
  9. Gameplan, Harnisch
  10. Gameplan Workbook
  11. Heal Your Body
  12. Fearless
  13. Aroma Freedom Technique Quick Start Guide
  14. Charka Healing
  15. Notes from a Friend
  16. Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
  17. The 4-Year Career
  18. The 4 Agreements
  19. Angel Numbers 101
  20. Gemstones A-Z
  21. The 5th Agreement
  22. Aroma Freedom Technique
  23. It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be
  24. Go-Giver Leader
  25. Go Giver Influencer
  26. Vitality Life
  27. The Secret History of the World
  28. Discipline Equals Freedom
  29. Water Crystal Healing
  30. You Can Heal Your Life
  31. The Crystal Wisdom
  32. The Blue Sword
  33. Smudging & Blessings
  34. The Gifts of Imperfection
  35. A Course In Weight Loss
  36. Strong Mothers, Strong Sons
  37. The Alchemist
  38. Mothers & Sons
  39. Going Veggie
  40. The Essenes, Children of the Light
  41. A Little Bit of Auras
  42. Be the Miracle
  43. A Little Bit of Astrology
  44. Oola: Find Balance in an Unbalanced World
  45. Om Yoga
  46. The Whole Brained Child
  47. Sacred Earth
  48. Balance: Oola Gameplan

In 2017, I set a goal to read a book a month.  I did it, but just barely. Some months I had to catch up and ended up reading a book in a week or a weekend.  Once I realized I could do a book a week, they why spend four weeks doing it? So for 2018 I set a goal to read a book-a-week. Yep.  I went from barely reading 12 books-a-year to 52.

It was a goal that forced consistency — without it, catching up was going to be a lot more complicated then it had been when I could squeeze in two books in a month. Not only did the books bring enlightenment but the sheer audacity of the goal did, too.

In 2018, here are all the books I read.

Yep, I only read 48 books.

And believe me, it was an experience that December.  I had included this goal into my day-job performance goals, so not only did I have myself to answer, but my manager as well.  No, I don’t like not achieving goals.  I’ve been an over achiever and to have “failed” in not reading 52 books really irked me.  Before the Christmas holiday, I tried to give myself grace. So I wasn’t going to spend my vacation stressed reading 12 books — but it was hard to not “win” and do it.  In the end, I read eight of the twelve outstanding books. In January, I felt disappointed in myself.  I could have done better.  I agonized over what to write in my day job yearly review.  The last four books haunted me.  For months.

And finally it hit me.

I was focusing on the wrong thing.

I was focusing all my mental and emotional energy on the four books that I didn’t read, instead of the amazing (yet surprisingly doable) feat of reading 48 books in a year.  Seriously, I had gone from having trouble reading 12 books in a year to crushing it with 48.  Now think of the growth that came with that.  I read, learned and grew in 3 months what I had previously done in one year.  At the book-a-week pace — even not “finishing”, I had grown four times more than I had year over year.  And yet I kept my attention on the four I didn’t read.

I was focusing on what I didn’t do instead of what I did do.

How often do we do that?
Focusing on the love we don’t have, instead of the love we do.
Focusing on the friends, money, things, job, peace, joy, body that we don’t have, instead of what we do have.

Where in your life are you focusing on the four instead of the 48?

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