People ask me how do I find time to read all those books (I try to read a book a week).  They assume I am a speed reader but trust me I am not.  In fact, I was not a good reader in school.  In the first grade we had reading groups named after birds - the redbirds, the blue birds.  I was in the crows. I did not develop a desire to read until after I became a Christ follower at the age of 26.  Pat my wife had made a list of characteristics she wanted in a husband and one of those was that he liked to read.  I did not know that until several years after we met but my interest in reading began about the time we met.  I was 28 at the time.

I try to have two or three books going on at a time.  I seldom read more than 10 minutes at a time but I will read while watching a football game or any time I have a few spare minutes.  I like to keep a book in my car to read when I have to wait at the doctors office or some place like that. After years of reading I know what kind of books interest me.   I enjoy spiritual books that  help me make my faith practical or that inspire me to move to a new level spiritually. I love to read books on marketing as well as books on human behavior.  I seldom read fiction.

I plan on sharing later more but this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt sums it up, "Those who can read and do not, have no advantage over those who cannot read."