Reading: Reading With Intention
I really like socialising and don't mind people (contrary to popular belief) - my wife and I both love cooking - and we regualrly entertain, - but having said that I relish solitude.
A couple pf hours per night, studying, reading, writing or reflecting - my personal Universe...its great.
I hate wasting money and I've done the sums - owning a second car is one of the most inefficient use of resources. As a consequence I also have an hour and a half per day in transit and elect to take public tranport. Solitary space mmmm.
Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to read quite a few books in transit. But this year have struggled to get through books so I need to prioritse the books on my WIP shelf and read with intention and order:
1) Jack Welch - What I've Learned Leading a Great Company (given to me by my boss who is both a great friend and mentor).
2) Rumours of Another World - Phillip Yancey: Only two Chapters in but this book is intriguing...looks for the eveidnce of the supernatural in the environment around us.
3) Patrick O'Brian - Master & Commander...Not usually one for fiction - three chapters in.
4) How to win friends and influence people - (Carnegie) To help turn around my abrasive, terse, impolitic technique. Got a reputation for getting things done at work but leaving others to pick up the pieces - I'm tryiong to change...6 Chapters in...
5) The Cost of Discipleship (Boenhoeffer) - about seven chapters in of this classic. WOuld love to strat again and summarise.
6) The book I saw in the Koorong catalogue on the sphere of salvation - whether there is space for people outside "Christianity" to be saved - its a must read but just got to finish what I started first.
But solitary time is up...I'm being lured to watch Australian Idol by my wife with a piece of home cooked chocolate cake and a glass of red wine not finished with dinner....
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