Gretchen Rubin has tapped into a growing desire and search to find happiness in our face-paced, time poor lives. Her book , The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
follows here through a year long project to test out all the theories of happiness and repot back on worked for her.

Here is a YouTube interview with Gretchen about her book.

Gretchen’s book is Number 2 on Beautiful Summer Morning Best Seller List This Week.

Beautiful Summer Morning Top Five Inspirational Best Selling Books for Week Ending January 30, 2010

1. Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell

2. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Funby Gretchen Rubin

3. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

4. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

5. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin

On My Book Self

1.The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin

2.The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz

Inspirational Reading Quote:

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Source: Mortimer J. Adler

That’s it folks.

Get Inspired Read a Book

Nick

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Inspirational books are a joy. There just isn’t enough of them out there. Being negative is so common place, so accepted, that we tend to feel embarrassed when we relish a truly positive story.

This week in the number too spot is a book that is sure to warm the heart, loosen up a few tears, and lift you up on a dull day: Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

Here is a trailer which I think will explain but not ruin.

Beautiful Summer Morning Top Five Inspirational Books for W/E November 14,2009

1. Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom

2. Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle by Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery and Kirby Larson

3. The Shack by William P. Young

4. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Inspirational Quote about Reading and Books

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

- Gaston Bachelard

Well that’s it for this week.

Get Inspired! Read a Book!

Nick

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