great people create their lives
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.”
Michael E. Gerber `Author of The E-Myth RevisitedÂ
In response to last weeks two messages about the book “10 Ways to Make it Great” just over 50 of you ordered a discounted copy of Phil’s book.  You should be receiving that copy today. I have mine but am going to wait until next week to start sharing my “accomplished action items” so that more of U.S. can be doing it together. Â
I did pull the following piece out of the book….page 24 from the “Never Stop Learning” chapter. Phil writes…
           Most adults never read another book - for business or pleasure - after they graduate from high school.  Jerrold Jenkins of the Jenkins Group reports the follow shocking statistics:
- 33% of high school graduates will never read another book for the rest of their lives
- 58% of the total U.S. adult population has never read another book since high school
- 42% of college graduates will never read another book after college
- 80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year
- 70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
- 57% of new books are not read to completion.
Phil and I have been talking about books and the importance of reading for years and many of you know my story of having a leader years who gave me some strong encouragement to “read more books with less pictures”. Â And my response to that challenge was to set a goal to read a new business or idea book every 30 days. Â This practice has literally changed my life forever.
Think about it this way… with most of American not reading the bar is really low.  So if you and I read just 2 or 3 books this year we’ll be looking like HIGH JUMPERS!! Â
Too read last weeks two blog posts on “Making it Great Click Here Â
Post 1 http://kirkweisler.com/t4d/2009/02/12/goal-primer-make-it-great/
Post 2Â http://kirkweisler.com/t4d/2009/02/13/knowledge-not-just-information/
Kirk Out
