I’m aware that, in the past, I’ve tended to leave things unfinished... so this year, I resolv

Yeah, it’s kind of like that. I make fun of myself, because of my tendency for incompletion. However, now, looking at a new year, and the success of my resolutions from last year, I am looking forward to what the new year will bring... and the challenges.

There’s a certain je ne sais quoi, to getting something done. Something meaningful.

Yet, before we move on, let’s raise a toast. To reading. To setting a goal to read fifty books in one year, and to actually reading sixty-five books, front-to-back, before the year’s end.

And now, the list—read in 2017:

1. Everybody Writes - Ann Handley
2. The Shining - Stephen King
3. UnMarketing - Scott Stratten
4. Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
5. Contagious - Jonah Berger
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
8. The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
9. The Lotus Caves - John Christopher
10. Reinvention Made Easy - Jim Mathis
11. The Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
12. Traffic - Tom Vanderbilt
13. Looking for Alaska - John Green
14. Joyland - Stephen King
15. The Door Into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein
16. The Social Organism - Oliver Luckett & Michael J. Casey
17. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
18. UnSelling - Scott Stratten & Alison Kramer
19. The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
20. Drive - Daniel H. Pink
21. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
22. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max
23. Quiet - Susan Cain
24. Managing Oneself - Peter F. Drucker
25. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
26. What to Say When You Talk to Yourself - Shad Helmstetter
27. Orange Roofs, Golden Arches - Philip Langdon
28. The Guardians - John Christopher
29. Time for the Stars - Robert A. Heinlein
30. Faces of Fear - John Saul
31. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
32. Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton
33. Awareness - Anthony di Mello
34. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
35. ‘Salem’s Lot - Stephen King
36. Mastery - George Leonard
37. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L’Engle
38. Sex Money Kiss - Gene Simmons
39. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
40. The Futurist - James P. Othmer
41. Disturbing the Peace - Richard Yates
42. The Game - Neil Strauss
43. The Barmaid’s Brain - Jay Ingram
44. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
45. Leadership Just Got Personal - Steven B. Fulmer
46. Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
47. Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
48. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
49. Social BOOM! - Jeffrey Gitomer
50. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
51. Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
52. Always Talk to Strangers - David Wygant
53. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
54. The Rules of Management - Richard Templar
55. From Russia, with Love - Ian Fleming
56. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
57. Body Language - Julius Fast
58. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
59. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
60. Time and Again - Jack Finney
61. Fascinate - Sally Hogshead
62. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
63. Tasting Beer - Randy Mosher
64. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
65. Goldfinger - Ian Fleming

Happy New Year!

What i'm listening to:

Bright Lights, Bigger City
CeeLo Green
The Lady Killer