I Love Books....
...Love the feel of them, the thoughts they contain and the ability to connect with those who have written them. I love to check them out, buy them...read them from cover to cover and hang on to them.
I must admit this habit has caused a few problems over the years. One is storage. Recently I began to attack my cluttered book case to cull the books I no longer need in my life.
Over the past 30 years I have brought home just about every DIET BOOK published.
Yes, I even had Dr. Stillman's FIRST paperback. As I took these books off the shelves and stacked them up...I realized I had collected a virtual "who's who" in the billion dollar diet industry. Some of their plans worked for awhile. When they failed I rushed out to buy the latest book bound cure.
When my spring cleaning concluded, I had filled two large boxes with these books. My dilemma...what to do with them? My first thought was to burn them. OHHHH....I just couldn't wrap my mind around that concept. Instead I placed the boxes in the trunk of my car. For weeks I drove around and debated whether to donate them to the GoodWill.
On one hand I thought they might help someone else. On the other hand I feared sending another person on a wild and unsuccessful chase to win their own battle against the bulge. Then I realized that each of those books...helped me along the road to my own success. Ultimately they made me accept the truth that Diets Don't Work!
As I dropped the boxes off at GoodWill I prayed .they would help someone else draw the same conclusion.
Now getting back to my life love affair with books.
My book shelf still contains a few treasured books that have helped me transform my body, mind and spirit.
On the top shelf and In alphabetical order they are; Bible, Body for Life by B.P., FinallyFit at 50 by Porter Freeman and The Purpose Driven Life.
On the bottom shelf there are two stacks of magazines. One for Muscle Media the other For Energy Magazine.
Yes I am still buying books. I now eagerly await the arrival of my copy of Dr. Pam's Body for Life for Women.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But I believe you can judge a person by the books they read and take to heart.
I must admit this habit has caused a few problems over the years. One is storage. Recently I began to attack my cluttered book case to cull the books I no longer need in my life.
Over the past 30 years I have brought home just about every DIET BOOK published.
Yes, I even had Dr. Stillman's FIRST paperback. As I took these books off the shelves and stacked them up...I realized I had collected a virtual "who's who" in the billion dollar diet industry. Some of their plans worked for awhile. When they failed I rushed out to buy the latest book bound cure.
When my spring cleaning concluded, I had filled two large boxes with these books. My dilemma...what to do with them? My first thought was to burn them. OHHHH....I just couldn't wrap my mind around that concept. Instead I placed the boxes in the trunk of my car. For weeks I drove around and debated whether to donate them to the GoodWill.
On one hand I thought they might help someone else. On the other hand I feared sending another person on a wild and unsuccessful chase to win their own battle against the bulge. Then I realized that each of those books...helped me along the road to my own success. Ultimately they made me accept the truth that Diets Don't Work!
As I dropped the boxes off at GoodWill I prayed .they would help someone else draw the same conclusion.
Now getting back to my life love affair with books.
My book shelf still contains a few treasured books that have helped me transform my body, mind and spirit.
On the top shelf and In alphabetical order they are; Bible, Body for Life by B.P., FinallyFit at 50 by Porter Freeman and The Purpose Driven Life.
On the bottom shelf there are two stacks of magazines. One for Muscle Media the other For Energy Magazine.
Yes I am still buying books. I now eagerly await the arrival of my copy of Dr. Pam's Body for Life for Women.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But I believe you can judge a person by the books they read and take to heart.
posted by M. | 10:44 AM
1 Comments:
Michelle ... Suggest you find a copy of the book Mastery by George Leonard. You may have to go to a used book store or surf amazon to find a copy ... See also Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike ... Happy reading ... JL
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