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So I have not posted in a long time and need to get back in the habit.  Anyway I just finished listening to the book “The speed of trust” by Stephen M R Covey.  It was a short 75 minutes long.  It was a great book talking about how business runs faster and your own success happens faster if there are high levels of trust in your life.  I have worked at companies that don’t have high levels of trust between executives and workers and it really slows things down.  He talks about how you can measure and improve your trust with others.  I think that so often people let too many things “slide” in the work environment and this hurts your trust levels with others.  Anyway it is a great book and worth the read.

As some of you know I attended Woodbadge training with the Boy Scouts last June.  The main focus of this is to come out of the training with a set of goals (tickets) that you work on over the next 6-12 months.  One of my goals was to read more and I set a goal to read 12 books.  Some business, some religious/inspirational, and some just for fun.  I completed this goal months ago but here is the list of some of the books I read over the last year.

• Legacy of Honor -  a book about famous Eagle scouts and how it helped them.  A great book that all scout leaders and scouts should read.
• Permission Marketing – An old standard from Seth Godin that I had never got around to reading.  Great book.
• Edge of Physics – Pretty good book about what is happening today in physics.  Some crazy stuff.  It got a bit long and I had a hard time finishing it.
• Viral loop – Great book on social networking and what virality is.  I wish it had focused more on social business than on promoting yourself.
• The tipping point -  Again I was a bit late to read this but it is an excellent book and I highly suggest it to anyone.
• The lightning thief (several of my young men and my daughter were reading this)  I loved the book and hated all the changes the made to the movie.  Read the book and skip the movie.
• How to survive the end of the world as we know it – I have been on a survival/preparedness kick the last few months.  This is a great book but gets into the nuts and bolts (or should I say bullets) a bit too much.
• The Mormon way of doing business – This is the best book I have read this year.  Every Mormon in business should read this and I am encouraging any young man who is preparing to go on a mission to read it.  My son loved it.  A must read!
• The road – Fictional end of the world story (now a movie).  My brother-in-law Jeff suggested it to me.  It was not helpful in actually preparing to survive any real problems and was a bit gory.
• Getting things done – Another book I have always wanted to read.  Great book everyone should read.
• The lost symbol – I am just a fan of this series.  It is a fun read.
• Super freakonomics – I love everything about this book.  Everyone should read it.  Also subsribe to their podcast it is great as well.
• 33 million people in the room – Another social networking book.  Again it focuses on promoting yourself and not a business
• Series of 3 star wars books – Fate of the Jedi.  I love my Star Wars!  Not the best I have read but it was pretty good.
• Square foot gardening.  I planted my garden this way this year.  Here is a photo of it about a month ago.  It is looking great.  A great way to garden if you need it to be easy (like me).
• Several canning books – Canned a batch of jam already using home made pectin that I made from apples.  I plan on doing a bunch of canning this year.  Including some meats.
• You on a diet (lost 25 pounds between february and may).  Great book.
• Patriots – An “end of the world” book written by a survivalist.  Of course they had an amazing setup with hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment and supplies and live off them for 5 years.  Kind of a paranoid view of a worst case scenario but worth a read if you like this stuff.
  
• One second after - An excellent “end of the world” survival book about a small town after an EMP kills anything with electronic circuits in the US.  I enjoyed this book very much and it did have useful info to improve your preparedness.

Let me know if you you have any questions about any of these books or want to borrow them.  Some I read and some I listened to with my Audible subscription.  I am currently listening to the book “The Passage”.