Success Reading List

Have you ever been asked, "if you could go back in time and meet anyone you wanted, who would it be?"  My guess is that you have been asked this question and I am sure you have a few people from the past you would like to meet if you could. Obviously, if this question were asked to 100 people we would get 100 different answers and 100 different reasons for each choice.  The point, however, is that there are great men and women of history that we are drawn to for one reason or another.  People who accomplished great things or had a great impact on their generation and many generations to come. How valuable would it be if you could spend a few minutes speaking with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War?  What invaluable piece of information could you glean from a conversation with Christopher Columbus on his way to finding the new world?  Or what could you learn by spending even a few minutes with a young Anne Frank as she and her family were in hiding from the...

Normally when someone calls you a name, it is a bad thing.  If someone, however, calls you "a Fred," not only is that a good thing, it is a great compliment. "Why" you ask would such a thing be true?  How is calling me "Fred" a good thing when my name is not Fred, it is David, or Bill, or Sally or whatever? The answer can be found in The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn., where we are introduced to Fred the postman. "Well, this doesn't sound very exciting," you may be saying to yourself, and on the surface you are correct.  Fred is a postal carrier, he has a fairly mundane job that is repetitive and could even be classified by many as tedious or even boring. This is the point of  The Fred Factor.   In the book Sanborn introduces us to his real life postal carrier, Fred, and it is quickly apparent that Fred is no normal postman.  Fred has learned the secret to being happy at work and in life.  He does not see his job as something that mus...