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I have read 16 books this year. What about you? tell us how many books you've read this year, maybe your top 5.
My top 5 are University of Success, The Alchemists, How to Sell Yourself, Bound Feet and Western Dress and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Oya tell us your top reads

No Excuse

How to Win Friends and Influence People

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

University of Success

Art of War and

48 Laws of Power

Psycho cybernetics

Bound Feet and Western Culture

A Few Seconds of Panic

The Alchemists

The Long Walk to Freedom

Awaken The Giant Within

The Brethren

How to Sell Yourself

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Art of Seduction (Current read)

Jewish Phenomenon (Up Next)

There lies in everyone, an incredible giant that could transform our lives from nothing to something. Some weeks ago, a friend recommended this life changing book to me via Thinkerspool Whatsapp group, then i ask myself if this book will actually measure up to my expectations. According to the author of “awaken the gaint within” Statistics has shown that less than 10 percent of people who buy a book read past the first chapter, to be a part of few that reads beyond the first chapter, i took my time to digest the information in the book, it is a manual that guides you on how to maximize the power of your imagination. Lately, i have read books on how to use the power of creative imagination and develop an amazing self-image for myself, this book came to me at the right time when my relationship is taking new tone, when it needed to be fine-tuned and have a new direction.

Incredible power lies in books, and you have no idea about how much the information ingrained in this can change your entire life, from your relationship to time mastery and financial management, i bet you that reading this book will be one of the best things that will happen to you in 2016, trust me.

When you delve into this book, Tony Robbins will guide you on these 5 most important things in life, which is the pivot of this book and they are;

Emotional Mastery
Physical Mastery
Relationship Mastery
Financial Mastery and
Time Master
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anitapreeti:
PAGE 5

Hey you!!
Exactly! something happened. I really want to erase this memory but it has stuck in my brain like ABC.
Just as I was picking my favorite chocolate in one of those shelves in De Belle's supermarket. Something strange happened.
I felt so light, I could only feel my legs shaking. Something strange over shadowed me and as I looked up.

Smiles. You guessed right. He was standing there. I felt like disappearing or on a second thought I wished the earth could open its big and insatiable mouth and swallow me.
But none of these happened. I stood like a pole starring him straight in the eyes. I am certain I can sketch his face despite my very bad drawing skills. I took cognizance of all his facial features. His dark brown eyes, his semi pointed nose his full lips, the birthmark under his nose then his handsome face. I imagined kissing him. I even imagined..... Until I heard.

"Sorry, you can have it" as this melodious, angelic and calm voice rang in my ears, my senses returned from wherever they flew to. I just realized the reason for the strange feeling. We reached for the chocolate at the same time but i was faster than him and his hand landed on mine. I looked down, then he immediately withdrew his hand.

I couldn't utter a word. Millions of thoughts raced through my mind. 'Say 'Hi', No! 'no you can have it' No! 'I love you' ok, now that's out of it, 'alright thanks' uhmmm.... I felt dumb. I watched him walking away. I stood motionless with my hand still on the chocolate.

Oh my Prince! I said immediately I saw the last of him. Then I regained consciousness. Picked up the chocolate and made my way to the cashier's desk.
Right now, am on my bed, eating the chocolate, reminiscing, wishing, hoping, imagining....... I picked up my pen and allowed the ink to indite whatever my heart says......


MY OBSESSION
It's about my obsession
I wish to make a confession
It has been my passion
My secret admiration
An unforgettable situation
Face to face with my attraction
I had a choice of possession
But the fear of rejection!
Took away my attention
My eyes though still on my mission
My heart fled in apprehension
For the fear of rejection!!
I lost my possession.
My obsession
Stood filled with expectation
Fear of rejection!!!
Back to my world of my obsession
Where I lack satisfaction.

I'll be back soon. Much love❤

This part of the poem took away my attention.

You are doing a great work here Anita, your writing skills is well honed and lubricated because it flows well. I anticipate another poem dear.

CURRENTLY READING --- A FEW SECONDS OF PANIC........By Stefan Fatsis.

INTRODUCTION
Now, imagine our own Bamidele Boluwaji of popular complete sport newspaper becoming a footballer and succeed in his new chosen career, this is what this book is about.
It is a book of over 330 pages, quite voluminous to some people, right? This is why we are here together, as time goes on, I will be telling you how I often find it easy to read huge books. I am sure that other guys (iThinkers) will be sharing their tactics with us too.

Of course, I am a sport lover (jogging) but I never liked American football for once, I got attracted to this book due to the fact that I want to read what seems to be a memoir of a famous sport writer turned famous American football player. If you pay attention, you will observe that a word was repeated twice here famous." I have strong desire to know how a man could become successful in one career, switch to another one and become a force to reckon with again in his new career.

Fatsis is actually a short man considering the kind of sport he delved into, no one gave him a chance to survive in the league. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, trains to become a professional caliber placekicker. As he sharpens his skills, he gains surprising insight on the daunting challenges --- physical, psychological, and intellectual that PRO athletes must overcome.

I will be gisting you guys as I read on. I managed to read 16 books last year and I want to set new record in 2016. If it is not up to 30 books this year, then I haven't read anything. I will stock 25 hard copies in my library and 5 carefully selected eBooks on my PC. I want to shift my attention to papers, because they have intoxicating aroma.

Also, I would love to talk about best 5 most interesting books that I read in 2015, those books has greatly influenced and reshaped my thinking pattern.
➡ Psychology of Gestures and Body Languages
➡ Attitude is Everything (full text)
➡ 48 Laws of power (quite voluminous and interesting)
➡ The Alchemist
➡ 360 Degree Leaders

Sooner, I will be entertaining you guys with great books on a daily basis.
You may follow @thinkerzpool on twitter.
I welcome you all into Bookuary, this is my plan because we intend to transform your February to Bookuary.....lols. Finally, I will not relent on my desire to give you several tips that will make you better readers.

You may want to join Thinkerspool group on Facebook, please search for THINKERSPOOL and send your request. It is my plan to turn nothing less than 200 lazy readers to book lovers before the end of 2016, you've got all it takes.

Reading is not fun and we all know it, except it has become habit. What is fun about reading is that we are doing what is not fun to many and we love it. What is more fun about it is that it opens new ways of creative thinking to us, it empowers you with the authority to speak and be heard, the public want to listen to readers because there are great contents in what they say. Your speeches are accompanied with wisdom.
Now, I want to let out little secret that has enabled me consume 16 nonacademic books between May – December 2015. First, I never knew that I could become a fervent lover of literature not until last year. Most times that I read randomly, I could spend 2 months on a book, open and close syndrome was my greatest enemy. Anything that you practice for more than 3 months becomes a habit without fuss. Top tips are;
 ZEAL: I know right in my brain that I want to grant interviews to popular broadcasting corporations across the globe, I want to air my views about different topics that affect human life, I have watched so many great people interviewed in their personal libraries on Aljazeera stream and many other programs on BBC, FOX, CNBC and CNN. One day I want to sit in my personal library with collections of books behind me, I want to be defined through my library. This has been my driving force, my zeal.
 TIME: how do you determine worth of a book? It is how willing it readers are to spend time reading it. If it worth your precious time, then it worth it and this makes it a good read. I have some months to my mid-20 and I aim at reading 150 books before my 30th birthday. To achieve this, it is imperative that I sacrifice two hours to reading books every day, I get off my bed to read between 4:00am to 6:00am daily on weekdays. I spend 4 hours every weekend except I have very important outings, when this occur, it means that I will need to stick to my 2 hours routine. Scoop time, make up time and fight procrastination.
 SEGMENTATION: this is where I often compromise with my time, remember that time flexibility is very important. If you are not flexible enough, you may break up with books sooner than you can imagine. Let me use 48 Laws of Power as an example, I spent 12 days on it because I have learned how to read books segmentally. Actually, it is not how much you consume per day, it is a question of how consistent you are with time. So I took it upon myself to read only 4 laws daily, if it take you more than 2 hours to read 4 laws, please don’t fight it, there is no problem. You need to ensure that you do not read more than your predetermined chapter limit, violating this intentionally may have nicotine effect on your reading habit. In summary, my number one weapon is to check how voluminous a book is and divide it chapters, it may be one or two chapters per day but I am always consistent with it.
 DRINKS: be sure to have a bottle of water by your side, it does no harm. I don’t know science behind reading with water. Sometimes I feel worn-out and tired while reading, then I take water to replenish my body system. Reading can burn glucose in your body, it can be exhaustive once in awhile.
 MUSIC: hey! You are not reading to pass college test or examination, relax and have fun. Just to add fun to reading and make it more interesting, playlist with carefully selected collections of great music will go a long way. Music does two things for me; (i) It shuts doors against uncontrollable external noise that could distract me from reading. (ii) It lifts my soul and keeps me awake. I have reading playlist on my mobile device just the same way I have it for jogging and relaxation. You don’t want to downplay the power of good music, it helps.
 READ ‘n’ SHARE: my university professor will say ‘I don’t understand it better if I cannot explain it better.’ Look for like-minded friends online or offline friends that you can share your thought with about books with, this will help you remember vital points in the book. Sometimes, you will be amazed to listen to other readers’ views about same book that you’ve read, it can open up new dimension of thinking. Share your current books with friends, there is love in sharing, you will be surprised when they reveal their book collections to you.
Finally, nothing comes easy in life, so do reading and other activities that hold with it immense benefit for human body, mind and soul. You have to push yourself out of your comfort zone, you don’t get knowledge if you do not beseech it. If you don’t want your brain to grow old at unprecedented rate, you have to start reading now and make it a lifelong habit.
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