Books for the Journey

My bookshelf is filled with books I’ve read once. But there are others that I come back to again and again. I hand them out like Halloween candy to colleagues, and often, they end up paying them forward as I did.

Authors and ideas for the long haul. Classics in our field, in fact. One is brand new, others I read years ago. Chinua Achebe and I have known each other for 27 years…

Every one of these authors is the real deal. They’ve done the work and they’ve shown up to make a difference. My life is better for knowing them as friends and colleagues in the fictional world.

I’m lucky to be able to share them with you.

1. The Art of Possibility by Roz Zander and Ben Zander

2. The Power of Regret by Dan Pink

3. The Tom Peters Seminar

4. Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa

5. The Celebrity CEO by Ramon Ray

6. Body of Work by Pam Slim

7. Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan

8. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

9. Ignore Everybody by Hugh Macleod

10. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Enjoy your trip the way you want to. If your group enjoys a trip by scheduling 16 out of 18 waking hours in the day, and yours looks more like 10 out of 18, that’s super okay. Find a spot in the itinerary where you can break away for a while, or bow out from an evening activity in favor of a peaceful winding-down of your evening.

Then maybe you won’t get home feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation.

What are your tips for reading more while traveling?