For those of you that celebrate Christmas and exchange gifts, what are you wanting for Christmas, if you could have anything you wanted?
Aside from books, especially for my Kindle, about the only thing I’m wanting this year is this:
So if you are looking for a gift idea, send away. 
For the past several years I have been on LinkedIn member, building connections and business. In the process, I became connected with Craig Elias, a very successful person that has done outstanding in the sales area. One of my weak areas, but an area I have been deep in as an owner or senior executive of several business.
He recently published a book with Tibor Shanto outlining their well developed sales techniques for all to use:
Over the past several years these two gentlemen have developed a system that seems to me to work well.
The book takes you through the process of evaluating your past successes, and showing you how to fine tune recognizing what works and what hasn’t worked, but the focus is on what works.
They then take you through the process of knowing who and when to make your sells calls, and how to go about it. The detail they give you and the reasoning behind what they tell us is VERY valid and matches what I found upon reviewing my past successes after reading this book.
Throughout the book you are taking to their web sites to get some great paper tools to help you through the process, and for even more great information.
You can also get more information by going to this page where you are able to get on their email list for great info, and get a better preview of the book.
If you are in sales, and in almost any job you are in, you are involved in sales in one form or another, this book is a MUST read book. It is available at Amazon.com in both Kindle format and in hard and soft format.
The list of books available to select from this time around from The Catholic Company Book Reviewer Program made it hard to choose a book to read. There are some great sounding titles there. At first glance I passed on this book, “Who is Jesus Christ?” for many reasons. One of those reasons is that every Protestant Preacher seems to lean on and preach mainly out of this book, and not out of the whole Bible. But I kept coming back to it, and I finally picked it. I’m glad I did!
This books was a great read. It went through the 25 titles and names given to our Savior and Christ, Jesus. In each naming, Eric Sammons, the author, gives great detail behind each title, the meaning of that title or name, and why it is important. He adds text from the Leaders and Doctors of the Church and what they have had to say about the titles/names as well, adding more credence to what he says. He ends each section with a question about that name or title or the meaning behind it and how it effects you, or your response to it, which really got me thinking on many levels.
This book is a MUST READ for any person starting in theology, or at any level of theological studies, and should be read by every Christian, especially Catholics!
This review was written as part of the Catholic Book Reviewer program from The Catholic Company. Visit The Catholic Company to find more information on Who Is Jesus Christ? Unlocking the Mystery and be sure to check out their great selection of baptism gifts while you are there.
Over the past several years I have had a static page on my business web site (http://www.tdbellenterprises.com) under Individuals that gave advice on how to grow your wealth and make yourself successful. It also directed you to a list of books I highly recommended.
For the past three years, I have been studying and reading many books on life, business and success. Because of that reading and learning, I have updated both pages today and highly recommend you go check them out!
Here they are again:
Growing your individual wealth.
Recommended Reading.
Happy and profitable reading!
If you are a long time reader of my blog, you will know that I have been going through a religion conversion process and a process of renewal in my faith base. During this time, as I have grown in the Catholic Church, I have felt the need to express my renewal with the rest of the Church, which I feel is lacking in many aspects of growing, as I see the Church shrink each year.
This book, Rebuild My Church, written by Dr. Alan Schreck, does a good job of describing past renewal processes as well as new processes and how the Church has accepted and rejected them. He goes into great detail on what the Church expects and accepts as a valid renewal and rebuilding process, as well as what is not to be accepted by the Church.
I was, however, NOT happy with Chapter 6, as it felt like a triad against Msgr. Ronald Knox’s book Enthusiasm, and I fee it left little good context to the rest of the book.
That aside, this book is a good read, and well worth the reading, and I hope and pray when you read it, that you get renewed in faith and help build His Church!
This review was written as part of the Catholic book reviewer program from The Catholic Company. Visit The Catholic Company to find more information on Rebuild My Church and be sure to check out their great selection of Mary statues while you are there.
My wife gave me an Amazon Kindle for my birthday:
That arrived yesterday. I plugged her in and charged her up and read her instructions and started playing with her. As soon as I knew I was getting one, I went to the Kindle Store and checked out the free books and some specific books I wanted and acquired about 15 books and had them on my “Kindle for PC”, but didn’t do much with them till last night.
I have to say I’m impressed and happy with this gift! It is light weight, does just about everything we were doing at AV Books, Inc. (although in black and white instead of color, and missing a few key concepts we had at AV Books., Inc.), and is very easy to use.
I’ve already added a few of my own documents to it that I am working on (and I can annotate them and work on them to an extent with the Kindle if I’m “on the road”), and I’ve put some music on it so I can listen to something as I read. Either with the decent speakers that come with it, or with ear buds (buy separate, but who doesn’t have a set or three lying about already?). You can put PDFs, which I will be doing soon, on it as well as audio books and a few other such items.
Now, I do think you will want (I know I do) a case for it:
and if you want to buy me a late birthday gift, or early Christmas gift, please feel free to click the link above and send it to me. (Comment met with a way to get a hold of ya, and I’ll email you my mailing address. ) Just kidding… Sorta….
One thing I REALLY liked about it is there is a series of books called Summa Theologica which retails for about $155. This is a VERY old transcript written by a “Doctor of the Catholic Church” that is some good, yet hard, reading.
I have wanted this series for a while, but am not able to pay that much for a series of books. Five LARGE volumes.
I was able to buy it for the kindle for $1.05 after tax for the Kindle!
The Kindle was paid for in just this one book series!!
I LOVE IT!!
Thanks Debbie!!
Over the past 15 years, I have been studying various religions and the theology behind those religions. Six or so years ago I began “homing” in on the Catholic faith and converted a few years ago to the Catholic faith. I continue to grow in my “new found faith”, and in that function of growing, I am always wanting to get a deeper understanding of where the Church stands on things, and why.
This book was a great find to help me grow in understanding in the faith that God has led me to.
This book follows, loosely, the American version of the Catechism of the Church book released a few years ago. It does a very good job of describing why the Church believes as it does, ties it to the Bible, and explains the differences on a concept between the Catholic Church and other Christian Churches in the Protestant areas.
I HIGHLY recommend this book for any Christian, so they can better understand where the Catholic Church comes from in it’s theology of life.
This review was written as part of the Catholic book reviewer program from The Catholic Company. Visit The Catholic Company to find more information on Believing in Jesus – 6th Edition Revised and be sure to check out their great selection of Mary statues while you are there.
Ok, as I hope ALL of you know, especially if you have a blog, I own and run a Traffic Exchange for Blogs. In the process of checking out the various scripts out there to manage and run an exchange program, I have visited many sites to see how they set up their software, and to get a feel for each of them from the user side. After a week or so, I set on one, and purchased it and now we have ExposeYourBlog!. It’s up and running and it is niche based, meaning it is only for surfing blogs. It is there to help blog writers to get others to read their blogs, and surprisingly most of the bloggers read the blogs, comment on them, and are enjoying seeing the other blogs.
What I don’t get is the majority of the exchanges I’ve been on, especially the ones you can “earn money” on, are exchanges of exchanges. Meaning, every site in rotation on one exchange is another exchange site with other exchange sites on it. It is almost like they are making money off of one and giving it to another to make money off it to give it to another to make money of it. I just don’t get it!?
Find a niche category of websites, and I don’t mean other exchanges, which granted is a niche, and target that niche and go from there.. WILD!
