Consider Books
At Choice Awareness Management, we make reading a daily discipline and are better off for this practice because we tend to expand our universe by doing so.
In our universe, reading is fundamental to learning, awareness, and understanding.
It can affect us in many ways - most of which is growing our perspectives about the things in our world - giving meaning and uncovering stuff we didn't realize, or could ever have thought about on our own.
We find the best way to understand who someone is all about is to read something they have written (i.e., fiction, novels, or autobiographies): this could be books, blogs, opinion pieces, comments, etc.
This image depicts one of our favorite educational disciplines - we know that our life has been positively impacted by what we read.
(Wisdom Sidebar) For us, reading take all kinds of forms: a hard or soft back book (i.e. the best ever for us). Or, a newspaper in printed form. These two forms increase tactile senses - feeling, smelling, etc. And of course, today there are many forms of electronic readers along with audio forms too.
Reading in our belief system is a main objective toward learning, pondering, sharing, and engaging. We read from two to four hours daily.
This website is designed to encourage reading.
The language the authors choose, clearly defines what they believe about their world: their perspectives can help us or not - and show us how good and evil operate in we human beings. Yes? No? Maybe?
Well, of course it does.
So we encourage you to read - turn off the TV set, put your smart device away for a while (see other distractions) and have live conversations with people too (more about this in our up-coming blogs).
Our Book Categories
We want you to review the categories in our table below (we classified these in our An American Guide To Success (AGTS) and present them for you as examples of what's possible (e.g., we have read all the books in AGTS - it is our comprehensive list of books we read and gained knowledge). AGTS does not compete with any current book summary products on the market today because we encourage a complete reading of each book (i.e. we consider summaries taking the easy-way-out like CliffsNotes, and see Top Free Book Summaries).
Are our categories traditional classifications? Yes, some are, and others aren't, and that is the beauty of it: being able to define things in the way you want them to be.
(Wisdom Sidebar) Defining things in your way strike at the heart of defining your own beliefs and choices methodology because you can select what is essential to you. While our categories may or may not be traditional, we did this purposefully to stir our own beliefs pot. You'll find over time that the stirring of things helps give you new perspectives and ideas which may free the creative juices and bring more things present for you.
If someone pushes back on your ideas, tell them you appreciate their input, and thank them for giving you their bent. You need say no more. BTW their ideas are theirs - not yours. We have be willing to remain uncomfortable at times, especially when people push their conditioning, ideas, and concepts. But, this action teaches us to become stronger and loving in ways to handle these situations. In the scheme of things, these actions represent opportunity and possibility (e.g. the meaning to us, what we do with the learning).
Category Table
| Category | AGTS Category Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Animals, Architecture and Other Noteworthy Things |
| 2 | Biography |
| 3 | Business: Management & Leadership |
| 4 | Fiction |
| 5 | Finance & Investing |
| 6 | Marketing Sales & Related Topics |
| 7 | Medicine , Ethics & Values |
| 8 | Novels - Recent |
| 9 | Politics & Influencing |
| 10 | Religion, Spirituality & History |
| 11 | Science & Philosophy |
| 12 | Success & Psychology |
| 13 | Technology & Quality |
Where are we Headed?
We will publish a new"Books to Read" page which may become a staging area for new books to be included in our AGTS e-Book or other places, but with a different slant.
That slant will be targeted to selecting a belief that came present for the reviewer, how they were touched by their understanding of it and what manifested faith they experienced from it all. This truly departs from our own standard of evaluating books, as we have done in our AGTS. We are encouraging and looking for reviewers to help in our new process of this.
One important point about this perspective is that we will require you to implement one of the books' ideas or concepts by turning them into beliefs, choices, actions and results and apply them in your life. This is not a simple read it, intellectualize it, and then write what this may mean to you from the intellectual experience.
We want you to have the head and heart experience: this notion is a very different approach - intended to produce the beginnings of wisdom.
We are Looking for Reviewers
We are currently searching for reviewers that span the age classes from teenagers to seniors, with no clear end-limit in mind.
If you are so inclined to join and wish to participate with us, look closely at our definition of an Aspirant and the qualities we have defined to set an expectation for you pursuing this further.
If you believe that working with us is something you are committed to doing, we respectfully ask that you reserve a period of six months to work with us before you move on to something else or decide to continue with us.
We believe that you will gain a great deal from the experience of this activity.
We have yet to define the details about how to compensate you other than to be included in our contributors page. But, we can probably create a process that would work for you. Please use our Contact Us page to tell us of your interest in this new adventure - we will call you by telephone to discuss how to move forward.
Key Considerations For You
The characteristics we look in people are fundamentally with the capability to be open, willing, teachable, and possess a strong desire to pass along what you have gained to others.
Books to Read table
Watch for an announcement of our books table at New Events.
