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Beyond Belief is my second of twenty books I am trying to read this year.
I really thought this book was going to be more of a “Coming to Jesus” book and less of a true biography. I was wrong and am glad I was.
This book deals with in details a lot of the stuff I had heard about Josh Hamilton in sixty second sound bites on baseball games or espn.
The one thing I noticed in the book was Josh spends a ton of time defending his parents. From them not being the one pushing him to be a professional athlete to them not being “Helicopter Parents”. When you say your parents are not helicopter parents as much as he did, they are.
One of my favorite quotes from the book was from after the 2008 home run derby when Josh was in his hotel room and the MLB drug tester came by:
“He said he didnt mind, so we sat there at the edge of the bed, me and the pee-test guy watching The Natural.”
I really enjoyed reading the book and I hope that Josh Hamilton is able to stay sober and clean for the rest of his life even if he never plays another baseball game again.
I thought the books was good although not as well written as other sports biographies I have read. I will pass the book on to some other sports fans I know but I only give it a 6/10.
Some mornings on the walk into the capitol I have to take a second and realize that I am blessed to go to work in the center of Democracy in Missouri every day.
People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.
When God asks what you’ve done with your life, try not to say “Didn’t you read my tweets?”
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden
Elevator Pitch Essentials: How to Get Your Point Across in Two Minutes or Less was the first of my 20 books for 2011.
I am reading the book for a presentation I am giving at the Morenet Spring Conference. I enjoyed the book. I thought it was geared toward sales more than project championing which my talk will be on but I picked up a few good points and since the author teaches at Washington University in Missouri it was nice to support a local guy.
I give it an 8 out of 10.
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly