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Join me in creating a summer suggested reading list.  Reading is a very important aspect of life.  For some people reading is a hobby, it is entertaining, informative, a time of relaxing but for some it may be boring but if you get a good book or a interesting article it is hard to put down.  Here is my list of reading so far this summer:

Bishop T. D. Jakes - Repositioning Yourself

My review: Excellent book especially for anyone looking to change direction in life.

Pastor Joel Osteen - Your Best Life Now

My review: I am currently reading it and so far it is a very inspiring book.

 Entrepreneur Magazine - August 2007 Edition - Features a list of the HOT 500 Entrepreneurs. To make the list the entrepreneurs had to be in business less than 10 years and earning no more than $1 billion.  What was most exciting was not the money they made but that these entrepreneurs built their businesses from virtually nothing to multimillion-dollar businesses.  That is something worth reading.  The first 100 are in the magazine and from 101 -500 are on the website at entrepreneur.com/hot500.

My review:  Excellent article to encourage everyone that if they can do it so can we. 

What are you reading?  Share through this blog your suggested summer reading.

A very good friend of mine gave me a calendar entitled “A Friend Is As Good As Gold”.  The calendar was not like a regular calendar that told you what date it was, instead it gave you a different quote for each day of the year.  No matter what year, this calendar will apply; like my good friend no matter what season our friendship will apply.  Here are few quotes.  Take a moment and think about your friend(s) that are as good as gold.

March 7 - Friendship is the fruit gathered from the trees planted in the rich soil of love, and nurtured with tender care and understanding.

April 3 - The smile on your face is the light in the window that tells people you’re at home. 

June 29 - Time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it’s only given to us momemt by moment.

July 2 - Some people are so special that once they enter your life, it becomes richer and fuller and more wonderful than you ever thought it could be.

August 23 - Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life.  They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings.

July 7- One does not make friends.  One recognizes them.

 July 25 - Good friends are like stars… You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

October 17 - If we had all the riches that we could ever spend, it could never buy the treasures the heart finds in a friend.

October 28 - A friend is someone who reaches for your hand….and touches your heart.

March 4 - When it’s hard to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

November 7 - Friends are of utmost importance.  We love, trust, get hurt, sometimes get mad, but we love and trust anyhow, because that’s the best way to let our friendship grow.

February 20 - In God’s wisdom, He frequently chooses to meet our needs by showing His love toward us through the hands and hearts of others.

January 10 - As gold more splendid from the fire appears, Thus friendship brightens by the length of years.

I am rich with friends as Good As Gold.

Welcome to NaeDay Blog.  As I start on this venture to start my own business one thing has happened that has been very enlightening; it is the joy of independent thinking.  This sounds like a small and simple thing but it is not.  In most of our lives, either on the job, at church, school, home or other places we are told, asked and lead by what others think. 

Other’s opinion and expertise are valuable but when starting a business the altimate decision is up to you.  I have been enjoying and welcoming this new freedom. With this freedom comes a new responsibility but again, the results and rewards are mine.

 Independent’s Day was July 4th on the calendar but while I am running this race called life, walking this journey and enjoying the sights, I will utilize my creative and independent thoughts.  My ideas and passions for the first time have a place to land and manifest.  I have always been creative in my thinking but they were always grounded by what other’s thought or misused for other’s to profit.

I welcome ideas and thoughts on the pleasure and freedom that comes with independent thinking.  I have always had it because I have never been a follower but I was never a leader.  I say this because, I would do my own thing in spite of what everyone else was doing.  The independent thinking that I am referring to requires Faith.