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Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books
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Pat Williams / Peggy Matthews Rose / Phil Jackson
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2007
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Pat Williams reminds us that reading can transform our lives. But for that to happen we have to turn off the TV and pick up the book. Books give us information, remind us were human, and above all challenge our imagination. Pat Williams encourages people not to take this gift for granted.

-- Senator Bill Bradley

Pat Williams does an extraordinary job illustrating the social and educational benefits of reading.

--David Stern , Commissioner of the National Basketball Association

Have you ever thought, I need to read more, but not known how or where to start? You can start right here! Read for Your Life reignites your love affair with books and shows you how to prioritize reading--no matter how busy you think you are. Its not just about filling that hard-to-find downtime. Books improve your life in every imaginable way and can give you a mental workout guaranteed to keep your brain fit, alert, and active your whole lifetime.

Author Pat Williams is on a mission to help us all fully access and enjoy the power of reading. If Pat--a father of nineteen children, a four-marathon-a-year runner, and the senior vice president of the Orlando Magic--can make time for it, anyone can. With anecdotes and interviews from todays greatest icons in business, academia, and sports--including Alex Rodriguez, Grant Hill, Oprah Winfrey, Rick Warren, and Rudy Giuliani-- Read for Your Life shows you how you can:

Minimize distractions and maximize your reading time

Develop a personalized program for reading more often

Discover the many ways that reading can improve your mental well-being, your outlook on life, and your level of success in your career

Rediscover and reconnect with the real you by reading regularly

The lifetime gift of literacy is inside this book. Unleash it!

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What People Are Saying AboutRead for Your Life

I learned at an early age the importance of good books for personal growth. Regular reading has been a personal discipline Ive practiced for over four decades. No matter where you want to go in life, reading the right books will help you get there. Pat Williamss book Read for Your Life will help you learn how to make the most of your reading experience.

John C. Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author

Reading is the skill that makes life magnificent, enjoyable, adventurous, and enchanted. I invite you to become a great and inspired reader by drinking in the wisdom of my brilliant and funny friend, Pat Williams.

Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling
Chicken Soup for the Soul series cocreator, Cracking the Millionaire
Code and The One Minute Millionaire

Pat Williams has finally used everything I taught him about writing and has produced a book a writer has to endorse. Dont miss this one.

Jerry B. Jenkins, bestselling author of the Left Behind series

Pat Williams has a magical way to capture the imaginations of his readers. He wields that magic in his latest work, Read for Your Life. You will enjoy the various facets he explores. Pat is awesome, baby!

Dick Vitale, ESPN college basketball analyst and sports celebrity

If your eyes are up to it, then read Read for Your Life, because it goes from your eyes to your heart and your brain and your funny bone to your loneliness, and perhaps even to your conscience. Read it!

Mike Wallace, former 60 Minutes journalist and CBS News correspondent emeritus

I grew up in a reading family, but until I read Pat Williamss new book I never realized how important reading is to every area of our lives. Very few books are life-changers, but this one is.

Grant Hill, Orlando Magic superstar

As Pat Williams suggests, reading is as necessary as air to the examined life. Where else or how else can you traverse the woods with the Deerslayer, sail with Jack London, and pitch for the Yankees without leaving your pillow? Reading is your ticket everywhere.

Mike Veeck, Marketing wizard and baseball owner and consultant

As the old saying goes, Leaders are readers. Pat Williams makes that abundantly clear in his encouraging new book, Read for Your Life. After reading these pages, I guarantee youll become a more inspired and motivated readerand leader.

Ken Blanchard, Coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Leading
at a Higher Level

Anything that strengthens reading strengthens our country. Im for that, and if this book creates one more reader, then it deserves our praise.

Ken Burns, legendary documentary filmmaker

I am a lover of books, and this project by Pat Williams is a great one. This wonderful, warm, witty book instructs and inspires you to be a better, more avid reader all of your life.

Brian Tracy, author of The Power of Charm

Not many people could make reading sound magical, but Pat Williams has. Im going to get this book in every parents hands I know to make sure they get the message.

Brian Kilmeade, cohost of Fox & Friends in the Morning and author
of The Games Do Count

In a time when machines are taking over the world, Pat Williams explains to kids why they must read to succeed. Parents, use that rhyme and buy Pats book for your children.

Bill OReilly, anchor, Fox News Channel

A terrific book. An important book. One that should be read by every parent, especially those with young children.

Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of
Southern California, and author of On Becoming a Leader

Pat Williams is a very successful author, having authored forty-plus books, but this one, Read for Your Life, is his best and will have a positive impact on your life.

Lou Holtz, former University of Notre Dame Head Coach and college
football personality

To David Stern Commissioner of the National Basketball Association whose - photo 2

To David Stern,
Commissioner of the National
Basketball Association, whose commitment
to the NBAsRead to Achieve
program has impacted thousands
of young lives.

Pat Williams

In memory of my mother,
Helen Matthews, who taught me
to love words and books, to wield a pencil
at a young age, and let me crowd her
into a kitchen corner while I read
her everything I wrote.

Peggy Matthews Rose

Foreword

I grew up in a reading home. My mom, as moms will do, had a huge influence on me. Mom was a regular reader, and our house was constantly filled with books on a wide variety of topics. My mother influenced me to start reading when I was five years old. She would tape Scriptures to the wall for us to memorize. In our house, we had the Bibleand we had books about the Bible. Thats what I read. Then we got a set of the World Book Encyclopedia, and I read every volume.

That love of reading Mom inspired has only grown over the years. It may sound strange to some of you that a man whos made his living in the world of professional sports would be an avid reader, but today my love of reading is a secret to no one. In fact, Im pretty well known for putting appropriate books in the hands of all my NBA players. Im a strong believer in reading, and, whenever I can, I am front and center on the importance of reading. Im glad to have had a part in improving the lives of those under my leadership.

When my friend Pat Williams told me he was working on a book about reading, I was excited! And then I thought, Pat, whos going to read a book about reading? People who dont readare they going to read it? And people who do readwhy would they read it?

But as I read through the manuscript, I really changed my mind. I had never considered all the benefits of readinglike the fact that its a safeguard against old age, or that it makes you the most interesting person at the dinner table. Reading makes your mind sharp, alive, vibrant. It keeps you on the cutting edge. Like a healthy body, a healthy mind is honed like a razor. And its reading that does thatnothing else! Not television, not movies, not playing golfnot even shooting hoops. This book will inspire you to view reading as one of the essentials of your lifewhich it islike eating, sleeping, and exercising. It is not an option.

Ive often expressed my belief that teamwork is the art of selflessness. Reading appears to be an act of self-satisfaction, but ultimately it is a selfless endeavor. When we read, we become more interesting people. We become team players in the game of life, people with whom others want to engage. Books fill our minds with ideas and information we can pass on to others. When we read, we become excited about reading, and we cant wait to share our current favorite or just get others excited about reading, too.

I have a practical rule for my teams: when the ball comes into your hands and you hold it for longer than two counts, youve destroyed the teams rhythm. When you hold the ball, all eyes are on you. And when

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