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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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I love lists, especially “best of” lists at the end of the year. if you share your best moments list, best restaurants for queso list, or best trails for a run list, and I’m so there. In this episode, I’m sharing the seven best books I read in 2022.
They range from biographies to mysteries and cover topics from money to creativity to the life of King David. No matter the genre, each of these books taught me something that made 2022 a little better. Tune into the episode, and make sure to add these books to your 2023 reading list. For more book recommendations, find me on GoodReads!
Jon's Top 7 Books of 2022
A Noel Killing by M.L. Longworth
Bourdain, The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever
The Psychology of Money - Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
Leap Over A Wall by Eugene Peterson
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
12 Notes on Life and Creativity by Quincy Jones
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes the Gold Podcast, the best place in the |
0:13.8 | entire world, including all of Canada. |
0:17.4 | To learn how to build new thoughts, new actions, and new results, I'm your host John Ackup |
0:21.7 | and today I'm going to tell you the top seven books I read this year. |
0:28.1 | What? |
0:29.7 | I do, I love a list, not only that, I love a year in list and it's December 12th, 2022, |
0:37.7 | which means the year is almost over and I read a lot of books this year. |
0:42.6 | How many? Well, I think I'll finish the year at 58 or 60 books. There's still a little bit of |
0:49.4 | a year left, so especially with over the holidays, I've got a little more reading time. |
0:54.2 | If you want to see what's on my complete list, follow me on Goodreads. I've posted every |
0:58.9 | single book this year on Goodreads. I post them all there, it's super easy to fall along, |
1:05.0 | just look up John Ackup on Goodreads, I'll drop the link in the show notes also. |
1:10.5 | Now, reading is one of my favorite goals. It is. I think I'm going to read 64 books next year. |
1:17.0 | Do you come up with goals each year? Like this time of year, especially it's December, |
1:21.2 | we're on the edge of January, like it's a whole new year where we get to do new goals. |
1:28.1 | Reading is one of my goals. I absolutely love it. Why do I love goals so much? Well, |
1:33.3 | goals change my life when I was in my mid-30s. They were radically rewired what I was doing, |
1:39.4 | and I'll never go back. I'm going to teach the four words that will help you accomplish any |
1:44.7 | goal you want this January. It's a three-day free online challenge called guaranteed goals. |
1:51.4 | I've taught tens of thousands of people how to accomplish goals and challenges like this. |
1:55.4 | If you've never done one, it's super simple. Three days in a row, I jump online and I teach a video |
2:02.2 | lesson. It's essentially a three-part keynote. I started doing these when all my live events got |
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