Read a Book

I use to read a lot.  So much so, the first question friends and family would ask me after saying, "Hello," was, "What are you reading?"

Somehow, life caught up with me and confiscated my prime reading time.  However, I have set a goal to get back in the habit by dedicating myself to setting aside at least an hour every day to read a book.

Hopefully this will help me re-prioritize my time and an hour will lead to two hours to five hours to eight hours to an entire day (and my always on point thought process will remain sharp).

I'll keep you updated on my progress.

First up

The first book up to bat is Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus.

From the publisher:

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammed Yunus
PublicAffairs
2003