Great Reading

It is hard for me to admit, but I have taken advantage of cooler days and nights getting dark earlier by literally curling up with a book and indulging.  I feel very guilty as I think there are so many other things I should be doing.  I have ways had a problem with reading or any other personal hobby/interest and it is very hard to me to shake.

It all started a few weeks ago when I received an email from Matthew Kelly about his upcoming talks/seminars.  I proceeded to pull out his books that I have and reread one, finished another and started and completed a third. Rather than me explain, this is an intro to him direct from his website.

Matthew Kelly has dedicated his life to helping people and organizations become the-best-version-of-themselves. Born in Sydney, Australia, he began speaking and writing in his late teens while he was attending business school. Since that time, more than four million people have attended his seminars and presentations in more than fifty countries.


Today he is an internationally acclaimed speaker, bestselling author, and business consultant. His books have been published in twenty-five languages, have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, and have sold in excess of three million copies.

The Matthew Kelly Foundation was established in 1995 to help young people discover their mission in life. Over the past fifteen years Kelly has visited several hundred high schools, inspiring students to use their lives to make a contribution. The foundation's most recent initiative is a grade-school program entitled, Why am I Here?

Matthew is also active as a Catholic speaker and author. Raised Catholic, he has been saddened by the lack of engagement among Catholics and foundered The Dynamic Catholic Institute to research why Catholics engage or disengage and explore what it will take to establish vibrant Catholic communities in the 21st Century.

Matthew Kelly’s core message resonates with people of all ages and from all walks of life. Whether he is speaking in a business forum, at a high school, or in a church, he invites his audience to become the-best-version-of-themselves.

My favorite book so far, of his, is The Rythym of Life. I have read it twice and now have Natalie reading it.  It's the kind of book you could pick up every year, and depending on your situation or state in life,  take different things from it every time.  It is practical, yet the standards are not easy to mimic.  His way of thinking requires an adjustment from the readers view of life into a more pronouced assertiveness into the meaning of life.  What I mean is that just reading it isn't going to change you.  You have to want to grow and want to make an effort to grow.

Absolutely wonderful.  You will not be disappointed.