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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

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I’ve been a big fan of Frank Warren’s Post Secret series since I read the first edition: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives.

You’re sure to find a secret that you’d either identify with or even cringe at. If you haven’t read any of the books, you might’ve caught a glimpse of its images in the music video for All American Rejects’s “Dirty Little Secret.”

Tantalizing and entertaining, Extraordinary will leave you debating on whether or not you should continue to read or if you should put it down to save the secrets for later.

From disgusting secrets involving phlegm and mucus to steamy secrets about forbidden love affairs even to secrets about aging and not ever knowing about sex, any one of Warren’s PostSecret books will get you thinking about your own secrets.

(The first time I bought PostSecret, it was for my husband from our son on Father’s Day. I pasted a home-made post card and pictures of the two of them and left a secret of our own in the book for my husband to find.)

Get yours now!

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

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Lee Iacocca… one of the wisest and most charismatic men you’ll ever read about published Where Have All the Leaders Gone? in 2007 and continues to voice his opinions on global leadership.

Iacocca is a very skilled writer who doesn’t waste time on using 25-cent words to impress his readers. He noticeably uses common sense, logic, and wisdom. Where Have All the Leaders Gone? is a must-read for everyone who dares to enter the realm of politics or leadership roles in the mainstream.

At some point, all good leaders should’ve first learned to be excellent followers, and I couldn’t think of a better study guide for leadership than this book. From his “9 C’s” to his thoughts on Fidel Castro, Iacocca doesn’t bore you with hypotheticals or rhetoric. Instead, he talks to you and redeems your evaluation(s) of the power and the authority held by only the elite few. If you think nothing in this country or this world makes sense anymore, you’re bound to be inspired regardless of your party affiliation or religious background.

Empowering, sensible, and realistic, Iacocca pushes you to think more critically about the political officials we vote into office. You’ll find yourself wondering why we complicate things and how we tend to believe in poor (or even false)  leadership.

I can guarantee that you have something to gain from this book. And if you’re not (somewhat) emotionally triggered by this book I would presume that you have  succumed to imagination, amusement, and fantasy and are no longer willing to see reality and simplicity in leadership across the globe.

Three thumbs up for Iacocca and Where Have All the Leaders Gone?!

A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book

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Since his first publication, Frank Warren has touched the lives of many with his perfect idea to leave blank post cards around for people to write their deepest, sweetest or darkest secrets and to set them free by mailing the post cards back to him.

After three successful publications, Warren’s A Lifetime of Secrets brings the legend back to life with more secrets than its two predecessors. In this book, you’ll read secrets from children as young as 8 to men and women nearing their 80th birthdays (or even older)!

Warren did a superb job of incorporating secrets sent from people of all ages emphasizing the importance of how people keep secrets for most–if not all–their lives.

What’s your secret? Will you wait a whole lifetime before you reveal yours?