JD – Make sure your feet are in the right spot and then stand firm. – Abraham Lincoln

EB* – You know you are love because you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

JM – Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

JW – A diamond is nothing more than a chunk of coal that has stuck to its job. – Malcolm Forbes

Mr. Mathy reminded me today that Dr. Seuss’s birthday is this weekend.

In case you don’t know it already, I love Dr. Seuss. Most nights when it is time to pick the book for bed time at our house I push the girls pretty hard on picking a Dr. Seuss book.

To me, his books embody what is so great about books.

Books take important life concepts and weave them into a story that keeps you engaged long enough to hopefully learn an important life lesson.

Dr. Seuss does this through funny characters, rhymes and fanciful stories. Sci-fi authors do this through science and imagining what is possible. Biographers do this through the lives of the person they studied. Business books do this through studying business characters.

Another great example is Jim Collins. He has written a bunch of best-selling business books. But I believe his real goal is to convince others that disciplined applied over a long period of time produces greatness.

These examples prove to me why reading is so fundamentally important. We can use someone else’s understanding of the world to inform our own and to make better choices in the future. Not their choices, but ours.

Make it a great weekend.

Jake