I love reading blogs! So I thought I’d share some of my favorites in case you’re interested in reading them to! In order to read so many blogs, I use Google Reader which allows me to read blogs through their RSS feeds. It’s a must!

After reviewing my list, what blogs am I missing? What other blogs should I be reading?

Blogs on Leadership

Dan Cathy

John Maxwell

Michael Hyatt

Tom Peters

Tim Elmore

Blogs on Ministry

Perry Noble’s Blog

More Than Dodgeball

Steven Furtick

Mark Batterson

Pete Wilson
Blogs on Writing

All Freelance Writing

Make a Living Writing

Rachelle Gardner

Blogs on Creativity

Church Crunch

Church Create

Blogs on Social Media

Chalene Johnson’s Blog

Chris Brogan

Mashable

Pushing Social

Blogs on Blogging

Copy Blogger

ProBlogger

TentBlogger

Blogs on Business

Tim Sanders

Inc.Com – Start-Ups

Seth Godin

Blogs on Fitness

BeachBody Fitness Forums

BeachBody Forums – Maintaining Results

BeachBody Forums – Nutrition

Tony Horton’s Blog

As you all know I’m I really enjoy Beach Body products! As I started researching the company and it’s instructors, I started following some of them on Twitter. I started following, Chalene Johnson, who made Chalene Extreme and other exercise programs. I’ve never done any of her workouts, but I started following her on Twitter. I really enjoyed her tweets about leadership, motivation, and social media.

It turns out she is actually a motivational speaker, a business owner, and gets mentored by Brian Tracy.

In the beginning of the year she made a free 30-day challenge program available to anyone who wants to grow personally. I’m currently in the second week of it, and it’s making a huge difference in the way I live day to day. I’ve been learning how to become more effective at setting priorities, setting and attaining goals, and maintaining a daily to-do list. It’s helped immensely.

I’d recommend for you to go through the challenge. Once you sign up, you get a 5-10 minute video from Chalene e-mailed to you daily. The videos always come with something practical to apply to your life and often contain free documents you can download to help you through the journey.

http://www.chalenejohnson.com/30daychallenge/

It’s been so helpful, I thought I’d share it with you. I hope you’ll take advantage of it. It’s free! If you’re interested in growing yourself, you need to!

Enjoy!

This video from Seth Godin really challenged me on social networking this weekend. I’m really re-thinking the way I do social networking. This statement is what challenged me the most:

“Networking is always important when it’s real and it’s always a useless distraction when it’s fake”

Here are some questions I’m asking myself. In the future I’ll post about my social media strategy. I’d love to hear your thoughts on these questions:

• How can we use social media to make real connections?

• How can we really add value to people through social media?

• How do you measure the success of how we use social media?

• Are we really making a difference through our efforts?

• How much of the way I use social media is a useless distraction?
  

Thoughts?