Donald Mitchell

For a free online read of my witnessing books, Witnessing Made Easy and Ways You Can Witness, visit Step by Step World Outreach Ministries and Scripture Now to learn about great ways that Christians can bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to more people based on a global contest.

I write book reviews with a purpose to help you find the books that will be most valuable to you and your family.

Many people ask about my reading and reviewing habits. Here are answers to the most common questions:

1. I rarely read books that authors or publishers offer to send me.
2. I read 2-3 hours a day. On an average book, my speed is around 2,000 words per minute. I learned how to read quickly and with good comprehension during my sophomore year in high school.
3. To go faster yourself, read more words at one glance until you can do one line at a time. Learn to stop 'hearing' the words in your mind. Then do two lines, etc. Next, do one paragraph at a time. Then two, etc. Use tests to check your understanding as you go faster.
4. Study Proportional Reading to find software that can help you read faster, up to 1000 words a minute, with more comprehension. This also works for dyslexics!
5. Reading aloud to children of all ages helps them bond with their parents, develop emotional stability, and improves reading skills and intellect. I worked with my youngest child to review a series of her favorites. I hope you and your children (or grandchildren) enjoy them!
6. If you have a new book that will help many people, tell me why you think I will like your book and how it will help readers.
7. I describe my philosophy of book reviewing in detail and propose how you can be a better book reviewer in Adventures of an Optimist.

I like to help people learn how to become better Christians. As an example, you can read about the winners (May 14, 2007) and runners-up (June 12, 2007) of the contest I sponsored to locate the best ways to save more souls at my blog Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire.

To assist in improving your life, I also head the 400 Year Project (showing how you and the whole world can make improvements at 20 times the normal rate by eliminating bad habits that delay progress and using more effective methods for improving).

I am a professor, strategy consultant, and coauthor of business books exemplifying the 400 year project. For a summary of the project see Adventures of an Optimist. See free excerpts of other books about the project at other online sites.

Other books I have coauthored for the project are The 2,000 Percent Solution (explaining you how to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources), The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution (explaining how a business can accomplish 400 times as much with the same time and resources), The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, 2,000 Percent Living, and Help Wanted.

Thank you, Helen Coster of Forbes, for writing a generous profile of my reviewing on December 1, 2006.