Recommended Read: Soul Keeping

Jon Gordon is a trainer, consultant and inspirational speaker. His books cover a wide range of subjects aiming to help people be positive and to lead better. Interviewed in People and Purpose 11, he shared with us a book he recommends for others: Soul Keeping by the pastor and spiritual writer, John Ortberg.

In this short, accessible book, filled with stories and anecdotes, John Ortberg explores the idea of a soul with reference to films, music, TV and fiction. He describes in detail the nine aspects of care and attention which souls require, asking us to look at ourselves and consider what changes we need to make in our lives.

Jon summed up why he loves the book: “You can’t be a great leader if you don’t tend to your own soul, and this is a book about being a soulful person, a soulful leader, and understanding how you must nurture the soul in order to be able to nurture and lead others. Because if you’re broken, if you have these wounds that are not healed, you will act out and lead from those wounds, instead of leading from healing. If you’re not a healer, you can’t be a helper.”

You can buy Soul Keeping now on Amazon UK or Amazon USA