YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH JOURNEY

Books To Help You Reach Your Goals

READING IS A GREAT WAY TO DEVELOP YOURSELF IN BUSINESS. THE ACT OF READING, OR LISTENING TO AN AUDIOBOOK, CAN INSPIRE, INFORM, EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN, AND EMBOLDEN YOU TO WORK ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Time is often the thing that holds us back. But can we afford not to take that time out to learn? Disciplined commitment is the key. By dedicating time to reading, we allow ourselves that time to grow. The most successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett dedicate huge amounts of their time to reading. So why should you not? You can always take your reading on the go, with audiobooks and Kindles. Here are two of my favourites.

Let’s start with a book that will help you to reach your full potential: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. You’ll know that the most powerful enemy to achieving your dreams is procrastination, self-doubt, and self-sabotage. If you are struggling in this way, this book will help you to overcome these issues.

As a powerful entrepreneur, you need a good balance between your work life and personal life, and this is the perfect book for it: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferris. It will help you improve your time management and teach you how to use time and location to gain financial leverage by prioritising outsourcing and automation.

We also ran a recent poll on LinkedIn, which revealed the following books as either essential or inspiring reads for a business owner, according to business owners themselves.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber

Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done Today by Brian Tracy

Life Leverage: How to Get More Done in Less Time, Outsource Everything & Create Your Ideal Mobile Lifestyle by Rob Moore

Get Out of Your Own Way: How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Life by Larry Winget

The 5 Second Rule: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Live, Love, and Speak with Courage: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success by Matthew Syed

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Legacy by James Kerr

Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard

Principles by Ray Dalio

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg

The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan

Zest: How to Squeeze the Max out of Life by Andy Cope

Way of the Wolf: Straight line selling: Master the art of persuasion, influence, and success by Jordan Belfort

The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight

They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan

The Four Color Personalities For MLM: The Secret Language For Network Marketing by Tom ‘Big Al’ Schrieters

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller

The Absolutely Critical Non-Essentials by Paddi Lund

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth