It’s where they hide the money…
It’s where they hide all the money…
Buried somewhere in the pages of a book is the answer to all your questions. How to become a better salesman. How to market your business. How to build a business. How to manage stress. How to develop leadership skills. All of it!
Your journey to freedom with your business will start by reading a book.
The hardest workers aren’t the ones who work the hardest, as unfair as that is…
The people with the knowledge make the most money. They’re not paying for your BACK they’re paying for what’s in your head.
Books is where you build the BRAIN.
I’ve been an advocate of books for many years now. If you hope to move from a “worker” or a “technician” to a businessman, there are many books you will have to read.
My experience with schooling was that they drove the love of reading out of me. I had to rediscover it’s utility and entertainment as an adult. Maybe your years of schooling made you hate reading---here’s something that helped me get back into it:
Reading will make you money.
When you sit down and work your way through your first book on sales or marketing…That $15 purchase of a book will pay you back many times over. You’re focusing attention on a subject…you’re working ON your business instead of IN it. Yes, reading counts as working on your business!
It’s true, all the best information is hidden inside of a book somewhere.
You separate yourself from the pack when you read. You can feel good about yourself because such a small percentage of contractors will do it.
Reading will be a MASSIVE part of becoming a HomeGrown Contractor. You would otherwise pay top dollar for courses and conventions because the guys leading those things read the books. You’re reading me right now because I’ve read 100 more books on these topics than you have.
I’ll guarantee if you start reading 1 hour a day your salary will rise very quickly.
Every book you read about business gets you one step closer to becoming an expert at business!
I want to mention a very important tip here though:
When you’re reading, think about how the words on the page relate to YOUR business. What can you do to implement the ideas and instructions in the book your working on? How does the book relate to your situation?
Take notes, highlight. Read the book multiple times.
I know for many tradesmen, reading does not feel natural. We weren’t the top of our classes. POWER THROUGH IT. WORK. Make yourself proud by doing something that is difficult.
Many have recommended reading in the morning 10 pages a day. This has worked for me.
The more reading you do, the better you’ll get at writing! I recommend installing a dictionary app on your phone to look up words you don’t know. DO THAT. Don’t skip over words, make them make sense! Watch your vocabulary grow.
If you want a seat at the table, it starts with reading. It starts with being smarter than you were yesterday.
Keeping a business book going will give you ideas to implement in your business.
Keeping a business book going will give you ideas for your advertisements. If you read something interesting, relate it to YOUR business in the form of an advertisement. This is something I’ve been doing for years and it works to keep me in fresh ideas. We don’t plagiarize, but we allow the text to present us with ideas that we put into our own words with our own personality attached.
As a HomeGrown Contractor, educate yourself. You are your own teacher. A book from the thrift store can help you so much. That book author will charge $500 an hour to talk to you about the ideas presented in the pages of his book for $15.
I’ll continuously recommend books on this site for you to check out.
MAKE READING A HABIT.
If I can offer you nothing else---your time reading will pay for itself many times over!
YOU ARE A VORACIOUS READER!