5 Self Help Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read In 2019

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”– Haruki Murakami

Books are invaluable sources of knowledge and the right kinds of books have the power to change your life and make you a more productive and effective person. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, here is a list of self help books which can make your life better.

1) The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma

Written by leadership expert Robin Sharma, 5 AM Club walks you through the morning routine of business tycoons, leaders and world’s wisest people and how they are so effective. This book introduces a revolutionary morning routine and inspires you to wake up early and stay focused. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, waking up at 5 A.M., ensures you spend time on high level activity without any distractions. This book, with the help of the 20/20/20 rule, helps you make the most out of your morning. So if you are not a morning person yet, this one is for you.  

2) Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson’s 100 page work, Who Moved My Cheese?, is a valuable lesson about adapting to changes in life and work. An aspiring entrepreneur should not be afraid of change and must be fully equipped to adapt to any changes which may occur in life. This book can help you with exactly that. Through the lives of four characters Scurry, Sciff, Hem and Haw, Who Moved My Cheese? teaches you how people who can adapt to change in life are way ahead of others. The book also points out a small incident where a man who decided to cope positively with an unexpected change at work eventually reached high points in life. This book takes around 1 hour to read and stays with you for a lifetime.

3) Barking Up The Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Baker

As it says on the cover, Barking Up The Wrong Tree focuses on the science behind why everything you know about success is probably wrong. Bad boys do well in life, much better than the class toppers, says Eric Barker, in this book. Having said this, Barker also emphasizes on the importance of hard work and being obsessive. Though Barker’s advice is mostly just common sense, he manages to spice things up with the characters in the book. The advice in this book is mostly linked to hard work, self discovery, happiness and work-life balance. This book can help you change the way you look at success and how you wish to achieve it.

4) 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a personality development book of the ’90s and is still a go to book for aspiring entrepreneurs. This book is all about developing a core set of values which make your life easy and also help solve problems which may arise in your day to day life. This book walks you through the 7 habits which make successful people who they are. However, the most important habit for aspiring entrepreneurs is Habit 6: Synergize. As per the book, when you adopt this habit, you combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone. This point in a nutshell describes one of the most important skills you need to be a successful entrepreneur—teamwork.

5) The Happiness Project by Gretchen Robin

The Happiness Project is a journey about the author trying to be happy overall. It gives you an ultimate 12 month project with different resolutions for each month. This book can help you discover who you truly are as a person and what makes you happy. Self discovery is essential for reaching heights in your personal and professional life. The book also helps you become a better version of yourself by making you understand your strengths and weaknesses. So, if you are an aspiring entrepreneur, this book can help you identify yourself and your passion and can put you on the road to meaningful success.

Reading is essential for those who wish to rise above the ordinary. Each of the books mentioned in this list can have a huge impact on your life if you let them.   

Comment and let us know which one of these books you will read next.