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Building Your Own Success Library

Written by Adrian Caruso, CEO/Master Business Coach of TA Fastrack

The starting point of success in the information age is for you to become an accomplished reader. You should be reading in your field one or two hours every day. And you should have your books nearby.

In this article, you'll learn why and how to build your own personal library. You learn which books to buy, how to organize them and how to benefit the most from your collection.

The starting point of success in your field is for you to build a personal library. Although public libraries are extremely helpful for research, you should buy your own books. People often ask me what books they should buy. To decide this, you can use the Law of Relative Importance. Buy the books that are most important to your life at this moment.

Ask For Advice From Others
In building your own library, ask the most successful people in your field what books they would recommend. Then, go straight to the bookstore and buy them.
One of the marks of the professional, and professionalism is a state of mind, is that he has a library in his field.

Check out my Recommended Reading List that I have personally grown from both in Business and as a person!

Should you buy hardcover books or softcover books? I recommend that you purchase any book, of either kind, that can help you. Some books cost $20 to $30. The average person complains that he can’t afford such a book. The superior person recognizes that the information contained in that book can save him a year or two of hard work.

Remember, it may take an author 10 to 20 years to learn his subject. It may take him two to three years to write a book on it. It then may take one to two years to get the book published. By paying a few dollars for a book, you probably are getting the results of 20 or 25 years of effort by one of the smartest people in your field.

Invest In Your Education
Never scrimp on your education. It is one of the most expensive things you could ever do.

Get some good bookshelves, and begin categorizing your books by subject. Have a section on sales. Have a section on management. Have a section on family and child raising. Have a section on personal motivation and success. If you like novels, have a section on fiction, or on history.

Organize your sections in alphabetical order, either by the title of the book or by the author. You don’t have to make it too formal or structured. The point is to set up your library in such a way that you pretty well know where each book is, you know whether or not you have a book, and you know where to go to get a piece of information when you need it.

Read With A Pen In Hand
Becoming a proficient and persistent reader and building your own library may not be easy to do, but it’s certainly possible. The future does belong to the competent. Those who know more will always win out over those who know less. The more you read, the better you get. The more you learn, the easier it is for you to learn. And the more you challenge your mind, the smarter you get. And your own personal library is the key!

Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, set up a personal library in your home, even if you just start with a bookshelf, and keep it in order.

Second, keep a list of good books that you hear about and begin buying books from this list on a regular basis to build your library.

Third, get yourself a comfortable chair, a good reading light and a desk for y our own personal library. Visit this area every day and you will actually feel yourself getting smarter and better in your field.

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