Your Money Mindset Could Be Holding Your Business Back

And I was thinking to myself, what should I talk about when I've come back? Because obviously I've not been here for a while and I didn't want to jump straight in with like, you know, the pricing framework that I've come up with and be like, you need to do this, you need to do that.

I just thought, actually, do you know what I'm going to do? When I go on holiday, and I don't know if you guys are the same, maybe not, maybe.

I, you know, people say you need to switch off, you need to switch off.

And as you know, when you're in a business, you can't just switch off.

And people go, no, but you know, it's fine when you honeymoon, switch off.

And you can't.

So what I tend to do to try and help me switch off is I will take some like business books with me.

So when I went to Crete last year, I took a business book called Good to Great.

It's on a red cover and you can get it off Amazon.

It's written by an American guy who basically did research over a long period of time of what the difference between great companies is to good companies and what they do differently that makes them great over good.

That one is a definite read.

If you are running a business and you've got staff and things like that, that is definitely the perfect read.

Thank you, Emily, for taking the dog out.

So I'll come back to that one.

So that one's really good.

And I also read this time, I got The Psychology of Money and I got another book called, what the hell is it called? I wrote it down.

Think and Grow Rich.

These are ones that I've seen on TikTok that people say, oh, you know, if you're an entrepreneur, read these books.

So those are the three books that I've read.

And I do always tend to read a business book whilst I'm away because it's the only time I get uninterrupted and it's the only time really I get to read a book.

So I thought, what better than to read a business book to see if I can get any tips from them? Now, The Psychology of Money, I think, is a fairly recent one, which I think a few people have put up to read in the various different pet groups.

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you here.

didn't think it was that great and I know I'm gonna maybe people have read it and thought it was amazing I just I just didn't really get much from it and to be honest I didn't even finish the book I think I got three quarters of the way through and I was so bored that I went on to the next book yes there's like elements of it that I took I think a lot of it's common sense like you know if you make money don't be a dick um you know which I think is kind of common sense but it does talk about obviously the psychology of money because that's what it's titled as and a lot of people think that you're quite rational with money but actually we're not and I think I did a chat with someone around um finance and finance coaching and it was about the fact that you're not really rational with money and it's actually more of an emotional thing because if you actually think about it every decision that we make around money is influenced partly by our upbringing our experiences our fears our beliefs and you know when I was younger I looking at my mom, for example, she was a hoarder.

She was a hoarder of money.

She never spent money up until literally the last 10 years.