REWORK | If you're an entrepreneur...read this

I read a lot of books.  I'm usually a John C. Maxwell kind of reader (If you don't know him, then go back to your room and do research).  I've always been fascinated with self-help books.  The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership will always be one of my favorite books.  So, I started researching which new book I should read and the word "Rework" was being mentioned everywhere.  By trade, I am an entrepreneur so I decided to give it a read.  It was a New York Times Bestseller and it was written by the founders of 37 Signals (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson). Well...it was worth it.  I literally could not put the book down.

The book isn't perfect, but it's definitely different.  I've picked up countless books that talk about how you should get a business plan and write down numbers that you think you can hit in the next five years.  There are also books that show you what to do to get approved for a bank loan.  Well, Rework doesn't do that.  On the contrary, it tells you to stop thinking that way and I agree.

We live in a new age and everything evolves.  Why use the traditional form of business in time where everything is so technologically advanced?  I was surprised to find myself doing traditional things.  Call it nostalgia, but after I read this book, I had to reevaluate all my strategies.

Not only that but I feel like the book has helped me in my married life, too.  For those of you who don't know I am a young Web/Graphic Designer who married even younger, but here's the kicker .... I married out of LOVE.  No children was needed to make us elope.  But I felt myself getting consumed by work, and I unconsciously liked it.  Then I read this:

"Workaholics aren't heroes.  They don't save the day, they just use it up.  The real hero is already at home because she figured out a way to get things done."

I have highlighted so many great phrases from this book that I'm eager to show all of my fellow entrepreneurs.  If you've read the book, comment below on what were you favorite parts.  If not... get on reading!!