Hey, invest the money. Get the books and tapes you need for your self-education. Don’t shortchange yourself when it comes to investing in your own better future.
Mr. Shoaff got me started on books from the beginning. He said, “Become self-educated. Standard education will bring you standard results. Check the income figures of those with a standard education and see if that’s what you want. If it isn’t, if you want more than the average, you must become self-educated.” So I went to work on building a library. And today I have one of the best.
Mr. Shoaff recommended a couple of books to get me started. One was the Bible, which I already had. It consists of sixty-six books and my parents saw to it that I was well-acquainted with them, so I figured I had a pretty good start.
But he also insisted that I get Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. If you haven’t yet read it, I suggest you run right out and get a copy.
I must have read this great book several dozen times. I needed to. Mr. Shoaff said, “Repetition is the mother of skill.” And the way my bank account was, I needed lots of skill.
As I look back, the information in the book has been worth tens of thousands of dollars to me. And yet I bought it for pennies. This taught me a powerful lesson: THERE CAN BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COST AND VALUE.
Before I met Mr. Shoaff, I used to ask, “How much does it cost?” But he taught me to ask, “What is it worth?” When I started to base my life on value instead of price, all kinds of things began to happen.
[#rohn1996sevenstrategies]: Jim Rohn (1996): Seven strategies for wealth and happiness: power ideas from America’s foremost business philosopher, Three Rivers Press.