With Christmas nudging ever closer, some of us are getting ahead with our present planning.
Others, like me, will leave it to the last minute and get everyone they love will get a voucher.
But what do you get for the estate agent who is serious about improving as a person and professional?
Well, in my experience, the best agents tend to read – a lot.
As the beautiful mixture of tenacity and tenderness, Vicky Bibiris of Location Location memorably said: “We won’t be outworked OR outlearned.”
So, I asked clients, colleagues and social media people within the agency industry to recommend some books to go on people’s Christmas lists.
And here they are in no particular order, but if the book is in bold, it means it has had multiple recommendations:
1. **Profit First** – Mike Michalowicz
2. **The Surrender Experiment** – Michael Singer
3. **£100M Leads: How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Stuff** – Alex Hormozi
4. **Delivering Happiness** – Tony Hsieh
5. **Legacy** – James Kerr
6. **How to Win Friends and Influence People** – Dale Carnegie
7. **Atomic Habits** – James Clear
8. **You Inc** – John McGrath
9. **Ikigai** – Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
10. **11 Rings** – Phil Jackson
11. **Anything You Want** – Derek Sivers
12. **The Art of Impossible** – Steven Kotler
13. **The War of Art** – Steven Pressfield
14. **Daily Stoic** – Ryan Holiday
15. **Shoe Dog** – Phil Knight
16. **The Diary of a CEO** – Steven Bartlett
17. **The Hard Thing About Hard Things** – Ben Horowitz
18. **The Power of Habit** – Charles Duhigg
19. **What It Takes** – Stephen Schwarzman
20. **No Rules Rules** – Reed Hastings
21. **The Ride of a Lifetime** – Robert Iger
22. **Traction** – Gino Wickman
23. **Mindset** – Carol Dweck
24. **The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k – Mark Manson
25. **The Slight Edge** – Jeff Olson
26. **Moments of Truth** – Jan Carlzon
27. **Mastering the Rockefeller Habits** – Verne Harnish
28. **The Power of Vulnerability** – Brené Brown
29. **The Magic of Thinking Big** – David J. Schwartz
30. **Unreasonable Hospitality** – Will Guidara
31. **Sleep** – Nick Littlehayes
32. **The Leader Who Had No Title** – Robin Sharma
33. **Simple Logical Repeatable** – Marianne Page
34. **Deliver What You Promise** – John DiJulius
35. **The Four Agreements** – Don Miguel Ruiz
36. **Twelve and a Half** – Gary Vaynerchuk
37. **Think Like a Monk** – Jay Shetty
38. **They Ask You Answer** – Marcus Sheridan
39. **Can’t Hurt Me** – David Goggins
40. **Principles** – Ray Dalio
41. **Ali Baba, the House that Jack Ma Built** – Duncan Clark
42. **Extreme Ownership** – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
43. **Grit** – Angela Duckworth
44. **The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People** – Stephen Covey
45. **Start with Why** – Simon Sinek
46. **Anything by Richard Branson** – including “Losing My Virginity,” “Screw It, Let’s Do It,” and “Finding My Virginity.”
47. **The Alchemist** – Paulo Coelho
48. **The Infinite Game** – Simon Sinek
49. **Winners** – Alastair Campbell
50. **The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse** – Charlie Mackesy
51. **The 12 Week Year** – Michael Lennington & Brian P. Moran
And Paddington Bear, by Michael Bond, as recommended by David Mintz.
What book/books would you add to this list?
Thanks for reading (or listening if you’re into audiobooks).
Jerry