For Shark Tank fans and budding entrepreneurs!

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Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success by Carly A. Riordan is an amazing self-help guide to entrepreneurship. It is perfect for the Shark Tank fans or budding entrepreneurs in your life! The book includes sections for creating a business plan, getting legal help, setting up bookkeeping, and social media/branding. Interspersed between the chapters are interviews with entrepreneurs.

Here is an excerpt from the section "The Big Idea":

"IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT. No matter where you’re starting off, there can be a lot of pressure around coming up with a great idea. If you struggle with perfectionism, you may think your idea needs to be completely fleshed out and perfect from day one. Try your best to relieve yourself of that pressure. Your idea doesn’t have to—and probably won’t—come to you overnight, and it certainly doesn’t need to be perfect right away. Relax. You will not have to pitch your idea immediately
to a team of investors. You’re allowed to go in one direction and pivot down the road. You can change your mind completely.
Once you start a business plan, you may realize that your idea, although great in theory, will be hard to pull off, and that’s okay! Give yourself permission to give an idea a shot and see where it goes."

Overall, Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success is the perfect gift for the business-interested person in your life. If anyone you know has been watching Shark Tank and can't wait to start their own business, then you should get them this book! One highlight of this book are self-help pages that invite you to write on them and chart your own plans. Many self-help books don't include pages like this, and I think that they're really helpful. If you're intrigued by the excerpt above, or if you're a fan of entrepreneurship, I highly recommend that you check out this book, which is available now!