The Eventual Millionaire: How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Successfully Grow Their Startup
272The Eventual Millionaire: How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Successfully Grow Their Startup
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Overview
An Eventual Millionaire is someone who knows they will be a millionaire, eventually. But they want to do it on their own terms—with an enjoyable life and an enjoyable business. Eventual Millionaires are everywhere, from the airplane pilot looking to start his own business for more freedom and money to a student looking to start her life on the right foot to a successful business owner needing inspiration and wondering how to take her business to the next level.
There are many ways to become a millionaire, but research has often shown that creating your own business is one of the best ways to build wealth. The Eventual Millionaire will lay the foundation for those looking to start their own business and work their way toward financial independence and a fulfilled life.
- Contains the insights of more than 100 millionaires and their various experiences
- Written by Jaime Tardy, founder of eventualmillionaire.com and a business coach for entrepreneurs
- A companion website includes an "Eventual Millionaire Starter Kit" with worksheets, business plan documents, and much more
We all want to be successful and enjoy financial security, but we might not know how or don’t think we can do it. The Eventual Millionaire will show you what it takes.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118674703 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 02/24/2014 |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Dan Miller xiAcknowledgments xv
Introduction: First Things First 1
How This Book Came to Be 1
What Is a Millionaire? 2
You Don’t Need Money to Find Meaning 2
Removing My Goal 3
Chapter 1: Are You an Eventual Millionaire? 5
Are You an Eventual Millionaire? 6
Having Happiness and Wealth Is Possible 7
The Journey Is the Fun Part 8
Love the Process from Thousandaire to Millionaire 9
It’s Okay to Love Money 9
Money Does Not Make You Rich 11
The Most Common Way People
Become Millionaires 14
Now You Start 15
Let’s Get Started! 15
Chapter 2: Start Working with the Money You Have Now 17
Facing Debt Head-On 18
The Debt-Free Rules 23
Money Beliefs 36
From Now Onward 38
Debt-Free Rules Summary 38
Action Item Review 38
Chapter 3: Millionaires Have Fears, Make Excuses, and Have Confidence Issues 41
What Fear Is 42
Science of the Brain 42
Your Business May Fail If You Do Not Work on Your Fears 43
What Millionaires Think of Fear 44
Risk 46
Confidence 47
Getting Past Excuses and Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone 49
Millionaires and Their No-Excuses Approach 49
Moving Past Your Fear 54
Passive versus Active Actions 60
Tools to Get Past Your Fear 62
What If You Let It Stop You? 66
Action Item Review 67
Chapter 4: Finding and Evaluating Your Ideas for Your New Business 71
How Millionaires Found Their Ideas 72
How to Generate Business Ideas 74
The “Find Your Passion” Myth 74
Don’t Be a Donkey 78
The Time Factor 79
All of this starts with an idea 80
How Millionaires Evaluate Ideas 82
What about Networking Marketing? 94
Choosing the Right Idea 95
Action Item Review 99
Chapter 5: Mentors, Masterminds, and Networking 103
Millionaires Have Help! 104
Mentors versus Coaches versus Mastermind Groups 105
Mastermind Groups 106
Mentors 111
Networking 121
Action Item Review 124
Chapter 6: Long Business Plans Are for Banks 127
The Square Business Plan 130
A Millionaire’s First Month in Business 137
Marketing versus Sales 140
Selling That Works 140
The Sales Pitch 141
Marketing 144
Square Business Plan Done 151
Action Item Review 152
Chapter 7: Your Success Is a Series of Small Wins 155
Why Visioning Is Important to Millionaires 156
How Millionaires Set and Attain Their Goals 161
Creating Your Action Plan 172
Achieving Goals 178
Action Item Review 179
Chapter 8: Continuous Forward Motion 181
Millionaires in Forward Motion 182
Focus, Patience, and Routine 183
The Power of Patience 189
The Power of Your Millionaire Routine 193
Taking Care of Business 197
Millionaire Routines 198
Continuous Forward Motion 202
Action Item Review 202
Chapter 9: Stories of Millionaires before They Were Millionaires 205
Brad Deal 206
Briana Borten 208
Kane Minkus 212
Lewis Howes 214
Marissa Levin 216
Ryan Eldridge 218
Sue Ismiel 220
Chapter 10: What You Can Do Now to Start Your Millionaire Journey 225
Figure Out How to Save Money 225
Find a Problem to Solve 226
Differentiate Yourself from Your Competition 228
Create a Mastermind Group 228
Find a mentor 230
Keep Learning 230
Focus! 231
Create, Write, and Be Accountable to Your Goals 233
It’s All about Sales 234
Execute! Take Action! Just Do It! 236
Closing Thoughts 238
About the Author 241
About the Companion Website 243
Index 245
What People are Saying About This
"Perhaps it's time to end the cult of celebrity around people merely because they've acquired a bunch of money. Jaime Tardy demystifies not just the process of earning money, but far more important, the emotions around it." —Seth Godin, Author, The Icarus Deception Step one to becoming a millionaire: read this book. Step two: quit your job. Don't worry, step two will be a lot less intimidating after you complete step one.” —Chris Guillebeau, NYT bestselling author of The $100 Startup “This is the most realistic and practical book ever written about business and personal success in the social media age. Every parent in America should buy this for their child's high school or college graduation. I know I will.” —Jay Baer, author of Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype "One of the keys to becoming wealthy is thinking like the rich do, so pick up The Eventual Millionaire and see the thoughts of over 100 millionaire minds.” —T. Harv Eker, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind™