Written by Jaime Tardy, founder of
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dan Miller xi
Acknowledgments 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
