Imagine waking up early every morning, five days a week, just to elbow and claw your way through rush hour traffic for the privilege of spending the next eight hours in a job you don’t like. After being stuck in a job that keeps you from doing what you truly want to do, picture yourself fighting your way back home through rush hour traffic so you can see family members who know less about you than most of the people you left behind at work. Now as a reward for all this aggravation, you get just enough money to barely cover your bills and a bonus of two weeks’ vacation every year so you can taste a sliver of what freedom really feels like. Before you get too comfortable enjoying your holiday, you’ll get yanked back to work where you can look forward to another dreary 50-week existence until you escape for your next vacation. Does this sound like the life you want to live for the next twenty years? The next ten years? How about for the next five years? For most people, their job doesn’t provide financial security, but financial insecurity. Even worse, most jobs are nothing more than well-paid prisons. In prison, you aren’t free to go where you want or live like you want because of physical barriers. In most jobs, you aren’t free to go where you want or live where you want because of financial barriers. As long as you have those barriers, you can never be truly free. For too many people, the only difference between spending life in a job and spending life in a prison is that a prison would give them better health benefits. That’s why I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to live this way. Even better, I can also tell you how to get out of your current situation and turn your life into the life you always thought it should be. In this book, I’m going to show you exactly how I turned myself into a millionaire before turning 30. If you think I had it easy or got lucky, I’ll give you a glimpse into my life that will probably change your mind. When I turned four years old, my parents divorced. A year later, my father broke into our home and murdered my mother’s boyfriend by shooting him dead right in front of her. After serving his time in prison, he returned to severe alcoholism while my mom raised me, working two jobs with no child support and on food stamps at times, while working to finish her degree. When I was 13 years old, my father committed suicide. When I turned 18, I decided to become an entrepreneur and by 21, I was such a miserable failure I ended up $30,000 in debt, homeless, and living out of my little beat-up Honda Civic, bathing in gas station bathrooms. It was that moment in my life, which I’ll share more about shortly, that I began to turn my life around. Based on the strategies I’ll be sharing in this book, in less than three years, by age 24, I was earning a six-figure income, working for myself, and traveling around the world. By age 29, I was a self-made millionaire. Today, I have a business that has generated over 100,000 customers around the world. I’ve generated well over $20,000,000 for my companies by the age of 32 and feel like I’m just getting started. Even though I’m a millionaire today, I still remember what it’s like to be hungry and not know where the next meal might come from. I know what it’s like to be homeless and sleep in the backseat of a car. I know what it’s like to feel despair and discouragement and wake up every day wondering if life will ever get better. I wrote this book to let you know that life can get better and it will get better; but only if you commit yourself to learning the Introduction xvii skills it takes to create change. What pulled me out of a life of desperation and despair and into a life of prosperity and purpose were specific steps and actions that laid the foundation for success and ensured financial freedom. The good news is that I’m going to share these strategies with youbecauseIknowtheywork.ThebetternewsisthatIknow anyone can do what I did and even more. If I can do it, you can too; and in this book, you’re about to learn how.
