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The Why

The year is 2011.

I’m working through college as a part-time tire lube express technician.

And I'm learning a lot about what I don't want in a job:

• having to report to people I didn’t admire.
• not having any money…ever.
• feeling trapped.
• following rules I thought were stupid.
• doing work that anybody else could do.
• doing work that I didn’t care about.
• having to ask another adult for permission to leave.
• trading my most valuable resource (time) for a whopping $7.45/hour.

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I wanted to be out in the world, learning and growing, coming and going as I pleased, making lots of money.

I wanted to be free.

But I didn’t know how to escape.

One day, a few weeks later, the solution struck me.

The only people who were living like I wanted to live were not employees at all.

They were entrepreneurs.

What I really wanted was to be a full-time entrepreneur.

But I didn’t know anything about running a business.

I didn’t know what kind of business I wanted to run.

And I had no idea where to start.

13 years later, I have been a full-time entrepreneur (that is, earning my full-time living from business profits) for 10 years.

3 years to figure out how to launch my first one.

And 10 more years to iterate and optimize that business into my present-day operation:

• I have total control over my time.
• I spend my days in precisely the way I want.
• I don’t report to anyone but myself (and my wife, of course).
• I don’t follow any rules I think are stupid, because I make up the rules.
• I don't trade my time for a set hourly rate; instead, I earn the amount I deserve to earn relative to the quality and amount of work I put in.
• And more and more I am earning money today from work that I did in the past.

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The How

At this point in my career, after watching many businesses succeed and fail and reading hundreds of books on the subject, I am absolutely convinced that it is impossible to fail as an entrepreneur if you (1) don't quit and (2) become a student of the game.

Professional entrepreneurs are self-starters. No one needs to beg us to work.

Our real challenge is figuring out what work to do to take us where we want to go.

The best way to overcome this obstacle is by reading books.

I created this ebook to speed up your entrepreneurial journey.

Read these books. Escape your day job. Found your dream business.

Thrive.

If you are a professional entrepreneur, or you have a dream to become one, then this ebook is for you.

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