The Eventual Millionaire: How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Successfully Grow Their Startup

Praise for The Eventual Millionaire "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, New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup "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 of The Icarus Deception "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 A real-world guide to startup success and financial freedom At 22 years old, Jaime Tardy had all of the trappings of success. Two new cars, a house with a pool—these material possessions made her life look picture perfect from the outside. But from the inside, Tardy realized just how unhappy she was. With $70,000 in debt and a job that she hated, she made the decision to get out and start living for herself. Just 16 months later, she was debt-free. She now works part time doing work she loves and makes more than her stressful corporate job ever paid her. The first question that people ask when they hear Tardy's story is, "How did she do it?" In The Eventual Millionaire: How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Successfully Grow Their Startup she answers this question and shares her secrets that can help you transform your life. Not only does this book explain her exact steps, but it also distills the advice from over 100 millionaires that successfully have grown their startups.

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

JAIME TARDY is a business coach and speaker who helps entrepreneurs to achieve their goals. She is the founder of EventualMillionaire.com, a website that features a new millionaire interview each week that focuses on personal finance and entrepreneurship. She made her exit from the corporate world after finding herself $70,000 in debt and realizing that she hated her job. With an ambitious goal and a strategic plan, she was out of debt and out of the job she hated in just 16 months. Now, Tardy is helping others to find freedom, money and work they love. She has been featured on CNN, MSN, Kiplinger's, Fox Business and Yahoo!'s homepage.