The eventual millionaire : how anyone can be an entrepreneur and successfully grow their startup

258 Pages·2014·1.23 MB·English

by  Miller

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Are You an Eventual Millionaire?
Are You an Eventual Millionaire?
Having Happiness and Wealth Is Possible
The Journey Is the Fun Part
Love the Process from Thousandaire to Millionaire
It’s Okay to Love Money
Money Does Not Make You Rich
The Most Common Way People Become Millionaires
Now You Start
Let’s Get Started!
Chapter 2: Start Working with the Money You Have
Now
Facing Debt Head-On
The Debt-Free Rules
Money Beliefs
From Now Onward
Debt-Free Rules Summary
Chapter 3: Millionaires Have Fears, Make Excuses, and
Have Confidence Issues
What Fear Is
Science of the Brain
Your Business May Fail If You Do Not Work on Your Fears
What Millionaires Think of Fear
Risk
Confidence
Getting Past Excuses and Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone
Millionaires and Their No-Excuses Approach
Moving Past Your Fear
Passive versus Active Actions
Tools to Get Past Your Fear
What If You Let It Stop You?
Chapter 4: Finding and Evaluating Your Ideas for Your
New Business
How Millionaires Found Their Ideas
How to Generate Business Ideas
The “Find Your Passion” Myth
Don’t Be a Donkey
The Time Factor
All of this Starts with an Idea
How Millionaires Evaluate Ideas
What about Networking Marketing?
Choosing the Right Idea
Chapter 5: Mentors, Masterminds, and Networking
Millionaires Have Help!
Mentors versus Coaches versus Mastermind Groups
Mastermind Groups
Mentors
Networking
Chapter 6: Long Business Plans Are for Banks
The Square Business Plan
A Millionaire’s First Month in Business
Marketing versus Sales
Selling That Works
The Sales Pitch
Marketing
Square Business Plan Done
Chapter 7: Your Success Is a Series of Small Wins
Why Visioning Is Important to Millionaires
How Millionaires Set and Attain Their Goals
Creating Your Action Plan
Achieving Goals
Chapter 8: Continuous Forward Motion
Millionaires in Forward Motion
Focus, Patience, and Routine
The Power of Patience
The Power of Your Millionaire Routine
Taking Care of Business
Millionaire Routines
Continuous Forward Motion
Chapter 9: Stories of Millionaires before They Were
Millionaires
Brad Deal
Briana Borten
Kane Minkus
Lewis Howes
Marissa Levin
Ryan Eldridge
Sue Ismiel
Chapter 10: What You Can Do Now to Start Your
Millionaire Journey
Figure Out How to Save Money
Find a Problem to Solve
Differentiate Yourself from Your Competition
Create a Mastermind Group
Find a Mentor
Keep Learning
Focus!
Create, Write, and Be Accountable to Your Goals
It’s All about Sales
Execute! Take Action! Just Do It!
Closing Thoughts
About the Author
About the Companion Website
Index

Cover design: C. Wallace Cover image: Early Flying Machine ©
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Tardy, Jaime.
The eventual millionaire : how anyone can be an entrepreneur and successfully
grow their startup / Jaime Tardy.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-118-67470-3 (Hardcover); ISBN 978-1-118-67487-1 (ePDF); ISBN
978-1-118-67474-1 (ePub) 1. New business enterprises—Management. 2. Small
business—Growth. 3. Entrepreneurship. I. Title.
HD62.5.T359 2014
658.1’1–dc23
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To all of the Eventual Millionaires out there,
and to my husband and children who wear their
Eventual Millionaire T-shirts proudly.
Foreword