Thanks in advance!

I feel as though people are more scared now than ever before because they know if they leave it will be very hard to find a job with the current market. I know Robert Kiyosaki also wrote a book about what to do before quitting your job, but I haven’t read it yet.

Choosing the order of topics was a challenge, since you are right, there are so many ways to approach it!

I appreciate your support and encourage you to have fun on your own book journey.

All the best,

-Pam

I hear this statement a lot from the “entrepreneurial” crowd and I challenge it. People who are foolish with their money don’t generate large amounts of wealth. Reading books like “The Millionaiare Next Door” does tell me that 2/3 of the millionaires interviewed in 1996 were indeed self-employed — but it also tells me that 1/3 of them were “employees” — so it’s not an absolute requirement. It also tells me that star athletes and Hollywood actors are not necessarily “wealthy”. They may have a high income, but it’s how the money is managed that truly matters — and many people who have a “rich” outward appearance only present a facade.

In addition, reading “The Total Money Makeover” firmly convinced me that there is NO reason that I cannot be financially secure (or “wealthy”) as an “employee” if I’m wise with my money. Plenty of people that make a lot less than I do are doing just fine (or better than fine) by using basic financial principles like budgeting, frugality, compounded interest and living under your means.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that there is a definite correlation for the self-employed to do well, but perhaps that’s a result of the personality type who will become self-employed and not so much the result of being self-employed.

I’ve been considering reading this book, even though I am content being an employee — since in many organizations, it’s the self-starting, go-getting entrepreneurial types of people who get the good projects, get rewarded for innovating and get recognized as leaders.

It seems that if you’re a true success, you let the results speak for themselves. There’s no need to impress others with fancy and expensive posessions.

The minimizing they do early in their lives seems to suit them well enough that they see no need to abandon it once they’ve arrived.

Perhaps living minimally enables them to stay focused on what it is they do best.

I think that experience has shaped me, to the point that so long as I like my job and my colleagues, I’m happy to have a company take care of me and all those pesky details that entrepreneurs have to do themselves. I started my own side business, but wouldn’t want to be a full-time entrepreneur. I guess my goal in life is not to be rich, but to be free from financial worry.

The more I think of pursuing something like “my own business” down the line, the more I think I should read this first.

Another think I would add is “be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” I had always wanted to be a TV reporter. When I finally got an opportunity, I discovered I absolutely hated it. It was the longest two years of my life.