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1. QUIT YOUR JOB
REASONS
YOU HAVE TO
in 2014
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2. THE GAME IS OVER.
That game where they get to hire
you for 40 years, pay you far less
than you create, and then give you a
gold watch, and then you get bored,
you get depressed, and you die
alone.
(It wasn’t that fun of a game anyway.)

3. WE’VE ENTERED THE
“CHOOSE YOURSELF” ERA.
The era without middlemen. Without ‘the
Other’ telling you your bonus, your salary,
your movie can be made, your book published,
your SEO company funded, your life validated.
The era where you have to
always be planning your escape.

4. Every day you Create
and you Innovate
and you Sell for yourself.
You Eat what you Kill. And your rewards
are commensurate with how sharp
your teeth are.
Most people need to begin planning
their exit strategy RIGHT NOW...

5. For the past 20 years, incomes
have risen slower than inflation,
which means the food, gas and housing
you buy consume a greater percentage of
your income than they did 20 years ago.
This is why household debt is near
all-time highs. You have to borrow to live.
Your job pays you enough to live,
but that’s it. But soon your job won’t
pay you enough to live.
This trend is not going to end.
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The middle
class is
DEAD
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6. Technology, outsourcing,
a growing temp staffing industry,
productivity efficiencies, have all
replaced the middle class.
I’m on the board of directors of a
temp staffing company with one billion
dollars in revenues. I can see it happening
across every sector of the economy.
Everyone is getting fired.
Everyone is toilet paper now. Flush.
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You’ve
been
replaced
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7. A corporations main job is to destroy
the career aspirations of their most
talented people, the people who swear
their loyalty to the corporation,
the people who work 90 hours a
week for them.
They care about the corporation as
a whole, not the individual. They want
you to stay in the hole and will throw
you a meal every once in awhile in
exchange for your excrement.
“We don’t want anyone to be an
individual star.”
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Corporations
don’t
like you
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8. Studies show that an increase
in salary only offers marginal to zero
increase in “happiness” above a certain
level. Why is this? Because the basic fact:
people spend what they make.
In other words, don’t stay at the job for
safe salary increases over time. That will
never get you where you want – freedom
from financial worry. Only free time,
imagination, creativity, and an ability to
disappear will help you deliver value that
nobody ever delivered before in the
history of mankind.
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Money
is NOT
happiness
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9. R E A S O N S T O
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Count right
now how
many people
can make a
major decision
that can ruin
your life?
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I don’t like it when one person can make
or break me. A boss. A publisher. A TV
producer. A buyer of my company.
The way to avoid this is to diversify the
things you are working on so no one
person or customer or boss or client can
make a decision that could make you rich
or destroy you or fulfill your life’s dreams
or crush them.
When you do this count, make sure the
number is over 20. Then when you spin
the wheel the odds are on your side that
a winning number
comes up.

10. Are your physical needs, your
emotional needs, your mental
needs, and your spiritual needs
being satisfied?
You can easily modify lifestyle and
work to at least satisfy more of your
needs. And the more these needs are
satisfied the more you will create the
conditions for true abundance to come
into your life.
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Is your job
satisfying
your needs?
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11. The whole myth of savings is gone.
Inflation will carve out the bulk of
your 401k.
The only retirement plan is to Choose
Yourself. To start a business or a
platform or a lifestyle where you can put
big chunks of money away.
Deliver some value, any value, to any
body, to somebody, and watch that
value compound into a career.
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Your
Retirement
Plan is for
S**t
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12. All excuses are blessings in disguise.
There’s always a gap between “what I
have now” and “what I would like.”
The gap is all of your excuses. All it takes
to close the gap is to be creative and
work your way through the excuses.
Always tune your inner ear so you can
listen for (and separate from each other)
both the GOOD reason and the REAL
reason when anyone (including yourself)
gives you an excuse.
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Excuses.
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13. Make the list right now.
Every dream.
THESE ARE NOT GOALS. These are
themes. Every day, what do I need to
do to practice these themes?
I’m a secret agent and I’m waiting
for my mission. Ready to receive.
This is how you take baby steps.
This is how eventually you run
towards freedom.
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It's OK
to take
Baby steps.
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14. Abundance only comes when you
are moving along your themes.
When you are truly enhancing the
lives of the people around you.
When every day you wake up with that
motive of enhancement. Become a
beacon of enhancement and then when
the night is gray, all of the boats will
move towards you, bringing their
bountiful riches.
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Abundance
will NEVER
come from
your job
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15. Don’t believe me. Stay with a boss that
hates you. A job that is keeping you
locked on a chain around your neck,
tantalizing you with incremental increases
in pay and job title. Stay in a culture that is
quietly replacing the entire middle class.
This is not anyone’s fault. These are
the tectonic plates of economics
destroying an entire suburban culture
that has lasted for almost 100 years.

16. Until you CHOOSE YOURSELF for
success, and all that choice entails,
you will be locked into the prison.
You will stare into your lover’s eyes looking
for a sign that he or she loves you back.
But slowly the lights will fade, the warmth of
another body will grow cold, and you will go
to sleep dreamless in the dark once again.

17. HEAR MORE ABOUT THE
CHOOSE YOURSELF ERA
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MADE IT BACK, LOST IT, MADE IT
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ON ALL PARTS OF LIFE.
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