How to Escape the Dead-End Middle Class
Escape the dead-end middle class by taking charge of your financial future by creating capital that compounds over time… here’s how.
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Concentrate on This
Recently one of my good friends, Bob, experienced a family emergency. Like many ETR readers, he is now responsible for the medical care of a parent, while still having the responsibilities that go along with trying to grow a business. Perhaps you are facing a similar dilemma of priorities in…
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The All-Time Best Way to Get (and Keep) a Customer
If you can’t sell your product or service, you don’t have a business. Plain and simple. So, as Michael Masterson has said in ETR and in Ready, Fire, Aim, your primary concern has to be making sales.
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5 Ways To Do Nothing
I got an email at five in the morning that made me angry. It pressed every button. It accused. It threatened. It copied other people. It attempted to make me feel guilt. It attempted to make me feel fear. I can go on. I started to type a response and…
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Ultimate Guide to Finding Good People in Your Life
Create a real-world and Internet community of highly-driven individuals who can help you reach the goals you want to achieve in life.
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How to Get Richer – Or Poorer
You go to lunch with a colleague. Everything is good. When the waiter puts the bill on the table, the total is $26. Do you pick it up? Do you wait and hope he does? Or do you suggest you split it? On the surface, this is a minor decision.…
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Just Try and Do This
Last week I was emailing back and forth with a frustrated business partner. We’ll call him, “G.” Like you, G works hard to support his family, but he’s in a niche industry and he doesn’t see a lot of room for improvement. On the other hand, I do, and I…
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The Phrase that Pays
It’s 4:21am. The stars and moon are out on another gorgeous night in South Florida. I’m working in my friend Joel Marion’s sunroom office. It’s big enough for four people, but it’s just he and I. Every morning I get up at 4am, no matter where I am in the…
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What You Should Do Today
Of the many execrable things that happen to you when you approach 60, the recognition of mortality is the worst. You can’t avoid it. People you know – even friends and family members – are seriously sick or dying. I see death is a hateful thief. I know he will…
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The Magic of One Person
A man looks at his youth and says, “I wish I knew then what I know now.” That’s what “Eric,” a pot dealer who spent four years in jail, said to me after he had become a multimillionaire. Eric was talking about what he had learned about direct marketing. I…
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Winning and Happiness
Your cerebral computer, commonly referred to as the brain, contains a biological chip I like to think of as your Weight and Balance Happiness Scale. This remarkable scale automatically weighs every known alternative available to you at any given time and chooses the one it believes will result in the…
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The Greatest Secret
Normally in this letter we share wisdom with you, and sometimes we try to sell you things. Not today. There is only a hint of wisdom and absolutely nothing to buy. Today’s letter is completely different, and it starts with a WARNING: I’m willing to bet that you’re about to…
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