Introduction--
Work Doesn’t Have to Be
Something You Hate. . . . . . . . . . . . .
HOW ARE YOU going to feel come Monday morning? When that
alarm clock goes off, are your eyes going to snap open and sparkle
with enthusiasm? Are you going to head off to your commute with a
spring in your step? Are you looking forward to weeks, months, and
years of that routine?
I really hope you are, but sadly the odds are against it. In fact,
according to one study, almost 60 percent of people around the world
don’t like their jobs!1 And the Conference Board recently recorded
the highest level of job unhappiness among American workers in its
20-plus-year history of doing similar surveys.1
You probably work too much for too little with people you don’t
like doing stuff you don’t care much about. At least part of that
sounds like you, right? I don’t think it’s healthy to spend all your
waking hours working a job you don’t like just so you can get up to
do it again tomorrow. And then to keep doing it forever hoping to
save enough so that you can eventually quit and then do nothing.
Most self-help books focus on changing your attitude, envisioning
abundance, or fixing your relationships. But the real problem is that
most people hate their jobs and don’t have enough money. Most of
us spend more time at work than anywhere else. If you spend any of
your after-hours time watching TV, sleeping, or commuting, that
leaves just a couple of daily hours where your kids, spouse, friends,
hobbies, church, and everything else get any time at all.
So the real issue is your work. Do you love your work? Do you
spend your days doing work you feel you were born to do? Or do you
at least get paid enough to make all the frustrating daily compromises
more than worth it?
If you’re reading this book, I’m betting the answer is no.
You’re here because it’s your career that needs fixing. It’s the 8 to
10 to 14 hours each day you waste just trying to cover your bills and
get ahead a little. You can pursue the Law of Attraction to “manifest
abundance in your life” all you want, but if you’re working a 9-to-5
(or an 8-to-8) job that leaves you unfulfilled, it’s time for a change!
Your job should help you live the life you want, not force you into a lifestyle
you don’t enjoy just to keep your bills paid. Instead, how about building a
lifestyle you like today so you don’t have to postpone so much of
your life until retirement?
Join the Click Millionaires Revolution!
This book shares details of the unprecedented opportunity you have
to (re)design your career and life to achieve financial independence
and success on your own terms. It can help you leave behind many
of the compromises and frustrations that plague corporate life and
start the transition from making your boss rich to enriching your
own life instead.
While the media and many business books assume you need to
be a software geek or a Stanford MBA to “succeed” online, I believe
you already have the credentials you need to build a profitable
Internet lifestyle business based on your own real-life experience
and interests.
I know all this sounds suspiciously “get rich quick” but it’s not.
Through lots of hard work and clever use of the Internet, I have found
this lifestyle and financial success myself and I wrote this book to help
you find it, too. Like my earlier books, Internet Riches and e-Riches 2.0,
this book is filled with specific proven strategies and tools that I have
used personally to build a more prosperous and flexible future.
Here’s the plan for sharing them with you:
Part One: Identify your top lifestyle goals so you can design
them into a new online business.
Part Two: Discover the revolutionary principles behind the
success of Click Millionaire lifestyle businesses so that you can
use them to make money yourself. Plus, learn how to quickly
position yourself as an expert in any field online.
Parts Three and Four: Read inspiring real-life case studies of
successful online entrepreneurs who are living the “Click
Millionaires Lifestyle.” Many of these lifestyle entrepreneurs
have created profitable new products and services of their own,
while others have built successful online businesses by providing
promotional or freelance services to others.
Part Five: Pinpoint a profitable niche business model of your
own that takes advantage of your personal life experience and
interests to make money online.
Part Six: Learn the easiest, fastest, and cheapest ways to build
websites and collect money from your new customers online.
Part Seven: Create an Action Plan for implementing Click
Millionaire lifestyle design strategies and choosing the right
niche business model in your own life so you can get started on
the work you were born to do.
Why Should You Listen to Me?
I grew up on the lower end of middle-class in dangerous and poor
inner-city Detroit, but managed to make myself a millionaire. I
worked my way up with no inside connections or family money, paying
my own way through both the University of Michigan and
Stanford Law School. I earned my first small fortune on Wall Street
and retired for the first time when I was just 25. After I got bored
scuba diving in the islands of the South Pacific, I worked my way to
success again in Silicon Valley and then again in Hollywood, too,
building expertise at starting highly profitable, cutting-edge
Internet businesses.
Now that I am able to spend my time how I want, I want to help
you succeed, too. This book is full of my personal stories and recommendations
so I apologize if it sounds like I’m trying to impress you
or sell you. These personal examples are the best way I know to share
with you my enthusiasm and the benefits of the many lessons I’ve
learned earning my own success online. I want you to know that I
don’t write my books hoping to make money from you by writing
about success I’ve never had myself. I’ve literally traveled the world
to identify the best lifestyle and business opportunities available
today. I’m an active entrepreneur, strategy consultant, and investor
making money from a dozen different website businesses as you read
this. And I donate my book profits to charity to “pay it forward”
helping others to succeed like I have.
I have a popular YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/scottfox1),
Twitter account (www.twitter.com/scott_fox), Google+ (www.scottfoxongoogle.
com) and Facebook pages (www.facebook.com/clickmillionaire),
my Click Millionaires Radio Show podcasts (www.Click
MillionairesRadio.com) and all the other tools online to prove to you
that I know what I’m talking about. Why? Because I want you to
know that I do this stuff myself—I don’t just write about it.
And you know what? It works!
The best of these resources is ClickMillionaires.com. That’s
where we’re building the friendliest and most helpful community
online for people like you who want to build their own lifestyle businesses.
It’s where you’ll find my best blog posts, podcasts, and latest
videos, plus free updates to this book, and where you’ll get to meet
other Click Millionaires from around the world, too. Please come
join the community to become part of our worldwide movement
toward redefining success for ourselves by building ethical, fulfilling
lifestyle businesses online and helping others do it, too.
The New American Dream for You
Today you can do better than trying to work your way up to the corner
office. Building a successful business in your home office can let you enjoy
your work more, worry less about money, spend more time with family,
work on projects you enjoy, and share that success with others, too.
Reading this book isn’t suddenly going to make you $1,000,000.
But reading it will give you the tools to redesign your career and life
like I have. I hope that you enjoy it and that it’s helpful to you in creating
a life you are happier to live.
I would love your feedback, suggestions, and follow-up questions.
What would you like to hear more about? What tips, tricks, tools,
and tactics do you have more questions about? Where do you want
to go next now that you have this new info? How can I help you succeed?
Visit me online so we can work together to help you work less,
live more, and build a meaningful, profitable life that you can be
proud of.
Welcome to the world of Click Millionaires.
Scott Fox
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INTRODUCTION NOTES
1. jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/03/04/most-business-professionals-areunhappily-
employed/
2. www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=
1727; The Conference Board, John M. Gibbons, January 2010,
Report Number: R-1459-09-RR