Over the course of this series of posts, I’ve given you quite a lot of information. You have a lot to digest. You have a lot of decisions to make. Your 5 Day Weekend plan will be completely unique to you. To start building it, here are your next steps:
- Commit
Make the commitment now to achieve your 5 Day Weekend. Set a date by which you want to achieve it. Write down your goal. Read it every day. Never give up.
- Know Yourself
Go on a never-ending journey of self-discovery. Use the tools in this book, and any others you find, to discover your strengths, weaknesses, interests, passions, and purpose. The more you know yourself, the easier it is to choose the right business opportunities and investments, and the more effective you’ll be as an entrepreneur and investor.
- Get Your Financial House in Order
Follow the steps and instructions I’ve given you (and which you’ll find in my book, 5 Day Weekend, and on my website) found in Part I (Keep More Money) to reduce and ultimately eliminate your debt, plug cash flow leaks, maximize your financial efficiency, begin capturing wealth, establish a healthy financial baseline, and build a foundation for maximizing your production.
- Map Out Your Plan to Increase Your Entrepreneurial Income
Using the information in these blogs, on my website and in other resources, decide which entrepreneurial opportunities you want to pursue to start increasing your income. Brainstorm and research and come up with your own ideas.
- Take Action
Choose a plan of attack and do it! Don’t let your fears, self-doubt, or the discouraging voices of others stop you. Start something. Build something. The best way to learn is through experience. And remember, “Goals in stone, plans in sand.” Adjust your plan as you build experience and learn. Maximize your failures by learning the right lessons.
A picture hanging on the wall of my of office shows a mousetrap and a mouse. Most mice come head on into the trap, flirt with the cheese, and get caught. But the mouse in my picture is different: He his shimmying down a vertical wire to the mousetrap to claim his cheese reward.
This simple picture portrays my life’s mantra: Think outside the box. The box of the ordinary 9-to-5 life is a trap. We don’t have to walk into that trap. We can escape it—and still get as much cheese as we want. The rules for getting out of your box are written clearly on the outside of the box.
Achieving the 5 Day Weekend lifestyle may seem impossible, or it may seem like it’s reserved only for a special few. But remember Roger Bannister, the famed English runner who broke the four-minute mile in 1954—a supposedly impossible feat. More interesting than his original feat is the fact that, within nine months of Bannister’s record, 30 other runners achieved the milestone as well. Impossible is not a fact or declaration but an opinion.
The 5 Day Weekend has been achieved, not just by me but by thousands of other people across the globe. The record has been broken, the floodgates have been released. Now it’s your turn.
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way,” said Christopher Morley
Let me offer you here a distillation of the 5 Day Weekend:
The 5 Day Weekend Manifesto
- I own my life. I set the terms. I take responsibility for my results. I am the master of my fate, the determiner of my destiny. I live by design, not by default.
- I reject the grind of 9 to 5. I escape the oppression of time clocks and bosses, commuting and cubicles.
- I do not yearn for security, but rather hunger for freedom. I renounce the dependence of jobs and benefits, and create independence through entrepreneurship.
- While others slave at jobs for salary, I build businesses for cash flow.
- While others buy liabilities on credit, I invest in assets through leverage.
- To get what others cannot have, I am willing to do what others will not do.
- I sacrifice for a short time to fully enjoy life for a long time.
- I produce and create, initiate and innovate. I live boldly, while wisely managing risks. My failures are not cause for defeat, but rather catalysts for success. I learn from each, pick myself up, and keep charging forward.
- I live not for retirement, but for purpose. I develop my gifts and talents and leverage them to create value for others and fulfillment for myself.
- I have one life to live, and I intend to live it fully. I live with adventure and suck the marrow out of life. I dare to dream and live with passion.
- This is my life, and I refuse to waste it doing the bidding and building the dreams of others at the expense of my own.
- I build my 5 Day Weekend. I live the life I love.
Please let me know how your 5 Day Weekend is going – and what you’re achieving. Thank you for sharing!
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