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The ONE Difference Between the Rich & the Poor

By Austin Netzley

Ever wonder what differentiates the rich & the poor?

Well, today I’m going to show you…

This is your opportunity to change your life. We have created an awesome free program that I can’t wait to share at the end of this post, but first, let me tell you why I know this program is life-changing…

Back in 2010, I was moved to Jacksonville, Florida from the corporate office to get some experience in “the real world” (as in sales). It was a challenging and scary world that would be drastically different than the nice comfy offices. It was time to put me to the test…

I am an engineer so I have always been confident with numbers, but being good with people was WAY outside of my comfort zone.

Regardless, I was eager to get going. I was ready to prove that even though I was an introvert and 24 years old, I was going to be the best salesman in the country.

I got to Jacksonville, quickly unpacked and was ready to get started. Yet, my boss had other plans. He wanted me to transition into the position, slowly building trust with the existing clients and even more slowly taking over roles.

Finally, after much begging for some work, he gave me an assignment… and it was the best first assignment that anyone could ever have:

“Go read these three books on the beach.”

What?! I thought, “I’m ready to go sell, and you’re telling me to go chill on the beach!?”

After I realized how stupid I was for not being excited about this assignment, I reversed course and did as he said. I ordered the books from Amazon, and took them to the beach as soon as I received them a couple of days later.

Instantly, I was hooked.

Little did I know at the time, this was a huge turning point in my life.

The 3 books I read had nothing to do with sales or business directly. They were far from it. Yet, these books did teach me about people, the human spirit, what truly matters, and ultimately, how powerful books can be.

Before this time, I had read a couple of books at most for pleasure. The rest were forced through school.

After this revelation, I went on to consume every book imaginable. Audiobooks, paperback, hardback, PDF, Kindle… I averaged 2 books per week for the next 12 months.

If it was about money, I read it. If it was about psychology, I snatched it up. If it was about success, business, entrepreneurship, investing, happiness, life, or anything else that was going to help me finally be what I wanted to be – rich and free – I was going to read it, and often re-read it again.

I would get so excited by the ideas and potential of this new world of unlimited possibilities that I couldn’t sleep. I would just continue to read.

The funny thing that happened shortly after diving into this new endeavor is this…

– My confidence started taking off.

– My knowledge level changed overnight.

– My perspective on life took a dramatic turn towards the positive.

– My wealth started to grow exponentially.

I had happiness, passion, and… vision.

I could finally see how to take all of this internal passion I had, and release it out into the world and ultimately turn it into money, happiness, and success.

I had learned that the most successful people I admired were really no different than you or me. They had struggles, fears, doubts, passions and excuses… but they ultimately found results. And they paved the way to show us all how to also achieve those results.

I now had something that was going to make me unstoppable: belief. I developed the mindset that was ready to help me become a multi-millionaire.

I was on my way.

Since then, I haven’t looked back. If someone saw me 5 years ago before I started reading and saw me now, they would see a totally different person.

Books absolutely changed my life, and countless millionaires I’ve talked to also say that they have changed theirs, as well.

Now, my mission is to help you change your life for the better. It is to help YOU take your wealth, life, mindset and happiness to extraordinary heights.

The podcasts, the books, the EpicLife Mastery Book Club and everything else I do… it’s all for this.

If you take your money and your mindset to the next level, everything else in life falls into place. Everything else becomes much easier.

Reading is one of the most important keys to help you master your mindset and your money.

If you’re ready for that next level, join us:

The Epic Life Mastery Book Club

(Trust us: You won’t be disappointed.)

What I do is a success if I help you get on your path towards true wealth – towards breaking free from your own internal struggles to find wealth, abundance, happiness, and of course, complete freedom.

That is success to me.

With this book club, I know we can do it. Life-changing resources, audio, training, and of course books that will change your life.

Readers lead and leaders read. It’s a fact.

Those that don’t, they fall behind.

Check out the infographic below for proof:

Do you see the power of it now? This is how to get rich. Read.

Tom Corley of RichHabits.net has some amazing research on the wealthy (and a great book Rich Habits!):

86% of the wealthy loved reading vs. 26% for the poor.
63% of the wealthy listened to audio books during their commute to work vs. 5% for the poor.
85% of the wealthy read two or more self-improvement books every month vs. 15% for the poor.
The books wealthy people read disproportionately included non-fiction books such as: biographies, history, self-help, history, science, career-related books and educational books.
88% of the wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day vs. 2% for the poor.
94% of the wealthy, on a daily basis, read newspapers, newsletters, magazines, blogs and other digital media vs. 11% of the poor.

With all of that in mind, I strongly encourage you to do two things.

Whether it be on your commute to work (listening, of course), or 10 pages to start and end your day, trust me on this: Reading can – and will – change your life for the better. Commit to 10 pages and you’ll start to see the results.

Let’s get it rolling!

Take control. Make money. Live wealthy.

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096: The 10 Simple Steps to True Wealth

By Austin Netzley

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Building wealth can be a complex and overwhelming task… but it doesn’t have to be.

Using the advice and wisdom of 75 successful entrepreneurs, let this book be the roadmap to more success, wealth and fulfillment in your life.

The experts highlighted in this book are now iconic investors, super successful entrepreneurs, financial planners, bestselling authors, and more, but they didn’t start out that way. They are living proof that you can truly come from any background or situation to ultimately reach a high level of success.

All that it takes to find true wealth are the simple actions laid out in this book. This step-by-step guide teaches the 10 Simple Steps to True Wealth and more, including:

The money secrets of the rich
How to reprogram your mind for massive success
The common traits and skills of the wealthy
A money plan and list of priorities to focus on
The key mistakes that are holding you back
Where to begin so you can take your finances and career to the next level

As successful entrepreneur David Wood says, “Wealth is a choice.” The choice is yours to make.

Take control. Make money. Live wealthy.

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10 Reasons Why You Need to Read Make Money Live Wealthy

By Austin Netzley

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Coming to bookstores November 11th:

Make Money, Live Wealthy: 75 Successful Entrepreneurs Share the 10 Simple Steps to True Wealth

Here are 10 reasons why you need to read this book besides the obvious: it’s a 27-Time #1 Bestseller! Check it out i Amazon HERE.

1. Learn What True Wealth Is

In one sentence, this book is all about what true wealth is and how to obtain it. The first part, what true wealth is, should be common knowledge, but it’s not!

The dictionary defines wealth as ‘a large amount of money and possessions’… but when you ask someone who is actually wealthy what wealth is, you get a completely different answer. This book lays out their definitions and the common elements among them.

This is important so that you don’t chase many dead-end traps, and can get to where you really want to go much, much faster.

2. Motivation

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, what education level you have, or where you’re at in life right now – you can become massively wealthy.

The experts highlighted in this book have overcome massive debt (countless experts had more than $75k in bad debt), troubles (Matt McWilliams faced 42 years in prison), and even death (Hal Elrod was considered dead for 6 minutes) to achieve some unbelievable things.

14-Time #1 International Bestseller

David Wood went from essentially broke to owning an island in shortly over a decade. Trevor Blake, born into poverty, decided he wanted to be an entrepreneur in his 40’s and he quickly built and sold not one, but two businesses over $100,000,000 each.

This book, which uses hundreds of quotes from the experts to drive the messages, should be motivation to show you what’s possible, as well as how to do it.

Use that motivation to get into action!

3. To Simplify the Wealth Process

Where do you start? What priorities do you need to focus on? What things are missing in your life?

Wealth can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Let this book be your roadmap and highlight the important things to focus on.

The way to achieve anything great is to simplify the process, and take one small step at a time. This book will show you how.

4. Identify What is Holding You Back

Is it your mindset? Your network?

After reading this book, you should have much better awareness for what your situation is, and what you need to correct. Fill in the missing pieces, and you’ll be on your way to wealth.

5. Create an Unstoppable Mindset

If you read one chapter, read chapter 2. It is all about the mindset.

At the heart of wealth, success, or anything else is one simple thing: the mindset.

The rich think, act and believe differently. Think like them, get out of your own way, and you are on your way to massive wealth. Nothing is more important than mastering the mindset.

6. Building a Strong Foundation

If you want to build a massive skyscraper, you need a strong foundation. You need to do a few of the boring but necessary things so that you can take on more risk and be able to handle the unexpected.

You want to learn the basic fundamentals of wealth, and also make things easy on yourself. Mastering finances isn’t hard… if you make it easy on yourself. Automation and a strong plan can give you the strong core from which you can both make – and keep – a massive fund with.

7. Learn the Money Secrets of the Rich

There are several things that the wealthy do differently that help separate them from the pack – from taking advantage of certain tax benefits available to them, to how they view risk – if you want to really build a massive fund, then it takes doing just a few things that aren’t common knowledge.

This section reveals some of the surprising yet powerful secrets of the rich.

8. Get More Ideas

Have you been thinking about entrepreneurship? This book will lay out how to get started and how to succeed. But it’s not only entrepreneurship or your career that this book will help you with…

Even those that are doing well with their finances can learn some additional powerful things to do with their finances. A successful financial planner that read the book said this:

“I loved the book and, in fact, it motivated me to do some additional planning with my own finances!”

That is someone who has been a professional for years and years. Success breeds success. Use the wisdom of 75 successful people to guide you to all of your dreams.

9. Learn the Skills & Traits of the Wealthy

There are many traits and a few skills that the wealthy exhibit. Some of them are absolutely critical, and they’ll definitely make your journey to wealth much, much easier.

With your career, look at it as a portfolio. You often need to add different experiences and skill sets to get to where you ultimately want to go. Learn what a few of those necessary skills are, and be sure to check them off. You’ll be more than happy you did.

10. To Get on Your Path Towards Wealth

Ultimately, this book is a success if you get on your path towards wealth. Once you do, you won’t get off of it. Once you get a taste of living your dream life, you won’t know any other way.

The hardest part is just getting started. This book will help you identify where you’re stuck, what you need, and what you need to do to get into motion.

Once you do, you’ll start to build momentum, one piece at a time. Then, you’re unstoppable.

Get direction, get wealth.

As David Wood said, “Wealth is a choice.”

The choice is yours to make.

Take control. Make money. Live wealthy.

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A Secret to Wealth: Finding Your Passion

By Austin Netzley

Passion…

This is something that so many talk about, but who the hell has passion? Work is supposed to suck, right?

Wrong.

A key element of becoming truly wealthy is being in a career that suits your goals. The wealthy know where they want to be in life, and they figure out what the best way to get there is.

That best way is by finding your passion, and implementing that into your work. The wealthy do work that they love. (This is the 3rd way to retire super-early, as well.)

Below is an excerpt on the role of passion from the book to be released this November, Make Money, Live Wealthy. Snag your free copy today before it’s too late!

Don’t just work for a paycheck. If you have a passion or a dream, there’s a way of integrating that with what you’re doing.– Ruben Rojas

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25 of the Best Personal Finance Books

By Austin Netzley

Reading without a doubt changed my life…

And the list of the best personal finance books below have changed millions of other people’s lives as well.

My football coach in college told me that the smartest people in the world read at least 1 book per month. At the time (of course I was drowning in school work), I thought that was crazy. Who has time to read?

Well, it isn’t about having time. It is about making time… And it is well worth the effort.

It wasn’t until I was 24 and given some books by my boss as my first assignment that I really caught the book bug. From there, I didn’t look back. Over the next 2 years I consumed 2 books per week via audio, Kindle and print. That was the turning point in 1) changing my mindset, and 2) really opening my eyes to what was possible – financially and beyond.

The reason books are so great because you get access into the stories behind the story. You get to see how the most successful and wealthy people in history think and act. You get this access all for very cheap, if not free.

When you talk about a great investment, books have to be at the top of the list!

I asked a bunch of experts what the best personal finance books are, and here are their responses:

Think and Grow Rich (2 Votes)

“The key lesson is that the world is filled with abundance and opportunity for those who control their thoughts and emotions and turn them into positive actions.” – Kevin Cahill CFP, CLU, President and Founder of Canadian Legacy Builder

“It is a brilliant book, but the underlying theme is if you visualize it and work hard for it you can have it.” – Blake Janover, CEO of Trusted Nutrients

Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth

“His strongest points are:

Owning a diversified portfolio of equities over the long-term does not carry significant risk of capital loss. The diversified portfolio of equities is subject to volatility, but volatility passes away under long-term time horizons and should not be conflated with risk.
Building wealth through the steady accumulation of equity mutual funds is simple, and the result of this behavior, over a lifetime, is inevitable wealth.
Bonds will not build wealth.

In fact, here’s a list of some of the best, with my reviews linked. – Michael Taylor, Bankers-Anonymous.com

The Giving Tree

“The classic children’s book, The Giving Tree, has taught me a lot about personal finances. Like the titular tree, it’s entirely possible for a parent to give too much, to overextend themselves and jeopardize their own future for someone else, and this is something I see all the time in my work.

I always advise parents, just as airlines tell you to make sure you secure your own oxygen mask before you help someone else, make sure that your finances are taken care of before you start worrying about others. If you don’t take responsibility for your own finances, no one else will– a child can subsidize their higher education, for example, but you can never subsidize your retirement. Always make sure your own financial health is your number one priority.” – Elle Kaplan, CEO and Founding Partner of LexION Capital

Make Money, Live Wealthy

The beautiful thing is that when you write your own blog, you put your own book on the list! Coming this November is my first book: Make Money, Live Wealthy. 🙂

After interviewing 75 successful entrepreneurs, I realized that although the details of their stories are much different, they all go through the same sequential steps to obtaining true wealth. So, this book guides people through the 10 simple steps to true wealth, one piece at a time. Get your free copy today before it is too late! [Read more…]

Why Clarity is Power

By Austin Netzley

{This is a short excerpt from the book coming out this November! The first 1,000 get a free copy sent to them on launch day by clicking here!}

What I’ve learned from the wealthy over the years is different than what most of us think. When you really want to get somewhere fast, the first thing you need to do is go, go, go, right?

The answer is actually, No.

As usual, the best step toward success isn’t the obvious one. What you need to do is to stop and get a firm grasp on where you’re headed and why.

Slowing down and actually stopping for a second is so hard for us to do. If we’re not being busy, we feel like we’re wasting time. In a world surrounded by never-ending communication and distractions and a record amount of ADHD diagnoses, we don’t know how to stop.

However, the goal isn’t to be busy; it is to get the results that you want, which starts with being intentional about where you’re headed and how you intend to get there. Stopping for a second allows you to work smart, not just hard.

This step is critical, because it makes sure you focus on the things that matter and get headed down the right path. It puts you on a direct line to success.

Without this clarity, you will run into many dead-ends and ultimately cost yourself a lot more time and heartache along the way.

If you remember just five lessons from this book, remember this one: clarity is power.

“Step #1 of the Ultimate Success Formula is clarity. Know the outcome of exactly what you want and say, Yes!”
– David Wood [Read more…]

Book: Financial Blueprint

By Austin Netzley

{This is an excerpt from my book to be released in November!}

“As we grow up, we learn about money and watching other people – friends, family, own experiences… this creates our blueprint about how money works. Some of it is correct, but some of it is incorrect. These blueprints shape how we interact with money.” – JD Roth

Our beliefs that we gain over time create our blueprints, which essentially create a certain level of wealth and success that we’re set for. If we get too far away from this level, we make decisions that will get us back towards it. It works much like the thermostat in your house.

This is why you see poor people that win the lottery end up broke again. On the other hand, you see people like Donald Trump who file for bankruptcy only to be a massive success only a few short years later. It is all about what level of wealth and success that you’re set for. And you control that.

To change your financial blueprint (and thermostat), you have to find those limiting beliefs and then change them…

2 Secrets of the Wealthy

By Austin Netzley

Two secrets of the wealthy that I talk about in the book are:

1. Start With Gratitude

I’ve heard and read about so many successful people that start their day with gratitude. One practice is to write down everything that you’re grateful for before you do anything else in your day. You create your future, and it should start with gratitude. Here’s a brief book excerpt:

“By focusing on the positive, you see things in a completely different light and it impacts everything else. Every time you express gratitude, you are re-wiring your brain. You release dopamine into your brain, which makes you feel good, which in turn makes you more productive.” – Matt McWilliams

This is one of the many uncommon secrets shared by numerous guests. The way to turn things around from negative to positive begins with gratitude.

“Step #1 for Turning Terrible Into Terrific (Dr. Dennis Cummins’ book) is for people to be grateful for what they’ve got, no matter what it is. Start with gratitude.

As long as you’re focusing on the problems, what’s wrong in your life, you’re going to get more of that because you’re stuck in the ‘whoa it’s me’ syndrome. There’s always a lot of blame, but when you can find gratitude for what you’ve got, it changes your mindset and your way of thinking. It’s easy to be grateful for the things in your life when everything’s going well. The challenge is to find something to be grateful for when they’re really not going well, when things are really terrible. How do you look through all the junk, all the things that are not good to find the one thing that is? If you start focusing on that, now you start to develop a more positive attitude. The first one, just find something to be grateful for.” – Dr. Dennis Cummins

2. Thank You Letters

August Turak, Matt McWilliams, and Patrick Bet-David all shared their #1 tip for success: send handwritten thank you letters to people.

“The 5 minutes to write a thank you note statistically, according to research for about the next 3 hours, you have a 31% increase in productivity or 18 minutes more productivity. You get also the added benefit of affecting their lives, which in many cases will benefit you in return.” – Matt McWilliams

Both of these things not only build relationships and create positive momentum in your own life, but they also both make you more productive. Who would have thought?

What I want to teach you is how to do exactly that, and you do it by thinking differently. This is one of those ways.

Make someone’s day and the rewards will come back to you tenfold.

Book: The Key to Making Money

By Austin Netzley

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: Make Money, Live Wealthy. For a limited time, get a free copy of the book sent to you on launch day here!

The key to making money, per Dan Miller, is to create amazing relationships.

“I focus on creating those amazing relationships and doing the things I really love and serve other people well. And you know what, money just shows up even in unexpected ways. What can I do to increase my service to my customers? Answer that question in new and better ways, and profit will take care of itself. No man can become rich without enriching others.” – Dan Miller [Read more…]

The ONE Difference Between the Rich & the Poor