The Millionaire Fastlane Audio Book

1-Sentence-Summary: The Millionaire Fastlane points out the major flaws with the old get a degree, get a job, work hard, retire rich model, defines wealth in a new way and shows you the path to retiring young. Read in: 3 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Ironically, this is not a get-rich-quick book. To the contrary, it’s approach is very stoic. Ever since seeing a guy with a legendary, MJ DeMarco knew he wanted to live a rich life.

The Millionaire Fastlane is the echo of a chance encounter I had long ago when I was a pudgy teenager. It was a Fastlane ignition of consciousness, a resurrection triggered by a stranger driving a mythic car--a Lamborghini Countach.

What he didn’t want is to get a degree, work 40 years, save every penny, retire and then, eventually, be able to drive his Lamborghini at 70 years old. The Millionaire Fastlane is his story of how he managed to retire at 33, a multi-millionaire. Here are 3 of the things you can learn from it: • Wealth stands for 3 things, but none of them is money.

• At some point, you must make your income independent of your time. • Think like a producer, not like a consumer. Hit the pedal to the floor, we’re going in the fastlane!

Lesson 1: Wealth stands for 3 things, none of which is money. When you hear the word wealth you probably imagine. However, DeMarco came up with his own definition of wealth, which isn’t really about money. He says wealth includes 3 things: • Meaningful relationships with friends and family • Being healthy and physically fit • Freedom Number 3 is where the money comes in. While money can only help you so much in building better relationships with your loved ones or transforming your body from unhealthy to top shape, money can buy you unlimited amounts of freedom. The freedom to live where you want, eat what you want, travel where and when you want and follow all of your hobbies with a passion, even if they’re really expensive.

Since you don’t have to trade your time for money any longer, you can now spend it as you wish and that’s really what wealth is all about. Lesson 2: Your income eventually can’t depend on your time any more. Okay, but how do you stop trading your time for money? To make your income independent from your time, you have to unlink it from the hours you put into work. This doesn’t have to happen in one go where you become an, but can be a gradual process.

For example put in years of time before publishing even the first Harry Potter book, but with each new book she continued to receive royalties, increasing her income without her having to put in more time, since that book was finished. The truth is, even the most miraculous exits, where, require years of work and very often the company owners have already become rich in the process. The fastlane might be fast, but it’s not a shortcut.

You have to build a great product or company that starts to produce, even when you’re sleeping. Exit or not, that’s the way to become rich and retire young. Lesson 3: Start producing, stop consuming. This one speaks right from my soul. DeMarco says the only way to build a business is to think like a producer.

We’re all conditioned to consume from an early age. Watch ads on TV, buy toys, buy food, buy clothes. It’s no different with information – we’re bombarded with tweets, images, articles and podcasts.