Serve No Master: How to Escape the 9-5, Start up an Online Business, Fire Your Boss and Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur or Digital Nomad
Page 27
Now you have two different choices for making back the cost of this book today. If you don’t like either of them, that’s ok. You will still get a whole boatload of value from this book. And if you decided to get the book for free using Kindle Unlimited, I love you. Amazon pays me more for that than for traditional sales. Go figure!
151
Write Like Me
My current main passion is teaching people how to become amazing authors. So many people have a great idea, but they just don’t know how to get it into the world. Whether you are working as a consultant or just want to open a new revenue stream, being able to create a book that can become a bestseller is a very powerful tool in your arsenal.
I have worked with some amazing clients in the past year and put together a training program for my interns. I am going to start sharing that with a very small, select group of people.
I keep the group very small and that allows me to provide maximum value. As a special thank you for reading this book all the way to the end, I have an awesome coupon for you.
I like to reward action takers, and people who make it this far in the book are my elite. When you get to the end this book, you will have a chance to leave a rating at the top of the screen (on Kindle). Just hit five stars for me (if you think I deserve it). If you’re reading the paperback version, you have to go to ServeNoMaster.com/review to leave your review.
At the very bottom of ServeNoMaster.com/book you’ll see a spot where you can request your secret coupon code. This code will give you fifty percent off my Non-Fiction Writing course.
Just leave those stars and when you log onto your computer, take a screenshot to show me, and I’ll email you a coupon code within twenty-four hours.
XXV
The Future is Looking Bright
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
- Jack Welch
152
My Future
Sitting on my deck today, and the future couldn’t be brighter. The sun is shining, and I’m a dozen meters from crystal clear water. For so long I was afraid to seize my destiny. Walking that tightrope without a net terrified me. I was afraid to take what I wanted because the world told me over and over again that I would fail. That I didn’t deserve it.
We’ve all heard those crippling words, and over time we begin to believe them. I’ve been told thousands of times that I would never succeed and yet staring over the crystal ocean I can only feel contentment. With two amazing kids and a spot on a tropical island, there isn’t much more I could ask for from life.
If I wanted to slow down, I could retire today. In fact, I was just swimming in the ocean and got bored. I came back up here because I wanted to keep writing. I love my work that much. Doing what you enjoy is an entirely new level of freedom.
There will be tumultuous ups and downs as you venture forth on this grand adventure. As you succeed, you will discover new and amazing challenges. These are the things that make life so sweet. Living on the beach is pretty great, but pursuing adventures is even better.
I have accomplished more in my thirty-five years on this planet than many do in a lifetime. But I’m only just getting started. I have the outline for a fantastic science-fiction series rattling around in my head. I just have to sit down and commit the time to start cranking out those books. I have thought about writing a movie or two. I know that I can achieve it.
The greatest thing I have learned through this entire adventure is that I am capable of great things. You are capable of great things too. The only things holding you back have been a lack of faith and a lack of knowledge. You now have the knowledge to succeed. You only need to start to believe in yourself. Within a few years, you could be living a life that puts mine to shame.
I got an email today about a bunch of job openings in my area. I’m not sure why I get these emails, but it’s always interesting to see what’s out there. I almost clicked on one of the links, and then I just started laughing. How could I ever work for someone else ever again? I have total control of my destiny. At first, it felt like trying to tame a wild horse, and I had no idea where life was taking me. But now the beast is tamed, and my dreams have become reality.
As a child, I dreamed of being a bestselling author. Now that I’ve written dozens of bestsellers under many pen names I can look back with a smile on my face. I always imagined my greatest books would be adventure stories. I was close. My own life has been my greatest adventure.
For now, I’m settled in my little slice of paradise, but I’m not sure that my adventures are finished. I have a lot more countries I want to see, but first I think I need to add a few more kids to my brood.
When you take control of your destiny, you will go through a period of fear. That old feeling still tries to swing by my house now and again. But there’s no room here for fear anymore.
As you get through that barrier, you’ll discover what it means to be truly free. Just recently I ran into trouble with my landlord. He tried to yell at me and dominate me like I’m a child. It was a strange experience. Nobody is allowed to yell at me anymore.
He dealt with my family dishonestly and thought that being old and yelling would give him power over me. I walked away and moved into a better house immediately. Nobody has the authority to yell at me. He’d be better off shouting at the wind.
When you take control of your destiny, you achieve real power. Nobody will ever be in a position to yell at you, threaten you or intimidate you ever again. When they try, you can just laugh and walk away.
I’m sitting on the beach, and now he’s shouting at an empty house that nobody wants to live in anymore. There is no better feeling than that moment you realize nobody can ever hurt you again. Nobody can fire you, take your house away, or insult you in front of your family.
That’s the future that I want to share with you. That’s what it truly means to be free. That’s what I mean when I say it. I will Serve No Master.
153
The Beginning is the End
My life these days is close to perfection. I have achieved the majority of my goals at thirty-five, and I’m not even close to slowing down. My new villa is about thirty yards from the waterline. The only thing between me and that big beautiful ocean is a couple of palm trees. I’m writing this book sitting here in paradise. I now make more in a month than I made in a year teaching at one of the top twenty universities in America. I won’t say the name, but something tells me you’ve already figured it out.
Most people my age are working sixty-hour weeks in jobs they hate trying to fight their way through middle management. They work at soulless companies and the master they serve doesn’t care about them.
Instead of kissing ass, taking drug tests, and letting other people steal credit for my work, I spend most of my time writing my blog, recording episodes of my podcast and doing awesome things. I surf almost every day with my girlfriend. When we’re not surfing, we kayak, stand up paddle, swim and even wakeboard behind our speedboat. I read an entire book every single day.
The best part of every day is teaching my newborn son to swim. He’s less than three months old and already he’s getting the hang of it. That’s how I spend my days, and I can’t wait to see your pictures of paradise.
I could spend pages and pages telling you how awesome my life is and how much money I make. But you already bought this book, so you don’t need that. I don’t want you to think about how lucky I am.
My story is now finished. It’s time for you to start your story. I can’t wait for you to write a book in a few years that sells more copies than mine and makes this look like garbage. I want you to stand on my shoulders and shout out against the storm.
Stand up there and shout my anthem again. My creed. Three words that define my entire belief system.
Serve. No. Master.
154
Planning for the Future
I have prepared an exhaustive amount of information for you on my website. You don’t have to dig into your
couch for loose change or spend a single cent from your bank account to use any of it. You can find everything you need to move forward at ServeNoMaster.com/book. I tried to make the link as easy to remember as possible!
There you’ll find a shockingly complete set of diagrams, graphics and step-by-step tutorials that take you beyond everything covered in this book. And if there’s something you felt was missing, leave a comment or email me. I’ll continue to add more content to my website, so you have everything you need to move forward and unleash your destiny.
If you use one of my links to check out a product I use, I do get a commission. You will notice that not everything I recommend does that. I won’t recommend the second best choice, even if the first choice won’t give me a penny. If you do use my links, I appreciate it.
When you make your blog, you will start to do the same thing. It’s wonderful to get paid just to tell people about the things you love. I’m so excited about what the future holds for you. This moment is where hope meets opportunity.
If you could just take one tiny step today. Just one tiny step, then you will be that much closer to your destiny. With this path, you will find work that you enjoy. Something that you crave so much you leave the beach and run up to your desk to work on. That’s the future that is in front of you.
Together, we can make amazing things happen. I would love to see pictures of your success and interview you on my new podcast. I want the world to hear about your success and how proud I am of the distance you cover.
155
Take Action Now
This is it. We are at the end. My action is complete. I have written and edited and rewritten this book until it’s … maybe not perfect, but the best I can do right now. Hopefully, it’s been an amazing journey that enlightened and inspired you. It’s a little shorter than my original goal, but just like my son and daughter - I can tell it’s ready.
Now the ball is in your hands. You have the ability to change your destiny. Just head to my site today and read a little more. That one action is enough to start the ball rolling. You might have a million excuses, but please don’t wait until tomorrow.
If you push back starting until tomorrow, the odds of your success start to plummet. And I don’t want that. If I were standing there with you right now, I would drag you to the computer and force you to pick your first website name. But I’m not there, and I can’t slap you if you don’t do anything. This is about freedom.
You have the choice right now to free yourself.
You also have the choice to walk right back into your cell.
Will you step into the light? Will you start right now?
Are you ready to serve no master?
It’s the end of the book. But we’re just getting started.
One Last Chance
Thank you for your purchase of Serve No Master. As an extra bonus, I want to give you a free gift.
I have a “Ready to Retire” checklist that lets you know the exact moment you can fire your boss forever.
This checklist will tell you when you are ready to quit your job and start living the life of freedom.
Accelerate your success and click the link below to get instant access:
ServeNoMaster.com/quit
When you enter your email address, I will instantly send you my special checklist as well as a bunch of additional information that just couldn’t fit into this book.
I want to give you every tool and resource you could ever need to escape the 9-5.
About the Author
Born in Los Angeles, raised in Nashville, educated in London - Jonathan Green has spent years wandering the globe as his own boss - but it didn't come without a price. Like most people, he struggled through years of working in a vast, unfeeling bureaucracy. And even though he was ‘totally crushed' when he got fired, it gave him the chance to reappraise his life and rebuild it from scratch.
Since 2010, he's been making a full-time living on the Internet - helping brick and mortar business owners promote themselves on the Internet, helping men and women find true love, ghostwriting best sellers for some of the biggest publishers in the world and much, much more.
Thanks to smart planning and personal discipline, he was more successful than he could have possibly expected. He traveled the world, helped friends and family, and moved to an island in the South Pacific.
Now he's passing his knowledge onto the rest of the world as host of a weekly podcast that teaches financial independence, networking with the world's most influential people, writing epic stuff online, and traveling the world for cheap.
His hobbies include kayaking, surfing, and building empires. He currently has a loving girlfriend, and two wonderful kids who love the ocean (almost!) as much as he does.
Find out more about Jonathan at:
@ServeNoJonathan
servenomaster
ServeNoMaster.com
Also by Jonathan Green
Serve No Master Series
Serve No Master
Breaking Orbit
20K a Day
Control Your Fate
Habit of Success Series
PROCRASTINATION
Influence and Persuasion
Love Yourself
One Last Thing
When you turn the page, Kindle will give you the option to rate this book and share your thoughts on Facebook and Twitter. If you found value in this book, I would appreciate it if you would take a few seconds and click the FIVE STARS and share with your friends. If they desire to escape their cubicles and achieve true freedom, they will be grateful for the recommendation.
Without stars and reviews, you would never have found this book. Please take just thirty seconds of your time to support an independent author by leaving a rating.
Thank you so much!
Sincerely,
Jonathan Green
ServeNoMaster.com