With the right mindset and insight, anyone can become a millionaire.
Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn't make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your Destiny in an Uncertain World is for you.
In this life-changing book, celebrated author and entrepreneur Jay Samit, who's worked with such visionaries as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, and hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, shares the key understandings and step-by-step process for becoming rich and never needing another job again. To prove the power of his 12 Truths, Samit also details the journey of how he mentored a broke millennial with these principles and empowered him to go from being on welfare to becoming a self-made millionaire in one year.
Building upon the principles in his internationally acclaimed book Disrupt You, Samit explains:
- How to identify an idea and market to start your business
- How to build a virtual company with little or no capital
- The latest free software tools for managing your business
- Ways to get a piece of a trillion-dollar opportunity bigger than mobile
- How to harness the three primary fears of others to generate more sales
- Strategies for finding the right mentors to accelerate your success
- Techniques to structure any deal for creating recurring revenue and lasting wealth
This book is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security, hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential, and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family. Future Proofing You also belongs on the bookshelves of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs everywhere who hope to inspire their teams to become something greater than what they already are.
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Introduction 1
How Do You Go about Future Proofing You? 4
Part I The Twelve Truths 7
Chapter 1 The Growth Mindset 9
Truth #1 - You Must Have a Growth Mindset 10
How Do So Many Fail in a Land So Rich with Opportunity? 10
Job Security is a Myth 12
Wealth Comes from Creating Money, Not Earning and Saving It 13
Fostering a Growth Mindset 16
Six Techniques for Developing a Growth Mindset 19
Chapter 1.5 The Future Proofing You Experiment 27
Rules for the Future Proofing You Experiment 28
Finding a Mentee 29
Chapter 2 Leveraging Obstacles for Success 37
Truth #2 - Obstacles Are Opportunities in Disguise 38
Finding Problems to Solve 39
Seven Steps for Problem Solving 43
What Problem Was Vin Clancy Going to Solve? 47
Vin’s Million-Dollar Idea 50
Chapter 3 Harnessing Fear to Your Advantage 53
Truth #3 - Fear is Good 54
Fear Inaction More than Action 57
Overcoming the Fear of No Funding 58
Overcoming the Fear of Going Broke 60
Proven Technique for Tackling Doubt 63
Harnessing the Three Primary Fears of Others 65
Chapter 4 Embracing Failure as Part of the Journey 71
Truth #4 - Failure is Great 72
Four Approaches to Embrace Failure 74
Reducing Your Chances of Failing 76
Chapter 5 Igniting Your Superpower by Applying What Makes You Unique 81
Truth #5 - Your Unique Superpower Makes You Successful 82
Identifying Your Kryptonite 90
Chapter 6 Turning Perseverance into Passion 95
Truth #6 - Passion Makes You Unstoppable 96
Four Questions for Cultivating Passion 101
Six Techniques for Maintaining Passion 104
Chapter 7 Don’t Fly Solo: Finding the Right Mentor for Each Phase of Your Career 111
Truth #7 - You Can’t Go It Alone 112
Three Ways to Find a Mentor Using LinkedIn 116
Building a Network of Mentors 118
Finding a Partner 120
Using Mentorship to Build Your Team 121
Upscaling Your Team 123
Chapter 8 Everything is a Tech Startup. Yes, Everything! 127
Truth #8 - Everything is a Tech Startup 128
Time Management is a Competitive Edge 132
Three Tips for Increasing Productivity in a Digital World 133
Vin’s Top 22 Growth-Hacking Tools 135
Chapter 9 Filling the Void 141
Truth #9 - You Must Fill a Void 142
Mortar and Use Case Voids 143
Cross-Pollination 145
30-Day Challenge Revisited 147
New Technology Solves Old Problems 148
Find Voids Others Are Too Busy to Fill 149
Vin’s Void Vanishes 150
Chapter 10 The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity 155
Mobile is Going Spatial 156
Truth #10 - Spatial Reality is a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity 157
The M.O.V.E. Method 159
Chapter 11 Working Hard Doesn’t Make You Rich 167
Truth #11 -Working Hard Doesn’t Make You Rich; Working Smart Does 169
Deal Structure 171
Raising Capital 174
Reinvesting Profits 179
Chapter 12 RemoteWorkers Are Your New Competitive Advantage 185
Truth #12 - Remote Workers Are Your New Competitive Advantage 186
Benefits of Employees Working from Home 188
Five Techniques for Managing Remote Workers 190
Part II Future Proofing Your Business 197
Chapter 13 Using Mergers and Acquisitions for Future Proofing You 199
The Art of the Exit 200
Why Large Companies Acquire Small Companies 201
Getting an Offer 204
Chapter 14 Fulfilling the Need for Profitable Sustainability 209
Sustainable Capitalism 211
Purpose-Driven Profits 213
The Sharing Economy 215
Four Questions for Creating Sustainability 217
Chapter 15 Pay It Forward 223
Epilogue - Vin’s Reflections 227
About the Author 231
Acknowledgments 233
Index 235
