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Future-Proofing You. Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling your Destiny in an Uncertain World. Edition No. 1

  • Book

  • 272 Pages
  • May 2021
  • Region: Global
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5841465

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

Authors

Jay Samit