How To Be Rich and Happy – An Introduction
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By way of a first post, we're simply letting you get a taste for the book that goes on pre-sale on 22nd September and full release on 5th October, by reproducing the introduction.
How To Be Rich and Happy - An Introduction
Congratulations on taking one of the most important steps you’ve ever taken in your life. You’ve decided to decide. You’ve chosen to choose versus live a life that others chose for you. That right there makes you one of a select group of people.
If you read the information in this book, and apply it in your life, you will be part of an even more exclusive group- those who are Rich and Happy.
As you embark on this adventure, you may be wondering how this book came to be. How and why do a best selling inspirational author who’s works are in nineteen languages (John) and a renegade life coach with one of the most left field and successful life coaching blogs on the Internet (Tim) pair up to write a book called “How to be Rich and Happy?”
The answer is actually pretty straight forward. Part of it you’ll find in the personal story described in the the opening chapter. That will explain our own motivation for discovering the formula for being Rich and Happy. The other part, which is why write the book now, is simply because we listened to what people are asking for.
We have been friends for a number of years. A friendship that began because although we operate in different arenas (Tim in life coaching and online blogging and John as an author and speaker) and we have very different styles (Tim relies heavily on a very English sense of humor to get his message across whereas John is more serious and inspirational) we have a similar life purpose, which is to help people.
And when we would get together for a round of golf, or grab lunch, and discuss how things were going and what people were telling us, it kept coming back to the same answer- people are really struggling. We knew from our interactions with them, and through our own life experiences, that even if they couldn’t actually name it, what they wanted was to be Rich and Happy.
Tim was seeing it through his work with individual clients, and via his blog, and John was seeing it at his events when he was speaking to large audiences.
So when people asked us what we were working on next, we started telling them that we were working on a book called “How to be Rich and Happy.” And literally every single person responded with something close to “That’s the book I need.”
If you are familiar with John’s previous books; The Why Cafe, Life Safari, and The Big Five for Life- Leadership’s Greatest Secret, this will be a very different type of read. Those works are fictional stories with inspirational messages.
This is a non-fiction, tell it like it is book. That said, the underlying focus is still the same - to help people live the life they want live.
Although the book is written by both of us, for ease of reading, you’ll see that it reads as if there is just one author. The word “I” is the collective I of both of us. Think of us as science experiment gone mad, where two people’s brains and life experiences have been merged into one. Or, just realize that it is a heck of a lot easier to explain the stories and material the way it’s written than for us to keep clarifying who is saying what.
And now, let’s move you toward what you want and deserve- to be Rich and Happy.
John and Tim
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September 17th, 2009 - 21:47
Wow!
You have just figured out how to market a book that practically everyone in America – and perhaps the world – will buy. A book about getting rich and being happy put out smack in the middle of our financial implosion. Imagine.
There better be some concrete information in the book and actual successes for those who purchase it.
You seem like decent guys, but this seems like a stunt based on The Secret’s success.
Forgive me for being cynical, but really. Maybe I’ll write a book called “The Secret to Being Rich, Happy, Thin, Famous, Sexy, Young and Immortal”.
September 18th, 2009 - 09:01
I love it!
Go with your gut instinct if you have read any of mine or John’s stuff.
It’s either a stunt and we’re con men, or it isn’t and we’re not.
The real fact is most people wont want to put the work in the book calls for no matter what the results promise. Such is life.
September 18th, 2009 - 12:14
Oh, why predict failure for the majority of your potential readers? And why place premature blame on them for being lazy?
Even if that has been the case in your experience, as a coach and an inspiring person you should encourage the idea of universal success!
A good system takes what you already know into account and works with or around the known obstacles/problems.
Of the many self-help books I’ve read, very few offered any novel, concrete, workable steps and rather puffed up the book with filler and platitudes.
I look forward to seeing what you both have come up with.
September 18th, 2009 - 12:36
Not sure I said anything about the people that buy the book, I’m going to presume they’ll put it to good use. And I also never aportioned blame to anybody for anything, I have no idea where you get that idea from.
Maybe this is the book with novel, concrete and workable steps you have been looking for?
September 22nd, 2009 - 11:48
$97 – really. And only $48 plus shipping & handling for your loyal readers? This is a book right? I have read John’s other books and like them, but $97 seems over the top.
September 23rd, 2009 - 07:38
Most people are committed to focus on their main goals, if you hear them talk. If you watch them, it’s mostly different. How does this work in our minds? And why are so many “Fooled bij Randomness?” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the smartest books of all time, according to Fortune)
I ‘ll enjoy the way you ‘ll try to brigde the gap between clear ideas and implemented plans. If you don’t want to gamble, how to combine passion, persistance and making money? Oprah Winfrey approach?
September 24th, 2009 - 10:26
@mterry – I’m glad you raised that. You’re right, it’s quite a lot of money, but what is the worth?
I spent $120 last year on a ticket to watch the St Louis Rams. The game didn’t change my life, well not for the better anyway.
I just renewed my mobileme account, it cost me $99 for a year and I only use it to sync my calendar.
Text messages cost the carrier zero to deliver, yet they can charge up to 25 cents. That’s some mark up, yet everybody pays it.
AT & T would have gone into profit on my iPhone in the 2nd month of a 24 month contract.
I have to have regular phlebotomies for a medical condition. Cost? About $200. I needed a growth from my gum removing recently and a pathology test run on it. Cost? Just over a grand for about 2 hours work.
Whilst in Vegas recently we had one blow out meal at Capital Grill for 4 of us and the bill was $270.
It’s not just a book, it’s a way of changing your life and it has taken us thousands of hours to compile into a logical structure.
I genuinely get where you’re coming from, but we offer 100% money back guarantee and I wont people to think it was worth their investment and not see it as cheap.
Anybody that commits $97 is way more likely to commit to doing the work involved needed to make the changes they want to see.
The choice is down to the individual, but if somebody wants to hire me to teach them this stuff it is going to cost north of $1,000, yet people seldom tell me I’m expensive as a coach. Go figure
@ Roel – Thanks for your comment!
September 25th, 2009 - 00:17
@Wietog – I was also cynical when I saw the title. But I know Tim wouldn’t sell anything scammy.
I’ve almost finished reading the book and it really is brilliant. It’s certainly shown me where I’ve been going wrong and how to get on the right track. And if people do read it and put what is suggested into practise – I do think they can become rich and happy.