"If you're passionate about your business," writes Morris, discussing the long hours you will spend achieving unemployed status, "these extra hours won't feel like extra work. Instead, those extra hours will feel more like an adventure." Defining your passion is apparently not easy, so the author provides a few hints. "If you had all the money in the world, and could do anything you wanted, what would you do?" is one of the questions he suggests that you ask yourself. I'm not sure how answering "never work another day in my life" will lead you to millionaire status, but, hey, it's worth trying.
"Goal setting is for losers" is another Morrisism. "Each time you say, 'My goal is to be a millionaire,' you are essentially programming your subconscious that you are exactly the opposite, that you are not a millionaire." The solution here is obvious -- no matter how broke you are, tell yourself that you are a millionaire. In fact, you are so filthy rich that you can quit your job today, and finance your lavish lifestyle by declaring yourself a bank-holding company and siphoning money from the Federal Reserve.
Tricking your subconscious in this way will assure you of a wonderful week or two until your credit card company comes to whisk you off to debtor's prison.
I do give Morris credit for concluding his tome with specific recommendations that the self-helped, positive-thinking, non-goal-setting reader can employ to reach unemployed millionaire status. Forget going to work on Wall Street. Morris directs you to the Big Two of delusional business opportunities: multilevel marketing and real estate.
If you currently have a garage full of magnetic jewelry and organic dandruff shampoo, you already know the joys of convincing friends and family to fill their garages with useless products no one wants. On the other hand, if you still actually have a garage, consider yourself lucky. In this economy, you're an unemployed millionaire success!
