“The Virtue of Laziness” hits its climactic—and profitable—conclusion… How to tell your boss “You’re fired.”… The most important news for gold investors in half a decade… Dangling carrots in front of horses… And a 100% free extra income opportunity…
“The Virtue of Laziness” Chapter 5: Fire Your Boss!
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From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: Your landscaping business is growing bigger and faster than you ever thought it would (Chapters 1 and 2)… and even though you’re now “sort of rich,” the amount of work and attention it requires is eating up more and more of your day (Chapters 3 and 4).
So you make a decision to do something you’ve been wanting to do for a long time.
You go into your 9-to-5 job and step into your boss’s office. You give him the good news. “I’m firing you,” you say.
“Huh?” he replies.
You leave the office with a big smile on your face, as big as Alberto’s smile was when you increased his compensation to $20 per hour. Your newfound extra time means you won’t have to work weekends anymore. In fact, you can’t imagine having to work past noon during the week either.
Yes, you’re giving up the $52,000 your cranky old boss was paying you. But you’re making more than twice that with your landscaping business—which is still growing!
A year later, your business is considerably larger. You now have six three-man crews and the gross billings are approaching a million dollars per year. You hired an office assistant at $40,000 and your niece to help with the sales part time. (She’s thrilled to be making $500 for each new customer she signs.) Other expenses—mostly legal and accounting—have also grown. And you have some new expenses now that you’re giving benefits to employees.
Still, your net profit is nearly a quarter-million dollars per year. And you’re working less—only four hours a day, five days a week, with your weekends free and clear.
Sipping champagne on the veranda of the Ritz in Paris one pristine summer evening, you can hardly believe it’s been less than four years since you read that Extra Income Project report and decided to spend $23 on fliers.
Your success, you realize, came not so much from the courage to take a risk, because you never risked anything more than $23 and some extra time. Your success came from persistently figuring out how to do less work than you were doing!
You suppose Mark Ford was right when he wrote, “The desire to work less is not a vice but a fundamental aspect of emotional intelligence. When combined with commitment, persistence, and common sense, it creates economic efficiency, an essential component of building great wealth.”
The only thing left to do, then, is decide what to do with the wealth you’ve earned…
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Break Out: This is the biggest news for gold investors in half a decade
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$10 trillion in global debt now has a negative interest rate…
Negative rates mean you, as the bondholder, pay the borrower for the privilege of lending money to him. This bizarre policy has incredible ramifications for the global economy—and for gold.
In today’s 4-Minute Market Minder, Palm Beach Letter co-editor Teeka Tiwari explains why gold is at the start of “a brand-new, multi-year uptrend.”
Click the video to hear where “Big T” says gold is headed next.