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Contents

About The Author .............................................................................................. 4

Introduction ....................................................................................................... 5

The WakeUp Millionaire’s Journey Begins ........................................................ 7

Belief System .................................................................................................. 7

Embrace Certainty. ....................................................................................... 12

Have a Compelling Reason. ........................................................................... 13

Psychology - Creating Abundance of Opportunities ....................................... 14

The Power of Saying No ................................................................................ 17

Training Your Mind ....................................................................................... 18

The Missing Chapter to Abundance… ........................................................... 19

Are You Sincere? ........................................................................................... 23

Act On Sincerity ............................................................................................ 24

Opportunity - The Platform to WakeUp Millionaire ....................................... 29

Income Today, Income Tomorrow and Millionaire Income ........................... 31

So what is the Opportunity that I use? .......................................................... 32

The Three Phases of EPS ............................................................................... 35

Product ......................................................................................................... 38

Introducing Mobile Apps .............................................................................. 40

Types of Apps ............................................................................................... 42

Having a Team .............................................................................................. 48

Making Money from Free Apps..................................................................... 49

4 Things That Could Kill Your App Before It Even Gets Downloaded ............ 53

Here Are The Big Takeaways… ...................................................................... 54

Mindset - How My Brain is Wired to Think ..................................................... 56

The First Rule: Strengthening Your Mindset .................................................. 58



The 4 Thinking Strategies .............................................................................. 63

- Easy Opportunities .................................................................................. 63

- There is Always a Choice .......................................................................... 64

- Open Door Policy .................................................................................... 68

- Who Do You Know .................................................................................. 73

Investing For the Future ................................................................................ 75

A Simple Ritual that Leads to Amazing Opportunities ................................... 76

It All Starts Somewhere ................................................................................ 78

Why is it So Hard to Start? ............................................................................ 79

Short Story: How You Start Will Determine Where You Go .......................... 83

I Did Something… ......................................................................................... 84

Everything About Wealth Will Change in The Future………………………………….85

The New Generation and Technology Growth…………………………….……………. 86

Government and Politics…………………………………………………………………………….88

Our Education In Schools………………………………………………………………………….. 90

We’re Comfortable. And that’s Not Good For Long Term…………………………. 93

You Are On Your Own……………………………………………………………………………….. 97

Bonus Chapters:

The Success Secret to Not Failing .................................................................. 99

Can Money Buy Happiness? ........................................................................ 101

Summary ....................................................................................................... 104



About The Author

Patric Chan is one of those "ordinary people" who is living an extraordinary lifestyle despite his "interesting" background. Living on a small island in Asia, never been to a college or University, having absolutely no network of association and starting with zero money, Patric is now an international speaker, best-selling author of multiple books, self-made millionaire and world-class internet marketer. To help people around the world achieve success, he specializes in breaking down complex success techniques and strategies into simple-to-understand concepts that can be applied instantly to their lives. Other than that, his success formulas are based on practical methods - not any 'new age' concept. For instance, because of his proven internet marketing strategies, it automatically made him the top 5 enrollers in an Inc 500 network marketing company, beating more than 500,000 other members. He has spoken in many countries such as the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, China, Hong Kong, the United Emirates Arab, Thailand, etc. Patric is also featured in a book with other authors like Brian Tracy, Robert T. Kiyosaki, T Harv Eker, Zig Zizlar, Tom Hopkins, Suze Orman, and others. Patric has also co-authored Clicking Cash with Robert G. Allen, the New York Times best-selling author of One Minute Millionaire, Multiple Streams of Income, Nothing Down and Cash In A Flash.

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Introduction First, let me congratulate you on taking action towards success, and for taking responsibility towards a greater financial future. This book is not about money management, how to save money or some tactical method to make quick money. It’s about becoming a WakeUp Millionaire. Becoming a WakeUp Millionaire does not happen overnight – saying that would literally insult your intelligence of differentiating between what is real and what is hype. When you combine the three elements that govern your path to become a millionaire, Psychology, Opportunity and Mindset, you initiate the course that leads you to wealth and happiness. One day, you’ll reach the tipping point where you’ll become a WakeUp Millionaire. You’ll wake up and know that you have achieved personal freedom – the power to have total control in your life, where you’re no longer being dictated to by others as a means of getting money. Just embrace that feeling for a while. How would your life be different? I want to show you how - not by giving you words of motivation, but by leaning forward and sharing my story, my journey. How I did it. So throughout this book, I’ll share with you how it happened in my life and hope that it can act as a guide for you; perhaps you can learn from my real life experience. Maybe you’ll find some of my methods or strategies acceptable. And I would respect that – you’re the captain of the ship. Just pick those that harmonize with your style and your beliefs because sometimes, all it takes is one secret to transform our lives. I would also encourage you to read this book more than once. It’s been proven that we do not get optimal value from a book when it’s read just once. I personally know that I don’t. After reading a good book, I’ll usually read it again. When you read it a second time, I believe you’ll start to pick up some other values that you have “missed”. You’ll also start to have a better understanding of the meanings in the chapters.



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The WakeUp Millionaire’s Journey Begins

Before I became successful, I knew I would achieve success. No, I’m not saying this to sound arrogant or anything – I’m saying this to make a simple point to you… You can never achieve success if you don’t have the confidence and certainty that you WILL achieve success. Success won’t come to those who “hope” that they’ll achieve success someday. Successful people make it happen. With enough certainty, you’ll have the “force” to propel you to reach your goal. Just think of it this way – The reason why you can drink Coke or eat a burger is because you’re certain that they’re not poisonous. You are CERTAIN these are safe to be consumed. It’s almost the same deal with success. You see, in order to achieve success, one need to take action. It just doesn’t happen on its own, that would be indirectly contradictory of Newton's First Law of Motion. “Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.” - Newton's First Law of Motion

Belief System There are already plenty of books written about this topic both scientific and motivational. What I would like to do is to share with you how my belief system works. Although it took me years to hone it, the fact is, it doesn’t require me to write an entire book about it. I think what you want is to read as little as possible and be able to apply what you’ve learned quickly. You see, I was never cut out to be successful in the first place. I never did well in school – probably because I lost focus, playing around too much then. So I stopped after high school; I've never studied in a college or University before. My job is rather “futureless” -- I ended up working on the streets selling greeting cards, door-to-door.



I don't come from a rich or well-off family -- that’s also the reason why I didn’t further my studies; it’s too painful to take my folks’ hard earned money that way. There wasn't any financial support for me to pursue what I wanted to do. We're your typical middle class family - my Dad's a cab driver and my Mum's a housewife. But most importantly, we’re happy. I’ve never felt upset that we weren’t rich and I’m proud of my Dad for driving a cab to take care of our family. I don't have any special or unique talent -- I mean, there are people who are highly talented in sports, inventions, programming, arts, music, etc. that allows them to become millionaires. I don’t recall having any of those talents. I live on a small island in Malaysia -- not one of the big cities where there are plenty of opportunities. Although environment does influence one's success, I can confidently say that it's not entirely true. With today's technology, you can be rich anywhere you live. I don't have any "connections"-- some people became wealthy because they know the "right" people who can elevate them to the next level. I didn't have any entrepreneur friends or know of any millionaires personally at that time; nobody was around to guide me with advice about wealth and success. I could have gone on, continuing with my ordinary life as it was… if it wasn’t for a vengeance that I had. Nothing evil. Not the kind of vengeance where it makes you want to kill someone or anything like that. It’s a feeling that makes you want to prove to the world that you’re better than that. But actually, in retrospect, I was just trying to prove it to myself. It’s the time when you deny your situation; denying that you’re incapable of achieving more in life, that you’re stuck with your existing, futureless life. That makes me hungry. You see, you got to have that kind of hunger, that kind of drive to BE successful. When I was trying to achieve success then, I was beaten up emotionally from so many angles. If you’ve been to motivational seminars, you probably know that you are supposed to network with other attendees. I mean, the Gurus teach that networking is important for success, right? I kid you not, I was a very positive fella. But it seems like not many people wanted to network with me or wanted to exchange cards because I was nobody then.



You know something -- the more the environment and people dissent you, the more powerful you should become - not the other way around. Instead of focusing on weakness, I choose to focus on strength. The more they say I cannot do it, the more it fires me up to show that I can do it. This is where I want to differentiate positive thinking from optimistic thinking. Positive thinking is saying… “It’s okay, it doesn’t matter that these people do not support me because I’m a positive thinker – I don’t let negative thoughts affect me. They probably don’t mean it anyway.” Optimistic thinking is saying… “They don’t support me – I accept that, even though I don’t like it. It sucks; I wish it wasn’t like that. But since that’s the reality, what good can come out of this?” And the answer to that question from an optimistic thinking standpoint is… I’ll take that as a challenge and I’ll prove to you who’s right. But I guess the biggest breakthrough when it comes to tuning your belief system for greatness is…

“What is Your Compelling Reason to be Successful?” If you CAN answer that question, you have the strength to walk you through the journey to success. I’ve already given you mine. Now, compelling reasons usually don’t come in a material form. For instance: a car, house or anything like that. Those are not your true compelling reasons. Why? It’s because your mind will ultimately “give up” and let you settle for less. So if your dream car is a Ferrari or something, at one time, you’ll make the decision to say that it’s fine… even if you don’t drive that Ferrari. You’ll just drive a more affordable car and forget about your compelling reason. A compelling reason usually has a strong emotional attachment to it. It could be an incident that happens in your life. It could be something that you value – more than any material things in this world.



It could be your hunger for something greater, and you know you have to become wealthy in order for you to achieve that. Mine is simply to prove to the world that I’m worth something. And in the end, it’s about proving to myself that I don’t want to settle for less anymore. Here are some of the other compelling reasons I’ve seen from my students… A guy needs to be free from working jobs because his mother is ill. His desire to be by her side every day, caring for her, gives him the compelling reason to achieve success. A young guy comes from a rich family. Money’s never been a problem. The problem? He wants to earn his own money with his two hands to prove to his father than he is not useless and is independent. That’s a compelling reason. It makes you take massive action. You see, people are motivated to take action by either inspiration ... or...

desperation.

Compelling reasons focus on inspiration. Desperation comes from fear. We don’t

want to be there – it’s not enlightening; it’s dark.

The difference between actions which springs from these two sides is shocking.

Yes, it's true that people who take massive action do see results. Often, massive

positive results.

But, most of those results almost never last if it’s NOT derived from inspiration.

Why is that? Shouldn't taking massive action improve your life instead of creating

more problems and making life even more complicated than before?

Sure, that's what everybody wants us to believe.

If the action comes from desperation, the action is motivated by wanting more – it

comes from desiring, and not having enough yet. It doesn’t serve a core purpose.

Therefore, most of our actions eventually result in some form of problem at a later

stage. Just think – desperation is not a positive platform, so how can we rely on

sprouting action from it?

Actions that are motivated by desperation, fear… can only result in more problems in

the future.

You may have perfectly good intentions behind your actions. But, if they arise out of

a negative state of mind it will only create more problems for you, eventually.

The simplest example of this phenomenon, that we're all familiar with, is when



actions arise out of anger.

When we do something while feeling angry, we usually regret our choices and

actions soon after, if not seconds later.

What we don't realize is that all negative emotions affect all actions in the same way.

This is actually a fact of life. But, we don't always see the negative results

immediately after taking action. Because, oftentimes, it shows up much later, in

some form of a negative situation, person, or experience.

Unfortunately, most of us don't make the connection even then. So, most of us never

realize how this stuff works. And, we never know to correct it for our future actions.

We never realize that every action-step we take, no matter how small, is going to

affect the next step that we take... and each of those will eventually affect where we

end up in the future, and what kind of final result we get.

So, most of our actions continue to create new actions for us - and for everyone

around us.

In summary, you should never take action out of a negative emotional or mental

state. And, even during those situations that require immediate action, you can still

take a moment to allow yourself to come from a better mental and emotional state.

And, when you start becoming aware of your actions being based on your inspired

reason, you’ll be more motivated and feel enlightened.

Each time that you practice acting consciously, you will get better at it. And, pretty

soon, almost all of your actions will be inspired by - and surrounded with - the right

energy, instead of negative and reactive energy.

The difference between the two ways of taking action may seem subtle right now,

especially when you're first starting out with this new awareness. But, the outcome

that will echo well into the future will be quite substantial.

So what is your compelling reason? You don’t need a bunch of them. Probably just one very powerful reason to catapult you to greater success than what you’re having right now. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe you’re starving right now. I’m not just referring to it metaphorically, but technically too. There are people who are very poor. And if they had the same knowledge as yours, I bet that they’d strive to break from their situation immediately.



But you are not. You’re comfortable. I know how it feels because I’ve been there. I was comfortable in the beginning… until I found my compelling reason. Weirdly, it may even be an uncomfortable feeling to have because a compelling reason creates uneasiness. However, going back to the earlier part of this book – I did mention that success means you must work. The good news is: the more successful you become, the less work you’ll have. Then one day, you’ll work very little and the reward will become huge. Let me just illustrate this point… You know Leonardo DiCaprio right? The famous actor from Titanic? Well, he’s one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Today, it’s easy for him to make money because he is THE Leonardo DiCaprio. Movies will pay him a lot of money to be the star. Advertisements will pay him huge sums to have his name or face on their products. I would guess Leornardo’s true fame got started after Titanic. But before that…Leonardo had been acting in other movies and TV series; he started acting at the age of 16. Success grows when you continue to work. When you’re certain that bigger success is waiting for you. The first part of becoming a WakeUp Millionaire: Embrace Certainty. You have to be certain that you can achieve success. Believe in that. You got to have that in your system. Of course your certainty level changes as the days and years go by because you’ll have new resources to support your certainty. We’ll talk about “resources” in the upcoming chapter. For now, your certainty is based on your ultimate goal - and the goal of reading this book is to become a WakeUp Millionaire. I’m a realist; I’m not a motivational speaker. So when I encourage you to embrace certainty, it has nothing to do with the positive thinking stuff, got it? Meaning, don’t think of unachievable goals like owning a jet, buying an island and so on (unless you’re almost there). These “certainties” will evolve by themselves at a later stage when such things are within your grasp. Make sense?



Have a Compelling Reason. Once you know that you can achieve success, you’ll need to have a compelling reason to see you through. Think of it as your burning fuel. Your light, so to speak. You know, we should celebrate everyday just for the fact that we’re living in our time. There are just so many opportunities for us to make money, to become a WakeUp Millionaire. So many that it creates abundance…



Psychology Creating

Abundance of Opportunities



Let me ask you: do you believe in the “Law of Attraction?” The teachings from the famous DVD, The Secrets? I do, but not exactly the way it’s being taught. Well, that’s another story. The reason I brought it up is because the abundance mindset has a lot of similarities with the Law of Attraction. In summary, the Law of Attraction is the name given to the belief that "like attracts like" and that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, one can bring about positive or negative results. Well, that’s what Wikipedia says, anyway. With the abundance of opportunity mindset, it means that opportunities will never run out. It’s unlimited. Like sands at the beach, water in the ocean. Get what I mean? If opportunities are unlimited, isn’t it fair for me to say that we can ALWAYS create wealth whenever we want? There is never lack of opportunities in today’s time. Take the example of writing this book. In the past, in order to write a book, someone had to have writing talent. I’d also need to speak with book publishers and would have a hard time of thinking how to promote it. Today, it’s different. I’m “writing” not as a writer, but as someone who is sharing his experience and knowledge. It’s being “self-published” on the Internet. All I did was just PDF it. And promoting it wasn’t that hard because the world is all now “connected”. I don’t even need a physical bookstore to promote it. As you can see, opportunity exists everywhere. Ideas could now be turned into cash easily. Turned into wealth. There are many people today who do not have jobs because they’re making money by trading stocks, investing in properties or running their own Internet businesses at home. They are their own bosses. The question is: do you have the psychology to support yourself? Again, it goes back to mastering CERTAINTY. Can you strongly agree that there’s abundance of opportunities? If you can, then the next step is answering the question of… How do you attract them into your life?



Now that I’ve made it clear that opportunities are indeed in abundance, I’m going to go behind the rationality of this psychology – why this can help you to become wealthy. You see, in order for you to make an immense amount of wealth, you need other people to help you. It’s too much work on your own. I’ll be sharing a strategy later on in this book, but for now stay with me on this chapter of psychology. NODOBY likes to work with people who work in fear, who are not confident in what they’re doing. That’s what scarcity does to people – it injects fear in them. While abundance creates confidence. If you’re not confident in yourself or your own idea, what is the likelihood that others will have the confidence in you? Your opportunity will fall to pieces. The other problem of scarcity is that it takes you to desperate mode. When you’re desperate, you do stupid things. It clouds your mind to think sharply. It confuses your own judgment. I like being in abundance mode because it allows me to be free - not chained to just one option. When my emotions and mind are free, I have creativity, happiness and energy. Creativity to think of ideas and expand on opportunities. Obviously, you need to be happy to achieve ANYTHING in life. How can you work when you’re not happy? When I wake up in the morning and I know I am free, I have energy to do what I like. I’m not bound to other people’s rules. I call my own shots.



The Power of Saying No Realize it or not, you’re regularly being persuaded by others to fit into their own opportunities. When I was younger, I remember I had an ex-girlfriend who didn’t know how to say “no” to her friends. So she’d always end up agreeing to her friends invitations all of the time. Then she’d complain to me that she doesn’t like going out that often with them, but she is forced to do so because she feels bad turning them down. In actuality, we all have the privilege to say “no” to others. In order for you to achieve success, you’ll be using your most valuable commodity of all – TIME. This commodity is given to everyone equally; it just depends on how well you manage it. Or spend it. In the beginning stages, you’ll use a lot of time to build your wealth. Then later on, you can use money and influence to replace time. That will eventually allow you to become successful – when you’re able to have money to live your lifestyle, and yet you are no longer using a lot time to make money. Ultimately, being a WakeUp Millionaire is about having total control of your time. When you are unable to reject to others, others are taking up your time. This of course will slow you down in reaching success and making your million dollars. And guess what? You do not have the power to reject if you do not have the abundance mindset. You’re forced to obey others. Imagine this… When you know that there will be another opportunity waiting for you, you’ll never be worried about losing opportunities. Miraculously, when you’re able to see things abundantly, more opportunities will come to you too. Now, that’s when the Law of Attraction is set into motion.

Note: I’m not suggesting you to have an ignorant attitude. That’s a surefire way

to be a failure in life. So how do train your mind to see and think things in abundance? I use the word “train” because it really means training your brain -- you’ll now need to let your brain interpret events differently.



Training Your Mind You see, whatever good things happen to you, you can either assume that it’s very hard for that to happen or it just happened easily, naturally. For instance, a salesperson who closed a million dollar sales deal. It was hard for him – it took him three years working at his sales job to reach this level. It was very challenging to present the sales pitch to the prospect and finally gotten him to sign the deal. Or… It was very easy for him. He just made the phone call and arranged an appointment. He met up with the client, talked a little bit and got the sales deal. Do you see that both are correct and they’re both the truth? But it depends on which part you want to train your brain to focus on. So if your brain chooses the easier option, it should be able to see how easy the opportunity came by. And this opportunity will surely come again because it’s so easy to make happen. Like, I could say that writing this book is a tough job. Or I could say it’s easy because all I need to do is to spend about two weeks writing it and sharing my ideas. Here’s the caveat – it’s really up to me to DECIDE whether two weeks is a lot of hard work or if it’s very easy. The thing is this: you simply don’t get anything by accepting it as hard work. Nobody’s going to shed sympathy for you. In a nutshell, there’s NO TRUE ADVANTAGE for training your mind to evaluate matters to be complicated, when they can be considered easy work. You need to train your brain to accept that there’s never been lack of opportunities. Right now, this instant – there are opportunities waiting for you. No kidding. I’m not even suggesting positive thinking here, but to relay a valid fact. We’ll talk more about opportunities in the later chapters, but here are some opportunities right under your nose… Do you know of anyone who owns a business selling “something,” a product or service? If that’s true, you’re just a phone call away from an opportunity. Do you use the Internet? The Internet is like the “land of opportunities” in itself. Do you have some money with you that can be invested in stocks or real estate?



How about doing multi-level marketing? Yeah, it’s not the “coolest” thing in town, but hey, if you have nothing else to go with, this is probably the best opportunity that can potentially turn you into a WakeUp Millionaire. Low cost. “Free” training. System has already been created for you. What else can you ask for?

The Missing Chapter to Abundance… I think abundance cannot exist without a sense of gratitude; a sense of appreciation. Many years ago, I was a kid who was just starting out. At the time of writing this book, I’m 33. I didn’t know how to achieve success or create massive wealth; I was all over the map seeking answers. I’ve been reading a lot of books and attending seminars, but apparently my life was still the same. Put it this way: I wasn’t becoming richer at all despite of what I’d been learning about success. It’s like I’ve been going in circles. To a point, I was frustrated. Maybe, angry. I mean – who wouldn’t be? These Gurus have been pitching how easy it is to become successful and become a millionaire, but I just couldn’t seem to crack the code. One day I stopped doing anything related to achieving my goals. And did *something*. Now, when I did it, it wasn’t at a beach or some forest reserve – just in my small room. I chose to stop being frustrated and to stop feeling desperate for success. What I did was… I started to be thankful. Instead of feeling the sense of being overwhelmed and so on, I started to think of what I can be thankful for instead. Thinking of what the great things are that I have, right now. And it leads me to write out the list of who should I be thankful with. At that time, I wasn’t wealthy so I wasn’t thinking anything about material. Anyway, material should be the thing I’m least thankful for. I was thankful that time for…

Being healthy, allowing me to enjoy my life.

Having my eyes to see wonderful things in this world.



Having legs to walk as fast as I want, and run as crazy as I wish.

Having a fully functioning brain that allows me to think and do all of the marvelous things a brain does.

My fingers – even my toes. Though my toe doesn’t play a strong role (compared to my heart, legs and so on), I’m so grateful to have it! How much I love my toe!

Then at I look at where I’m living… what I am driving. I was happy. It wasn’t a big house or a Porsche; it was actually an old car. I was just happy because I have a place to call home and have my own transport. I don’t have to starve. I have my favorite pair of jeans and some shirts that I think are awesome. I have a mobile phone. How cool is that? I’m not referring to the phone, but the luxury of being able to stay in touch. And I have so many other things! Then I got to the list of people I had to be grateful for . Mum, Dad, family, girlfriend, good friends, business associates, mentors, customers the list goes on and on. If we were to list the names, it seems like it’d never end. Can you see how blessed we are, with so many people who are close to us? You don’t want to just be grateful for what you have; but what it means to you. For instance, my first expensive watch was a Tag Heuer when I was a kid. It’s not just about having it to wear, but the meaning that it brings to me – I was grateful because I was able to buy it (it’s considered a luxury for me at that time). I’m grateful for the legs that I have. But I’m even more grateful for them to allow me to walk, run, climb, jump, kick, dance and enjoy sports I could experience. The value of my legs makes me appreciate them very much. It is the value of the things you have that makes you appreciate having them. This is why there are millionaires who are living depressingly. They simply do not know how to put a meaning to their money. Most people do not know the value that little things in their life have. I’m not referring to the price of material things or the money that allows them to buy stuff, but what the stuff they have actually means.



After experiencing being thankful in life, I feel “good”. I think, the best word to describe it would be enlightened. I felt that the possessions that I have are AMAZING. I’m so blessed; I love my life so much. If you were me, I don’t think you would let this experience go away either, so I took it to the next level. I was thinking… “What if, I do this regularly?” And here’s what I did…. I started taking walks. Sometimes, jogs. But the whole purpose of this exercise wasn’t really focused on physical fitness but experiencing my gratitude ritual regularly. While I’m doing my walk (or jog)… My mind will run through the things I’m grateful for, everything I can think of that I can appreciate. When I’m jogging, usually, I’ll start with my body parts – from toe to head. Especially when you’re using themit kind of highlights to you again of how valuable they are. I remember feeling gratitude because I was breathing. Although breathing is essential to our living, how many times do we take the time to appreciate that? I’ll stop my jogging when I feel that I’ve already shown thanks for the great things that were given to me. Who you thank depends on your own belief, whether it’s God or the Universe. Personally I’m thankful to God. Where I live, there’s a hill not far away. Once a week, I’ll hike to the top of the hill and go through this very same process – running my gratitude through my mind. The best part of it is it makes you feel the sense of accomplishment. Like you’ve conquered the hill and you’re “on top of the world”. Try it; I think you’ll love it too. So what will being grateful do to you? A lot. For starters, it makes you feel that you’re one of the best. Theoretically, it’s fair for me to say that you can call yourself the best because there isn’t another you in this world. Unless, a clone exists at the time you’re reading this book.



When you feel and believe you’re greatest, you’ll automatically build the unstoppable confidence. The cool part about confidence is that it doesn’t just affect you. It creates an invisible aura that affects other people around you, making them want to be associated with you. Next, it makes you feel happy. Not like happy after watching some comedy flick on YouTube, but the type of happiness that is developed from the sense of feeling content with what Life has offered to you. This kind of happiness lasts. Do you remember the last time you bought something you REALLY liked? Come on. I’m sure you do. I do too. Let’s take something small, maybe when you bought a new phone or an iPhone, for that matter. It feels awesome, right? So many functions and cool stuff to play on it. And when you use it, you feel proud – holding something so cool in your hand. My question to you is how long did that happiness with iPhone last? Let’s be honest with ourselves in that it did bring us joy. Sometimes, it could be days or weeks. Maybe even months! But ultimately, it dies off. And that’s still okay - but the problem is, it’s very hard for you to feel happy about it again after it’s gone – physically and mentally. But I can guarantee you that at any time, whenever I appreciate my eyes, legs or my Mum, I will always feel happy. It never goes away; it can never be “gone”. What else gratitude gives me? Empowerment. It empowers me to take action. When I feel gratitude to those who have been in my life, I feel proud of myself. I’m proud because I’m humble. I know, it sounds quite conflicting but it’s actually not at all. You see, many people put on a mask, pretending to be strong because they thought that appearing as their true selves could be a sign of weakness.



I’m sure you’ve seen the not-so-rich people who pretend to be rich. They think that their lack of riches may be a weakness but the truth is – they’re just being manipulated by the media and environment to behave that way. The real rich people, the millionaires, they’re always humble people. Sometimes, rich people are called snobs but I disagree with that opinion – actually many rich people are humble people. If they don’t mix with the average people it is simply because they want to surround themselves with like-minded people. If average people do not have a , bias view on the rich and are willing to tune their mindset differently, perhaps, things would be different. When you’re able to be humble, regardless if you’re rich or not, you’re being your true self. You’re letting go of the material things that clouds your thinking. Sorry if I sound rude, but you’re not someone special even if you’re rich. You’re just another person who happens to have more money to buy stuff. Of course I’m not saying the money is useless. I’m just saying that money helps, but it doesn’t make someone successful in life because success is measured in many other forms, not just the money in the bank. You’ll be proud of yourself if you can master humility.

Are You Sincere? It’s okay – it’s just between you and me, you can be honest. Now, despite how much we want this world to be, not every successful person is a sincere person but I strongly believe that if someone IS sincere, then his success would be greater. Thus, the sincerity concept doesn’t apply to everyone, but this book is not about the general people, it’s about you and WakeUp Millionaires. It’s also about sharing my experience and knowledge with you, of what works for me. It may or may not work for you, but one thing is for sure – I want to make sure that anything that works for me is told to you. Have you heard the quote, “light attract light”? I’m blessed that almost all of my business dealings are smooth sailing, I was fortunate to have sincere people to do business with me. By the way, I used the word “almost” because I’ve been taken for a ride by a “business partner” before. Once in a blue moon, I’ll get insincere customers.



The root that prevents people from being sincere is the fact that others in their dealings are not always sincere towards them. So it becomes a problem. People are afraid to be hurt and to be cheated. That’s why there’s quotes like, “once bitten, twice shy”. Look – nobody likes that feeling, it’s painful. When you show your sincerity and you’re being lied to (or treated insincerely), you feel the trust in broken and have a sense of betrayal. As you can see, by just reading the words “lies” and “betrayal”, they have already made you feel uncomfortable, right? It’s freaking bad negative energy. What you need to understand is this… Someone’s got to start doing the right thing. Might as well have that person to be you. Wouldn’t you want to hold the torch and lead others to do good in this world? Sincerity unlocks doors of opportunity by allowing good people to come to you and it transforms your psychology for opportunities. Because when you’re sincere in your doings and your intentions, you eliminate fear – you’re not afraid as you’re acting based on truth. Now, I don’t want you to think this chapter of sincerity is about moral values. Although that’s part of it (and I’m sure our parents thought us to do the right things), but it’s because acting on Sincerity has literally make my life easy for success.

Act of Sincerity I know when I was I kid, not just that I have burning passion for success, I am very sincere to learn. There was one time I emailed an entrepreneur who has made millions in life. I’ve heard about him and I admire his success. So one day, I took the initiative to write him an email – to tell him about my admiration for his success and asked him if I could ever meet up with him just to seek his words of wisdom.



Now this may sound unbelievable, but sometimes your life can literally transform when you read a book or get some advice. You don’t even read a roadmap, you just need one sentence. Anyway, he doesn’t live where I live. In my email, I’ve said that as long as he can meet with me, I’ll fly there to see him (keep in mind that I wasn’t rich yet that time, so even a thousand dollars is a lot of money to me). Unexpectedly, he said that he’ll be in Penang, the island where I live, for a vacation. More importantly, he said he’ll meet up with me in the morning and I can ask him questions about success. This goes without saying, but I met up with him. We talked. There were many lessons in the conversation but one that I’ve remembered until today was this – During the conversation, I’ve asked him about the concept of Robert Kiyosaki’s “cashflow quadrant”. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically the famous teaching of someone being either in the Employee (E), Self Employed (SE), Business (B) or Investor (I) quadrant. Basically, the whole premise of the concept is moving into the B and I quadrants to be wealthy. You can pick up Cashflow Quadrant at Amazon.com if you would like to learn more about these quadrants. Now, I have a hard time immersing myself to that concept because I was in the E quadrant. How would I move out of that quadrant? Then he said something to me… “Well, if you look at it, sometimes, you do not need to be IN a quadrant. If you look carefully again, the four quadrants is a square – which metaphorically, it can be the base of a pyramid. You can be at the top of the pyramid, not at the bottom.” That truly changes my perspective. If that’s the case, it means that I can be in all quadrants. I mean, it’s really up to you how you want to define of what I’ve just shared to you – but my key takeaway is, I can still be employed and yet, run my own business and invest in others. Now, I think Kiyosaki’s concept is brilliant. I don’t mean to say anything different but from my experience when it comes to reality, the fact is, we’re likely to be in all quadrants. Today…



I am an “employee” because I serve others. I’m self-employed because I still do some stuff on my own, like writing this book and launching it. Some entrepreneurs feel embarrassed to say that they do work; I don’t because I don’t like hiding stuff. That’s definitely not applying sincerity in your attitude. Why do I do it on my own? Simply because I want to make sure that my readers are getting the exact message that I want to share. Secondly, I have a habit of wanting to do the best I can do for my products. I’m a Business Owner. I have businesses that are running on their own, generating passive income and employing others to help my company to grow. Finally, I’m also an Investor because I have investments in equity market and properties. But do I complain that I’m in the E and SE quadrants? Not really. In fact, I’m grateful to have what I have today. Going back to the story of my meeting with this millionaire, I think it all happened because he knows of my sincerity to learn and my sincere appreciation towards his thoughts. -- Summary… What I’ve shared with you are the values that I’ve carried and practiced. Do they have flaws? Yes, definitely. After all, I’m only human and I’m not a motivation author. But if they have helped me to accomplish my fair share of success today, I think they can be helpful to others too. Which is what I’m doing – I’m sharing them. When your mind and heart are open, then you’re fully aligned to accept opportunities. There’s a saying that 80% of success is based on the mental game, while the other 20% is about the strategies and mechanics. I would agree to that. Although you need to have both, but the mental game plays a bigger role. I’ve been teaching about creating wealth for many years now and based on stats, those who achieved success are those who master their mental game.



Many people always say, “Show me the money!”. But the truth is, many people set themselves on unsuccessful journeys without initially build the “pillar” for success. Always keep in mind that acquiring wealth, achieving success or simply becoming a millionaire IS a journey. This is not a normal journey. It’s a journey of uncertainties of what will be happening. There are many challenges, including internal and external enemies preventing you to achieve your dream. The only thing that keeps you going is how well you’re able to “control” your mindset and use it as your ally. You see, your mindset is another entity of its own. Now, this topic alone is another book of its own. Read WakeUp Millionaire Blueprint Part 2 where I’ve covered more in-depths about it. But in a nutshell, your mind has the power to influence your thoughts and actions. If you continue to face uncertainties and challenges along your journey, your mind will start to “help” you to reduce this disappointment by retreating from your goal. At one stage, it’ll conclude that pursuing this journey’s going to be unfruitful and you’ll suffer more pain – the solution? Keep going. Continue doing whatever that have “certainties” and allow yourself to be happy (or avoid disappointments). It’s a whole game of pain and pleasure taught by Anthony Robbins.

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of

having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If

you don't, life controls you.” – Anthony Robbins If you master your mental game, you know you’re ready for any obstacles and accept that the destination of the journey is well worth it – regardless of how “painful” it can be for you. Here’s another truth… Someone who has less powerful strategies and techniques but strong at mental game CAN still achieve success. The only setback is, it could be mediocre without powerful strategies but success is almost guaranteed. Someone who has the right strategies and techniques to succeed but does not have a strong mental game WILL not achieve success. Why is this strangely so? Because even with the right strategies, there are still going to be other obstacles that will



prevent him to achieve success – he’ll still need to overcome them. Even if he did, it’s just a matter of time that everything crumbles. The secret? Master your mental game and use the right strategies. Of course, pick the right Opportunities.



Opportunity The Platform to

WakeUp Millionaire



If you think that you can become a WakeUp Millionaire without putting some effort, I’m so sorry to disappoint you. Because the truth is, you need to do something to make money. Even if it’s sending emails – that’s still considered as taking actions. If you accept that fact, then it’s obvious you’re on the right track. Some call Opportunities vehicles, platforms and so on. But I’m calling it an Opportunity because IT IS an opportunity. Basically, in this book’s context, it’s referred to the vehicle or method that you would like to use to make money with. Obviously, there plenty of opportunities to choose from today. In fact, it becomes a problem. These days, we have the problem of “info-overload” or sense of being overwhelmed. If you’re just given 2 options to make money and these are proven – wouldn’t your life become much easier? Instead of dabbling around with which one to choose from, you can start quicker without the sense of regret or “what if”. The good news is, I’m not even going to give you 2 options – I’ll just share with you ONE. One that I’ve used and will continue to use in the future. This way, you can just copy what that has already been proven to work. Becoming a WakeUp Millionaire is not hard. Don’t make it complex. Do not reinvent the wheel. My Opportunity lies in business. Not just business, but Internet business. It’s fast, cheap and best of all, many of the tasks can be automated. But before we get to the Opportunity, I’ll need to teach you a few things about making money and creating wealth.



Income Today, Income Tomorrow and Millionaire Income There are 3 types of income and you need them all. Income Today – This is the income that you’ll need today and within the next 30 days. Basically, this is your life line – you need money right now to not only enjoy your lifestyle, but fund you to become a WakeUp Millionaire. You have to understand that there’s no liberty to living frugal – you need to use your Income Today to give you the pleasure of what you can afford. You need to continuously reward yourself for taking actions to become a WakeUp Millionaire. No, I’m not asking you to spend every single dollar you got. That’s stupid, and this book is not about money management or budgeting either – if you have those problems, please get that sorted out. I would encourage you to get in touch with a financial consultant for that solution. This book is about becoming a WakeUp Millionaire. At the same time, there are many books out there that teach about becoming “rich” by savings. As far as I know, rich people focus on earning. Author of How Rich People Think by Steve Siebold theorizes that the wealthy focus on what they’ll gain by taking risks, rather than how to save what they have. “The masses are so focused on clipping coupons and living frugally they miss major opportunities,” he writes. ”Even in the midst of a cash flow crisis, the rich reject the nickle and dime thinking of the masses. They are the masters of focusing their mental energy where it belongs: on the big money.” If I want to make $100,000, I won’t be focusing on how I can save that or how much money I would need to have to get that amount as interest. I’ll be focusing on what I can do to earn that amount. Income Tomorrow – While making money for Income Today, you would also be planning for Income Tomorrow. Income Tomorrow is defined for income that you’ll have within months and can be extended to a year or so. It creates short-term passive income. For instance, you own a membership where people are paying you monthly fee. However, without consistently being innovative, your member would cancel their membership and you will not be making passive income anymore.



Millionaire Income – This is where you can be free. You can choose when to work or not to work anymore. The biggest mistake that average people make (which keeps them from millionaire status) is simply not choosing the right Opportunity that can lead to this stage. Secondly, they should be building Income Tomorrow that can have the possibility to go the Millionaire Income stage. It’s okay if you don’t understand me when I say that – I’ll explain all of these within the next pages.

So what is the Opportunity that I use? Before I get to that, I would also want you to know that Opportunity can change at any time. Just think it as the vehicle to get you from one place to another place. Which is, in some sense, the truth. You’re trying to get from your current level to the WakeUp Millionaire level. That being, your focus is the destination and you’ll choose whichever of the most suitable vehicle for you to get there. In my years of making money and creating wealth, I’ve used at least 3 major Opportunities. So let me remind you again – Opportunity can change. However, there’s one Opportunity that NEVER change. That Opportunity is real estate. If someone were to ask me of what’s the “end game”, I’d tell them it’s about using any other Opportunities where I can make a lot of money and then, use the money earned to be invested into real estate. Even if I make $100 million, I would use a portion of it to be invested into real estate. In summary, the more money I can make from my Internet business, the more real estate that I’ll invest (or bigger real estate). So real estate will always be Income Tomorrow and Millionaire Income. I mean, if you know of some cool real estate secrets like a no-money-down strategy, etc. and they allow you to make money, that is simply AWESOME. Do that. For my model though, I don’t focus on real estate strategies. I focus on earning money elsewhere (from business) and buy good real estates to invest. Again, there’s no right or wrong here – I’m just sharing how I’m doing it.



My Opportunity is the Internet. However, recently, it has changed from Internet to mobile apps. But let’s talk about the Internet first. The Internet is the playground that allows ordinary people to earn extraordinary income, to the degree of becoming a self-made millionaire. Then again, the Internet’s opportunity is way too huge. If you’re a beginner, you’ll probably be overwhelmed by it. So to avoid that, let me just share with you HOW I make money using the Internet: There are two worlds to profiting from the Internet. One is being an affiliate marketer where you make money by promoting someone else’s products. You’ll be paid affiliate commissions. The other role is being the product creator. Sell your own products and keep 100% profit. Instead of selling anything, I’ve narrowed it down to selling mainly information products. An information product is simply a “package” that consists of information inside it –

this package can be in any format: ebook, audio course, video course, home

courses, reports, etc. Even software can be classified as an information product.

In fact, this book is an information product.

If you’re new to information product, let me give you two ways of packaging and

presenting your product:

The Compilations Method:

It’s an information product that compiles a list of “ways”.

Here are some title examples:

10 Ways To Build 6 Pack Abs In 30 Days

50 Secrets Of How To Become A Millionaire

31 Forex Trading Strategies

A classic example of this would be Chicken Soup of The Soul book series. It’s a

compilation of many motivational and inspiration stories.



Step-by-Step Guides:

Most products fall into this category and here are some simple titles to it

How To Setup A Blog

The A-Z Guide To Lose Weight in 4 Weeks

5 Steps To Raise Fund For Charity

Step-by-step guides need to be in a logical order and the secret is to make it as clear

as possible of what action the person needs to take after each section or chapter.

An example would be the The Dummies book series.

As mentioned earlier, information product is not limited to just courses or books.

Some of my other Internet businesses include niche software like

www.pagepressapp.com, web solutions like www.nagscreen.com, blog at

www.patricchan.name and many others.

So how did it change to apps all of the sudden?

In August 2012, I went to Korea for a holiday.

I wanted to see how much of a break I could truly take while being away for about

two weeks. Not just mentally, but demographically as well. I was still working,

running my business, but I’ve cut it down to just about two hours per day on average.

Besides, I’ve never been to Korea – it would be a new experience to be here and

see how’s the K pop culture is. By the way, they were playing Gangnam Style songs

everywhere then.

I was trying to achieve a new concept which I’ve named the “EPS Income Model”.

Where EPS income stands for Easy, Predictable and Stable income.

I could be wrong but, I’m guessing that your goal and mine are almost the same –

we’re trying to setup a business (or a “vehicle”) that can generate easy, predictable

and stable income for us.

Let me elaborate further…

Easy would mean that once your business is up and running, you can easily make

money with very minimal effort.

Then this business should generate income that is predictable – you can expect to

know how much money you’ll make by doing whatever you’re supposed to do for its

marketing. Stable would means that it’s not dependable on other influences.


http://www.pagepressapp.com/

http://www.nagscreen.com/

http://www.patricchan.name/


The problem arise is when people don’t understand that it is not easy to create EPS

Income Model.

I mean, it’s EASY to make money when your business is up, but this doesn’t mean

it’s easy to get it up, you get it?

This is why it’s so hard to teach Internet marketing – everybody wants EPS but are

not committed enough to have this.

The Three Phases of EPS, just like Income Today, Income

Tomorrow and Income Millionaire…

First, you want to create easy, predictable and stable income to make some extra

cash. Meaning, it could be part-time income to supplement your full time income but

not just a one-time thing – you want this to be predictable and stable.

Normally, at this phase, you’ll make money by promoting someone else’s products

(aka affiliate programs).

The next EPS phase is to generate easy, predictable and stable income that can be

your FULL TIME income. At this phase, you want to generate enough income to quit

your job (if you have a job). Again, this is why you need predictable and stable

income – otherwise, you’re going to be very worried with all of your bills.

Give or take, you should set a target between 6 to 12 months for you to move to this

second phase. It’s very important that you have a dateline (yes, I know it’s usually

called deadline but I just don’t like the word “dead”) to accomplish your goal of being

in phase two.

Most people mess up big time when they get here – they make money (phase one)

but never plan for their future. They get “comfortable”.

Phase three of EPS is to make a “windfall”.

Although I’ve seen a few Internet marketers who have successfully reached this

stage, the truth is, almost none of them will ever reach this phase. An example of a

windfall is like… you created Twitter or something like that. Basically, you can retire if

you want. You can cash out.

The fact is, I am unlikely to reach phase three with the kind of Internet marketing I’ve

been doing in the past. I mean, even if you pull $50,000 a month, you’ve just barely

reach 7 figure mark in A YEAR. Don’t get me wrong – everyone should be super

gratitude with 6-figure a year revenue. This is *perfect* picture for phase two, but not

phase three of EPS.



In order to have an unreasonable result, you’ll need to start thinking at a different

level, including doing extraordinary actions.

Yes, it’s risky but think about this…

Have you realize that there’s only 5% (or whatever small percentage is) of people

who are rich in this world?

It’s probably because the 95% of the rest “behave” the same and only 5% do things

differently. They often take a risk to be different.

To move to phase three, there are two key things you need to have…

A product. And you need to own this. The good news is, we’re living in a world

where a product can be created from thin air. Now, when I’m talking about a product,

I’m not just talking about a course. For instance, Twitter.com (which is NOT a

course) IS a “product”. It’s a service that millions of people use every day.

A team. By having a team, not only can you grow faster, you’ll be able to have a

business without having you to do the work. This is crucial. That’s how you can

reduce your work to only 2 hours a day.

Another thing is this — if it’s ever possible, your product should not revolve around

your name. To illustrate an example; do you know who’s behind Nike? I don’t. But

apparently, we buy Nike shoes or i apparels, regardless of who’s behind the product.

In summary of EPS, here are the key points:

Our goal is to always have a business that falls into the easy, stable and

predictable income model. If it doesn’t, then you’re either going to have a hard time

making money repeatedly or not be able to rely on this business for long term. If you

don’t have EPS, you’ll likely to be running in a rat race.

There are three phases of EPS– part time income, full time income and windfall

(where you get to choose to retire if you want to).

Remember: IT ALL STARTS with part time income for whatever your Internet

business is. Dude, you’ll set yourself to failure if you skip this step and try to go to

phase two or three.

To get to phase three, you need to have your own product and a team to support

you.

I believe that EPS Income Model is the only way someone can truly achieve freedom

with Internet marketing. Let me make it clear again — it is not easy to create an EPS

income model but it’s easy to make money online when you’ve gotten the system

right and your Internet business is up and running.



The idea is to start an Internet business that has the potential to go to phase three,

or at least, to phase two.

Now, many Internet businesses CAN go to phase two but not all of them will allow

you to make easy, predictable and stable income.

This is why many Internet marketers are “stuck” and still running in a rat race.

In essence, it’s NOT about making money or becoming a WakeUp Millionaire — it’s

about being able to work less and have more time to do the things we want, and

reduce the stress we’re facing with conventional businesses (or jobs). Thus, this is

why it’s important that we MUST be able to make money easily and the income

must be predictable and stable.

You can make money online but how much you’re getting for the time you’ve put in?

Does it allow you to continue to make money with minimum work after that?

The equation that you need to figure out

is how much you’re getting in return for

the time you’ve put in for the work.

In the book, 4-Hour Work Week, Tim

Ferriss describes that he only work 4

hours a week. This also means, he can

decide to use his time to pursue his

dreams and passions rather than using

time, the most valuable commodity, to

make money.

Earlier, I’ve mentioned that if you would

like to go to phase three (it could take

you years but during those time, you

would have already made a good sum of money in phase one and phase two with

the least work possible), you must have a “product” and a team.

The best part is, you can start with these two things even in phase one. Ironically,

I’ve just discovered this — imagine if I’ve started with this knowledge 10 years ago

when I first got started. I would most likely be at phase three right now.



Product

Let’s start with the first leverage, Product. A product doesn’t necessarily have to be a

course or an eBook -- a product can be *anything*.

What I’m trying to say is, tinyurl.com, twitter.com, Angry Bird, ThemeForest, etc are

products. Basically, just SOMETHING that people use on the Internet.

If you ever want to make easy, predictable and stable income that can fit into the

3 phases, these are the 5 criteria:

1. Mainstream product. If you ask your neighbor whether they’ve read (fill in

the blank with your favorite Internet marketing Guru’s name) latest blog post,

they’ll look at you strangely. A mainstream product is a product that everyone

knows, or if they don’t, it’ll just take you less than 2 minutes to explain and

they’ll GET IT.

2. It can be scaled. Assuming we get to ignore product life cycle and external

influences (like competitors, change of trends, etc.), your product should be

able to grow by simply doing more of whatever that is working. For instance,

Zynga (the company behind Farmville) can easily scale its business to the

next height by releasing new games on the same platform.

3. Natural growth. Internet marketing is definitely a very lucrative niche and it

gets my recommendation. However, 9 out 10 of the products in the market do

not have natural growth – they’re promoted through an orchestrated launch

(which is unlikely to be pulled by a newbie or marketer with minimal fund).

After the launch, when everything settles down, the product will eventually

“die” on its own. Again, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it but it’s surely

not an EPS Income Model.

4. Repetitive usage. Preferably, it should be a kind of product that gets the user

to come back again to “consume” your product. Twitter and Facebook are two

very accurate examples. Or a game where the player comes back to play it

again.

5. You should not be in the picture. When the product is up and running,

doing what it’s supposed to do, you’re not supposed to be the reason why the

user continues to use your product. If this happens, it’s going to be very

difficult for you to go to phase three.



An example of our EPS Income Model is PagePressApp, a Facebook app. You can

see it at www.pagepressapp.com but it’s likely something not related to you

(because it’s an app for Fanpage owners).Before I jumped onto this development, I

did my diligence of research. At that time (which was about a year ago), another

Facebook app called, Static HTML: iframe tabs, was the #1 app being used in

Facebook with an enormous number of over 60,000,000 users (or downloads).

That’s 60 million.

It also tells me that there are AT LEAST a whopping 60 million Fanpages out there…

I know it’s definitely a mainstream niche to serve then. I mean, even if I can just get

1% of result, 600,000 users, it could already be a very profitable venture.

The app has been growing since the day it was launched.

There’s a steeper growth of users in the beginning because we’ve promoted it (but

no crazy launches, etc.) and after that, it continues to grow because it started to be

reviewed by authority websites like AllFacebook.com, KillerStartUps.com and so on.

Then with this success, we clone the model to create another Facebook app,

www.pagetabapp.com. The obvious reason why it’s being created is because Static

HTML: iframe tabs app commands 60 million users at that time. Both of them

perform the similar purpose. We’re not greedy in any way — we’ll just need to have

1% of it’s result to be kick start a EPS Income Model.

Of course, it’s not always possible to have a product to fit the 5 criteria of a

mainstream product, it can be scaled, natural growth, repetitive usage and not

required to be involved with the business because there’s no such thing as a

forever-growing product.

Eventually, a product will die on its own if it’s outdated or there’s a major competitor

stepping in. BUT it doesn’t need to die if you continue to improve it or innovate it, just

like any business. Amazon.com improved its business by introducing Kindle.

This strategy is call, “stacking”. You stack on your winning products to become better

by improving it, introducing new models, creating new divisions, etc. Heck, every

business does that, even best-selling books. Rich Dad Poor Dad was a major hit but

I don’t think it would last still today if Robert Kiyosaki stops promoting his amazing

Rich Dad brand or stops writing more “sequels” of books. After 7 Habits of Highly

Effective People, Franklin Covey was introduced – more books are written, trainings,

consultations, etc.


http://www.pagepressapp.com/

http://www.pagetabapp.com/


Introducing Mobile Apps

I think the best product that fits into the criteria above is mobile App (Apple and

Android).

Facebook app is great too, but it’s more complicated to manage, compared to mobile

apps.

Why? It’s because Facebook apps are dependable to Facebook.com’s latest

changes and rules. This means if you do not have an in-house programming team,

you’ll be in trouble whenever your app requires an update.

Frankly, it’s so much easier to learn about mobile apps than Facebook apps.

Let’s go back to mobile apps.

It’s definitely a model that promises an easy, predictable and stable income model.

Most people just freak out when they hear about app business.

I guess the biggest myth that people have is they don’t have the skill or knowledge to

become an app entrepreneur/marketer.

After you’ve done some reading, you’ll soon realize that it’s really not that

complicated.

If I was starting all over again, I would have chosen to master the app business

rather than Internet marketing.

To illustrate one example, how many people can produce a salespage like

www.WakeUpMillionaire.com or www.Achievings.com? Most can’t and even if they

can, it’ll be a lousy copy that won’t convert.

Can you write a description for your app? You probably can. Even if you can’t, you’re

selling a $0.99 product (or free) How hard can that be?

App business fits perfectly well for EPS and for the three phases of business growth.

For a start, having an app to make some part-time income is surely possible.

If you work on a system (instead of just doing it for fun) and take it seriously, it can

get you to phase two.

It has the possibility to go to phase three. Check out Draw Something app. The

company (or just the app business, can’t remember) was sold for $180,000,000.

Phase three options is always available because companies are buying app

businesses. If you haven’t realize by now, iPhone app is the hottest trend that is

happening right now. More apps will be consumed.



http://www.achievings.com/


Just imagine that. I haven’t even touch on the fact that Android apps has even bigger

market share than Apple today.

Want to know something else?

“By 2014 Mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet”

- Morgan Stanley

And yes, you can start an app business even if you’re not a programmer.

This is why, you will assemble your team and honestly, sometimes, this could be the

remedy to take you out of your own rat race.



Types of Apps

The most important criteria of your app is it has to be a QUALITY app. Quantity

comes in second in this game. My point, it’s better to have two quality apps than ten

lousy apps.

You see, if it’s not quality, it doesn’t gets approved by Appstore. End of story.

Goodbye.

Now, even if it does get approved by luck, what’s the point if the user doesn’t get any

value from your app?

He’ll delete your app, leave bad a review, etc.

After researching, I’ve categorized apps into these three categories…

Content App.

These are apps that provide content to the user. Just think of a website that has

been turned into an app but has additional features. Or think of Newsstand (for Apple

devices). They are easy to be created.

If you have a quality and engaging content app with some kind of uniqueness, they

can be approved in Appstore.

The way to make money with this app is to pick a niche market and create content

about it. For instance, you can create an app about cooking that includes recipes,

cooking videos, cooking material reviews, etc. in it – content.

You can check out my content app on the topic of self-improvement from:

Apple Appstore:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-improvement-success-

app/id561470486?ls=1&mt=8

Android Version at Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.successtrace.selfimprovementsuc

cessandroid

Ideas for your content:

Turn your existing content from your blog posts, Fanpage wall posts, articles written

in the past, Twitter tweets, etc. INTO a free app. A content app that’s free to

download.


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-improvement-success-app/id561470486?ls=1&mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-improvement-success-app/id561470486?ls=1&mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.successtrace.selfimprovementsuccessandroid

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.successtrace.selfimprovementsuccessandroid


This goes without saying… if you do not have content yet, you’ll need to create those

or borrow from others. Content is freely available at youtube.com, ezinearticles.com,

wikipedia.org, etc.

Then have your app in Apple Appstore. That’s your NEW CUSTOMER source.

I doubt your competitor is there, YET.

But how about “doubling” your revenue? Let your app to be available at Google Play

Store too.

Below is a screenshot of an app of mine and if you notice, new users EVERYDAY.

Best part is, it’s 100% “natural”. No launch, no active promotions, etc. It just “sits”

there in Google Play Store, siphoning new leads every day.

As I’ve mentioned at the early chapter of Opportunity, information marketing is one of

the most profitable ways to make money online. The “old school” teaching is to write

an eBook and sell it online. That still works and I’m a strong advocator of that.

But there’s a bigger market here, right now. No, I’m not talking about Amazon Kindle

(though that is also another huge market to tap).

I’m talking about a WHOLE new market that is still under exposed (compared to

Kindle). Just think, why do you think there’s a category called, “books” in Appstore

and Android Play Store?

These two giants would probably want you to create an app that has content for their

users to consume!

You probably can’t imagine how excited I am to crack this code. Let me explain…


http://www.simpleappblueprint.com/


First, the mobile market IS going to be the future. Please don’t mistake it as hype —

this is happening and it’s happening very rapidly, my friend. Don’t believe me? Wait

for another 6 months and you’ll read more success stories of others.

Secondly, a PDF book or content can now be “passed” as an app. This means, it

opens up the door to tap on Appstore and Android Play Store’s massive traffic!

The coolest part is you don’t even need to create any technical apps or games

because you can have an app that is nothing other than content. No programming

skill required. No programmer headache.

And what if there’s unlimited source of content that you can use?

Truthfully, when I thought of this idea, I couldn’t “sleep”. Today, there are literally

thousands of written information, audio, video and photographs that are under the

public domain. You can have the rights to use them for your own gain on any

imaginable topics you can think of.

Here are some sources you can work with…

INFORMATION /EBOOKS:

http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books

http://www.ipl.org/div/about

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog

http://www.ibiblio.org

http://www.ccel.org (dedicated to Christianity’s content)

PHOTOGRAPHY:

http://www.eastmanhouse.org

http://www.nypl.org/digital

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov

VIDEOS:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic

http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

https://archive.org/details/prelinger


http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

http://www.ipl.org/div/about/

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

http://www.ibiblio.org/

http://www.ccel.org/

http://www.eastmanhouse.org/

http://www.nypl.org/digital/

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/

http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

https://archive.org/details/prelinger


If you’re using any of the content of the sites, do make sure to read their terms and

conditions or rights accurately. They might have their own terms that you’ll need to

follow accordingly. HOWEVER, they’re public domain material.

There is just so much money to be made when I can combine public domain with

apps.

Just do a search for “Think and Grow Rich” in http://play.google.com -- this is what I

found…

Yes, that’s the classic Think and Grow Rich, which happens to be public domain

content. It gets more than 100,000 downloads!

As you can see, there’s a solid reason why I’ve put Internet marketing aside for the

time being and just focus on app opportunity.

When done right, the App business is definitely a profitable business.


http://play.google.com/

http://www.simpleappblueprint.com/


Utility App.

By the word utility, I’m not referring to the definition of utility in Apple’s category. It’s a

function app. Basically, function app helps the user to do something.

A simple idea is a “counting app”. There are all kinds of things to count in this world –

counting of walking steps, movements of any stuff, beats of any kinds, budget

counting, etc. The trick is to make your app where it makes sense for the user to

continue using it, rather than just a one-time usage.

Think of other types of functions. I have a compass utility app at:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/compass-course-guider/id567183748?ls=1&mt=8

Game App.

These are just like they sound, game apps are games. Angry Bird, Draw Something,

Doodle Jump, Temple Run, Restaurant Story, etc.

Game apps are probably the most complex app to be developed because of the

designs, animations and interactions involved. However, if it’s a good gameplay, it’ll

probably yield the most repetitive usage. The more times your app is open,

generally, the more money you’ll be able to make!

What is my secret to game development?

Create endless running or jumping game. Whichever one. Doodle Jump jumps

endlessly. Temple Run runs endlessly. By the way, both of them made more than a

million. If you notice, technically, there’s only one set of map. Unlike Angry Birds, you

need to continue to create new maps every time.

I guess one of the biggest mistakes made by those who want to start an app

business is spending too much time on the development and features. Actually, it’s

not really their fault – they have been conditioned with the mindset of getting it right

at the first round and hope it’ll be a home run.

I’m going to share with you the secret to get started with a game app.

You see, there are app Gurus who said that the simple games trend is over. Let me

explain my definition of a simple game – it is like the Doodle Jump game, where the

game is all about having the character to jump endlessly. A simple game is where it

doesn’t require a lot of logic with AI (artificial intelligence), maps, animations, etc.

Frankly, I think these app Gurus are far from the truth. Here’s the proof that simple

game is as hot as ever:


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/compass-course-guider/id567183748?ls=1&mt=8


Sonic Jump was #1 in Appstore. It’s a game like Doodle Jump.

The trend can never be over. All is needed is a new flavor to it. To elaborate this

point, it would be easier to refer to fashion…

Can jeans be outdated? No, you’ll just see new flavors coming out, different cuttings,

materials or colors. But at the core of it, it’s THE SAME. Jeans are jeans.

Let’s take another example of a topic that can never be outdated – Law of Attraction.

“But isn’t Law of Attraction an old topic?”

Yes, that’s true but there will always be new people wanting to learn. Same deal with

simple games -- there will always be new people buying iPhones or starting to play

games.

You see, the most important part of making money with apps (or any Internet

marketing stuff) is GETTING STARTED. Since getting started is the toughest part of

all, you should do whatever that is easy to do in the beginning. I mean, I’m sure

complex games have many of their own advantages but…

1. Do you have the fund to do it?

2. Do you have the luxury of TIME to develop it?

3. Do you have the knowledge for the business?

Besides, ironically, you could have spent less time and less money and yet, have the

same success with a simple game (like what Doodle Jump did).

Bare in mind, at the end of the day, the success depends on how good you are with

marketing.

I know, this question is probably at the back of your mind right now.



“But Dude, Sonic Jump is by Sega and it’s from Sonic the Hedgehog brand!”

Yes Dude. I’m aware of that. Besides, honestly, I doubt you’ll ever be #1 (I doubt I’ll

ever get that too, so does any app Gurus that you know of). Right now, correct me if

I’m wrong, all you need is to get started.

Even if you can just get hundreds of thousands of downloads, that would have

already helped you to make some good income. You don’t need millions of

downloads right now. The interesting part is somehow, weirdly enough, your app will

get found when it’s live. I have a “compass app” where I do zero promotions on it

and yet, it’s being downloaded every day.

However, without sugar coating anything, even a simple game app is a lot of work to

get started. It may still cost you a few thousands to get it done successfully.

Last but not least, sometimes, all it takes is a good idea.

Think of the theme that you want your “jumping game” is all about. Once you have

that, then you can figure out how to hire programmers and so on.

Here’s my “jumping game” in Appstore –

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whookie-jump/id589526850?ls=1&mt=8

Having a Team

To get started with the app business, you’ll just need a programmer and a designer.

You can use www.odesk.com to find a programmer or use an app freelancing

website like www.girapps.com.

Now, I’m not going to discuss about hiring here but I want to share on how to attract

a team (when you’re ready and found your desired team players). All you need to

focus on is how they are better off by being in your team than them doing their

own stuff.

Of course the most obvious one is to pay them more but that would be a challenge

when you just got started, right?

You can always think creatively. You’re an entrepreneur.

What if you’ll share your profit with your programmer? Or you’ll help the programmer

to promote his own app* for free? So on and so forth.

*Note: Most app programmers are doing freelance jobs because they need income

to fund their own apps. They would probably be more interested to see their apps

becoming successful than earning money for coding for others.


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whookie-jump/id589526850?ls=1&mt=8


The point is you must allow your team players to be able to fulfill their own goals as

well in order to help you achieve your goals.

Making Money from Free Apps

App marketers use to sell apps for $0.99 or $1.99. Look -- people can easily spend a dollar or two without thinking much about it. Because there are currently hundreds of millions of smartphone users, this has allowed ordinary people to make money with a low priced product. However, the better way now is to create the app and give it away for free. Instead of trying to persuade the user to buy before testing, let them download the app for free so that they can play around with it. Then they can decide if your app’s useful or fun for them. If you have something to sell, you can always sell as an upgrade inside the app. Even if you don’t have your own product to sell, you can easily generate income from ads. The common one is displaying banner ads in the app where you’ll get paid per clicks from the ads. This can be done by joining www.admob.com. The other method that I like is getting paid for sharing other’s apps in my own app. Introducing RevMob’s app ad network.

Last time I checked, I was getting paid a whopping $1.75 per free game install. And I

don’t need to update the offer because RevMob handles that for me – permanently.

In essence, you’re getting paid for giving away free apps.

Your users are happy because they get to download apps for free. You are happy

because you get paid commissions. Advertisers are happy because they get new

users.

As you can see, it’s a win-win-win relationship.



“Want to know of another way monetize income

from your app every week?”

With Internet marketing, we’ve been trained to build an email mailing list. If you still

haven’t figured out how to make money online, well, I’ve just given you the answer.

I’ve taught about this in a book I’ve co-authored with Robert G. Allen called,

Clicking Cash.

In fact, the concept of building a list and promoting through email marketing is so

powerful that many of today’s Gurus are making a living based on this alone. If you

take their mailing list away, they’ll literally lose their Gurus status.

Now, if you merge this core Internet marketing secret with app business model, you’ll

have a fusion of unimaginable profit.

Let’s look at email marketing.

First, you need to have a squeeze page or sort to capture leads. You’ll then need to

have some kind of valuable free gift to get them to subscribe.

I know it’s a little bit of Internet marketing jargon, so the easiest way to explain is by

showing you a demo – check out www.youchandoit.com. It’s a type of squeeze

page.

So let’s say you do a good job and build 20,000 subscribers.

But what you may not know is, when you mail out to your list, you would be lucky if

you ever get 15% open rate.

Which means, you’re getting just about 3,000 people to see your email. You might

find this hard to believe — just ask around. Of course this is a general stat, if the

marketer is a brand or well-known, he’ll be able to pull a higher email open rate and

vice versa, newbies won’t even reach 15% AT ALL. Research shows 4% open rate.

Just ask yourself, do you open ALL marketers’ emails?

I’m lucky that you read mine. Thank you. I’m sure I’m not the only one in your email,

you’re probably subscribed to many other marketers’ lists. Heck, I am subscribed to

other’s lists too.

What are some other problems?

Sometimes, mail gets stuck in the spam folder for no apparent reason. Gone.

You’re also competing for the attention of your subscribers because they’re

subscribed to so many other lists!


http://www.clickingcashbook.com/

http://www.youchandoit.com/


By the way, we assume you have 20,000 subscribers. The truth is, most newbie

marketers will NEVER get to this number on their own. They may get 2,000.

Now, despite these problems, building a mailing list and doing email marketing is

STILL the #1 strategy and probably, the most profitable one.

That is until I’ve discovered what apps can do.

Let me make it clear — I’m not asking you to not get into list-building and stop email

marketing (if you want to do Internet marketing to make money online).

But I’ve discovered what I believe to be a more effective strategy than that.

It’s called, “push notification” for apps.

This is how it works:

I’m able to send out a message to all my app users, directly to their IPhones (or

smartphones) and they’ll receive it immediately. You know that I don’t even need

them to open up my app to read my message? It just appears on their phone’s

screen!

Just so you know, the MOST used feature is SMS. “Push notification” is like the

greater evolution of SMS. You’re not testing out something new; you’re using a

PROVEN strategy.

Imagine this…

Instead of building a 20,000 email mailing list, you’ve build 20,000 app users. And

you don’t need to have a squeeze page and crack your brain to come up with a free

gift (your app IS the “free gift”).

Research has shown that “push notifications” get open rate of 97%! Now, let’s be a

little bit conservative and stick to 90%. That’s 18,000 “subscribers”.

To be frank, that is an impossible open rate number to be reached by any Internet

marketers. And if they do, they would probably need to have a list size of 120,000

subscribers. I have a bigger list than that and I can honestly tell you that my open

rate has never reached 18,000 before. Never.

Now, do you think you can make some decent money if you can get 18,000 people

to read your message? I bet.

Do you start to see how powerful this is? When you merge list marketing strategy

into app business?

Also, I’ve not mention that when you send a push notification, it gets delivered

INSTANTLY. With emails, sometimes, people don’t open up your email for days.



Imagine if you need to push a book to a bestseller list in 24 hours. You can reach all

of your fans and followers in MINUTES. Ponder on that power, on that leverage.

My friend - with this strategy, you could control a crowd.

And if you do not have any products of your own to promote, you can always

promote other people’s products to earn commission.

Getting Paid Per Sale – You can join www.clickbank.com for free to promote affiliate

programs. You’ll get paid for the sales you’ve referred.

Getting Paid Per Lead – You can join www.peerflynet.com for free to promote

products and services that will pay you for the leads you’ve generated. Basically,

you’ll get paid when your user fills in a form.

Just so you know…

There’s almost an app for any niche or business today. I could have an app to teach

Internet marketing (but I’m just not doing this at this stage because it’s not

“mainstream” enough).

Because according to Morgan Stanley, by 2014, there will be more users using

smartphones than computers to surf the web. I don’t know about you, but I’m sure

gearing up for the future. I think I’ll need to reach my prospects and customers on

their mobiles than their computers by then.

But here’s the caveat – I predict that the future’s going to be very competitive.

Everybody and their dog will be doing it.

And the “push notification” feature’s effectiveness will also decrease. I mean, I’ve

shared this marketing “secret” with thousands of my readers. Thus, the next time you

receive a push notification, you’ll think twice about how you’ll react towards it.

And soon… it’ll reach a stage like “banner blindness”.

This is why, you need to use this strategy NOW to profit massively.


http://www.clickbank.com/

http://www.peerflynet.com/


4 Things That Could Kill Your App Before

It Even Gets Downloaded

Before you go ahead and get your first app created, first have a look at these

mistakes that you should avoid if you want to be in this industry for the long term.

Not focusing on end users – You have to remember to focus on the user

experience at all times. Even if you did develop a super cool app, the people who

download it are going to delete it from their phones anyway unless they find it useful

and enriching. When developing the app, from conceptualization to the final stage,

you should always look at it through the eyes of your end users. Will they find it easy

to use and how much does it serve its purpose?

Is your app created based on a trend or can your users expect long term benefits?

Does it create or satisfy a need in the market?

Not making provisions for future upgrades – Operating systems are frequently

being upgraded, and if you don’t make allowances for this in your app it will be a lot

of work to make it compatible with the new version. Preferably, the app should work

across a wide range of devices and operating systems. Besides, you’ll also need to

have a system to place where you can update your app easily every time.

Not knowing how to limit app features – This is a mistake that every newbie

makes. In their zealous pursuit to create the coolest, most awesome app ever, they

forget that sometimes, simplicity is the best. Too many features make the apps

way too complicated to use. The best apps have one purpose only with a handful of

features to complement that purpose.

I’ve downloaded game apps that I’ve uninstalled in less than 3 minutes. Not because

of the graphics or gameplay, but because it has too many features! I don’t want to

spend my time learning how to play; I want to spend my time PLAYING the game

and enjoy playing it.

Research on your idea – Ideas are important in app development, but that doesn’t

seal success for you.

You see, your idea may not be unique. Don’t assume that it is or that you know your

market. Do your homework. This means you must find out if there are already similar

apps on the market. Then look for what their strengths and weaknesses are. Once

you identify them, think of how you can position yourself to be different. By studying

the most popular apps you can understand the secrets to their success and why

some are total flops.

Downloading a few apps in the same category that your app is in is a good way to

determine how your own idea will fair.



Here Are The Big Takeaways…

1. Free. You’ll most likely to make more money by giving your apps for free and

monetize within the app. The logic is this: if it’s free, you can get thousands of people to test it out, and if your app’s good, you’ll have users who want to buy the upgrade or purchase more content/features inside your app. And even if they don’t, you’ll still be able to profit from ads revenue and build a list for push notification.

2. Simplicity. To get started, it makes more sense for you to develop simple

apps (regardless of whether it is a content app, utility app or game app). Speed is the essence of success. If you spend too much time on development and design, you might even miss out the entire opportunity. Besides, as what I’ve pointed out in the game app chapter, your simple game could be as successful as any complicated game. Strike when the iron is hot.

. 3. Volume. You’ll need more than an app to be successful. I know – earlier, I’ve

mentioned that quality is more important than quantity and I’m sticking to that statement. What I am saying here is to have more quality apps. Once you’ve created an app and its making money for you, don’t stop. Create and launch another app.

If you want to learn how develop your own app, there are many courses out there which can help you. Like at Udemy. But the truth is: I absolutely don’t know anything about app development and designing. I’m not a programmer and I don’t intend to be one. Don’t get me wrong – if I had the programming skill, I would be overjoyed. I have admiration towards programmers. If you’re a programmer, I would say, “The world is your oyster, now.” But the thing is, at this stage, I don’t have the slightest clue how to do this, to write codes for programming. I like to continue being an entrepreneur. You see, if I was to start learning programming, it’d take months of my time. And guess what? By the time I’m done, I would probably still be stuck at the amateur level. The second reason is: if I don’t know programming, it forces my mind to be an entrepreneur. Here’s what I mean…


http://ude.my/1ztef


Because I do not know how to do it, I would not interfere with the programmer’s job. When I don’t do that, my mind would have the space for marketing ideas and business planning. I would rather hire programmers to create the app. At the same time, we also have our own app creator software platform to create apps. With this platform, we’re now able to create apps without any technical or programming skill. Once in a while, I’ll open up my APPportunity Coaching Program – which is an A-Z coaching program to teach my students how to make money from apps and become app entrepreneurs. It’s a huge program – 12 weeks of training. It also comes with bonuses, including the app creator software platform. If you’re interested in signing up, click here.


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http://www.appportunity.com/wakeupmillionaire.htm


Mindset

How My Brain is Wired to Think



How do we think? Have you thought about that? Most of the time, we do not take the time to actively think of solutions or opportunities. And it’s hardly our fault – we’re probably too tired by the end of the day. But the most concerning part is that our thoughts are influenced by other factors, including what we’ve been learning in the past years. In this chapter of Mindset, I’m not here to teach you about mindset per say. What I would like to share with you is the skill of making decisions. Here’s the deal – Your path to wealth (or becoming millionaire) begins with making the right decision. Because decisions lead you to take action. But before the decision phase goes into motion, it all begins with how your brain interprets and analyses stuff. As you can see, this is very “scientific” approach to success (as opposed to an “artistic” manner). Let me illustrate this… If you’re sleepy, naturally, you’ll go to sleep. First, your brain tells you you’re tired and that you need rest. Then you make the decision to go to sleep. And you’ll take the action of going to bed and lying down to sleep. But this entire simple process happens naturally. Again – I’ve said several times in the book that I’m in no conflict with the concept behind the power of sub-conscious mind. I think unlocking this mysterious power is revering. I want that too. But in this book, I’m going to share my expertise on strategies and more on the “tangible” concept. Besides, I’m best at writing this book by sharing of what I’ve done and how I’m doing it. In summary, I’m going to share with you how I make decisions but without getting into the scientific mumbo jumbo stuff.



Also, the entire premise of the strategy is for making money and creating wealth – I’m not training you to make decisions on whether you want to eat hamburger or Chinese food for lunch. Of course I can’t stop you from using the same strategy, but don’t expect it to give you the best result. If we messed up at making decisions, we will end up doing the wrong thing. Or sometimes, we’re bad at making decisions; we just don’t decide at all, which leads to inaction. This is where nothing happens.

The First Rule Strengthening Your Mindset Do you play sports? Any sport? I play basketball. Not a pro, but I’m an “okay” player. But when I first started playing ball, I was horrible. Believe me. Just give a basketball to a dude who has never bounced and dribbled a ball before – he wouldn’t be able to do it. He’d probably end up looking down at the ball, struggling to bounce it. In this world, there are two groups of people – leaders and followers. If you look carefully, the followers are the majority and leaders are the minority. Basically, there are fewer leaders than followers. Then there are good leaders and average leaders. There are many components that a leader needs to have – the skill of motivating others, empowering and so on. But one that will set whether the leader takes the group (followers) to victory or not is their skill in making decisions. Take an army general for an instance. In a war, he needs to be as good as he can get when making decisions, even when it’s just making a choice of two options - either retreating or attacking. Making the wrong decision will not just affect losing the war, but losing lives. This is also why there are just a few good leaders today. Ultimately, a good leader is about being able to make decisions that help their followers to “win”. As you can see, many would just prefer to be followers rather than leaders because they know (consciously or not) that they’ll be “forced” to make decisions if they want to be leaders – making decision is a tough job. Sometimes, we even have a hard time deciding what to eat for dinner! True? Scientifically, when you make decision, there is a lot of activity happening in your brain. I don’t want to get technical to start talking about synapse, neurotransmitters, neurons and so on -- you can read all of that stuff on Wikipedia.



But basically, when you make more decisions, you “strengthen” your brain. So this is what I mean: If you want to build great muscles, you work out and continuously train it. You will “strengthen” your body and enhance it. Just like making decisions – you get better at making decisions when you make more decisions. Thus, scientifically, you automatically become better at making decisions if you make a lot of them. They say practice makes perfect. Yeah, it sounds like a cheesy quote but that’s the best way to get good at it – by continuously practicing and making decisions. Therefore, when you have the chance to make decisions, take that opportunity. Be the leader Take charge and take responsibility, even if the decision is made incorrectly. Let me say this again – you cannot get good at something if you HARDLY make decisions. Now, it doesn’t have to be complicated decisions or related to opportunities. Just simple choices that are presented to you in your daily routine. What should we eat? Which street should I use? What should I watch? Should I go swimming or jogging today? And so on. The weird thing is there are many things in life that we’ve “set” without taking the time to think. Just for fun (and also practicing your brain to make decisions), start questioning minor things in your life. And make better decisions. Like… Why do I always wake up at 9:00 AM? Can I make the decision of waking up earlier or later? Why do I always listen to this song when I’m in the gym working out? Why do I use this alarm app in my iPhone?



There are just so many things that you can question and make new decisions with. Just so you know, sometimes we follow something “unconsciously” because we’re “programmed” by the media. When I use the word “media,” it’s not just referring to advertisement. It can be anything that controls the way you act. And most of the time, it’s for a self-serving reason. Yeah, now it sounds like a conspiracy thing going on, right? Your boss would probably say to you that “business is risky”. That it’s better for you to remain an employee? Interesting. Isn’t that a form of control that is imposed on you so that you don’t think of making the decision to do something else? Just so you know, in my office, I’m very transparent with my team. I’ll tell them as it is and clearly explain that employees and employers have their own advantages. They can choose where they want to go. And I’m not afraid of saying that clearly because I know that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur or a millionaire – seeing that it comes with a price. How about other types of “media?” I don’t like to talk about politics. But aren’t you getting only the messages that politicians want you to hear, without you having to make your own decisions or question their actions? But there’s nothing wrong with how the media is “controlling” us. Because it’s your own responsibility to make better judgments for your own future. Just like there are many people that get scammed and lose money. Most of them got scammed because they WANT to believe the scam, although it’s “too good to be true” and they already sensed something ain’t right. They like to be followers rather than leaders – to lead their own financial future. Of course there are cases where they are innocent people who cannot distinguish a scam or not. But then again… if you read something like this: “Spend one hour a day answering survey questions and you can make $200 a day – even if don’t even know how to use the computer!” Now, the statement above is just a made up. But do you get what I mean? We need to have our own analytical skills to know when something sounds “too easy”. If this is really true, no one’s going to work at jobs anymore. I mean, we need to have some basic analytical skills, don’t we?



Now, could the statement above be true? Maybe. That’s why it’s your job to find out how this can be TRUE. Do your research. Your homework and due-diligence. The truth is: there are statements LIKE above – scamming people who do not want to lead their own financial future. And I haven’t even touched advertisements yet. They are dictating how things are ought to be! Now, I’m not a big fan of teaching budgeting and savings, but the fact is regardless of how much money you’ve earned, you won’t have much left if you don’t know how to manage your spending behavior. (Note: I don’t encourage saving to earn, I encourage learning to manage your wealth while and after you’ve earned). You can argue with me till the cows come home, but is it fair for me to say that you do not need to buy certain things if you do not have a surplus of overflowing cash? The classic example of how the media portrays positive vibes is through cigarette advertisements. Look – you and me know that cigarettes are bad from all angles. Again, you can argue your points if you want. But if you look at the media, apparently smoking is positioned as a super cool thing to do. It attracts attractive people and makes you feel “wonderful”. Mmm. If you’re smoker, I’m not asking you to quit. It’s your life, your own desire. I just want you to consciously know what is actually going on and accept that reality. Then you’ll be able to judge for yourself if you should continue spending money that way or not. Then we talk about actors and movies. The reason why advertisers use actors (or celebrities) to “display” their products is because actors have such a strong impact on us – they represent the “ideal” characters. No, you don’t want to be Bruce Willis shooting bad guys, but I’m sure you might think how cool it would be to be a hero that way. So this is how our brain kind of connects – Bruce Willis is wearing a Tag Heuer watch in the movie (this is just an example, I don’t know what watch he wears). Buy that watch. Wear it and you’ll become a tough hero too. Of course this is a simplified example, but I hope you get the idea.



The 4 Thinking Strategies In the following chapter, I’m going to share with you my thinking strategies of becoming a WakeUp Millionaire.

Easy Opportunities With the existence of the Internet, I want to emphasize again that we live in a world of great opportunities today. I strongly believe with my heart that if someone knows the code to unlock the wealth of the Internet, they really don’t need to have a job anymore. It’s simply because he’s selling to the WORLD. As you “open up,” you’ll start to attract many opportunities in your life. The first strategy that I want to show you is to always choose the opportunity that requires the least work. Lazy is not a good habit but within this chapter’s context, I would want you to entertain this notion… We like to be lazy, don’t we? I mean, we’re not born to “work,” but rather to enjoy our lives. Frankly speaking, the whole concept of working from Monday to Friday for eight hours a day is already “incorrect”. When we’re children, most of our time is used to play. We feel happy when we play. As we grow older, we play less…. And less… and finally, we stop playing. You see, we’re not born to work. In my opinion, “lazy” can simply be translated into meaning not wanting to work, but to play. And to a certain degree, play equals happiness, right? As adults, although we don’t run around chasing each other or play tag, we still enjoy playing, just in other forms. It could be playing sports, watching shows, spending your time pursuing your hobby or passion, simply said… doing the things we love to do. So our systems are somehow built to play.



Now, of course, we cannot change how things are anymore. The environment has already set the rules of “Monday to Friday”. It’s a norm today. If this is to change, I believe the world’s economy would collapse. So live with that – it’s not going to change. But ironically, I don’t think everyone who generates income does work Monday to Friday. The rich don’t do that. They don’t publicly tell you that because if this awareness reaches the public, an economic chaos will happen. The good news is you’re the minority – your absence in the Monday to Friday realm will not create an economical downfall. You can choose to not accept what the media tries to impose on you and start working your way to be separated from the norm. Then spread your message to your friends and loved ones so that they too can escape. No radical change is required, just one step at a time. You may think I’m thinking selfish for just thinking of you and me, but not the world. I’m a realist. You can say that I’m not a big thinker – but I like to start thinking of helping you first. Who knows, maybe you’ll be the big thinker who change the world someday. The person who carries on the torch. Another way of looking at breaking away from Monday to Friday is just how Confucius said it…

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

- Confucius

There is Always a Choice When you’re presented with opportunity, don’t be so hasty to get started. Why? Like I said, there are many opportunities today! The matter of fact is, many of them will likely generate the same amount of money to you – but some of them are difficult to do. My brain is always focusing on the easy stuff. When an opportunity is presented to me and my brain says, “That’s a lot of work, Patric,” I’ll drop it. It’s not worth the time to do it. There are times when I was contacted by clients who wished to hire me for consultation to develop their business. And they were willing to pay me handsome money for that work.



Hold on – this is not about me tooting my own horn to tell you how awesome I am; I’m telling you this because I’d like to give you a good real life example… Assuming the client is willing to pay $50K and I accept the job, that would mean that I need to deliver the value of $500K to make their investment amazingly rewarding. Or at least, a $250K value (5x). Now, I could do that. But oh boy, we’re talking about MASSIVE workload here. And on top of that, they rightfully “owned” my undivided attention. I need to be available at “anytime” they need me. Again, I could just take the job and make the $50K. But I’m going to “suffer” and need to drop off many of my other own opportunities. If I need to make the $50K, here are other opportunities that I should work on… (Replace them with whatever of your own expertise and opportunities.)

1. I could conduct a workshop and sell it for $1K to 50 participants.

2. I could create many apps and do my best to generate $50K from them. I believe the two options above are better. Let me explain…

1. If I was to accept $1K “fee,” I’d just need to deliver a $5K - $10K value in return. And that’s not hard, especially when you compare it to a $250K to $500K value!

When you’ve collected payment from someone, you’re already expected to deliver better value - it just depends on how much more value you can give.

2. If I was to accept the $50K job, I’d be helping the client develop their

business. That’s alright, but if I build my own apps, I have the advantage of building my own business. Which means even if the workload is the same, it would still be better to spend my time and effort to create my own apps!

Secondly, it’s surely less work because I’m doing for myself. I’m not accountable to anyone else, except for me. I choose when to work. I’ll play when I want to play. Frankly, I don’t like to be bossed around by anyone else.

In your own situation, you need to know what is easy and what is not. Here are three basic guidelines of “easiness”…



Value to Deliver. When you get paid (or receive payment from someone), how much the value must you deliver in return? In simple English, how big is your expectation? Attention. The less attention you give, the easier it is. Now, I know that our brain can store a lot of things but once you’ve given your attention to too many things or people, you’ll start to crash. That’s where the concept of being “overwhelmed” comes into the picture. I don’t know how many things you can stay focused on at once. Generally, a great leader would be able to manage their mind to focus on many matters. Take a President for an instance - his attention is needed in many places and on many matters. That is why only great leaders can be Presidents. Secondly, for the attention that you need to give, how committed are you to that? Familiarity. I don’t get into businesses where I do not have knowledge or experience in the industry. I might, if I have leverage (something that I’ll teach more in this book later on). But other than that, it’s a confident “no” without any second thought. Common sense will tell you why. It slows me down. I’ll need to spend the time to understand the business and get myself acquainted. Instead of doing that, I should be spending my time exploring Opportunities that I’m good at, where I can kick off as soon as possible. Besides, at the end of the learning curve, there’s no guarantee that I’ll like it or become a pro. I’m not suggesting you play the guarantee game because achievers DO NOT need guarantee for success. But in this context, a guarantee is simply “guaranteeing” that you’re well equipped with knowledge or have vast experience in what you’re about to get into. Familiarity breeds contempt. “But Patric, does this means that I should not get into not-so-easy opportunities even if it’s an awesome one?” This is where your skill of making good decisions is put to the test. This book can give you the guide but it is you who will know what will serve you best. Many matters in our life have no right or wrong answers. Mothers and fathers could be doing their best to take care of their children and shower them with love. In all rationality, the children would likely grow up to become obedient and loving kids, but that is no guarantee – they can still grow up to become rude and spoiled kids. I want you to make use of your decision making skills. That is what makes you more successful than the rest, more successful than average people.



It’s the same reason why two schoolmates who go to the same school together and experience everything equally turn out different; one becomes a millionaire and the other one ended up working on a job that barely pays enough. Because the millionaire made different decisions which directed him to take different actions in life.



“Open Door Policy”

This is quite embarrassing… In the past, I used to apply the “closed door” policy. I did not pass opportunities to others and tried to do it all for myself. My stupid reasoning? It’s my great idea and I want to own it; to have the entire share of it. This less enlightening thinking causes me to be slow. I wasn’t able to execute Opportunities quick enough. I was also frustrated because I’m not able to see my ideas becoming alive. They ended up abandoned because wealth acts like speed – if you do not act on Opportunities (or ideas) fast enough, either…

1. Someone else will do it

- You might not believe this, but when you manifest an idea, that idea will also be released to the “Universe”. Yeah, you might think that I’m out of my mind right now talking about this weird theory. But somehow, strangely, someone will suddenly get your idea too. Just think – there are millions of people in this world; do you think you’re the only person who thought of it? When the other person is more inspired or passionate about his (your) idea, he’ll take action and turn that into reality.

2. It becomes outdated

- Let’s say you have an idea for a game app. You know it’s fun and people will like it, right now. But just wait another six months – there’s a likelihood that your idea will be outdated because new games are introduced and people are now playing those new games.

3. You get overwhelmed

- You keep your idea or Opportunity and planning to start it later on because you feel that you’re busy at this stage. Here’s the problem – in the weeks and months to come, more Opportunities will come your way. Then you’ll start to be overwhelmed because you’re stacking more opportunities on old ones. Then you can’t decide if you should still execute the old ones or not because you have several to choose from at that point.



Smashing Down the Close Door Permanently! One day, I decided to change my policy to an “open door” policy. Instead of keeping the ideas and Opportunities to myself, I decided to share them with others. Now, before I continue teaching you, I want to make it clear that when I use the word “others,” I’m not referring to any Tom, Dick or Harry. They’re the “chosen ones”. In what sense? First, you’ll know who the people like you are and have an affinity with them. Secondly, it’s a win-win relationship where both of you are benefiting together with YOUR Opportunity. This is not a student-mentor relationship that you’re doing. Or a “charity” relationship. This is a form of “business partnership” where your partner is capable of doing the things you’re good at or can do better than you. And he wants to be part of your Opportunity because you have other advantages over him. For instance, you need him (or her, I’m just using him because I’m thinking of my partner) because you’re “too slow” to do it on your own. He’s doing this for you because he can make more money doing it with you than doing it by himself. Thus, it becomes a two-way beneficial relationship that can prosper. One example is… I have an idea about a software to develop. I have the funds to develop it and everything else to see it becoming a profitable Internet business. What I do not have is TIME. So I’ve partnered with another person where he runs the business and executes all of the ideas and strategies I have for the business. Today, it’s still making money for both of us but I don’t work at all. My partner works a little bit but he’s responsible for the software development, keeping it updated and all that good stuff. The fact is, without him, this software might not exist today. And without me, he wouldn’t have made the additional income (that continues to pay him today). Going back to the Psychology of Opportunities – opportunities are in abundance. As long as you do your part, you’ll never be lacking. When you share your opportunity, another one will exist in the future. But if you hold onto it and you’re not able to execute, don’t you see that you’re literally wasting it?



In my case, after the software is up and running making money for us, we were able to come up with new businesses. In fact, I’ve shared with him bigger opportunities since then. Once I can “free” my mind of the opportunity, I can spend my time to develop new ones because my attention is no longer on it. This opens up new space in my mind to allocate attention on others.

How It Starts To Become Awesome…

My today’s model is to have all of my opportunities with the right people. I mean, in the past, I wanted them all - but not anymore. I’ve figured out a much easier way to reach my goals and contribute to others greatly. The strategy is simple. I will take on opportunities where I have strength. If the opportunity requires my attention in the early stages, it’s perfectly alright if it falls into these two categories of wealth:

1. Once it’s all said and done, the opportunity can continue to generate passive income. Of course it must generate a sufficient amount, but as long as it’s a passive income model, it’ll automatically get my attention.

2. It can create a profit windfall. Meaning it has the potential to grow big and one

day we can cash out big time. I will empower my partners to make decisions on the opportunities that we’re doing together and making sure they’re rewarded very well. Let’s examine this model compare to the “closed door” door policy… With a closed door policy, I get to keep 100% of the profit and have one opportunity. Maybe I could expand to a few more opportunities once the first one is up and running. But the fact is I cannot have many of them simply because all of them will still need my attention. With the “open door” policy, I help my partners make more money than they could on their own. Let’s say we split it evenly, I’ll just get to keep 50%. But I could launch several opportunities within a short period of time. Maybe five opportunities. Do you see the exponential model here? With “open door” policy, not only are you able to make more money, but you’ll be able to make passive income and continue to grow. In other words, you could be working less and making more. I said “working less,” not completely hands-off, because in reality you might still be involved in the opportunity, one way or the other.



If you’re wondering how a successful entrepreneur like Donald Trump is able to create so many businesses despite being in different industries, I guess he has an “open door” policy model. Successful entrepreneurs empower others – either in a form of partnership or simply hiring the best talents around.

The Highest Level of Leverage

The way I gage whether an opportunity can be successful for me or not is through reviewing the leverage that I have. In a simple way to understand, leverage is none other than resources. Today, you have a lot of “leverage” that assists you in achieving your goal. They could be…

Your Knowledge and Experience

Your Skill and Talent

Your Fund All of these leverages allow you to SAVE time. If you’re completing a task where you have knowledge, experience, skill or talent, you’ll be able to accomplish it faster and with less frustration. If you have funds, you can get someone else to do it for you, thus saving your own time. And Internet is a marvelous opportunity because the Internet itself is a form of leverage for business. Can you think of a business that stays opens 24 hours a day? That’s what the

Internet allows.

Or a business that can be run with zero employees, without any physical office? Not

to mention that your “shop” can cater to an unlimited numbers of prospects.

The fact is: leverage is the most powerful concept in terms of creating wealth or

making money on the Internet. If you don’t use leverage then you’re just not working

smart.

When you combine the information business with the Internet, it becomes the

“ultimate” leveraged business model.



First and foremost, it can be automated; secondly, it can be created from thin air.

Like this book, it’s created from “thin air” and if I’ve decided to sell it as a digital

product through the Internet, you can see that my premise is almost zero cost.

Yes, I do have to work to write it.

But once it’s done, once I put it to the “marketplace,” I don’t work anymore. It is just

there -- I don’t have to physically work anymore. In other words, I’m not trading my

time for money because that has become an information product.

The “open door” policy expands my leverage. When you’re able to leverage on other people’s time, I would say that is probably the highest leverage you can get. With funds as leverage, you can leverage on other people’s time. But it’ll never be as powerful as what you can do with partners – partners are committed for their own success.

Here’s the exciting part… Sometimes your resources can be your hidden treasure. They are in the form of opportunities, but you never thought of that because you’re working alone. If you have money, there’s someone who you can fund to build a business. Or if you’re following this book’s WakeUp Millionaire’s Opportunity, you can use your money to create an app. Find a partner who can manage for you. If you are able to write or like to teach, find a partner who is passionate about marketing but has no good product to market and sell. He can be your marketing partner. Perhaps you have a shop. Maybe there’s someone who is very savvy with the Internet whom can help to bring it online. Partner with him. Or maybe someone who can open up another shop like yours elsewhere and you can share profit with him? And the list goes on. Do yourself a favor – Go through a list of your own resources. You’ll be amazed that many of them could be turned into Opportunities.



Who Do You Know If a rich person were asked the following question, they’d likely respond as follows: “If you lost everything, how would you gain it back as quickly as possible?” “Give me a phone – I just need to make phone calls.” Of course, in today’s Internet age, they would probably say give me a computer (or a smartphone) to email or Facebook my network. Some of the wealthiest men and women in the world are as rich as they are because of their elite networks. They know how to pull strings. Besides, wealthy people know how to use other people’s money (legally of course) to make money for themselves. My mindset is focused on growing my network - This one strategy is instrumental to my success today. There are many books written on the topic of networking. I would suggest you read a few – those that explain about networking, and also some techniques of doing it right. In this book, it’s not my intention to talk about the art of networking or any tactics, but the secret to networking.

How networking started for me… It started with bad experiences. Really. When I first started out on this quest for success, I was taught that the key to success is networking. And it’s also because I was involved with network marketing at that time. Thus, the uplines tell us to network with as many people as possible. So we go out and try to make friends and get to know more people. And you know, in MLM, they’ll say something like… “Your line will grow when you’re able to sponsor a horse in your downline.” And this “horse” is referred to either as a passionate dude or someone who holds strong authority that can influence others to join. I’ve mentioned it was a bad experience for me because no one seemed to be interested in networking with me. It made me feel like a loser or something. As a kid, I was confused because the Gurus said that networking works!



They did not teach me the golden rule. The golden rule is to always put the person’s agenda in front of you. Now, you may know this, but it’s likely you’re not doing it correctly. No wonder my days of MLM when I was a kid never worked – I’m only focused on my agenda, which is trying to sponsor another person to become my downline. Yes, I’m naïve. I admit that. Although you are not telling your agenda to others when you’re networking, they can still sense it. They can sense that you’re trying to get something from them. And that’s no good. Until you’re able to drop this and network sincerely, you’ll find it hard to attract the right people into your business circle. To give you an extreme example, you don’t like the typical salesman right? Why? Because you know they’re trying to sell you stuff and they’re doing it for their own agenda. They’re going after the money in your pocket, to earn their commission, instead of thinking how they can help you with their products (and get paid in return for helping).

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people

get what they want.” The late Zig Ziglar Be a good listener. Listen to other people; what are their agendas? Ask yourself, “Can I help them?” Don’t believe me that this works like magic? Well, next time you meet someone, ask him what he would like to accomplish this year. Then ask him, “Is there anything I can do to help you accomplish this?” If you ask sincerely, with the true heart of wanting to help, you’ll see that he’ll see you as ally in this journey together and not a “salesman”.



Investing For the Future Your relationship with others is your greatest asset. The truth is, if I lost everything, I could build it up again at an accelerated speed because of the network that I have. Assuming if I want to get WakeUp Millionaire to be a best-selling book, here’s how I can tap into my network… First, I reach out to my network of authoritative people to review WakeUp Millionaire and request for a testimonial (if they like it). So long as the book is valuable and they’re my friends, many of them will write for me. Secondly, I’ll ask their favor to tell their “followers” about it. All I need is to orchestrate a proper “launch”. Just think… If my network has 10 people and each of them has a list of subscribers and customers of 50,000 each, this means I could reach 500,000 people in one day. And with today’s social media, assuming they have 5,000 friends on Facebook, that opens up the door to 50,000 others who could also be sharing with more people. Wouldn’t that give me extreme leverage to create “money on demand,” rather than pushing it with my own effort, alone? That example is just about trying to sell a book. But having a network is MUCH greater than that because there are all kinds of opportunities in this world. If I liked to do Forex trading, I can pick up the phone and ask a Forex trading expert about what he’s buying. If I’d like to do real estate, I could ask him to spot good properties for me to acquire. If I wanted to do MLM, I could ask a top networker to put me as his downline so that my own network could grow faster. And so on. So, as you can see, your relationship with your network is priceless. That in itself could turn you into a WakeUp Millionaire. Early on in this book, I taught you about Income Today, Income Tomorrow and ultimately, the Millionaire Income. Today, when I got myself involved with networking, I didn’t just focus on Income Today.



You see, today, someone may not fit into your opportunity. Or you may not fit into his opportunity. But you’ll never know of what the future holds for you and him. The strategy is plain and simple – network as much as you can, regardless of whether there is any opportunity between you and him or not, for today. If you “get it,” if you understand the core power of networking, your goal is to continue networking with others every time. As you build your network, you’re building your true asset of wealth.

A Simple Ritual that Leads to Amazing Opportunities One day, I was with my co-author, Robert Allen. I learned a lot from him. At that time, he was sharing the power of networking and how it compounds when your network introduces you to their network. Then an idea hit me. I thought…. “What if I start making a phone call every day to my business friends?” And that’s what I did. I picked up the phone and called my business friend. Here’s the interesting part – my business friend would have never expected me to call him seeing that I’ve never done that before. We even live in different countries and different time zone – I’m in Asia and he’s in the States. Needless to say, he was surprised but happy to hear from me. And he was wondering, what I’m going to ask from him so he asked me the reason for me calling and I said this… “Nothing much, I just thought of calling you because we hardly talk and I wanted to know what you’ve been doing lately.” The entire premise was about me wanting to know what he is doing and if there’s anything I can do for him. And it’s sincere. I DO want to know what he’s doing. I do want to help my friend. Just one phone call. Something that is not expected to happen in this world of the Internet. It literally makes us closer. Now, it also happens that he’s a friend of Sir Richard Branson. He’s “an email away” from the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.



If you have ever heard of “six degrees of separation,” it is the idea that everyone is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. This also supports the classic notion that “the rich get richer”. The Rich ALWAYS have their own network. It didn’t appear from nowhere, they made the effort to build it. After that, I continued to call until all of my contacts. Here’s my challenge to you – Pick up the phone and call a contact a day. I mean, not your hanging out buddies, but those who are related to opportunities. See how your life starts to change within the next 30 days. I bet that at the end of your contact list, you’ll at least have a handful of opportunities to work on. Imagine when your network is introduced to their network… exponential begins.



It All Starts Somewhere It’s a proven fact that most people never achieve success after attending workshops, seminars and so on. A few will, but most of them fail. But interestingly, they never truly “fail”. Failing would mean that you’ve started and weren’t able to achieve the expected result. Technically, those who fail never fail; they never got started. I’m passionate about teaching opportunities. In seminars, someone in the crowd would have his hand held up when he’s listening to all of the amazing possibilities to riches and interrupt with this… “Patric, you don’t understand. It’s easy for you to make millions. You’re a best-selling author, you have network, you have this and that…” and the list goes on. Obviously, this guy doesn’t get it. At the same time, at an unconscious level, he’s already giving excuse to himself for not taking actions for success. The truth remains that the journey to success can be painful. There are sacrifice to be made and so on. When someone says to me about that I have all this good stuff and leverage… I don’t feel offended or defensive. Why? Because my goal is that I want to help them. It’s never about me; it’s about him. This is my answer… “At one time, I was just like you.” Yes, it’s true - it’s easy for me today. It even seems like I have a button that spits out money when I click on it. But at one time, this button never existed. It’s like searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Now, I couldn’t say the same for those who inherited wealth, but for all of the self-made millionaires in the world out there, they created the “button” by themselves. Everyone has got to start somewhere.



And that is how my brain is wired – I understand that in order for the opportunity to grow, I’ll need to start small. It’s not going to happen immediately.

Why is it So Hard to Start? This is the weakness of thinking big – when we think too big, we feel small. You see, not everyone has the capability to hold on to a big vision and not feel overwhelmed by it. When the goal gets too big, I too feel overwhelmed. The secret to thinking big is you’ll also need to have a big heart for it because your emotions will affect your analytical skill. When I was young, I had the ambition to build a multi-million dollar company with 100 employees. The product of the company is a technology product and we have many offices throughout the country. It would be spectacular. As you’re reading this book, this “ambition” of mine was never achieved. Heck, it didn’t even see daylight! Why? You probably guessed it – it’s too big of a goal at my age, at that time. It’s just plain thinking big. I mean, I didn’t even have my own place to stay yet at that time! I’m not belittling thinking big as there’s truth to its power. But most of the time, it’s mainly about giving you motivation. I would rather focus on something that I can achieve and ACHIEVE IT. When I want to do something, my model is very simple – do my very best to get it done successfully. I don’t need to dream of owning a jet plane if I know that I’m not going to be able to buy one. Can I still wish for a jet plane later on? Yeah, of course. I’ll do that when there are signs that IT IS possible to buy it. Now, if you disagree with me and feel like thinking big seems to work well for you, continue to do so. Use any method that works for you. It’s just not my style. That’s all. Interestingly, even if you’re not thinking big, there’s no guarantee that you can take action - you might still be stuck! So the strategy is not to focus on the work to get the goal attained. You’ll focus on the small steps that lead you to achieving the goal while keeping the main goal in sight. Break the goal into smaller chunks.



Then take care of the chunks, one at a time. Think of a great movie that you’ve watched recently… Got it? Although the movie is just about 1 ½ or two hours, the fact is the movie took months to film! Months! Sometimes, a year - for just two hours of entertainment to be created! They break down the big goal (having the movie done) into small chunks of actions. And one fine day, filming the movie is completed. As long as they can discipline themselves to continue taking actions and completing one task at a time, the big goal is achieved. I know – today, we live a very fast paced world. Everything seems to be fast. Yes, we need to be fast but we also need to have patience to lead ourselves to success. Take small steps and you’ll garner these advantages…

1. Small Victories.

When you play sports (or video games), you feel awesome when you win. Although there is no prize and no one to congratulate you, in your mind you know you have accomplished success. Scientifically, your body releases a type of natural chemical called endorphins and this hormone makes you feel good. Feel happy. See, what I’m telling you is no hocus pocus theory. We’re talking about science here (without the complexity of it). You can do a search of “endorphins” on Google if you like. I’m not going to spell out how it works. It’s just like you put in your car key and start the engine – all we need to know is that it works. The car starts and we’re able to drive it; we don’t need to know about the engine’s functionality, the cylinder’s movement, the fuel combustion and so on, right? Relatively speaking, it’s so much easier to accomplish a small task related to the “big” goal than completing the entire goal in one shot. So I have no doubt that if you take action and complete a small chunk of the work, you’ll do it flawlessly. Then brings you joy because you “win”. You see, our mind needs to celebrate success. It reassures the statement of “I can do it.” You build unstoppable confidence and certainty. And by now, we both know that these two characteristics play pivotal roles for your success and becoming a WakeUp Millionaire.



2. Proper Planning. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin I don’t know how Mr. Franklin thought of this remarkable quote; maybe at one time he messed up his project with no planning. Who knows. The point is: I don’t think these words of wisdom come from nowhere. There must be some truth to it, right? When you do things systematically, one small step at a time, it gives you the allowance for planning. When I was involved in the seminar business, I remember one time I messed up. I was over-confident (when you’re over-confident, you risk being ignorant) and wanted to organize a big seminar in just a short period of time. Well, originally, I thought it was a simple thing to do: Find a speaker. Get people to attend. Book the revenue. Finding speaker was the easy part. Booking the venue wasn’t that hard but I never knew that getting people to attend was so difficult! If I was smarter at that time, I would have allowed a longer period of time to promote the seminar so that I could apply many ways to promote the seminar. Simply said, breaking down a goal into small steps allows us to foresee the path and make the correct adjustment along the way.

3. Higher Success Rate. Michael Jordan is a legend in the game of basketball. But interestingly, in his early days, he didn’t have the characteristics of becoming one of the greatest (or the greatest) basketball player of all time. But one thing he did very well – he practiced a lot. The kind of practice that an ordinary guy like me would labeled as “insane” for doing. Today, I’m very certain that I’m very good in what I do when it comes to making money from the Internet. And I’m humbled for that talent. I guess one of the key influences to this is because I “practice”. The more you do a certain thing, the better you get at it – just like what I taught earlier when it comes to making decisions. There’s just no doubt about that.



You see, there are many people out there teaching about opportunity methods. Be it about Internet marketing or real estate investing. But there are only a few who are true “teachers” and mentors. A guy who makes a million online from a single venture would probably be a less skilled teacher than someone who made $10,000 10 times. The guy who made a million sits behind the possibility that he was lucky at that time. Whereas the $10,000 guy has a system where he can duplicate the result again. Your goal is to master the skill of accurate execution of steps. You don’t want your success to be based on luck. That is like a dude who wins the lottery and once the money is all spent, there’s no way he can earn the money again. In my seminar, it’s common for me to be approached by attendees who ask me, “How do I make $100,000 in 30 days from the Internet?” or something along those lines. In all fairness, I truly believe anyone can make the amount of money they want, as long as it’s a realistic number. The question is, WHEN? Will it be in 30 days or in three years? The answer lies in that person’s experience and skill. So I’ll usually ask the attendee… “May I know how much money you’re currently making from the Internet?” If the answer is $0, do you think they can make $100K? Maybe. But since we’re not here to talk about positive thinking, I would say it’s unlikely to happen. But if we start “small,” like taking actions right now, the possibility starts to get better. Just think of it this way – If he has made $1,000 from the Internet before, then maybe I can understand what he did and help him to do more of that, teaching how to “enlarge” it. From there, it might jump to $10,000 and from there it’s easier to jump from $10,000 to $100,000. Did you catch the ironic part here? At whatever amount of money that someone wants to make, it all starts from ground zero. No wonder many give up before starting!



How You Start Will Determine Where You Go In Penang, where I live, we have a lot of stalls on the streets where you can sit down and eat delicious local food. At one time, I was eating at one of these places and a guy came to me, asking for money*.

* Even when I was in San Diego’s famous Gaslamp area where there are

plenty of wonderful restaurants, a guy came up to me to ask for money.

This happens everywhere around the world, so it has nothing to do with

Penang. You see, I do not give money to anyone if they don’t work for it. That’s just my principle. If he had come to me and asked me to buy a pencil (or anything he wanted to sell) from him instead, I would have given him the money. So I told him that if he was hungry, I would buy him a meal. I offered him the opportunity to sit with my wife and I so I could buy him a meal, which he did. While he was eating, I could see how haggard and sad he was. Not because of the meal, but because of how he ended on the streets this way. So I couldn’t help but ask him how he ended up that way – to live in poverty. So how does anybody end up asking for money on the streets? He told me that he was an odd job worker and when he was young he drank a lot and he was also a gambler. Later on in life, he had numerous health problems so he couldn’t work anymore. He doesn’t have a lot in life; he doesn’t have a wife or children. Now that he can’t work, he has no money. Nobody cares for him -- he ended up as the man on the streets, begging for money. All of us, you and me have a great start. We have a good job (or a business), family, we have people whom we love and love us back. This guy doesn’t have all that. Because he started wrong, he’s basically all messed up… sadly, probably till the end of his life. But what if this guy had a different start? What if he chose to have a family instead of “enjoying” his life with substance abuse and gambling. Maybe, his life would be drastically different today.



I Did Something Do you have any great ideas that can be turned to wealth? In today’s age, ideas could be worth millions – if they were ever acted upon. If you don’t, have you met friends who talked to you about their exciting ideas? And guess what? They would probably still talk about it to you today. When someone says to me… “Look at your success today. You were lucky you’ve started early.” Yup, I’m sure luck plays a role as well for what I’ve accomplished. After all, we need to remind ourselves how tiny we are in this universe and we’re the creation of God (or the Universe, depending on your beliefs). But at the same time, I believe there are many other influences that contribute to it. Anyway, this is not about my success, it’s about a message I would want to pass to him… “You are absolutely right. It is also because I did something years ago, and this is the reward that was reaped.” Strangely, few people don’t understand this simple remark – If you don’t do anything, that “one day” will never exist. I can guarantee you nothing’s going to happen next year or five years later – unless an idea is acted upon. I did “something” years ago. I’m very sure that many of the steps were executed incorrectly. If I had today’s knowledge, skill and leverage at that time, I would have done it all differently. We all continued to learn as we grow. That’s how we sharpen our skill. The best part is: if we take action, we’ve initiated the process. With the right mindset and psychology, we’ll continue to seek the answers to the questions we stumble upon and find the solutions to the problems that will arise along the journey.



Everything About Wealth Will Change in The Future

In this final chapter, I’ll highlight to you the many critical changes that are happening

right now and many that will be more drastic in the not-so distant future ahead.

These changes are affecting your financial future as we speak.

Let’s start with money - the fact is, money is important.

Look, I’m not going to talk to you about spirituality matters or the argument of

whether money brings happiness or not. Basically, I think money is definitely a very

useful tool for you to achieve personal freedom, yes?

To give an example, if you like helping an orphanage with money, you can give

donations. With money, you don’t need to work in a dead-end job anymore, so you

can use your time to be with them or do some community work. I guess I’ve made

my point that money IS a very useful tool.

Let’s move on…

But unfortunately, your “original” plan to make more money is unlikely to work

anymore. This is because of the changes that are happening and will be happening

very soon. And if you have no plans for your life yet, then you should start working

on that. Yes, as soon as after you’ve done your reading here.



The New Generation and Technology Growth

As I’m writing this, I’m 33 years old. But, when I meet with those in their twenties…

they’re different. They think differently, they behave differently. They have different

principles. Their mindsets are completely different.

And I’ve not even touched on the teens who will be subsequently “taking our places”

in the near future.

If you’re thinking that I’m going to talk about how to sell to them, you’re totally wrong.

This is not about marketing but about CHANGES that are happening, without being

noticed.

Here’s the situation now:

If you’re a boss, do you have a solid plan on how to manage them as your

employees?

Well, be prepared for a different experience – compared to those days of having

people working for you smoothly.

The fact is, with globalization taking place at a fast pace today, they DON’T NEED

YOU to earn money anymore. Keep your salary. I don’t need a job from you. Trust

me, they’ll have their ways to create money – they’ll never “starve”.

Or maybe you’re not the boss, but instead an employee.

Then you better buckle up because you’re going to compete with these dudes, or at

the least, be working with them in a team. Unless you’re prepared to be faster (in

everything you do!) and be a contrarian thinker, I can envision how you’re going to

be swimming against the tide with them. Two words - Freaking stressful.

Even “thinking outside the box” seems to be outdated nowadays. That’s soooo

old-school. Contrarian is the in-thing to be right now.

I mean, if you want to speak metaphorically about “thinking-out-of-the-box”, I would

simply ask you, “Where’s the box?”.

I guess the box idea comes from corporations where people work inside of cubicles.

Today, things have evolved to be “borderless”. In fact, employees are expected to

think outside of the box – it’s already a “compulsory necessity” in jobs.

At the end of each day, you’ll be playing “catch up” with the new generation in the

office. I wonder how is that going to lead to personal freedom…

And it’s just going to get bigger.



This is why you need to become a WakeUp Millionaire – that’s your solution to not

“compete”.

Let’s switch the topic to technology growth.

Since the day of the internet realm began, you have seen more rich people than

ever. Of course, many, many millionaires were made because of the initial boom.

It seems like many are more proud about saying that they work for Google, Apple or

Facebook than Walmart, Coca-Cola or ExxonMobil.

Anyway, going back to technology – resisting it is futile.

It just gets more “complicated”. But ironically, it gets “easier” too because it’ll become

more “user-friendly” for customers as time goes by.

Have you heard of the new Google Glass? No? Read about it at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass.

New inventions and technologies are being introduced into our world, whether you’re

aware of it or not – we better gear up and embrace it fully.

Again, more millionaires will be made from new technology ideas and inventions.

The matter of fact is, the way that we’re doing business will continue to change to

benefit the market and its single major influence is none other than technology.

Now, Google Glass is something that will happen in the near future but for now,

we’re already moving into the mobile technology market. Ultimately, “everyone” is

going to use smartphones at some point. Even Africa is changing rapidly too. Watch

this for clarification - http://youtu.be/0bXjgx4J0C4.

This is why; I’ve placed “mobile apps” as the Opportunity at this stage.

The question is, is your business related to technology, or at the least… Internet?

Wait… a better question should be… have you started to figure out how to use the

Internet to benefit your business?

Because the Internet is the backbone of EVERYTHING when it comes to

technology.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass

http://youtu.be/0bXjgx4J0C4


Government and Politics

I’m not a big fan of politics as a whole, but as a citizen of my country, I do my best to

stay updated with what’s happening. What our government is doing for us as a

country.

Interestingly, it’s amazing easy to stay updated – I don’t even need to take the time

to search for what’s happening with politics and our government because

“everything” is already shared on Facebook.com and Youtube.com. Or

Wikileaks.org. Everything’s leaked. The good, the bad and the ugly.

You watched Star Wars? Those Jedi Knights and The Dark Sith stuff? What? You’re

not a fan of Star Wars? Come on, how can you not be? Go watch.

Sorry to be a spoiler if you haven’t watched the movie yet but basically, with Power,

you can benefit good or evil.

The problem is, power is such an amazing thing and regardless of how good

someone is, they'll be tempted towards the dark side. (Hey wait, that’s not how the

Star Wars story goes about…. that’s Spiderman, isn’t it?) Regardless, politics =

power.

Right now, most citizens are facing “challenges” with their governments and

questioning how the politicians are taking care of them as individuals. The United

States is one example. Including my country, Malaysia (since I live here, I kinda

know what’s going on daily).

So, are you still expecting the government or politicians to take care of you?

Heck, you probably don’t even know what’s the accounting of your government at

this stage -- how much money they still have, or more probable how much debts they

have. How they’re handling their debts. Unless you live in China, then you don’t need

to worry about your country being in unimaginable debt.

Seriously – I’m not great with maths, but common sense will teach you about your

countries money by seeing how they are spending it and what they’re doing to make

the country richer.

Unless you’re somehow a friend or a relative or a friend’s friend or a relative’s friend

or whatever forsaken relation to the politicians in power, I really don’t know what your

plan is. Even if you’re somehow connected, I think you’ll hate playing those games –

personally, I hate them.

You know, never in my LIFE could I imagine the UK going bankrupt. I don’t say this

for fun, I read it at this site. Yes, the UK – King Arthur, knights and castles, that

country. A place where many Asian's always dream of going to for holidays. And in


http://www.totalbankruptcy.com/filing-bankruptcy-statistics/countries-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy.html


the past, some Asians even dreamed of going there just to work at odd jobs like

washing dishes inside of restaurants.

The point is this; it’s not the same as it used to be anymore.

It's better to have plan B because I don’t even know if your retirement fund is still

there when you want to cash out.

Also, everything seems to get more expensive nowadays but your salary isn’t

increasing to suit.



Our Education In Schools

Now, I don’t want you to get the wrong idea that I’m hammering school education.

Not at all and in fact, I would say that it’s not even their fault that the education

system is not “up to date” with today’s reality. No wonder Mr. Kiyosaki wrote a

controversial book called, “If You Want to Be Rich and Happy, Don't Go to School?”.

The problem begins when change occurs.

You see, I don’t know how pre-historic our school textbooks and educations are

dated back, but I think it’s safe for me to say that…

Nothing inside the syllabus has changed much.

Can you imagine this…

Economy has changed.

Technology has changed.

Mindset has changed.

Opportunities have grown many times over.

But our conventional education doesn’t seem to change much. The teachings are

almost the same as before!

I remember during my schooling days, I needed to write essays for the homework.

And during that time, the internet was not around yet.

Today, what’s stopping the student just outsourcing their essay homework over the

internet? Maybe to someone in India who has a better written English? They can just

go to Fiverr.com to do this.

I don’t need to memorize stuff because I’m just a click away from Google to get the

answer I need.

Do you know how big the size of Malaysia is as a whole?

I don’t, but I got the answer in less than 15 seconds, whilst writing this manifesto. It’s

probably about 127,355 square miles or 329,847 square kilometers. Thanks to Wiki

Answers.

I mean, why would I want to memorize this fact, when I can just find the answer at

ANYTIME I want using my iPhone?

The school should be teaching SKILLS. Maybe, how to search for information faster

or something on the Internet? Bad example, but you understand my point, right?



By the way, I’m not just referring to the primary or secondary schools. It’s happening

even to those who are studying diplomas and degrees.

The lecturer teaching about “business marketing” has probably never run a live

marketing campaign before in his whole life.

The lecturer teaching about “e-commerce’ has probably never created an internet

business and sold products successfully before.

The lecturer teaching about “customer service” probably never sat in the office and

talked to customers – and doesn't really know what is happening in reality, compared

to the theories he learned (probably from another lecturer who is the same shoe in

the past).

Education is important for jobs, if you need “certifications” or a technical skillset.

I mean, you can’t be a doctor if you don’t go to medical school. You need to learn

that “skill”.

But I don’t see how “education” is going to help you, if your goal is to find the way to

having a prosperous financial future and finding the key to personal freedom.

Even to get amazing jobs. You may get them by showing all sorts of cool academic

papers, but when the rubber meets the road of your showing results, oops.

In our company, we prioritize talent and attitude over qualification.

Just so you know, ultimately, companies will be shifting their focus on hiring results-

driven or experienced people to do the jobs.

If the goal is to own a business or to become an entrepreneur, I’m not too sure what

you’ll learn in the current education’s syllabus will truly be the knowledge that will

lead you to a business success. What you’ll need to learn is:

1. Having the right attitude and mindset (don’t seem to teach that in the syllabus)

2. Coming out with brilliant plans and knowing how to execute them

3. Have PR skills so that you can communicate with people for business

4. And some other stuff that the school probably doesn’t cover

Maybe you’re not worried about yourself, since you are “okay”.

But what about your kids and their future?

It's a false hope to think that your kids’ future is going to be bright if you send them to

awesome schools today. I’m not saying that they won’t, I’m saying there’s no

guarantee that comes with that and the guarantee gets slimmer each day.



The good old day’s plan was as follows: send your kids to an awesome school and

spend hundreds of thousands, so that they’ll have an awesome job that pays them a

truckload of money when they’re done studying.

I kid you not, some parents still believe this plan actually works.

Why is it not working as well as it should anymore? Firstly, the education syllabus

may not prepare them for the “real world”. We all know that's obvious.

Secondly, the competition will be growing or be changing in times to come (once

again).

Thirdly, due to technology, you really can’t predict how that job’s going to be 10

years down the road. Compared to ages ago, things do not change because

technology is not that advanced yet.

But here’s the thing:

At the end of the day, I would still like think that education is important and I’m

sending my children to schools and doing my best to give them the best education

possible.

But it’s not for the purpose of achieving personal freedom or ensuring a good

financial reward at the end, instead it’s mainly for the experience and the knowledge.

Something that will be with them for their whole lifetime.

If you want to ensure the elimination of financial worries, I would suggest that you

build your own business AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. That is the only thing you can

count on to be yours and yours alone.



We’re Comfortable.

And That’s Not Good For Long Term.

We’re very fortunate to be living in these times of good wealth and prosperity, living

in a wonderful country where we’re developed and advanced.

But the wind of change is coming your way.

They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out right away

because it’s hot. It’s obviously painful.

But, if you put a frog in a pot that is filled with water that is cool and pleasant, and

then you gradually heat the pot until it starts boiling, the frog will not become aware

of the impending threat until it is too late. Yup, the frog will eventually die. The

saddest part, it probably won’t even know why it died.

Asia is rising at a rapid speed. Not because I’m an Asian dude and singing praises of

where I come from, it’s simply the truth. Remember the countries that are going

bankrupts? Numbers don’t lie.

The country that is the rising superstar is none other than China.

This is direct from Wikipedia…

Are you seeing what I’m seeing here?

It used to be United States companies dominating the top chart of global 500

companies. It looks like China’s catching up fast.



You may think it doesn’t bother us too much, because it’s at a large scale. Just wait

and see what happens in the future.

I was in China to present a seminar in Dec, 2012.

One word - they’re hungry. Not in any bad way whatsoever, but instead in a positive

way. They’re hardworking people and they take instructions diligently to achieve their

own success.

What’s best is, they don’t “think too much”, they’ll just do it and figure out the rest of

the plan as they go along the road.

Honestly, generally, we tend to do research, think of plan B, question the course, etc

meanwhile they’re busy moving forward. If you fall down, just stand up and start

again. No wishy washy BS excuses.

After the seminar, I went there to conduct a 2-day workshop, teaching them how to

create and make money with app businesses. Well, actually, it’s more like A DAY of

work since whatever I said needed to be conversed by my translator. (Yeah, I’m

Chinese, but I don’t speak Mandarin.)

So in essence, they’re not even learning DIRECTLY from me but through another

person’s interpretations.

In a week, one student has successfully created his own mobile app. Of course it’s

not the most brilliant one, but he successfully got it started with no excuses.



While for most, they’ll either blame me that I didn't teach enough or give some

excuse of why they cannot start yet.

I just got an invitation to speak at 2 more seminars in China during 2013 and I asked

the organizer this question (to evaluate the opportunity in comparison to cost)…

“How many attendees are you expecting this round? Is it going to be the same as the

one I spoke at last year?”

He replied, “It’ll just be bigger”.

My friend, they just continue to grow bigger.

Maybe China’s not hitting our shore yet, so no great urgency, even though they’re

literally growing rapidly and will soon be “dominating” many opportunities.

But I can fairly safely predict that many other third world countries will be growing

too, at rates we've never seen before.

With the advancements of technology and the freely available information (again,

thanks to the internet), people are learning faster than ever.

More people will rise above.

Imagine if India explodes just like China did.

I guess, they’ll soon be outsourcing their own jobs to the world then, instead of us

hiring them for our jobs. Can you imagine that?

All of these facts are going to change how you’ll be making money. For sure.

And what if your country is no longer a “successful country” and seen as a lesser

developed country when other countries rise so high above you? Don’t be surprised

if your government is not doing their job well enough and other countries are growing

past at crazy speeds.

Let’s bring this back to where you are now.

You can continue to be comfortable if you like, after all, we’re naturally comfortable

people. That’s our advantage when living here – we don’t need to work so hard.

But make no mistake, my friend… within your country itself, many are now coming

out from inside their comfort zone. My assumption of this phenomenon is because of

these facts…

1. Lack of confidence in their jobs and subsequent government

2. No new boundaries to find information



3. Inflations that are pushing citizens to find different income streams

4. Desire to look and feel better (thanks to the media)

5. Peer pressure (yes, adults have this problem too)

You want to know something I found out? They WANT you to continue being

comfortable. That’s how it works for them to continue their growth.

If you still don’t have the awareness, well, tough luck because you might end up

being the frog. You may dislike me for saying this to you - I mean, who likes bad

news. If you feel that way, I’m very sorry. But I know deep in my heart, I’ve done my

part. I want to help you, despite the risk of you removing me from your Facebook

friends or whatever.

Continue with being comfortable for next few years. See what will happen.

You may think… it’s still a long way to go, I’ll do it tomorrow. Right now, I feel like

watching my TV – CSI is on TV right now. I can't miss it.

Okay, it’s your life. You get to choose what you like to do. Just don’t get scammed

into buying some “work from home starter kit” or “biz opp” stuff when you’re

desperate for that extra income.

One more thing – just so you know, in just one year, MANY things can change,

including your financial future when it comes to building a successful internet

business. I got a student who has changed his life because he works hard for just

one year. A lifetime reward.



You Are On Your Own

You’re on your own now. Whatever choices you make will certainly influence your

financial future and your own personal freedom. And your family’s future too. It

really is that simple and straight forward.

If you don’t take care of your own future, you’re going to be hit badly with the

forecoming changes. I don’t need to be an oracle or try to inspire you, the evidence

is very obvious. Some people just like to continue to “think positive” and act as if

nothing’s going to happen or is indeed happening.

Of course, if you ask me what you should be doing, every day, starting from now…

I’ll suggest you that you join me and start your own internet business. Little by little,

you build your business up – then soon enough, it becomes an internet business

empire where it starts to generate a passive income for you to live off.

But if you want to do MLM or take up a part time job, that’s totally cool with me. Or

join some other guys that will teach you about internet marketing. Either way works

fine with me.

For me, I’m sticking to my plan of getting into opportunities and riding along the

trend, not to oppose it.

Remember -- everything is about speed.

Things change very rapidly, I've said this so many times here – each delay would

mean further delays of your own success.

Secondly, it’s about being a contrarian thinker. When everybody is doing the same

thing, it’s time for you to do something totally different and be bold enough to

ACTUALLY do it. That will get you the attention for your business.

Have you ever thought why there are only 5% (or less) of people who are rich and

successful in this world? It's simply because they don’t do the same things that

“everybody” is doing.

You don’t need to be good at everything to become a WakeUp Millionaire. When I

first started, my writing was much worse than this but I was persistent with it. It didn’t

stop me. I have a greater reason to achieve success. I refuse to turn this measly

challenge into an excuse for not “giving it a try”.

Interestingly, up till today, I’m still not perfect with my grammar, after being in this

business for 10 years. Yet, I’ve become a best-selling author and wrote many

writings on the internet that has inspired others to live their dreams. I guess my

motto is pretty straight-forward…



“If you have the desire to succeed, you’ll find ways to overcome your challenges”.

At the same time, I want to share with you the GOOD NEWS.

The good news is you’ve read this book in time. It’s not too late. It’s never too late to

start. I hope it has opened up your eyes about what is actually happening and you’re

able to subsequently plan ahead.

My piece of advice is this, start taking action that is aligned with the changes, and be

responsible for your own future. Most people will never read this book and

unfortunately, they won’t be preparing for the upcoming opportunities.

At the same time, many other's would have read this and done nothing. 9 out of 10

would just do nothing. The question, are you going to be one of the 9, or are you

going to be the contrarian person who’s the 1 out of 10 and excel like crazy?

Just as problems bring opportunities, changes bring advantages.

So it’s really how you view things in life, isn’t it? You can be unhappy with how

“gloomy” this chapter is, and super excited with the rich information I've provided for

you to move forward now.

For me, I always choose to think differently and ask better questions that are more

empowering.



Bonus Chapters:

The Success Secret to Not Failing A lot of people are not aware that there is a secret to not failing. That secret is very simple – stop thinking about yourself. Stop thinking about how you can achieve your goals. I know that this is very contradictory to what most speakers and trainers have been teaching you. There are so many courses out there that encourage you to think about how you can achieve things or how you can live the life that you want. Well, what I want you to do now is to just put those thoughts on hold for a while as you read this. Here’s a very simple exercise you can do (just be honest with yourself)… When you are trying to achieve success, regardless of what you are doing, whether it’s relationships, financial wealth, improving your career or growing your business, you are always thinking about you. It’s all about YOUR goal, YOUR business, YOUR success, YOUR wealth, etc. Even if you say that’s not true, subconsciously that’s what your brain is thinking. Let’s face the fact. It’s always about you. That’s why nobody’s helping you to achieve success. There, straight to your face. Imagine this. You attend a seminar about becoming a millionaire. You approach the speaker and start telling him about your goals, how you want to live in your dream house, drive a big car or own your own jet. Then you ask him to help you. Do you think he’s going to help you? He could, but let’s look at things more realistically. You tell him about the things that YOU want to achieve and then you ask him to help you so that you can achieve what you want to achieve. Ask yourself if he’s going to help you again. Let me give you another example. Let’s say you want to get a bank loan. You talk to the bank loan officer who is the person responsible for approving your loan. You talk about how much money you want to make with your business and the things that you are going to do with the money. Will you get your loan by telling him all about you? How about you instead talk about how the bank’s going to make money by lending you their money? Here’s a final example…



You want to marry a girl. This has nothing to do with wealth or fame and fortune. You tell her that you want to marry her because of how much she loves you. That’s not wrong, but I don’t see how that’s going to excite her. It’s like me saying that I want to be your friend because you are nice to me. Are we missing something here? What about the other party’s emotions and thoughts? If you live in your self-contained world of your own success and dreams, you’re going to leave out a lot of things. We always think of ourselves because it’s our natural tendency. We love ourselves and there’s nothing wrong with that. I mean, our brain functions that way! So every thought that comes out is always about us. Our brain always protects us. It always wants the best for us. Get it? However, other people’s brain functions that way as well. The brain of the millions of people around the world functions that way too, so they always think about themselves. So if you don’t want to fail in whatever it is you do, change your mindset. Think of what you can do for others. Whenever you want to achieve something, be aware of your thoughts. What are you thinking? What are you manifesting? Then think of what you can do for other people in order to get what you want. The principle here is to get what you want by helping others get what they want. When you do that, you will see so much more success in your life. Of course in reality, we can’t practice this all the time. It has to make sense to a certain level. This secret of success applies whenever you find yourself in a disadvantaged position compared to the person whose helping you. Let’s say I want to be business partners with Bill Gates. I’m obviously in a less favorable position than he is, and if that’s the case I should be thinking of how I can benefit him first in order for me to achieve my own goal. Whether it’s a partnership or in an office environment where you’re trying to get someone to do something for you, think about this and you’ll get a paradigm shift in your way of doing things. However, don’t go around doing things for people to get what you want all the time because you’ll be drained. On a final note, remember that you CANNOT ACHIEVE SUCCESS ON YOUR OWN. Maybe you can, but you’ll be exhausted. Wealth is created when you work with other people who have their own needs and desires. If you have your own way to help others achieve their own needs and desires, you’ve just opened the path to riches for yourself. There’s just so many opportunities out there waiting for you to grab, whether it is financial wealth, success, fame or opportunities.



Can Money Buy Happiness? It’s an adage question and it doesn’t have a direct answer. I can tell you this – money CAN’T buy happiness but money does influence someone’s happiness, a lot. I know a lot of people who are not rich and they’re still happy. At the same time, I also know a lot of friends who are rich and are happy too. And here’s the ultimate kicker – I definitely have more friends who are rich and happy than not rich and happy. You don’t *really* need money to be happy, but with money in your hand to spend wisely, you can surely attain happiness quicker - and perhaps, easier too. You see, the REAL secret to happiness is by making others happy and feeling fulfilled in return. Why do you think there are people who do charity by donating their money? Self-fulfillment. If you have a wonderful wife who is loving and caring, wouldn’t it be a happier relationship if you could shower her with more gifts than money can buy? Or if you have a beautiful kid, wouldn’t it be great if you could take your child to places he/she likes to visit? If you read this and you feel like I’m a jerk to say money brings happiness or you disagree for whatever reason, stop reading because I’m not here to point out who’s right or wrong. But I think I can say this - if someone feels uncomfortable with what they read here, they’re just avoiding reality and reality always bites. Who likes to be biten? I rest my case. What most people are unaware of is at the subconscious level they are letting this belief slip into their mind and it becomes the excuse for them not to be wealthy. To be wealthy, there’s a lot of work. And I’m not saying this because it’s my belief system or something – no. Go ahead and ask any millionaire how they became millionaires and I’m pretty confident that they’ll tell you that they’ve gone through certain challenges. Imagine this - if you embed the thought that money is not important for your happiness, do you think you’d still work hard to be rich? Not anymore. And these are the people who would say these things to you… “Why work so hard?” “Money is the root of all evil.”



“You’ll attract problems with your money.” “You won’t have true friends if you’re rich.” I’ve interviewed many millionaires and some of the most successful people in the world – Mark Victor Hansen, Bill Bartmann, Jerry Clark, Robert G. Allen, John Assaraf and many more… and guess what? They seem to have a lot of true friends and have strong feeling of happiness with them. So after this explanation about money and it’s relation to happiness, I’ll tell you this -- money will help you gain happiness when you’re attracting and using it correctly. Ask any rich person - are they happier today or when they were broke? Some will say when they didn’t have money, and this will be a small group of people who attract and use money incorrectly, that’s all. As a matter of fact, the topic of money is such a sensitive topic that there are people who avoid discussing it - embarrassed to be misunderstood of being ‘chasing money’ and rejected from the society. If you’re not excited about getting rich, how can you attract riches in the first place? At the same time, I was asked an interesting question from an attendee when I was doing a workshop with Robert Allen… “You’re already so rich and successful. If I were you, I would have taught people for free.” I honestly think he’s not rich yet and doesn’t really understand the mechanisms of money and wealth yet, not in a negative way. I wanted to ask him this question in return… “Why do you think doctors charge fees for their consultations? Or why do you think lecturers, fitness trainers, fashion designers and professors are paid then?” The doctors, lecturers, fashion designers, fitness trainers and professors should be paid because they’ve risked their own time and money to be able to help other people. They’re ALREADY doing a favor by charging you and me for imparting their knowledge, experience and wisdom. Imagine if they had the same thought as the workshop attendee; that they should be taught for free as well - that they should not spend tens of thousands or years to learn their trade. Imagine how this world would actually perform today. Weird, right? If you want to be rich, focus on being rich. Stop questioning what you don’t like because it won’t change anything if it’s not within your control. The way you view the world will ultimately be your world.



So do you want happiness or money? My answer? Both, because you’re living in a world of abundance where you can have both, not one or the other.



Summary… Before you read the summary, keep in mind that this is the “summary” of the WakeUp Millionaire Book. But there’s no summary for success and wealth – because we always continue to seek more knowledge.

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - Steve Jobs

Every successful person and millionaire knows this to be the truth. We’re always learning and never have the ego to let someone tell us different. When we lose our humility, we shall lose our leadership and all the inner wealth that we’ve build meticulously in the past. Not in just one day, but gradually until we lose it all, before we know what really hit us. Being a WakeUp Millionaire is not about the money that you have in your bank, it’s about what you do with it. What in life that means the most to you? You probably have a list of things to say to me. And I bet that they’re all good. But in essence, it’s about having more time for yourself. Time to be with your loved ones, your family. Time to play. Time to do anything you like, within your physical and financial means. So don’t waste your time making more money if you’re not living your life. That defeats the entire purpose of even getting started in the first place. Make money, live your life. Live by doing the things you love doing. As you continue, balance your life to make more money and continue to enjoy your life in this journey.

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

- Bruce Lee The goal is to make enough so that you no longer need to make money to support your lifestyle or to live your life wonderfully – the goal is NEVER to make as much as you can. That will surely suck the life out of you and pull you into the black hole of greed and unrested goals. What for?



I want you to understand the concept; not immerse into the instruction because there’s no instruction here. How much money is enough for you? I don’t know. At the end of reading this book, I believe you’re a thinker and you should know more about yourself more than I do. Should you think big? Again, it depends on what you WANT in life. Or in other words, what you appreciate in life. So I want to position the end of this book in another angle – You may or may not realize it, but you’re already having a wonderful life. Being a millionaire doesn’t dictate happiness – it simply comes with how you balance your life and appreciate what you have. Yes, start mapping out your course to become a WakeUp Millionaire, don’t lose sight -- but keep in mind that being a WakeUp Millionaire is not just about having a million dollars, it’s about being successful in life holistically. Having balance in your life. Having control of your life. Surrounded with love and laughter of joy. With that said, I wish you the very best in your journey and I look forward to hearing your inspiring success stories soon. Stay humble. Be sincere. Live ethically and with integrity. To becoming a WakeUp Millionaire,

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