How to Read The Non-Trepeneurs: Escaping Corporate Life For a Life of Financial Freedom Kindle
Five years ago, aged 43, my wife Julie and I retired from our corporate jobs. We'd re-engineered our lives to enable us to travel, endlessly if we wanted to, without needing to ever work again. This book explains how we, and others like us, have managed this unusual feat.For two decades of work I thought the only way to regain my freedom from the 9 to 5 was to become an entrepreneur. I was wrong.I wracked my brains trying to think up a viral smartphone app or perhaps a new import business which would magically create all the income I needed, freeing me from the commute, office politics and the invisible elastic which stopped me escaping for more than two weeks at a time. I failed.It was only when we decided to quit and travel anyway, living on our savings for two years, that the answer was finally revealed to me. I wasn't cut out as an entrepreneur, but that's OK, it turned out there's another way, a far more reliable way, the way of the non-trepeneur!We changed the way we saw ourselves in society. We simplified our lives, reducing what we owned and deliberately living in smaller spaces. We dedicated time and energy to learn about investing. We read books and blogs to help us better understand ourselves, what fears we had and what motivated us. We swam against the tide of opinion.The end result for us was self-determination. The ability to do what we want, when we want, for as long as we want. We can travel. We can read or write. We can help others around us. We can run up mountains or lie on the beach. Our lives are our own. Our hope for this book is simple: that it helps you to achieve a similar goal. Thanks, and the best of luck, Jason and Julie
