The Lazy Persons Guide to Success - For Workers and Retirees

I recently received this e-mail:

hi!

im joaquin Diaz Cieri from Argentina and i just finished El exito de los perezosos (The Lazy Person's Guide to Success ) and it changed my point of view of the life, job, relationship, carrer, etc.

I keep working on my lifestyle so i hope i can live in the way you tell us.

just wanna say to you: THANKS! THANKS ! THANKS!

This was my reply:

First just a note that I just noticed your e-mail today.

Thank you for your comments about the Spanish edition of The Lazy Person's Guide to Success.

Weird, but about 10 minutes ago I discovered that someone started a Facebook page about The Lazy Person's Guide to Success:

More important, you may want to read my Redroom Author's blog entry about the e-mails I got from Cuba from Rolando and how he read the Spanish edition of Lazy Person's Guide to Success.

See So You Think You Have It Tough and read the second e-mail where Rolando talks about being in jail for 3 years because he was trying to be an entrepreneur in Cuba.

By the way, one of my books was published in Spanish in Argentina.

See GUÍA HACIA LA FELICIDAD from Argentina Publisher San Pablo:

Ernie J. Zelinski
Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
(over 120,000 copies sold and published in 9 languages)
Featured on The Retirement Quotes Café and The Retirement Café
and The Joy of Not Working
(Over 240,000 copies Sold and Published in 17 Languages)

10 Years of Success

At times I take stock of my accomplishments, just to remind myself of what I can possibly accomplish in the future.

With the last decade coming to an end in a few days, it's appropriate for me to what I have accomplished in the last 10 years.

Personal Accomplishments and Adventure:

• Continued another 10 years of freedom to work either at my favorite coffee places or at home.


• Have traveled to New York, Las Vegas, Istanbul, and London in the last year.


• Finanally purchased the diggs that I have lived in for over 30 years. Despite purchasing the half-duplex for $325,000 with a down payment of $163,000 in 2007 at the height of the market, I will have it fully paid off by April 2011.


• Have continued to make an average of 4 trips a year to Vancouver, which I consider my second home.

Business Accomplishments

• Wrote How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, which was rejected by over 35 Canadian, American, and British publishers. After self-publishing the book, I have earned a little over $405,000 in pretax profit from the book, which has now sold over 110,000 copies and has been published in 9 langauges.


• Wrote half of The Lazy Person's Guide to Success, quit at that point, and almost didn't finish it. I eventually finished the book which has been published in about 10 languages and has sold over 85,000 copies worldwide.


• Wrote Career Success Without a Real Job (called Real Success Without a Real Job in its original version).


• Just completed my new book The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks (and Work Sucks!), which should make me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. If it doesn't I will use is as a Promotional Giveaway.


• Wrote and self-published 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting


• Negotiated at least 70 more book deals for a total of over 107 book deals around the world.


• Had over 5 years where my pre-tax income was $100,000 a year. Not to bad given that I work 4 or 5 hours a day at my favorite coffee place and don't have to deal with corporate life.

I have also started over 25 websites including:

• The Friendship Cafe by Ernie Zelinski


• The Retirement Cafe by Ernie Zelinski


• The Money Café by Ernie J. Zelinski


• Sensationally Creative and Innovative


• Fun Things to Do at Work


• The Retirement Quotes Café


• Retirement Speeches on Squidoo


• Free Retirement Letters on Squidoo


• Retirement Poems on Squidoo
  
• The Best Places to Retire in the World on Squidoo


• Career Change on Squidoo


• My 101 Successes in Life


• Retirement Quotes on Squidoo
  

Here is the car I intend to purchase for Ernie Zelinski in 2010 as a reward for his accomplishments:

Being Average Is for Losers - That's Why You Should Quit Your Job Now

One of my my favorite books, which I read this year is The Dip by Seth Godin:

One of the more important principles that the book emphasizes is: Being Average Is for Losers - That's Why You Should Quit Your Job Now

Here are some more important principles of success from the book.

• Winners quit all the time. They quit the right stuff at the right time.
• Winners win big time because the marketplace loves a winner.
• Most people quit. They just don't quit successfully.
• You need to quit. Not soon, but right now.
• The biggest obstacle to life is our inability to quit soon enough.
• In a competitive world, adversity is your ally.
• Being better than 98 percent of the competition used to be fine. In the world of Google, though, it's useless.
• If you are not going to get to #1, you might as well quit right now.
• You're Astonishing - How Dare You Waste It

Check out:

Cool Reasons to Quit Your Job

How to Become a Millionaire

Retirement Jobs on the Retirement Cafe

Funny Friendship Quotes and Sayings

Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

Real Career Success Is Sailing Out of the Rat Race

I received this message from George Horning of Santa Barbara, CA on the Ernie Zelinski Page at Morgan James Publishing:

"Read Real Success Without a Real Job a couple of years ago and it started the wheels in motion. Last week I put a down payment on a yacht in the S. Pacific and I am going to sail around and get out of the rat race! Just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration. I tell everyone that will listen about your book. Changed my life and I know it can do the same for anyone else! You are the man!"

I asked George to place a review on the Amazon.com page for Career Success Without a Real Job which he did.

In return I am sending George an autographed copy of one of my books, likely The Joy of Not Working, if I have a copy left.

You can follow George at the following links:

George Horning's Next Life Blogspot

George Heading Out West on Twitter

NOTE: If you have read either one of these three books:

The Joy of Not Working

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Career Success Without a Real Job

and would like to receive a free autographed copy of either:

101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting

The Joy of Not Working

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Career Success Without a Real Job

just post a great review of the book that you have read on both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

Then e-mail me at success101coach@yahoo.com with your address and and I will send you the copy of your choice.

Ernie Zelinski

Career Success Topics - Chapter 3

The image above is the cover of my book Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations:

Note that this book is the revised edition of Real Success Without a Real Job.

As I said on The E.Z. Amazon.com Blog, if you have read the first edition, there is likely no need to purchase the revised edition.

But if you haven't, there are many reasons.

Over the years I discovered several success principles that changed my life.

I found out that I don't need to depend on a corporation to make a real good living.

Here are the topics from Chapter 3 which is called Extraordinary Success Is Achieved by Ordinary People

• Real People Attain Unreal Success — So Can You!
• Commit Yourself to Being Successful and You Won’t Have to Be a Victim — Ever Again!
• Receiving a Lot of Criticism Is a Good Sign That You Are Well on Your Way to Success
• Action Has Magic, Power, and Grace in It

A Book for Retirees

Above is the draft cover for the new edition of my book Real Success Without a Real Job which is now called Career Success Without a Real Job.

Here is a bit about the book:

Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations — by Ernie Zelinski

This revolutionary career book is for those millions of organizationally averse individuals who would like to break free of corporate life so that they have complete control over their lives. It will also benefit the millions of baby-boomer "retirees" who want to continue
working, but not in a traditional corporate setting. Positive, lively, and captivating, Career Success Without a Real Job is designed to help you live an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world — there is no life like it!

Check out more about the book and me at:

Ernie Zelinski on Squidoo

Ernie Zelinski on LinkedIn