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The Unemployed Millionaire: Escape the Rat Race, Fire Your Boss and Live Life on YOUR Terms!

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There's nothing really wrong with "The Unemployed Millionaire" per se...it's just that's there's absolutely nothing new about it either.

As a long time student of personal development, I've read and listened to almost all of the "gurus" such as Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy et alia...and this is an exact rehash of all of their stuff. (in some cases almost word for word!!)

To add insult to injury it's misleading. When I clicked on an ad for Mr Morris' book he made a big hue and cry about Goal Setting not working..."Goal Setting is for Losers - Every goal setting technique you've ever read about actually sets you up for FAILURE! Most people set goal after goal, with grand ambitions, only to fall short time and again... leaving them frustrated and ready give up. (When you read this chapter, you'll never have that problem again"

That sounded fresh...but guess what...the chapter is all about goal setting...exactly the same way it's always been done (actually not as good as some versions I've seen)...write your goal down, give it a time of completion, write it in the present tense etc...same old same old.

Trust me, if you've read any of Zig's, Brian Tracys' or the slew of other personal development books out there, you've already read this one so do yourself a favour and save your money.

PS: At least when Tony Robbins plagiarized every single personal development book under the sun he re-wrote it in his own voice so it appeared as if the ideas were his.

Reading this book made me really appreciate what a great writer Tim Ferriss is.


"The Unemployed Millionaire" is a messy, self-congratulatory rehashing of "The Four Hour Work-Week" combined with near-verbatim passages from "The Secret", "The Power of Positive Thinking" and "Unlimited Power". The only thing that makes this book stand out is also its most irritating aspect: its religious overtones, which are at times painfully contradictory (e.g., coming in on the heels of a long-winded diatribe about the importance of self-determination).

Aside from the unnecessary infusion of the author's religious beliefs, there's absolutely nothing new about the information contained in this book. Sometimes, it feels like you're reading a Cliff's Notes version of "The Four Hour Work-Week", until you hit a section that seems lifted from "The Secret" and just about every other revisionist version of Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking". Page after page reads like a tired mash-up, particularly if you've been reading books on the same subject. Even the jacket design is derivative of the aforementioned "The Four-Hour Work-Week", except it's blue instead of orange and uses a nicer font (hence my one-star rating).

If you want to read a well-written, informative book about how to become a self-made mogul, stick with "The Four-Hour Work-Week". If you want to read a book that tells you how to be a successful entrepreneur, read "How to Make Millions With Your Ideas" by Dan Kennedy. If you want to read a better book about following your passion and using 21st-century communication tools, read Gary Vaynerchuk's "Crush It". If you want to read a book that challenges your approach to working and starting your own business, read Jason Fried's "Rework"...and if you want a book that tells you how you can become an on-the-job asset, read "Linchpin" by Seth Godin.


In short, read anything else.

This book should be titled "a vague incoherent collection of things you can do to make money without any useful information as to how to do it". It appears the sole purpose of the book is for its author and his associates to make money from the book (which actually has a good title and cover art) and other ventures once they generate a mailing list from the readers. Do NOT sign up for the mailing list! They called me and tried to scam me out of tens of thousands of dollars as an "investment" in some ambiguous, undefined endeavor. The book is completely void of useful information. While there may be one or two good points in the book, they are not new, and it is not worth the purchase price or the time to read it. Stick to 4 Day Work Week - a legitimate book which conveys the information it promises to provide.

Gee...all of these 5-star reviewers?

It's the only book any of them have ever reviewed.

Gosh, this guy must really be a good marketer if this is the obvious way he markets his book.

I hate when I find a promising book and it totally disappoints.

I agree with all the 1 star reviews here. He takes a bunch of personal development advice I've heard from other authors and regurgitates it.

I was expecting to read a book about HIS story, and I would have loved to see him actually talk about his life and how he started his business.

The advice he gives is very disjointed, goes everywhere, and is full of fluff. He doesn't really explain more than how horrible his life was at the beginning, and that he became a millionaire before 30.

If he would have actually talked about how he accomplished this it would have been a much better book.

Cheers,
Jeremy

I actually read "The Unemployed Millionaire" on a flight going back to Atlanta. In fact, it was so interesting I couldn't put it down. This is a very insightful and inspirational book filled with practical solutions on how to generate passive income online and offline.

The goal being to make a living at what you LOVE and not just going to a job that you hate every day, working for someone else.

It's very impressive to see how far Matt Morris has come given the tremendous adversity he details early in life. His passion for helping others is evident throughout this work as well as his commitment to personal growth and development.

One of my favorite parts of the book was on page 110 where he speaks about the concept of "modeling." Quite simply, you find others that are successful and where you want to be financially and personally then you DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to be around them to learn. They've already made the costly mistakes so you don't have to.

No sense in re-inventing the wheel. Even the most successful of superstars like Michael Jordan, Oprah, and Bill Gates had mentors / models.

If you're looking for get rich quick stuff, this is not for you (like Matt says in the book).

Overnight sensations are always years in the making. I'd highly recommend the book to those that are serious about taking their personal and business lives to the next level. It will change the way you look at certain things and change your life.

- Matthew Loop

Author of Cracking the Cancer Code: The Secret to Transforming Your Health from Inside Out

This book is a poorly organized rehash of Timothy Ferris's The Four Hour Work week, but offer less useful information and throws a bunch of religion on top of it. By Mr. Ferris's book instead and you'll get the same information.

This is a terrible book. I started reading the book with much enthusiasm and as I was getting to the end, I thought about how much I hated it for wasting my time. Don't bother with it, as some reviewers said, you probably have already read it. This book is a mix of unrelated material that don't flow at all and make no sense. What a waste of time!

Matt Morris put his heart into this book of his real life experiences and stories. This book will direct your path to wealth for your life and your desires. The stories are true and he describes them so that the book makes you want to not repeat the bottoms but appreciate the successes. You can readily tell that Matt has a passion to succeed but gives you the secret for living with success and enjoying the fun.
J. C.

For all the 5 star reviews, this is either there 1st book on the subject or are the authors buddy's trying to give this book a better rating.

Honestly this book is a dime in a dozen. I've read countless books from some of the best, Tony Robbions, Zig Zigular, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, T. Harv Eker and this book seems like all of them combined. Read countless of quotes I've picked up from other books ect. The only part that I liked was the beginning when he talked about his personal life growing up in poverty and living out of his car. Got me excited thinking he would describe in the same detail on how he went on his road to success. Until by almost the end of the book I realized that everything I was reading wasn't very useful.

He has a chapter on real estate investing "another way to create wealth" and it's 12 pages long. I've been in real estate game right now and own a few rentals and I can tell you your average reader is not going to take anything away from 12 pages on how to create financial freedom through real estate investing. "Buy low and sell high or hold and sell at a later date" Is pretty much all he said.

It seems this book was just written to make any source of passive income coming in for him. I went online to get my "FREE" cds on interviews with other millionaires and could not find where I could retrieve my free gift. Only thing I saw was, enter your information here to be in Matts new book on how you made it! All it is, is for you to enter your info so you can now be on his mailing list and have a trained sales professional call you and try to persuade you into signing up for his mentoring program and paying several thousands of dollars for it. I've researched some of those mentoring programs, like Rich Dads and Donald Trump and based on some of the reviews sounds like they are just average people reading from a script to you over the phone as your mentoring telling you things to do ect.

Not saying Matt isn't good at what he does, I think he is a marketing genius and I'm sure he is making a killing of this book and his mentoring program but I've seen it all and for once would just like to read a book where there is useful information on how somebody really went from rags to riches and not just giving ways to do it. (Invest in real estate, start your own business, sell crap on ebay and make a profit)