The Lazy Man's Way to Riches
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The Lazy Man's Way to Riches

Richard Gilly Nixon
Wiley, 2004
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Author Richard Gilly Nixon has revised Joe Karbo’s original classic, The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches. Karbo, an entrepreneur who stood publishing on its head by selling more than four million copies of his book, believed that most people hypnotize themselves into failure with disparaging internal monologues and defeatist attitudes. So, he developed exercises to help you alter negative scripts and attain your objectives. Nixon extends Karbo’s idea that prosperity means more than adding zeros to the total in your bank account. True wealth, Nixon maintains, comes from understanding your purpose in life and pursuing it with all your heart. Many books advise you to think positively and to bolster your self-image, but they fail to tell you how. This book, with its binder-sized format, wide margins and 54 brief chapters, invites you to start a self-reclamation project. In case you wonder where to begin, its 11 solid chapters on Internet marketing will help you channel the wellsprings of motivation that emerge as you read. Although you’ve heard some of this advice before from Dr. Phil and his ilk, Nixon’s book will move you to take action, and for that, getAbstract.com recommends it to restless entrepreneurial souls. Have confidence.

Summary

A High Karbo Diet

Joe Karbo wrote the motivation manual, The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches. Although bookstores carried it for only a year, Karbo peddled it until the day he died, eventually selling more than four million copies. He was a master at using the power of direct marketing and word-of-mouth publicity. Karbo earned millions even before he got involved in literary endeavors. His ideas are the foundation for achieving financial freedom and personal fulfillment. Indeed, he can help you find the real you.

Feeling Lazy?

All your life you’ve probably heard that laziness is heinous, and that lazy people are failures. So you exhaust yourself working at unrewarding tasks or you alienate your family and co-workers with your single-mindedness. Rather than adopting someone else’s way, find your own. It may feel easy, even lazy. Ask yourself two questions: "Who am I, really?" and "What is my purpose in life?" Once you know the answers, even difficult situations will feel easy.

Meeting Yourself Halfway

The foremost expert on you is you - even in this age of experts who make pronouncements on every conceivable topic. You are the only person who can determine...

About the Author

Richard Gilly Nixon, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, publisher, speaker, author and seminar leader. He is a devotee of the principles originally pioneered by the late author and businessman Joe Karbo.

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