T he Entrepreneur Escape Plan
"Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom."
-Tony Robbins
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."
-Magaret Bonnano
"If your business depends on you, you dont have a business; you have a job. And its the worst job in the world because you are working for a lunatic!"
-Michael Gerber
"Working hard for your business is good. Having a business that works hard for you and without you is much better!"
-David T. Fagan
The Entrepreneur Escape Plan
How to Own the Business and Not the Other Way Around
Jas Darar
Speaker House Publishing
The Entrepreneur Escape Plan: How to Own the Business and Not the Other Way Around
Copyright 2020 by Jas Darar, Founder of REACH Business Coaching
www.theeeplan.com
www.reachbusinesscoaching.co.uk
Published by Speaker House Publishing
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7333441-6-6
Hardback ISBN:978-1-7333441-5-9
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.
Cover and back design by Michael de Hoyos Jr.
Edited by Vernon Fagan Jr.
Printed in the United Kingdom.
Contents
Acknowledgments
I express gratitude every day for all the blessings I have received in my life. I will also try and do that now for all the people who have helped me in my life:
Mum you have not had a great life but thank you for protecting us from what my Father did.
Angela there is not another person in the universe who would have put up with me like you have. Thank you for sticking by me through thick and thin; you deserve a medal. You are my best friend in the world and the best Mother I could have ever wished for for our girls. Thank you for being my girl.
Poppy and Jasmine when you came along, everything changed. I just look at you, and I feel great. The words to express my love for you and my pride in you have not been invented yet!
Family geography gets in the way, but I always feel safe and at ease when I am with any of you. Thank you for your love and support.
Friends they say you do not need many friends, just a few good ones. I am lucky that I have a few good friends who I know I can trust with my life.
Clients I learn so much from every single one of you every single day. Your strength under pressure and the breakthroughs you have are my inspiration. I could not ever wish to find more amazing people to help.
You by reading this book, you are one of those special people who want to move forwards in life and want to take control and steer your ship. Thank you, you rock!
Foreword
You might have some bad news coming your way. You might even be in for what some would call a rude awakening. Answer me this: why did you get into business for yourself? Why did you start your own business in the first place?
Maybe you wanted to be your boss? Perhaps you wanted to work your hours? Perhaps you could not get the career you wanted, so you just created your own business to give yourself the job you always wanted?
You would not be alone if you answered yes to any one of these hypotheticals. So, how is that working out for you? Are you a good boss? What are the hours you work? Are you working longer than you thought? Are you feeling more like the owner of a highly profitable business, or do you have a suffocating job with lousy pay and very few benefits?
Again, you would not be alone. Very few people obtain the freedom they longed for when they first started their business.
Good news! It does not have to be this way. The author and business building expert, Jas Darar, knows how to raise a self-reliant, successful business. A successful self-sustaining business is what it means to have an Entrepreneur Escape Plan. It is all about building your business in a way that does not need you day and night. Your necessary participation 24/7 is a particular type of time slavery and a recipe for unhappiness!
Jas will get you asking the right questions and leading you to the best answers. You did not start a business for a job. You do not want to be a slave to your business, and you do not want to trade time for money.
You need systems, processes, people, and best business practices. You need to know where you are now, how you got there, and how to get out! This book teaches you how to do that.
Jas writes from his heart as the child of hard-working entrepreneurs that sacrificed too much. The family suffered and endured the endless cycles of the enslaved entrepreneur. Jas witnessed some things, both good and bad, that changed him forever. With his knowledge and wisdom, you do not have to suffer so much as you grow the right kind of business. Wow, he has some great stories!
You have a tough decision to make. You see, anyone can start a business and even run a business. The real question is, what kind of business do you want to run and own?
Do you want the type of business where you get to be the boss, seemingly in charge of everything? Is this what you want? Is that all you want? I dare you to want more. I challenge you to have an Entrepreneur Escape Plan. Jas will tell you how to become genuinely independently wealthy where your business works for you instead of the other way around.
Enjoy!
David T. Fagan
David T. Fagan is the former CEO of Guerrilla Marketing, which sold over 23 million books in 62 languages worldwide. David owned LCO Communications, a Beverly Hills PR firm representing 58 Academy Award Winners, 34 Grammy Winners, and 43 New York Times Best Sellers.
Fox & Friends, the Today Show, The Washington Post, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Five on Fox, and Whats Happening has featured David. He has won major awards for publishing, publicity, and even the Entrepreneur Educator of the Year Award from Inc 500 Infusionsoft.
David is a best-selling author for several books, including Word Genius: What to Say and How to Say It; Guerrilla Parenting: How to Raise an Entrepreneur; Cracking the Icon Code: How to Become an Icon in Your Industry Through Your Advice, Image, and Expertise; and From Invisible to Invincible: How to Make Your Presence Felt.
He is an International Speaker in places as far away as Dubai, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Australia. He has shared the stage with everyone from former US Secretary of Defence, Dr. Bob Gates to Mark Victor Hansen.
My Fathers Pain
I have seen first-hand what happens when a business goes wrong. When I was younger, my father relocated us from my hometown of Derby in England, to Glasgow in Scotland. He ran a small newsagent shop on the outskirts of the city. He did what most business owners did. He did everything from cleaning the windows to going to the cash and carry. He stacked shelves, served customers, and sometimes even delivered the newspapers. At a certain point, things started to go wrong with this business. I do not know why. I was about seven years old at the time and had no idea.
The inevitable reaction from my father was to work more hours. Such was the pressure of this business. The business continued to fail, and my father worked more and more. It got to the point where my father and my mother worked over 18 hours per day. They tried to keep this failing business afloat and some food on our table. I cannot begin to imagine how this must have felt to my parents as the walls slowly began drawing in. Did they feel blind panic, shame, helplessness, and fear? Who knows, but it was not good.
