Brandon Pipkin - 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success

21 Questions for 21Millionaires

How Ordinary People CreateExtraordinary Success

Brandon Pipkin

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Copyright 2011 Brandon Pipkin

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Table of Contents

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I just worked real hard and themoneymaking came by accident.

Millionaire 21 RichardZuschlag

T he success experts arewrong, dead wrong.

And in their excited frenzy to sell their highlymarketed, tightly packaged, hyperbole-filled, guaranteedsystems for success they are causing others to get it wrong,too.

Take back their books, CDs, and systems and get yourmoney back from the motivational seminar. You dont need to learnThe 15 Surefire Steps to Success, or The 8 Principles forFinancial Freedom, or The 72 Secrets of Super Wealth Building,to be successful. You dont need written goals or the advice of amentor and you should put your subscription to travel and luxurymagazines on hold because simply dreaming about it doesnt make yourich either.

These gurus, enlightened ones, business leaders,authors, and consultants each declare that their system isthe system guaranteed to bring you the happiness and wealthyou desire. They claim to have the secret. They assert thattheir book or package holds the key to prosperity. Theyshare platitudes and principles that they say are absolutelyessential for attaining success. And they claim that theirtechniques are so powerful and the results so imminent that theywill revolutionize your life. Their systems, secrets, keys,platitudes, principles, and techniques are void of one importantthing the truth.

The system that was guaranteed to make yousuccessful turns out to be a bust. The secret was something youalready knew. The key unlocked wealth for the author, but not foryou. The platitudes were only that and the principles andtechniques were ineffective in application.

But not to be denied in your quest and hungry forsuccess you continue your search. You run to the next guru who,unlike the last, surely must have it figured out or must have theanswer for your unique situation.

The flame of each new theoryfades, only to be replaced by another new and improved solutionthat promises to do what the others before couldnot.

How many hundreds of hours and thousands of dollarsare needlessly wasted each year searching for wealth and happinesswithout finding it?

Dont get me wrong, most of the experts believe thatwhat they are saying is true and undoubtedly their advice hasworked for some. But their absolutely-guaranteed,works-for-everyone systems for success are far from it.

Think about it. If there were one,guaranteed success system, why would all of the others benecessary? If one or even all of those systems worked for everyone,why are we not all retired and in Barbados right now?

After years of buying and believing what the expertswere selling and only getting further into debt and more and morefrustrated, I learned the truth about success by interviewing 21down-to-earth millionaires about how and why they did what theydid. What I found is that not much of what they did matches whatthe experts say you have to do.

These millionaires experiences prove that successisnt about the planning and hoping. Its not about reading theright book or listening to the right persons advice or in workingwith a mentor. Its not about following someone elses blueprintand it certainly isnt created by wanting it badly enough.Visualization, goal setting, and thinking alone wont take youthere.

Its all aboutwait, could it be? A book that iswilling to share its message on page two instead of baiting you toread forty pages into its self-absorbed, incomprehensibleprofundity? Yes, now continue readingWORK.

There is no plan that will compensate for work.There is no success principle that is more powerful than work.There is no desire, visualization, or goal that accomplishesanything until it is coupled with work. There is no advice thatreplaces action and there is no system to it.

Work will win whenwishy-washy-wishing wont.

Not only are work and its resultant sense ofsatisfaction their own rewards, work also createsopportunities.

In this book I share the stories of how work got 21millionaires where they are and how it compensated for everythingelse. As you read the interviews with each millionaire youll seehow work is the secret to any success, no matter what yourdefinition is. You will also see how hard work brought some of themillionaires even more success than they were thinking they wouldachieve.

These people created success not by relying onexperts, gurus, or supposed enlightened ones, and they certainlydidnt read books (not even this one!) to become successful.Instead, they listened to what was guiding them internally and theyworked. By working hard, no matter what the circumstances, theirunique path to success was created.

These millionaires worked constantly without beingfanatical. They put effort into the little things. They put theirnose to the grindstone and did so, in most cases, without knowingwhere it would lead. They were happy just to be doing somethingproductive.

They simply worked.

There are many forgotten virtues in our world todayand one of them is good old-fashioned hard work. If I am guilty ofselling anything in this book, it is the truth of how 21 ordinarypeople created extraordinary success through hard work.

Through this book I wish to restore the value ofwork in the hearts and minds of any who seek happiness financialor otherwise.

And Im the guy who would know.

A Little Background

Having grown up in poor circumstances, I was anxiousto be successful in all areas of my adult life, especially thefinancial realm. I wanted to provide well for my family and repaythe many acts of kindness we so frequently received from others inmy formative years. For example, I remember one Christmas wereceived a box of toys from someone who knocked at the door andsaid that Santa was delayed in Kansas and had asked him to delivera package to us.

I couldnt wait to do the same kinds of things forother people and I thought success would come easily. But I didntunderstand the importance of work.

Aside from my time as a church missionary and someother experiences, I had not really worked. Sure, I would show upand do the job, but I wasnt giving it my all because myexpectation was that a little work would go a long way.

I was pompous enough to believe that I was smartenough, talented enough, good looking enough, and charming enoughthat with only a little effort and lots of belief I would be ableto move mountains. I wasnt focused on my various jobs because Iwas sure the right opportunity was just around the corner andeverything else was temporary.

With only that little bit of work things didnt openup and happen for me the way I thought they would and should.Circumstances didnt align to make my path easy. Instead of a lifeof young fame and fortune, I was working two jobs just tosurvive.

Luckily, while working that second job, I wasintroduced to a personal development and mentorship group focusedon creating success. I caught fire wanting to learn about success,leadership, wealth creation, and personal development. I wasexcited to learn what I was doing wrong and how I could besuccessful.