Resources

I’ve stumbled on some great people and phenomenal services over the first 3 stages of this project. Although the best is yet to come, (income streams finally!) I can’t stress enough how valuable the for-thought of defining your dreams and situation (stage 1), eliminating and optimizing (stage 2), automating your life and knowing the applications for business (stage 3) are before you actually try to set up a platform for residual income. I’m in no way interested in flimsy, low quality, time wasting attempts to build passive income and I want to make sure you aren’t either.  So before embarking on making money while I sleep I’ve put together a concise resource listing for reference and teaching. I hope they serve you as well as they have me…

I’ll be concise as I list these resources and their uses, I don’t like to just push internet junk around. I’d like to stress that methodology (the definition stage ) has been of more use than anything else, re-working how my brain thinks THENapplying these tools have made all the difference in elevating how I operate in life and business.

Check back if you find this of value, they’ll be much more to share as the project progresses.

All links under each title are in chronological order preserving a slice of how I got to where I am. Use this to position yourself or pick up some materials for where you are.

All the links here are using Apture which allows you to click them without leaving the page and read a blurb on them, check it out.

• Books/eBooks
  • 4 Hour Work Week (audiobook)
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People (audiobook)
  • Rapid Breakthrough Reading
  • The Richest Man in Babylon
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • How I got 100,000 subscribers in Two Years (ebook)
  • Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
  • Work the System
  • Source Control (ebook)
  • Getting Real (ebook)
  • Crush It! (in progress)

• Tools
  • Google apps (documents and iPhone/mail client synced gmail)
  • iCal
  • Wordpress
  • Craigslist (and various job/gig boards)
  • mindmeister
  • Evernote
  • Mint.com
  • 4 Hour Work Week forums
  • su.pr (use this to make links small and track them)
  • Tweetdeck (monitor twitter and links being retweeted)
  • StumbleUpon, Digg, , Delicious, Linkedin (use to promote content)
  • Apture
  • Fonolo
  • Rockstar Business Series (more down to earth than name suggests)
  • “Link Alliances” (friends who commit to read and if applicable promote each others material)
  • “Virtual Assistants” (read this post for more info )
  • “Work the System” (documentation methodology)
  • “Workflow of Work” (my custom one level up management process on work)

• Stories (lives I’ve hunted out because they’ve inspired me)
  • Tim Ferriss’s
  • Leo Babauta’s
  • Cody McKibben’s
  • Chris Guillebeau’s
  • Gary Vaynerchuck’s
  • Seneca’s
  • Greg Rollett’s

• People/Blogs
  • Chris Guillebeau (The Art of Non-Conformity)  (found him through searching “lifestyle design”)
  • Greg Rollett (Rockstar Lifestyle Design) (found him through searching “lifestyle design”)
  • Corbett Bar (Free Pursuits) (found him through comments on The Art of Non-Conformity)
  • J.D. Bentley (Wage Slave Rebel) (found him through comments on Free Pursuits)
  • David Walsh (Muselife) (found him through searching “muse”)
  • Cody McKibben (Thrilling Heroics) (found him through Viralogy Experts)
  • Sean Oagle (Location 180) (found him through comments)
  • Karen (Dreamin the Life) (found her through comments)
  • J.D. (Get Rich Slowly) (i completely forget)
  • Adam Baker (Man VS Debt) (found him through Get Rich Slowly)

• Misc
  • Sending e-mails to every blog author asking them if they are for real.
  • Actually commenting on peoples blogs!
  • Buying ebooks and promoting them when their useful, asking for my money back when they aren’t.
  • Being on the court, not in the stands.

Have you found any resources/methods you HAVE to share?