How To Quit Working: A Simple Plan to Leave Your Job for a Life of Freedom Paperback – March 18, 2013

WARNING: Don't Get Into The Jungle Of Your Own Business Without This GuidebookJeff Steinmann had a legitimate high-level corporate career going. He could have sailed on with relative anonymity, good salaries, fairly interesting projects, and nice people to work with. But he wouldn't have been HAPPY with that.Are YOU in this situation? Comfortable but disgruntled? Well aware that you are doing about 20% of what you *could* be doing? But afraid to take that big step to go out on your own?Jeff gets this. He didn't leap into his own business the moment he got the notion--it took him *years*. And those years, and the experience he had with them, will save you tons of time and accelerate your own plans. Everything he learned he's passing on to you with this book. This is practically the Lonely Planet guide to successfully traveling to the unknown country of starting your own profitable company.Actually, it's more than a book. It's a roadmap. Complete with waypoints and can't-miss locations. Links inside give you worksheets so you can determine for yourself, with his expertise alongside, what your individual plan will look like. Exactly how you will make that step.Now I've been running my own business for years. And I sure wish I'd found Jeff's book earler, because even though I'm already doing it, there are many areas in which Jeff's advice continues to be valid and very helpful in growing that business. My corporate career was fine; I was a plant manager at 25, and have had several senior management roles in which I've supervised over 150 people. Now I am using the book to reshape how my days look, because after a couple of years of evolving my sales training business, I find myself trying to do too many things at once. He uses the metaphor of putting up a building for making your business come alive. Foundation first, then putting up the structure, then raising the spire on top.The first section is all about the mindset and requirements for carefully and intelligently stepping out to create your own business. 13 critical decisions you must make are explained. If you're genuinely afraid to make the leap, this section will explain how to do it without much risk at all. (Hint: do NOT quit your job without a safety net!)The next section is for creating the blueprint for your business. Who will you serve? What will your day look like? How will you make money? And with the links I mentioned, you'll have everything you need to develop that vision. This is so important, I can't overempahsize it: if you don't have this clear vision, you *will* screw up and fail.Following this, Jeff discusses outsourcing, processes, systems and more to make your life as a business owner much easier. Fact is, there's a lot to this stuff. You probably know that, since you've likely been working at corporate jobs for awhile and have gotten the picture "from the inside". With Jeff's help here, though, it isn't overwhelming; he breaks everything down into understandable and manageable chunks so you can deal with each piece correctly from the start.If you've been running your business for awhile, you'll get loads of tips for re-directing your efforts. Frustrated with how your days go? Disappointed with the amount of money you've been making? Not spending enough time doing the things you want to be doing? How To Quit Working will give you the tools to make those changes you desire. And probably get you thinking about things you haven't considered.This is the best manual on how to make the jump into your own successful business that I've found. If you haven't yet made that leap, but are yearning to, you will get that virtually risk-free plan to do so. If you already run a business, you will nod and smile at the first section, and then start rethinking how you're doing what you're doing because of what you read next. Don't miss it.

“You deserve a life that lets you get up each day and do exactly what you want, and you can have it.” This is the promise Jeff Steinmann makes in How to Quit Working. That sentence alone should compel you to rush to Amazon and buy it with one click. When an author describes his own book as “the smartest, most advanced, effective, streamlined, and proven system for creating and marketing a business you will find anywhere,” you have to figure (a) he has delusions of grandeur, or (b) he knows what he’s talking about.I would vote for (b). Steinmann has definitely walked the walk. He had a successful, yet unsatisfying, career in corporate America,until he quit to launch his own business. After one disappointing attempt, he not only figured out how to create his desired lifestyle, he also built a company that would help others build theirs. One part memoir, one part instructional manual, and severalparts straight talk and humor, How to Quit Working is Steinmann’s answer to Thoreau’s haunting observation, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”Likening the design of an ideal life to a blueprint for a skyscraper, Steinmann guides readers through every step of planning, laying the foundation, erecting the building, and raising the spire. Interspersed among the information-packed chapters are first-person narratives by entrepreneurs who have “quit working” and created more fulfilling professional and personal lives.Sample bits of wisdom from the author:• The only thing we have that is worth anything is time. Create an income that never requires you to sell your time!• Being a successful entrepreneur (or successful anything) is not about being smart. It is about how committed you are.• Target your niche. Your niche is not “everyone.” • To create your desired life, you must know and write down exactly what you want your life to look like.If you think having the life you want sounds too good to be true, you haven’t read How to Quit Working.

The links on the book no longer exist or work in Jeff's site. I also emailed the Arthur but no response. Google search also yield no results. Book seems promising but wish the publisher or Arthur keep the reference link up to update.

"How to Quit Working" has really changed my attitude. There are many things that I love about this book. The first is that it really refutes the bulk of the reasons that you likely have for not making the move and becoming an entrepreneur. I am starting my own business and I can unequivocally say, that reading this book was the push that I needed.If you want to start a lifestyle expert business, the book is ultimately a step-by-step guide. In the end, I decided not to pursue a true lifestyle expert business; however being an "expert" is certainly a great selling point for any business even if your product is not your expertise. This information is still tremendously valuable to me.The last major point that I love in this book is that it truly helps you put together a business where you don't have to be an employee. I had read "4 Hour Work Week", but as a beginner, I just didn't understand how to connect the dots. Steinmann does a better job of spoon feeding to the beginner than Ferriss does.I highly recommend this read for many reasons, but ultimately if you're thinking of becoming an entrepreneur and you need the guts to go for it, this book is your guide.