The Freedom Formula - Live More, Work Less and Leave a Legacy With Property

Congratulations on taking the time to start thinking about your future – you join the slender ranks of the select few who have the courage to swim against the tide, to lift your heads and take control of your destiny. To ensure I am not wasting your valuable time, this book will show you how to regain your time and your freedom long term by replacing your income through building wealth with property. If this is what you are looking for, you are in the right place. If not, stop reading now and look like a hero by gifting the book to someone you care about who is looking for these answers.

If you are looking for another shiny and new get-rich-quick scheme, truckloads of other books are already available that will sell you the unachievable dream – for my money, they are thinly disguised sales brochures posing as books, full of airy-fairy unproven concepts written by self-proclaimed overnight successes who don’t walk their own talk. This book is not one of them.

The Freedom Formula is unashamedly written for you if you are a time-poor professional who enjoys your work and wants to continue to focus on building your career, your income and your lifestyle. In other words, you are an intra-preneur. But you are also looking for a safe and affordable way to live more and work less and secure your long-term future without creating a second job. You are looking to build wealth by remote control and believe in property but don’t have the expertise or the time – right now, you don’t know who to trust and you don’t know where and how to start.

You also appreciate that life is good here in the ‘lucky country’. We have the best of everything and more creature comforts than ever. We live in one of the safest, least populated and most affluent countries in the world, where high-quality and affordable everything is at our fingertips. Houses, holidays, health, cars, clothes, schools, sport, entertainment, gadgets, games, you name it – we can have it all. And because everything is available, it seems we have to have everything now, and most of us do.

So, yes, life is good, but is good really great? Do you have the time to really enjoy everything you can and want to do, or are you constantly feeling harried and hurried. Do you feel under constant pressure and stress trying to keep up with a world that keeps demanding more and more of you and seems to be running faster and faster? A world where having everything and keeping everything means working harder and longer to maintain it. This world has become a merry-go-round that has sped up so fast we are hanging on ‘white knuckled’ for dear life – we are running so fast and feel so exhausted that we are at the point of losing our footing, tripping and falling over, never to get up again as we are trampled by the stampeding herd.

We have everything, but maintaining this is getting harder, and we just don’t have the time or the freedom to enjoy it. We are so busy just doing – with every waking moment spent dealing with the constant barrage of urgencies and emergencies of the day – that we just don’t have the time or energy to think about tomorrow.

In the words of author Richard Swenson, we no longer have any margin. In this sense, margin is

Nailing the insight that perfectly captures the illness of our age, Swenson goes further to argue,

Are you one of the many who outwardly pretends or kids yourself that life is good, but secretly despairs that you desperately need more margin? You quietly pine for more time and breathing space to enjoy all of the niceties that life has to offer – and more freedom to choose what you want to do when – but you feel trapped on the treadmill and fear that the minute you stop sprinting, the hard-fought trappings of your lifestyle will grind to a screeching halt.

In the immortal words of one of my favourite Pink Floyd songs, many of us have become ‘comfortably numb’. We are resigned to the fact that what we have now is as good as it gets and because we are starved of ‘margin’ we just don’t have the time or energy to find a way to get our childhood time and our freedom back. If only there was a way out.

Or maybe you are one of the many time-poor professionals who love your work and your career and know you need to be doing more to secure your long-term future and leave a lasting legacy for your family but you don’t have the time, don’t have the expertise, don’t know where to start and don’t know who to trust.

We feel caught in a time trap. We can’t seem to take the time now, so that we can invest in the time we have left to make the time we need to enjoy life to the full.

Newsflash! This book has the power to take you from the good life to the great life. It will challenge you to wake up from your malaise and give you the ways and means to regain your time and your freedom – to truly enable you to live your ideal life now and into the future. How do I know this? Because the principles and processes this book distils have worked for my wife and I personally, and the countless others we have helped over the last 20 years.

Like it or lump it, but in our current westernised capitalist world, money makes the world go round. Unfortunately, ‘money’ and ‘investment’ seem to have become dirty words in our culture – to invest and make money is somehow equated to the pursuit of evil. However, every single one of us is ‘investing’ every second of every day – whether we are doing it consciously or unconsciously, we all make daily choices on where we decide to invest our time, our money and our interest. Money is the lifeblood enabler of our choices and the fuel for our freedom – for me, it buys time, influence and a voice to do good. You may not want to acknowledge it, but see how long you can survive without it – because, in the words of Zig Ziglar, ‘Money isn’t everything, but it ranks right up there with oxygen.’ The cold hard reality is that if you don’t master money, it will master you. And just like the flight attendant who always tells you to strap on your own oxygen mask first before helping others in an emergency, once you have taken care of your own (money) needs, you are then in a position to help others – see how long you last, however, if you try it the other way round. So the answer is to build wealth to sustain a steady flow of life-giving (oxygen) income.

This book is for you if you are a busy professional building your career and enjoying a strong, steady income that supports a good way of life but at the same time feeling trapped on the treadmill and not knowing how you are ever going to be able to work less and live more. Does this sound like you? You don’t know how you can reclaim your time and your freedom, and you are worried about maintaining and sustaining your lifestyle long term and how you can leave a legacy for your loved ones. You may believe that investing in property could provide the answers, but you don’t have the expertise or the time to invest, and you don’t know who to trust or where to start.

You are also likely to be:

• looking for a solution that doesn’t take up too much of your valuable time or impact on your current lifestyle

• frustrated that you have been thinking about investing for years but have never actually managed to get started because your life is always just too busy

• conservative with your money and not a big risk taker – you are looking for a safe and affordable way to build wealth.

On the flip side, this book won’t appeal to anyone:

• trying to get rich quick

• looking to buy (or build) and sell property quickly – for example, flippers or property traders

• wanting to make a career change to full-time property investment.

If you fit any of the categories in the preceding list, do yourself a favour, stop reading and gift The Freedom Formula now to someone you care about who will benefit – it could be the greatest gift they ever receive.

For those of you who do fit the bill, this book will answer all of your questions in relation to the following:

• Do I need to do anything differently to improve and/or maintain my ideal lifestyle and be able to stop work...