Your Personalized Path to Financial Success
May 12, 2014
Hamilton, founder of Entrepreneurs Institute, is the Tim Ferriss poster child, working from a resort in Bali. After career ups and downs in his 20s, Hamilton struck it rich, and here wants to guide readers through a color-coded “Millionaire Master Plan” designed to provide semipersonalized advice for achieving great wealth. All people have natural genius, he claims; it’s just a matter of identifying which type is yours. Readers are urged to first take the online Millionaire Master Plan Test to determine their personality type and the appropriate path through the “Wealth Lighthouse,” which covers the nine stages of life: Victim, Survivor, Worker, Player, Performer, Conductor, Trustee, Composer, and Legend. The four sides of the lighthouse are Dynamo (ideas smart), Blaze (people smart), Tempo (senses smart), and Steel (details smart). In a Choose Your Own Adventure–type format, which includes stories from his own life, Hamilton takes readers through the levels. The language is by turns encouraging and obscure: “In the nine steps up the Wealth Lighthouse, we move in a zigzag from freedom of choice to freedom of movement. We progress through personal value and personal leverage to social value and social leverage.” Though Hamilton’s story is inspiring, the Lighthouse pitch will be tough for most readers to take seriously. Agent: Wendy Keller, Keller Media.
July 1, 2014
Hamilton, an investor with global interests, aims to show us a path to wealth creation, starting with an online test to identify our natural genius. Are we a Dynamo genius (ideas smart), Blaze genius (people smart), Tempo genius (very hands-on, senses smart), or Steel genius (details smart)? Knowing that, we are guided through his Wealth Lighthouse: nine levels of growing wealth, beginning with mastering personal flow as Victim (who goes deeper in debt), Survivor (with enough money to survive), and Worker (some extra money but still chasing it). In the next Lighthouse phase, one masters market flow as a Player (by forming the right team or partnership), Performer (by building the culture of the team and connecting it to one's mission), and Conductor (with multiple investments, the investor does not need to get involved). The final three levels of Hamilton's Wealth Lighthouse describe stages for using wealth power to change the world and give as examples Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey. This excellent road map is a GPS to achieve your success. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)