The Million Book Giveaway

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I am so pumped to be telling you that the How To Be Rich and Happy 1,000,000 Book Giveaway is finally under way.

It has taken some while to get everything in place (including dealing with plenty of dream crusher-types telling us we were being unrealistic – pah!), but finally we’re good to go. If at this point you have no idea what I’m talking about, read this post.

As of now, 90% of the proceeds of every sale will be going directly to print the physical versions of How To Be Rich and Happy.

At this stage (and it could well change as we move forward) we have targeted 4 separate groups of people to give the free books to:

• High school/University age kids
• Single parent families
• Unemployed people
• Homeless people

We have no idea how long it will take to generate the money we need to place our first order, so to give ourselves a head start we are ordering 3,000 copies and will pay for these ourselves.

It takes about 12-16 weeks to get the books printed and shipped to the US and we still have a final edit to do. So realistically speaking it will be June before we have them in our hands ready to start giving away to worthy causes and our supporters.

If we waited until we raised the $5,000 or thereabouts we’ll need for the first print run, it may take us a few weeks to get there and we’re very impatient to make this happen now!

We have set 3 price points with varying goodies thrown in to help entice you to part with your hard earned cash. The eagle eyed amongst you will see we have set a lower price point than was originally the recommended retail.

The reason for this is not to invite people to pay as little as possible. It’s purely that we realize not everybody can afford $47 no matter how much they want to buy the book and help other people.

Seeing as the whole project is to help people that may not have the financial means to help themselves, it seemed somewhat counter-intuitive to then price hundreds of thousands of people out of the market.

We still really, really need your help to make this happen and yes I am on bended knee groveling. This is only the beginning of what I personally hope will become an ongoing project that spreads overseas to tens of millions of people.

I told you I liked big, hairy, audacious goals.

If you like this blog, then the book is 100x better!

The best material in this blog is in there, but it’s improved upon because it’s been re-written expanded on and organized to flow in a logical and easy to follow order.

Plus there is all of Johns great stuff to boot, and trust me he’s very knowledgeable on self-development and finances.

The single worst bit of feedback I have received about the book is when somebody left this comment on the blog:

“I have read How To Be Rich and Happy and I quite liked it”

I felt stunned and a bit like I’d been damned with feint praise when I first read that. Until I realized I’d had almost 100 pieces of feedback and that was the worst by some way!

Can You Help?

If you have the book already or it doesn’t really appeal to you in any way shape or form, you can still help us, if you would be so kind?

Tweeting this post would be ubercool as would mentioning it on Facebook or Stumbling/Digging it. In fact any social media mentions would be brilliant as well as forwarding on to your friends.

If you could link from your own site directly to the How To Be Rich and Happy site that would be even cooler and would lift you up to Saint status as far as I’m concerned. By the way, feel free to copy the logo and use for such a purpose.

I’d love to do any interviews and I’m prepared to whore myself in pretty much anyway to publicize the project. Although any suggestions involving me filming a Doberman hanging off my gonads again for YouTube will not be graciously accepted.

So that’s pretty much it and The Discomfort Zone will be back to normal (there’s a misnomer if ever I’ve heard one) later this week when I’m going to be giving the farm away. I know you’ll do your bit to help with this, so please accept my sincere thanks and finish by saying, if you ever need my help, you know where I am.