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Ernie Zelinski is an author and professional speaker. He is an authority on the topics of why you should love a recession, early retirement, fun at work, solo-entrepreneurship, why money talks sometimes, and applying creativity to business and leisure.
Life of Ernie Is Wild and Free
Adapted from a National Post article by Bill Hanley, May 3, 2008
To say Ernie J. Zelinski has taken the road less travelled would be a large understatement. Quite simply, the author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free and other self-help best-sellers has taken the road never before travelled, living a life designed on his own terms.
In How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get From Your Investment Advisor, he writes: "The way I see it, you will have attained true freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at -- all at your own pace. The great news is that retirement allows you the opportunity to attain this freedom."
Zelinski, 58, a professional engineer by training and subsequent MBA graduate, has been mostly semi-retired since 1980 and has not missed the corporate grind one bit, living his particular kind of freedom for almost 30 years.
"I semi-retired when I was $30,000 in the hole and I've been semi-retired ever since," he says over the phone from his home in Edmonton. "Even if I made $10-million or $20-million, I still think I'd want to be doing what I'm doing because I really like doing what I'm doing."
MORE ABOUT ERNIE ZELINSKI
Ernie Zelinski is best known as the author of The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked. This international bestseller (published in English by Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, California) has sold over 225,000 copies and has been published in 17 languages in 21 different countries.
The National Turkish Society for Quality recently spent over $20,000 to bring Ernie to their 17th annual convention in Istanbul to speak about The Joy of Not Working to over 2,000 executives, scholars, and students.
Ernie Zelinski, however, has also written How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, the international bestseller (over 100,000 copies sold and published in 7 foreign languages) that offers Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor. An Amazon.com reviewer states that "How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free is "The World's Best Retirement Book." Indeed, type "retirement" into Amazon.com's search feature and How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free appears in the #1 position — out of over 175,000 listings for retirement books!
Ernie is also author of the unconventional Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations. His latest work is 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting.
Ernie Zelinski's books have now sold over 550,000 copies worldwide. Ernie has negotiated 97 book deals with publishers in 27 different countries for his 15 books. He is presently transforming his The 777 Best Things Ever Said about Money (Japanese rights sold) and Life's Secret Handbook for Having Great Friends (French and Spanish rights sold) into Creative Downloadable Free E-Books to be used as viral marketing tools for his other successful books. Ernie occasionally speaks professionally on the subjects of book marketing, early retirement planning, and applying creativity to business and leisure.
Ernie Zelinski's Top-5 Specialties:
1. International Best-Selling Author — His books Have Sold Over 550,000 Copies.
2. Early Retirement — He Semi-Retired When He Was 30 Years Old and Broke!
3. Solo-Entrepreneurship — "Secure Career" Is Not Part of His Vocabulary!
4. Self-Publishing — All of His Best-Sellers Had to Be Self-Published.
5. Book Promotion — Specializes in Using Free Creative E-books for Viral Marketing.
OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD AND PUBLISHED IN 7 FOREIGN LANGUAGES
With a focus on the non-financial aspects of retirement, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free explores the myriad choices and decisions we are all confronted with in living out our retirement lives. Easy to read and well-laid out, the bestselling non-financial retirement book on Amazon.com emphasizes preparing for retirement long before you retire.
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free is a provocative, entertaining, down-to-earth, and tremendously inspiring book that will help you get more joy and satisfaction out of all your retirement activities.
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Note: See the resources below for some great quotations and information about retirement:
Free Retirement Speeches on The Retirement Speeches Café
Ernie Zelinski on Squidoo
Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere.
— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski
Consider this carefully: If you are working more than eight hours a day, you are in the wrong job. Either that — or you are doing it wrong.
— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski
Never mistake hard work for success about to happen. Trying to achieve success solely through hard work is like trying to reach the North Pole by heading south. You may eventually get there, but it will take a hundred times the energy, time, and sacrifice that it should take.
— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing — and you will have it all!
— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski
Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.
— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie J. Zelinski
When you think that you don't have time to watch a beautiful sunset — think again. The time when you most need to watch a sunset is when you don't have time for it!
— from The Joy of Not Working by Ernie J. Zelinski
Consider this carefully:
If you are working more than eight hours a day, you are in the wrong job. Either that — or you are doing it wrong.
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It
Everything in life has a price attached to it.
There is a price for not working hard enough; and there can be an even larger price for working too hard.
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It
The universe defies you to answer the following questions:
What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable?
What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it?
What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them?
Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members?
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It
Know the moment when to work diligently.
Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead.
This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It
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