The main purpose of project Mojave is to help you create a business that allows you to work when and how you want, spend more time travelling or with family, and that enables you to live a life of massive personal freedom.

Project Mojave was created after it became clear to me that . . .

• Too many people get up in the morning dreading their upcoming work day.
• Most people will retire from jobs that they dislike (as much as the ones they have now).
• Too many people’s jobs are the #1 life-sucking force in their lives.

We’re going to take a very new approach to teaching and learning and I think you’ll be in for quite a few surprises.

Anyway Project Mojave is, quite literally, a project.  And over the course of 2-3 months, we’ll cover . . .

• How to use market research to get over your fear (of failure, going broke, pain etc.).
• Simple, step-by-step instructions to begin a very small but profitable business to ease into making money.
• How to try new business ideas before you develop a product.
• How to figure out the business ideas you can start — with your skills — and actually be excited about for years to come.
• How to find reliable sources of income that don’t monopolize all of your free time.
• Detailed instructions on how to discover profitable markets and niches that others are overlooking (and that can fund your freedom for years).
• How to decide which of your ideas will likely be the MOST profitable and succeed.
• How to eliminate much of the uncertainty involved in starting a business and launching a product.
• How to figure out which of your skills are sufficiently developed to finance an independent lifestyle.
• A step-by-step blueprint for testing whether or not people want to BUY the product you want to make.
• How to “run” with your business ideas and make them profitable as quickly as possible.
• How to specifically focus your time and energy so that you’re not wasting time or resources.
• How to determine the best way to market your business (SEO, Adwords, etc.)

And really, there’s a lot more.  But you’re find out more when we start accepting new Project Mojave members.

Warm regards,

Clay

Cubicle-dissenters and freedom-seekers, I present you with this manifesto on the liberation revolution.

This movement happening all around us is, quite literally, the story of mental bondage to freedom. People everywhere are finding liberation through ditching the work-template and living on their own terms.

If this movement interests you, we’d like you to be a part of it.

You kick so much ass, it would be a shame to see that squandered by asphyxiation, due to fluorescent lighting and pointless committee meetings.

What you’ll find in this manifesto is 5,000 free words on the characteristics of this uprising. You’ll hear the reasons of others and why they’re committed to the freedom of working for themselves and reclaiming their time.

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DOWNLOAD THE MANIFESTO HERE.

The reason for this:

People have long been ditching the employee model of life, but rarely has there been a collective banding together of individuals to support each other in this movement. This manifesto is an attempt to create a coherent, articulate representation of the reason we are unsatisfied with the work-template and seeking a new paradigm.

What’s under the hood:

• Why we’re tired of choking back vomit because we’re going another day doing a job we hate, with people we don’t connect with, working for someone we don’t respect.
• How we’re transforming our relationship with work, through breaking down social conventions and overly politicized nonsense.
• Why we think entrepreneurship is one of the highest forms of self-actualization.
• How we’re in this together.
• How to cultivate the “Free-man” (or free-woman) mindset and seven things you can do right now.
• The importance of getting to Game Over.

Are you totally down with this revolution? Is this something you’ve been waiting for?

Here’s how you can help:

1. Spread the word. Send this manifesto to your friends, family, or co-worker that’s about to commit suicide (she needs to read this). Tweet about it, stumble this page, print it out and post it on the telephone polls on your block.
2. Declare your freedom. No better way can you help strengthen this revolution than by declaring your own sovereignty. By reclaiming your own freedom, you give others the courage to do the same.

Lastly, thank you. You kick ass.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Mead
Director of Ass Kicking
Project Mojave Faculty Member

Click here to download the slides.

[A Note from Clay: This post is the first of a series of liberation stories.  The story you are about to read comes from Jane Chin, who is one of the most amazing people I've met in the last year -- and I've met a lot of cool people in the last year.  Her story is long, but worth every minute.]

The Goods On Jane

Jane Chin was born in Taiwan, spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, and came of age in the United States. Jane trained as a scientist, earning a doctorate in biochemistry and began a series of healthcare careers from cancer research to pharmaceutical sales to field-based medical affairs.  Now as entrepreneur, Jane can fully engage in Intelligent Career Design and chart her own future. The Census Bureau may put Jane in Generation X, but Jane sees herself as a member of the "Bridge Generation", where her multi-continental, multi-cultural, and multi-career adventures has helped her form bridges between different worlds.  In 2008, Jane embarked on an experiment to spend 366 days doing what she loves, to see what success, if any, may follow. What emerged is Jane’s personal journey to reconnect with The Heart Mind and Inner World Peace. She chronicles her lessons learned in the website, WhatILoveToDo.com.  Her other websites include Microbusiness Mentor and Intelligent Career Design.

Jane’s Story

I never saw myself as an entrepreneur. At one point in my career, I said that I could never imagine NOT working for someone else.

I liked the steady paychecks, especially from a six-figure job with annual bonuses. I liked the paid vacation days and ability to call in sick when I got sick. I was field-based and operated out of a home office, which meant I had tremendous autonomy over my schedule. I had a cool sounding job title (Medical Science Liaison or MSL). Travel was part of my job and I would pay my my husband’s plane ticket so he could travel with me to places like Hawaii and New York. He could explore places like Hawaii during the day when I was in medical meetings and we’d have some personal time in the evenings. If the meetings ended on a Friday, we’d stay over the weekend and return to Los Angeles Sunday evening. In many ways, I already had the "dream job", and in fact, CNN Money ranked the medical science liaison career #1 in healthcare in 2007.

I Quit My Six Figure Job With No Business Idea or Backup Plan

I can imagine people thinking I was nuts when I quit this six-figure job in January of 2004. I had no "back-up plan". I didn’t even have a "business idea".

So I have this new project that’s really just “The Growing Life 2.0.”  It’s called Finance Your Freedom, and I’ve talked about it at length here.  I just finished hiring an assistant to help with the site (god, that sounds so “hardcore” even thought it isn’t), and I’ve partnered with a fancy top secret crazy person to help make the site not suck.

(So if you’re interested in my new non-sucking project, go nab an RSS subscription to it before they’re all gone). Or subscribe to the Finance Your Freedom newsletter here:

Anyway, I’ve received over a hundred emails of encouragement (thank you!), but a few people have been suspicious.  I appreciate those emails too.  Here’s my response.

But don’t get too worked up about FYF.  I’m not worked up.  I’m just this guy whose stumbled upon a bunch of ideas and tactics and stuff that’s helped me and some friends to quit our day jobs.  (This stuff might work for you too).

(By the way, as a result of my freedom I’ve been able to move to California for a bit to spend time with my grandfather who’s experiencing the early stages of Alzheimer’s.  Which has been really nice.  I love lifestyle design).

One last thing: sometime really soon (within the next 5 days) your Growing Life subscription will convert to a Finance Your Freedom subscription.

(What comes next for The Growing Life’s domain name isn’t certain right now . . . maybe I’ll delete all my articles and replace them with gross looking ads for casinos and Viagra and then hire a bunch of people to click on them; just kidding).

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