“The Fastlane mentality is a refreshing perspective on growing wealth in time to enjoy it. I am so tired of the traditional advice of working hard and saving gradually. This Slowlane approach was not working for me. MJ helped me realize what was possible, and I am ‘accelerating’ faster than I could have imagined. My business and my net worth is growing every day. I hate to imagine where I would be without The Fastlane.” — Skyler R., Idaho Falls, Idaho “Before I discovered The Fastlane, I had the opinion that money had to be earned by working for someone else 10 hours a day for at least 50 years.
I thought that making millions was only for those who had either rich parents or luck. Now I know better-making millions neither requires rich parents nor luck. It requires the knowledge of how to make those millions. And through the Fastlane, I was able to acquire this knowledge.” —Florian F., Augsburg, Germany “To say that your advice and the ‘Fastlane principles’ you teach have changed my life is an understatement. I KNEW there was a better life out there, but I had become frustrated about how to reach it. After reading months of your free advice in the free Fastlane Forum, it all started coming together for me.
I began to see WHY I was living paycheck to paycheck, and I decided then that I was going to escape it. Four years later, I have almost quadrupled my net worth. I have saved and invested more in the past few years then many of my friends in their 30s. Furthermore, at 26 years old now, the education I have received in the past four years far exceeds anything I could have learned in college.” — Mike G., Washington, New Jersey “The Fastlane has taught me how to think BIG and realize that a 9-5 job is not the answer. I will soon graduate college and not be worried with interviews. Thanks!” —Luke M., Durham, North Carolina “If it weren’t for the Fastlane, I’d still be looking at a pencil-pushing future, **The “Lamborghini Prophecy” Completes** The Millionaire Fastlane is the echo of a chance encounter I had long ago when I was a pudgy teenager.
It was a Fastlane ignition of consciousness, a resurrection triggered by a stranger driving a mythic car-a Lamborghini Countach. The Fastlane was born, and with it the resolution and belief that creating wealth need not take 50 years of financial mediocrity devoured by decades of work, decades of saving, decades of mindless frugality, and decades of 8% stock market returns. Often, this book references the Lamborghini brand, and it isn’t to brag when I say I’ve owned a few. The Lamborghini icon represents the fulfillment of a prophecy in my life. It innocently started when I saw my first Lamborghini and it kicked my ass out of my comfort zone.
I confronted its young owner and asked a simple question: “How can you afford such an awesome car?” The answer I received, unveiled in chapter 2, was short and powerful, but I wish I had more. I wish that man had taken a minute, an hour, a day, or a week to talk to me. I wish that young stranger would have mentored me on how to get what I thought the Lamborghini represented: wealth. I wish that man had reached into his car and given me a book. Fast-forward to today. As I endanger the streets in my Lamborghini, I relive that same moment except in role reversal.
There’s a hidden road to wealth and financial freedom, a shortcut of blinding speed where you can achieve wealth in youthful exuberance over elder entropy. Yes, you don’t have to settle for mediocrity. You can live rich, retire four decades early, and live a life that most can’t. Sadly, the shortcut is cleverly camouflaged from your view. Instead of the shortcut, you’re led down a paralyzing road to mediocrity—a dulled cornucopia of financial stratagem tailored to the slumbering masses, a legion of mandates that sacrifices your wildest dreams in favor of numbed expectations. That road? It’s financial mediocrity, known as “Get Rich Slow,” “The Slowlane,” or “Wealth in a Wheelchair.”
That tedium sounds like this: Go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, invest in the stock market, max your 401(k), slash your credit cards, and clip coupons… then, someday, when you are, oh, 65 years old, you will be rich. This dictation is a decree to trade life, for life. It’s the long way, and no, it isn’t scenic. If wealth were an ocean voyage, “Get Rich Slow” would be sailing around the horn of South America, while the Fastlaner uses the shortcut—the Panama Canal. The Millionaire Fastlane isn’t a static strategy that preaches “go buy real estate,” “think positively,” or “start a business,” but a complete psychological and mathematical formula that cracks the code to wealth and unlocks the gateway to the shortcut. The Fastlane is a progression of distinctions that gives probability to the unspeakable: Live richly today while young, and decades before standard norms of retirement. Yes, you can win a lifetime of freedom and prosperity, and it doesn’t matter if you’re 18 or 40. What “Get Rich Slow” does in 50 years, the Fastlane shortcut does in five.
If you’re a typical wealth seeker, your approach to wealth can be predictably foretold by a timeless question: What do I have to do to get rich? The quest for the answer-wealth’s Holy Grail-throws you into a mode of pursuit where you chase a variety of strategies, theories, careers, and schemes that supposedly will bring great wealth into your lap. Invest in real estate! Trade currencies! Play pro ball! “What do I have to do?” screams the wealth seeker! No, please stop. The answer is more about what you’ve been doing than what you haven’t. There’s an old proverb that has mutated a few times but the gist is this: If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing. The translation? STOP! If you aren’t wealthy, STOP doing what you’re doing.
STOP following the conventional wisdom. STOP following the crowd and using the wrong formula. STOP following the roadmap that forsakes dreams and leads to mediocrity. STOP traveling roads with punitive speed limits and endless detours. I call it “anti-advice,” and much of this book follows this prescription. This book lists nearly 300 wealth distinctions designed to crack the code to wealth and get you off your current road and onto a new road where you can expose wealth’s shortcut. The distinctions are directional markers to “STOP” your old ways of action, thinking, and believing, and reorient you into a new direction. In essence, you have to unlearn what you have learned.