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10X is not the outcome; it's a counterintuitive process you can apply every time you want exponential growth in your life and business. To make 10X possible, you must focus on expanding what Dan defines as your four most important freedoms—time, money, relationship, and purpose. As your time becomes 10X more valuable, you increasingly multiply the money you earn both in terms of amount and profitable satisfaction. As money becomes a tool you can increasingly access with greater ease, you will engage with a growing number of other freedom-motivated individuals.

John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, a practice management software for business advisors.

His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages.

John is the host of Built to Sell Radio, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s 10 best podcasts for business owners. In 2015, John wrote another best-selling book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry. John completes the trilogy with his latest book, The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top.

The average person doesn’t need a degree in business or accounting to avoid paying too much in taxes—they simply need to discover their misconceptions about taxes and create a plan to reduce those taxes over time. In Don’t Get Killed by Taxes, P. J. DiNuzzo and Steven Jarvis bust the most common myths that keep people paying too much in taxes. They sharefive simple building blocks that can save money and reveal twenty of the most common tax strategies to substantially reduce an individual’s tax burden.

Taxpayers have been conditioned to believe myths about taxes that are simply not true, such as:

“Taxes are a fact. I have no control over how much I pay.”
“As long as I get a refund, I’ve won.”
“I use tax preparation software. I’m all set.”
“I have a tax preparer. I’m all set.”

Don’t Get Killed by Taxes offers the building blocks for anyone to reduce their taxes. Motivated readers who apply DiNuzzo and Jarvis’ strategies will:

Reduce their tax rate
Optimize tax deferred and tax free investments
Create a “paycheck” —one that will last the rest of their lives
Capture every benefit they’re entitled to
Pay substantially less in taxes.

Bryan Bloom really does a great job writing a great book geared for consumers on the under-reported benefits of cash value life insurance. It's nice to have a CPA report on these benefits from an unbiased view and someone that is not in the insurance business himself. One of the most thorough books about utilizing Permanent Life Insurance as your own bank to finance everything throughout your life.