Who is Josh Williams?

I live with my parents. I am in debt. I am becoming a millionaire.

Who cares? Maybe you want to know more about what I’ve done with my life up

until now. Well, you’re not going to get my life story here, but I can provide

a brief summary of what I’ve done since I left high school.

I was part of the graduating class from 2000 at Ocean Reef Senior High School.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and was ready to take a year off

and have a holiday from education after a long year of exams and study.

Next thing I knew I was accepted into Curtin University for a Bachelor of Arts

in Mass Communication which was basically general media studies.

I liked graphic design and wanted to make music videos.

This three year degree took me almost five years to complete.

By the time I finished I was obsessed with advertising.

Creative Advertising would have to be one of the most interesting industries

I had ever heard of, and knew I would eventually work in an advertising agency.

My love for great ideas and creative communication took over my life.

Art direction and copy writing became my life and I had so much fun

exploring this career direction.

Towards the end of my studies I supported myself by working at a web design

and online marketing company as a telemarketer. I used to support myself by

calling business owners and learning a heap about marketing and business

in the real world. I actually had a few different telemarketing jobs

and did this for more than five years.

Most people I’d see last three to six months in this type of job.

I became part of the furniture at my last telemarketing job and ended

up working directly with a sales rep sending him all over Australia.

I organized his appointments and assisted in the national expansion of

the web design company and learned a lot about business development.

I followed the dream of working in a creative role as part of an advertising

agency for years on end with no success of landing a job. I did plenty

of work experience at a heap of different agencies in Perth.

I also persisted with this desire to the point where I tried four times,

four years in a row, to get in to a specialist creative advertising

course run by the industry. I eventually got in, and this was,

in my mind, the icing on the cake for my education.

I felt like I had ‘made it’ and was fully qualified to get my

ultimate job working as a creative in an advertising agency.

But I didn’t.

Whilst acquiring my specialist creative advertising knowledge

and experience, I had been seriously developing my business skills

working for the website design company. Dealing with clients

and achieving sales budgets, managing a team of telemarketers

and being a key player in the national expansion of the website

company had molded me into a very experienced sales,

marketing and business development consultant.

I wanted to be a creative but I had become a suit.

I did eventually get a dream job in an advertising agency. Rather than

being part of the creative team, I managed to land a senior position

working in management for a small agency that had just

bought a web design business. This was a huge opportunity for me

as I had finally reached my goal of working in creative advertising,

plus I had a profit share arrangement so was virtually a partner in the business.

I worked over 60 hour weeks for this job. Blood, sweat and tears I

guess you could say. I made so many personal sacrifices for this job.

I dedicated many late nights and weekends to working in and on the business.

I poured all my energy into building this up to a fully integrated marketing

agency that managed both online and offline communication elements

in a flexible and creative environment. I loved it – I was living my dream

and worked on so many interesting accounts and projects.

But this was not enough.

After twelve months I looked at my income and decided I could be doing

better. I was thinking about what I would do and then a great friend of mine

told me to read a book called The One Minute Millionaire.

This changed my life.

Everything changed.

I had a new lease on life and a whole new vision about what I wanted to do.

After more than a year working in the advertising agency, I decided to hand in

my letter of resignation as a full time employee.

I have now shifted my role to become an external

consultant working on contract to the business.

I am now in the process of building one million dollars

worth of tangible assets in one year.

I decided to set this goal at the end of May 2007.

For me it’s not about becoming a millionaire – it’s about sharing the

experience with others and making a difference.

It is more about motivating others than it is about myself.

They say the journey of 1000 miles starts with the first step.

If you have a journey ahead and are hesitating,

don’t look at the 1000 steps, focus on that first one.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Nothing comes to those who wait.

Josh.

38 Days until it ends