Every student should read this book! The
Student Success Manifesto is a framework
for creating wealth by taking your passion
and turning it into profit!

Mark Victor Hansen,Co-author,
The One Minute Millionaire
Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series
Chicken Soup for the Soul^®

Foreword by Steve Mariotti, Founder and President,
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Dear fellow student,

Are you having trouble deciding what you're going to do for the rest of your life and more specifically what you're going to do after you graduate from school?

Do feel overextended and find yourself perpetually behind?

Do you simply want to take your life to the next level?

Competition to get into the 'best' jobs and schools has never been fiercer among students. Internal pressure and external expectations have forced students to deal with significantly more stress just to keep up with the pack. For example, have you ever had to begin a new week already worn out from last week's work and the consequences of your procrastination, knowing you'll have to sacrifice sleep or free time just to keep up with a heavy workload you're not passionate about?

Students emerging from adolescence into adulthood are given more freedom than they've ever had and are responsible for making many formative life decisions. Decisions made during this period can set an individual on a path towards a life of success or a life of distress. If you take any 100 students and follow them for 40 years until they reach retirement age, you'll find the following, according to the Social Security Administration:

The decisions we make now will determine our success and quality of life in the future! Are you willing to make the decisions that will make you part of the 1% instead of the 99%?

Passionately Pursue Your Purpose and Create Wealth while Differentiating Yourself and Getting Ahead of Your Peers

The Student Success Manifesto is a blueprint for passionately planning, prioritizing, and pursuing your own vision and in so doing become one this century's agents of change. Through understanding the Extreme Entrepreneurship philosophy you will view yourself as a human enterprise, a business of one, with the responsibility of maximizing the value you create for yourself and others.

The entrepreneurial mindset alone has been proven to account for the majority of innovation, job-creation, and philanthropy in America. Traditionally, business enterprises are the vehicle through which this is accomplished. This book helps you leverage these two powerful forces and apply them to your life. From the book, you will:

• Become the big fish in your own pond by understanding the entrepreneurial mindset and how it can be easily assimilated into your life regardless of whether or not you are an entrepreneur.
  
  
• Be prepared for whatever the future brings by understanding and capitalizing on the following five massive trends that will dramatically affect your life:
  • Accelerating Change
  • Large Safe
  • Your own path is safer than the conventional path
  • The respected becomes the expected
  • Paying dues is risky
    
    
• Always fall forward by understanding your core tangible and intangible assets (money, brand, network, health, development, growth) and leveraging them to achieve your goals.
  
  
• Use your age to your advantage by understanding the principles that helped individuals like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Richard Branson all become successful in their youth.
  
  
• Take action by creating and pursuing your own inspiring self-education curriculum where you define success.
  
  
• Start pursuing one or more of the fifteen action-packed, unconventional success endeavors right away:
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Shadowing executives and role models
    
  • Informational interviews
    
  • Seminars/conferences
  • "Vuja Daze"
  • Taking time off from school
    
  • Competitions, awards, and scholarships
    
  • Etc.
    

Learn From Years of Unique Experiences in a Few Hours

My name is Michael Simmons and I'm a student at New York University (NYU). When I was sixteen years old a friend and I started a web development company. Two years later we earned over $40,000 in less than a year with no formal business or web development education and no prior contacts while going to school full-time, playing sports, and having a social life. More importantly I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, gained valuable experience that differentiated me from my peers, and learned powerful, practical knowledge that has transformed my life and complemented the academic knowledge I learn in school.

While at NYU, I've spent over 700 hours of my time attending seminars and conferences related to success and I've read over 100 books on self-development and business. From these experiences I've learned and grown more than I could've imagined as a sixteen year old. In fact, most of the things I am known for now (i.e., writing and speaking) were either a weakness or were something I was too afraid to do when I was sixteen. Are you committed to taking your life to the next level? Are you open to new ways of achieving success and personal growth beyond academics, conventional extracurricular activities, and conventional career paths?

You may be wondering, "Why should I read a book written by a student my own age?" As I began writing this ebook, I worried that my readers would ask this exact question. Over the past few years, I've made more mistakes than I can count and I'm sure I have many more coming. However, as I thought more and talked to more people, I realized that I was the best person to write this book for two main reasons:

1. During the past five years I've had very unique experiences and acquired extremely valuable principles that can be used to dramatically improve the life of any student. My experiences have improved my life in many, many ways.
   
   One prominent example is conquering my fear of public speaking. When I was sixteen years old, I remember being afraid to read a one minute speech off of a note card to a class where I knew everybody. I was practicing the speech for days in advance, I could barely sleep the night before, and I still made many mistakes while my whole body was shaking and my voice was cracking. Now, I regularly speak to student audiences, sometimes numbering in the hundreds.
   
   In addition, at nearly every 'adult' conference and seminar I've been too, attendees have come up to me saying they wish they had been exposed to the principles when they were young. Well, now is YOUR chance. The Student Success Manifesto boils down all my hard work and time into a concise, but detailed ebook on how to achieve success on your own terms.
   
   
2. I am the same age as my audience and I'm dealing with the same issues and problems. I believe I can deliver the very important messages that the book has to offer in an interesting way that relates to my audience better than a similar book that written by an adult could.
   
   

The Student Success Manifesto eBook Is Built For Action

I am judging my success on whether readers are able to apply the principles of the book to their life, not only on how many people read it. I've seen too many people talk about success, but not enough take action. While snuggling up with a book before you go to bed, may feel nice, it doesn't necessarily lead to action. I believe ebooks are powerful catalysts for action because they provide immediate access to your computer and the Internet. As a result, you can, in real-time, explore related resources and ideas online, contact and interact with people online, log your life-changing insights into your word processor so you'll actually see them in the future, and copy and paste powerful passages on to your computer. In addition to making action easier, I have chosen the ebook format for its following advantages:

1. Read it Now. Download the ebook and free gifts immediately. There is no waiting and no delivery fees.
   
   
2. Print it for Free. Read on any computer or print from your school or work printer.
   
   
3. Mobility. You don't have to carry a book around with you, you can read it from any computer. Or you can just carry around the pages you plan to read.
   
   
4. Multimedia. Ability to spread messages with embedded sound and video.
   
   
5. Interactivity. Ability to express and share your own perceptions with others.

Why Take Action Now

With my special, limited-time offers, the book will probably sell very quickly. So I urge you to take advantage while these limited-time opportunities are in place and receive:

1. Better Than Risk-Free Guarantee. I believe that everybody wants to be successful on some level. However, most people don't make the investment necessary to achieve it. Most people don't realize that the risks of staying the same outweigh the costs of changing and making investments in your success. Are you willing to change to and make investments in your dreams? With an investment of $9.95 and a little time, I guarantee you will be satisfied. If you walk away with even one principle and are able to apply it to your life, you will be getting more than your money's worth. In fact, I more than guarantee you will be satisfied. If you are not satisfied, I will refund your money and you will get to keep the free gifts ($30+) with no questions asked.
   
   
2. Over $30 in Special Free Bonuses If You Buy Before June 30th. Receive two free, information-packed special reports, The Student Success Manifesto Key Points and Action Summary ($6.95 value) and The Life Plan Workbook Special Report ($24.95 value, available in summer of 2003), which both will help you take action and achieve your goals.
   
   
3. 25% of All Sales Are Donated to the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). NFTE's mission is to teach entrepreneurship to low-income young people, ages 11 through 18, so they can become economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills.
   
   
4. Low, Limited-Time Introductory Price If You Buy Before June 30th. Receive 33%+ off of the final retail price.
   

I've made it as inexpensive and un-risky as possible for you to take the next step. I'm committed to your success and I want to be your partner in it! Are you willing to let me be your mentor? If I can be of any assistance at all or answer any questions, please feel free to email me at michael@successmanifesto.com.

I wish you the best of luck on your journey.

Sincerely,
Michael Simmons
Author, The Student Success Manifesto

P.S.: The low, limited-time introductory price and over $30 in free, special bonuses only lasts until June 30th. Also, don't forget that if you aren't satisfied with The Student Success Manifesto you can get a full refund and keep the gifts with no questions asked.