It is possible today to accumulate enough wealth to support the type of lifestyle that you desire. With some effort, you can live like a millionaire without making a million bucks. Below are some great resources on the subject and can help get your mind working and focusing on how to maximize your strengths and efficiencies to reach a better life.

1. The Smart Traveler’s Passport$15 4/5 stars

399 Tips from Seasoned Travelers This ridiculously inexpensive budget travel guide will help you shave pennies, pounds, or francs from your world wide travel excursions. Why pay rent in your home country where you can live cheaper in remote parts of the world? Experience all that foreign cultures have to offer, without spending your fortune.

2. The Middle-Class Millionaire $17 4/5 stars

Sandwiched between the rich and the middle class are 8.4 million
American households with a net worth between $1 million and
million. This book presents intriguing statistical nuggets from their survey of 586 middle-class millionaire households. Although these people may be rich by most definitions, many were raised middle class, earned rather than inherited their wealth and still retain middle-class values. The book offers something for those who yearn to join the middle-class millionaires or move up among their ranks, especially entrepreneurs
with business plans for this population, who are heavily profiled in these pages.

3. The 4-Hour Work Week $12 4.5/5 stars

The “Manifesto” for the new New Rich…don’t miss this book. The author has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business,
this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:

• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent “mini-retirements”
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office

4. Work Less, Live More $13 4.5/5 stars

Another great book with clear examples and ideas on how to escape from a never ending McJob and semi-retire sooner that you might think.Tired of the daily grind? Looking for an alternative to a lifetime of stress and overwork? Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement is your roadmap to the exit. Written by early semi-retiree Bob Clyatt, the book gives encouragement and step-by-step knowledge for securely moving beyond full-time work, whatever your age.

5. Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips $26 4.5/5 stars

This amazing guide produced by National Geographic covers the greatest destinations around the world. From Berlin to Hong Kong, this book has it all. Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic’s travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world’s most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered. A timely resource for the burgeoning ranks of active travelers who crave adventurous and far-flung trips, Journeys of a Lifetime
provides scores of creative ideas: trekking the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania… mountain biking in Transylvania… driving through the scenic highlands of Scotland… or rolling through the outback on Australia’s famous Ghan train… and dozens of other intriguing options all over the world. Journeys of a Lifetime also features 22 fun Top 10 lists in all sorts of categories. What are the world’s top 10 elevator rides, bridges to walk across, trolley rides, ancient highways, or underground walking adventures? Readers will love evaluating and debating the selections. Each chapter showcases stunning photography, full-color maps, evocative text, and expert advice—including how to get there, when to visit, and how to make the most of the journey—all packaged in a luxurious oversize volume to treasure for years to come.