Ernie Zelinski

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Learn to Be More Successful by Working Smart and Not Hard

Hi! I'm ERNIE J. ZELINSKI, an international best-selling author and speaker specializing in solo-entrepreneurship, early retirement, and applying creativity to business and leisure.

I have been featured on major news media including the Canadian Broadcast Network, Associated Press, Istanbul TV Network, and over a hundred other radio, TV, and print outlets across the United States and Canada.

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Some of My Books 

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    The Best Selling Retirement Book on Amazon.com - Out of 200,000 Retirement Related Books


Over 110,000 Copies Sold

Published in 8 Foreign Languages

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    Some of My Other Books


The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It 

Here are some of the topics that I used in my speech to the National Turkish Congress on Quality in Istanbul on November 26, 2008. Most came from my book The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It which has been published in 9 languages.

Ernie Zelinski - The Lazy Person's Guide to Success




  • Ordinary career success is a real good job; real career success is a real good life.
  • Most success costs too much.
  • The conduct of society is a poor precedent for living a happy life.
  • The most creative shortcut to success is to think more about it.
  • Hard work is no match for relaxed, creative action.
  • The more creative your thinking, the fewer your cares and worries.
  • Security is a kind of death.
  • Creative loafing is good for your cash flow.
  • Money doesn't talk; it just whispers.
  • Money solves all problems except all those that it doesn't solve.
  • Financial insanity has its own big following - including you and me.
  • Your best purchases will turn out to be the ones that you never made.
  • There's more to life than having it all.
  • Being successful at work is irrelevant if you are a failure at home.
  • To work is human, to loaf divine.
  • Busyness is the last refuge of unproductive and unfulfilled people.
  • The top 10 worst Uses of your time.
  • The top 10 best uses of your time
  • Why 90 percent of things worth doing aren't worth doing well.
  • All things worth doing well get screwed up when you overdo them.
  • Your most powerful success tool is the 80-20 rule.
  • Slow down and your days will be longer.
  • The journey toward success should feel better than to arrive.
  • Only fools are in a hurry to get to anywhere worth going.
  • Life's a breeze when we put half as much time into simplifying it as we do into complicating it.
  • Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time dead!

American Edition of "The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness" Published by a Christian Publisher - 2nd from Left on Top Row 

Note: The Book Was More Buddhist than Christian

The Top-10 Worst Uses of Your Time 

    1. Doing what everyone else is doing

    2. Complaining about your situation in life and arguing why you are a victim

    3. Criticizing others, particularly those who are rich and successful

    4. Watching television

    5. Gossiping and talking on the telephone

    6. Doing things other people want you to do but you don't really want to do

    7. Regretting the past and worrying about the future

    8. Shopping and buying things that you don't need and can't afford

    9. Working at things you hate or are not good at

    10. Working at a lousy real job

The Top-10 Best Uses of Your Time 

    1. Attempting different things that hardly anyone else is doing

    2. Utilizing inspirational books and tapes to educate yourself about your unreal job or unconventional business

    3. Developing intellectual property

    4. Meditating and exercising

    5. Laughing and playing and celebrating life with your friends

    6. Doing things that relate to your overall purpose in life and that bring you real success without a real job

    7. Enjoying the present moment for all it is worth

    8. Saving and investing your money in optimum ways

    9. Doing things that you love and are good at

    10. Working at a great unreal job

Why Being a Writer Is Rewarding 

One of the interesting things about being a writer is receiving e-mails and letters about my books.

Here is an e-mail that I recently received about The Joy of Not Working from someone in California who apparently is not having any fun at work :

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Tom Scott
    To: vip-books (at) telus (dot) net
    Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:59 PM
    Subject: Re: The Joy of Not Working .

    Hello Ernie,

    I just picked up your book The Joy of Not Working this weekend. The title sort of grabbed me. I have been out of work since April and (so far) have found very little joy in it. Then I came to page 50 and fig 4.2 with the two boxes of before and after for a workaholic. It was me. My marriage had been bad for years and finally ended earlier this year. In effect I had already crossed off one item in my box a long time ago. Then my employer decided to help me cross off the other one. No wonder I felt lost, desperate, alone, and with no idea where to turn. The only two things that mattered to me were gone. From that I went through one compulsion after another. First women (the serial dater), exercise, you name it. None made me happy. Now I realize it's not about finding a passion, it's about finding all of them. I am going to get to work right now filling up my box.

    Thanks for steering me in the right direction. I'll take it from here.

    Tom

    Sonoma, CA


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Ernie Zelinski responds to Query about "Career Success Without a Real Job" 

I received this e-mail the other day in regards to my book Real Success Without a Real Job

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Mike
    To: Ernie Zelinski - vip-books (at) telus (dot) net
    Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:13 AM
    Subject: New book

    Hi Ernie,

    I just finished reading Real Success Without a Real Job - the fourth book of yours that I've bought and read - and I loved it! Thanks so much for focusing your efforts on self-employment and unreal jobs! I've been following your work for over 10 years now and have made great progress myself, although money management is still an obstacle for me. I've quit corporate life, written and self-published a book/ebook that has sold over 5,000 copies across Canada and the US, and, most importantly, enjoyed the freedom of self-employment and contract work for 4 years this February! I owe much of this transition to you, and I am extremely grateful.

    My question. I noticed you have a new title coming out soon: Career Success Without a Real Job. Since this title is almost identical to what I have just read, can you tell me what the difference will be between the two books? Is the focus of "Career Success..." any different than "Real Success...? "

    Keep up the inspiring work!

    Mike
    Coquitlam, BC

    PS. I look forward to a title dedicated entirely to book writing, self-publishing and publishing one day.


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Here is my response to Mike:
    Hello Mike:

    In fact, Career Success Without a Real Job is the updated version of Real Success Without a Real Job. The only differences are that the updated version will have a different cover and Chapter 7 has been rewritten. Instead of the chapter being one on friendship, it is one on a basic introduction to internet marketing - How to Make Money While You Sleep.

    Ernie Z.

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Author Ernie Zelinski working, or not, at the Sugar Bowl Cafe Photograph by : John Lucas, The Journal

Taking Responsibility - Fall down seven times. Get up eight. 



    Responsibility is the willingness to be the author of all your experiences, even the ones you don't like.
    - Ron Smotherman


I received this e-mail the other day: (I have deleted the last name due to the personal nature of the e-mail).

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: anne
    To: Ernie Z.
    Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 9:12 AM

    Dear Mr. Zelinski :

    Every time I go down, I read one of your books. They have helped me so many times, you have no idea.

    This time though I am having a hard time getting back on my feet. I am so tired.

    How do you get back on your feet after many failures? And how do you cope with all that is going on in the world like sickness, children missing, starvation . . . sometimes it seems there is no hope at all.

    You are an intelligent writer and I can't wish you anything but the best.

    Anne L.
This was my response:

    Hello Anne:

    In reply to your questions about how I get back on my feet after many failures, I agree it is easier for some people in this world than for others.

    And the world is full of misfortune.

    But even individuals who appear to have it good have their own problems that they have to deal with.

    For example, there are many things in my life that I have had to do without that others have and have got me down at times.

    But we must look at our own situations and see what we can be thankful for.

    Here are three inspirational quotes that I have on one of my websites:

      Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
      - Richard Bach

      Fall down seven times. Get up eight.
      - Japanese proverb

      There is no particular reason why you lost out on something. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there is no compensation for misfortune. You have a responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
      - Unknown wise person


    Just for the record lately I have been affected by the recession in several ways:

      1. I have lost about $65,000 in the stock market.
      2. My half-duplex has gone down in value by over $40,000 since I bought at the height of the market (because I had no good place to live at the time).
      3. My income is down dramatically because my retirement book sales have gone down dramatically due to house prices dropping in the U.S. and many baby boomers now not retiring.

    But I am looking for opportunity in the recession.

    I am about to reinvent myself as an Internet marketer.

    My motto is "Do It Badly - But At Least Do It!"

    Here are links to my latest projects on the Internet: (These are not the prettiest websites on the Interment - but this is no problem because the interment marketing gurus have found out that ugly websites make much more money than those professional-looking ones that cost a fortune to set up.)

    Thanks for your interest in my books.

    Ernie Z.


Here are some more inspirational quotes to add to those above:

    Inspirational Quotes - Taking Responsibility

    Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
    - Erica Jong

    Regardless of circumstances, each man lives in a world of his own making.
    - Josepha Murray Emms

    Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
    - George Bernard Shaw

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
    - Rainer Maria Rilke

    It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
    - Unknown wise person

    The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted.
    - Lord Byron

Ernie Zelinski Is Writing More than One New E-book. 

I found this post on http://butwhatnow.com/ernie-zelinski-is-writing-a-new-book/

    Ernie Zelinski is Writing a New Book
    July 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

    Planning to retire while still fully engaged in the day to day work world can feel a little confusing at times. To help I read other retirement blogs and books, that is when I have the time!

    Today I noticed a new post on Ernie Zelinski's blog after no activity for many months. Granted it's an Amazon blog, he may have another somewhere.

    The announcement is that he has 2 new free ebooks coming out. Here is the full post.


      "I am creating a new book of quotations called The 777 Best Things
      Ever Said about Money and another book called The Joy of Being Retired:
      101 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks (and Work Sucks)! that will soon
      be available as Free E-books on my websites. Another of my diversions
      is orchestrating one-page websites of retirement resources. Check
      out Free Retirement Speeches, The Retirement Letters Café, Retirement
      Jobs at the Real Success Resource Center, The Retirement Gift Ideas
      Café, The Retirement Poems Café, and Retirement Humor at the Retirement
      Jokes Café. "


    I tried to post the following on the website, but to no avail.

Vive la Retraite ! - French Edition of "How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free" by Ernie Zelinski 

Published by Stanke International

Chinese Edition of "101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting" by Ernie J. Zelinski 

Chinese Traditional Characters Edition published in Taiwan

This Book Has Been Published in at Least 7 Languages

Chinese Edition of 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski 

Chinese Simplified Characters Pubished by CITIC Publishing Mainland China

More Japanese Interest in The Joy of Not Working 


Cover of Japanese Edition of The Joy of Not Working

I just received this e-mail from a Literary Agency in Japan:

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Owl's Kohei
    To: vip-book ( at ) telus.net
    Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 7:30 PM
    Subject: Request: THE JOY OF NOT WORKING

    Dear Ernie Zelinski,

    How do you do. I am writing to you for the first time.
    Please forgive me to introduce myself: My name is
    Kohei Hattori, and I am a literary agent working at
    Owls Agency located in Tokyo.

    I am very keen on handling the Japanese translation
    rights of your book THE JOY OF NOT WORKING: A BOOK FOR THE RETIRED, UNEMPLOYED, AND OVERWORKED"

    If such rights are still free, I appreciate it a lot, if you could let me
    try to sell the rights, and send me one reading copy at your earliest
    opportunity.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

    Thank you in advance, and I look forward to hearing
    from you soon!

    Best wishes,

    KOHEI HATTORI
    OWLS AGENCY, INC.
    kohei - 1 (at) owlsagency.com

    1-7 Ganshodo, Kanda-Jimbocho,
    Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051 JAPAN


This was my response:

    Hello Kohei:

    Thanks for your interest in the Japanese rights to The Joy of Not Working.

    Actually, this book was first published in Japanese by Kodansha.

    After Kodansha let it go out of print, the book was again published in Japanese by Voice Inc. (arranged through the Tuttle Mori Agency).

    Perhaps you can interest some Japanese publisher in either of the following two books of mine:



    For your convenience, I have attached the PDFs with the complete book for both titles.

    These are the foreign editions published so far for 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting:



    • Published in Spanish by Amat Editorial, Barcelona

    • Published in Russian by Gayatri Publishing, Moscow

    • Published in French by Stanké International, Montreal

    • Published in Chinese by Yuan-Liou Publishing, Taipei

    • Published in Chinese simplified characters by CITIC Publishing House, Beijing

    • Published in Korean by Mulpure Publishing, Seoul

    • Published in English in Malaysia by TrueWealth Publishing, Kelana Jaya

    • Published in English for the Indian subcontinent by Macmillan India, New Delhi, India


    These are the foreign editions so far for Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations:



    • Published in Spanish for Spain and Latin America by Amat Editorial, Barcelona, Spain

    • Published in Russian by Gayatri/Livebook Publishing, Moscow, Russia

    • Published in English for the sub-continent of India by Macmillan India, New Delhi, India

    Note that Career Success Without a Real Job was first published in September 2007 with the title and subtitle Real Success Without a Real Job: There Is No Life Like It. It is being released by Ten Speed Press in March 2009 with the new title and subtitle Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations:

    I can send you a hard copy of the English edition of each of the books if you would like keeping in mind that I will have to send you a copy of the first edition of Career Success Without a Real Job.

    For your information, I also have two other books not published in Japanese. The books are:



    These two books have been published by foreign publishers but not in English. So, I can only send you PDFs of these two books.

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Best regards and so long for now,

    Ernie Zelinski
    Author of the Bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
    (Over 110,000 copies sold and published in 7 foreign languages)
    and the International Bestseller The Joy of Not Working
    (Over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)



Amaryll C. and Ernie Zelinski 

Ernie Zelinski in His Younger Days at the Chateau Lake Louise Hotel 

Ernie Zelinski as a Young Engineer Working for Bechtel Corporation on the Syncrude Project 

Ernie Zelinski in Stanley Park in Vancouver - Holding a Copy of "The Joy of Not Working" 

Photo Taken in 1992 for Report on Business Magazine

New Text module 

Ernie Zelinski in front of The Blue Mosque in Istanbul 

Photo taken on November 26th after after Ernie Zelinski made his speech about The Joy of Not Working to 2,000 members of the National Turkish Congress on Quality in Istanbul on November 26, 2008.

Fan with Copy of Real Success Without a Real Job 

These are the foreign editions so far for Real Success Without a Real Job:

    Published in Spanish for Spain and Latin America by Amat Editorial, Barcelona, Spain

    Published in Russian by Gayatri/Livebook Publishing, Moscow, Russia

    Published in English for the sub-continent of India by Macmillan India, New Delhi, India

Fan Holding Copy of Real Success Without a Real Job Kissing Bestselling Author Ernie Zelinski 

Ernie Zelinski relaxing on patio of La Table de Renoir Restaurant in Edmonton 

Ernie Zelinski's 1974 MGB in Summer of 2008 

Ernie Zelinski with article "The Joy of Not Engineering" 

Published in University of Alberta Engineering Alumni Magazine

See article at:

ERNIE ZELINSKI - THE JOY OF NOT ENGINEERING

First Page of Article in University of Alberta Engineering Alumni Magazine about Ernie Zelinski experiencing The Joy of Not Engi 

Czech Edition of The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski - One of my Top-3 Favorite Covers for This Book 

Hey if this Czech lady can appear on the cover of the Czech edition of my international best-selling book, I should be able to take her out to dinner when I visit Prague!

Slide from Ernie Zelinski's Speech and Power Point Presentation about The Joy of Not Working Made in Istanbul on November 26th 

Made to 2,000 Members of the National Turkish Congress on Quality

Slide from Ernie Zelinski's Speech and Power Point Presentation about The Joy of Not Working Made in Istanbul on November 26th 

Made to 2,000 Members of the National Turkish Congress on Quality

Ernie Zelinski at His Book Launch for 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting 

101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting was released in Fall 2007.

Here are the foreign editions for 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting:

  • Published in Spanish by Amat Editorial, Barcelona
  • Published in Russian by Gayatri Publishing, Moscow
  • Published in French by Stanké International, Montreal and Paris
  • Published in Chinese traditional characters by Yuan-Liou Publishing, Taipei
  • Published in Chinese simplified characters by CITIC Publishing House, Beijing
  • Published in Korean by Mulpure Publishing, Seoul
  • Published in English in Malaysia by TrueWealth Publishing, Kelana Jaya
  • Published in English for the Indian subcontinent by Macmillan India, New Delhi, India

Edda O. and Ernie Zelinski at His Book Launch for 101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting 

Ernie Zelinski and His 1974 MGB in 2005 

Ernie Purchased this 1974 MGB in 1976 - It Has 59,000 Miles.

Ernie will gladly trade this MGB for a Blue Porsche Boxster S

Ernie-Zelinski in 1975 with His 1971 MGB 

Ernie Zelinski (Left) with the Lemmings Motorcycle Gang 

Favorite Waitress Sarka (Who Calls Ernie "Dr. Zelinski) and Ernie Zelinski at His Favorite Restaurant Bistro Praha 

Ernie Zelinski Signing a Copy of His Book for Jack Canfield - And Jack Returning the Favor for Ernie 

Ernie is signing 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting and Jack Canfied is signing The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

The photo was taken by a fan of both bestselling authors at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta.

Two Motivational Speakers - Ernie Zelinski and Jack Canfield 

This is a photo taken by a fan of both Ernie J. Zelinski, author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor and Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. The photo was taken at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta.

Bestselling Author Ernie Zelinski and Award-Winning Actor Leslie Nielsen Exchanging Books 

Ernie Zelinski is holding Leslie Nielsen's book The Naked Truth and Leslie is holding Ernie's international bestseller The Joy of Not Working (over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages).

The photo was taken at a bookstore in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Ernie Zelinski and Kashia Litner Holding Polish Edition of The Joy of Not Working at La Table de Renoir Restaurant 

Ernie Zelinski and Kashia Litner Holding Polish Edition of The Joy of Not Working at La Table de Renoir Restaurant 

Ernie Zelinski and Kashia Litner at La Table de Renoir Restaurant in Edmonton 

Kashia is holding the Polish Edition of The Joy of Not Working

Ernie Zelinski Enjoying The Joy of Not Working in Vancouver's Stanley Park 

Ernie is holding the first edition of The Joy of Not Working - Pubished in 1991

Ernie Zelinski Featured in Report on Business Magazine by The Globe and Mail 

Photo Taken in Vancouver's Stanley Park

Ernie Zelinski's Favorite Article by the Media about Himself - Done by Quill and Quire Magazine 

Zelinski's way - Successful self-publisher eyes U.S. market

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Ernie Zelinski and Nadide Tastan at the Istanbul Convention Center Restaurant 

This photo was taken after Ernie Zelinski made his speech about The Joy of Not Working to 2,000 members of KalDer: The National Turkish Congress on Quality in Istanbul on November 26, 2008.

The Blue Porsche Boxster S Challenge - The Race Is On! 

    Read about the Blue Porsche Boxster S Challenge at:



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