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MY SELF RELIANCE SHAWN JAMES

Winters That Never End. Summers That Feel Temporary.

52 Weeks to Self-Reliance: simple steps toward a life with more control over both.

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Sound familiar?

You love this city, and part of you keeps looking past the skyline anyway. Another brutal winter, another short summer, another year of high taxes and the same question underneath it: is this actually where you want to spend the next twenty of these?

This book won't hand you a finished life. It hands you one clear, deliberate decision a week, in the right order, for a full year. These are the same decisions that took me from a business collapse and deep debt to debt-free, on a hundred acres of forest, in a cabin I built with my own hands.

52 Weeks to Self-Reliance: One Year of Deliberate Decisions to Take Back Your Time, Money, and Freedom asks for one thing a week, in the right order, for a full year. Fifty-two assignments. None of them require land you don't have yet, money you don't have yet, or a resignation letter on day one.

What's Inside

Seven Parts. Fifty-Two Weeks.

Part One: Assessment
Know where you actually stand
Weeks 1 to 4
Part Two: Financial Discipline
Stop hemorrhaging what you've earned
Weeks 5 to 12
Part Three: Food and Land
Start producing, not just consuming
Weeks 13 to 20
Part Four: Skills and Tools
Build what you know and what you own
Weeks 21 to 28
Part Five: Property and Community
Put down roots
Weeks 29 to 36
Part Six: Income and Work
Make your time worth more
Weeks 37 to 44
Part Seven: The Long Game
Build for the next generation
Weeks 45 to 52

About Shawn James

Shawn James spent years building and running a commercial roofing company before it collapsed, leaving him deep in debt. He rebuilt from there, one deliberate decision at a time, and today he and his wife own more than a hundred acres of forest in the Canadian wilderness, debt-free, in a log cabin he built by hand. He shares that life at My Self Reliance.

52 Weeks to Self-Reliance

One Year of Deliberate Decisions to Take Back Your Time, Money, and Freedom

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