The Escape Plan
Leaving your job on pipeline and a validated lead source instead of a savings target. The sequence, the numbers to watch, and the point at which going is the lower-risk option.
The advice you have read says save six months and be brave.
This argues the opposite: savings is a shock absorber, and what actually lets you leave is having a way of getting customers that you can run again on purpose — which you can build entirely while somebody else is still paying you.
What is in it
The six steps, in order, with the test for each one. Every step can be faked, and the faked version feels identical from inside, so each has a test that either passes or does not.
Why the order is the order. Almost everyone starts with the date and works backward. The date is the only part that should be decided last, and the sequence explains what each step depends on.
Step three in detail — getting a second customer the same way you got the first, deliberately. This is where most people stall, it usually takes longer than the first one, and it is the step that benefits most from still having an income while you do it.
What it actually costs to live — including the expenses that leave with the job, and the ones that arrive with self-employment, which is the pair most people get wrong in both directions.
The ninety days after. The three weeks where nothing happens. The referral network that was partly built on being employed and partly does not transfer. The first bad-fit client taken out of fear, which is the most expensive decision of the first year.
Who it is not for
If you have never had anyone pay you for this work, do not buy this. The thing you need is not a plan — it is to find out whether anybody wants it, and that is free. Pick ten people who have the problem, ask them to pay you, and come back when one has.
The free readiness tool will tell you which of those two positions you are in, and it takes about two minutes.