When you see a Billionaire, Do you See Yourself?
How difficult to you think it would be to achieve the status of a ten-figure income? Currently there are about 3 million millionaires in the USA's population of 300 million people. That equals out to about one percent of the total U.S. population! Statistically, almost one out of every 100 Americans is a millionaire!
Can you picture yourself in that 1%? Now pictures that there are approximately 360 billionaires in the United States.
Everyday it seems that more and more people are joining the ranks of the super rich. Once you have a million, it isnt that far to earning a billion, right? All you have to do is earn the first million a thousand more times.
Can you put yourself in that equation somehow? The magic number of steps it takes to reach millionaire status is ten. By figuring out where you are on the ladder and which steps you have left to complete you too can become a millionaire. Lets review them one by one.
Clear Vision
For those of you who love the old musicals, remember the song from South Pacific called, Happy Talk. The chorus gives this wonderful admonition:
you got to have a dream if you dont have a fream how you gonna have a dream come true?
So simple. So true. So important. Yet too many people walk through life with no vision at all. How can they ever have their dreams come true?
Motivation is not enough; you have to be motivated to dream yourself through the creation and implementation of your vision.
2. You Must Have a Strong Why
So you want to be a billionaire? Why? This is not a trick question. Because if you dont know why " if your why is not strong enough, you may never make it to the first six-figure level.
Find your higher calling and figure out why you feel this must be your destiny. Asking these questions and knowing your reasons for certain will ensure success.
Find Good, No GREAT Mentors
Cows stay with cows, and so on. In other words, you have to surround yourself with mentors and other successful people who share your vision and see the future holding similar prosperity. Not only can you learn from their experience but they are like minded people who can teach you how to act wealthy and see it happen.
Many of the really successful ones have shared their challenges or tips in easily accessed forms of media. There is no need to try and blaze a new trail, just follow the one that works.
Market a Product that Can Earn 100K Per Month
If you want to dig a little pond in a corner of your backyard, a shovel may work. If you are digging the foundation for a 100-story skyscraper, you may need a little more than a shovel. How about massive earth-moving machinery?
There is an avenue that exists that will help make your dreams come true. Think about growing and earning your business on the big time level.
5. Network with People
Nobody needs the headaches of hundreds of employees. You can create leverage by creating a network of people that will essentially be working for your efforts but not for you.
It is easier and makes more sense to earn 1% of 100 people than 100% off of your own efforts. Oilman J. Paul Getty coined that phrase and look where it got him.
There are tons of opportunities existing today that will offer the individual entrepreneur the tools of other peoples expertise and time without draining your own resources. Use them wisely.
6. Use Your Head When Investing & Stay Out of Debt
The biggest difference between the middle class and the wealthy is that the middle class spend most of their time working or earning their money. They are stuck paying interest on loans etc, while the rich are earning from their interest.
Investing your money in a consistent means will mean safe returns without risk. Take the time to learn from the wealthy how to invest wisely. Above all us, you have to develop a wealthy persons mindset in all areas of finance.
7. Healthy Person Wealthy Person
Lets take another quote from J. Paul Getty The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him- and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
The truth remains that you can't live one part of your life in health, wealth and goodness and forego in other areas. Eating right, working out and taking care of yourself and living a healthy life will impact your body and mind. This will spill over to all areas of your life.
Your body is the vehicle that will maintain you through it all. You must treat yourself well physically and mentally in order to succeed in life. Good health leads to a good mind and that is the number one tool to being a good business man.
8. Strive for Excellence
No one in this world is perfect, but it is a fact that you must always strive for the best in life. Greatness and success are achieved by a person only when they have made a conscious effort to include those expectations in every aspect of their life.
You must always strive to be the best you can be in all venues of life. Half hearted efforts in any category will sabotage your plans. As you strive for excellence, pursue your dreams with excellence as well. Pretend you are an Olympic athlete and this is your sport.you are going for the Gold!
Be Proactive in Your Dream
This step is similar to Step#1. While the utmost importance of course is always to have a dream (noun) you must never forget to dream (verb) as well. Using imagery tools to keep the dream in close proximity is an effective means of helping to make it happen.
Some useful tools are image boards, goal maps, dream boards but any vehicle you choose to solidify your dream will allow it to manifest in your life. You can write it in a journal, on index cards. The basis is to always see the dream coming true and look toward how you want your future to be. Focus on your intention and it will be.
10. Never Never Never Quit!
Failure is not failure until you quit. Only when you throw in the towel and quit will you ever fail. Falling short of a goal is not failing. (Hey, you started, didnt you?) Changing direction is not failing. Errors in judgment is not failing. Making honest mistakes is not failing. Failure is never a lack of success. It is simply staying down after you trip or stumble. Failure is giving up and wimping out when you think the going is too tough, or when you let negative thoughts tell you cant make it.
If things begin to look increasingly difficult allow only positive reinforcement to redirect your thoughts and keep the dream alive and by all means " Keep on Moving Forward.
Whatever you can believe and conceive, you can achieve.
How difficult to you think it would be to achieve the status of a ten-figure income? Currently there are about 3 million millionaires in the USA's population of 300 million people. That equals out to about one percent of the total U.S. population! Statistically, almost one out of every 100 Americans is a millionaire!
Can you picture yourself in that 1%? Now pictures that there are approximately 360 billionaires in the United States.
Everyday it seems that more and more people are joining the ranks of the super rich. Once you have a million, it isnt that far to earning a billion, right? All you have to do is earn the first million a thousand more times.
Can you put yourself in that equation somehow? The magic number of steps it takes to reach millionaire status is ten. By figuring out where you are on the ladder and which steps you have left to complete you too can become a millionaire. Lets review them one by one.
Clear Vision
For those of you who love the old musicals, remember the song from South Pacific called, Happy Talk. The chorus gives this wonderful admonition:
you got to have a dream if you dont have a fream how you gonna have a dream come true?
So simple. So true. So important. Yet too many people walk through life with no vision at all. How can they ever have their dreams come true?
Motivation is not enough; you have to be motivated to dream yourself through the creation and implementation of your vision.
2. You Must Have a Strong Why
So you want to be a billionaire? Why? This is not a trick question. Because if you dont know why " if your why is not strong enough, you may never make it to the first six-figure level.
Find your higher calling and figure out why you feel this must be your destiny. Asking these questions and knowing your reasons for certain will ensure success.
Find Good, No GREAT Mentors
Cows stay with cows, and so on. In other words, you have to surround yourself with mentors and other successful people who share your vision and see the future holding similar prosperity. Not only can you learn from their experience but they are like minded people who can teach you how to act wealthy and see it happen.
Many of the really successful ones have shared their challenges or tips in easily accessed forms of media. There is no need to try and blaze a new trail, just follow the one that works.
Market a Product that Can Earn 100K Per Month
If you want to dig a little pond in a corner of your backyard, a shovel may work. If you are digging the foundation for a 100-story skyscraper, you may need a little more than a shovel. How about massive earth-moving machinery?
There is an avenue that exists that will help make your dreams come true. Think about growing and earning your business on the big time level.
5. Network with People
Nobody needs the headaches of hundreds of employees. You can create leverage by creating a network of people that will essentially be working for your efforts but not for you.
It is easier and makes more sense to earn 1% of 100 people than 100% off of your own efforts. Oilman J. Paul Getty coined that phrase and look where it got him.
There are tons of opportunities existing today that will offer the individual entrepreneur the tools of other peoples expertise and time without draining your own resources. Use them wisely.
6. Use Your Head When Investing & Stay Out of Debt
The biggest difference between the middle class and the wealthy is that the middle class spend most of their time working or earning their money. They are stuck paying interest on loans etc, while the rich are earning from their interest.
Investing your money in a consistent means will mean safe returns without risk. Take the time to learn from the wealthy how to invest wisely. Above all us, you have to develop a wealthy persons mindset in all areas of finance.
7. Healthy Person Wealthy Person
Lets take another quote from J. Paul Getty The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him- and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
The truth remains that you can't live one part of your life in health, wealth and goodness and forego in other areas. Eating right, working out and taking care of yourself and living a healthy life will impact your body and mind. This will spill over to all areas of your life.
Your body is the vehicle that will maintain you through it all. You must treat yourself well physically and mentally in order to succeed in life. Good health leads to a good mind and that is the number one tool to being a good business man.
8. Strive for Excellence
No one in this world is perfect, but it is a fact that you must always strive for the best in life. Greatness and success are achieved by a person only when they have made a conscious effort to include those expectations in every aspect of their life.
You must always strive to be the best you can be in all venues of life. Half hearted efforts in any category will sabotage your plans. As you strive for excellence, pursue your dreams with excellence as well. Pretend you are an Olympic athlete and this is your sport.you are going for the Gold!
Be Proactive in Your Dream
This step is similar to Step#1. While the utmost importance of course is always to have a dream (noun) you must never forget to dream (verb) as well. Using imagery tools to keep the dream in close proximity is an effective means of helping to make it happen.
Some useful tools are image boards, goal maps, dream boards but any vehicle you choose to solidify your dream will allow it to manifest in your life. You can write it in a journal, on index cards. The basis is to always see the dream coming true and look toward how you want your future to be. Focus on your intention and it will be.
10. Never Never Never Quit!
Failure is not failure until you quit. Only when you throw in the towel and quit will you ever fail. Falling short of a goal is not failing. (Hey, you started, didnt you?) Changing direction is not failing. Errors in judgment is not failing. Making honest mistakes is not failing. Failure is never a lack of success. It is simply staying down after you trip or stumble. Failure is giving up and wimping out when you think the going is too tough, or when you let negative thoughts tell you cant make it.
If things begin to look increasingly difficult allow only positive reinforcement to redirect your thoughts and keep the dream alive and by all means " Keep on Moving Forward.
Whatever you can believe and conceive, you can achieve.
About the Author:
Rob Walcher is an expert in the Direct Sales industry. He shot to the top in two different direct sales companies in a matter of 18 months and has become known as the Ten-Figure Guru. Rob has subsequently helped hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve their own success. If you want to learn how to get comfortable with a few more zeroes in your income and work directly with Rob CLICK HERE
