You Deserve to Be a Millionaire. Follow These 12 Tips to Get There
I started with nothing and have been blessed with enough
focus, commitment, follow through and the ability to not make excuses that
I have done extremely well in my life. This principles work.
1. It's never been easier.
It has never been easier, so don’t make it so difficult.
There is so much money in the world today and so many ways to get yourself
known. The first thing you have to know is that it’s out there and it’s not
that hard. In fact, everyone will be a millionaire in their lifetime: $50,000
per year times 20 years equals $1 million.
2. Saving won’t do.
The old ideas of saving every penny is not the way today.
You can’t simply save your way to the first million without becoming old, at
which point the money probably won’t matter to you.
3. Live below your means.
Live below the money you are making. Not because you are
depriving yourself, but because you are seeking to bank millions. No one has
ever done business with me because of the suit I wear, the watch I have on my
wrist or the car I drove. Live below your means until you don’t have to
anymore.
4. Push every tax angle you can.
Learn the tax code and use it to your advantage. Quit
bitching about taxes and learn how it can benefit you. The code was put
together to give preference to earners. I have joined multiple multi-level
marketing companies while still being an employee so I could take advantage of write-offs
like the home and car. These were, and are, legitimate ways for me to reduce my
tax bill and possibly make some more money -- plus I have a chance to surround
myself with great people.
5. Mature from income to investor.
The way to get rich is to make investments, but you can’t do
that if your income doesn’t allow for you to set aside money to invest. The
only reason to make and save money is so that you can invest it. Only invest
money in projects you know will score and never give up your income.
6. Start acting like a boss.
Quit acting poor and quit acting like you are a spectator.
Boss up in everything. When the bill comes for dinner, boss up. When you have
to invest money to get information, buy a list, grow your brand or learn
to sell you need to write the check like a boss, not like a little whiner.
7. Automate a pay-yourself-first program.
Set up with your employer to pay yourself to a savings
account so that you have money deposited each month before you get a check to
pay your bills and live your life. This is one thing I started doing when I was
26 years old that kept me "broke" without money to lose or waste and
forced me to continue to hustle. This is the step that will make number
five possible.
8. Be in a hurry.
Be the hare, the turtle and the millionaire! The only
thing that comes to those that are patient are the crumbs left behind by those
in a hurry.
9. Do the millionaire math.
Do the math on what it takes to hit a million. If you make
$50,000 a year and can figure out how to put away 40 percent of it (that
is my saving target) it will take you 50 years times $20,000 per year to get
there. If you don’t do your math you won’t get there because you won’t have the
right mindset. Math is a universal language.
10. Do not diversify.
I know the diversification concept is popular, but it’s
wrong. If you are going to bank a million before you are old and tired you need
to pick something you believe in and know it's going to work and go all in.
11. Seek multiple flows.
If you don’t get multiple flows happening you will never
create financial freedom. Don’t confuse number 10 with multiple flows.
These are not conflicts -- have parallel flows going. Don’t make your
first flow disconnected, make it similar so that it takes less energy and
less resources.
12. Avoid spending money or tying up your money in homes,
IRAs or colleges.
I know it’s not popular, but these are traps. Show me
someone that became a millionaire from buying homes, other than me. Flipping
homes, by the way, is not buying homes -- that is a real estate play. Wall
Street has convinced you to do these things to trap and immobilize you.
You deserve financial freedom. You should have your
financial targets to be a millionaire up until the point that you become one.
Then your target should be to hit 100 million!
Courtesy: http://www.entrepreneur.com/
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