Friday, June 1st, 2012

The Millionaires of Tomorrow

If you looked at the millionaires of the future right now do you think you could spot them?

Could you see them in there small jobs, scraping together a few pennies to pay bills as they dream of a better life? Could you see them living in small houses, buying the cheapest clothes and holding their lives together through sheer willpower?

Granted not all future millionaires start out this way, but hundreds do. They scrape together money and sleep in their cars to go to events they know will change their lives. They give everything to achieve a dream, but first they have to wade through hell and come out the other side.

The next millionaire isn’t hard to reach. There are blueprints to make it to success. It’s like any other profession. If you want to become a doctor you go to school for years and study so you can spend your life in a hospital learning on the job. No one asks a medical student to operate on someone the first time they enter a classroom.

Then why do people expect to get rich the first time they try something that could make them a millionaire?

They need to study, to learn what the path is and even then there are times they will fail. 9 out of 10 businesses fail within the first ten years. Of that last ten percent most won’t be millionaires, but one will. There’s a reason there’s one percent in our society who holds most of the money. These are the business owners. The people who waded through the crap and put every ounce of energy they had into building their business. These are the people who were willing to do what was necessary to learn the skills they needed to grow their business.

It isn’t an easy road, but it is doable by everyone. . .

If they’re willing to believe in themselves.

So do you want to be a millionaire? Of course!

The real question is what are you willing to go through to get it.

A while ago I went to an event where David Wood was present. I had no money to pay for anything so I hitched a ride with a complete stranger all the way to Las Vegas. I slept in a room with another stranger and ate the cheapest thing I could find – the funny thing I wasn’t even a member of any of the organizations at the event.

It STILL changed my life.

The information I learned at this event pushed me forward. I built sites, learned marketing, spent dozens of hours walking the path that I needed to follow to become a millionaire.

Am I there yet? No.

No lying. I’ve still got a long ways to go, but I don’t regret a step of it because it’s opened doors I never even imagined existed.

You have to take the time to invest in yourself and your future if you want to succeed. There are no overnight successes, just marathon runners.

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