The 3 Ways To Become A Millionaire

How many millionaires are there in the United States? What If I told you that just in 2018, 700K people became millionaires. And now try to guess the total number, it's in millions, to be exact, there are over 11 million millionaires just here in the US! And now try to imagine how many millionaires are there worldwide! the world is actually filled with millionaires! Every single day, thousands of people join the club. However, If you give it a closer look, all millionaires can be divided into 3 categories, because, there are essentially 3 ways to become a self-made millionaire unless your dad will give you a small loan of a million-dollar, and that will be the fourth way. By the way, contrary to the popular belief. Only 20 percent of millionaires have inherited their wealth, the other 80 percent made it with their blood and sweat. In fact, out of 2604 billionaires worldwide, 56% of them are self-made. So even if you are not born with a silver spoon in your mouth, your chances to become one are reasonable. There are basically 3 financially paths you can take! Sidewalk, Slow lane, and The Fast lane!

1. Slow lane is get rich slow formula, or get rich old where you will be on a wheelchair! The Slow lane is your typical parent's advice: Go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, save 10%, invest in the stock market, max your 401k, clip coupons…then, someday, when you are, oh, 65, maybe 70 years old, you will be rich. Congratulations, you have made it! The problem with the Slow lane is that you will have to sacrifice your entire life so that you can live your dream life when you are in a wheelchair. Which I don't really like because once you are old, you can’t get back young again, and Time is out of your hands. So as your income, you can’t double it or triple it every year, try asking your boss for a 100 percent raise, you will most likely get fired! So, If you decide to take this path, remember, you are not going to drive that Ferrari while you are young, you are not goanna travel and have adventures because it's quite difficult to do that when you are 70. You will live like a slave waiting for Friday to celebrate your freedom and then get back to slavery on Monday. If Buffet started investing when he was just 11 years and only made his first million by the age of 31. How long do you think it will take you to make even a million dollars when you haven’t even invested a single dime in the stock market yet and you are 25! Nonetheless, it’s probably the best strategy for most people.
Although you will have a boring mediocre life, you will have a financial plan that works! Even if it's not exciting. You will be a millionaire in 30 or 40 years. In fact, a considerable number of millionaires in the US have taken this path. It's safe, secure and guaranteed and better than the second option - The Sidewalk.

2. Sidewalker: The Sildewalkers are usually one step away from bankruptcy, because they are more bothered about living their dream life today and aren’t much into the future. They can even make millions of dollars but still, end up poor like a professional athlete or an actor. Your album fails, you get injured, and you get homeless and file for bankruptcy. Even if you have a prosperous carrier, chances that you will remain a millionaire after you retire are really low. 78% of NFL players are either bankrupt or under financial stress within 2 years of retirement. 60 percent of NBA players go bankrupt after 5 years of ending their career. Imagine making millions of dollars but still go broke. It sounds unbelievable, but that’s what happens when you decide to become a pro athlete. There isn't time for financial education, you have to work hard day and night to be at the top, and there will be people who are more talented than you or simply have better genetics. The numbers of athletes who end up making it to the pro level are less than 1 percent. While you are having the greatest years of your career, you get used to a certain lifestyle that’s completely taken care by your multimillion dollar salary, and once you retire its difficult to get back to an average life. So you go broke in few years. The numbers of athletes who build a sustainable business while making it to the top like Michael Jordan are an extremely small minority. And even those who end up earning 400 million dollars like Tyson did can still go absolutely broke! The worst part about it is that. With the rise of social media, everyone is taking the sidewalk. You pull out your phone and see how these people are driving ferries and living their dream lives. and You don't want to be left behind, You might be working hard, but whatever money you make, you spend it on the next great gadget, on the next trip so that you have something to post on your Instagram. On a more expensive car. Sidewalkers are trapped in such a lifestyle where they are driven by their urgent instant need for pleasure. Every dime you make will directly go to your car payment, clothes, whatever. You are not worried about the future because you think that someday, sometime in the future you will hit big. but you most probably won't. So it's not the wisest option to take!

3. Fast lane And then there is the Fast lane. The whole idea behind it is that, instead of sacrificing today for tomorrow or tomorrow for today. Get out and provide value to as many people as possible. You see most of us are consumers because to provide value, you need to have something first. And most people do not take the time and effort to build themselves up to a point where they will have something to give. Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire in just a few years because he provided a platform to millions of people to socialize. If you give it a closer a look, the purpose of any business is to give value in different ways, the store besides your house provides you with the groceries, the restaurant downside the road provides you with the food. Your favorite YouTuber provides you with content that you find interesting. Amazon saves you the time and makes shopping much easier! And what makes this path much more appealing than the other two, There is no limit to how much you can make! You want to triple your income in the next 3 month, It's under your control! You don't have to beg your boss for a 5 percent raise like the Slowlaners do. And you are not scarifying your future like the sidewalks do because Fastlaners take that money and buy real estate, patents, businesses that will keep raising their income.
The challenge with the Fastlane is that you will have to spend first an enormous amount of time to create something that will truly bring value to a substantial number of people. Of course, it's not easy, and most people would never be able to do that, because the other path looks more appealing since that’s what being rich means to most people. But  “When you finance an $80,000 Mercedes Benz over six years because that's all you could afford, that isn't wealth, but the impersonation of wealth. You are Fooling yourself. It still blows my mind how people travel while not having even a thousand dollars in their savings account. Wealth isn't embodied in a car or clothes but in the freedom to know that you can buy it. That's why it's easy to find self-made not only millionaire but billionaires who are cheap because they know that they have the freedom to afford pretty much anything anytime they want. On the other side, you have people who haven't paid their students loans yet but are completely comfortable to take another loan to show everyone how successful they are. People don’t choose to be poor.
They make poor decisions that slowly lead them into that direction. Conclusion  So here are the 3 financial roads that you can take to become a millionaire. Of course, the Fastlane is the most rewarding one where you can become a millionaire in just a few years and stay one for the rest of your life., but its also the most challenging one, which is why most people won't take it, but being a Sidewalker isn't sustainable, that's why the Slowlane is probably the best option for most people. This Article is based on a book, the Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco, It's a brilliant read which I recommend to everyone. It's quite different from all other books on this subject.

Why The Rich End up Poor But The Wealthy Enjoy Life

Why The Rich End up Poor But The Wealthy Enjoy Life

In 1997 Robert Kiyosaki published a personal finance book called Rich Dad Poor Dad. The book instantly became a phenomenal success and in no time catapulted Kiyosaki to the world of fame. In one of his books he mentions that there is a disparity between being rich and being wealthy and he went on and said something surprising that the rich have lots of money but the wealthy don't worry about money. And I found this very interesting because I've always thought that the two go hand in glove that if you're rich then you're also wealthy and that if you're wealthy then you're probably living a very comfortable life. But this isn't always true, when I think about someone who's rich, I think about someone with a lot of money and I typically think about someone who's quite showy with their money.

They drive fancy cars and live in a fancy house they wear fancy clothes and eat at fancy restaurants. Growing up I wanted to be rich, I wanted to own a big house, live in a fancy neighbourhood, drive a luxury car and buy expensive clothes, I wanted to sit in the best seats at sporting events and travel the world any time I wished. Heck I wanted to go to Mars and I've got to be honest some of those things still sound good to me now.
Kiyosaki said the rich have lots of money but the wealthy don't worry about money. I thought about this for a while, the wealthy don't worry about money. Growing up I've lived in a relatively financially stable family, we're not rich but we're not poor either we're middle-class if you will. Both my parents work nine to five jobs and they work really hard to provide for me and my siblings somehow they've managed to pay for mine in my siblings tuition while at the same time making sure we have food to eat and a roof over our heads. I can't say things have always been rosy there have been months where money was a serious concern and we weren't sure whether they would manage to pay for all our tuition, bills, and expenses. I watched my parents struggle and I didn't ever want to live a life like that and when I read that statement the wealthy don't worry about money.

I thought to myself well that must be a really nice thing to have. Imagine never having to ever worry about money, who wouldn't want that? I want to be wealthy and rich so I decided to do a bit of digging to try and find out the difference you see having lots of money is nice and all but I believe not ever having to worry about money is even better. So after a bit of research this is what I found out and I think this might surprise you a lot. There actually is a difference between being rich and being wealthy. The simple difference between a rich person and a wealthy person is that a wealthy person has sustainable wealth, in other words a wealthy person will always be wealthy. Whereas someone who is merely rich will only be rich for a short period of time until the money runs out. I'm sure a lot of you have heard stories of rich actors, celebrities, professional athletes and so on who were once living fancy lifestyles with big houses, nice cars, expensive clothes and vacationing all over the world, but are now on the verge of financial bankruptcy because of poor financial skills and trying to sustain this kind of lifestyle for many years.

You've heard of the lottery winner who went to bed one night in debt and woke up the next day an instant millionaire, but due to poor financial management, ends back up where they started or in an even worse situation. So let's use Lucas as an example, Lucas is a surgeon with an annual income of $310,000 most of this income is earned from his work with only 5% coming from some investments a couple of his colleagues enticed him to invest in. By all accounts and standards, Lucas is a rich man, he has a big house, he's living in a good neighborhood, he has two luxury cars, one for himself and the other he bought for his wife. His children go to good private schools and he has membership in the local Country Club. So clearly Lucas has lots of money at his disposal, so he uses this money to make sure he fits in and looks the part of a respectable surgeon in society, obviously Lucas has expenses, as does every other person, he has a mortgage to pay, he has transportation costs, he has to feed his young family, he has to pay health insurance, he has to pay taxes, he has to put aside money for his kid's college fund and he has to buy another expensive anniversary gift this year. Did I mention the annual vacation he takes with his family? When you subtract these expenditures from his annual income, then remove the savings and the little investments he makes here and there, Lucas is not left with much. In total Lucas spends about $21,500 every month on expenditures and he has savings amounting to $43,500 in his bank account. And so since wealth is defined as the status of an individual's financial resources to sustain the individual's way of living, for a long period of time even if the individual stops working.

In essence, this is money coming in on a consistent basis that's able to sustain your current standard of living for many years. This means that should Lucas lose his job today together with all the benefits accruing from it, Lucas should be able to feed his family for only two months. After which he'll immediately need to find an alternative source of income. Lucas is rich, he's not wealthy. Now let's look at an example of a wealthy person. Kiyosaki said that while the rich have lots of money the wealthy don't really have to worry about money. Let's look at Bill Gates. Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world he's a business magnate, an investor, a philanthropist, a humanitarian and an author. As of early 2018, Bill Gates was worth a mammoth $97.4 Billion Dollars. It's estimated that every second, Bill Gates earns about one hundred and thirty dollars, which translates to around $78,000 every minute. This is to say that in an hour bill makes more money than Lucas earns after a whole year of working, yet Lucas is considered rich. Being wealthy is essentially being financially free.

This means that you don't live paycheck to paycheck and you don't necessarily need to make any more money over a long period of time, because you have enough money saved or passive income flowing in from your assets and investments to maintain your current lifestyle for the rest of your life. Bill Gates doesn't actively work for the $135 that he made this second or the almost $78,000 he will learn by the end of this video. This is passive income that he gets in his sleep when he is playing golf and when he is giving away four billion dollars annually to cause us that he cares about. Wealth is sustainable richness, basically a rich person who never runs out of money. If Lucas quits his job today, he will most likely get bumped into the middle-class. If Bill Gates decided to retire today and become a sedentary person who eats sleeps and eats again, he could maintain his current lifestyle for the next 213 years. But you don't necessarily need to have gates kind of money, or own a large business like Microsoft. As long as you have income flowing in that you're not directly working for, such that if you were to stop working today but you can still maintain your current standard of living, then you are considered wealthy.

Usually when you think of a rich person, you think of someone who buys both their wants and their needs. You know the $5,000 suit, the $3,000 watch, a luxury imported car, usually German made. The big house on the beach and so on. Just because someone exhibits these "Rich behavior’s" it doesn't mean that they have their personal finances in order, sometimes these people you consider rich are actually living paycheck to paycheck or drowning in debt. Many people who say I want to be rich aren't actually looking for financial security, what they want is the social status and prestige they associate with a million dollars Club. So now I pose this question to you, do you want to be rich or do you want to be wealthy? and if so how?

3 Best Best Habits of Rich People

3 Best Best Habits of Rich People

By: John Crestani

Have you ever wondered why you struggle financially? Why you always seem to have no money at the end of every month? Or you've never been able to save up enough for your retirement? Well, the reason is because you have the habits of poor people. And the thing is rich people have different habits. 
And in this Article, I'm going to be going over the 3 habits of rich people that allow them to continue making more money. It's not an act. Getting rich is not just an act. It's not like you pick up a lottery ticket and suddenly you're rich. It's not luck. It's a habit, it's a process that can be learned. And I'm going to be going over these 3 elements that are going to help you get embody the habits of rich people. 
Keep reading and take notes and help take your life to the next level. So, I've made millions of dollars in my internet business. I have enough money to retire. And the thing you need to know is that rich people and poor people have very different habits. And you know, we do the same things every day. We just kind of go by the same cycle all the time. And in order to change you know your bank account from being less than a desirable to the point where you get excited to look at every time, your bank has more money in it. You've got to change up your essential habits. And these 3 things are the essential habits of rich people that I'm going to try to distill for you. I don't know everything. You know, I'm not saying this is the ultimate. You know, I'm not a billionaire but these are 3 things that I found that are very different from people with poor mindsets and rich mindsets. 
Now, the first thing is that rich people count their money, okay? Count their money. Now, you would think that somebody like me you know, I'm making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in my business would not feel the need to actually count all of my costs and look at what each line item on my credit card I was spending money on. And use mint and kind of categorize my expenses and where I'm over, where I'm under. But the reality is, is that I spend and many of the people I know who are very wealthy are crazy about counting where their money's going. Where it's coming from.  Knowing exactly all of these different elements about their money. Poor people, they get a bill and they say, "Ugh!" You know, they get a tax bill at the end of the year that might be one of the only times they actually count their money. And poor people get a tax bill and they say, "Ugh! Screw it. Got to pay it." And they send their money to the government, right? But rich people, what we do is we look at the tax but when we say, "Hmm. Cool. Opportunity for negotiation. I wonder how much I can get this down." And I'm in the highest tax bracket, income wise and I probably paid closer to the lowest tax bracket because I negotiated. I found the deductions. I hired somebody who was knowledgeable in this space for a fraction of the money that it costs to save me the hundreds of thousands of dollars I did. So, we count our money. We figure out where it's coming from. What we can do to maximize things. What we can do to save things. We don't just go out and say, "Oh! Cool. I have a thousand dollars left in my bank account at the end of the month.
" Now, the second thing about rich people is that rich people pay themselves first. Pay yourself first. Okay. Now, paying yourself first does not mean buying yourself that car, getting yourself a vacation to reward yourself or it doesn't mean any of that stuff. What paying yourself first means is actually paying yourself a salary. Putting that money into 401k. Saving that up. Putting that in you know, expense everything you can through your business or through your company or whatever you do. You know, even as an employee, you can set up an LLC and expense everything through there but you pay yourself first, okay? I'm saving up money every single month even though I have very high earning power and I very high confidence in my business doing well. I always make sure that at the end of the day I am always making money before anybody else. It always happens. I'm saving up money for myself in my personal bank account, my 401k, etc. Pay yourself first and you'll do better. 
Now, the third part of this is know how to improve your income. Now, I just got to take off my jacket for this because this part makes me angry. And people don't understand this. Knowing how to improve your income, you need to go to what I call the money equation, okay? What is your money equation? Do you even know what your money equation is? Everybody has a money equation attached to the back of their head. And you are only going to ever be as good as your money equation. Now, let's look at this, right? So, let's say you're working a job. You're getting paid $20 an hour, right? Your money equation is hours times $20, right? Very simple. The most your money equation can ever be is 168 which is the number of hours in a week times $20. Therefore the most money you can possibly ever make is around $12,000 a month, right? So now, you have a number. You know the most you can possibly ever hope to earn is 20 times the number of hours a week. But that's not feasible to actually do. You know, so you have to account for sleep and some of these other things. But either way, you have a very clear maximum to the amount of money. You can make this doesn't give a lot of opportunity for improvement. And even if you go for raises or promotions, probably the most you will get a raise for is up to 20% of your income. 
So, that 12,000 you could times it by 1.2 and the most your money equation will ever get up to is about you know, 14-15 thousand dollars. So, that is a very real number. Your range is determined by the number of hours. Now, similarly, if you're working a salary job, your money equation is salary times the year. It's very simple. And that's the most you can ever make. Now, if you want to save up for retirement, if you want to save up money, if you're working in a big city, 12,000 a month isn't necessarily going to give you a lot of money to save you. In fact, $12,000 a month is actually just above the poverty line in San Francisco. So, you need to change your money equation. Another example of a money equation is if you are running an agency. Or if you're you know working on clients like a social media marketing agency like I used to do. I could only handle about 5 to 10 clients per month. 10 clients per month max was the amount of clients that I could handle. You know, just each client took more time. So my money equation was basically, I was charging $500 and it was times 10, okay? Now, my money equation was very limited, okay? And I had to change. You know, but my equation was basically clients times 10. Because I knew that was the most number of clients that I could personally deal with Phone calls and campaign builds and landing page builds per month. But I had a very easy way to change this. And I remember I went to an event in 2012, right? I was never able to replace the income I made from my job. I was making 6,000 a month and I could only manage 10 clients a month part-time. 
Now, I went to this seminar. And this really tall man with big teeth and big hands, he forced me to question myself and ask me. And by the way, if you know who this really tall man with big teeth and big hands is type it in the comments. I'll give a big virtual hug to everybody who knows who I'm talking about. But this person asked me to question what am I doing. And if I continue going the same route, will I ever get to my goal? And I realized my equation is wrong. And I've got to change my equation. Now, my equation was I charged each client $500 per month. But when I realized that this I could change that. And I realized that I could change my own wealth equation and I could start charging clients $10,000 a month, right? This is what I did. And I realized I could do and I could make as much as $100,000 a month which is what I wanted to get to. I changed my wealth equation around. And I was able to get there. 
Within a few months, I got 3 clients that were paying me $10,000 a month. Now, I had to talk to different people. I had to change up a little bit of what I was offering. Really, actually I just had to find new places, new prospects to talk to. And I was able to get to my goal a few years later of $100,000 a month in my business. 2 or 3 years later, I got there. And that was life-changing. But you have to understand know how to improve your income. Know your wealth equation and you will be able to figure out what you need to improve it. Now, I teach affiliate marketing and affiliate marketing is based on results. If you can sell one of these products, you'll get $50. If you sell 10 of these products, you'll get $500. So your wealth equation is based on results that you get for company. The results equation, the money equation built in allows for exponential growth. 
Allows for unrealistic incomes by modern day standards. And if you just start mining in the right place, if you just start doing a business where your money equation allows you to reach whatever income goal you want, you can get there. But the point is you need to change your money equation around first. 

Let's start realizing that poor and rich, they're mindsets put in to us by the media, by society, by the education system and by our family and we can change that around if we want to. So, dedicate yourself to getting there.