Three Simple (But Not) Easy Steps to Becoming a Millionaire

Three Simple (But Not) Easy Steps to Becoming a Millionaire

by Brandon Turner

True or false: running a marathon is simple?

False.

It’s not easy — but it’s definitely simple.

There is a monumental difference between simple and easy. Simple means there are relatively few (or no) complicated steps needed to accomplish a task, whereas easy implies the task doesn’t require much effort.

Running a marathon is simple: Just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Staying up for 60 hours straight is also simple: Keep your eyes open.

Holding your breathe for five minutes underwater is likewise simple: Just sit at the bottom of the pool and don’t breathe. These are all simple tasks, but not easy ones.

Another task that is simple but not easy is becoming a millionaire.

That’s right; becoming rich is not complicated, despite what people tend to think. Because wealth-building is not an accident, but an action.

I recently published the most in-depth article I’ve ever written, titled “How to Become a Millionaire”, and in it, I argued that becoming a millionaire is not easy but it is simple. In fact, it takes just three steps.

1. You must believe wealth is actually possible for you. 
The primary reason people do not become wealthy today is plain and simple: they do not believe it is possible.

Perhaps they have not uttered those words out loud, but deep in their soul they believe that becoming rich is not in their cards.

In the personal development space, this is known as a “limiting belief.” In other words, it’s an opinion you have of yourself that your mind and body will not allow you to get past.

• If you believe you are a bad chess player, you will lose nearly every time.
• If you believe you are bad at running, you’ll never run a marathon.
• If you believe you can not (or should not) be a millionaire, you’ll never experience financial wealth.

Therefore, the first (and perhaps most important) step in becoming a millionaire is to believe that wealth is possible for you.

Becoming a millionaire has nothing to do with your background, your family, your age, your skin color, your intelligence, your location, or any other excuse you might have for not building wealth. Becoming a millionaire is not something that happens to you — it’s something you make happen.

If you know how it’s done. Which brings us to step number two, because belief alone is not enough.

2. You must learn how wealth is built.
Building wealth is not a mystery. It’s not something you stumble into. It’s not something you find.

Instead, wealth building is a process that can be studied, learned, and mastered.

This is why you’ll often hear highly successful people say, “The first million is the hardest.” Like riding a bike, once you learn it, you can repeat it over and over for the rest of your life.

Of course, there are a LOT of ways to build wealth and they generally fall into one of three buckets: personal finance, business, and real estate. There are millions of examples in each of those three buckets where people have risen from nothing to become millionaires. Personally, I used all three to acheive a million dollars in net worth, but you might only choose one or two. The point is — pick a bucket that works for you and learn how it is done.

There are a lot of ways to learn how to build wealth from one of these fields, including:

• books
• podcasts
• seminars
• blog posts
• mentors
• webinars
• courses
• audio programs
• and more

Each of these methods differ in the presentation, but they all have two things in common:

1. They help you get inside the mind of someone who has already acheived what you are trying to achieve
2. They all have the need for YOU to take the action. No one is going to do the learning for you.

Once you have step number one mastered (you believe that wealth is possible for you) and you’ve done your homework on step number two (learning how wealth is built), it’s time to move onto the third and final step in becoming a millionaire.

3. You must take daily action 
Let’s pretend for a moment you are baking a pie.

You might have the belief that you can bake that pie.

You might have the recipe for baking that pie.

But let’s be honest: The pie is not going to bake itself. You need to get in the kitchen and start cooking.

The same is true for becoming a millionaire. You can believe you can build wealth and learn the steps to do so — but still fail if you don’t take action.

Action will always be the final key to success. Without it, you have nothing. No one is going to give you a million dollars, no matter how smart, talented, or lucky you are. You have to get out there and work for it.

Specifically, this means taking daily action.

A lot of people believe that the secret to success is found in “big events” — the lottery, a big business sale, the purchase of an apartment complex — but in reality, it’s found in daily tasks that are combined together to create that big event.

For example, I didn’t become a millionaire overnight. I spent a decade building up my rental portfolio, climbing in attics, crawling under houses, doing math, reading books, taking experienced investors out to lunch, and in every other way mastering the vehicles I chose to take me from poverty to wealth.

Little by little, every day, action becomes progress, and progress turns to results.

—————

Becoming a millionaire is not rocket science, but it’s not going to happen to just everyone. You have to believe in your heart that it’s possible, get the recipe for success, and work until you’ve achieved it.

If you found this post helpful, I’d only ask one thing: please share it on your favorite social media channel. Let your family and friends know that wealth is not an accident, it’s an action.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-turner/three-simple-but-not-easy_b_10150844.html

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7 facts you need to Know about Money Mastery

7 facts you need to Know about Money Mastery.




1.Money Mastery isn’t taught in Schools.
No traditional school teaches you about money with regards to Wealth creation, Wealth Multiplication and Wealth management. This is why you need to take concerted effort at investing in your own financial Education.
Financial Intelligence is the key to the vehicle of financial Independence. You raise your earnings by raising your learning with regards to Financial Education.

2.Money Answers to Action
It’s not what you know about money, but what you do with what you know that really matter on your way to hitting it big!
Wake up and see for yourself how much your knowledge has helped you, until you have taken necessary action in certain direction.
You have to do something about your money situation other than worrying to really make any significant headway.

3.Money has got no emotions
You see, money doesn’t respect age, the market place doesn’t care who you are or how old you are. That is why you have teen millionaires and as well as old millionaires, the same is true for the young and old broke people. Money doesn’t come to you by crying about it, this is why you see great investors get over their emotions while investing. The two emotions you will usually need to get past when it comes to money are the emotions of greed and fear.

4. Money Answers to Value
The iron filings will always flow in the direction of pull of the magnetic force. Simply also, money also answers in the direction of value, no matter who provides the value. Money is always a measure of value. Your value addition either solves a problem or creates a solution. If you want more money then learn to add more value by becoming a person of value.

5. Personal Mastery is Vital to Money Mastery
I am always of the belief that Personal Mastery is a prerequisite to money mastery. By developing yourself to a point of excellence especially in line with your financial goals, you become someone who adds value and in turn attracts money and even more money to yourself.


6. Money Mastery is raising your consciousness about money
To gain mastery of money you need to raise your consciousness or financial IQ, especially creasing your knowledge about generating, creating, multiplication, and managing of money. I always believe that what you don’t know can hurt you, but what you know and act on, can change your life in more ways than one, this is why you must invest in your own financial education. You might need to start reading books on investing, pay attention to business news, personal finance blogs or magazines, joining investment groups and so forth.

7. Money is not scarce
There is no scarcity of money. As a matter of fact, there is no justification whatsoever to prove the scarcity of money, instead, there is abundance. You will see that we have enough money to move around in the world. Money exists in abundance, but it only flows to people who understand certain laws regarding how it’s acquired. The earlier you start seeing things from this perspective, the better.

To your Financial Freedom,

Emmanuel Ayeni

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THANKING GOD FOR SHELTER

DAY 24 OF 30 . THANKING GOD FOR SHELTER

Shelter is a vital need in the life of any man.The basic needs of man are food, clothing and shelter.I bless God for shelter
It can only be best imagined what life would feel or be like without a roof on one's head, no place to lay after the day's long work,to be protected from the vagaries and harshness of weather,Shelter is important. I thank God for shelter.

The roof over my head, a room to sleep, and most importantly a bed space to sit or to sleep, these amenities,though basic, are important and I am indeed thankful and grateful.

Another level in having shelter is the ability to own one and to be able to help others have one. I look forward to this huge blessing and responsibility as well in all its dimension and I am grateful for the unfolding opportunities and possibilities.

The privilege of owning a home, a private space, a property or even a bed space is a blessing, imagine the derelicts and homeless, and you can't be less than grateful for the wonderful gift of shelter!

So Grateful,
Emmanuel Ayeni
Life-coach,Engineer and Entrepreneur

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WEALTH CREATION: 5 WAYS THE RICH AND WEALTHY CREATE WEALTH

DAY 8 of 30


5 WAYS THE RICH AND WEALTHY CREATE WEALTH

In previous posts on Money and Financial Intelligence , I started by laying the foundation on the nature of money and the ways of earning or making money and the two broad types of earned income (Passive and Active Income) you can catch up on these here;
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Further on, since the Rich and Wealthy do not work for money, but have money work for them, then we can reaffirm that the rich and wealthy (Investors and Business Owners) earn passive income- they create Systems, while the poor and middle class who are usually employees and Self employed continue to work for money and hence make active income.

I will take a quick look into the 5 Ways of Earning Passive Income, I will treat each of them in greater details in subsequent posts.

Follow me and see 5 ways by which anyone can begin to earn passive income.

1. Real Estate: Investment in Real estate is one of the major ways by which anyone can earn passive income. A large percentage of Wealthy people have assets in real estate. The basic income from Real Estate is called Rent. If you own high-net worth properties in great locations and you they are leased or rented out to tenants under a solid arrangement, then you can begin to earn rents for many years to come. In fact real estate is called the playground of the rich. Investment in real estate may vary from paid parking lots, residential properties or hotels to Event centres. Two major examples of people that play in this area are Donald Trump, an American billionaire and Dr. Dolf De Roos, a member of the board of directors at Avenues to Wealth International.

2. Automated Business: The Rich and Wealthy have been able to device a means of most times building from the scratch and at other times buying a successful Business System. An automated business simply is one which has been built over the years into a successful business systems. They are usually vary in size but are usually strong viable brands with business processes and concepts developed and established over the years. A business franchise like MacDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC is an example of an Automated business. It usually takes an average of 5 to 10 years to build a successful Business System (and according to Business experts, this is still the first phase of its growth and development).However, you might buy a franchise of an already success business. Names that come to mind when you think of building great business brands are Bill Gates of Microsoft, late Steve Jobs of Apple, Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group in Nigeria etc. One major income from this is director bonus.

3. Paper Assets: The Income earned from paper assets is dividends and some time, bonuses and capital appreciation. Another great way to earn passive income is ownership of stocks, treasury bills and bonds. People who earn tangible income from this usually hold sizable shares of blue chip companies from which they begin to earn passive income. Ownership of stocks in this regard will usually be millions or billions of units. When you think of paper assets one major name that comes to mind is Warren Buffet.

4. Intellectual Property: Intellectual property has been and will continue to be a great way by which people rise to great wealth. This is where through a viable idea, in form of a patent or invention, a man continues to be earn passive income most times for the rest of his life. The minimum patent year for some inventions is 17 -20 years. The form of money earned from intellectually property is called Royalty. More popular forms of intellectual property are having Copyrights to a best-selling book, an A list song or Album or Movie. And with recent trend of technology one can strike it rich from royalty by developing a resourceful software or application. Here you want to think of web developers/ Founders of Tech Start up Companies like David Karp of Tumblr, Jan Koum and Brain Acton creators of Whatsapp. Also Musicians or song writers earning royalties from songs written years ago and J. K Rowling the writer of the popular Harry Potter books are example of people making wealth from Intellectual Property

5. Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing(MLM) : The Network Marketing Industry has produced more millionaires than any other industry in the world within the shortest possible time. As a matter of fact huge companies are now going MLM as they have discovered it’s a great way to move their products and services within a vast number of people. The network marketing industry has been around for over 50 years and it is continually gaining momentum. Great entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Warren Buffet have been recently know to invest in some MLM companies Network Marketing is a great way anyone can create passive income even become financially free in the right company with the right MLM program and rewards system. It is a business model that helps the poor and the middle class move out of the rat race begin a journey to Financial Freedom.

At the end of this article, I share the exciting MLM vehicle I am actively involved in.

There are rare opportunities that combine some or all of these channels of creating passive income and sustainable wealth. If you will like to know more or participate in an opportunity that gives you access to play in all these avenues fill the form at the link....http://bit.ly/VqbOgh

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A2W - What it is all about!

We have always heard about 'Minding your business', but it's not all of us that actually does that.
Today I share with you a  mail ( an A2W business)_ I have sent to couple of friends about a business I am actively involved in which I believe is for anyone who wants to embark on a journey to Financial Freedom  all who wish to play in the 5 investment grounds of the rich  i.e. Real Estate, Automated Business, Intellectual Property,Paper Investments and Multi-level Marketing (MLM)

Please read on to learn about this amazing opportunity if you haven't or  to learn more  and take action if you already knew.

A2W - What it is all about!



Why?

Would you like to earn extra income
that doesn't jeopardize your current employments ethics? Or would you love to
spend more time with your children and not leave them solely at the mercies of
unqualified teachers or house helps? Would you love to get a push to develop
yourself and actually be motivated to read? Or do you desire positive peer
pressure to help you ensure you are saving monthly towards the winter seasons
of life? Do you get a kick from helping others succeed? Would you love to leave
a legacy? Do you want to learn how to manage businesses and manage people? Or
do you crave to be free to do what you love, because you have been able to
create sufficient streams of passive income to take care of your living
expenses? If any of these is Yes, then A2W is the opportunity you need! All you
need to understand is How!



What?



A2W is short from for Avenues to
Wealth. It's as the name implies. It's a platform for building global
entrepreneurs and giving them opportunities to create wealth. It is an
entrepreneurial empowerment platform.

The vision of A2W is to build global
entrepreneurs. The company's mission is to help it's distributors and their
families enjoy the financial freedom they deserve.



How?



1. The company gives everybody access to buy a privilege pack - unique product and
service bundle that helps them start out on a new business with websites,
presentations materials, books, search portals, marketing sites, training
videos, investment opportunities, discount deals, complimentary vacation offer,
education, support, a physical product and a bouquet of so much more starting
from as low as $350 (N63,000). You literally get access to a number of deals.



2. The company allows you to register your details before buying any of it's products.
This is essentially to give you an opportunity to have a tracking system within
the company that allows you to be able to be referenced as the point of contact
for the company for your friends who are interested in any of the company's
deals. In A2W the company doesn't take your referring your friends for granted,
the company intends to pay you for every purchase linked to you.



3. A2W gives you a product that allows you to earn by leveraging on a variety of
businesses where the company already spent the start up capital on your behalf,
cutting your learning errors significantly. A2W has a Travel company with 30yrs
travel experience and an IATA license, you don't need to invest $150,000 to
acquire this, and you don't need staff. All you need is the know how, and you
can be in business with A2W Travels. A2W owns an Estate company, you don't need
to have the capital to buy or build, A2W buys and builds, and empowers it's
distributors to become agents, landlords and much more. A2W owns a retail
company, you don't need to bet a warehouse, and order container or truckloads
of products to have something to sell, you can work with the company, reduce
your costs and make daily income. These are a few of an expanding list of
strategic business units. The A2W Cooperative Multipurpose Society also helps
you to enjoy the wisdom of the ants, to retain your earnings, and be able build
them till you can purchase assets.



4. The company rewards people in 4 unique ways. You can earn daily income, weekly
income, monthly income and enjoy yearly benefits. The company pays in dollars,
and provides you with an option to earn active income daily, this is direct
referral bonuses paid out on every sale. The company pays cycle payments
weekly, this is a result not of your personal effort, but of the effort of your
team. This is passive income, as you can earn these without being personally
involved. There is also a leadership pool, this is paid monthly, it's also
passive and it's income for supporting the growth and development of your team.
This income is available to you only when you are Silver ranked. The last but certainly
not the least is a vacation bonus, paid in kind. It's 7 exciting and exotic
days on the laps of luxury. This is a yearly reward paid to distributors who
are ranked Gold and above and have displayed extra competence in supporting
their teams. In A2W the biggest support is for helping others succeed!



Which?

People want to know which model the company uses to reward it's distributors,
and which of the deals to take. Here are a few insights.



a. A2W uses a Network marketing model. Please note, many of the things people call
Network Marketing either fall under two evil scams named either Ponzi Schemes
or Pyramid schemes or they have fallen into Network marketing models that are
designed for people who need targets, or people who want short term quick fix solutions
to their financial problems. Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are scams! Unilevel
model Network Marketing companies are a lot of work, offer you short term and
quick gains, but long term pains and stress. Because income is limited to
particular genealogy, you can't earn passively in perpetuity. The other plan
people are used to are the boards - forced matrix. These are exciting like
playing a game, but the nature of not being able to stay with one team defeats
team work, and makes the model usually not sustainable beyond 18 months. The
Binary model however, which is what A2W uses, is referred to as the fairest
model in the world. It's not target driven, no limit to earnings on the long
term, no gaming, highly sustainable, suitable for friends and family and
engenders long term friendships. The earnings are smaller in the early days,
but it's like building for the long-haul.



b. The second choice you need to make is which of the deals to take. Let me take the
liberty of recommending my top 3 options. If I had the opportunity to join A2W
afresh today, I certainly will use one of these options.



o Deal 1 - A premium pack with products. This will allow you to start in A2W with a
bronze distributorship, a formation that empowers you to earn double for same
efforts as others, and an option of products that makes you able to be
authoritative about the company and it's products. If I had the options, I'll
go for the $1360 (N230,000) option. This covers a premium pack (bronze), An A2W
Healthy Oven, An A2W X6 phone, An ionizer cup and a power bank. This is high
end for those who like the good things of life and can afford it.

o Deal 2 - A Full Privilege Pack, with product combinations that allow you to start
with a full service bouquet and a few other products. With $620 (N105,000) you
can get a Full Privilege Pack, an A2W healthy oven, an ionizer cup, a Tablet
(Customized or for Kids) and an A2W Power Bank. This is a great deal, for those
who can afford it, and would like to start out with big savings.

o Deal 3 - A good start! Simply start with a Full Privilege Pack and an A2W healthy
oven. This is $350 (N63,000)

Please note that these prices do not include the courier costs for moving the products into each city.



When?



People usually want to know when the
best time to get on board is. The answer is 5yrs ago, you might have made a lot
with it already today. You however already missed that opportunity, the next
best time however is NOW! Many people never take opportunities today because
they missed it yesterday! Blessed are those people who Pass. Over.
Opportunities. Repeatedly, they shall be called POOR!



If you would like to make your
payments, get started and onboard, then contact me on this Number:07033875827 or Email: emmandus@yahoo.com .



WE can succeed together if we try! If
we don't try, we already failed! If you reach me on time, you get a front row
seat, it means you benefit from all my future efforts too.



Kind Regards,

Emmanuel Ayeni
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