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What Should I Do To Make A Million Dollars?
I had started this blog and my Law Of Abundance Check page to share my thoughts and the knowledge that I have learnt about making money. Making one million dollars for me is about earning my financial freedom, as it is for most of us. I dread waking up early every morning and dragging myself to work but it puts food on the table and I have always consoled myself that my day job pays me well to retire in 11 more years. So hold tight and endure for another decade 
Everyone of us has choices and I can either make the choice to leave my current job (very narrow industry and I won’t be able to get the same pay elsewhere) and risk not achieving my retirement goal of $1.5 million dollars OR I could hold on tight and continue my savings and investment plan, which my current job offers, and hit financial freedom at 45 years old. Tough choice for me. If I was still a swinging bachelor, I would not have thought twice. Not that I am complaining, I love my son and would sacrifice the world for him.
What would I do to make a million dollars? Would I risk my family lifestyle? Would I risk my financial freedom at 45? Those are tough questions for me but it is clear that there are things that I would not do to make a million dollars. I would not
- sacrifice my family’s wellbeing
- sacrifice my time with my son
- rob or hurt another human being
- lie or cheat or take part in any scams
But what are the things I would do to make this one million dollars? I ponder about what I would be willingly to sacrifice and I would
- sacrifice my after-office time
- have less sleep in order to work on any million dollars making venture
- have less social activities to work on my million dollars business
- invest up to $5000 for a business venture
Would doing all the above hasten my journey to my retirement goal of $1.5 million dollars? I would hope so. There are many ventures that I have already tried and while some have succeeded, there were many that had failed. I have taken a timeout recently to think about setting my goals but my thinking has not really crystallized yet. To help me on my journey, I am going to adopt the simpleology method to get myself faster to my million dollars goal. Perhaps I should document my simpleology journey here as well.
How To Make A Million Dollars? Becoming Rich Through Hard Work Is A Myth
How to make a million dollars? You could say that this is one of the most asked questions after questions on the existence of God. For many of us, making a million dollars seem to be an obstacle in itself rather than an ambitious goal. Even though we see successes around us daily, it can sometimes be hard to imagine that we can achieve the goal of making a million dollars in our lifetime, especially when we start from scratch.
Despite the fact that each year 300,000 new millionaires enter the million dollar club, many of us cannot perceive how can we make a million dollars. We see it all around us, many success stories of average folks who pull themselves out of poverty and became multi-millionaires but to imagine ourselves in their shoes, we simply shut out that idea.
A Positive Attitude Towards Money
Worse still, some of us were brought up to think that the pursuit of wealth and desire of riches is a sin and we should be contented with whatever we have. That is probably one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the pursuit of wealth and to make a million dollars. The pursuit of wealth and to become rich is neither a sinful nor virtuous act. The pursuit of riches is a neutral action but how you eventually use your wealth will determine the morality of your actions. You must become receptive to the idea of chasing wealth otherwise you will never even see the goal. Staying positive and committed to making a million dollars starts from having a positive attitude towards money.
Does Hard Work Always Pays?
The other incorrect belief that we have been led to believe is that Hard Work always pays and that the pot of gold will lie behind every rainbow. Just chase that rainbow daily and you will see that pot of gold. That’s the story that we were all told and many of us, believing in that myth, slogged ourselves silly even at the expense of our health. Instead of making a million dollars, we become frustrated and want to leave our daily grind.
We have also seen some of the more senior colleagues in our workplaces who have achieved little despite years of slogging. Did he not work hard enough? Or was it just bad luck that he did not made it? Is hard work really the way to go? Your own experience should have already told you that pure hard work is not the way to go, if you are really keen to make a million dollars. To make a million dollars, you must be able to channel your energies correctly and very often, less work can mean better results than more work.
Have a Game Plan
Stop for a second to think. To make a million dollars, would you need a plan? Would you need a focusing of efforts so that you will not become worn out and give up along the way? Setting a game plan is one of the most critical steps to take towards earning that first million dollars.
Sit down and analyze your situation. What would it take for you to become a millionaire? What resources (friends, business contacts, experts, knowledge etc) do you currently have that can help you on your path? Do you need to make drastic actions to your current employment of life in order to achieve that first million dollars.
Sit down and think about how you can start towards making that first million dollars. You may eventually decide that loyal employment to a large multinational corporation is the best way to earn that one million dollars or you could decide that starting your own business is the only way. Regardless, you will have a plan. And that is the most important step for many millionaires that have come and go.
