It is easier than you think!
Step 1. GET SOME ETHEREUM!
Forget mining, it is way too slow now. Just take all your available money and change it for Ethereum. Keep only the money you need for food and bills etc. There is no reason to keep your money on your bank account where it grows like 1% in a year.
Step 2. HOLD!
There is a lot of stress and a lot of time consumed in exchange markets. If you are trading you can also loose what you have. But if you are holding, you only need the price of Eth to go up. And it does!
Step 3. HOLD SOME MORE!
step 4. BE RICH!
It is done now, you can buy a house, a car and maybe a small helicopter if you held long enough.
You can probably pay for it in the ETH because noone uses dollars anymore :)