Everyone has dreams about winning the lottery and getting crazy rich overnight. People want to get rich. Just do a search on Google Books and you can see that it’s been a rising trend since the 90s.
Many people are looking for ways to get their first 100K, or ways to invest for a better retirement. Some are trying to succeed as entrepreneurs. People want to have enough money to buy beautiful homes, powerful cars, and great vacations. But not many know what getting rich really means and what it takes.
Here I can show you some ways that I tried and they worked for me
5_ Exploit your skill as a self-employed expert and invest in it.
Make it your goal to do one thing better than anyone: Work on it, train it, learn it, practice, evaluate and refine it. You may find most sports-players or entertainers are millionaires, and that is because they are utilizing their skills fully. If there’s something you’re good at, it is likely you can reap considerable rewards out of it.
It is the same concept of being the top of a particular field. When you are the best at something, you find that opportunities come to you. To become an expert of something, it is crucial to never stop improving. Successful people invest time, energy, and money in improving themselves, and it might just be the most rewarding investment you can ever make.
To get started, figure out what skill you want to cultivate. Make a list of the world’s ten best people at that one thing, and use this list to define criteria and track your own progress toward becoming the best.
If you’re a writer, for example, you might consult the New York Times Bestseller list, and identify the ten successful authors that you admire the most. Learn more about these writers, what they did to be successful, and read some of their work. Invest the time and energy in improving your own craft, by looking at successful past models.
4_ Build routines that ensure you will make progress.
Never forget that achieving a goal is based on creating routines.
Say you want to write a 200-page book. That's your goal. Your system to achieve that goal could be to write four pages a day; that's your routine. Wishing and hoping won't get you to a finished manuscript, but sticking faithfully to your routine ensures you reach your goal.
Or say you want to land 100 new customers through inbound marketing. That's your goal; your routine is to create new content, new videos, new podcasts, new white papers, etc., on whatever schedule you set. Stick to that routine and meet your deadlines, and if your content is great, you will land those new customers.
Wishing and hoping won't get you there. Sticking faithfully to your routine will.
Set goals, create routines that support those goals, then ruthlessly track your progress. Fix what doesn't work. Improve and repeat what does work. Refine and revise and adapt and work hard every day to be better than you were yesterday.
Soon you'll be good. Then you'll be great. And one day you'll be world-class.
And then, probably without even noticing, you'll also be a millionaire.
You know, if you like that sort of thing.
3_ Invest in the Stock Market
Ask a smart guy for tips on how to get rich quick, and he will tell you to invest in the stock market. Choose stocks wisely and use your dividends to invest in more stocks. This will help you build a fortune. Although there would be times stocks are unstable, once you become an expert in trading, you can detect the changes in advance to keep your earnings at bay. Make stock market crashes work for you by taking the opportunity to buy more stocks when they are priced low.
2_ Rent out Properties
The good thing about owning a rental property is you can maintain a 9-to-5 job while you earn additional income. People who became landlords and work full time in an office are likely to reach an early retirement.
1_ Start your own business and eventually sell it
More and more startup have seen success with great return in recent years. If you can find a new approach towards a specific corner of the market and build a business that addresses that need, then you have a potential of success in it.
It literally can be anything: a cleaning business, a food delivery service, or a blog. It will probably take years of very hard work to build up the enterprise. All entrepreneurs will have to endure great risk and stress. But if you can pull it off, the potential rewards are huge. This is how many of the seriously wealthy people did it.
