- *** ## title: Book: Want To Become A Multi Millionaire Do These 14 Things - Want To Become A Multi-Millionaire? Do These 14 Things Immediately. - Created: Jul 18, 2017 1:10 PM - Tags: Book, Klib - Updated: Jul 18, 2017 1:10 PM - [medium.com](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8\&camp=536\&creative=3132\&field-keywords=Want%20To%20Become%20A%20Multi-Millionaire?%20Do%20These%2014%20Things%20Immediately.\&linkCode=ur2\&tag=llll1-23\&url=search-alias%3Dbooks) - 34 highlights - It’s only when you invest in something that you have the motivation to make it happen. - Beyond mentorships, you should invest in education programs such as online courses, books, quality products such as food and sleep. - Your level of success can generally be directly measured by your level of investment. If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s because you haven’t invested enough to get those results. - Nearly every second spent on social media is consumed time. You can’t have that time back. Rather than making your future better, it actually made your future worse. Just like eating bad food, every consumed moment leaves you worse off. Every invested moment leaves you better off. - Entertainment is all well and good. But only when that entertainment is an investment in your relationships or yourself. You’ll know if it was an investment if that entertainment continues to yield returns over and over in your future. That may include positive memories, transformational learning, or deepened relationships. - Wealthy and [[happy]] people work to learn. - “The key secret to success is not excessive expertise, but the ability to use it. Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied.” — Max Lukominskyi - In our media and information age, there are a million things you could learn. But if you don’t put that learning into immediate practice, it becomes shallow information. Information and knowledge are two very different things. Knowledge and wisdom are also two very different things. It takes wisdom to determine what you should learn, why you should [[Learn]] it, and when you should [[Learn]] it. Unless you’re invested, you probably won’t [[Learn]] with the intensity needed to maximize that knowledge. - Unless you understand the value of your time, you probably won’t have the discernment to ignore almost everything while learning that which will bring the highest return. - When you [[Learn]] something, you should get a return on that learning. Far too many people read books now just to say they’ve read lots of books. If you’re not applying what you’re learning, your consuming and wasting your time. - It’s best to think of your business as only 1/2 of your income equation. - Like anything, how well you manage your money is determined by how well mentored you are. If you want to become brilliant with money, invest in education and mentoring. - “The world gives to the givers and takes from the takers.” — Joe Polish - Beyond acknowledging your dependence, constantly express your appreciation to the people in your life. That which you appreciate, appreciates. Relationships are assets that can and should grow bigger and better over time. - If you don’t appreciate and give to your relationships, your relationships will suffer. All relationships are like bank accounts, and if one person is constantly depositing and the other person is constantly withdrawing, eventually all of the resources become depleted. In such relationships, 1+1=less than 2. - Conversely, in synergistic and healthy relationships, 1+1=far more than 2. When two people are continually giving and receiving, the relational bank account continues to grow and expand, providing several intended and unintended benefits. - The amazing workout was the intended outcome of our synergy. The insights for my book were unintended benefits. This can only happen when both parties are actively giving and receiving from the relationship. Where both are focusing on creating rather than consuming. Where both have the primary motivation of helping the other person succeed. - “All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.” - Don’t seek transactional relationships. Only seek long-term TRANSFORMATIONAL relationships. - Setting a 10X goal will be one of the best things you’ve ever done for yourself. - You get into a peak state by doing something powerful, whether that be exercising, learning, or being in a unique environment, such as a foreign country. You can even get into a peak state by being around certain types of people, the ones who inspire you to be the best version of yourself. Only you know what gets - until it becomes your reality. - You can’t 10X your results by engaging in the same thinking and behaviors you’re currently performing. Consequently, while thinking about your goal, you’ll also get ideas about what you need to do, realistically, to achieve that goal. - So you’ll need to start really educating yourself about how you could conceivably achieve your goal. You’ll need to get bolder about the work you’re doing. You’ll need to create more, and fail more. Over and over, in fact. Quality is often the fastest path to quality. - Marketing is nothing more than making your work easier and better to find and use. - People aren’t magically going to appear and buy your stuff. People aren’t going to magically appear and read your stuff. Even right now: How did you land on this page? Look at the title of this article. I could have just as easily called it, “Advice for becoming successful.” But would you have clicked on that article? Probably not. But you clicked on this one. Why did you click on this one? How did you get this far down? Think about the experience. Marketing is the “HOW” to whatever it is you do. - The reason most people aren’t successful is because they either fear or avoid marketing. For the same reason, most people are bad teachers. They’re more focused on content than the delivery and design of that content. But the delivery — the HOW — is just as important IF NOT MORE IMPORTANT than WHAT you’re doing or WHY you’re doing it. You could have the cure for cancer. But if you don’t market it well, you’ll never get your cure out there. You could have the world’s most important message, or greatest story, but no one will see it if you don’t promote and package it intelligently. 11. - Founder of the exclusive entrepreneurial coaching platform, Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan distinguishes between those who are in the “Time-and-Effort Economy” with those who are in the “Results Economy.” If you’re in the time and effort economy, you are focused on being busy. You actually believe the amount of time and energy you put into something merits praise. Conversely, when you are in the results economy, you are only focused on achieving a specific result. - They live by their ability to generate opportunity by creating value for their clientele. Sometimes, they — and you — will put in a lot of time and effort and get no result. - The environments you work in should reflect the work you’re doing. Doing several types of work in the same environment is ineffective. But people do it all the time. They sit in the same seat and mentally shift from one task to another. A far better approach is to BATCH your activities and to do those activities in a relevant environment. For example, when I write a blog post, I work in a quiet library where I have no distractions. Because my environment facilitates quality writing, and because I knew I’d be writing that day, I write a lot. It’s easier to write 2–5 blog posts in one sitting than - In order to be successful, you must believe in something. You must have a stand. All successful people and brands have a clear WHY. As Simon Sinek explains in his book, Start With Why, people don’t buy what you sell, they buy why you sell it. Apple is a great example. In all of their marketing, they don’t explain the technicalities of their products, they define and share their core values. They believe technology should be both easy to use and cool. - In order to be successful, you must believe in something. You must have a stand. All successful people and brands have a clear WHY. As Simon Sinek explains in his book, Start With Why, people don’t buy what you sell, they buy why you sell it. Apple is a great example. In all of their marketing, they don’t explain the technicalities of their products, they define and share their core values. They believe technology should be both easy to use and cool. - If you want to be compelling and interesting, you must truly believe in something. You must have a clear stand. That stand becomes your brand. It becomes your trademark. It becomes how you distinguish yourself from others. When you have a clear stand and brand, you stand out. You are no longer neutral. You believe in something, and are fighting to make a specific change. - The riches are in the niches. Your niche is your audience. They are a small group of people who agree with the stand you’re trying to make. They are your evangelists. If you try to appeal to everyone, your message, marketing, and products will be terrible. You won’t be clear on your why, and neither will anyone else. Thus, you’ll be average like everyone else and your work won’t stand out. Only people with firm stands get really really good at marketing. They care enough about their message to get it out there. They realize that the HOW is just as important as the WHAT and WHY.