With our daily lives loaded with loaded with bills, bills, bills, the quest for wealth can never be over emphasized. Irrespective of your career, there are proven steps that can guarantee you become a millionaire.
Here are a few of them:

 

You must desire To Make Money
Most rich and powerful individuals are not notably talented, educated, charming, or good-looking. They also have short comings, went through tough times like every one of us.
This simply implies that; they are as human as we are and never had any special qualities or extra powers that gave them a leverage in the race towards wealth.
They simply became rich by wanting it desperately. Before you become wealthy, you have to want to become wealthy. As simple as this sounds, deep down, most people, don’t really want to be wealthy. This is evidenced by their behavior. They want other things more than they want to be wealthy, which then influences the result that they get. You simply can’t away the fact that your level of commitment to becoming wealthy is evidenced by the results you have right now.

 

You should do a reality check and ask yourself vital questions like, do I want more money? Why do I want more money? How much money do I really want to have? When do I want to have that money? How can I obtain that money?

 

The single best way to want to make money, is by writing down that you want to make money. Spending time in your journal will inform both your purpose and your strategy for becoming wealthy. In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill teaches that to be successful, one must have a definiteness of purpose. A burning desire. A chief aim of what one wants, before one can get it.

 

What do you really want? Write it down. Think about it. Visualize it. When you do this, you will find yourself wanting it more and more.
Having a purpose and a WHY for acquiring money will both inform the process that you use to get there and make your desire to get there far more powerful. “When the why is strong enough, you will figure out the how.” — Attributed to Bill Walsh.

When you have a purpose and a why, your “how” will become much more powerful. You’ll develop an emotional connection with your future self. When you’re emotionally connected to your future self, you will make better financial decisions in the present. You’ll make decisions that a far wealthier version of you would make. You’ll stop doing things that would prevent you from accomplishing your goal.
You create your purpose, rather than discovering it. You create your future self, rather than discovering it. Either you want to make money, or you don’t. How much money do you want? By when? And why?
When you truly want to make money, you’ll naturally want to become the person who can get you there.

Transform Your Identity
Two things make up your identity: Your current story and your current standard.
Your story is how you see and view yourself. Your standard is measured by everything you currently say “yes” to, or “no” to, is driven by your identity. Thus, your identity is not only the story you have about yourself, but that which you are most committed to.

 

To become wealthy, you need to upgrade your identity. You can’t outperform your current identity. Your subconscious mind will always act in ways to ensure you never deviate from the standard you are comfortable with. The amount of money you have right now is the “floor” of what your subconscious mind finds acceptable.

 

To have more money, raise the floor of your subconscious. Elevate the minimum standard of what is acceptable, and what is not. You will have to do this before you have the money that you want.

Give Away Money
One of the most powerful things you can do to transform your identity such that you want success, feel like you deserve it, and feel that you can have it, is to give away money.

When you give money away, you focus on gratitude and abundance, you attract more money into your life, you’ll see yourself as someone who can have money. It will make you feel amazing, it increases your desire to give more.

“You have to feel that you deserve good things or else your subconscious might very well sabotage all your best efforts. If you don’t truly feel that you deserve great financial success, then you are battling an almost insurmountable obstacle; your subconscious. Giving away gifts to charity is an excellent way of once and for all persuading your subconscious that you deserve what lies ahead. In this way, your subconscious will not only end its sabotage, it will begin actively to assist you in your quest.” — Rabbi Daniel Lapin.

 

Develop Rare, Unique, And Valuable Skills
To have more money, you need to become really good at what you do. You increase your income by increasing your value in the marketplace.
If you commit to developing rare, unique, and valuable skills, over time, people will pay you 10x as much for the same amount of work. You will have developed a unique ability.

You can develop skills and abilities that are both highly profitable and useful. It is entirely up to you.
In the essay “How to Make Wealth,” famed entrepreneurial thinker Paul Graham teaches the fundamental difference between wealth and money.
Money is paper. Money is a finite game. Wealth is something that you create. Wealth is an infinite game. When you develop skills and abilities, you are creating wealth.

Your new skills and abilities don’t take away from anyone else. They increase the collective good that can be accomplished in the world.
When you commit to developing wealth through rare and valuable skills:
You embrace your uniqueness, what you intrinsically want and desire, You don’t compete with anyone else.
It’s your choice whether or not you want to develop mastery. Mastery is the difference between making enormous amounts of money, and not.

Invest in Yourself

When you invest in yourself, you’re telling yourself a different story, one that you can be, do, and have, on a higher level.

 

Investing in your skills can pay enormous dividends. You should invest in your network. You can literally pay money to be in rooms where you are the dumbest person in the room, and the “average” or norm for the other people there is much higher than you were previously used to.
You are the average of the people you spend the most time around. You can be intentional about those people, and then acclimate to their level.

 

You also should be clear about being in networks of people who align with what you are currently trying to accomplish.
In your life and business, there is a 20% that brings you results and an 80% that is getting in the way. If you spent 100% of your time (instead of 20%) on the skill that excites you and bring in money, how quickly could you put in 10,000 hours into that skill?

There are a few things that you do in your life that change everything. There are many things that lead to very little, if not no, financial results.
It doesn’t take that much time to get excellent at what you do if you hire people to handle the 80%. Invest in a team, hiring other people to fill the 80% that doesn’t help you move forward. Dan Sullivan and I wrote about this in our books Who Not How and 10X is Easier than 2X. Ideally, you find people where your 80% is their 20%. Then, you don’t have to train them. Find people who are already good at doing the things you need help with.

 

If you have someone to organize you, you can spend much more time in a flow-state, going DEEP into the skills that matter most.
Many people view hiring of employees as a cost, not as an investment. In reality, your “who’s” free up time to enable you to go much deeper into your craft.
Invest in your skills, invest in your network, invest in your team.

 

Don’t Lose Money
“Rule #1 don’t lose money. Rule #2, never forget rule #1” — Warren Buffett

Don’t lose money unnecessarily. This is stated in lots of books. Oftentimes we have to learn this through experience. Hopefully you don’t! If you lose money, it’ll take you twice as long to get back to where you were.

Chasing things with greed and things you are not aware of should be avoided. Also try not to take investment advice from friends who are not experts.

Often, as you start making more and more money, you’ll flush that money down the toilet, because your subconscious and your identity haven’t yet adjusted to that new standard.
The goal is to go from peak to peak to peak, and continually upgrade your subconscious and your standard.