The 10 Million Dollar Mindset

If I say to you, “Hey, you can grow your business into a 10 million dollar company and be very wealthy” would you believe me?

Would you think it’s possible? Likely? Easy? Hard? A pipe dream?

You don’t have to tell anyone your answer, so be really honest with yourself. Can you envision becoming a multi-millionaire by growing your business?

If you can’t see it, first congratulate yourself for that bit of honesty. Next, get to work on your mindset. You will never be a millionaire if you don’t think like a millionaire.

Have you read biographies of multi-millionaires in the United States? It is rare to find a millionaire who says “I am so surprised I reached this level of success and wealth.”

Except for lottery winners, most wealthy individuals are not surprised by their success. Their wealth is intentional. They set out to create that success, they visualized it, they believed it, and they passionately pursued it.

Hope Floats, Action Flies

You can hope to make the front page of Forbes Magazine by wishing that your business goes well. You can create excellent products then sit by the phone and hope that clients order them. You can launch a gorgeous website and hope that internet searchers just happen to find it.

In the course of your daily operations, do you hope for things to happen, or do you work at making them happen?

During your work day you likely create products, provide services, contact clients, process orders, send invoices, order supplies…and hundreds of other actions that generate income. Now let me ask you: would you be willing to stop doing these things and then to simply hope you can still make a living?

Obviously not. So, if you are not willing to give up your income by relying on hope and wishful thinking, why do so many entrepreneurs consider becoming a multi-millionaire a fantasy?

If your actions make you $200 dollars a day, don’t you think that over time different actions can bring you $2000 a day, $20,000 a day?

My point? Stop hoping and wishing for abundant wealth and start planning on it.

1. Get The Mind Aligned

What you believe about money, wealth, and success will form the limitations of what you achieve in those areas. If you are comfortable with a 6 figure income, but feel guilty or overwhelmed when considering an 8 figure income, then you have set limits on your income potential.

If you think money is the root of all evil or that rich people are bad, then you have disqualified yourself from wealth. The relationship you have with money in your mind becomes the relationship you have with money in your life. That’s why step one is to get the mind aligned.

You can’t achieve dreams with lip service. You have to really believe.

2. Find Your Gurus

Ok, so you believe fiercely that you have what it takes to break into the 8 figure income stream. You believe it, you want it, you are seeking it.

Good! Seeking is powerful. You’ve heard it before, when the student is ready, the master appears. Even reading this newsletter is positive action in the right direction. Now surround yourself with likeminded people who reinforce your beliefs and support your goals. And spend time meeting with and/or studying those with more knowledge or experience that you.

Do not allow yourself to be frozen by fear or intimidated by those who have achieved great success. Find them, interact with them, learn from them, and model them.

3. Be Really Clear

We’ve mentioned becoming a millionaire or multi-millionaire a few times in this article. That is a great general idea, but it isn’t a powerful enough of a goal to ignite action and feed passion.

You need to set very specific goals. Maybe you start with an annual income goal. Maybe you start with targeting a certain number of clients each month. Maybe you do both.

The more specific your goals, the more they will motivate and sustain you. Also, the ability to measure progress is key. If your goal is vague, how do you know if you are achieving it? Let’s say your goal is to become a millionaire in your lifetime. You are now 30 and you have $60,000 in the bank – are you on track? Are you encouraged or discouraged? Will you be happy if you reach one million dollars in your bank account on your 90th birthday?

Now let’s look at a specific goal. Let’s just say that this year your goal was to add 10 new clients per month and end the year with $570,000 in revenue. And now let’s say it’s December 31 and you look at your results. You total clients for the year were 108 and you’re final revenue totaled $563,000. You achieved 90% of your client goal and 99% of your revenue goal. Now how do you feel? You probably feel pretty good because you came very close to achieving your goals. And your results are probably far superior than if you didn’t set the goals in the first place.

4. Tell Everyone

I am not talking about strutting around town bragging on how you are going to have gobs of money. I am talking about freely sharing your objectives in socially appropriate ways. For example, if while visiting family over the holidays old Uncle Jim yells across the room “Hey Chris, what are you doing with your life”.

This may be an opportunity to say “Well Uncle Jim, this year I am focused on growing my company to $230,000 in revenues and I am on track to produce $5.5M in revenues within 4 years.”

I bet that will quiet the room.

Maybe you are willing to share that with family, maybe you’d rather not. Definitely be upfront about your goals with your staff, partners, and mentors. Go ahead and create accountability. If you really believe in what you can accomplish, you won’t be afraid to “put it out there”.

While you want passion, not ego to be your main motivator, a little pride can go a long way sometimes.

5. Live the Life

If you want to be a millionaire, you need to live like a millionaire. No, I am not saying you need to buy a car you can’t afford or otherwise live beyond your means. On the contrary, there are hundreds of stories of self-made millionaire that got there by living conservatively.

What I mean is that you need to monitor your way of thinking. Do you look at a Bentley and automatically think “I will never afford that.” How serious can you be about becoming a multi-millionaire if that is your knee-jerk reaction?

A person planning their success will instead think “In approximately six years, when my annual revenue reaches X, I will be able to buy that car cash.”

What is your life plan? If you are a parent, are you optimistic about sending your kids to any college they want to attend? Are you learning about different places in the world you want to visit?

Are you learning a language to support your international business launch? Are you looking forward to and learning about things that are a normal part of the lifestyle you are working to achieve?

Is there something you can do now that will give you taste of your future? Maybe you can buy a pair of expensive sunglasses to remind you to look at the world through the eyes of a millionaire. Perhaps you can start a basic investment account at a firm that is known for high wealth clients.

Identify one thing you can do now that will make you feel like a millionaire, and go do it.

10 Million or Bust

Jack Canfield, one of the creators of the “Chicken Soup” series of books shares a story about setting bold goals. One year, he decided that he was going to sell a mini version of his book for twenty-five cents and wanted to reach $100,000 in sales that year. At the time, that was a huge amount of money for his family.

Well, he didn’t make it. He only made $92,000 that year.

Was he disappointed? Of course not! By setting such a huge goal he created a situation in which an “almost made it” was still a raving success. If today, you make $75,000 a year and decide to make $10 Million in ten years, you will still be living a vastly different life if you only make $8 Million.

Now consider this. If in X years, you have 1, 2, 15, or 30 million dollars, are you still you? You may have different characteristic brought on by time and wealth, but you are still the same person, right?

If you are going to be a millionaire in the future, then what is stopping you from having that millionaire mindset now? Don’t wait for things to define you. Rather, be defined by the passion, skill, and determination that will ultimately get you the life you want. Get your 10 million dollar mindset going today.