How I Became a Millionaire on a 9-5 Salary

this is exactly how I would go from working a 9 to-5 job to becoming an independent entrepreneur making a million dollars within the next year you see I went from earning $55,000 a year in a job that I hated to having a net worth of over $100 million and let me tell you I made so many mistakes but if I could go back and do it all over again this is how I would do it even faster and better so here are my 10 tips to go from being a 9 to-5 team member to thinking

acting and earning like a millionaire your first step to becoming a millionaire is identifying your millionaire skill think about it what does a millionaire know that you don't know so this is what I would do I would go to Google Google is my best friend I actually have a hashtag with a sticker that a team member gave me that says Google that because I say this so often so you going to Google occupations of millionaires and you're going to come up with a list there's going to be things like engineer lawyer entrepreneur real estate agent

and a whole bunch of other things where people are actually making a million dollars a year and if you put this on a grid where you listed out all the opportunities and then you listed your interest level on a scale of 1 to five in that career field you're going to have a better understanding of if you're interested in this thing now the next call to look at is do you already have knowledge in this area so you take all of your businesses you look at where you're interested in you look at what your skill

set is so you identify which of these occupations you are going to choose to become a millionaire in so when I was deciding what path I wanted to take in order to become a millionaire what I realiz realized is I'm not great at math and I didn't want to go back to school to have to get some degree that was going to prolong the path for me to actually make the money that I wanted to make so I decided to become an entrepreneur I decided to launch a business this was the fastest and easiest path

for me based on my interest and my existing level of Knowledge and Skills you have to decide what that is for you pick one that you are at least interested in and are willing to commit to figure out how do you become great millionaire great at that particular occupation so now your second step is to stop hanging out with your broke friends you will never become a millionaire if you cannot cut broke people out of your life I remember when I had this Epiphany that I was going to create this business six years ago I

started telling my friends at the time about it and I thought that I was going to be met with excitement with questions with just some level of support to be honest with you and instead of any of that my friends made fun of me asked kind of condescending questions and what was more hurtful than the condescending questions was the way that they would just ignore this new thing that I was doing that I was excited about they would continue to talk about old all of the old stories things that were happening in their life that

might not honestly be that interesting or that different and here I was putting all of this time into becoming this next version of myself I was learning new things I was staying up late I was meeting new people to create a new life for myself that I was so excited about and they couldn't have been any less interested your energy is finite your broke friends if they're not interested in hearing about your goals and they aren't excited about supporting you they're going to invalidate you which might actually cause you to give up in the process

that's not what you're here to do you're here to actually learn the steps to make it easy on yourself and the fastest way to make this easy on you is to get rid of friends who are going to hold you back in the process now that you've removed your broke friends from your life you have to replace them with Rich teachers so think of whoever your Idol is for me this was a len a card down I wanted to be interesting enough I wanted to be valuable enough that she would want to hang out with

me and what I realized is Elena would not be hanging out with Natalie in present state so what does Natalie in presence date need to start doing so that if I get the opportunity to be in Elena's presence she is interested in having a conversation with me and let me tell you this advice is only for people who are really willing to be honest with themselves because some people might lie to themselves and think well there's no reason that Elon Musk wouldn't want to hang out with me or Grant Cardone wouldn't want to hang out

with me but if you haven't done anything great if you haven't created anything thing great why would they want to spend time with you and that's a hard pill to swallow however once you swallow it then you can get into action the most practical tip I can give you is to identify the 10 most successful people in the specific field that you decide that you want to pursue where you want to become a millionaire in and you study them so I chose the Cardone specifically to study because they had the stats they were a power

couple they already had a billion dollar net worth which was my Target and they worked together those criteria change everything for me so this brings me to step number four which is stop wasting your time time is your most important asset your ability to study to learn to educate yourself on mornings evenings weekends in the shower driving you use those opportunities to build the skill set that you are learning from the best of the best for me that was a combination of podcasts YouTube videos and books I studied every waking minute so that I could

get the education because if you just believe that that somebody knew something more than you and that's all you had to do is learn from them what they know that you don't know that's the hack but most people study from the wrong people they don't set the target to begin with they don't even think that they can become a millionaire so all of this work just goes to waste and then they waste their time they waste their time with Netflix they waste their time scrolling endlessly on social media you see if you want to be

a millionaire you should only be following millionaires on social media you have to stop wasting your time on things that aren't allowing you to you gain competency if you really want to be a millionaire in your chosen field you have to be an expert you have to be fully competent and understand the terms the definitions the players how the game works you have to be a student of the game that you were choosing to play step five is probably the hardest for most people to accept and it is to go into debt which translates to

you have to be willing to invest once you invest and you realize that the money that you have is a tool to get you to where you want to go instead of something that you save and you afford all of a sudden opportunities open up because when you invest you can get in the rooms with people who have done what you are trying to do but without investing and potentially having to go into debt you are just stuck in your house in your car doing what you've always done being in the same environment you've always

been in and you never have to force yourself to become the type of person who can be in a different room but it feels uncomfortable because nobody wants to invest before they know how to make money but in order to make money you have to invest Grant Cardone has my favorite quote on this he says if you don't invest time and money you will never have time and money so for instance a $10,000 investment in a mastermind is not what's going to make you broke what's actually making you broke is the fact that you don't

have the knowledge that is inside that $110,000 Mastermind you see you need to understand what those teachings are and without having access how are you going to learn those things see the first time that I invested in myself it was a marketing course for $4,000 I did not have the $4,000 to be able to invest in this marketing course but I recognized that I needed to get myself out there I needed to get myself known and the way that you do that is through promotion and through marketing so I was at an event it was

a women's event I was all jazzed up I was excited I was like yeah these speakers are amazing they just were like lighting me up I was like what would it be like if I could be up on that stage with them one day I deserve to be up on that stage with them one day I'm not at that point right now but that's what I want so at the end of the event they made an offer for $4,000 marketing course and I panicked like oh my gosh $4,000 is so much money and what if

I don't make that money back what if I could learn all this stuff online and then it was just a waste of money and then I feel silly and all of the self-doubt just started to creep in as soon as they started talking about $4,000 which was a number that I was uncomfortable with but I made the investment I just did it I was like I'm going all in because it's going to force me to become a different version of myself and I'm unwilling in one year from now to be the same person that I

am today step six is simply to get yourself in the room to go from zero to a millionaire you need to get into the rooms with people who could actually help you if you don't get into the rooms you're not going to become that person I have attended so many conferences where I use them as an opportunity to say Natalie in 3 months from now when you attend this event you are going to have completed XYZ projects so that you can talk about this because you know that these types of people are going to be

there and you have to prepare yourself cuz right now you're lame right now you don't have anything to offer anybody it's just the reality but you are going to have something to offer somebody because in 3 months from now you have a Target and you can create something in 3 months from now you can create a landing page you can create an offer you can make movement if you know that you've committed yourself to be a place in the future so you become somebody in the process of attending that event that is valuable to the

people that you know are going to be there but you are never going to take the steps that are required if you don't actually commit to getting in the room this is why for those 10 people that you are studying find rooms that they are going to be in and invest your money to get in that room so that when you show up you are forcing yourself to become the type of person that they would want to spend time with you get in the proximity to people who are making a million dollars and when you

are in proximity you freaking impress the hell out of them the next step is to find out who is going to be in this room and research the hell out of them my motto is become the ultimate stalker but the good kind of stalker the stalker who is informed the stalker who does their research and isn't creepy and weird don't be that kind of soccer but the person that actually shows up and has looked up people ahead of time knows who their targets are because when you go to an event the target is not needing

every single person that would be an unsuccessful action the target is finding the handful and remember this it is always a handful you were trying to find a handful of people who can help you get to where you were trying to go so when you look at the event ahead of time how can you find out who is going to be in the room do they have a WhatsApp group do they have a Facebook group how are people inside this community connecting what's cool about living in today's day and age is that when you go

to an event like this they are likely trying to build a community which means that they have some sort of a community already existing ahead of time so do your freaking research this is what millionaires do they always go into rooms totally prepared your next step to acting and earning like a millionaire is learning how to sell because you see the richest most successful people you know they all know how to sell making money is a game comprised of knowing how to sell every single day you're going to have to sell yourself sell your customers

and sell your future team members on who you are what you do and why anybody should care so regardless of if you want to be an engineer a lawyer an entrepreneur a real estate agent you have to learn how to sell so I strongly recommend that you are learning in the skill that you decided that you were going to become a millionaire in while concurrently learning how to sell because sales will follow you through out your millionaire process the best person to teach on sales is Grant Cardone he changed my life when I read the

book sell or be sold because it teaches you how to get sold on yourself first so that then you have confidence in selling other people on you but if you aren't sold on you first you're going to have a lot of challenges selling other people cuz you're going to feel a little bit like a fraud and to me that is the misconception in sales is that it's braggy or that you have to be stumping somebody or giving them something that they don't want it's about listening to somebody it's about understanding their problems and it's about

you offering effective solutions to move them away from their problems at this point you pick a niche you've made new friends you've invested time and money learning and getting into the room and you've learned how to sell now it's time to start making money but we need to be crystal clear on our goals which is why step nine is to set to your millionaire metrics you will never be a millionaire if you don't have millionaire metrics the coolest thing about becoming a millionaire is that it is literally just math if you made $2,740 a day

you would be a millionaire so whatever it is that you are selling you have to do the math backwards to understand how many of those units how many of those products how many of those Services you would need to sell in order to generate a million dollars but once you understand how many units you have to sell you do have to break it down for day so that every single day you know what your goals are in order to hit your million dooll targets you have to get clear on your Target and what you need

to be doing each and every day because as you come into challenges and roadblocks that's okay it is quite literally part of the process but if you give up on the way because you become unenthused or uninspired or you're not even looking at your targets any longer then you're never going to get there knowing that you're going to come into obstacles it's just part of the game the final step to thinking acting and earning like a millionaire is to remind yourself every that you are still broker you should remind yourself every single day that you

are broke now you might be thinking Natalie I already know that I'm broke I don't need to be reminded every day yes you do you have to be reminded not only that you're broke today but more importantly what it is that you are working so hard for so that you don't give up in the process so my process is I look at my vision board I look at my bank account I look at my vision board I look at my bank account I go back and forth because because my reality doesn't meet my potential yet

your reality today where you are your circumstances they don't meet what your potential is your potential is so much greater than what you've already created but you have to have this vision of where you're going and have a real strong conviction that you can actually become a millionaire you can actually have what other people are able to have you just have to learn very specific things that you don't know now in order to get there when you simplify it and start thinking about it in that way you actually can create your dream life and speaking

of creating your dream life if you want to know my process for how to create a dream life check out this video right here