Making your first million dollars is serious. It’s not a get rich quick scheme and it’s not something you can take lightly.  Making a million dollars is work, it is failure, it is disappointment and it is amazing.

Philosophy

Maybe “Mindset” or “Plan” or “Rules to Making a Million” would be a better way for you to think of these philosophies.  None of those words captures the true essence of what I consider necessary to make a million.  Strength and perseverance is what you need.  When I think of philosophy I think of Aristotle or Plato or Socrates – executed for his philosophical teachings.  Strength in their beliefs, strength in their mind, strength in their perseverance of achieving greatness. I’m getting a little extreme here, nobody will be executed for following my blog – but you might become a millionaire.  Be strong and persevere and follow these philosophies:

Concentrate your efforts

When you focus your mind, you focus your energy and you become a conduit of strength. This is why, developing concentration is vital for anyone aspiring to be a millionaire.  Like superman shooting lasers from his eyes, or the little girl at the playground burning paper with a magnifying glass.  Concentrate your effort on one endeavour every month and lasers will shoot from your eyes.  Probably you’ll just become a millionaire, but lasers would be awesome.

Accept failure

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldn’t be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

~ Interview with Thomas Edison

You may be lucky and you may never fail. If you are such a lucky person you will never need to accept failure and you are already a billionaire.  If, however, you are the same as every other person on the earth, you will fail.  When the failure is staring you in the face, smile at it.  Smile at your failure, share it with the world (see next philosophy) and move on.  Accept that you have failed and move on, put it behind you.  If blackjack isn’t something you are good at, maybe you should try your luck at the lottery.

Be accountable

Fail and accept YOUR failure.  Succeed and accept YOUR success.  Learn and accept YOUR lesson.  It’s all about you.  You are the one making a million dollars.  Now, stop being so self centered, donate some of your money to a great charity – Big Brothers and Big Sisters is my favourite – and share your story with the world.  Be accountable to yourself, be accountable to your family, be accountable to your colleagues, be accountable to the world.  That’s why I started this blog – I am making myself accountable.

Change

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

~ John F. Kennedy

You will fail, now you need to change.  Change will make you a million.  A million failures and a million dollars.

Celebrate

I am a millionaire – throw a party.