The billionaire’s bible: It’s not everyone’s goal to be a billionaire
It is not everyone’s goal to become a billionaire, and it’s fine. We all have our different goals in life. Whatever makes you happy and satisfies you should be the number one thing to pay attention to. However, I am quite aware that there are people like myself who really want to become billionaires, and believe you me, it is very possible to have that strong mindset or optimism and achieve it. After taking so much study on billionaires, I discovered that they have a different approach towards building their wealth. So, I will be sharing some basic facts that hold true in which you can position yourself on such path.
Skills Cannot Make You A Billionaire: The honest truth is that there is a clear behavioural traits between those who have skills or talents and those who eventually become billionaires. I have heard of people speak out of excitement that they want to become billionaires, and all I see is that they just have a skill or talent. Here’s the reality of things, when you have a skill or talent, you can only earn when you put in the work, and you do not earn when you do not put in the work. Now, I’m not saying people with skills cannot become billionaires; I am saying that with skills alone, there will be restrictions on the flexibility of your earning ability.
Just like the clear distinction I made in an article between a freelancer and an entrepreneur; a freelancer is someone who gets the job done and gets paid for it while an entrepreneur earns even when not working. Yes, once he doesn’t get a job done, there’s no payment for a freelancer. For an entrepreneur, he has structures in place for his skills to be running even when he’s not working. This means an entrepreneur can go on vacation, and still be earning while a freelancer will not because he has not worked to earn money.
Your skills must work for you: You must get to a point where your skills work for you, and not you with your skills. This is a billionaire game; it means your skill must have a high valuation. I am not writing this out of assumptions or from a particular book. Pay attention; J K Rowling made a billion dollar from the sale of her book Harry Potter. Writing of the book Harry Potter is a skill but that’s not the first book that anyone in the world has ever written. Did they all get to that point? So what’s the setback? Should I rather say there’s a secret to it. It’s still depending on the law of compounding.. The first lesson to bite is that your skill must have high valuation. I have said this earlier. What I mean is that your skill must be able to convert to huge money when you work with it.
If it does not have high value when you work with it, then it cannot work for you. It grows exponentially because of the value it already has. The book Harry Potter is an epic book. The book by itself should be worth some billions of dollars if it was published under normal circumstances. Just an ordinary book cannot be worth some billions of dollars just like that. This means that her writing skill is not of this world. Her skill is firstly of high valuation before the skill can work for her. The same thing applies to having money; your money must be able to work for you. So, in order to chase the billionaire dream, your skill must be able to permeate different corners and places while you’re also working with the skill. This itself is rare anyway.
Understanding Numbers: This itself is a very difficult one. Not everyone really finds numbers interesting, so, not everyone can be a billionaire. Matter of fact, I really find numbers very boring but I try my best to keep studying it. Not all entrepreneurs understand numbers as well. Being a billionaire is never by mistake. You can be a millionaire by mistake but can never be a billionaire by mistake. All billionaires who built businesses understand numbers.
Written by Joel Ajayi
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