"Get off your ass if you plan to be rich!"
Sang Tupac.
While there's a lot of truth in that line, from the famous rapper, merely "getting off
your ass" won't make you wealthy.
You need to have other specific skills that have been proven to make a person wealthy.
According to Forbes, out of the 7.5 Billion odd people on earth, just over 2000 are billionaires.
It’s well known that getting rich can be due to many factors.
But what these wealthy individuals have in common are skills that anyone can learn and
even better, put into practice.
So in todays video.
I’ll share with you 10 skills that can make you rich.
1.
Discipline.
I’m starting with discipline because it is the foundation on which the other skills
are built on.
Every great human achievement requires a certain level of discipline.
Having a goal or a desired target, and writing down the plans to achieve them is very important.
But the fuel required to move the vehicle you just assembled (your goals and plans)
is the discipline to carry them out.
Discipline is doing whatever it takes to achieve a set goal.
If it requires you to get out of bed by 5 am, you do it, even if your body doesn’t
feel like it.
It might be cold, or you might still want to remain longer in the warm comfort of your
bed.
You must push yourself out of that comfort zone and get started with what needs to be
done.
Having a desire for wealth and success, is great.
But without developing the required discipline to do the necessary, is a futile exercise.
Becoming disciplined starts with small, deliberate actions repeated consistently.
If you can wake up at a predetermined set time each day and make your bed, you are already
ahead of most people.
Successful people use discipline to build habits that ensure they muster the willpower
to put in the work required to get to where they are going.
2.
Patience.
In order to become financially successful, you must be patient with results and impatient
with actions.
All good things take time, therefore, you must avoid the temptation to follow short-cuts.
Patience is learning how to wait for your efforts, determination, and persistence to
bear fruits.
Patience is sticking to your plans despite obstacles and failures until it brings results.
What most people see as overnight successes are actually the results of decades of hard
work and discipline.
Take the Chinese bamboo tree, for instance, you plant it, and after 4 years of watering
and nurturing, nothing happens.
Then boom!
In the fifth year, the bamboo sprouts to an incredible 90 feet in 6 weeks.
The mistake most people, and most “would-be entrepreneurs” make is that they give up
whenever their new venture fails.
They ignore the fact that it's been just a couple of months since they started.
And rather than recalibrate and continue, they give up and look for the next shiny object
that promises instant wealth.
Wise people know that quote on quote “get rich quick schemes” never work.
It's just someone getting rich off you.
Building wealth takes time, and you shouldn’t despise the days of small beginnings.
Always believe that whatever you are doing will yield fruits and multiply.
Be patient in grooming it and be disciplined enough to ensure that you have the required
root depth to make you fruitful for years to come.
3.
Continuous self-improvement.
The advancement made in various fields, especially in science and technology, is something folks
who lived in time past would find it difficult to fathom.
The giant strides in science and technology have been made possible by individuals who
continuously seek to improve on what already exists.
They always look for ways to build a better version of something.
And even more importantly, a better version of themselves.
Can you imagine the massive difference between the first iPhone and the current iPhone?
Or the first Televisions and the new ones we now have?
Companies know that, constantly striving to improve and innovate is a requisite for continues
growth and success.
Never be satisfied with what you know because there is always more to learn out there.
Always keep-it at the back of your mind that the things you know will always be less than
the ones you don't know.
Adopt the Japanese "kaizen" spirit of continues improvement.
This is how rich people think and a skill they have mastered over the years.
The moment we stop learning is the moment we start dying.
Do not press the PAUSE button on improving yourself.
You need to master this skill in order to make it at the very top of your field.
4.
Learn to take opportunities as they come.
Google didn't stop at having the best search engine in the world.
By acquiring the Android operating system, they cashed in on the emerging smartphone
market.
Facebook saw the potentials of Instagram and in 2012 paid a mind-blowing $1billion to acquire
the small start-up (with 13 employees at the time), which now boasts of over 1 billion
monthly users and a market value of $100 billion.
If you want to make a lot of money, you must learn how to see gaps and move swiftly to
grab opportunities as they present themselves.
But the problem is that opportunities often don't look like opportunities when they come.
They are often masked - looking like trouble and risk and too much work.
And the human brain is designed to fear trying out anything without a predetermined outcome.
However, to achieve anything exceptional in life, you must take chances.
And by taking chances, you must be prepared for anything to happen.
You could fail woefully, hurt yourself, and get massively embarrassed.
But you could also win massively and drastically alter your destiny.
Always be on the lookout and be prepared.
Getting rich is mostly about identifying and solving problems on scale.
There's money everywhere, and it takes a trained mind to see money-making opportunities when
others see only problems.
This skill is especially important and very crucial in your path to financial success.
5.
Learn to sell.
When we think of selling, it evokes feelings of manipulation and unethical persuasion.
In other words, for most people, selling is bad.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
What you don't realize is that you have been selling right from the very moment you were
born.
Babies cry to persuade their mother to feed them when they’re hungry.
And you somehow convinced your current partner to be with you.
So you see, selling is essential to our survival.
And we do it all the time without putting much thought into it.
At its roots, selling is about convincing others of the benefits of what you have to
offer.
It’s a way to persuade people that what you will give them is better than the money
they have (or what you want from them), in exchange for it.
From politicians swaying people to their ideology to charities asking for donations, selling
is a way of getting people to act.
If you learn how to sell, then you improve your chances of becoming wealthy.
That's right.
Regardless of how fantastic your service or product is, if you don't have the skill to
convince people of the value of what you have, you'll always be broke.
Learning to sell is essentially, how you become rich.
6.
Sacrifice.
What you are willing to let go for a cause goes a long way in determining the value you
place on it.
Can you give up a weekend of fun and drinks with friends to work on your fledgeling business?
Many of us are determined to be wealthy and thriving in our various fields, but what actually
matters is the value we place on our determination.
What are you willing to sacrifice?
What are you ready to let go of or give up?
You have to continuously be willing to give up whatever is not serving your quest to become
rich.
This skill is what you need to reach a required or specific goal.
You can develop the ability to sacrifice over time.
Still, you have to start from small things like giving up your favourite show on Netflix
to complete more meaningful tasks.
Being sacrificial is essential to any meaningful progress you will make.
You have to be willing to let go of non-essentials in order to have room to accommodate more
important things or activities.
7.
Reading.
Research says that on average, a millionaire will read at least 50 books in a year while
an average income earner will read 3 books in a year.
The ability to sharpen the mind and the discipline to set out a particular time to read on a
subject is of vital importance to acquiring wealth.
Reading is how you receive the pooled knowledge of thousands of wise people developed over
their lifetime in hours.
You don't have to struggle, fail, suffer, or pass through their experiences to learn
about them.
Otto von Bismarck said “Fools say that they learn by experience.
I prefer to profit by others experience.”
And that’s what books can do for you.
Profit off, others experience.
Books can point you in the right direction and motivate you enough to fight for your
goals.
However, it's not just about devouring volumes of texts.
You must apply them to reap the benefits of reading.
8.
Learn to be a good team player.
Behind every successful man is a team that made the success possible.
You must develop your boss-employee and your team-playing skills in order to be successful
and wealthy.
A man walking alone will walk fast, but a man walking in the company of others will
go far.
Don’t mistake speed for success.
Lasting success takes time to build, and things that last are often not built individually.
Having people around you will help in times when you feel like giving up or throwing in
the towel.
They can help remind you of how far you have come and the joy that comes with completing
the journey ahead.
And don’t take this for granted.
It’s very important.
Remember, no single tree is called a forest, a forest constitutes of shrubs, grasses, and
other things as well.
Also, you should seek people who have a shared vision with what you want to achieve and run
together.
In the jungle, Lions go hunting with other lions in a pride, and so do wolves.
Rarely do people ever succeed alone.
9.
Learn to be accountable for money and other resources.
Accountability is a word you must carry with you on your journey to the top.
The reason we know the net-worth of big companies and corporations is because they are accountable
to the last cent.
You need to learn to account for what comes in and what goes out.
By doing so, you will be able to cut down on frivolous spending, which in turn would
help you in saving more.
The more accountable you are about your resources, the easier it will be to manage it.
10.
Enhance your imaginative skill.
Every millionaire saw him or herself at the very top before it ever came to pass.
You have to train your imagination to see and picture yourself at the very top, at the
finish line of your goal or dream.
You need to visualize yourself and see yourself successful, because success begins in the
mind first.
Your imaginations should be limitless and filled with endless possibilities.
It should be the primary source that spurs you on into greater dimensions and unlimited
grounds.
In conclusion, getting rich is easier said than done, but it’s not impossible.
If you equip yourself with the necessary skills and knowledge, and with a lot of hard work,
it won't be long before the money starts to roll in.
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