 10 surprising ways to make your first million dollars. What's the one thing that a majority want so much to become? My guess is to become a millionaire, right? We all desire to someday become millionaires and then billionaires eventually, so that we'll have enough money to sort out our bills and still have enough for miscellaneous and also have what's left for our unborn children and their unborn children as well. In simple terms, we want a lot of money. To be able to do stuff, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and polymath said, money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment, it ensures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises. Anyway, what does it take to make your first million? Well, I mean, how hard can it be? Well, you're about to find out. In this video, I'll share with you 10 surprising ways to make your first million dollars. This I believe will help you become a successful person. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Change your money obsession mentality Do you want to know something? No successful person ever thought he could make tons of money overnight. Steve Maramboli, a speaker and author, said, get rich quick schemes are for the lazy and unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them. So the first step to making your first million is to get rid of your obsession with money. When you focus so much on how much you earn, it'll distract you from doing the things that truly contribute to building and growing wealth. Hence, shift your focus from the money and get rid of the get rich mentality. Money shouldn't be your primary goal, but an end product. 2. Do one thing better Pick one thing that you are better at doing than most people. That's where you'll be making money from. Now, devote yourself to becoming the best you can ever be at that one thing. Learn, practice, train, evaluate, refine, master, until you become an expert in that field. Financially successful people do at least one thing better than just about everyone around them. Note that in picking something, make sure that you go for something that adds value to people and helps them. That way, they will be willing to pay to have your product or service. But first, concentrate on becoming a master of your art. The truth is that the reward for excellence isn't just greater, pay it alone, but greater honor, feeling the fulfillment and achievement and even self-worth. Show you see, you'd win on all sides when you follow the pattern of making money. 3. Start tracking the number of people you help doing one thing. Start by asking yourself if you are helping anyone achieve any of their goals at all. If you are, then start taking note and tracking the number of people you are helping from time to time. The truth is that successful people are helpful. They help others achieve their goals because they know that their success is ultimately based on the success of the people around them. Ray Kroc, an American fast food tycoon, said and I quote, The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed. Also according to Jackson Brown Jr., earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. To make your first million dollars, start helping people and tracking the number of people you help. 4. Stop thinking about making a million dollars and start thinking about helping a million people. Now that you've started tracking the number of people you help, it's time to get intentional about them. Put a number to it. How many people should you help to make one million dollars? Let's start with one million people. Does that sound like too many people? Hold on a bit. I'll tell you why you need to broaden your goal to about a million people. When you have just a few customers and your goal is to make one million dollars, it means that you intend to ring every last dollar out of these customers. However, when you find a way to serve a million people, many other benefits follow. For instance, your word of mouth publicity is greatly increased. You begin to get more feedback that can help you improve your products and services. More opportunities, as well, are open to you. So you see, the goal should shift from making one million dollars to helping at least one million people. 5. Start working with what you have. Instead of focusing on what you don't have and blaming your inabilities on those things, start with what you have. The truth is that if you run with this mentality, you'll only be concerned about making money. But to grow and succeed, you need to consider making money as an opportunity to make great stuff, not use it as an excuse to do nothing. 6. Build multiple streams of income. Self-made millionaires have their eggs in many baskets. Robert Kiyosaki, an American businessman and author, said, The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and portfolio income. Having multiple streams of income protects you against the failure of any one of the businesses or investments. Diversifying your income doesn't only serve as a way to increase your income, it also serves as an insurance against losing everything you own because of one or two bad business decisions. 7. Create a budget to avoid overspending. Here's a formula to get rich. You need to earn more, spend less, and save more. To curb overspending, you need to create a budget. Joe Biden, an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States, said, Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. Also according to Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist and short story writer, it isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class. So, it's as simple as it sounds. Start budgeting so that you can curb overspending and save more. 8. Start investing. I'm pretty sure you've heard it time again. That is important to build a savings habit. However, saving without a goal or a purpose is useless because you'll end up spending the money carelessly. Every savings should be aimed at investment. Robert G. Allen once said that how many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings account? Dave Ramsey, an American radio show host, author, and businessman, also said, Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make. So, you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this. To accumulate wealth, you have to learn how to invest. 9. Build success habits. Have you ever heard the sentence, you become what you do? Well, there's no better way to put it. What you say or wish wouldn't automatically take you to the position you desire in life. But what you do? Success can be achieved by constantly building success habits. To make your first $1 million, you have to begin building habits that will eventually lead you to make your million dollars. William Makepeace, Thackeray, said successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things that successful people don't like to do. And John C. Maxwell also said he'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. 10. Constantly track your progress. But all these things in place, the next thing you should do is to track your progress. Am I closer to my million dollar goal now than I was in the beginning? The truth is that we often become what we measure. So track your progress at least once a week against your key measures. You can start by measuring how many people you've helped or how many customers you've serviced within the week or month. When you do this, you can easily determine if something is wrong and where the necessary adjustments should be taken. Thank you very much for watching our videos. We'll like to give you another interesting video for you to enjoy next, but before then, our team will be very happy if you can like this video and share it with your friends on social media. If you're new here, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Look at your screen now to see two other videos we handpicked for you to enjoy next. We love you.