What I did when I hit $1mm

Candidate,

I never thought my blog would generate a million dollars. In fact, the first time it happened, I didn't even know. One of my team members emailed me in the middle of the night and attached this image:

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I had no idea.

When I was writing today's post, my co-workers were like, "So what did you do?? Did you throw a party? Buy a car? What happened??"

I was like, "Nothing." I said, "That's cool, back to work." They rolled their eyes. CLASSIC INDIAN MOVE.

Spelling bee champion goes NUTS!!!

It didn't hit me until later. The milestone that really meant a lot to me was making my first $100. That meant I could make $1,000, which meant I could make $10,000 and later $1 million and even more.

When I say hitting a million dollars wasn't about the money, this is what I mean. I don't worship my bank account. What really matters is never having to worry about travel, or rent, or taking care of my family. And the money simply allowed me to live a life of MORE. More success, more fun, more family, and more giving back.

I want the same for you. I want you to make MORE a priority. It's easy to want more -- but when it comes down to actually GETTING it, nobody wants you to actually change.

The world wants you to stay vanilla.

Here's a great example: Some guy saved up to eat at a high-end NYC restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, and posted a bunch of pictures from his meal.

The comments are hilarious. More than half of them call the meal "ridiculous" and talk about how they would NEVER eat there (insert snooty eye roll).

Do you see what's going on here? To this guy, dining at this restaurant is his dream. He carefully saved his money to be able to afford this superlative experience. He went from a DREAMER to a DO-ER.

The rest of the commenters just shit on his dreams. "What a waste! I could eat at Dairy Queen 87 times with that!"

The world wants you to stay vanilla.

But I want you to get MORE, whatever that means to you. It doesn't matter if you want to eat at a $225-a-person restaurant, or take your nieces and nephews to an amazing day at the zoo, or pay off your parents' debt. You define what MORE means to you.

So now the question is, how do you get it?

BAD: Setting delusional goals

GOOD: A simple, systematic series of steps that build on each other.

Yes, you should be investing. I've been writing about this for years. If you haven't started yet, click here and catch up.

Yes, you should find your Dream Job and get paid what you're worth. I've also been showing you exactly how to find your dream job, bypass online job sites, and master your interview and negotiations for years.

But now, we're talking about starting an online business.

This is something special because it's more advanced, more challenging, but gives you MORE rewards and MORE options...without having to wait 30 years.

Your successful online business will let you afford virtually any luxury this year -- and it will continue generating income while you sleep.

Just like my own online business:

Notice the green lines, which show how my online business generates sales during the weekend, while I'm not working

YOU DECIDE: The best part? YOU decide how big you want your online business to be. You can easily create a small, simple, automated business that brings in $100 a month. That's fun money.