If You Want to Be Rich

If You Want to Be Rich – Do What the Rich People Do. I learned a long time ago you can learn a lot and shorten your learning curve if you study what other successful people do. There have been countless studies done on millionaires, and now billionaires, on what made them successful and some of the common habits they have.

There is one billionaire for every 3 million people on earth. According to the most recent study by Forbes, there are 2,043 billionaires in the world, 233 more than last year. Fifty-six of them are under the age of forty. The youngest happens to be 20 years old, Alexandra Andresen. There are 540 billionaires in the United States. So, as I said in the opening of this article, if you want to be successful, study successful people. They have found that billionaires have a lot in common. They tend to be …

They have the ability to think strategically, but more importantly, they don’t get sidetracked. What I mean by sidetracked is they don’t let their day run them, they run their day. 50% of them have the habit of getting up three hours before their work day begins and workout, meditate and then spend 60-90 minutes of that time deciding what it is they are going to accomplish that day before ever watching TV, reading a newspaper, and especially reading their emails; they don’t want anything to sabotage their day.

“They” decide what needs to be accomplished before they ever go to work or read any emails; focusing on what they think is important is their #1 priority. We all have a lot of things we do during a day, but there are usually only 2 or 3 critical things that need to be done; the rest can take a back seat and be done at a later time, or delegated to someone else. Billionaires understand, the key to a successful day is “deciding on” and then “taking care of” those 2-3 critical things.

Billionaires are also tenacious readers (learning from others and staying on top of things). Warren Buffet spends 80% of his workday reading and Bill Gates reads about 50 books per year.There is not enough time in your life to learn it all by yourself. So, go to school on those who have already done it. And, one other thing they do is they stick to routines … the most important one …getting up 3 hours before their work day begins and preparing their body and then their mind for what needs to be done TODAY.

Don’t ever confuse activity with accomplishments … we can all find something to do. Successful people decide what NEEDS to be done and then they DO IT… they don’t get sidetracked!