The one minute millionaire

I was driving to work the other day and I remembered something I read in a book called the one minute millionaire. In this book, a woman loses her husband and her in-laws take custody of her kids because they are wealthy and can provide a better life for their grandchild than their mother. The woman is given 90 days to raise one million dollars in order to regain custody.

Now for many of us nothing is ever that urgent in our lives to drive us to go beyond the norm to do something significantly life changing. We are happy to only exist at mediocrity and to make it through the day.

I was having coffee with one of my friends who went into great and grand detail about the things he wanted to do in his life. He described his dream car, house, land in a lot of vivid detail. In what I wrongfully thought to be wisdom, I told him that the most logical thing to do was to plan for the things he could do now while still holding on to his dreams for the future. He then told me something i consider a nugget of truth that I use to this day. He said, “You need to understand that money is a function of work. If you want money, find the work, get the money”.

It’s amazing how many of us walk around with grandiose ideas for the future and fail to act on the present. There is an age at which all of us must stop being full of potential and actually begin to fulfill our potential.

I was at a photo shoot for one of my clients who is the president of the 4th largest real estate developers in the world. As she drove into the studio parking lot, the photographer made a remark that, “there are certain cars in this world you can never by on a salary,” he then pointed at the sleek black range rover and said, “that is one of them.”

There is a gap that separates our present and future. Think carefully and critically about what you need to do to close that gap. Pick up your shovel whatever it may be and start digging. Do not be surprised at the difficulty you will most definitely experience to live your dreams.

The woman in the book invented a toy that she sold to a manufacturer to mass produce and sure enough in 90 days, she was a millionaire. I made my first ever million in four days. There is no such thing as impossible.