Your Million Dollar Goal Deserves Your Million Dollar Idea
The world overflows with abundance, and there are many ways for you to be able to share, create, add value, and be prosperous. When listing out goals for the new year, many people decide that they'd like to be millionaires, and they often take steps like investing in an e-book, "proven system,” or home-based business opportunity to achieve that goal.
Sometimes, a lofty goal drops down to a less important level and eventually falls off the table, with any money invested into the dream discarded or written off as a loss. The same pattern may refer to relationships, health and wellness, personal goals, career plans, or anything that requires envisioning, measuring, and achieving.
I'm here to give you some ideas on achieving your million dollar goal.
If you break down the numbers, a million dollars (in receipts) every year is:
$83,333 per month
The average American income per year is between $30k and $60k, so when we reach the level of thinking like a millionaire, we're definitely thinking above average, out of the box, on the cutting edge, in the top 10 percent.
What is your million dollar idea? Or, putting it a different way, what idea do you have for a product or service that you will sell each month to 83,333 people for $1?
How about an idea for a product or service that you will sell to 8,333 people for $10 apiece, each month?
Or 20,000 customers every month for $5 apiece?
How about an idea for a product or service that you will sell to 900 people each month for $100 apiece?
What about 1500 people each month for $60 apiece?
Now we're seeing some creative juices flowing!
An alternative is to do high dollar value projects, such as twelve products a month for $8000 apiece, one customer each month paying $100,000, or two customers each year worth $500k each.
In most people's current jobs, they're capable of serving one, two, ten, or twenty clients. However, with a business serving up patented products that sell in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions, or with a commission or sale of a valuable service, you may easily move $80k worth in a month, every month.
Your biggest objective when coming up with your million-dollar goal is setting up your targeted income streams to total $83,333 each month. This might mean product sales (say, three separate products at $16k a month apiece), speaking engagements ($5000 each month), commissions on sales for $10k each month, and memberships, gadgets or geegaws, client services or some other valuable service selling for $20k each month and you've hit a million dollars in gross receipts every year.
If you're smart, you'll also not take this as taxable income but instead invest it in your company or series of companies, and you start to see some incredible ways for you to increase your net worth, hire people to do good work, and serve the causes and issues about which you care the most.
Now you may start looking in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or billion-dollar range.
That would be $830k of sales every month, or $8.3 million in sales each and every month, or $83 million in sales every month. As my second-grade enrichment education teacher would tell us: "Put your thinking caps on, it's time to come up with an idea.”
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This visionboard item is one of my ways to remind myself to place my trust that everything is part of a greater plan, or at least, I can put everything into place and know that there is unity and harmony within all the different chaotic strings and threads of experience and activity.
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Sun, 01/15/2012 - 2:48pm | by monicadear
1) Pay for her website domain and hosting
Most small business owners don't think of this precious detail, and if your special lady is in business, this is one of a myriad of other details. Do her a favor and prepay for the next 2-3 years of domain and hosting. You'll get a chance to reassess her existing website details (username and password) and inventory the current situation.
2) Get her Quickbooks Online
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A great place to get started learning about finances is Investopedia. You can also learn about personal journeys through blogs like I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Millionaire Mommy Next Door, or Get Rich Slowly.
The beginning of the year is a great time to get organized and review (or start) your savings plan.
Four Totally "Out-of-the-Box" Predictions
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Here are four completely out-of-the-ordinary ideas I've recently been exposed to. I've had a hard time wrapping my head around each of these, but I think that each is a very early indication of different trends in our modern world, and in terms of a business approach, it would be wise to consider ways to integrate these ideas into your existing business model or your marketable job skills: natural remedies, open source mentality, overall collaboration, and green extreme.
Beyond Natural Remedies

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