Looking through my archive, I came across an article I had never posted. I do not remember the train of thought that led to me writing it, but I do believe that it is still relevant in the year 2024 as it was in the year 2021 when it was written.
This piece has never been edited for publication. It served more as an outlet.
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How To Earn 1 million A Month
For the simple fact that you clicked on this article proves one thing, you want to live lavishly. If not, why else would you be thinking of earning one million a month. To earn such an amount you need to have the value to offer. For emphasis, for the mere fact that you are clicking on this article, you don't have that.
Earning one million a month is not beans, are you ready to put in the effort to earn such an amount? If not, stop reading this article, it's not for you.
Have you heard of a book named 'simplify', 'ten practices to unclutter your soul', if you haven't, you have now, so go read it. In the book, Bill Hybels talks about passion and earning. It's easy to have the goal of earning such an amount a month but actually earning it is a long shot.
He also talks about balancing your passion with finances, so as not to feel overwhelmed, exhausted and just about ready to give up. You see, living a life of passion is fulfilling, but having the funds that put food over your table and a roof over your house, keeps you alive.
Let me get straight to the point. There are a few things you need to do to get to the place of earning such an amount in this country and maybe anywhere else.
1. Be realistic:
My brother and sister, who born you? Asin, who is your father and mother? What's your family status? Your total family income? Who does your parents know? (who are the people that make up your parents network), Which school did you go to?
When you can realistically answer this question, you are well on your way to deciphering what amount of money you’d be earning per month and the kind of job you’d probably be doing.
2. Profession:
Is your profession a hotcake? Don't deceive yourself, we live in Nigeria. Courses like Botany, Zoology are the next level, as a country we never open eye reach that level. Go online, when I say that I don't mean you should research professions that are making waves in the world, I mean, look for professions and most importantly skills that are making waves in this part of the world.
Why? You may be asking? If you answered the question above honestly you'd know why. For the sake of those still lying to themselves, I'd break it down further.
If you grew up in the lower class and middle class family in this country, it is a norm that your family barely got by with training you and your siblings. It also means, all your family join together your network isn't anything to discuss about.
If you are to talk realistically, it would mean that, if you are likely reading this, you want to break out of that loop and make something out of yourself. So, try not to follow the crowd and be realistic.
3. Entrepreneurship:
If you are from the middle or lower class, and your profession is too advanced for this country we live in, entrepreneurship is not for you my guy. Commot am from your mind.
I don't mean a side hustle here, I mean take that stuff of trying to be the next Paystack entrepreneur in Nigeria. Na who chop go dey alive to make money. Till those guys share with us how they made it so we can all learn, let's stick to the minimum and that is to be realistic.
Now if you already have a stable job that feeds you and your family well, try coming up with a side hustle that can add extra cash and hopefully help you save up to chase your passion, that's if you are interested in that.
4. Intrepreneurship:
Instagram and Twitter will not kill us. People can to put up motivational stuffs online fa. My favorite is and I paraphrase 'not to help another man build his business'.
You think being an entrepreneur is easy, if so everybody for don blow by now na. Being an intrapreneur isn't a bad deal at all. Not one single bit. No matter how tough a situation is, experience counts and I don't just mean work experience, I mean life experience. What makes us who we are is our encounters, who we meet, what we do they shape our lives o.
If you are working in a company, be the best you can be, climb the ladder to the highest point, but one thing is important. Don't forget your dream.
5. Dream:
Being an Intrapreneur does not mean you can't dream, this is what Bill Hybels said in his book.
Let your skill fuel your passion. Earn a living that gives you the mental, physical and financial freedom to be able to dream.
For example, you graduated with a middle class as an Engineer, along the way you want to be a YouTuber, someone who makes travel content.
But then, you read a motivational quote online that gives you the impression that everything will fall into place as soon as you quit your job to chase your passion. OYO. My brother and sister, you are on your own o.
In this case, the logical thing to do is work, earn, save and learn about the field. Also, consult people who are already doing it, if you don't have access to conduct research.
While you are still at your 9-5, search our contents you can do that doesn't distract you from your 9-5 you can even start out with recording your daily activities.
Get the hang of it, be a professional in that dream or passion of yours and when the passion start paying enough to balance out all your expenses, I mean the money that can feed you, your family, your extended family and still sort out miscellaneous expenses, you can quit your job.
6. Job Hunting:
Now, if you don't have a job, your own hard small o. But all it not lost. Now revisit, one, two three and read this.
The question now is, you are still looking for your dream job shey. No problem. What do you do best? If you don't have any, fine. This takes some thinking now. Are you ready.
Oya. Now look around your circle, what business do you think will bloom in that circle. If six out of ten of your friends are selling bags, oga or madam don't even bother yourself. This just means that your immediate circle is just about fed up with the broadcast message and the advert from those six already.
Always know, your immediate circle is the first people that will patronize you, so for that reason, you have to be affordable not to chase them away, but never sell on credit, no matter what. You are just starting out, credit can never help your business.
If they won't buy for you because of that, do network marketing. Tell them that if they get a customer, you'd sell your product half the price for them. Same thing with that customer. And by half the price maybe just give them at the cost price you sold it.
