WANT TO MAKE $100K PER YEAR? HERE’S HOW TO DO IT

Want to start making a hundred thousand dollars a year? It's doable, if you know what it actually takes.

I'll break it down for you in three easy steps. 

Step one is by far the easiest to do but so many don’t follow it because they feel entitled.

Step One

Nobody owes you anything, okay? And you don't owe anybody else anything. That's number one.

Short and simple–see? But many will forget this or have a sense of entitlement. If you can think with the above, you are on the right track.

Now, let’s get into the good stuff.

Step Two

Step 2 is: you have to figure out if the company you're working in has the opportunities for you to make that kind of money.

That's the second step.

If you are making $10/hour and want a raise to $30 or $40/hour, or to get to $100,000 per year, you have to ask: Is this feasible where I currently work?

Now this is important–whether its with your current employer or seeking better opportunities elsewhere, the same rule applies:

You have to ask yourself, "Okay, how do I get myself from this $10 an hour position to the six-figure position?"

The only way you do that is by investing in yourself. You have to invest in yourself and your skill set for any employer to justify paying you more.

You invest in your skill set, whatever it is, to become better than you were yesterday, a week ago or last year.

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If you don't invest in yourself to increase your skill set, you won't make more money. If you have the same level of ability this year as you did last year, you won't make more money. It doesn't matter what field you're in. It doesn't matter if you're a real estate agent, salesman, admin person, or a medical sales rep.

Suppose you don't increase your skill set and ability to communicate, handle tasks, handle people, or understand how to sell yourself better. In that case, you will not make any more money. You will tap out; you will not go anywhere. 

If you investigate and look at the people making more money each year, you will see that those people are highly invested in their skill set and in improving themselves.

Most people don't have a budget for self-improvement. They'll have a budget for everything else–car, house, dog food, grocery bills, etc., but most people don't set aside money for self-improvement.

This could be as simple as taking a course to understand real estate law better or real estate selling.

But you need to have the discipline to set aside money every year or every quarter and say: 

"I'm going to invest in myself, or take a course, or do something that will better my skill set." 

There are tons of resources out there in the world now that you can use to better your skill set.

It can be how to be a better public speaker, run meetings better, or negotiate better. If you're not investing in yourself, you won't make any more money.

Step Three

If you are investing in yourself and increasing your skill set, then the next step to get to $100,000 or more per year is to utilize that skill set to make yourself invaluable to the company you're working in.

You've got to make yourself completely invaluable.

What does invaluable mean? It means you make yourself and your contributions to the company so high, that your employers are not willing to let you go. They will do whatever it takes and give you whatever you need to stay on.

Going back to your 10 dollar an hour story, how do you go from $10/hr to invaluable? Put it all together: Invest in yourself and increase your skill set, then figure out how to utilize your skill set to become invaluable.

If you continue to work and think you deserve a 3% raise every single year, don’t be surprised when you don’t get it. You’ll be working at the same job a long time before you get to $50/hour. And no smart employer will pay you $50/hour for the same job and same level of work they were paying you $10 to do.

If you don't want to be great, then don't complain that you're not where you want to be. It's not your employer’s fault. No matter how well off or successful they seem to be. They took the risks and put everything on the line to grow the business.

In most cases, they didn't make any money while you did, and they're the ones that have their name on the guarantees of the business. They're the ones that have to make sure that all the I's are dotted, and all the T's are crossed. 

Because if something happened to that business, they are the ones who will be affected.

You could do the same thing if you want to. You can quit your job, put all your stuff in a box, walk out of the office, and you can start your own deal.

If you're willing to do that, you're entitled to the upside. 

No matter what business owners may be making now–they struggled for many years, and they're making up for those years where they didn't make any money.

So people will say, "Oh, this person's making money, they're driving a nice car, and they're doing this and that."

But that business owner wasn't making any money for 5, 6, 7 years, and nobody was calling him saying, "Hey, are you okay? Let me buy you lunch."

That's the truth, so as an employee, be smart and think, "Okay, what am I doing? How do I improve my worth? Am I adding value or not?"

You can't expect to take from the well and not put anything back into the well.

That never works.

Follow the 3 steps above and you’ll get to where you want to be.