Subtle Signs You Will Be an Eventual Millionaire
From the perspective of three eventual millionaires.
The point isn’t to be a millionaire at all, as you’re about to see. You take you with you to this so-called millionaire life.
I wanted to be a millionaire in 2014 because I thought it was the solution to hating myself. It didn’t work out so well.
In the process of trying to get rich in the years leading up to my entire life meltdown, I burned the dreams of every person I met, to the ground. You had to lose so I could win — that was my millionaire mindset.
The eventual millionaires I met over the journey that reached their goal were quiet. You couldn’t tell they were rich at all. They were the opposite of the people you read about online who peddle millions of dollars as being the answer to every problem. It’s not.
Working on yourself and the way you think is the answer to most of your problems. There are three eventual millionaires I studied and got to learn from along the way.
Here are the subtle signs they all had in common, which can help make you an eventual millionaire, if you choose.
You Work on Your Craft Behind the Scenes
Loud people who beg to tell you how rich they are, are annoying. You don’t need more millionaire noise in your life, dirtying the windscreen of your moderately priced car with their V12 ego exhaust.
Eventual millionaires work on their skills behind the scenes, quietly. Learning a skill isn’t a circus act to be performed in front of an audience.
They go about building a skill through the use of habits and let the momentum lead them to money, over time.
Their craft is what they love, not the money.
You Build Wealth with More than One Person
I haven’t met anyone who has started on the path to becoming an eventual millionaire and done it alone.
Eventual millionaires have teams made up of their children, or supportive romantic partners, or freelancers, or other like-minded people, or an office full of 9–5 workers who contribute to their goal.
It’s mighty hard to build wealth all by yourself. It’s easier when you combine your limited skills with complementary skills from other people.
You’ll reach financial freedom much faster if you do. And in the process, you’ll meet people you enjoy spending time with who may become much more important than the dollars in your bank account.
You Reject Fame
Fame and influence is a disease. There are plenty of famous people who are millionaires for six months and then lose the lot through poor choices.
If you need attention while you build your empire then there is something else going on behind the scenes. Being noticed is a pain in the butt.
The couple of times someone stopped me in the street because they read something I wrote was nice. I’m a nobody. The fact a story or two might have helped a couple of people sure is nice. On the contrary, these two experiences taught me one thing:
It’s nice to walk through a train station and be completely invisible.
Who wants to be stopped in the street? The three eventual millionaires I studied aren’t famous. They hate fame. They want quiet time to themselves and to have their kids be anonymous from social media predators.
You Say No, Politely
You need time to build wealth. That’s nothing new. You get time back by saying no to a lot of requests for your time.
The difference with eventual millionaires is they say no politely. They’re not assholes about it. They respect and treat people well as they go about their day refining their money-making craft.
Manners are something my 104-year-old grandma used to tell me were the subtle sign of a future somebody.
You Value Rest and Relaxation
Burnout is real.
Eventual millionaires work hard; they rest and relax even harder. The go-getters crash and burn. They reject the idea of sleep, live on coffee, avoid holidays, and brag about their hustle superpower. By operating on this low-energy diet they end up blowing up for no reason at people.
Their anger issues stem from seemingly unknown sources. All they need is a string of good night sleeps and some relaxation to stop the problem. But they’re unaware. They’re living life unconsciously through the lens of hustle your face off. It’s painful to watch. You can see the burnout coming.
One day they’re absent from the Zoom call. Nobody knows why. They’re cooped up at home on the couch reaching for their laptop like a crack addict instead of resting. They eventually learn their lesson, although it’s a slow and painful ride for all the onlookers — and it burns a lot of cash.
You Don’t Create How-to-Get-Rich Quick Instagram Posts
Nobody needs a photo of your car. Step away from the selfie pole and put down the keys to the rented Lambo.
Eventual millionaires don’t waste their precious time pretending to be millionaires. They don’t worship material chunks of metal with four wheels that you can buy second-hand in two years for half the price.
The lifestyle portrayed of an eventual millionaire looks like life. They share their knowledge on social media. They create helpful content.
Or they shut up and stay off social media altogether.
You Are Okay Helping Others, Rather than Solely Helping Yourself
It’s counter-intuitive: If all you do is help yourself, you’ll die mentally poor one day, even if your bank account has many zeroes on the end of it.
You eventually become a millionaire when you help other people achieve their goals. Genuinely helping people can make you more money than you could ever dream of.
I asked one eventual millionaire how his website business became so big. He smiled and said “I help people solve their problems faster. They are happy to pay me for the time I help them save.”
The best part about becoming an eventual millionaire is the people you attract into your life. People are way more interesting than currency issued by governments that has dead people’s faces on it (and can be printed out of thin air for free).
You Are Curious About Things Nobody Else Is
One eventual millionaire kept talking about consciousness. They were obsessed with it. They wanted to understand consciousness at a deeper level. This may seem like it has nothing to do with money. I agree.
But that same sense of curiosity is what they applied to their career. They were always poking around for an angle nobody was looking for.
They eventually found multiple ways to make money through digital content that nobody else had figured out at the time.
Curiosity can lead you to problems nobody cares enough about to solve.
You Are Not Worried About Being Different
These three eventual millionaires didn’t end up doing fancy work. The work they did was similar to many normal people. Their lives weren’t about making groundbreaking discoveries or sending rockets to Mars.
They weren’t worried about finding a path nobody had ever trodden. They were happy to be inspired by those who had come before them, and do things that had already been done, just slightly better than before.
It was humbling to see how unremarkable their lives were.
You Take Your Sweet Time
The right timeline to become an eventual millionaire is unique. You’re already right on time. Take it slow.
The process to becoming an eventual millionaire is the best part, according to the three eventual millionaire subjects used in this article.
Millionaires are overrated. The ones worth following are the eventual millionaires who make money quietly behind the scenes doing work they enjoy. Quiet money-making is enjoyable in a noisy world of debt.