How To Become a Millionaire on a 9-5 Salary

> Here are the key points:
> 
> - Transitioning from a 9 to 5 job to becoming an independent entrepreneur.
> - Identifying your millionaire skill and focusing on it.
> - Surrounding yourself with supportive, successful people.
> - Learning from the best and investing in yourself.
> - Setting clear millionaire metrics to track progress.
> - Reminding yourself of your potential and what you are working toward.

This is exactly how I would go from working a 9 to 5 job to becoming an independent entrepreneur making a million dollars within the next year. 

You see, I went from earning **$55,000** a year in a job that I hated to having a **net worth of over $100 million**. 

And let me tell you, I made so many mistakes, but if I could go back and do it all over again, this is how I would do it even faster and better. 

So here are my **10 tips** to go from being a 9 to 5 team member to thinking, acting, and earning like a millionaire. 

Your first step to becoming a millionaire is **identifying your millionaire skill**. 

Think about it. What does a millionaire know that you don't know? 

So this is what I would do. I would go to Google. Google is my best friend.

I actually have a hashtag with a sticker that a team member gave me that says **Google that shit**. Because I say this so often. 

So you are going to Google occupations of millionaires and you're gonna come up with a list. 

There's gonna be things like engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, real estate agent, and a whole bunch of other things where people are actually making a million dollars. 

And if you put this on a grid where you listed out all of the opportunities and then you listed your interest level on a scale of **1 to 5** in that career field, you're going to have a better understanding of if you're interested in this thing.

Now the next call to look at is, do you already have knowledge in this area? 

So you take all of your businesses, you look at where you're interested in, you look at what your skill set is. 

So you identify which of these occupations you are going to choose to become a millionaire in. 

When I was deciding what path I wanted to take in order to become a millionaire, what I realized is I'm not great at math and I didn't want to go back to school to have to get some degree that was going to prolong the path for me to actually make the money that I wanted to make. 

So I decided to become an entrepreneur. I decided to launch a business. 

This was the fastest and easiest path for me based on my interest and my existing level of knowledge and skills. 

You have to decide what that is for you. 

You pick one that you are at least interested in and are willing to commit to figure out how you become great at that particular occupation.

So now your second step is to **stop hanging out with your broke friends**. 

You will never become a millionaire if you cannot cut broke people out of your life. 

I remember when I had this epiphany that I was going to create this business six years ago. I started telling my friends at the time about it, and I thought that I was going to be met with excitement, with questions, with just some level of support, to be honest with you. 

And instead of any of that, my friends made fun of me, asked kind of condescending questions. 

What was more hurtful than the condescending questions was the way that they would just ignore this new thing that I was doing that I was excited about. 

They would continue to talk about old bullshit, all of the old stories, things that were happening in their life that might not honestly be that interesting or that different. 

And here I was putting all of this time into becoming this next version of myself. I was learning new things. 

I was staying up late, I was meeting new people to create a new life for myself that I was so excited about. 

And they couldn't have been any less interested. 

Your energy is finite. Your broke friends. If they're not interested in hearing about your goals, they're going to invalidate you, which might actually cause you to give up in the process. 

That's not what you're here to do. You're here to learn the steps to make it easier on yourself. 

And the fastest way to make this easy on you is to get rid of friends who are going to hold you back in the process. 

Now that you've removed your broke friends from your life, you have to **replace them with rich teachers**. 

So think of whoever your idol is. For me, this was Elena Cardone. 

I wanted to be interesting enough, I wanted to be valuable enough that she would want to hang out with me. 

What I realized is Elena would not be hanging out with Natalie in present state. 

So what does Natalie in present state need to start doing? 

Let me tell you, this advice is only for people who are really willing to be honest with themselves. 

Because some people might lie to themselves and think, well, there's no reason that Elon Musk wouldn't want to hang out with me, or Grant Cardone wouldn't want to hang out with me. 

But if you haven't done anything great, if you haven't created anything great, why would they want to spend time with you? 

And that's a hard pill to swallow. However, once you swallow it, then you can get into action. 

The practical tip I can give you is to identify the **10 most successful people** in the specific field that you decide that you want to pursue, where you want to become a millionaire in, and you study them. 

So I chose the Cardones specifically to study because they had the stats, they were a power couple, they already had a billion-dollar net worth, which was my target. 

They worked together. Those criteria changed everything for me. 

So this brings me to **step number four**, which is **stop wasting your time**. 

Time is your most important asset. 

Your ability to study, to learn, to educate yourself on morning, evenings, weekends, in the shower, driving. 

You use those opportunities to build the skill set that you are learning from the best of the best. 

For me, that was a combination of podcasts, YouTube videos, and books. 

I studied every waking minute so that I could get the education. 

Because if you just believed that somebody knew something more than you, that's the hack. 

But most people study from the wrong people. They don't set the target to begin with. 

They don't even think that they could become a millionaire. So all of this work just goes to waste. 

And then they waste their time. They waste their time with Netflix, they waste their time scrolling endlessly on social media. 

You see if you want to be a millionaire, you should only be following millionaires on social media. 

You have to stop wasting your time on things that aren't allowing you to gain competency. 

If you really want to be a millionaire in your chosen field, you have to be an expert. 

You have to be fully competent and understand the terms, the definitions, the players, how the game works. 

You have to be a student of the game that you're choosing to play. 

**Step five** is probably the hardest for most people to accept and it is to **go into debt**, which translates to you have to be willing to invest. 

Once you invest and you realize that the money that you have is a tool to get you to where you want to go instead of something that you save and hoard, all of a sudden, opportunities open up. 

Because when you invest, you can get in the rooms with people who have done what you are trying to do. 

But without investing and potentially having to go into debt, you are just stuck in your house, in your car, doing what you've always done, being in the same environment you've always been in.

And you never have to force yourself to become the type of person who can be in a different room. 

But it feels uncomfortable because nobody wants to invest before they know how to make money. 

But in order to make money, you have to invest. 

Grant Cardone has my favorite quote on this. 

He says, **if you don't invest time and money, you will never have time and money.** 

For instance, a $10,000 investment in a mastermind is not what's going to make you broke. What's actually making you broke is the fact that you don't have the knowledge that is inside that $10,000 mastermind. 

You see, you need to understand what those teachings are. 

And without having access, how are you going to learn those things? 

The first time that I invested in myself, it was a marketing course for **$4,000**. 

I did not have the **$4,000** to be able to invest in this marketing course. 

But I recognized that I needed to get myself out there. 

I needed to get myself known. And the way that you do that is through promotion and through marketing. 

So I was at an event, it was a women's event. I was all jazzed up. 

I was excited. I was like, yeah, these speakers are amazing. 

They just were lighting me up. 

I was like, what would it be like if I could be up on that stage with them one day? 

I deserve to be up on that stage with them one day. 

I'm not at that point right now, but that's what I want. 

So at the end of the event, they made an offer for a **$4,000 marketing course**. 

And I panicked. It was like, oh my gosh, **$4,000 is so much money**. 

What if I don't make that money back? What if I could learn all this stuff online? 

Then it was just a waste of money. And then I feel silly. 

All of this self-doubt just started to creep in. 

As soon as they started talking about **$4,000**, which was a number that I was uncomfortable with. 

But I made the investment. I just did it. I was like, I'm going all in because it's going to force me to become a different version of myself. 

And I am unwilling in one year from now to be the same person I am today. 

**Step six** is simply to get yourself in the room. 

To go from zero to a millionaire, you need to get into the rooms with people who could actually help you. 

If you don't get into the rooms, you're not gonna become that person. 

I have attended so many conferences where I use them as an opportunity to say, Natalie, in three months from now, when you attend this event, you are going to have completed **XYZ project** so you can talk about this, because you know that these types of people are gonna be there and you have to prepare yourself. 

Right now you're lame. You don't have anything to offer, it's just the reality. 

But you are going to have something to offer somebody. 

Because in three months from now, you have a target and you can create something in three months. 

You can create a landing page, you can create an offer, you can make movement if you know that you've committed yourself to be in a place in the future. 

So you become somebody in the process of attending that event that is valuable to the people that you know are going to be there. 

But you are never going to take the steps that are required if you don't actually commit to getting in the room. 

This is why for those **10 people** that you are studying, find rooms that they are going to be in and invest your money to get in that room. 

When you show up, you are forcing yourself to become the type of person that they would want to spend time with. 

You get in the proximity to people who are making a million dollars, and when you are in proximity, you freaking impress the hell out of them. 

The next step is to find out who is going to be in this room and research the hell out of them. 

My motto is become the **ultimate stalker**. But the good kind of stalker. 

The stalker who is informed, the stalker who does their research and isn't creepy and weird. 

Don't be that kind of stalker. 

But this person that actually shows up and has looked up people ahead of time knows who their targets are. 

Because when you go to an event, the target is not meeting every single person. 

That would be an unsuccessful action. 

The target is finding a handful. 

And remember this, it is always a handful. 

You are trying to find a handful of people who can help you get to where you are trying to go. 

So when you look at the event ahead of time, how can you find out who is going to be in the room? 

Do they have a WhatsApp g