10 Rules to Become Rich and Successful

You are never going to be rich, and you sure as hell won’t ever be successful. That’s what I would say to myself back in the day.

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I never said such things out loud, but I was always thinking it.

When I was younger, becoming rich didn’t seem real to me.  Becoming rich and successful always seemed like something off in the distance, something always out of reach.

Becoming rich felt like a thing that only a select few were entitled to claim.   And for a long time, it seemed as if riches and success were only for the lucky, for the special, for the connected.

And poor ole me always felt like I was unworthy.  Growing up without much money will do that to you though.

But, I killed off that silly false belief.  And fortunately for me, I was able to do so early.

Unfortunately though, many will never shrug off those superstitions.  There will always be people who believe themselves unworthy.

Choose Your Reality

For silly reasons, there will always be a great many people who hold on to false notions about money and what’s possible for them.  They’ll even hold on to their pity like it’s good for them.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to be a jerk.  I am just stating a fact.

Sadly, there will always be people who believe they don’t deserve more.  People who believe they can’t get rich or succeed, and so they never will.

I take that back, they will succeed at something.  But that something will be their own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Poor them.  No really, poor them.

But this article is not for those people. No, this article is for you the hopeful.  This article about how to be rich and successful is for the few who choose to see.  It is for those who are still excited for all that can still be.

Yes, this article is for you, the eager, the willing, the able.  It’s for anyone wanting to learn about bringing riches into their reality.

If You Want to Be Rich, Wake Up

First, I had to wake up.  For a long time I was asleep at the wheel of possibility.  I was programmed to not want money, to think bad of riches, and to doubt success.  Shame on you society!

So, for many years my eyes were closed, they were closed to opportunity.

But, I had a wake-up call, and it was kicked-off just a few months after landing my first corporate J.O.B.

It was within that J.O.B. that I saw the dismal future that was in store for me.  I observed my peers (and my bosses) in those early days.  I watched them and their lives very closely.  And they all had one thing in common.  They were all living uninspired lives, living lives I didn’t want for me.

Their lives showed me the limits of the path I was about to embark upon.  A path full of suffocating and meaningless drudgery.

Observing them allowed me to peak into the future.  And the prospect of such a future sent chills down my spine.

It was that vision of what would have been, which forced me to question things.  The vision forced me to scramble and seek out ways to avoid living my life in a such a way.  It pushed me to discover how I could create an inspired life.

It helped me realize what I wanted, and what I wanted was options, what I wanted was to be free.

Believe and You Shall Find

In my search I would learn a great many things.

But the most important thing I learned was this…

In order to get what we want in life, we must first believe we can.

If you do not believe, you will not seek, and if you do not seek, you will not find.

“But what does this have to do with getting rich?”

Everything.

It has everything to do with getting rich.  If you don’t believe, you can’t achieve.

Without belief, all the secrets of success and money-getting won’t get you anything.

And if you want to have options, if you want to be free, it’s gonna take a lot of that green stuff called money.

So now you know.

And now that you know, I can share with you the other, sexier secrets to riches and success, so here you go…

Here are the 10 key rules you should follow to help you become richer and even more successful, than you ever thought you could be, behold…

The 10 Rules for Becoming Rich and Successful

1.  Be Honest

In the beginning of my search, I began reading many books.  And one of the first books I read on how to get rich was ‘The Millionaire Mind’ by Thomas J. Stanley.

Much like me, Stanley was also hungry for the secret to wealth and riches.  So, he went about interviewing hundreds of millionaires to unravel their secrets to becoming rich.  And the answer most millionaires gave for how they became rich and successful was this…

Honesty.

Truly, if you want to get rich, it will be through people.  Riches are made through business, and business is always with and through people.

There is popular business maxim that supports this, and it goes like this: “People only do business with those whom they know, like, and trust.”

If you are dishonest, and no one trusts you, getting business, making partnerships, and closing deals will be hard.  Maybe even impossible.

So, the first rule to follow to become rich, is to be a person of your word.  Be honest.

2.  Be Self-Disciplined

Self-discipline has been the success secret that has stood out the most in all the success literature I’ve read.  After reading book after book on success, it has faithfully shown itself over and over again.

Robert Kiyosaki once stated, “Self-discipline is the No.1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class, and the poor.”

And many other self-made men and women have also made the claim, that without self-discipline, their achievements would be trivial.

I believe it, and so should you.

So, strive to become a more self-disciplined version of you, and you’ll be surprised with the money and success that will start flowing to you.

3.  Be The Hardest Worker You Know

The best of the best in the worlds of sports, business, and entertainment, have claimed the secret behind much of their success, was a result of their ability to work harder than most people. Hustle was the name of their game.

Study any highly successful person, and you will find this to be true.  If you examined Ray Lewis’s work ethic, you would notice it was greater than his peers.  If you had the chance to witness the late Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, or even Jeff Bezos, you would also notice every single one of them had a knack for being relentless in their pursuits.

You’ve heard the saying… “the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”

The rich and the successful are always doing what others don’t like to do.  They work harder than their competition, and so set the stage for their well-deserved success.

4.  Be Passionate For What You Do

You hear it all the time, follow your passion, follow your dreams.  Most of the time this sentiment is shared as the path to finding happiness.  However, a handful of the highly successful have extolled the importance in loving what you do in order to find success.

For example, Warren Buffett once stated that the people who find their passion in life are the luckiest.  He believed that when people find their passion, or that thing they love to do, they usually end up doing that thing extremely well.  Meaning, in this competitive world of ours, if you don’t love what you do, you put yourself at a disadvantage against those who do.

The person who loves what he is doing, has a better shot and doing that thing they love better than you.

Steve Jobs also stated once that, “The only way to do great work, is to love what you do.”

He believed in the passion principle too.

These two Titans of success believed in the importance of having a passion for your work, and so should you.

5.  Be Adaptive

If what you love doing is making art, but there is little to no interest in your art in your market, then you must be willing to adapt.  If you don’t, you won’t make any money.  And if you don’t make any money, you can’t become rich.

A good way to do adapt your interests to the market, is to keep to your true interests, but also keep your business or art flexible enough to incorporate the interests of others.

If you love making art, but nobody wants to buy it, then you must consider making art that people are willing to buy.  It is a sacrifice that you must pay, but, it is necessary if you wish to stay in business and make money doing what you love.

So, follow your heart, but don’t hesitate to adapt what you’re offering till you hit your mark.

6.  Be Willing to Cut Loose Negative Influences

Every successful person has had do it.  At one point or another, they’ve had to cut loose the negative influences within their lives.

They’ve had to stop hanging out with their “good friends”, those cool people who always want to hang out, party, or do things that are counterproductive to success.

They’ve had to ignore or cut out completely, the doubters in their lives.  The people who always second guess their dreams.

They’ve even had to avoid some of their very own family.  Family members that were holding them back, suppressing their ambitions and encouraging them to slack.

It may seem harsh, but it is the truth.  No one ever said success and riches come without sacrifice.

Therefore, if you are serious about getting rich or becoming more successful, you will, at some point, need to cut loose those negative influences within your life.

And once you do, you can fill that void with encouraging stories and positive voices, like those found right here on The Strive.

7.  Be an Action Taker, Execution Is All That Matters

Ideas are good, and good ideas are great, but execution is the name of the game. Without a doubt, you could have the best ideas in the world, but if you don’t back them up with determined and consistent action, they will remain just that, ideas.

Money, success, achievement, all of it revolves around execution.

If we both happened to discover the cure for some incurable disease at the same time, but I dilly dally on the idea, while you jump in, take action, and work to turn it into a living breathing solution that truly cures people of their disease, who do you think the money will start flowing to?

That’s right, he who executed best. You.

Execution my friend, the goddess of good luck loves action takers, she loves those who execute.

8.  Be The Owner, Every Percentage Point Counts

If you ever take the route of entrepreneurship, you may come to a point where you need capital to keep your venture humming about long enough to turn it into your very own cash machine.

And if that happens, it is vital to remember that every time you borrow capital as a way to keep the business moving forward, you slowly give away your business. And with it, your hard earned riches.

As such, the less you own of your business, the less say you’ll have when it takes off and everybody wants what you are selling.

All too often hardworking entrepreneurs sell their company and their rights to run it, just to keep it alive.  And then, just like that, without much notice, they are let go from their very own company.

So, hold on to every percentage of the assets you build.  You’ll be the richer for it.

9.  Be Ready, Know When to Sell

All rides are meant to come to an end, and it’s better to get off while their still fun.

Most riches are made when assets are sold.  And most people who have become rich and successful, have either been lucky to sell at just the right time, or smart enough to sell when the time was prime.

You could sell to cut your losses, or you can sell to reap the most from your efforts.  In either case, the more attuned you are with the value of your assets, the better chance you’ll have selling them when it benefits your bank account the most.

So pay attention to the value of your assets, the economy, and your end goals, and sell when the getting is good.

10.  Buy Low

One of my mentors once uttered the following…

“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”  –  Warren Buffett

Without a doubt, this is the ultimate rule for getting rich.  Make it your mission to buy into either the stock market or the real estate market when everyone else is running away from it.  Lean into a falling market.

You see, many investors, especially those who are fearful of losing their principle, will sell off their assets at the worst possible time when the markets decline month over month for an extended period of time.  But not you, the faithful, the fearless.

So, if you are serious about becoming rich, you must discipline yourself to dive in while others are bailing out.  You have to realize, that the markets throughout history,  have trended upwards 75% of the time.  So, heed this sage advice from the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, and buy when the masses are bailing.

The Ultimate Rule –  Be Fearless

If you truly want to know how to be rich and successful, then you must pay very close attention.

Here’s the deal, courage and success are co-conspirators.  They work together in secret to bring you the riches you deserve.

Risk little, Receive little.  Risk much, receive much.

The fearful, the timid, the hesitant lose in the grand scheme of things.

Much like the ancient Olympian Gods and Goddesses, success and riches demand their sacrifices too.

So be willing to sacrifice your comfort, push yourself through uncertainties, and kill your fears.

Do this, and you will become fearless.

Become fearless, and the world becomes your oyster.

Go Get It

There you have it friend.

The key rules to follow if you truly wish to become successful and rich. Here’s a quick recap just to ensure it all sticks.

• Choose to Be Rich and Successful
• Wake Up to the World of Possibility
• Believe You Can Acquire Riches and Success
• Be Honest
• Be Self-Disciplined
• Embrace Hard work
• Follow Your Passion
• Be Adaptive
• Cut Loose Negative Influences
• Take Action and Execute
• Keep Full Ownership
• Sell High
• Buy Low
• Be Fearless

You now have the blueprint for how to be rich and successful. Now, all you have to do is follow these rules, plan your attack, and the world will become yours for the taking.

Take it, it’s yours!

STRIVE

PS – The pathway to riches and success will be made much easier when you follow the rules outlined above combined with reading these books on getting rich.  Knowledge is power!