You can start getting rich today by taking 15 concrete steps in order: drop the shame, take inventory, make a sale, calculate your net worth, set a rich number, build an offer with a payment link and send it to everyone you can. Getting rich does not need decades, the script claims, and the idea that it does is a comfortable lie business owners tell employees. This list is a 24-hour sprint, starting with mindset and ending with outreach and an investment.
Each step builds on the one before it. Work through them in order, and watch for the last one, which the script calls the most valuable.
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The 15 steps at a glance
- Step 1: Decide shame and fear will no longer control you (0:23)
- Step 2: Make a list of everything you own, know or can access that could make money (1:03)
- Step 3: Sell something by the end of the day (1:44)
- Step 4: Find something cheap to buy that others will pay more for (2:19)
- Step 5: Delete all distractions (3:34)
- Step 6: Calculate your real net worth (4:24)
- Step 7: Write down your exact rich number (4:55)
- Step 8: Call someone richer than you and tell them you are ready to get rich (5:34)
- Step 9: Call your biggest client and ask if they know someone who needs help (6:29)
- Step 10: Create a payment link so people can pay immediately (7:39)
- Step 11: Make one offer so clear people know exactly what they are buying (8:21)
- Step 12: Post one video online about who you are and what you do (9:33)
- Step 13: Send the video with the payment link to everyone you can (10:13)
- Step 14: Make a $10 investment and a $10 donation (11:12)
- Step 15: Today is the day you started becoming rich (12:21)
Step 1: Decide shame and fear will no longer control you
Very few people realize how shameless you have to be to get rich. Whatever you are picturing, multiply it by ten. Fear of rejection and of what other people think stops people from taking the first step. Shame keeps you quiet and fear keeps you still, which is how you stay broke.
You are going to be cringe. Everyone is cringe until it works, and getting to the working part means paying the cringe cost. Pay it so you can leave that world behind.
Everyone is cringe until it works.
Step 2: Make a list of everything you own, know or can access that could make money
This is an inventory. Open a note on your phone and write down everything you own that holds value, everything you know how to do and everyone you can reach. You use about 20% of what you own, according to a source cited in the script, and the other 80% is money you already have sitting in a closet disguised as clutter.
Then see what you can sell, rent out or monetize yourself, including a skill that has value to others. You are not starting from zero, you are starting from unaware, surrounded by assets you are ignoring.
You need quick capital to get the ball rolling, and this list is your best bet.
Step 3: Sell something by the end of the day
Already at step three there is a first challenge: you need cash. Pick one item off the list and sell it before sundown. It could be an old laptop on Facebook Marketplace, books you have read, an hour of your skill or a logo design service.
This is not the sale that makes you rich, so size does not matter. What you need is to start transacting. Something changes when a stranger hands you money for the first time, and it opens a world of people exchanging stuff for money, where you will find the answer to the next step.
Start transacting.
Step 4: Find something cheap to buy that others will pay more for
The script sums up a $100,000+ MBA this way: all businesses are in the business of buying cheap and selling for more. Some trade goods and others trade the skills of other people. Use the money from selling your junk to buy something underpriced.
Cheap cars are an example. Buy an older car for $2,000, spend $200 on a professional wash and a new taillight, photograph it at sunset and resell it for $4,500. Old tech from yard sales can be resold on eBay as refurbished retro tech for five times the price, and furniture and outdoor gear work the same way. Platforms like B-Stock and Liquidation.com let you buy retailers’ excess items in bulk at 80 to 90% off.
You are not rich yet because you have never developed the skill of seeing value, and of selling to someone.
Learn to spot what something is actually worth.
Step 5: Delete all distractions
The rule is simple: if it is not helping you increase your income, you do not consume it. You cannot build anything while your attention is auctioned to the highest bidder. That means no TikTok, video games, Netflix or music for now, and you can get them back after you are rich.
Borrow back those hours so you can monetize them. This is where you take things seriously and learn everything you can about your market. First you learn, then you remove the L and earn.
You can have your distractions back once you are rich.
Step 6: Calculate your real net worth
Income is what you make, and wealth is what you are actually worth. Like your weight, it needs to be measured before it can be improved. Add up everything you own and subtract everything you owe. A free calculator is available at alux.com/nw if you would rather not do it by hand.
Once the numbers are laid out, it is easy to see which ones move your net worth.
Measure it so you can improve it.
Step 7: Write down your exact rich number
Skip silly targets like a trillion dollars in cash and diamond chains. Be real. For some people the first level of rich is being debt free or buying a first cash-flowing property, and for others it is saving $10,000. There are levels to the rich number.
Set a clear target that, if you hit it, lets you breathe easier and opens the path to actual rich.
A clear number gives you something to hit.
Step 8: Call someone richer than you and tell them you are ready to get rich
Tell them what you have been doing, what you are trying to do and that you are serious. They have never heard you speak seriously before and can probably smell nonsense from a mile away. Ask for advice, not money. People love giving advice, but they hate giving money unless there is something in it for them.
There are three scenarios: you get good advice and that is it, they show you a better opportunity or hire you for theirs, or they back you and help you get off the ground. To get financial backing, make it clear you will succeed without them and that their help only gets you there faster. Need them more than they need you and you will end up working for them.
Build enough traction that you can walk away.
Step 9: Call your biggest client and ask if they know someone who needs help
Over the past ten years you have dealt with people, some of whom paid you. If they paid before, they are likely to pay again. Ask two questions in order. First: what is important to you that I can help with? Only if they have nothing, ask: who do you know who could use what I do? I am trying to get this thing off the ground.
Ask them to make a group chat intro on iMessage or WhatsApp so you have direct contact. This is a referral, and referrals close faster than any other type of client because someone else has already recommended you.
Referrals close faster than any other lead.
Step 10: Create a payment link so people can pay immediately
The majority of deals die in the gap between yes and handing over money. To be rich you also need a way for people to buy from you or book your services while you sleep. Set up a payment link with Stripe or PayPal, which takes less time than watching this video.
Save it in your notes, put it in your social bio if you have no website, and let it exist somewhere easy to find. The easier you make it for people to give you money, the richer you will be.
Make paying you effortless.
Step 11: Make one offer so clear people know exactly what they are buying
Clarity beats everything. The template the script gives is: I help [specific avatar] achieve [dream outcome] in [time frame] without [the pain, effort or sacrifice they dread], even if [their biggest objection].
In practice: I help yoga teachers fill every class with regulars, without discounting, even if you are starting with an empty room. Or: we make your car look showroom new, without you leaving the driveway, even after a decade of coffee spills and dog hair, spotless or we redo it free. To make the offer irresistible, add a guarantee, such as continuing to work for free until the yoga classes are full after 60 days.
Then it comes down to doing what you say you will do.
A payment link is a tool. A clear offer is the reason to buy.
Step 12: Post one video online about who you are and what you do
Post yourself doing the work, learning about the work or showing the before and after. With no paying clients, work for free to capture the process, then post it. It lives there as proof that you can do what you say.
You do not need fancy editing or equipment. A phone is enough and, from experience, the less staged the better. With this you have solved the three most important parts of the equation: something you can charge for, an offer and proof people can discover.
Proof beats promises.
Step 13: Send the video with the payment link to everyone you can
This is why the list started with step one. No guilt or shame. Your contacts either need your help or know someone who does. Text all your contacts, message everyone who follows you and everyone on Facebook.
With only 300 contacts, picture 300 people filling a screen. Most people have unrealistic expectations of the volume needed to land a client. As a rule of thumb, out of every 100 people you speak with, 1 will buy because the offer and payment link are ready. If you make $1,000 from 1 client in 100, every conversation is worth $10. The slowest part is the start, and it gets easier after the first 10 clients.
Have as many conversations as you can.
Step 14: Make a $10 investment and a $10 donation
Two tiny moves that rewire your relationship with money. First, get an investment app such as Fidelity, Robinhood, Revolut or eToro and buy $10 of a company you use. iPhone users can buy Apple, and Coca-Cola drinkers can buy Coca-Cola. Then give another $10 to a cause you care about, ideally one close to you.
The script does not buy into mumbo-jumbo, but says that every time the team helped others, financial luck was on its side. Ten dollars invested makes you an investor, and watching it turn into $12 without you working changes how you understand why you make money. You earn so that you can invest and have an impact where it matters to you.
With $20 in your account, invest $10, donate $10 and see how you feel.
Step 15: Today is the day you started becoming rich
You first become rich in your mind, and reality catches up based on your effort. The steps apply whether you are broke, middle class or starting with money, whether you are a man or a woman, and whether you are in India, the US or Nigeria. You go through them one by one, every day, until you are rich.
The recap: do not let what others think stop you, use what you have to build momentum, complete a real transaction, remember that every business buys cheap and sells high, avoid distractions, know your net worth and rich number, call your richest friend and your richest client, then use your payment link, clear offer and video proof to talk to buyers, and invest and give back in practice. The script says you will probably make your first $100,000 running these exact steps.
How long it takes to reach step 15 is up to you.
Borrow the identity for a day
These steps make you behave like a rich person: the seller, the investor, the one who asks, the one who makes things happen and the one who gives. Do them once and you have borrowed the identity for a day. Run them every day and it stops being borrowed and becomes what you are.
The goal is to become a person for whom getting rich is an inevitable outcome of being themselves.
FAQ
How can I start getting rich today?
Follow the 15 steps in order: take inventory, sell something, calculate your net worth, define your rich number, build a clear offer and payment link, post proof and message everyone you can.
What should I sell first?
Anything from your inventory list, such as an old laptop, books or an hour of your skill. The size does not matter. The point is to start transacting.
What is a good offer template?
I help [specific avatar] achieve [dream outcome] in [time frame] without [the pain they dread], even if [their biggest objection]. Add a guarantee to make it more irresistible.
How many people do I need to contact to land a client?
As a rule of thumb, 1 in 100 people you speak with will buy, if your offer and payment link are ready. The slowest part is the start, and it gets easier after 10 clients.
What should I ask someone richer than me?
Ask for advice, not money. People love giving advice and tend to hate giving money without something in it for them.
Why invest $10 and donate $10?
It makes you an investor in practice and gives you a feel for earning in order to invest and have impact. The script says helping others has always coincided with financial luck for its team.
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