Why being wealthy, or having the desire to be wealthy is a great thing
Yep! I want to be a millionaire! A real life, proper, 'holy crap I'm a millionaire,' millionaire.
But that's a reasonably new goal for me. I always had a made up idea of what someone who was a millionaire was like.
It was SO stereotyped.
Definitely unconsciously learned through TV and movies.
I thought millionaires were glamorous, wore fancy brands, drove fancy cars. Shopped on Collins St, took a helicopter to work, went to fancy events every week, bought high ticket art, were... well... rude and snobby etc etc etc.
When I was a kid, I thought I was 'just' a little bogan country girl (now proudly a bogan country girl) who sucked at a lot of stuff.
I failed high school.
I was horrendously bullied, ridiculously unpopular, and ignored by most teachers.
I didn’t get anything handed to me on a platter. I didn't have wealthy parents.
I was an undiagnosed autistic until THIS YEAR and have struggled a LOT through life because of it.
I was told by many, many people that I wasn’t worth much (in various ways/forms) and I believed it.
I thought, and I reckon many people I've known through my life thought, that I would just be 'getting by' my whole life.
There were zero similarities or a relationship between me and that learned 'understanding' of what I thought a millionaire was. So I never gave it a second thought. It was just a 'no that's not anything that could ever be possible for me' kind of thing. I was so far from what that life was, that it felt as possible for me to be a millionaire as it was for me to turn into a plane.
Just.not.possible.
Back in 2011 when I had my first retail shop, then again in 2013 when I opened my second retail shop, I had a full time wage from what I did. That was success for 'someone like me' (oof those words hurt to type). I thought I had reached my limits of success. I had a wage from my own business. I was doing what I loved. Achievement unlocked. Well done. Life complete.
That to me was success as I could literally not see me turning into a plane. There was (in my head) nothing more. And I was happy because I didn't know there was more so I didn't feel like I was missing out.
I hadn’t ever thought there could be more for me.
Until now.
Until Chromatical.
Until I did a training a couple of years ago that changed everything (I'm going to be teaching some of it in my free masterclass) and I realised there is NO description of a millionaire. There's no 'magic door' that opens for only certain types of people.
I can have bleached pink hair that I cut myself, a nose piercing, wear stained sweatshirts, have not gone to a private school, drive a VW Beetle instead of a Mercedes and TOTALLY be a millionaire.
I realised what came with my skewed concept of millionaire status was the belief that being a millionaire also meant greedy. THAT WAS A BIG REALISATION. And obviously, greedy is something I never wanted to be, which meant, I never wanted to be a millionaire.
So anytime I was asked to think of my biggest, most wild, crazy, 'sounds impossible' dream, millionaire wouldn't have ever even come to mind and even if it did, it would've been immediately dismissed because I didn't want to be considered 'greedy'. Whaaaaat.
I associated being a millionaire with these kinds of images...
Interestingly enough, they're all things I watched many times as a kid.
It wasn't until quite recently that I allowed even the concept of Chromatical becoming a million dollar company to be up for discussion in my head.
I sat with it, I pulled it apart BIG TIME, and that's how I figured out everything I said above.
I'm 36 years old. And I have had my own businesses since 2008. It's only now that I'm working on this stuff and it's because I took my business seriously and actively invested in the things that would help me grow faster and make more money so that I could invest it back into more things that would help me grow faster....rather than just 'winging it' and hoping something magic would happen.
I now know that my 36 years of thoughts around what a millionaire was, were completely false. Anyone can be a millionaire, I can be a millionaire, and that doesn't make me greedy and I definitely don't need to go and buy a Mercedes haha.
So why do I want this??
I want to be a millionaire not to parade it, but to do more good, to employ more people to help me do more good, and to tell younger me who doubted everything about myself that "I’m a freaking gawd damn millionaire bluddy legend" and to also tell Florence my 2 year old that it doesn't matter who you are, do whatever you want.
I also know that money creates opportunity. The more money, the more opportunity. There are other ways to create opportunities of COURSE!! I've spent most of my business life on the bare minimum $$ wise. But I can't pay a team if I don't have money. I can't develop the amount of ideas I have and the amount of impactful courses and training and do BIG THINGS if I don't have money. I can't invest in products to be manufactured with minimum orders starting at $10,000 without money. And if I don't get those products, create those courses, run those launches, and teach the information, I can't help more people grow their businesses.
I am doing you and everyone who discovers Chromatical a massive disservice if I don't reach highs like this.
Having my goal of becoming a millionaire is actually the exact opposite of greedy. It's generous.
Because it means...
I can help more because I can do more.
I can run more ads to get discovered by more people so they can get the help they need.
I can help more people so that fewer small businesses close the doors of their business.
So that more people start businesses and so that I can help them get their success stories.
So that more people have the confidence to also reach for millionaire status (or whatever the eff status you want) so that YOU can do more good and help more people too.
This is just my own story, but there are bucket loads of things that are probably stopping you from growing in ways you don't know yet, and the whole 'stories we tell ourselves' thing is just one part of it.
I touch on this stuff a bit in the Free Live Masterclass I ran earlier this year. There's a lotttt more that I dive really deep into... it's not just this kind of stuff, but when I talk about this with the other things I'll be teaching, and help you see what's probably stopping you from getting to places you might not even realise you want to go yet, it's INCREDIBLY powerful.
Just like in Captain Planet (sticking with the cartoon theme here), when the powers of all the things I'm talking about in the masterclass combine....
Collectively, it's a really big, deep, and potentially business changing masterclass that I really wish and hope every small business in the world could be a part of because what I teach in it is what ABSOLUTELY changed me.
Are you still reading? YAY!!! Trophy for you! Glad you're still with me.
PS: I should say... My training is by no means ‘how to become a millionaire’ I’m not there yet myself. It’s just my next goal. And I'd never actually teach that as a topic. That's not what Chromatical is about. The training is how to get wherever YOU want to go.
I don’t care what it is you want. I don’t even care if your goal is to make a few sales a week to cover the mortgage so that you can spend the rest of your week relaxing and enjoying life, or whether you want to be a trillionaire. I don't mind what you want.
I just want you to be able to figure out what that is, and have some really cool strategies and things to think about and work on to help you actually grow your business and not just be stuck or limited at all.
This masterclass is deep, detailed, and honestly, not just saying it, the best lessons I ever learned. Ever.
If you're in... if you wanna learn more about me and my story, if you want to soak up the goods (if you've ever been to my live masterclasses you know I give the goods) that I always deliver, in the hope it helps you start to make some important differences in your biz...
...Then I hope you’ll check it out
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Thanks for reading this far! What a biggy!
Smiles and oversized flowers
Trish