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33 Rules of the Millionaire

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From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: The actual steps to making a million dollars starting with nothing
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A million dollars would make you a rich man, wouldn't it?

Yes.

A million dollars would make you a millionaire, just like me.

Many people cannot admit they love being a millionaire, but I can. I love it.

Not because of all of the nice things I can buy, but because it's all a game and money is how we keep score. Speaking of keeping score…

According to the secret book of ancient wisdom of the samurai, the Hagakure, a certain swordsman in his declining years said the following:

In ones life, there are levels in the pursuit of study. In the lowest level, a person studies but nothing comes of it, and he feels that both he and others are unskillful. At this point he is worthless.

In the middle level he is still useless but is aware of his own insufficiencies and can also see the insufficiencies of others.

In a higher level he has pride concerning his own ability, rejoices in praise from others, and laments the lack of ability in his fellows. This man has worth.

In the highest level a man has the look of knowing nothing.

These are the levels in general. But there is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all.

This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

He truly knows his own insufficiencies and never in his whole life thinks that he has succeeded. He has no thoughts of pride but with self-abasement knows the Way to the end.

It is also said that a certain swordsman in his declining years once remarked:

I do not know the way to defeat others, but the way to defeat myself.

The swordsman then added his final advice…

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

Then, a great wordsman in his prime chimed in to offer his humble advice…

The game doesn't end, so finish what you start. -Victor Pride

33 RULES ALL FUTURE MILLIONAIRES MUST FOLLOW

These are the 33 Rules of the Million Dollar Man.

Implement these rules and win. Dismiss them and lose.

Like the girls around these parts say, up to you.

1) FINISH WHAT YOU START.

Understand the vital importance of finishing what you start. Finish what you start or just don't start.

If you aren't going to go all the way you aren't going to get even a fraction of the rewards.

Rewards go to people who finish what they start, rewards never go to quitters.

2) STRATEGY IS KEY.

The why is the way. All of the steps mapped out for you mean nothing if you do not have an understanding of the principles of power that govern success.

Understand the principles and the steps to power and wealth are easy. Dismiss the principles and the steps to wealth become impossible to climb.

3) CULTIVATE PATIENCE.

If there's one quality you need more of in this game, it's patience.

Patience is percolation in this game and success comes when you're busy doing other things. It never comes when you're impatiently waiting for it.

Do the work, move on, repeat. Never look back to see if success is running after you – it never is unless you're too busy working to notice.

4) UNDERSTAND THE GAME NEVER ENDS.

If you get into the game with a dream of some golden day where you can quit and eat barbecued supple whole pig and be served by island girls forever you can forget it.

People die quickly after retirement for a reason – retirement deathly boring. The work is the only thing that is truly fulfilling and everything else feels like death if the work is gone.

Don't retire and don't even think about it. Work until the end. The game never ends so always finish what you start. Remember?

5) LEARN BEFORE YOU EARN.

The number one thing young guns lack is the concept of patience. You've got to learn before you can earn. Learning cannot be skipped.

You have no right to expect to make money without first doing intensive and intelligent preparation.

6) MAINTAIN YOUR CENTER-LINE.

Your center-line is your core values and character. Always maintain center-line, even if you veer left or right, always correct yourself and maintain center-line, your key message.

7) START AT THE START.

Start at the start sounds obvious but just because it's obvious does not mean it is understood.

Many want to start at the end, when they're already rich, and they want to skip all of the steps that make a man rich in the first place.

8) TAKE TIME TO DEVELOP CHARACTER.

Before you can maintain center-line, you must first understand your own character, core values and message. These things take time to develop.

Patience is percolation, remember? Give yourself the time you need to develop true character. It's the only way you will ever have a purpose and a message to give.

9) EXPECT NO REWARDS.

If you expect rewards you will not last in this game. The message is first. The need to spread your message is first.

Without it you have no center-line, you have no core values, you have no character, and lastly you'll have no money.

10) CREATE THE GREATEST WORK YOU CAN CREATE.

Release the best possible work you can create, especially in the beginning, middle and end of your career. Quality always wins.

Business is war. Make sure your battle armor fits well.

11) LET THEM FIND YOU.

Searching for an audience is fruitless. They're already searching for you.

The way you let them find you is by creating great work, not by wasting your time searching for an audience when your time could be better spent creating the work that creates the audience.

12) CREATE SCARCITY.

Create scarcity, increase respect, command a premium.

13) FOLLOW THE 3-ACT STRUCTURE OF HOLLYWOOD.

Every story is told in 3 acts. Master the understanding of the 3 acts and you will be able to tell effective stories.

Doesn't matter if it's writing, video or audio, all great stories follow this structure: Intro – middle – outro.

14) CREATE SOMETHING WHICH IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO SOMEONE ELSE.

Many people think only about how much money they might make when they set out to create a product. Wrong way to make money, right way to get nowhere.

To get somewhere, make a product that is vitally important to someone else.

Money is not the real story! It's the reward for doing the right thing in business. Not the right moral thing, the right thing that actually works.

15) DO IT PRO FROM THE GET-GO.

Save yourself some time and just be a professional from the very first day you start.

The only difference between a pro and an amateur is attitude.

An amateur is whatever, man. A pro has a plan, a structure, a center-line to maintain and he does not waver.

16) LEARN TO TELL THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.

Every great story is about the same exact thing…

The greatest story ever told: a man in a hole and how he got out of it or didn't.

Learn the story, tell it in the 3 act format and you've stopped being the audience and you've started being the entertainer.

17) CONQUER THE FEAR OF SUCCESS.

Nobody is out to get you more than you're out to get yourself. You are your own #1 enemy to success.

You must learn to let go of what you think are other people's opinions and you must move forward with your plans.

It is never other people who will stop you, it is your internal fear of what other people might think that will stop you.

Just don't listen because it isn't true, you cannot predict what other people are actually thinking.

All you can do is imagine what you think they might think. Waste of time. Do the work and move forward.

18) DEVELOP THE SKILL OF SUBTLE SELF-PROMOTION.

Self-promotion is a bad word, let me finish, when you have nothing to promote.

That's why losers get mad at self-promotion. It is not because you are promoting your own product, it is because they do not have a product to promote and they feel jealous.

Ignore them.

Winners focus on winning, losers focus and complain about winners.

19) DO NOT BE REALISTIC.

Realistic goals are a waste of time. Success is unrealistic. It is completely unrealistic to think you can make 50k per month from a blog.

A “realistic” person would be happy with an extra $500 per month.

An unrealistic person would think 50k per month is too low and would make immediate plans for the 800k per month plan.

20) TENSE NEVER WINS, BE LOOSE OR YOU WILL QUIT.

You have to learn how to wait. Sorry, but you do.

The game of success is a lot like everything else in life. You have periods of ups and downs.

The down periods can seem boring, because they are. Embrace them as part of the game because they are.

You cannot have night without day.

21) FOCUS ON THE NOW.

Look at your clock as a way to predict what other people are going to be doing at that exact moment.

Don't look at the clock in an attempt to be lazy or in an attempt to feel rushed and stressed.

Time is time and you don't control it. You control what you do right now. And right now the time is now so put away the clock.

22) DO NOT WORRY ABOUT FUTURE ‘WHAT-IFS'.

The only thing that's real is right now. The past is an illusion and the future is determined by what you do right now.

Do the work right now and forget about future what ifs.

If all the work you could do right now is finished, that's when you can dream up future plans.

Do the work first, dream about the future second.

23) COMMAND ATTENTION DON'T DEMAND ATTENTION.

To make money you must command attention.

You must be able to hold the attention of a crowd, not by demanding they listen to you (they won't) but by being so interesting, intriguing and entertaining that they have no choice but to give you their attention.

That's how you command attention.

24) UNDERSTAND THE SUCCESS YO-YO.

We already covered this? Do not argue or back-talk the teacher. We cover this over and over because the down time is when people quit.

When you understand down time is part of the game you will know not to quit.

Success is a yo-yo. One day you're up, one day you're down and that's the way it is. Live with it and succeed or quit and live with that.

Law of Reversal: when the sun reaches the meridian, it falls. When the moon becomes full, it wanes.

25) MAKE THE MENTAL CHOICE TO NEVER QUIT.

Making a million dollars doesn't happen overnight.

It doesn't happen when you're waiting for it. It certainly doesn't happen after you quit.

It only happens when you make the mental choice to never quit and you continue your work, no matter what.

26) CONTROL YOUR YAWN.

Sneezes and yawns make you look very silly. -The Hagakuri

Yawning in front of people reveals a lack of self-control and character. Yawns must be controlled.

When you can control your yawn, you control yourself. You must always be aware of yourself from now on.

Not only are you a millionaire in training, you're a role-model in training. Act like it.

27) APPEARANCE IS EVERYTHING.

As a millionaire role-model in training you must be “on” at all times in public.

What people see, they believe. Start acting the part from day one.

Soon the acting will stop and you will simply be the part.

28) EDITING IS ALL.

Editing is everything. It is the difference between the pro and the amateur, the difference between making money and not making money.

What is editing? It is simply refining your message to make it appear in the best way it could possibly appear.

Editing is everything. Editing is all and never forget that.

29) UNDERSTAND THESE RULES AND WIN, DISMISS THEM AND LOSE.

These rules were developed after 10 years as a ronin entrepreneur, experiencing many ups and downs. These rules are the true way to a million.

“Make money tomorrow” sells well but it never materializes. Money comes along with understanding.

As a new millionaire in training you do not have an understanding. Understanding comes with time, not with reading a few words.

30) MAKE THE DECISION TO START BUILDING MOMENTUM.

The first rule is do not quit, but to even get to that point you have to make the decision to start.

When you decide to start you have to think about your work as building momentum.

Each new piece of work you release is another piece of the puzzle that is out there building momentum for you as you are busy doing other things (creating more work aka momentum).

31) UNDERSTAND WHEN SUCCESS ACTUALLY COMES.

Understand success comes after you've done the work and moved forward.

Success comes when you're busy doing other things. You must never fret, you must never worry.

“Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.” -Dale Carnegie

32) THE GAME NEVER ENDS SO LEAVE AN ETERNAL LEGACY.

You need patience because online success happens in the digital world. It comes after the work is done, when you're busy doing other things.

If you quit, it stops. If you never quit, it never stops, it just comes in waves.

The game never ends so stick with it all the way to the end and ensure your legacy.

If you understand others, you are astute.
If you understand yourself, you are insightful.

If you master others, you are uncommonly forceful.
If you master yourself, you have uncommon inner strength.

If you know when you have enough, you are wealthy.
If you carry your intentions to completion, you are resolute.

If you find your roots and nourish them, you will know longevity.
If you live a long creative life, you will leave an eternal legacy.”

-The Way and Its Power

33) USE THESE RULES AS GOSPEL.

These rules of the millionaire were developed by a millionaire to show the way for future millionaires. 

These rules were developed by me because it's lonely at the top and I want effective accomplices. These rules last as long as you last. It is not a one and done, because success never is.

These rules have shown you the way, the philosophy behind the way and the steps you have to take if you want to make a million dollars as a blogger, vlogger or podcaster.

Follow the rules and learn the way to a million. And remember…

The game never ends, so always finish what you start. If you're going to start making a million dollars online, you really should not stop.

You can't be a millionaire if you quit trying to make a million dollars. All you could do, is go back to whatever it is you came from.

If that's what you want to do, well, up to you.

Personally, I'd choose to make a million. Am I really the only one who likes being a millionaire?

It really does seem that way sometimes.

Until next time.

Your Million Dollar Man,

-Victor Pride

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  1. YAASSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! article wooooooohoooooooo !!! Articles given me life brah ! didnt read it yet, just excited to see it. okk gonna read it now.

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  2. Beautifully said, Sir…
    I wish my 18 year old self had a chance to embrace this.
    To the younger guys on here – This is Gospel. Take it from a “middle-aged” guy.
    100% Gold.
    Patience is a key virtue. Even more so now in our “instant, social, self gratification = masturbation” days.
    Always remember that people are watching your every move. Make all your moves great ones.

    Fucking Gold Vic – I need this one today. This is getting bookmarked!
    Thank you

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  3. Lol, I was just searching for a subject about the hungry ghosts (a.k.a. Haters) on your website. And then you create another masterpiece.

    Thanks Vic.

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  4. You forgot the one where you should sell drugs to gullible men instead of giving them ACTUAL advice because hey, it’s money

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  5. its a sin to be honest these days.
    anyway keep going, you’ll get there.

    keep calm and listen to the terminator theme by brad fidel it might give you some buck up when you’re dying.

    intelligent people focus on death.

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  6. Fantastic article as always. The article reminds me of how many different “plates” im trying to spin…starting this and that and never Truly finishing any of it.

    I sat down in a cafe to read this article…my original intention was to do some journaling and soul discovery, then I saw you wrote a new article, naturally drop everything and read B&D.

    After reading this article I was spurred to action! I included only a few things in my journal upon finishing your article.

    -Commit to finish:
    a)business
    b)ketogenic diet
    c)learning game
    d)learning Spainish
    e)etc.

    in a mass of words…thanks for the Article Uncle Vic,
    Fuck the haters your the real deal!

    Respect!

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  7. Vic,
    I read your blog often. I have to admit that I became financially well off long before I found your blog. I would like to be able to email you direct, but not sure how to do this? I know that when I started on my path to break free from the corporate world I had a fierce iron will drive to succeed, and I was not going to let anything stand in my way of success. Thanks in advance for all you do with your blog to motivate men to succeed.

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    • You seem to think $1,000,000 is unattainable. It’s simple math.

      Vic has 28,000 subscribers, that means there are 28,000 people who actually get his emails. This does not count the tens of thousands of readers, like myself, who read B&D but simply don’t like emails.

      Vic has 4 ebooks that have varied in price but are around $50 total (or so) to buy all 4. Interested readers will eventually own all his books, as I do. (And they were worth every penny too.)

      Let’s say that only 10,000 people ever bought his books, at $50, that’s a half million right there.

      This also doesn’t take into account;

      B&D T-shirt sales
      Red Supplement Sales
      Affiliate Sales
      BadNet Sales

      A million dollars is not that difficult to do once you have figured out the vehicle.

      So stop hating on people who get successful.

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  11. Hi Victor.
    Once I wrote you saying that your job was starting to get poor.
    You replied saying that I couldn’t see inside your mind.
    Well, now it’s time to say congratulations. This article is soooo good.
    I want to thank you.
    Keep going brother, we need the captain!

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  12. An excellent overview, Victor. As I am reading this post I am, perhaps mistakenly, seeing a heavy influence from the 48 Laws of Power in many of these rules, yes?

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  14. The classic art from BAD once again raised to a new level! Especially the 4th point has struck me as terrific. It’s reminiscent of the legendary Goethe’s quote “Anyone who does not fight daily for their freedom and their life does not deserve either.” The game never ends because the game is life itself! Sadly, there are ghost souls who manage to be more alive and successful then the majority incarnated ones.
    The 19th point is my second favourite one: “don’t be realistic!” Everything what’s time-proven is realistic. But you can’t be realistic if you are the true visionary. And being visionary is what leads to success.

    Keep badassing, Vic!

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  16. Well said. waiting for a guy from usa to bring me ur last book ” new W ronin “+ Think big grow rich. Continue the victorious articles Vic.

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  18. You’re not alone Victor. I’m a bit older than most of you fellas and so I have been down this path and have even strayed from it over the years only to find my way back. You’re right about so many things, but the main things are that it’s true, you can never stop, and success indeed does come when you’re busy doing other things.

    As I read through this list I had slight grin on my face, not for me, but for you. You’ve clearly figure it out. You are well on your way to having whatever you want from this life. I can see you are genuine in wanting to share what you’ve learned. The authenticity of your words can only come from actual experience. Well done, amigo.

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  19. You’re an inspiration. Godly and incredibly influential. Love your work.

    I see you have ‘editing’ as a tip. I remember seeing advice to write and hit publish. Should new aspiring blog artists publish as much (modestly edited) content as they can asap and edit later, or hold off publishing until the content is perfect?

    Congrats, Badman. Like Mary Kay, you’ve inspired purpose into people’s lives.

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  20. Don’t ever quit should be burned deeply into the mind of every man who desires success.
    Personal experience has taught me this. Been self employed for over a decade. So poor at times, I have had to empty my loose change jar- just to buy groceries.. However, through it all a vow was made to never give up and to never quit. At the same time daily affirmations, about becoming a multimillionaire, became a daily part of my routine. Negative self talk was forever banished. After a period of time doing this an older very successful guy ( whom I knew) , in the same field as me , offered to help me..both financially and by mentoring. He lent me – interest free- six figures to buy an undervalued asset. Fast forward a year, the asset was just resold, he was repaid and $ 100,000 was pocketed. It was the first major break. Although not even close to being a multimillionaire – yet…through diligence, focus, being smart savvy, it will happen. Its jut a matter of time. So….Its on to the next deal..keeping the momentum going.
    Honestly, none of this would have ever happened if I had quit the dream when the dark clouds were looming on the horizon. I do believe that lack of grit is the biggest reason why success eludes most men.

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      • You’re welcome. Ive been reading your blog for over four years. All along internalizing the wisdom and then acting on it.
        Thank you for producing a great blog !

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  21. Beautifully crafted. I’m gonna be honest Vic, I haven’t followed B&D for a little while but this post was absolute FIRE. The type of classic B&D gold that built your loyal audience of 25,000+ spartans.

    The best point here was the idea of patience. Young guns can never wait, you say…and you are absolutely right. I don’t know what I want, but I KNOW I want it now. Haha! Is the trick to basically just focus and convince your mind to not care about the rewards? Lady luck ain’t gonna choose the man who makes his lust for her obvious.

    -Rajan

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  22. Great article Vic, as always.

    Point number 14 though, could more comprehensively be put as “Create Something Which Is Of Vital Importance To You, And Then Create More Of It To Sell.”

    People often think long and hard about what to create for others that will be of massive value. But everything seems to be already invented. Every idea already thought of, used, modified, and reused.

    To overcome this, you must think about what YOUR problems are, and focus on remedying them. What is it that frustrates you? Is it less parking space at the local mall? A buggy computer application?

    Remember, if it is a problem to you, it is a problem to someone else too. And they want it’s solution just as bad as you want it.

    Solve your own problem, and provide it to others. You will be surprised at how fast you get rich.

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      • We still have problems because blaming others is always going to be easier and we are biologically wired to seek easy, effortless stuff. Combine that with this new collectivist “porn” that we consume (countless blogs, vlogs, podcasts, etc about politics and social issues) there is always conveniently someone to blame.

        Strong people know that there are ills and work around them.

        Weak people know about the ills, obsess about them, and try to fix them (often creating more ills in the process, we’ve seen this with social justice stuff). I call these people “Paranoid Oppressed Supremacists.” They would score rather high on this silly test that I made: https://joelsuf.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/are-you-a-paranoid-oppressed-supremacist/

        All that being said, I appreciate Vic for not going too crazy when talking about that kind of stuff on this blog. A little bit of dabbling is alright but talking about it all the time is not healthy at all.

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  23. I had to stop and reread multiple of these, many hit hard.

    I also had to smile, because they suit I was wearing in the photo from the Vegas event is the same one I’m wearing now as I read the article.

    Oh, my Red PCT and Red Monkey came in yesterday. Time to better push the intermittent fasting while I go to the gym 7 days a week for the next 90 days!

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  24. Great post as usual. One read, i didn’t internalize much. Second and third run to understand the lessons.

    By the way, the engagement you get in the comment sections is mindblowing. That’s the 34th lesson i got from this.

    Keep it up!

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  25. Another epic true to the core Uncle Vic. In an earthly dimension where few are truely living we are the fires lighting up the paths to untold legends

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  27. Victor, since discovering B&D 2 years ago I basically changed my whole life.

    I changed the way I treated myself. Now I work out, eat the right kind of food – the one that gives me energy, I stopped playing video games and I focused on business.

    I changed the way I handle relaitonships – cut the losers out my life, started valuing my time.

    I stopped caring about girls and switched my focus on money.

    And I bought NWR. What a fucking shock it was to read it. I almost cried tears of relief. This book is a fucking masterpiece. It gave me a sense of direction.

    I just got my first 9-5 job. I will stay there two years. I want to know what it’s like so that it fuels me.

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  29. Hey Victor. This article is gold. I recommend your blog posts to all the guys I know who want to improve themselves. This material is honesty better than 90% of the self help books I’ve read. God bless.

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  31. Most people are millionaires in middle/upper-middle class Australia. It’s one thing to be a millionaire, it’s another if you own no property and just freelance. You can’t just rent your whole life Vic, so you can claim to be a millionaire in a liquid sense. Another thing, you’re 35 and have no kids. Raising a kid to 18 costs approx $500,000, at least. Whats the point of living for sheer hedonism, I find it baffling. Can’t live in a state of perpetual teen-age years, dating “geishas” – lol. Good-luck brother.

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  32. Awesome article man. In summary, have an idea, test it, map it out, work your ass off to bring it to fruition, and don’t quit.

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  34. Vic, I’ve been reading your blog pretty regularly since 2012. It was always my go-to whenever I needed a quick motivational read, or a quick reminder on how to live life the right way, and not to give up on my vision of my future. Lately, for whatever reason, my interest in B&D faded pretty heavily. Not quite sure why, but I think the more “spiritual” transition didn’t really pique my interest like the older articles did.

    THIS, however, is pure gold, and the first specific article of yours (and I’ve read almost all of them) that I’ve ever actually bookmarked to refer back to; because I know I will…a lot. Thank you for putting this out there, and showing others your blueprint for success.

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  35. Wow control your yawn, and sneezes
    I never thought of that.

    But you’re right I think of people yawning and they look goofy. Thanks for the advise

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  36. Awesome article Vic.

    Every aspiring millionaire should read and live by these rules!

    Basically these are the steps to becoming a millionaire:

    ● commit to it
    ● keep at it until the end and never give up, even if you fail. Failure is just part of the game. Use it as a learning experience to get better
    ● adjust your strategy on the way and learn the rules of success
    ● constantly create something and work on your business. Do not waste time worrying or doing mindless
    ● repeat steps until you are successful. Patience pays here so don’t forget, never quit along the way.

    Keep these articles coming Vic!

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  38. Fantastic article
    Looking forward to your “33 rules of the billionaire” if you ever make it to the billionaire league.

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  42. “It is never other people who will stop you, it is your internal fear of what other people might think that will stop you.”

    Powerful stuff. Awesome!

    All the best,

    D

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  43. Cant lie Vic, Reading your blogs and looking at your bossed up pics really motivates me man hahahaha Really give me that I know I can do it, its coming feeling! Thanks for all please keep going ! Thanks for the two blogs a week now too btw!

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