You Are a Badass at Making Money

parts about sales that you’re good at (it goes deeper than you think), practice,
get good at the skill sets, and stop saying how much you love everything about
your business except the sales part.
2. YOU HAVE YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND WANT TO GROW IT.
Hire a coach and/or get a mentor. Are you sick of me saying this yet? Coaches
and mentors can see those opportunities that I’ve spent this whole book
screaming and yelling about—the ones that are outside your field of vision
because you’re in the forest and can’t see for the trees. Coaches and mentors
are farther along than you are, they’re sitting on the top of the mountain, eating
an orange, watching you stumble around down there. They can point something
out in, oh, twenty-eight seconds, that might take you the next three years to
figure out.
Get clear on which part of your business is bringing in the most revenue. Is it live
events? Is it products? Is it high-priced one-on-one stuff? Figure it out and up
your game in that area.
Delegate anything that you haven’t yet delegated. A big problem for many
entrepreneurs is we get caught working in our businesses instead of on them.
We’re so wrapped up in the day to day that taking time to develop new ideas
and expand seems like a luxury. It’s not. Growth is one of the most exciting and
vital parts of your business. Stop pretending you have to do everything yourself,
grab your wallet, take a big leap, and hire some more help.
Seek out partnerships, joint ventures, investors, and other people who can help
you grow.
Look to see where you can create passive income streams (work once, make
money forevah). Can you film yourself giving a seminar and sell it as a DVD or a
download? Write a book? Create other types of products? Invest in other
people’s companies? Passive income = the bomb diggity because this is how
money flows into your bank account while you’re sipping margaritas on a beach.
3. YOU HAVE A JOB YOU HATE/ARE BORED TO DEATH BY.

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Because you are unauthorized to hate/be bored by the thing you spend most of
your waking hours doing, you must quit. But before you quit, be grateful to this
job that is supporting you and leading you toward your dream job. Also, see
number 5 in this section.
4. YOU HAVE A JOB YOU LIKE BUT DON’T MAKE MUCH MONEY.
Ask for a raise. Get clear on why you believe you deserve this raise, list off all
the many contributions you’ve made to the company and the reasons why you’re
such an irreplaceable asset. Investigate how your participation has increased
the company’s revenue, morale, image, reputation as having the most rockin’
holiday parties, etc. Do you have more skills, ideas, and strengths to offer the
company that they haven’t yet taken advantage of or aren’t aware of? Maybe
you can work with your boss to map out a time frame and a path to a promotion?
Figure out what amount of money you feel you’re worth, ask for it with
confidence and gratitude, and be prepared to walk if you don’t get it. The reality
is that when you work for someone else, they set the ceiling on what you can
make, so if they’re not budging and you’re unhappy, it might be time to seek out
another company or organization that pays better. Staying where you are and
being bitter is not an option.
Seek out promotions on your own. Are there opportunities within your company
that interest you that pay higher salaries? If so, talk to people in those positions
and find out who’s in charge, what’s entailed, and make it your mission to move
up. See if you can be of help in any way to them right now, stay in touch, work
for them on weekends, endear yourself to them, bake them cookies, show them
that you’re not screwing around. If your company doesn’t promote from within,
again, you’re at the mercy of how it does business so this may not be an option,
but if it is, go for it whole hog.
Learn all about your industry and find out if people are making more money
doing what you do somewhere else. If so, do all the things listed in number 5
below and get yourself a job at another company that pays better.
Design your own job. If you see things in your company that need doing that
aren’t being done, create a new job for yourself. Come up with an excellent pitch
about all the ways this will benefit the company and help them make craploads
of money, and name your salary. You never know, stranger things have
happened.
See if you can switch from getting paid a salary to getting paid by commission.
Salary has a ceiling, commissions don’t.
Supplement your income. Find something else you enjoy doing that’s lucrative
and do that on the side. I’m not talking about being stressed out and
overworked, but if you absolutely love your job and your pay isn’t getting
doubled anytime soon, you have to suck it up and stay at the income level
you’re at, quit, or figure out something you can do that will bring in extra cash.
5. YOU’RE UNEMPLOYED AND LOOKING FOR A JOB.
Write down all the specifics that are important to you about your dream job: How
much money you make, what kind of people work with you and/or for you, which

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skills you use in your job, what you wear to work, how it feels going to work, do
they have free bagel Thursdays every week, etc. Make your dream job so real
you can see it and, most important, feel it. Meditate on this image and this
feeling day and night, be grateful that it exists, have rock-solid faith that it’s on its
way toward you, and watch your mouth. No nonsense like: It’s so hard to find