How to Become a Millionaire: Part Two
In the article “How to Become a Millionaire” you could see some useful information about how to become a millionaire. This article is the second part of the article “How to Become a Millionaire.” In this article, as well as in previous, we will talk about skills you need to become millionaire.
I found a few skills that were necessary to some millionaires, researched about them, and wrote my opinion and useful resources.
Just to remind you, I am not a millionaire. No guarantee that this will help you become a millionaire. I’m just curious spirit. Who is willing to explore for you. 
So, let the games continue!
5. Better communication/presentation techniques and better relations with people
It is impossible to make yourself a million dollars / euros alone, without the participation of others. You can strive to be dependent on fewer people, however, to completely exclude all people and make money – it’s impossible. Simply, you must cooperate with someone. And not just for the money. Life is beautiful when you have relationships that fill you with joy. History is full of people who gained their wealth directly or indirectly through strong communication skills, presentation skills and charisma. When you become better with presentation of your ideas and opinions to other people, you will be more satisfied with your life, and you will earn money in any field.
Earlier in my life, I thought I was born with a certain level of communication skills and I will be at that level until the end of my life. However, I realized that communication is a skill that you CAN LEARN. So I began to constantly improve my communication skills. It took time to get out of the old pattern, but the results were great!
How to build your communication and presentation skills? Your first step should be to read a book “How to Win Friends and Influence People“ by Dale Carnegie. This is probably one of the first book in the self-help field. And it is great! When I read this book for the first time it changed my understanding of communication. Here you can find a summary of this book.
Let’s take a look at other resources that will help you to master the skills of communication and presentation.
5.1. Communication
Communication is an act of transfer your ideas and other informations to other people. Here’s some useful resources:
This is an excellent test that can help you determine are you a good communicator…
Better Communication with Employees and Peers || Inc.com
Here you can find many powerful articles on communication and presentation for business people. I especially like article The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker.
Improve Your Communication Skills
All I have to say about this is – brilliant!
This site contains over 100 useful articles that explain conversation topic.
Communication Skills by Rod Windle and Suzanne Warren
Brilliant, clear article, for all interested in the basis of communication.
What not to do when communicating with others.
5.2. Presentation
Presentation is slightly different from communication. For purposes of this article, we define presentation as the act of explaining your ideas (and influence) to large number of people. Here’s a couple of useful resources for presentation:
Articles on Public Speaking from Advanced Public Speaking Institute
Over 100 articles to help with your public speaking skills.
- How to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Tips for all who are preparing for the presentation.
- Presentation Tips – Make Effective and Successful Presentations
Follow this guide and tips for making business and classroom presentations.
Book: I strongly recommend you read another book by Dale Carnegie, “Public Speaking and Influencing Men In Business.” Excellent book that simply and easily, with lots of examples, explains the principles of public speaking. Try to find it, for people who are interested in public speaking skills, this book is worth reading.
18 Tips for Killer Presentations
- Article with 18 useful tips on how to make a good presentation.
Twelve Steps to Great Presentations
Twelve tips that will help you to maintain a great presentation.
The Sideroad || Public Speaking
The Sideroad website offers 28 articles on Public Speaking.
Big Dog’s Leadership Page – Presentation Skills
Very comprehensive article for creating a great presentation.
Toastmasters International
“Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. The organization currently has 250,000 members in 12,000 clubs in 106 countries. Since its founding 85 years ago in October 1924, the organization has helped more than four million men and women give presentations with poise and confidence. For information about local Toastmasters clubs, please visit www.toastmasters.org.”
5.3. Better relations with people
Better relations with people is a set of communication techniques that aims to influence other people and cause a positive impression. Here I will not put a useful resources, but I can say that you can find useful information on developing these skills on many books on sales (as, for example, Zig Ziglar book “Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know”) along with the already mentioned book by Dale Carnegie, “Public Speaking and Influencing Men In Business” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. These are the only basis, while you’re researching these things, you will find authors, books and websites that you personally prefer.
6. Learning About Money ; Investing and Real Estate
The game of money is simple. Who has the most knowledge wins over the one who has no knowledge. Only one information more (or less) can make a huge difference in your wallet. Therefore, you must know a lot, and you must be in the company of people who already know a lot. People such as lawyers, accountants, investors… One of my goals in the future will be to put together a team of experts on finance.
I suggest that you start to learn about money from the excellent Rich Dad Series of books, starting from Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. This is excellent reading for the beginning of your transformation into a millionaire. Since I read this series of books, a huge change in my mind occurred. I started to understand money much differently than before. I recommend that you start with these books because they are (more or less) easy and interesting to read. At least, they are easier to read than other similar books.
After these books, you have a lot of useful books on economics, entrepreneurship, law, and other issues, that can improve your knowledge about money.
You must understand many things, from the basics of economics and investment to how to establish new company, if you want a million dollars. In any other case, without the knowledge you will be eaten by the “big fish” that has invested the time and money to learn what you did not.
Here are some useful resources to learn something new about the money:
1. Wikinvest
Wiki is a place where people gather to write articles that explain some topic. Surely you have heard somewhere about the Wikipedia website, the most famous wiki-type website. Wikinvest is investment research wiki. This is a great website with a vast collection of articles. You have a section Money School section where you can learn a lot about investing and money, especially good for beginners. Same as many other sections where you can learn a lot if you’re interested….
2. Blog at Mint.com
This is a great blog where you can learn a lot about money. I’ve heard good things about Mint.com online money management website in my research about the money, but I am not U.S. citizen so I could not sign up on their site. Nevermind, this blog is a great source of information about money.
3. 30 Free eBooks To Learn Everything You Want to Know About Personal Finance from Mint.com
I had to mention this separately because it is a great source of information. Really great post, lot of information, you’ll learn a lot.
4. Credit.com
On this site you can learn everything you want to know about your credit card. This is probably the most famous site on the issue.
5. Trulia
Trulia is real estate search website, you can use it to find (or at least start the quest) for the best offers. A very clear site with plenty of information.
6. Beginner’s Investing from About.com
If you are a beginner in investing, you want to make sure you have a lot of clear information. If so, view this site.
7. Economist.com
If you are, for some reason, interested in world business affairs, on Economist.com you can find analysis of these events.
8. Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha is website for all interested in the stock market opinion and analysis. A good source of information for stock research.
9. Franchise:
A large percentage of businesses in the world is based on the franchise. So here we mention some basic information about the franchise:
- Franchise How-To Guides - If you are interested in buying a franchise, this is a great guide to the franchise business.
- Facts for Consumers for buying a franchise -
- IFA (International Franchise Association) - You must visit this site if you are interested in buying a franchise.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. You must learn more if you want success. Not only that, but you must also hire people who know more than you in certain areas. Do not worry, it will be paid off. After all, the game of money is in large part game of the mind, not the game of mechanics. Except knowledge from books and websites, more important is practical knowledge. And this knowledge is collected by the method of trial and error. So I prepared myself to a lot of mistakes in the future. 
Try a lot of ideas, and then pick a best for you. This is the game of life.
Some others tools and techniques
I research on a millionaires and billionaires and came to the conclusion that some or most of them had the following characteristics (I will only mention what characteristics i found, and link to a useful article (or two) on a specific skill ( characteristics, habit)):
1. Self-confidence
25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Confidence
2. Courage
The Courage to Live Consciously
How to Build Courage Through Personality Traits and States of Mind
3. Positivity
Real Mind Control: The 21-Day Complaint Experiment
15 Tips to Stay Positive in Negative Situations
4. Persistence
5. Patience
Nine Techniques for Developing Patience
15 Tips for Becoming as Patient as Job
6. Motivation
The Ultimate Guide to Motivation – How to Achieve Any Goal
Conclusion
Thank you. Thank you because you explored this article. I wish you to one day really (deserve to) become millionaire. I wish that your dreams come true. Now that you’ve read all this, give yourself a few days to relax. And then work as never before. Become what you want to be.
I really enjoyed creating this article…
Regards,
Marko
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