The rich are different.
 When Frank Darras, who now oversees one of the nation's largest disability and long-term-care practices, entered his first million-dollar year, he said: "I never thought I'd make $5 million in two lifetimes", "I just loved the work."
Obviously getting reach requires stubbornness and clarity of purpose. But what sounds surprising, is that today's very rich say that money itself wasn't much of a motivator.
Justin Jarvinen says "I'm interested in doing whatever I want, whenever I want" and that what really excites him is his freedom to explore and support new ideas.
The 930,000 of U.S. "pentamillionaires" are mainly entrepreneurs: risk takers for whom wealth is a byproduct of pursuing their passion. It appears those were not just money who motivated them. Fast car or fancy vacation isn't enough to get you popping out of bed at 5 a.m.
Yeah, the Old Saying is true: The rich are different. And not only money makes them different. To enter the nation's top 1%, you need more than $5 million. What got them to the highest level?
How to get the $5 million club?
One might think that good fortune would play a role, but somehow luck is also matter of one's own making. Stock-market savvy? Researching the way to wealth, of 3000 pentamillionaires, only 10% of their money came through passive investments. Stroke of luck to inherit fortune? Only 10% of pentamillionaires inherited their wealth.
Psychologists place emphasis on the success-programmed positive thinking. People who describe themselves as lucky have some common habits that make them successful. Another words: you get what you expect, or at least you usually don’t get what you don’t expect. "Lucky" folks simply have higher expectations of success, they are optimists and believe in their success.
But, naturally, $5 million doesn’t just jump up as an outcome of being optimistic. It shouldn’t surprise that it’s hard to find a “pentamillionaire” who had a cushy job, but it’s easier to find among them people willing to expose themselves to some the kind of risk And the best way ever to get the 5$ million club seems to have some strong passion, aim or motivation.
Frank Darras, while working as a doctor's assistant, he developed a burning desire to help people struggling with unpaid insurance claims.
What really excites Justin Jarvinen is his freedom. He claims now an eight-figure net worth. his current passion is mentoring younger entrepreneurs.
Success paradox.
Being rich means freedom: to spend your time as you please, to pursue your real interests and to take a chance without financial ruin.
If your aim is only to get this state, and you’ve got no other passions, or motivation in your mind, then reaching the “pentamillion’s club” will require from you some tricks: behaving,
- as if you already got this freedom,
- as if you already got the solid base under your feet to jump into risk,
- and being sure you can achieve this all, as if you were already successful.
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