Let's get the introductions over, shall we?
Hi!
My name is Steven De Becker, and I am an aspiring millionaire. Since you've found this site, I reckon that that makes two of us :-) So, welcome to you, fellow aspiring millionaire.
Most people still think that it takes money to make money. I don't believe that anymore, and I've set out to prove it.
What if I told you that within the next 5 years, I plan to convert $299 into $1,000,000?
What's the first thing that pops into your mind? "That's impossible!", right?
Have I got good news for you ... you're absolutely right!
If you think it's impossible - if you won't even entertain the possibility that perhaps it might be possible - then it is impossible indeed.
However, you don't want to be right, do you? Not in this case ...
This is exactly the challenge that I've set myself: to convert $299 into $1,000,000 within 5 years.
Relax - I'm not after your money. No promises to "send me some money, sit back, do absolutely nothing and watch the cash roll in".
There's plenty of those promises on the Net already ... But those guys are a very different breed of aspiring millionaire ;-)
My purpose in building this site is two-fold:
- the first is a purely selfish reason: by splashing my goal (call it a challenge if you will) all over the Net, I am committed. Now I can't chicken out and find excuses anymore ...
- the second reason is to share what I've learned - and am still learning - with anyone willing to go through the same sort of learning curve.
So what's in it for you?
- you will be able to follow my progress and learn from my mistakes and duplicate my successes
- you will find out where I got my inspiration from. Yes, you too can learn how to "think out of the box" and set yourself goals that are seemingly "impossible"
- you will also discover a few tools and resources that may help you get on your way quickly and cheaply but efficiently
You will also learn WHY it is important that you become an aspiring millionaire.
The world that we live in now is a very different world from the world that previous generations knew. You can now no longer rely on the government, social security or your employer to look after you.
It is expected that about 90% of people will not be financially able to retire. That is a scary statistic.
Even if it is just for that one reason - and there are many other good ones - it is important that we make sure that we can look after ourselves financially.
Hopefully, you will feel inspired to educate yourself and learn how to make money starting with virtually nothing.
There's an excellent free eBook on this topic that was written by my mentor, and I highly recommend that you take the time to read it.
To request your copy, simply fill in your name and email address in the boxes below.
A little bit of background info so that
you know who you're "talking" to ...
I was born in June, 1972, so I'm 34 at the time of writing (September 2006).
I was born in Belgium. If your geographical skills are deserting you now - that's a small country in Western Europe. If you don't know where Western Europe is, then GET A MAP :-)
In December 2003 - after having wanted to do so for years - I finally moved to South Africa. And I truly enjoy living here.
You may wonder how I suddenly became so brave to announce on the Net that I'm an aspiring millionaire?
Well, for the past year or so, I have sort of put myself through college again.
Only, this time, the learning process was anything but the 'normal' formal education ... no, this stuff is far more powerful than anything you've ever learned in school or at university.
It's not as if one day, I woke up and thought, YAY, now I'm an aspiring millionaire. No, I've gone through a whole learning process ...
And if you too consider yourself to be a bit of an aspiring millionaire, then I'll gladly share with you what I have learned so far ...
But let's start at the beginning.
At the risk of this sounding like a badly written resume, here we go ...
The life story of yours truly, an aspiring millionaire and a millionaire in the making
Since I launched this site at the beginning of October 2006, I got a lot of feedback from visitors to this site who are wondering how exactly I intend to generate assets to the value of 1 million dollars within 5 years.
Some seem to think that the main reason for this site is to generate that money, and that somehow, I'm using this site to try and get money from you. If only it were that simple :-)
But no, the plan is quite simple: I intend to start up at least 5 new businesses within the next 5 years. In each instance, I will limit the initial capital outlay to make it as easy as possible for the business to become cashflow positive as soon as possible.
For info on the project(s) that I'm working on, take a peek at what I consider to be the best start up business
If you'd like to follow my progress on a week to week basis, you may be interested in reading these weekly updates. Alternatively, to get them in your inbox every Tuesday morning, please subscribe to the newsletter.
Or if you want to see how I'm doing in my challenge, go straight to the progress report
