Mark Evans DM earned his first million starting in 1996 in a small Ohio town, hitting $100k, then $200k, then $400k along the way. He says the first million is the hardest, but after that, subsequent millions come easier once you have systems and habits in place.
Hey there. I get asked all the time, mark, is it hard to make a million dollars? The answer might shock you. Depends where you're at in life, right? So Let me explain. 1996, small town, Ohio for me to make a million dollars. The truth is I didn't even think about it. I always wanted a million dollars. I didn't know what it meant or what it meant to take to get there. I was looking to make a hundred thousand dollars. That was my dream. True story, that was my goal. How can I make a hundred grand? And the way I did it, I mapped it out and well, I could work 16 hours a day, make 20 bu hour equal 365 days a week, blah blah blah blah, boom. I'll make 100k. I didn't know anybody made 100k, so I didn't have any like buddy to ping that off of and you know, talk to and see what it looked like. And then I made 100k, 200k, 400k and all this. The hardest million dollars you'll ever make is your first million. It's not because it doesn't exist. There's millions and trillions of dollars around. Billions and trillions, right. But why is it always fleeting? You, well, the answer is because you haven't invested the time and mental actions and activities to make the million dollars yet it exists no matter what you do. So we got to get to the million dollar mark. Until then, what's going on? You're becoming somewhat. Your body is transforming, your brain is. You're understanding the product, you're understanding the people, you're understanding cells, you're understanding business, you're understanding solutions, you're understanding, you know, how to drive revenue, how to make net income. And by the way, when I'm talking a million, do start off grossing a million and then next you got a net a million a year. And you can do it if you put forth the efforts. Some people can do it in two years, some people can do it in a year, some people it takes 20 years. It took me multiple years to get to a million dollars a year. And then what happens is once you make a million dollars, you'll realize that, holy cow, this is kind of easy. Especially if you build the business correctly and then you start hanging out with guys and gals or your peers and you would be embarrassed to only make a million. Dol We've all heard the saying, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I grew up when I say poor, my parents worked really hard to put food on the table. So the thing is, is when you're in these conversations, I realized why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It's what we talk about when we're hanging out. We're not talking about winning the high school touchdown. We're not talking about getting a 3% raise at our job. We're not talking about cutting our Starbucks out to save $60 a month to make. To make an extra $65 a month to invest in the millionaire next door, whatever, right? The rich people are talking about. When I say rich, I'm talking wealthy. And by the way, when I say rich, it doesn't mean you're a good person or bad person. It's just a term like you have money, you're making millions of dollars a year, Right? So you're what I'm. The conversations we have with my guys, we're talking about business, we're talking about hiring people, we're talking about investing in systems, operations and ourself and other things and how do we grow and, and oftentimes we're talking about our failures. I'm learning from their failures, they'll learn from my failures. And hopefully we're all going to have failures, by the way, but hopefully the goal is to minimize failures. For us to make a million dollars now, we could do this very quickly, sometimes in a day, sometimes in a month, sometimes make an extra million on top of the millions we're already generating in businesses. Maybe we add another revenue stream in the company that does it in another year, but it's passive cash flow. There's a lot of variables here. Trust me when I tell you the hardest million will be your first. If you keep your feet moving and you keep focused and hang out with the right people. Invest in the books. Like Magic of Thinking Big rich Dad, poor dad, think and grow rich. All these things are going to allow you to elevate your thinking, elevate your mind, and elevate your income. And by the way, it's not just read it and it works. Read it, implement, read it again, implement again, and keep doing it until it works. It works. It's just a matter of how quickly it's going to work for you. Only you can determine that. Go make the first million in and the other millions behind it will become much, much easier. See you on the other.
