How I Made My First $10K

Lil Issa had the goal of making his first $10k for 2 years before actually hitting the goal. He first made it a goal when he was going through a heavy Andrew Tate phase. But the goal stayed just a goal throughout that phase, his first sales job and then a bunch of failed businesses until finally he started the most recent business, I.F Homes, which is the business that’s made probably 93% of all the money I’ve ever made.

I start with this story to say that your goals will not come instantly or even quickly. Especially bigger ones and when you’re just a beginner you need to be willing to commit to the long term and delay gratification because the first business you start will not make you rich, but you’ll learn loads.

Which is essential, learning. You need to be learning if you want to be growing. I had a mentor to learn from who was doing something similar to the business I was going to get into and that was the best way I could have learnt.

He was my sales manager and on my last day working there I asked him, “You are in the know how of what I want to do, could you mentor me and help?” and he said yes. Sometimes you don’t need to give to get. Especially higher level people who always get gifts and feel forced to give back. Let people give because they wanna give.

If you don’t have access to anyone that can mentor you, that’s ok. I also learned loads from books, in person events, videos and courses. (like mine) Just make sure it’s someone who actually knows what they’re talking about and not someone who’s faking it.

But the reason I say learning is so important is because the difference between you and the most successful person your age is what you two know— or maybe don’t know.

Growing up middle class or poor, you get a lot of beliefs instilled in you that aren’t actually useful when it comes to earning more money. The biggest two is ‘save money’ and ‘go to school’ or get traditional education.

You can only save so much money before you get capped. And money is meant to be spent, not carelessly but don’t be scared to spend it on improving your life and to get you closer to your goals.

And traditional education was made by Rockefeller to make employees for his business, not create competition. If you want to learn, learn from someone who’s done what you want to do, whether that’s in person, their videos, books, etc. That’s why I asked my sales manager to mentor me.

And it’s definitely hard to un-learn what’s been instilled in you since child hood, I’ve been there too. But when you do stop believing the way you are now, your life will change.

Speaking of change you should really consider your mental and physical environment. Everything you’re doing now and believe now are what brought you to where you are. And based on where you think you’re headed will tell you what you need to change.

• Friends

• Work

• Habits

• What you intake/watch

Finally, you need full control over your income if you wanna be rich. Think commission jobs like sales or adding something like that into your role if you can talk to your manager about it.

But the best way is through your own business, everyone who’s hyper successful and has hit a mountain high did it through business. Not by going to school, getting a job, or investing in stocks.

To recap

• Make it a goal

• Think long term

• Learn

• Unlearn

• Change

• Take control