There are many different ways people will take the title of this post. The first group of people will be the largest, they will think that I’m joking and that this post is going to be about something else, or about setting goals. Some will think it’s link bait. Others will be nay sayers. They will think I am serious but will tell me that it’s impossible.
There will be another, very small group that will support me and give me credit for thinking so big. Those are the people that I want to talk too, nothing is impossible. I’ve always been of the mindset that you don’t tell yourself or anyone you can’t do it, you simple have to ask yourself – how can I do this?
If you say I can’t do it, your shutting your minds power down. Your mind is the most valuable thing you have and if you let it work, it will do wonders. By asking yourself how can you do something – your mind becomes active in thinking of any possible ways that you can pull it off.
I’ve had this goal for a long time and I decided to share it today for a few reasons. I want to inspire some of you, to stop idling in life and get to work. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me to get to this goal. I’ve been doing the raw numbers and to most they will seem absolutely impossible.
I have three years to do this, Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook is the current youngest self made billionaire at twenty-three years old. I broke it down into smaller chunks to see if it would seem easier. It certainly does not seem any easier. I will need to make on average:
- $336 million a year.
- $28 million a month.
- $950,000 a day.
After seeing that most of you will have dismissed me as crazy. Those of you that haven’t, are true believers in what the human mind and body can do. After I decided that I wanted to seriously pursue this goal, I had to figure out what ways I could possible make those figures. I knew that I would need to focus on the right side of the cash quadrant. The business and investing side to be able to pull down those kind of numbers.
I made a basic list on my whiteboard of the different things I can do in those two categories to achieve my goal.
- Websites/Companies that do not require my presence to prosper.
- Real Estate Investments.
- General Stock Investments.
Due to that list – this blog will also be changing slightly. We’re going to deal with affiliate marketing still because I have no intention of stopping that. However I’m also expanding it into the other things listed above. Hopefully that won’t deter any readers from staying around. As you might of noticed, I changed the quote of the blog up top. Before it was “Where Making Money Matters”, which admittedly, wasn’t all that great. Money matters most everywhere. I’ve changed the route we’re taking. The blog will now be about “My Path to Financial Freedom” because that’s what we’re all after anyway, isn’t it?
After I figured a quick plan of action, by no means a full plan, I already saw a few things I would need to get. In a quest as large as mine, I can’t go it alone. I’ll need the support of my close friends and family, to keep me going as I am sure there will be great pitfalls that cause me to think about giving up. However I will not give up until the day I can’t reach the goal anymore. Even then, I’ll push on to do it anyway.
Along with support, I will need advice from experts in several fields. Capital will make the process a lot easier as well, luckily I do have that part. So far the list I have come up with for experts is the following:
- Strong Accountant, who can offer assistance in all the ways of money and legally paying the least amount of taxes possible.
- A Real Estate Agent to help me find the best deals. This is something I have to do myself but guidance will be needed for someone who knows the area.
- A broker to talk with – not for them to invest for me, but someone who has long term experience with their own stocks.
One of the biggest things I will look for in my advisors are people that do what they are trying to help you do themselves. I don’t want an agent that doesn’t own any real estate, and I don’t want a broker with no stocks to their name.
Time will be my biggest obstacle in this goal. I have to continue to keep up my grades in college, as well as spend plenty of free time with Katie, my friends and my family. So I will need to learn to manage time better than I ever have before. I had thought of shutting down this blog because it takes time however that is not a good idea. Blogging helps me talk about what I am going to do, get feedback, and even helps me think about it myself as I write it.
If any of you are still reading by this point, I want to talk to you. Please comment on this post. Those of you that read thru all of the one thousand plus words of this blog post truely believe in me, and I welcome your support. Anyone else that thinks big like I clearly am here, let me know, thinking big is the only way to get big.
I am certainly not going to be able to play it safe on this, I will have to take managed risks to get where I want to be. My first goal is to make my money work for me, more than it does now. Every dollar is like another employee that works for free, twenty four hours a day to get me to where I want to be. This is going to be quite the ride – stay tuned





Hey Coop, best of luck man, I like the way you think and you’ve made me wonder if I should revise up my 500k a year long term goal.
Thanks for the post.
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Your post came up in my google search.
I too want to be the youngest billionaire–I enjoy challege
See you at the finish line
I’m with you Coop, you have set goals and with enough diligence and effort you will succeed! I enjoy every Tuesday night at Bill Mcintosh and reading all your comments! Talk to you later and stay after your goals!
Jason Mcinturff
Hey coop, you’re crazy.. and I really admire that good luck mate!
Zuckerberg is rich on paper, but I still think his worth is more than a billion. So by founding a company and cash out (at IPO, sell it to some big firm) would be the best way to me. Google guys have done it. Yahoo!, Youtube, etc. but it took them several years, or not enough to be a billionaire.
Investment? $300m a year investment from how much starting capital? You may cash out your company and, if invest carefully, get a billion. Let say $100m is your starting capital, 1000% in 3 years is very possible.
However, I’d be happy to have a lot more than $1bn despite not being the youngest billionaire. Guess what would have happened if Bill Gates sold Microsoft the day his share’s worth a billion? It wouldn’t be easy for him to have $50 billion today unless he hit another jackpot like he did with Microsoft.
School and college admission thing (u know, SAT, college essay, things to do to look good on application) really waste my time. I couldn’t even launch a campaign.
This is quite the lofty goal. It may be achievable if you get extremely lucky, but chances are you will fall short. Personally I prefer more achievable goals. If you go after a realistic goal you get the self satisfaction of reaching that goal. If the goal is too difficult, it may be easy to get discouraged. Still, best of luck with this goal.
Coop,
With a goal like this, you definitely should read Maxim magazine founder Felix Dennis book “How to Get Rich.” Also, Bradley Sugars has a book called “Billionaire in Training.”
Go for it!
If you miss the moon, you´ll hit the stars for sure.
Just a suggestion with regards brokers. They make money from you even if you loose. Its not in their biggest interest and they dont care if you make or loose anyway. If you want proper advice to “manage” your own stock investments find and contact a professional trader. Not a broker. Traders MAKE the money. Brokers take their orders. period.
All the best with your goals.
Hey coop, i think you’re super crazy.. and I really admire that good luck mate!