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Your income is directly proportional to the difficulty of the problem you solve.
~ Elon Musk
The higher the value you bring into someone’s life, the more you get paid. The same goes for the opposite.
But there’s a different concept that ties into this that I’d like to introduce to you today…
🏦 Millionaire Math
Let’s say your goal is to make $1,000,000 in a year. You have 2 ways of getting there:
Provide a big amount of value a few times.
You can sell 200 units of something worth $5,000—which is less than making 1 sale a day & less than 4 sales a week.
Provide a small amount of value a lot of times.
Or you can sell 20,000 units of something worth $50—about 55 sales a day and 385 sales a week.
This is millionaire math.
When looking at the numbers, you realise that making $50 sales is less valuable, and a lot harder than making $5,000 sales.
The real question keeping you from doing so is asking yourself “What can I sell that’s valuable enough to validate such premium pricing?” And then figure out what it could be.
If nothing comes up yet, you can always work towards it.
There’s nothing wrong with making $50 sales.
But it’s all about the scale at which you can do things. This depends on the type of business you run and the type of offer you have.
$50 sales solve smaller, more accessible problems at scale (think digital products, physical products, subscriptions).
$5,000 sales usually solve bigger problems/provide transformational outcomes (think consulting & high-ticket services).
👞 Today’s Action Step:
Research 2–3 successful high-ticket offers in your field or niche and write down what makes their value stand out.
Answer these questions:
What do they sell? → To who? → Why are people willing to pay this price?
📖 Today’s Book Bit
MJ DeMarco
To get rich, you need to stop trading time for money and start solving problems at scale. The size of the problem you solve determines the size of your paycheck.
Book: The Millionaire Fastlane
Wealth is made by either having a big impact a few times or having a small impact a lot of times.
Big Impact (high value) = Premium pricing
Small impact (low value) = Regular pricing
Think about Spotify, you can use it for free with ads.
You can buy premium for $12/month, without ads and with audiobooks.
You can buy premium duo for $17/month, same benefits but for 2 people.
And you can buy premium family for $20/month, same benefits but for 6 people.
The subscription gets increasingly more expensive as value raises.
🚿 Today’s Shower Thought
If the value of your solution determines your income, then maybe wealth isn’t earned—it’s created every time you solve a problem someone else couldn’t.
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