How to become RICH?

While droves of individuals salivate over the ability to live, work and play anywhere in the world that they chose to, most are primarily fixated on the ability to just earn a bit of money online.

One stream of revenue would likely make the world of difference to many folks.

doing that seems to be an ever-increasing technical challenge.

So it isn't about getting rich for a large degree of people, but rather, finding a way to earn just a little bit more money without all the added time it might take.

As someone who's acutely interested in passive income and online marketing, I speak to a great deal of people who are successful, but rarely do I personally come across someone who's had such an immensely interesting journey that it screams attention.

While success is certainly alluring, most people don't have the wherewithal to suffer through such life-altering and suffocating failures, and to not only reemerge on the shores of hope, but to create a life of sheer and utter abundance in the process.

Today, not only do we live in an exhilarating time filled with endless possibilities thanks to technology that we once considered to live in the realm of science fiction, but it's also a period that's deeply steeped in the expectancy of instant and real-time returns. The truth is that you can't get rich overnight.

It takes hard work and effort. It takes persistence and massive amounts of action.

It takes seeing things through and pushing past failure, even as much as you want to give up and throw in that proverbial towel.

For that reason, the story of an iconic online marketing legend and founder of, Real Estate World Wide (REWW), Kent Clothier, is one of the most inspirational modern-day fables about, not just attaining wealth at the highest levels, but also in reinvention, revitalization and the ability to produce multiple streams of revenue even when you're emotionally and spiritually bankrupt.

This is an individual who played an integral role in building up a nearly $2-billion-dollar-per-year grocery-arbitrage business, but then walked away from it at 30-years old with no ownership retention.

With $2 million dollars still in the bank, he thought he was invincible. Fast forward 22 months later, and with just $4,000 left in his account, the walls were closing in on him.

I'm all-to familiar with that feeling of despair and anxiety, of sheer and utter pain and panic, that it really hit home for me, as I know it does for others.

The truth is that it's easy to make friends when you're riding high, but when you fall from grace and everyone around you disappears, you realize the importance of things like family and health over monetary achievements.

However, Clothier's tale is an epic one. He had succeeded almost his entire life, and from very early on.

But when failure hit home and he was unable to recreate his arbitrage business on his own, the reality of the situation sunk in. With $4,000 left to his name, he happened upon an infomercial teaching real estate.

It cost him $1,000 for that program, which was 25% of his net worth at the time. Petrified, he made the plunge.

Little did he know that it would be one of the best decisions that he had ever made in his life.

Before I dive further into Clothier's transformational story, I wanted to circle back to a very important concept that drives human behavior.

Years ago, Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, coined a concept called the psychic apparatus, the three-part behavioral mechanism that governs our minds.

The Id -- The id is the first part of the human mind that's formed. It's the basal and instinctive urges that drive us towards instant gratification, and it's hardwired into our genetic conditioning to eat, procreate and defecate, for example. The id creates the sudden urges of wanting what we want, and wanting it right now. Children are all born with the id until the other parts form, and if we were only left with the id, we would do, act, and say as we pleased all the time and anytime.

The Superego -- The superego is formed during the early parts of our lives and is created through parenting, community and societal beliefs and values. This is likened to the angel on the shoulder, so to speak, whereas the id is more like the devil.

For each person, the superego has a different (big or small) role in their lives.

The Ego -- Consider the ego as the referee between both the id and the superego.

The ego's job is to satisfy the id while also working within the confines of the superego.