From Zero to Millionaire Episode 19: One Income Stream Is Not Enough

# From Zero to Millionaire
## Episode 19: One Income Stream Is Not Enough

Hello.
I am Akihito Mima.

I am commonly known as Aki.

In Episode 18, I reviewed the career I had built over nearly 40 years.
Sales.

Education.

Seitai (bodywork).

Food and beverage.

Nursing care.

Business.

Health management.

Life counseling.

Every experience I thought was a detour could be turned into a product that helps someone.

When I realized that, I faced the next problem.
I can create products.

Sales are also being generated little by little.
But is it really okay to rely on just one product?

The answer came quickly.

One income stream is not enough.

If there is only one, the moment it stops, all income stops.
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Coconala's phone consultation service gave me my first sales.
Listening to worries that people cannot tell anyone else.

Without denying, without judging, without ending with empty platitudes, I face each person seriously.
It was a job where I could turn my life experience directly into value.

However, phone consultation has one limitation.
If the phone doesn't ring, no sales are generated.
I cannot accept consultations during times when I am unavailable.

There are days when I am not feeling well.

There are days when I am working and cannot be on standby.
There is also a limit to the number of people I can handle in a day.

Phone consultation was an important pillar.

But I could not entrust my entire livelihood to this one pillar alone.
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One day, there was a day when the phone did not ring even after waiting for a long time.
Yesterday, there was a consultation.

Today, there is none.
I don't know about tomorrow.

Even when I open the sales screen, the numbers are not moving.

While looking at that quiet screen, I thought.
On days when there are no consultations, my income becomes zero.

With this, even though it looks like I am running my own life, in reality, am I not just waiting for the phone to ring?
I needed to create income other than waiting.

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So, the next thing I thought of was article creation.

I was writing on NOTE every day.
Organizing my own experiences.

Thinking of words that reach the reader.

Creating titles.
Creating structures.

Creating covers.

Thinking about the flow so that it is read to the end.
By continuing every day, not only did I gain the power to write,

but I was also gradually acquiring the "power to turn people's experiences into articles."

If I can write my own articles, I might be able to help with someone else's.

If I can organize my own experiences, I might be able to organize the experiences of people who are struggling to put them into words.

I made NOTE article creation a new product.
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It is different from the consultation service.
In phone consultation, I face the other person during that time.

In article creation, I leave the received material as text.
Once delivered, that article has the potential to be read many times.

It is a job of creating text that works for a long time on behalf of the client.
Here, I realized that the same experience of "listening to stories" could be used for a different product.
In worry consultation, I listen to the other person's words until the end.

In article creation, I draw out what the other person really wants to convey.
Even if the form is different, what was needed was the same.

Understanding the other person.

Receiving things that have not been put into words.
And changing them into a form that conveys.

My past experiences began to become a new pillar of income.

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Furthermore, I reviewed my experience of dealing with diabetes.

Blood sugar levels.

Diet.

Exercise.

Insulin.

Hypoglycemia.
Hyperglycemia.

Hospitalization.

Rebuilding life.

I did not learn this just from a desk.
I have faced it every day with my own body.

Of course, I cannot replace a doctor.
I cannot decide on treatments.

But,
I can listen to people who have the same anxieties.

I can tell them what mistakes I made.

I can talk about what I devised to keep going.

I can empathize with the pain of managing it alone.
If it is in that form, I might be able to use my own experience.

I began to think of health-related outreach and support as a new pillar.
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I also had experience in bodywork.
It is the experience of touching bodies and dealing with pain and fatigue.

Not just online, I can also do the job of actually going to people and adjusting their bodies.
Days for writing articles.

Days for receiving consultations.
Days for visiting and providing body care.
Each is a different job.

But they were all born from things I had experienced.
I did not increase jobs that were completely unrelated.

I was delivering the experiences within the person named Aki in different forms.
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In this way, multiple entrances to my income were created little by little.
Worry consultation.

Article creation.

Health-related outreach and support.

Body care.
Connections with readers born from NOTE.

Each one is not yet a large pillar.
They are thin pillars.

There are days with no sales.

There are times when requests do not continue.
But it was different from when there was only one.

On days when there are no consultations, a request for article creation might come in.

On days when there is no article creation, there might be body care work.

Even if there are no sales that day, a NOTE article might bring in future customers.

Even if one stops, not everything stops.

This sense of security was greater than I had imagined.

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However, it is not just about increasing products.

I also made another mistake there.

I want sales.
I want to increase pillars.

Because I thought that way, I tried to turn things I thought of into products one after another.
But if you increase them too much, people won't know what you do.

I do consultations.
I write articles.

I adjust bodies.

I talk about health.

I can do anything.

Just with that, it becomes harder to choose.

I realized that increasing products and becoming a jack-of-all-trades are different.

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What was needed was to decide on the center of all products.
What do I want to deliver?

For what purpose do I do these jobs?
What remained after thinking was,
"To be a force for people who want to rebuild their lives."

Worry consultation is to organize the heart.

Article creation is to give form to thoughts that cannot be put into words.

Health support is to rebuild the body and life.
Body care is to create a state where one can move.

Even if the products are different, the direction they are facing was the same.
I use my experience to help people take their next step.
When I placed that at the center, the scattered products were connected into one.

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Now that I have become a millionaire, I understand.

What is important when increasing income streams is not just the number.

It is to generate multiple values from the same trust.

It is not about dabbling in completely unknown fields one after another.
It is about turning your strengths into products in different forms.

The power to listen.
The power to convey.

The power to teach.
The power to face the body.

The power to organize experience.

Deliver each to those who need it.
If you do that, one experience will generate multiple incomes.

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I also thought about connecting products to each other, rather than just selling one product and ending it.

People who read NOTE articles learn about worry consultation.

People who consulted learn about article creation work.

People who read health articles learn about continuous support.

People who received body care learn about my other activities.
I don't force sales.

I let them know there is another entrance when they need it.

Even just that means the connection with one person does not end at once.

One product sells the next product.

One article leads to multiple jobs.

Little by little, I began to think of income as a surface rather than a point.
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Until then, I felt relieved every time I made a sale and anxious every time I didn't.
If one comes in, I rejoice.

If there is nothing, I get depressed.
But when the pillars increased, my perspective changed.

There were zero consultations today.
But I wrote one article.

That article might create future sales.
There were no requests for article creation today.

But I improved the product page.

That might lead to the next request.
A sense of growing multiple pillars was born, not just looking at the sales in front of me.

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Of course, as you increase pillars, management also becomes necessary.

Which product has a reaction?

Which product takes time?

Which one leaves a profit?
Which one suits me?

Which one do I want to continue?
I did not treat everything the same.

Grow the ones with reactions.

Fix the ones with weak reactions.

Review the ones that take too much time.

Concentrate on the ones where my strengths shine.

It was necessary not only to create pillars but also to choose them.

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As income streams increased little by little, changes began to appear in the sales figures.

100 yen.
1000 yen.
Several thousand yen.

Sales that were one by one began to come in from other products as well.

It is not a large amount.
But money that only came from one place began to come from multiple places.

This was a big change for me.

It is not about making 10,000 yen from just one product.
3,000 yen from consultation.

5,000 yen from article creation.

2,000 yen from another job.

If you add them up, it becomes 10,000 yen.

For the first time, I had the feeling that "even if you don't earn a lot from one thing, you can reach your goal if you stack up multiple things."
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Akihito Mima.
Commonly known as Aki.

Episode 19 of the man who went from zero to millionaire.
I began to increase my income streams.

Worry consultation.
Article creation.

Health experience.
Body care.

Outreach via NOTE.
I created a form where even if one stops, not everything stops.
Each was still a thin pillar.

But with multiple pillars standing, sales began to stabilize little by little.
It is not about waiting for one big pillar.

Create many small pillars from your own experience.

And make the growing pillars thicker.

That way of thinking moved my income to the next stage.
Next time, Episode 20.

"The Day I Saw 100,000 Yen a Month"
Sales that were one by one.

Scattered products.
Multiple thin pillars.

Beyond stacking those up, realistic numbers begin to appear for the first time.
From zero to millionaire.

The next step was the first big goal of 100,000 yen a month.

*This article was written by AI based on my information.