Ideas help: I need 10 Million Dollars - Any ideas on how to obtain this amount? - Help.com

Nante wrote:
Umm write a really good movie script?

As it turns out, writing words and music are skills that I possess to a certain extent. Still, not even a hit song or book would put the required amount in my pocket. Would a movie script?

Råymond wrote:

After making fairly detailed calculations of upcoming expenses

Mind if I ask what you’re spending 9.3 million dollars on?

An average home where I live is $750,000. I need to help my family to the tune of $500,000 (minimum). I have special needs that mean I need $100,000 per year to live and I hope to live another 30 years. These needs mean that I must not spend another winter in the cold, so I need another residence in a more hospitable climate (it gets to minus 40 here). Taxes here are about 50%, so the $3 million to live for 30 years goes up to $6,000,000 and likewise the price of property etc. is double. The $750,000 house is now 1.5 million before taxes. You get the idea. Above is 8.5 million and I have even more expenses.

spiritedsoul wrote:
once u have figured out a successful way to get that much let me know please!!!!

Of course, I would but I am hoping to work this out right here and now. I do NOT have a good answer for raising the 10 million, that is why I am asking on help.com. It has to be legal, moral, and generate nuetral to good karma. Any ideas?

kiss-my-sas wrote:
Set up an event where you do a sponsored dance or something. You just set up a track of music and get people to pay a reasonable amount to enter and dance.

Interesting. Would I put my own songs (instrumental only) into the mix? More to the point, to gross 10 Million, I would have to charge 10,000 people $1000 each or 100,000 people $100 each - and that is BEFORE expenses. Still, your idea has merit, as does the movie screenplay idea. Can anyone expand on these or offer new suggestions for generating the 10 Million NET?

I will, of course, share…(the idea(s))

foundatio, I briefly checked out your site. It is something that I will look at in greater detail as time permits. Having Donald Trump’s face up there is a real hook. Still, any other ideas for generating the 10 million?

michael143 wrote:
I am just curious what happened did you ever raise the money that you were looking for. It seems to me that it is quite possible that you could raise the money you need …He is generous and kind. Giving and would take the shirt off his back and give it too you. One day I will tell you about him. You will understand the difference between what you are and the type of person he is. His life is a movie a story of love affection and one of great admiration. If I had the money that he needed I would give it to him.

I am not asking for money, just ideas on how to go about raising/earning $10,000,000. Why 10 million? Because that is the amount I need. I sat down and crunched the hard numbers. Some of it is for my use directly, but much of it is money that I need to distribute to others, some of whom need money but are too old or sick to earn it. The clock is ticking with some of the folk I wish to distribute some of the cash to. I am not asking, but I certainly would not turn it down if someone wanted to give me the whole 10 million (or even parts there of).

Of course, I realize that the clock is ticking for everyone on this earth and that 10 million means a lot to most, but to some it is just a minor amount. Take a Billionaire (the NEW Millionaire), even if they just squeaked over the billion mark, 10 million is only 1/100th of the cash they have. You cannot take it with you and I suspect that there are some extremely wealthy folk out there who will wind up donating there cash to the government when they leave this earth (for lack of a suitable will or heir). Most governments could lose a billion dollars and not even realize it - so it is unlikely that it will be appreciated.

So, since you mention it, WHY NOT? Sure, could someone please give me 10 million dollars? I would greatly appreciate it and I would make **** sure that your time on this planet would be KNOWN.

I have worked very hard all of my life. I am intelligent and creative. I have meditated regularly for 25 years now. I have employed “The Secret” for that long as well. I pray. I am open-minded. Still, here I sit with very little resources. By all accounts, I should have that 10 million sitting in my bank account and ready to be used to help myself and others (mostly family).

I can’t even say it is God punishing me for being gay. I am past THAT guilt trip. By the way, raising the 10 million is not even my number one goal. I have a personal problem or two that I would consider to be worth even more (to solve). Although $$$ could help me to solutions in those areas of my life as well.

Not to rant on this but if you think about how absurd the concept of MONEY really is, you might laugh (or cry). Someone is randomly born into a family that is poor or a family that is rich. Some obscenely rich, when you consider how devastatingly poor some are, the word obscene is apt. Random. I went into business with two partners but had to back out of it early to take care of a life partner who was sick - five years later; they are approximately at that 10 million mark. If my life partner did not get sick, I would be in the same 10 million net worth position that they are in. Random. They did not have to take care of someone so they could afford to quit their jobs and live on savings etc. until the business started to pay them a living wage. Random. My neighbor and his wife won 11 million in a lottery. Random. Not positive thinking. Not meditation. Not hard work. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Just plain randomness as far as I can see.

So, enough free associative thinking/writing. My question remains: Does anyone know how I can earn/raise/get 10 million dollars within the next few months? Your input will be greatly appreciated.

Well, how long has it been? A year? Somewhere around there. Is it possible to raise the 10 Million USD? The short answer is YES!

Excuse my long ramble. It is late, I am tired, and I have a lot on my mind, if you read on, your gonna get a sense of it, thats for sure.

Thanks to someone who asked me not to identify them, neither real name nor alias, I was instantly put on the right track. Not too many people have a benifactor to the tune of 10 mil, maybe none - on the other hand, 10 million is like a drop in the bucket for many many people in this world (thats USD). Well, my benifactor could have handed that amount of cash over without negatively impacting their life AT ALL, but, as I came to realize, the corresponding self esteem of “making that money” is something that is very important (along with the other positive boosts to your emotional psych). If I won a lottery for 10 million, I know I would not value that money as much as if I earned it in a more traditional manner - through work, talent, and luck. One exception would be if you are ill and have an appointment with the terminator - in that case, you need the money NOW so that you can experience some fantastic things before you are overcome by illness. It may even help you resist whatever the terminal disease is that you are fighting through better medical care, better location, better outlook, and other benifets. BTW - but I can tell you with absolute certainty, your bank account will not matter to you in those last days and hours of your life - when you know the end is near (even the funeral expenses will not bother you in those last hours). Okay, maybe if you have kids that are dependant on having some cash to live and you were the only provider, maybe then you will take that to the grave with you - I dont know.

Some interesting letters back and forth, followed by more, followed by telephone conversations, followed by the fateful meeting which I might have blown off, as it was inconvenient and despite all assurances and evidence to the contrary, I was always looking to get the metaphorical (or real) “knife in the back”.

The money did not come from my benifactor, at least, most of if did not. Still, I guess it was a substancial amount. What it enabled me to do, with constant coaching and someone who really believed in me, was to recognize my talent(s) and put effort in exactly the right place where it had maximum impact. Total focus may be the best way to think of it. 100% commitment helped. Luck definitely came in to play. Coming out of my shell and attending functions that I NEVER would have previously and almost found unbearable at first. Forcing myself to meet people, who knew people, who wanted desperately what I had to offer. They wanted it more than even I wanted what I wanted. Soon, I was actually helping these “new contacts” get what they wanted for prices they found to be “outstandingly under-valued”. It was difficult to make the decision to actually believe in myself enough to accept the situation. I did. I went for it. It was a blitz.

Now, thanks to my benifactor, I have come to a good percentage of my goal and the anticipate attaining it within another year or so. Already I have begun to pay my debts, and have helped many people - those family and friends that I intimately knew needed the help. People that I KNOW were not scamming me. Easy to find. In the future, if things keep going, it will be harder to sort out the “good” from the scammers, but I believe that one on one assistance is about the most rewarding thing in the world. It is such a rush! Now, or soon to now, with me not having to worry about the $$ future of my family and loved ones, I can allow myself to sink into the life I always wanted without angst about the future (lets face it, money fears, fears of running out of it are very real to those, like me, who have actually ran out of it. To go from one who either provided for themselves always and even was able to be a provider to one who needs $$$ help is a horrible place to be. It is so difficult to admit that you even need help. I could not really. I was ashamed. I had to broadly present my circumstance without letting anyone know just how truly “up the creek” I was. I sure hope those I gave money to in the past did not feel the way I did, but I guess they must have.

Yes, one of the not to secret secrets of life is that it is MUCH MUCH funner to give than it is to receive - getting to the point where you can be on the giving end is a worthy goal. I believe in the term “cash flow” - cash should always flow.

..wait, I have more to say…

If someone mentions that it is better to give emotional support or similar, that may be true in some circumstances, when the support actually makes a difference. But I was actually on the giving end of that for a long long time and I never seemed to get any of it back when I needed it. At least not from the people I helped in that way, there family, nor there friends - in fact, I had my life forced drained by the experience. It was one-way. I guess I was the stranger who gave and gave and in the end, only the recipient knew how much I had given, and that recipient died. Try providing daily emotional and health support and care to someone for 8 years and have them give up on you and die. Its like being slapped up the side of your head a million times with a million pound wrecking ball, it still goes on years later but to a much lessor extent.

I got that off my chest whew!

Wait, there is more.

Well, to those of you who give and give and give and when it is time for you to get a little, you dont, and are never appreciated, and perhaps somehow maybe even vilified by other so-called loved ones that show up during the last hours. To those of you I have to say - I hope you realize that the phrase “unsung hero” truly does apply to you. Perhaps the word “sucker” does as well, but I don’t think that these type of people let that bother them. Not for long. They shrug it off and do what it is that they have determined to be their duty. To the bitter end.

Do you think that “…in richness and poorness, in health and sickness, till death do you part…” has a place in this world? What if your partner is being treated with drugs that make him or her NASTY in many ways? What if the illness and drugs change the personality of your loved one for the worse? So much so that friends and other family “drop away” - not being able to handle a personality change on top of gripes about pain, sadness, and the “why me attitude” that occurs in many cases. What if there was some betrayal of those vows by your ill partner? Do vows mean anything in that case?