Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host,

whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 142 of the blog Millionaire.

In 1997, Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lecter published a book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Since then, it has sold over 32 million copies.

The book is essentially about Robert's two dads, his real dad who was poor, and the dad of his best friend,

who was rich. From these two dads, his experience about money was shaped.

I'm going to tell you the core principles that you need to know and how it relates to blogging.

So let's get into the first principle from rich dad,

poor dad. Number one, we must get out of the rat race to grow wealthy. The rat race is often seen

as an endless, pointless pursuit. It refers to a competitive struggle to get ahead financially.

This is usually in relation to a job or career, but it can also be a small business.

After not being able to do much of anything for many years because of my health disorder,

I finally became healthy enough to start my own business.

I rented out a small cubicle in an office and I began to work on building a marketing services

business. It didn't take long before I was in the rat race. Since I was the marketing and the sales

guy, I did not have the time to grow the business the way it needed to be grown.

I was essentially an employee where all of my clients were my bosses.

Even though the blog was clearly the wealth channel to pursue, it took me over three years until I finally said goodbye

forever to my marketing firm. The rat race has a way of holding on to you even when you have the

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