What Does Turning Pro Truly Mean?

Answer: It means making $1 is easier than making one million dollars; yet you've just turned pro. Let me explain.

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If you make $1 from any business activity it is no longer a hobby. If you make no money from something; let's say you're knitting, writing, blogging or going online and marketing, but you haven't made any money, and therefore you are an amateur.

An amateur can mean something good or bad, but at the same time whether it's good or bad doesn't matter. You haven't made any money so you haven't turned pro. You're a hobbyist, you haven't turned pro. You may be able to offset some of those expenses for tax reasons, because you have the intention of making $1 or turning pro.

In the United States the IRS feels that's a good enough reason to write off expenses. If you intend to make a profit, but if you make zero money you haven't turned pro. The amount of money you have to make to turn pro in my opinion is $1.

I want you to visually and mentally imagine a horizontal bar or (x) axis. It's going from left to right, so in your mind's eye look at it from the very left at the starting point and that's called the idea. Let's say it goes 12 inches across and it's the size of a ruler.

Now imagine from idea, which is at the very beginning of the ruler in U.S. terms in zero inches to $1 going to the right along the continuum is about eight inches. Eight-twelfths or four-sixths or two-thirds of the energy from idea to turning pro is making that first dollar.

All the systems that had to be put into place, all the bandwidth that's necessary, to teams, everything that needs to happen for you to make that $1 requires a lot of energy. In my opinion, if you had a ruler in front of you; from idea to $1, turning pro takes about eight inches of the ruler's 12.

From inch eight to inch twelve that's the difference between $1 and one million dollars. Most people shoot for the million dollars; how to become a millionaire is said most often. That to me isn't what I shoot for. My goal is to turn pro. My goal is to make $1 from any business activity and that should also be your goal.

If there were any should in this training that would be it. Turning pro is making your first dollar. And you want to make your first dollar the fastest, because it's the most confidence-inducing activity in the world. It takes largely two-thirds; at least half of all your energy to go from idea to $1. It only takes another third to go from $1 to a million.

This is my experience and what I know to be true. I hope you'll follow my advice.

What does it mean to turn pro? It means to make $1 in any business activity and you've just been converted from an amateur to a professional.