The Mindset Shift From a 3-Figure Earner to a 4-Figure Earner

Per hour rate is a bad idea

David O.
The Startup
Published in
7 min readMar 3, 2020

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There is someone paid 10X your income to do the same thing you do.

If you are a 3-figure earner, this is so very true. And sometimes, there is no variation at all in what you do and what they do. In fact, you could be way better at it.

You might be thinking: who earns 3-figures per annum? Well, I am not talking about yearly pay. I am talking about how much you invoice your clients.

Maybe you make a total of 4-figures in a month but you have a lot of clients. This means you have several clients that pay you 3-figures. This is what I am talking about.

This is especially particular to freelancers and people with service businesses. There is a certain mindset that you have that makes clients keep working with you on the level of 3 figures. Maybe you have even tried to go 4 figures with a client and you meet insane resistance.

The problem you have is not your business, it is your mindset. This is why I opened with that thought. There are people earning 10 times your income doing the same thing you do.

The key is the mindset. For example, if you have already set in your mind that your job is a low-income job, there is no effort that will make you…

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David O.
The Startup

I investigate things and write about them. Mostly around wealth, money, rich people, career, and business success. Not financial advice