Google "investment calculator," plug in a $1,000 investment at 8% growth for 40 years, and see the magic unfold before you. Getting rich isn't just for a select, lucky few, but for everyone who takes advantages of what's around them. It starts by changing your mindset, determining your end goals, and leveraging your time, opportunities, and access into financial freedom.

1. Don't put limits on yourself. You don't need fancy credentials to be successful.
2. Adjust your mindset. This is an inevitability, not a faint possibility.
3. Take on an appropriate amount of risk!
4. Invest as early as possible and do so consistently over the course of your life.

It may take a few decades to get there, but hey, I'd rather be 65 and well off than 65 and broke because I was impatient, but that's just me.