So how do you make a million? This is a question that many people find very difficult to answer and it is! It’s a question that has been daunting me for years and years and I never got to any single solid answer. An answer that you can apply anywhere and guaranteed to work 100%. Well my friend our quest starts here.

Day One
After attending Tim Bennett of Millionaire Anonymous seminar, we guys gave it a shot. The requirement is “just” to make a million from zero. how you get it is completely up to you. Of course you can’t do any illegal stuff because dirty money is never worth it. Remember the money you took from your parents’ drawer without asking permission? Well, it’s going to bite you back in one way or another. And here’s what happens, when you get a small money that way, you tend to get big money at the same way and I tell you, nobody is going to do business with you (well, i won’t). So the premise is it should be legal, moral and ethical. And you can’t sell anything that you currently own, you can’t ask from your parents, etc. So it will simply be zero to a million.
So where do we start? When you have nothing, you start small. Do you think one peso would be hard to produce? Of course not! (But I will take that back later on as you will read a little bit later). So we start there. But to make things harder a little bit, i made a twist. You see I’ve always believed that money will never be given to you freely, there should be something in exchange for that. So what do I have at this very moment that people will give me one peso for? I’m not really sure so I tried to find out.
The Hard Part
Remember when I said ‘Of course not!’? Well, I’m taking it back… I said to myself, how in the world are you suppose to get a peso from somebody if you don’t look like you need it? I was dressed casually in Makati streets trying to figure out they’d believe me. I found a woman passing by and I told her ‘Miss, can do anything for you just for one peso’? She told me she was busy and have no time for this. So I said ok but in my head i was yelling ‘how can you make this work?! you are on your quest to a million and you have a problem getting a peso?!’, but I said, ‘Ok Hermie let’s try again’. I went pass to a car which has a driver in it and an open window. But right before I was about to ask, something pulled my legs and I went straight passing him and I told myself, ‘this is really embarrassing, why am I doing this? I could easily earn a thousand a day but I’m having problems generating one peso’. But I went anyway (and by then i really felt more stupid because he has seen me almost stop there and walk away) with the same lines and he went, ‘No I don’t have time for that, I’m just waiting for somebody’. I said to myself, ‘ok Hermie, there must be something wrong with how you do it’, by this time i was already sweating because it’s pass 10am and the sun is really killing me. What am i doing wrong? Well, there’s nothing wrong with what I’m doing but there’s probably something wrong in how I present it. People tend to put you away when you don’t have any story. So to make up for it, I invented a story, my story.
What’s Your Story
‘Hello, good morning, I’m Hermie, a psychology student trying to make an experiment on how people value services, what can i do for you in exchange of one peso?’ For the first time, a security guard that i’m talking to thought for a while. I said to myself, ‘what a success, now people are trying to think rather than putting you away’ Then the security guard said, you could’ve brought me medicine but somebody came before you and did it for me, do you know him? ‘Oh my god, somebody else came before me and did the same thing and got the one peso, i must be on the right track!’. So i hurried and went to the next guy I could see across the street.
There where two guys talking and laughing over a conversation so I went in and did the same line (notice that my this time, i wasn’t ashamed because i knew i had a story i could sell). They thought for a while like three minutes and they said, why not give your opinion about the ZTE scandal? (Ok, my answer was completely my opinion and I don’t want it shared here because it’s not in any way going to get us to a million, believe me) So i told my opinion and they gave me 5 pesos. By this time i felt weird, why would somebody pay me for my opinion, for talking crap for 3 mins? The it hit me, editorial pages in the newspaper, showbiz magazines, tabloids, all of these make money just posting their opinion on something… Hmm, I wonder what else can they pay me for.
It Becomes Easy
Second one told me to buy bottled water that was just at their back! I didn’t have move my legs that much, but you see how people use their money? They’ll pay you 4 pesos just because their too lazy to stand up (hmm, what other things are people lazy with?). Third one told me to sweep their area but here they where so embarrassed for letting me sweep the floor. Well, it’s because of how i dress up but the thing is, I was embarrassed to ask for money on the first time, now they are embarrassed to have you do your job. By this time I’m thinking people are really weird. They didn’t want me to finish the other half and just give me the 5 pesos, but i did it anyway because that’s the service you promised to give, and i believe you should give it 100% because it’s the only way to have return customers. Fourth one just gave it as donation, and I accepted it whole-heartedly because I was getting tired for walking.
By this time I had, 16 pesos all in all for 2 hours of work. And i tell you it’s going to get boring. When you passed through the shyness stage, creating small money becomes easy so you eventually want to increase it in a way that doesn’t tire you so much. But what can you do with 16 pesos? you can’t do trade at this moment (you don’t have enough to sell anything worth buying), so I went back to Tim and found my team mates there.
Brainstorming
One of Tim’s stories inspired us where you can get money… Advertisements… Well, where are you going to have people advertise with you with just 16 pesos per person (and Robin had 3 pesos, he never passed through the shy stage by this time). We can’t think of anything free but the Internet… Thus we have this blog.
About This Blog
Well, we thought of, ‘hey, if other people are getting money from this talking crap, why can’t we’? Well, we do not intend to sell crap here, what we sell is our story and our quest to a million pesos, so far (and I’m really hoping), advertisements would come in and fill our humble pockets with cash to get us to the next level.

So what’s the plan after this? That one we will be discussing on our next blog entry…