Some people make money. Loral Langemeier makes millionaires. She’s the founder and CEO of Live Out Loud, a mentoring program that helps thousands find wealth, and she’s the author of “The Millionaire Maker” series, including “The Millionaire Maker: Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do”. Loral was also a contributor to the highly successful book and film, “The Secret”.

Loral Langemeier is a very passionate person. She has a passion for teaching, money, people, sports, wine, play, dinner parties, and fun. Everything around her is her passion. Loral grew up on a farm in Nebraska where it wasn’t polite to ask for money. Today, she teaches other people how to ask for money, though, and some of them become millionaires.

Loral believes that you can turn anything into a profitable business. She sees people every day who perform services for free. Can you write? Why not get paid for it? Can you paint? Why not charge people for murals in children’s rooms? Can you drive? Why not run errands for people who are unable or too busy to do it themselves?

Loral became a millionaire in her 30’s after starting her own business as a teenager. How? Plain and simple: she asked for money. One of her passions had always been sports and fitness, so she decided to become a personal trainer. In college, she taught her friends how to host aerobic workout sessions.

Those aerobics classes led to a business in which she found the clients, and other people did the work. It led her to the Chevron Corporation in which she was handed a multi-million dollar contract to set up fitness centers on offshore oil rigs. Obviously she couldn’t handle over 200 oil rigs by herself, so her company grew by leaps and bounds very quickly.

Loral Langemeier’s motto might sound something like, “Strengthen Your Strengths, and Hire Your Weaknesses.” In other words, don’t waste your time. Building a very successful business requires you to hit the ground running. You can’t do that if you’re bogged down in the details because you don’t know what you’re doing.

Of course, not everyone can hire a full staff in the beginning. It’s important to start with a couple of key people who can multi-task or work seasonally. That means that someone who failed math three times should hire an accountant. Someone who knows nothing about advertising should hire a marketing manager. Most importantly, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth being paid well to do it. It won’t take long before you can afford a full staff.

Not getting bogged down in the details doesn’t only apply to your business. It also applies to your life. People are into so many little things these days that they don’t have time to breathe. Cut out the things that aren’t essential or that can be handled by someone else. Focus on your business so that you can get out of the rat race to free up time with your family.