The main reason for disappointment is expectation, and the main reason for power is money. What about you? What are you doing to make more money? Or are you just expecting life will give you a better treat one day?
Someone once said: We’re concerned about money to the extent that we don’t have it. Money is not important as long as you have enough, but who determines this “enough” is only you.
Define money: Money is the return of our production and service, and we in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others, right? It is a good estimate or measure of one’s own level of service, of one’s intellectual experience VALUE in the market.
Increasing your income comes greatly with increasing this value that your intellectual experience has, logically then, in order to increase your income, you would have to increase that amount of intellectual experience and then be able to sell it to your employer or client. So, the effort goes again into defining the “what” and the “how” to improve your skills, knowledge and abilities in order to make more use of them to make more money. It makes sense now how many people start and end their careers in the same positions, or the same income, and when asked, of course they blame the luck, destiny, fate or even the economical or political situation.
It never occurs to many people, throughout dozens of years, to simply ask themselves: “how much more do you want in order to live life the way you wanted?” I am talking money here, because as mentioned before, money is not important as long as you have enough, now you will have to define how much would be enough, to you, and that differs greatly from one person to another.
Failing to do so, people tend to live a whole life in a vicious circle of how much they spend versus how much they make; they tend to indulge in sweet instant loans and suffer for years to come paying them back. People tend to live a higher standard than they are worth, as capabilities, and thus suffer from the circumstances for life.
So Decide today: Take two different steps: First, decide how much money you really want (not need), the exact amount, and second, concentrate on improving what you do today. Decide on this years’ income, and how much you want to save or invest, how much you want as retirement income. Now work to match your level of service to that amount, work on a long term goal, and set short term objectives.
Improvement is a long, constant, and hard process, since it requires a lot of investment in time and effort on oneself. If you refer to any successful person, they would link money to investment, and link this investment directly to time, the most important asset that we all have.
We always wonder how those people become successful in no time, we suddenly watch them grow from below average to become wealthier, happier and more significant; how did they do it? Lucky ones. Its crystal clear to notice how they did it, and still are doing it, there’s a huge difference in the perspective of time between them and an average pal; while most of us spend hours watching TV, they would be spending the exact amount of time reading, practicing or developing a skill that they have.
The difference is the same if we calculate the amount of time spent by an average person playing a temper consuming game on the phone, one that is totally meaningless and useless, but fun, and another person also having fun playing a mind practicing game. The difference between a successful person and an average one is clear in the quality of the time spent, doing the same activity.
Just imagine the difference in spending the same amount of time and money, having coffee with a friend, the only difference is in the quality of the conversation: one gossiping about everyone at the office, and another having a quality conversation with an intellect about growth opportunities in the job. The decision on how we spend our time can make a great impact on our intellectual growth, health and wealth.
The amount of time spent is directly linked to either a great investment or great loss, there is no grey area here.
Please take a moment to jot down now, on a small piece of paper, the amount of time you spend daily on:
- Watching TV
- Social Media
- Gossip
- Playing mobile games
- Interacting on instant messengers
Now calculate the total time spent on the activities above, and multiply it by thirty, then by twelve; this is the amount of time you are losing per year, this amount can not be reimbursed, neither taken back. Imagine what you could do with the same amount of time, imagine what could even half of this amount give you in return if it was spent on acquiring new skills in your major, exercising, or even reading; where would that same amount of time position you today in expertise, shape, intellect, hence worth. Yes dear, time IS money.
And where’s all the fun if I spend all my time in that way then? You must be thinking. I fully agree that we all need some fun times, by all means, yet what I am trying to imply here is that you take control over your time spending, and decide as you wish on how to spend your time, when to invest and when to retreat, only then you’ll be able to have quality time in everything you do.
Luck might not work every time, but decisions constantly do.
