โ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐จ๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐๐, ๐จ๐ข๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐จ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ช๐ก๐๐ฉ๐, ๐ข๐ค๐๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ, ๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐จ ๐ ๐๐ก๐ก.โ – ๐ผ๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฉโ๐๐๐๐ช๐ก๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ก๐ (๐ฅ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ค๐ก๐ค๐๐ฎ)
Itโs a loose rule, not a law, but it applies to so many things: Debt, ambition, networking, exercise, caution, & money.
๐ ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ.
Yes, money is uniquely suited to removing the sources of unhappiness & allowing us to get down to the real business of living, but the exclusive lifetime pursuit of money is a dead end that too many people find out about too late.
When you focus on the money you miss the leverage of mindset hiding in plain sight.
Your mindset gets applied to life thousands of times a day. It’s at work in every interaction & every circumstance.
Sooner or later, you realize everything comes down to mindset.
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When you focus on what you can control, there is always an action you can take to put yourself in a better position.
โ When you focus on things you can’t control you tend to freeze, unsure of what to do & you wait.
Whatโs your mindset about money when you go to work?
And when you go & look at your portfolio?
Another thought experiment: Imagine you have a lifelong relationship with money – which you do – and therefore you go to relationship counseling with money to find insight & peace.
What would Money say about you in therapy & what would you say about Money?
โMoney can bring happiness but it also brings complexity, and complexity can quickly lead to unhappiness.โ โ Morgan Housel
โWhat making money will do is solve your money problems. It will remove a set of things that could get in the way of being happy, but it is not going to make you happy. I know many very wealthy people who are unhappy. Most of the time, the person you have to become to make money is a high-anxiety, high-stress, hard-working, competitive person. When you have done that for twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years, and you suddenly make money, you canโt turn it off. Youโve trained yourself to be a high-anxiety person. Then, you have to learn how to be happy.โ โ Naval Ravikant