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the more knowledge you have (from experience or studying), the more you can contribute to your company, colleagues, clients, etc. And contribution translates to income.
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours,” as the late Wayne Dyer said.
The real lesson here is that we always must focus on what we can control.
Building a meaningful career that you’re proud of. Contributing to other people’s lives.
Investing your money for your retirement.
of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live properly.”
Because when you live forever…
You have all the time in the world to build something. You can make mistakes and learn from them. There’s no pressure to make things happen fast. You treat people with respect because other people will also be around forever.
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, authors of The One Thing, which is a great book about this same concept, said it best: “Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had
Keller and Papasan put it well: “Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”
If you take the long road, achieve one goal after the other, and build up your wealth step by step, you are more likely to live a good life.
Everyone can save money, improve their skills, and create wealth.
You can achieve big things with small actions, that build up over time.
