This article discusses another lesson I’ve learned about personal financial growth and passive income: making time your friend. Time works like the process of making wine: you put in the grapes, wait patiently, and eventually it yields a delicious result.
When I had the opportunity to come to Australia before COVID-19, I sometimes lamented my strange fate. When I came to Australia, I slowed down and gradually gained insight into my heart. The whole process happened slowly until I had a sense of knowing myself, who I am.
Let’s talk about love first
The following is from other blogs that seem to understand the meaning of time from love.
I once had a conversation with my wife about divorce, and she said she was afraid of growing old and that one day I wouldn’t love her enough to divorce her. I answered her this way: it is not difficult to find a woman who is more beautiful, youthful and even gentler than you, but it is difficult to find a person who has a common memory. My understanding of love is not a brief moment of heartfelt emotion, and there is only one factor that can measure the thickness of love: time. From the age of 26, the best ten years of my life is spent with you, together rented a room, embarrassed, seen the sea, had a baby, these things are with how much money can never buy, you can only save a minute by minute. I would never be so stupid as to zero out my memories and start saving all over again with another woman, even if she is a heavenly fairy.
Even if love eventually turns into affection, I don’t think it’s a big deal. How many real affectionate relationships can a person have in their life? What’s wrong with having one more? Or rather, affection is the best place for love, just like rice brewed into wine, more fragrant.
Relying on others
In the past, I always liked to chat with friends around me about startup ideas, trying to get recognition and collect reference suggestions. But found that this is impossible and extremely inefficient, it is difficult to find people at the same level, and even if there are, because of different family backgrounds and resources lead to different personalities, so their feedback is almost ineffective. And this feedback can’t work for you either.
The only way to solve this problem is to explore on your own, and in the slow exploration, you will gradually form your own judgment. This also proves that “rely on yourself”. Ultimately, only you can solve your own problems.
Breaking the rules to get
No one’s growth and discovery is linear. My story of living in a car to try to save money, only to realise I ended up losing more, is a perfect example.
Business is chaotic and confusing. It’s the norm and it always has been.
Relying on others and hoping to break rules is the original sin of growth that cannot be crossed.
The wisdom of living with time
In learning about investing, I’ve realised that living with time requires a lot of wisdom.
Short-term pessimism and long-term optimism are foundational principles. Short-term pessimism allows me to become calmer and more realistic in my assessment of risk. Long-term optimism brings me the inner strength that is so important throughout life’s journey when there is so much suffering to overcome.
Wealth is a validation of perception of the world, a form of feedback. People give you money in exchange for the value you provide, and it is also a measure of value.
Start with the basics, start with the simple, start with breaking out of the self-justifying self-enclosed framework.
Passive income, 5-year horizon
Passive income is a friend of time. Gradually increase your passive income, and you will enjoy a more relaxed and balanced life.
A well-known investor once said that you should make decisions with a five-year horizon — don’t focus on the short term. Always ask yourself: what will this look like in five years? This kind of long-term thinking helps push you to start learning about passive income, because no matter the form — whether it’s stocks, real estate, or something else — passive income only truly works over the long run.
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