Things are not going smoothly, never were, and will never be

It’s always interesting for me to look at one person based on his background and what he exactly wants from his life. From what I’ve seen so far, most people want safety. Safety for their family, safety for their money, safety for their love story, and safety for everything. If you ask me, this kind of people are losers. They are afraid to lose, they don’t live to win. They work for others because it provides certainty for them. They get the same amount of money every month, they pay the same amount of rent every month, and they go to the same place everyday.

Sometimes, entrepreneurs also do the same thing. They chase the same market, they don’t want to sacrifice their primary business model, and they only work in one niche simply because they know it’s where they good at. Even though one day they grow in terms of earning, but basically they don’t grow as a human being. They keep the same habits for years. They may be having a successful career but what’s the point if what they do is just go to the same place everyday to work, go back home at 5, have fun with family until 10, and make new plans for tomorrow’s work, and go to sleep?

Well, as an entrepreneur and investor in various sectors, I know what “lose” is. But I probably would never know what “win” is if I was only trying to not lose. I learn from my horror stories. I lost all of the money in my saving account back then in 2005 when I was only 18. But if I never lost the money, probably I would never had a thought to start an online business with $10. Same story with my investments. If I never lost a single cent in my first investment, probably I would stay investing in low or medium risk businesses and would never try to learn risk management. There are lots of ways to learn how to make money but in the end the most valuable lesson is experience. You learn from your good stories but  you learn and motivate yourself from the bad ones.

Unfortunately,things are not going smoothly, never were, and will never be. When you were 16-18, probably you have a dream to stop working before you get old and enjoy your life. I had a dream to stop working and made enormous amount of money before I turn 30. But things are not as simple as that. New problems will always come to your door everyday and it changes how you think about yourself. A regular employee probably had a dream to make $10,000 a month. But once he becomes a CEO, he would want to make $1,000,000 a month. And once his company grows much bigger than that, he would want to make a lot more.

This is normal but sometimes we don’t realize these things consume us and our time. In the end, it’s not about “I want safety” or “I want to make money passively” anymore. In the end, you are just trapped in that kind of life. The question is, do you live to not lose or to win? Well, I chose the second path since 2 years ago.

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