“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
― Warren Buffett
Your Best Investment
At a young age, I invested in myself in the form of formal education.
I started kindergarten at age four, then I move up to elementary school, followed by middle school, high school, and college.
After graduating from college, I stopped my formal education career and joined the...
“The things you own end up owning you.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn
Own Less and Live More
Back in 2015, I discovered minimalism. Ever since then, my life has been much simpler living only with the essentials.
This translated to moving into a smaller place and removing things that no longer add value to my life. They included:
Dining table
Television
...
“A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw
The Two Types of Mindset
Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset?
If you have a fixed mindset, then you feel comfortable and don't want to improve yourself...
“Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Rohn
Committed Dedication
When I wanted to permanently change my health and body, I had the main focus of getting six-pack abs. Because I thought by achieving that, I would have reached the pinnacle of having a perfect body.
Fueled with a burning desire to start, I watched...
“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
Money in modern society is a unit of trade.
And having money allows you to make purchases you need for survival and wants for enjoyment.
Because of those reasons, money plays an important role in your life. It is also one...
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."
― Chris Grosser
You Are Dispensable
Throughout my professional career, I have experienced major structural changes in two separate companies. Both times, the shift in the organization’s direction caused a dramatic reduction in cost. This meant cutting their staff members.
And fortunately both times, I was retained. However, it was difficult to see my colleagues with who...
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein
Start with a Strong Purpose
Imagine two men's goals are to lose weight. Let’s call them Tom and Joe.
Tom’s reason is to have an aesthetic body while Joe wants to feel energetic and prolong his life.
Two months later, Tom gives up...
“True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein
Adopt the Abundance Mindset
The definition of the abundance mindset is knowing there are enough resources to go around for everyone. As pleasant as it sounds, it’s difficult to believe there’s an abundant amount of things (opportunities, money, food, etc) in the world for all.
Hence, it’s...
“Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.”
― M.J. DeMarco
The Law of Effection
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having a job and working for one company to create money. However, by doing so, my scale of impact will be limited.
Providing service for a single organization, my quantity of magnitude is fixed to one....
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
― Henry David Thoreau
The First Indication of Wealth
When I began working at my first engineering job after graduation, I dedicated my whole life to it. To make a positive first impression, I went to work at 8 a.m. and didn’t leave until well after 6 p.m. Many days, I would skip lunch just...