Route to Financial Independence

Friday, October 13, 2023

30 Tips for a Minimalist Life

1. Making money is the most effective way to protect yourself and those around you.

2. Don't look down on anyone. Many people who wear slippers may be millionaires.

3. People who suffer the most are often the most sober.

4. Broken love is not terrible; it is just paving the way for the arrival of true love.

5. For ordinary people with no background and no resources, insisting on doing one thing can make you surpass 90% of your peers.

Singing, painting, writing, design, etc., find a hobby that you can stick to for more than 10 years, and keep cultivating. There may be no improvement in the first two years. After 5 years, you will get a huge return. After 10 years, you can put this Do things to the extreme, surpassing the lives and achievements of 90% of your peers.

6. Action is the best way to improve your personality. You may not be able to see anything for a few days, but after a few years, your enthusiasm will spread to a certain extent, and many people will be willing to work hard with you.

7. There are four things in life that you must never do: Don't just take the easy road; Don't try to change others; Don't dare to start because you are afraid of failure; Never have a temper that is greater than your ability.

8. Don't let yourself stop for a long time. Once you get used to being comfortable, you will lose the ability to seek change and eventually become a person abandoned by the times.

9. Wealth is conserved, and the amount of money you make is positively related to the value you provide.

10. It is easy to give up, but it must be cool to persist. Fate will fail a person who works hard, but never fail a person who has been working hard. Treat yourself better, and be cruel to yourself.

11. The easy way is downhill.

12. It's not that you can't find love, but you can't hold on to love. until you think your love is not the love of your life.

13. Reading a book does not change, but if you keep reading, there will be. Reading is not for eloquence, nor for superiority, but for maintaining independent thinking and keeping a sober mind in a noisy world.

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14. Adults can choose to do anything, this is your freedom. Provided that, to think clearly whether you can bear the consequences and the price.

15. True self-confidence comes from fully accepting yourself. otherwise, you will only admire the strong and despise the weak.

16. Salary is always linked to authority. Talking to the leader about salary increase is worse than increasing authority.

17. The horoscope of interpersonal communication: ignore prejudice and stay away from prejudice. People who have prejudice against you, no matter what you do or say, he will oppose you. To avoid these troubles, not explaining or arguing is the best counterattack.

18. In the face of small groups, a neutral relationship is the safest. Don't rush to stand in line, neither good nor bad to people. Because a small group formed for the purpose of isolation will inevitably split again for the purpose of isolation.

If you support him to isolate others today, tomorrow he may unite with others and begin to isolate you. This is due to human nature.

19. In the implementation stage, I am most afraid of having scruples. Just do the planned things, don't always think about it, waste time and torture yourself.

20. People with high emotional intelligence never deliberately please others, but always please themselves.

21. Never lie to yourself. It is much easier to deceive yourself than to deceive others, but it is much more difficult to wake yourself up than to wake up others.

22. The most cost-effective business is to invest in yourself. A shrewd person spends money to improve, but a foolish person only spends money to enjoy, and sit back and eat.

23. To maintain lifelong learning, don't stand still. When the times abandon you, they won't say goodbye to you. If you don't make progress, it is the biggest regression.

24. You try your best to run forward, not to change the world, but to not be abandoned by the world.

25. Be yourself. You can become someone in one day. Everyone is born an original, don't let yourself live as a pirated version.

26. Don't pin your happiness on others. Because people will change and love will disperse. The road of life is always to be walked by yourself, no one can replace your happiness, and no one can pay for your happiness. Self-sufficient happiness will not worry about gains and losses.

27. Let go of the love that makes yourself humble. For the purpose of love, is to make yourself better, not to scar you all over.

After all, some love can be met but never sought. Those who cannot wait should not wait, and the world that cannot be squeezed in should not hold on.

28. Always keep 30% of the mystery for yourself. Only then will others see a side of you they didn't expect, and you will always bring something new to others. This rule applies to all relationships.

29. 99% of all the people you meet in your life are strangers. So, relax, you don't have that many viewers.

30. If you can't say good things, avoid bad things or shut up. I am afraid that what you say unintentionally will be deliberately interpreted by people with ulterior motives.

Friday, October 6, 2023

The top level of self-discipline: "Never expose, but stay away, and quietly eliminate you.”

If you don't like a person, you don't need to compete with him, and you don't need to waste your saliva for someone who is not worth it.

Don't affect your mood, be a "transparent person", hide yourself, stay away from him, and you will win.

Yes, in the world of adults, you have to digest your grievances by yourself. You don’t need to tell your story to everyone. Few people really understand you. Most people will only laugh at you from their own standpoint.

All you can do is tolerate and become stronger and stronger step by step. Jump out of the circle that you hate, and leave people who have different views from you.

We only have more than 30,000 days, and there are very few things that are really worth paying attention to. What you really care about is your relatives, friends, and other people's criticism or appreciation.

The rest of your life is expensive, don't waste time on people you hate, the best way for adults to end a relationship is not to quarrel and collapse, but to alienate silently.

What is the difference between the thinking of the poor and the rich?

【Chapter One】

The poor are overwhelmed by feelings, looks, and relationships, and rarely think about the underlying logic.

The capitalists say, “It’s only once in a lifetime.” The poor are so worried that they save half a year’s worth of money to hold a wedding of the century.

Capitalists say, "Women should pamper themselves." Poor people are tempted, they should eat and play, and buying a bag costs a month's salary,

The capitalists say, "Diamonds are forever, and one piece will last forever." The poor think it is too true, what sincerity is there without a diamond ring?

Sometimes I feel that the capitalist is really bad, he will say whatever you like to hear, in short, you will be full of joy when you clean up your bank account, and feel that you have not neglected yourself. Then the days pass year after year, and you have nothing left, only a room full of unused old products, a closet of discarded brand-name clothes, a few broken stones, and a piece of paper that has been repeatedly consumed by beauty salons until it is sensitive. Face.

【Chapter two】

[Change, starting from the way of thinking

1. Live fish will swim upstream, and dead fish will drift with the current.

2. When an event is considered an opportunity by everyone, it is no longer an opportunity.

3. Youth is capital, but it is worthless without hard work.　　

4. If you care about the people in front of you, you will lose the future.　　

5. President Roosevelt said: Be the master of time, the master of destiny, and the helmsman of the soul.　　

6. The rich make money from capital, and the poor get rich from knowledge.

7. It is unfortunate that others look down on you; it is even more unfortunate that you look down on yourself.

8. You can lose everything in the world, but you can't lose hope and confidence.

9. The wise create opportunities, the strong seize them, and the weak wait for them.

10. A person has two plots of land: one plot of land during the day is to fill his stomach, and one plot of land at night is to cultivate his own future.

11. Having nothing is a kind of wealth, which makes people take action to change their destiny.　

12. People often use books to judge unknown things, and often take wrong inferences as correct conclusions.

13. What do the poor lack? On the surface, they lack funds, but in essence they lack ambition, ideas in their minds, courage in their bones, understanding of opportunities, actions for change, and perseverance in their careers.

14. The smartest person in the world borrows the experience of other people's bad head and blood as his own experience; the most stupid person in the world uses his own bad experience as experience.

15. Only by suffering what others can't bear, enduring the anger that others can't bear, and doing things that others can't do, can you enjoy everything that others can't enjoy.

【third chapter】

Workplace: Choice is more important than change

1. Don't start easily, don't change the track easily once you start.

2. Rolling stones do not gather moss, change careers do not gather wealth, frequent switching is not recommended

So think twice before switching job every time.

3. If you really feel that the moment is not suitable, don’t stay for a second. The faster you leave the wrong place, the closer you will be to the right place.

4. Career planning is ultimately to be loyal to your heart, to your choice, to do what you like, and to work hard for it.

5. For unsuitable jobs, persuading yourself not to leave is more like persuading yourself to swallow your anger. And the work you love, persuading yourself to persevere, is to be strong for love.

6. Choose the right industry and the right position, and the whole person will devote himself to it. I asked a designer who worked on the plan all night, isn't he tired? He told me: This is my work. There are passion in the eyes.

7. Choosing a career is actually very simple: do what you can do, do what you like, and do what you are willing to work hard for.

8. Jobs said: Being overwhelmed by other people's loud opinions drowns out your true inner voice. Your intuition and heart know what you want to be.

Friday, September 29, 2023

Some tips to improve your emotional intelligence

1. Don't play with your phone while others are talking.

2. Inviting guests to a meal is equivalent to sharing. The invited person will forget about it after eating, and will not appreciate it, unless you invite a luxurious meal that he has never eaten before.

3. When you go to someone’s house as a guest, the owner of the other party doesn’t say too much, or even reminds you to drink water, or suggests watching TV, you should leave, because people always feel that they have nothing to say. Remind others to do something that doesn't matter.

4. Another day actually means forget it.

5. Before giving friend A’s contact information to friend B, it is best to ask friend A’s consent, because sometimes your friend A may not want to be disturbed by friend B, out of politeness, you’d better confirm with friend A.

6. In the office or dormitory, buy some snacks and share with everyone. A dozen of snacks can make you gain the favour of a group of people.

7. It is very impolite to interrupt other people's speech, but if you are often interrupted by others, you should think about whether you are talking too much nonsense.

8. The less likely to get angry, it means that he has more trump cards in his hand. On the contrary, if he loses his temper at every turn, it means that he has no trump cards in his hand and only has the ability to lose his temper. The reason why people get emotional and lose their temper, that's all because of helpless actions after having no other way.

9. Um, ah, oh, these three words are the most perfunctory replies in the chat, you can either reply yes, or reply um, these are better than replying with one word.

10. Don't always think about changing yourself to cater to others.

You want to read books, but everyone is playing games. In order to integrate into them, you also play games. In the end, you fail the exam together.

11. Make money the most important thing before you are 30 years old. Don’t think about useless things. Put away your usual groaning. Only when the money is in place will you discover how beautiful the world is.

12. Your good temper, obedience, and honesty are only useful in school, and will only be liked by teachers and classmates. In society, most people don’t care whether you are good to him or not. They only care about whether they are good or not, so they often make a mess, Bad things will be given to honest people.

13. If you send a piece of text to the other party, if you don’t add emoticons or emoticons, sometimes it will cause the other party to misunderstand, because different people may have different interpretations of the same piece of text, but remember, do Don't add a smiley [smiling] emoji.

14. People who are taken advantage of and pretend to be fine are the most stupid.

You think that your good temper and tolerance can bring you a good impression, but in the eyes of others, you will only think that you are honest, easier to bully, and will take advantage of you next time. The more you treat others, the more you have no bottom line.

15. When the personality of the people around him changes a lot, either he has read a lot of books, or he has been hit hard. A person with a lively personality who loves to talk suddenly becomes silent, autistic, and cautious. , He must have experienced pain that you can't imagine.