Time, Priority & Money: In Retrospect (Part 3)
So the reason why I'm making a third post here is because for some reasons, there might be the erroneous idea that the first and second post generally centers on hive and hive alone, but then, this isn't true. I used to say that the internet itself is a Pandora's box. It's muddled with unexpectations and many people have keyed into the negative aspect of it.
Truth is, many of us haven't gone down this path and for so many others, the internet have become a tool, a sort of panacea through which problems are solved. First and foremost, problems takes time, priorities and sometimes, money to actually solve them. I've met a lot of people in my lifetime and most of their problems have been associated with "how to do it" and most times the internet have come in very handy to solving these problems.
Now, a lot of us have been associated with "internet money" even way before the concept of hive was born. In the past the internet was a lot about "connecting", but nowadays, the concept has gotten more sophisticated: you can get entertained, learn, get educated, get enlightened, transact, get involved with e-commerce, promote a real-time of virtual business
make money without even having a degree or never undergone an interview in the four walls of a company all your life. See, the mindset is key; when you psychologically see the financial prospects of the delimitations that comes with the internet, you don't see a source of income, you see abilities to create wealth beyond income.
Income is limited, the reason is that there's a timestamp placed on it. A lot of people don't feel that their value is borderless or unlimited, and this creates a mentality of constraint deep inside them. They feel that their efforts is restricted to a monthly or weekly interval, meanwhile the people who are controlling the world's wealth are earning in "milliseconds". Some of the wealthiest people in the world have a connection to the internet and internet tools.
Not to make any comparison here. Nevertheless, in the world where we are, being restricted to a means of income isn't bad, what is bad is the mentality that you don't have a choice but to stay inside a particular restriction. Poverty is being restricted and feeling restricted. It takes the mindset to actually activate it.
Virtuality is becoming sophisticated, and it's added more to the meaning of our lives, living in virtuality more than real-time doesn't make your income less of money. A lot of people still thinks depending on the internet to make a living isn't an actual life to be living, as it doesn't forestall certainty. But then inasmuch as an actual job does, there's the risk of dying from job hazards, there's the risk of getting sacked, there's the risk of a pandemic that renders people unemployed without warning.
There's the risk of inflation and many other things, it's all about choosing your risks and weighing the consequence and advantages. Someone playing splinterlands or maybe anxie infinity now have an opportunity to live a better life in real-time, reinvest their income, diversify and unlock other opportunities, shall we then say the risk hasn't been justified?
In the future I will look towards having a better stable job, not for certainty but to even unlock another means. Those who look to a job for the clarification of certainty will not see beyond the opportunities created within that space. This is why I'm always talking about seeing utility to one's time, I've always talked about this with @starstrings01, @k-banti, @joetunex and many other people who I'm close with.
Notwithstanding, I always appreciate the time I have with me because through this time I've come to learn overtime that you don't need all the knowledge, you only need the ones that actually matters. It's important for one to see beyond their current position. When you feel you can attain stability because the internet feels unstable for dependability, better make sure your source of income is dependable and not affected by the variables I've talked about in the subsequent paragraphs.
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Some of the books I have read mention that the authors reached a point at which their earnings are sufficient to generate income without having to work. They start off doing their business intensely until one day they no longer have to work so hard.
What ends up happening is that it opens them up to bigger opportunities because they have the time to dedicate to projects they never had time to do.
I think you will eventually get there. Your hard work will give you the freedom to invest your time in bigger endeavors.
Thank you so much, like you've said, it takes time I guess, I've even aimed to become a real-time published author, but I haven't just been able to get there. Maybe I'll always try again and again.
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I think it is like a game. You need to reach the next level. THEN, you'll find yourself able to easily achieve that goal. For now, the focus is to level up.
Hmm... You don't need all the knowledge but the ones that matters... That really hit me... The right use of knowledge brings out the best of outcomes..
The internet has really advanced from when last it began. It is more than how it was and will be more than how it is. Being able to utilise its possibilities brings one into endless possibilities, wealth creation and exploration.
We cannot begin to emphasise the way the internet has changed lives and how it'll still change more. The right amount of knowledge is all we need, time is of the essence and we have begun the revolution to changing a whole lot.
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Maybe using a job to unlock other opportunities should be a wise move instead of using a job as a source of security and certainly. If you ask me there is none like certainty or security when it comes to a job, that job might seize to exist unexpectedly.
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Yes, this is actually my thought as well. There are many variables to being employed.
This is why I actually said that even being employed has its own risk but then a lot of people feels that for the time they are actually employed the feeling of being employed brings them certainty.
This is actually an instant gratification that a lot of people used to console themselves. At the end of the day, a risk is only a risk and we have to choose wisely.
Thank you so much my man
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The risks are not as low with the current hive price. Remember when it was $8 😅 talking about inflation!😬
I think you would enjoy @josephsavage and his recent video in smart investing and only investing what you can afford to lose.
Here, I spoke about cost push inflation that's currently ravaging most African countries. That's a factor to always consider when thinking about staying in a stable job with a low rate of increment. This slowly induces poverty into the lives of people without them knowing it.
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I think a lot of people have reconsidered their lives after losing their jobs due to the lock downs. Most people just found that going back to a job that will throw you out at any moment not worth it.
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