Overcoming Inertia in Your Financial Journey
The word, the first million is always the hardest isn't a lie but while it is true, the next millions are often easy if you know how to play the game and not lose it all. Why is the first 1 million always the most stressful?
To understand this, we need to understand that the force needed to move something from a state of rest is often high. I am not talking science, I am talking our regular world. If you are going to become a millionaire, you need to put it all the energy in you to battle your inertia because once you get to the millionaire status, getting other millions is going to be quite easy.
First, if you are going to become a beginner millionaire, you really need to remove the believe that you are going to be cool with everyone, or be a gentleman at all cost. You are not going to be in front of the TV or Media enjoying yourself while you want to make the millions because it will not come. To get to the millionaire status, you need to be singularly focused. You need to have the goal and work on the goal.
It is very easy to be distracted in life because being focused can be very boring but when you look at the life of athletes, you will realize that their lives are so boring especially when they are in the middle of the season and have not reached their goals. This is because they are so focused on what they want to achieve that they do not care about what is happening around them.
I am still trying to grow myself, and I must say that getting off the ground requires a whole lot of fuel. As humans, we need to interact, we are people who love doing things that makes us happy but these things aren't often required to get us to financial success. To get started in the financial journey, those things are going to be almost zeroed and this things are repulsive to human's immediate satisfaction.
At this beginning, I realize that I am starting to lose friends, hobbies, Netflix shows, and even catch ups with family members but for millionaires, billionaires, and goal achievers that I have seen, they are able to get these things back after they have achieved their goals. One thing I always tell myself is that now is not the time for distraction, now is the time for work, it is the time to be focused, it is the time to pursue your goals.
But one thing I have noticed is that this level of work usually make people miserable, sick, and even depressed if done for long, and this is why what I do is set a realistic goal at a realistic time frame. Success isn't magic, so setting ridiculous goals will only keep you at the ground instead of helping you move forward. Success and becoming a millionaire doesn't happen in a day, it takes time and you should work the time because if you don't, you are going to be setting unrealistic goals in unrealistic time and this can make you miserable.
In all you do, remember to always fuel your mind so it does not fail you. You should exercise regularly, eat well, and remove distractions that can prevent you from reaching the millionaire status but at the end, you need to know that getting started isn't easy in any way.
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