I just want to share my point of view about world and reality. Maybe this is going to be boring but I will keep it short. It has been bothering me a lot, what am I going to be and my financial security, of course everyone has been crossed this path feel afraid and insecure but they do nothing about it, instead get back to daily life work 9-6pm, get paid by end of month and feel better after paid but never thought about the long term. I have asked myself what I want obviously I do not want that and I found out what I want.
It started few months back, when my ex-boss and now retired, Wan has been telling me about financial freedom and investing, at first I was not interested at all, ever since I have started my job in this company under his supervision, he has taught me a lot not only about the work but about some other stuff, slowly he planted those ideas in my head until few months back I was realizing what he has been telling me it is right. So far we have been educated and planted with those kind of thinking, 'go school, get good grades, get job with high pay, work and work, waiting for the pay rise or bonuses and then work, work until we die to pay the bills and other expenses'. Yea we might save some money but the value of money is getting smaller by we retired. Wan suggested me to read 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', it was a good book, very simple to describe what most people think and experience in the world about their financial life. Of course when you read it you don't follow blindly what the guy did on the book, he just give the ideas and basic principals, in the real world you still the one who control your actions.
So what I want to share here after I read the book (now I am reading the Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Retire Young, Retire Rich). I just realized it that seating in the office from 9-6pm is limiting my access to sources and limiting my freedom to do things I like, to earn more, most of us working and have been paid with fix salary, we would not earn more than what we pay monthly, but by retiring early we have a lot of time and we can focus to build our own empire, our own sources of income.
The book tells that 'whatever we think is real, becomes reality', if we think we can do it, we can afford it we will achieve it. It also says that 'your thoughts and words do become flesh'. Every person's reality are different from each other, if you have been planted with those kind of thinking that working your ass off entire of your life will make you rich, you are wrong and you should start to learn and open your mind. If Bill Gates, Wright brothers or Harry Ford can do it, there are a lot of people before you can do it, means it is not impossible. If you are failed, don't quite try again, learn from mistakes. If 9 out of 10 people failed, you might one of the nine but if you try again from the mistake you will succeed but after you success don't forget the possibility you will fail again, like if you playing poker in a casino, every turn you have the possibility to lose all the money, never think if one turn you strike millions and the next turn you will strike more.
There are so many books to read to inspire you to buy your own self out from slavery. This book is just one of them, but if you want to sit down and be a slave forever, it's your choice. It is just me, sharing my ideal world and I will find my way to pursue it. I need to take a step further and pursuing what I think is right. What I want is to have my own empire not my mom or inherit from my parents because I believe that you have to earn your own sweat to support your self. I am creating my path to my reality, a financial freedom.
