FVS 38: What Does Success Look Like
Here is your weekly For Value Sake, contributing value to your growth.
A weekly post, it contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk.
These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week, and share them so you can reap some value as I did.
A Quote Worth Thinking About
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi
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1. ARTICLES WORTH READING
personal development
I. What does Success Look Like?
+”Success is being able to chart your own course freely”
+ “I think the hardest part of using your life to solve a large problem is knowing when it is time to disconnect. To allow flow take over.”
+ “For me, success has nothing to do with money, houses, cash or anything exterior… I believe inherently in every person is the problem/purpose that only they can solve with their imagination. I am fuelled by the deep understanding and satisfaction that I am here to solve it. It is not glamorous but is deeply fulfilling.”
+ “Success is a system, not a condition. It is a real place that everyone needs to define regularly. Failure, too.”
+ “Concisely: if it seems that life is pushing hard against work priorities — you have the wrong work priorities.”
+ “The emotional reward to seeing an offering, system, or experience I have built return value to a real person, with a specific problem, repeatedly — is unreal and exhilarating.”
+ “Success is turning a vision into reality. While it may be an iteration of my initial idea, bringing it to life is my ultimate success.”
+ “Success is different for everyone. For me, success is not a destination, it’s the path I’m on, and the freedom to build on it.”
Most people often categorize their success at work as life success, some the accumulation of money or material things.
For me, I view success as a progressive actualization of a holistic life purpose.
I measure growth in these areas SPIRITUAL, MINISTRY/KINGDOM, BUSINESS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, FRIENDS & FAMILY, HEALTH, EARNING, GIVING and SAVING.
And for me as far as I am making consistent progress in these areas over time, I consider myself successful.
I wonder what success means to you.
wealth development
II. How to Build an Education Fund for your [Unborn] Children
+”An Education Fund is simply a fund set aside for the education of your child or children, whether at the secondary or university level.”
+”These funds are begun to be set aside from when the kids have or haven’t arrived.”
+ “Education Fund is a long term fund that won’t be used in the short term, you should look at investing it in a mix of asset classes like equities, fixed income, USD assets, real estate, mutual funds, etc.”
+ “A person might decide to send the kids to federal or state universities. Another might decide to send the kids to foreign schools. And others might decide not to send them at all, opting for coding classes.”
+ “Start building an EDUCATION FUND for your child today!”
Still on our matter of purpose-driven savings, this is a followup to last weeks introduction to building long-term funds for your future.
This talks about leveraging on the power of compound interest to give your kids the best in education.
I know what some of us will be thinking,
“I will be so wealthy that I will have enough to be able to afford out of pocket tuition payments when they come”.
I know…
There’s still no harm in starting now.
What’s the worst that could happen? You’ll have plenty of budget for it?
relationship dev.
III. People who don’t deserve your time
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“People Who Trivialize Your Experience,
People Who Want to be Offended,
People Who Shun Self-Awareness,
People Who Won’t Teach Themselves,
People Who Break Their Promises.”
+ “People Who Make Everything a Crisis. — Real problems demand a calm approach and a level head. That’s a duh fact for many of us. But we all know someone or three who aren’t dealing with their real problems. They’re freaking out over something insignificant. They enjoy the spectacle of their own meltdowns.”
You are awesome and deserve the best.
So stay away from toxic people.
Jessica pen’s down a few categories of people she considers as toxic, and I agree with most of them.
Read Now (Open InCognito/Browser PrivateMode)
entrepreneurship
IV. As a founder, I mistook my work as my self worth
+ “It takes herculean energy to start a company, which is maybe why, so often, our stories sound like myths.”
+ “I thought that if I was “successful,” people would see that I wasn’t flawed, and I’d finally be worth something.”
You are not your business.
If your business fails, it doesn’t mean you are a failure.
A founder shares his journey in battling with the psychological effects of “entrepreneuring” and failure.
2. VIDEO WORTH READING
+ Sloths! The strange life of the world’s slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke
We live in a world where everything is “fast fast”.
What can we learn from the sloths?
Fun watch!
3. WHAT IM READING
+ The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley
Most of the truly wealthy in the United States don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue. They live next door.
America’s wealthy seldom get that way through an inheritance or an advanced degree. They bargain-shop for used cars, raise children who don’t realize how rich their families are, and reject a lifestyle of flashy exhibitionism and competitive spending. In fact, the glamorous people many of us think of as “rich” are actually a tiny minority of America’s truly wealthy citizens — and behave quite differently than the majority.
At the time of its first publication in 1996, The Millionaire Next Door was a groundbreaking examination of America’s rich — exposing for the first time the seven common qualities that appear over and over among this exclusive demographic. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley — updating the original content in the context of the 21st century.
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