Introduction
I was reading through my currently pinned post “Memento Mori” which discusses the possibility of long term goals being crushed by the inevitably probable probability of death.
Make money work for you.
It’s good to imagine yourself 10 years in the future from now and have a mental roadmap/vision laid out.
The plan seems simple enough; invest majority of your income into stocks that pay dividends and in fractions of real estate in Dubai which pay rent payments on the stake platform.
I can feel the pressure building.
In the book “33 Strategies of War” by Robert Greene there is a chapter “Place yourself on death ground”.
“Place yourself on death ground” is a strategic concept from Robert Greene (drawing on Sun Tzu) urging you to create intense, artificial urgency by removing all backup plans. By acting as if you have six months to succeed, you eliminate procrastination, spark creativity, and unleash maximum effort to achieve goals.
Key Aspects of the “Death Ground” Strategy:
- No Retreat/No Plan B: You must cut off all optioons for escape, forcing yourself to fight with your back to the wall.
- Create Intense Urgency: If you lack pressure, you will produce low-intensity work. Set strict, aggressive deadlines (e.g., 6 months instead of two years).
- Create Stakes: Force yourself into a possition where failure has sever consequences.
- Overcome Procrastination: Procrastination arises from a lack of necessity. By creating a crisis, you stimulate immense focus and energy.
- Take Immediate Action: Start Immediately, even if you are not fully prepared, to trigger your brain to find solutions.
This strategy is about leveraging the primal human need for survival to reach high-performance levels that are typically inaccessible under comfortable conditions.
Reminds me of the quote from League of Legends “Comfort Breeds Weakness” by Rengar. Very inspirational if you ask me. Just set it as my pinned quoute.
Heavy Debt and Self Improvement
I believe that who you are as a person and what you are capable without the power of money is more important than becoming rich.
I wanted to buy a house so I got myself into lots of debt because “money talks” I’ve noticed that I’m a different person when I have money and when I don’t.
I asked the bank how much money I need for a mortgage of 30K and they said 7K. So I took a 7K Euro loans form multiple debt companies hoping that It would naturally give me the confidence to arrange the mortgage but It was no easy task and I’ve never had that much money at once in my life so me being the person I am I decided to buy a few drinks, pour out my heart from it’s core and accomplish my goal of buying a house for 30K.
What have I learned over the past year?
First thing for most certain is that for me, for who I am as a person, It is not possible for me to accumulate riches under the influence of alcohol. In fact, as obvious as it most likely is, alcohol is the ultimate tool of self-sabotage.
Health, finances, relationships; anything that requires mental clarity for success will be destroyed by alcohol.
I may not speak for everyone but it doesn’t work for me.
My state of mind has changed
In the first post I made, about a year ago. I was willing to sacrifice 10 years of comfort, saving money I could spend on food and leisure, new clothes etc. Take it, and invest it so that I receive percentage returns monthly, yearly, quarterly etc.
There is no easy way.
Ten years is a long time when you look into the future but is gone in an instant when you look back. And I can assure myself right now, that In 9 years time now, I will not regret taking the wellbeing of my future self and those around be into consideration and make the sacrifice necessary for the days when I’m not so fortunate and powerful to do so.
Next 3 years are not about money
The 7K debt isn’t just going to vanish into thin air, and if I ignore it is inevitably going to get worse. Due to taking big risks in crypto and being deluded by my ability to be profitable I am set even further back than I was before.
The reason I have been taking big risks is because my tax return can cover it. My life will recover hopefully within a month time and I will be able to get back all of my items from the local pawn shop I’ve put up for pledge.
I am a strong believer in cashflow
I do not like having more money than I can manage. I don’t know If I have a drinking problem or if having money is stressful which leads to drinking alcohol to calm my mind.
It’s been interesting way of surviving by juggling my possessions in the pawn shop, phone, laptop, tablet, my Xbox. Things that have brought me comfort, entertainment and power.
I have been focusing on things which either do not involve any money at all, involve little to no money, as well as producing assets from available resources in my surroundings such as DIY Arts and crafts.
Every time I know that I have money on the way I keep stressing on how I’m going to spend it because I know that it sitting in the bank is close to pointless as money itself is almost useless unless you have someone to trade something for it.
I feel like money needs to be spent as fast as possible as Wiseley as possible to avoid being a victim to inflation by buying assets which bring you even more money instead of having it sit in the bank.
I’m in a fair amount of debt.
I do not regret trying to chase my dreams. All that debt to me is proof that I have the ambition to accomplish great things within my reach of power. Buying the house was possible if I first showed interest, set a defined goal for how much money I needed to obtain to do so, and didn’t consume alcohol which led to impaired thinking, severe self sabotage, and a three year setback for my aim for financial freedom.
I do not work for money.
Since the next three years are be going to spend re-paying debt there is no reason for me to even consider fantasizing about buying nice things with the money I earn or even consider the possibility of having any savings at the end of the month.
“Got five degrees and six figures in debt/ Follow your dreams, ho, follow your-, follow your-, uh”
In the song Keanu Reeves by Logic
There was a lyric which went “Got five degrees and six figures in debt/ Follow your dreams, ho, follow your-, follow your-, uh”
This song comes to mind because having six figures in debt is a lot of debt compared to the 7K that I have. This does not mean that I should even consider ignoring my debt because it’s comparable insignificant, but It brings up the question of “How can someone get six figures in debt to begin with?”
After reaching my 7K limit and a completely destroyed credit score I cannot get any more debt. But it certainly provides some perspective.
Life doesn’t end here.
I don’t know where my obsession with making lots of money comes from but it’s been really nice appreciating the pure human experience outside the concern of having money and not knowing what to do with it; having to play the game of money whether you like it or not. When you’re practically forced to give it all away you start thinking outside the box. You start thinking, what am I without the power of money, who am I? What is my mind and body capable of?
I cannot sit, or sleep and relax and just act like all of the debt is going to disappear. But I need to get in touch with myself so that I can connect with likeminded people who share the common goal of freeing themselves from debt, creating a business/system which let’s us live with the freedom to do what we want when we want to not being dragged down by lack of funds or time.
There are people in our lives who have done so much for us that we may never be able to repay them, but the least you can do is your best, lock in on a target and do not get distracted by detours which will lead you astray.
My goal right now is to just get out of debt and before when I had money i had all of these goals and ambitions of endless goose chases for a defined amount of money: 100K so that I receive yearly dividends of 10%/10K and have about 800 to live off per month. I could afford all the basic needs such as rent, food, water, utilities, clothes and on top of that have free time since all the income would be from assets/dividend stocks/rent from properties.
But the thing is; If i suddenly woke up in such a position, then I would not be able to stay there. It would be difficult to live off 800 Euro per month knowing that I had 100K sat in my bank account. I would probably spend the money on unnecessary stuff because it’s temporarily fun spending money.
From the point where I’m now
Within the next 9 years there are going to be many unpredictable lessons, obstacles and setbacks which I am, along many others are going to face in life.
It’s good to have a destination, but maybe it would be wise to create a roadmap. Take it one year a a time, maybe even split it into one month at a time, a weekly routine would certainly come in handy and laying out your daily schedule with sacrifices for future benefit, a balance of soul rejuvenating leisure activities would make the journey more exciting.
I’m waiting for a magical change
Even once I catch up with my debt from receiving my tax return, I would still greatly benefit from the habit of keeping up a good work ethic, focus on improving the speed and efficiency of accomplishing tasks and developing self mastery as a result becoming the greatest version of myself that I shall become.
It’s very interesting to try your hardest at seemingly mundane and boring task and perfecting your craft one attempt at a time. If there is one book that I would recommend to anyone It’s “Mastery” by Robert Greene as it brings attention to the attainment of mastery by repetitive practice and later experimentation once the basics are nailed down. Eventually becoming a master at your craft after investing 10,000 hours.
What Is my craft?
The book talks about finding your own niche in a field and becoming a genius/master at it. I am someone who preaches order and systems which make life more convenient, saving time and progressing towards a beautiful and exciting environment. I enjoy cleaning, I like to take a messy room and make it nice and organized. I have strong admiration for my work since I take great pride in it and love taking the time to enjoy and appreciate what I’ve accomplished.
I used to love playing Minecraft when I was younger and I find it overwhelmingly upsetting that I cannot get the same joy or even find the creative tornado that I used to from just thinking about building something on Minecraft mostly on survival with the resources I have been provided with.
But I think that when something has such a special place in ones hart that the spirit lives on, playing Minecraft when I was younger has affected my development and my perception of the world in ways that are difficult to comprehend but I feel like anything is possible as long as I have a plan on how to accomplish it. I do not wish for things I don’t have but instead I wonder what can I do and create with the things I have available.
Another thing about Minecraft is that single player survival worlds get lonely and multiplayer worlds get wiped to never be seen again. It’s actually heartbreaking when I build something on Minecraft server and it disappears forever because the admin decided to update the server to thee latest version update and now your blood sweat and tears just disappear in to thin air.
This sort of heartache is probably part of the reason why I’ve lost my passion for playing Minecraft while still having the creative tornado whirling in my head making me want to move things around the apartment I’m resided in for the purpose of goal attainment or sometimes leisure or social reasons.
If you’re a loyal follower of my blog or know me well enough, you know that I once upon a time wanted to become a builder as I imagined the satisfaction of finally finishing building something as large as a house to be joyful.
In school I didn’t get much money to spend for my pocket allowance but I really appreciated every pound and penny that let me buy the things that I desired at the time.
Above all the schoolwork and stress from being in school it was nice to go to the shop and buy myself something out of all the things that there were to buy which was mostly chocolate, sweets, maybe a packet of crisps.
At a certain point in life, along that journey of getting some pocket money in my early school days I realized that having money is important for getting the things I want.
There isn’t much that money can buy which I desire today. It’s nice to have a meal every now and then but I don’t plan my weekly menu because I’m really not a picky eater. I only ever eat when I’m almost starving as I believe that hunger is a primary ingredient for attaining success. How can I want to work If my stomach is full? I noticed this first when I was doing work experience on Fridays in a marine engineering course. It was every Friday and once lunchtime came our construction crew would go to McDonalds, fill up our stomachs and then head back for more studying.
Everybody is different I suppose so I can’t speak for everyone however after eating that McDonalds I lost all my focus and concentration, my mind was wondering and I just started to feel really lazy.
It could be a lot of things, maybe one of them would be having to re-gain my focus after just having an hour long lunch or maybe it was half an hour, and it’s difficult after getting comfortable.
Here we are.
I was reading through the original post before I started writing this one and I wanted to spell check it and edit it. Then an Idea came to mind to possibly create a copy and fix all spelling mistakes etc. But for historical reasons I prefer to keep everything as it is although my work is publicly availably and It would be in my best interests to fix all errors and polish everything to perfection.
But I like to see progression, there are so many directions which I could take my blog/website but the most important part is that all the writing helped me organize my mind and re-gain my sense of direction in life when life seems chaotic and there seems to be no visible light at the end of the tunnel.
I got to be at work in 4 hours.
I’m in no mood to be reading back what I’ve written. I just felt the need to create this post as it’s been over a year since I made my last one on this topic and to make the whole Idea easier to digest: I believe that It’s important to take your future self into consideration, ten years in the future for example, and live life in such a way that you do not regret wasting time when you had the opportunity to put in work to make the version of yourself 10 years in the future proud of yourself. On the contrary, life is unpredictable, death is inevitable and can visit anyone any day. So the point really boils down to taking into consideration that you may be alive in 10 years time and your current actions have the power to affect your future self in a positive or a negative way depending on the choices you make now. While at the same time taking into consideration that you may day today or tomorrow so keeping that in mind it’s important to find balance between enjoying the moment to the fullest while taking into consideration that in 10 years time your mental, financial, spiritual, physical states are going to be affected by your choices and actions , interactions and events you experience throughout the journey of those 10 years.
Here is the initial post which inspired this one
Final Words
I just have some Ideas such as making a collection of related posts on topics, proofread them, spell check them edit them as much as I like and turn them into paid content of some sort. It’s not exactly that I want anyone’s money or need it but If I could make one sale selling digital assets that would be insanely cool in my opinion. Selling information and knowledge. Like mini e-books or notes or whatever.
There are days where I don’t feel like writing a single word and there are days like this, where I write a whole chapter of a book.
What does memento more mean again?
The Latin phrase Memento Mori translates literally to “remember that you [must] die” It serves as a philosophical and artistic reminder of the inevitability of death and the fleeting nature of earthly life.
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