The best car –
If you were given regular 5 year old car Sedan and 100,000 dollars to improve it, what what you do?
new rims
new paint – probably purple and fire
New Audio Stem
Hydraulics
new interior
What else?
Now if you couldn’t sell the car ever and you would have to drive it the rest of your life, what would you use the money for?
Fixing every part of the car
Maintenance schedule.
New transmission
New Engine
Paint and Interior when it needs it.
The Cool/Fun Factor and the Success/Joy Result.
What I just described is a way people live their life. We all do this to a certain extent. We are hungry and need something to eat, so we go get a few fast food burgers and feel good quick but feel bad afterword.
If you want success/joy in health, you eat what is not as good – vegetables, fruit, less food, healthier options but feel good (success/joy) health later.
Proverbs 15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
This past week, I finished a project of buying a business and helping a husband and wife retire from the insurance industry.
Buying a business is not a Cool/Fun experience. The cost is upfront and the the work is up front and the results and success are much later.
The Cool/Fun Success/Joy Graph.
Cool/Fun
This is not always true, but many times, when the first hit is up the delayed move is down. If you zoom out and look at the graph from a whole life perspective, it looks like a graph of decrease.
Gambling
Drugs
Sex – used incorrectly
Food –
Entertainment
Anything used to give joy for a moment can cause disaster later.
Success/Joy
This is also not always true but generally true. What the work is hard first the results are better long term.
Food
Investing
Sex
Entertainment – Reading – learning
Health
Buying business buying real estate
If you are elevating value, you will look at things with a value type vision.
- Vision – how will this play out over time? chain thinking
- Character – you will become what you think –
- Skills – Learning to do something will be hard now but rewarding later
If you read this – Thank You – I appreciate you reading, and my wife likes me to tell you and not her. She prefers I would listen to her. I am trying!
Have a good day!
