Today we're going to talk about a topic that you're sure to be interested in: making money. Before the festival, I sighed with the friends of our team, this public name is actually 7 years old, I want to write a 7th anniversary sentimental essay, ask them what they want to see the most? I never expected that a parenting number, the first answer is to see how to make money
Haha, "making money" is just a joke, but behind it is the reflection of each of our women's pursuit of security, independence and value. I hesitated for a long time during the holidays before I began to write, after all, I am not very rich and expensive, and I am still a bit weak in writing this. But looking back on my 7 years of self-media history, I really have a feeling that cognitive mode is more important than method.
Sometimes how we look at problems determines our choice and way of doing things, and it also determines the outcome. So I want to share it with you, I hope it will be enlightened.
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When the public name of "spending money" to make money started, I was working as a stay-at-home mom. The full-time mom I'm talking about here is the kind of person who doesn't have the help of an old man or a nanny, and there is still more than a year to go, and little Daddy D is working in the field on weekdays and only comes back on weekends.
Spend your time where you can add the most value, where I can't do it, and then think about "borrowing" more elsewhere. I've bought 10 bottles, not washing bottles during the day, and saving them together at night so that I can listen to online lessons throughout the day; I've invested in a lot of kitchen and housework "big pieces", ovens, air fryers, mop, dryers, dishwashers, etc. To say that there was no pressure at that time was certainly impossible, the family had an income, I had no income, but I continued to "lose".
At that time, everyone tacitly agreed that stay-at-home mothers don't do these things, why do you have to be "lazy"? But I have bought myself more time through this "laziness", first to save energy for a good rest, and then slowly used to improve myself, reading and writing.
Although it seems that I did not make money at the moment, I still spent money, but now that I look back, it actually brought me greater "benefits". This is actually a difference in thinking patterns. Many people will feel that the income is less and you must save a little. But if we keep falling into "money-saving" mode, we may invest more time and energy in order to save money, but we will no longer have time to think about the things that are really important to us.
The logic behind this leads to different choices, everywhere. Every year, all kinds of big promotions on e-commerce platforms, there are people who stay up all night to compare prices, and squat live every day to grab discounts, which seems to save a little money, but one night has passed.
And to be honest, this little bit of money can't be done at all, and this time can be invested in things that can produce greater value. Working mothers, busy every day at work, but also to do housework after work, the result is tired until the night to find that they did not do sports skin care, children's parent-child companionship did not do. These are all money savings on the surface, but in fact they are big losses.
Therefore, I have always felt that the most expensive thing for everyone is "time", and to understand where their most valuable place is, so much time is spent there, which is the real "making money".
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Don't screw up the desire to "make money"
Veteran readers will definitely remember that in 2016, my public account had its first group purchase.
I did think about returning to my old owner before, so I didn't want to make a profit with my public name. But then the plan changed, then for the public name to be sustainable, there must be a business model. To be honest, at that time, it was screwed, on the one hand, I wanted to have income, on the other hand, I was particularly glassy, as long as someone left a message saying that I had become marketing and started to bring goods, I would feel uncomfortable for half a day.
Now that so many years have passed, I can look at this matter with peace of mind. But looking back on this process, I find that many people are actually very similar to me. On the one hand, I want to make money, on the other hand, I don't want to admit it or pretend not to care, so I am very entangled.
As a result, it will become insufficient action, the mentality is not good, and you will consume yourself to death. It is not shameful to make money through your own ability and keep the bottom line of the principle you adhere to. But we must not become, thinking of making money in our hearts, envying others to make money, but saying that we don't need it, it is too awkward.
Over the years, I have believed in the "Law of Attraction", and in the face of my own desires, I must dare to face it head-on. Turn it into a goal, and make this goal as concrete as possible, so that we can stimulate our action.
This subconscious mind prepares us for good opportunities and attracts more energy to help us achieve them. If you want to make money, go earn it. Don't expect yourself to get rich, but don't feel like you definitely don't have that kind of life.
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About "Long-term Investment"
Recently, the stock market has fallen very badly, many people around have been bitter, and there is a paragraph "people in Shanghai, money in the stock market, vegetables in Jingdong." Every time I write about financial management, someone will always ask me, do you speculate in funds to buy stocks? To be honest, I really haven't bought much fund stocks, but I also have a little observation of the ups and downs of several waves of bear market bull markets in the past decade.
I remember the first bull market was when I was a management trainee, when the colleagues around me met to discuss stocks, and some people would say, what is the use of work, hard work for a month, it is not as good as a day's stock market income. At that time, everyone was studying the rise and fall every day, many people could touch the fish, and I, a newcomer in the workplace, had the opportunity to participate in several big projects.
Later, when the stock market fell sharply, everyone put their minds back on work, and I was promoted through the experience of the previous projects.
I have always felt that only by continuing to spend our energy on our "main business" can the wealth we harvest rise steadily.
This mode of thinking also determines how many times I choose. In 2015, I settled in the self-media, which was the so-called "fan dividend period", several institutions and I talked about it, and I could quickly suck up the powder through capital, but I refused;
2016 ~ 2017 is the e-commerce dividend period, there are also many predecessors to say to me, accelerate commercialization, make the public account into a daily sales platform, but I also refused; 2020 began to sing the decline of the public number, and someone came to give me advice, give up writing, accelerate the transformation to do video, I still refused.
Of course, it's also possible that if I had made another choice at that time, the result would have been different. But I may be more conservative, every time I hear something like this: don't write written content, now just send a picture, you can increase the powder; you can write whatever you want, others love to read, spend time in e-commerce;
No matter how seriously you write, no one has watched it, and you have to do live broadcasts and shoot more short videos. I think of the saying that everyone talked about the stock market at that time, "It is better to work hard for a month's salary than to make more money in a day's stock market."
Although it is not exactly the same thing, the underlying logic behind making money is similar.
If it is not their main business, nor are they so passionate and good at it, then they can make money by relying on it, and such benefits are relatively short-term. It is not to say that do not have the awareness of investment and financial management, do not seize the outlet, but each of us should judge the energy invested according to our own ability, if we put most of our energy into a "side business", then not only the risk is large, but also the money is limited. I have always felt that a person cannot be lucky enough to catch the wind every time, to be the pig who "can fly when the wind blows" every time.
Rather than pinning my hopes of making money on my own uncontrollable "environment" and "others", I would rather spend time honing my professional abilities and turning it into an "iron rice bowl" that I can rely on for a lifetime.
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Consciousness determines the upper limit of making money
I just did the first year of self-media looking at the predecessors and brand suppliers who did it early, I always felt, is that not because they started early? He doesn't have much ability, how can he do such a big thing? Later, after I experienced forming a small team, recruiting, managing, and handling resignation, I would blush for my shallowness and arrogance at that time.
Looking back now, I understand a truth that the upper limit of making money is consciousness, not ability.
In other words, if our consciousness does not change, even if others share the method by hand and with their hearts, we will not listen, let alone act. For example, one of the most common sayings is that he succeeded because he threw money, just like I commented at the time, "Isn't he just because he entered the industry early", exactly the same. When we say this, we can't see the advantages of others, and we don't want to explore his growth and development path.
There is no such thing as "people are stupid and have a lot of money" in this world, don't attribute anything we can't do or do badly to "we are not rich enough", but to see why others can do it.
Sometimes we don't understand, "just what he did", which only means that our cognition and vision have not yet reached there, and we have not seen the real essence. This is also why, although I am not "bigger and stronger", I am still grateful for the entrepreneurial experience brought to me by this public name. Because it really got me into the game, changed a lot of my "take it for granted" arrogance, and gave me more perspective on the world.
Well, that's what I want to share with you today. Although it is said throughout the book to "make money", people cannot earn money outside of their own cognition. This is why I would like to share with you some thinking patterns, all "making money" behind the early accumulation that we can't see, including cognitive models.
Finally, I would like to say that money itself is meaningless, and how we use it gives meaning to money. So don't forget about life just to "make money". Of course, I wish we can all make money, hahahahaha, economic independence is the foundation of all independence.