How to get out of the trough
Today's topic is applicable to many people, and it is something that I have personally experienced.
In this context, perhaps in the next year, or even three or even five years, 80% of entrepreneurs are facing the so-called bankruptcy, bankruptcy, dishonesty, and inability to make money, which is almost a 100% certainty.
Because China's economy, from 78 to the present, has grown for 45 consecutive years, and no one has encountered such a major life problem, and then, many people are depressed and depressed, and they don't know how to solve it.
If it's a joke and a little bit of schadenfreude, it's that I've experienced the darkest moment of my life a year before everyone else, and everyone understands it, so I won't talk about specific things, I'm more sensitive.
So, a year before everyone else, I encountered these things: the company closed, the employees were dissolved, the car and house were sold, the debt was very large, 10 or even 100 times as much as you think.
However, after a year of self-cultivation, energy absorption, and high-dimensional wisdom cultivation, and a year of comeback entrepreneurship and hard work in 2023, I not only walked out of the trough of my life, but also solved this debt problem.
So, my experience is still a lot of value.
Here is a big thing, I may be the only one in the whole of China, and I am the only one who is qualified to tell you how to get out of the predicament of life, because I have personally experienced it, how I do it, and what is the change in my state of mind.
This topic is very sincere and slowly told to you.
I think that when I encounter these problems, at least I will not be able to make money in the next 3-5 years, and I will fall from the peak to the trough of my life, especially the previous successful or rich people, 90% of them should not be able to recover from the previous scenery, or even worse than before.
What should we do in the context of such a definitive outcome?
I have three aspects: one is what we call the spiritual level of the heart. If this knot problem is not solved, I think it will be very difficult to do. The second is the level of life, the level of some secular vulgar life, and the third is the level of career.
These are the three kinds of health that I propose: mental health, physical health, and financial health.
In these three aspects, there should be many people who have encountered this problem by now, and there are many people who will encounter this problem soon.
So, how should I deal with it, how should I get through this low point in my life and career, how did I do it, and how did I get out?
1. Spiritual and spiritual level
First of all, the spiritual level and the spiritual level.
I just divided it into two stages, in 2022, I closed the company, took a year off at home, didn't do anything, didn't post on Moments for a year, and didn't contact anyone.
After a year of self-cultivation, this is how he came out.
So, the core concept to establish, I think the first experience is that we have high-dimensional wisdom.
We need to establish the idea that in this world, we actually have two selves:
One is the worldly me.
We have so many troubles, we have so many difficulties, the company is gone, the house is gone, a worldly ego makes ourselves miserable.
High-dimensional wisdom tells us that all the problems we encounter in this life are designed for you.
When facing problems and dilemmas, you have to ask yourself: what is this thing telling you, don't think about it logically, but ask yourself from the perspective of consciousness growth.
Every question in life is designed for you, with the intention of opening up your high-dimensional wisdom.
The other is to establish a high-dimensional me.
You must agree, even if you don't believe in any religion, you must also agree that this is our world, our life, you have seen my video, it is all arranged, then you let it go, everyone should not have the so-called change of life.
If you have to establish this concept: the first is that you have to realize that everything is predestined and designed.
In your life, who you meet at every step, what you encounter, when you make money, when you don't make money, and the ups and downs of your life, have all been set, and you can accept it calmly.
In addition, if you look at yourself from above, at yourself in the world, at yourself in the world, and experience suffering, experience ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties, and you will not feel pain.
This must be trained, and the spiritual concept of the two selves must be established. Realizing this, you are basically enlightened, and you can come out of it.
We must be deeply aware that some things cannot be changed, let alone you alone, and besides, the universe is so big, our earth is very small, and our human beings are even smaller, just a drop of sand and a speck of dust.
By recognizing your own insignificance, I think you can get out of yourself, otherwise, you will fall into endless pain and depression.
I think that's the first point, conceptually, on the spiritual level, to make a change.
2. At the level of physical practice
Second, we have to do something concrete, we can't just think about it mentally, it's useless.
Therefore, we must establish a concept of energy, whenever you encounter a low point in your life, you must establish such a concept.
No matter what this world is, no matter the environment you are in, all people and things have energy, and you must strengthen your own energy to reach a strong point, so that you can face many things.
1. Text energy: reading books
At the core, I read some books of high wisdom, books of mind, body and soul. Here I would like to recommend Mr. Liu Feng's book "Cushman & Wakefield", which uses scientific methods to explain the laws of life and the universe.
I also realized that the only meaning of life is to improve one's own dimension, and all the so-called worldly successes are phases and projections.
Then I read (Tao Te Ching), Wang Yangming's Xinxue, etc. Then I read a lot of Nobel Prize in literature works, famous works.
2. Sound energy: singing bowls, watching movies
When meditating, I use some utensils, such as a bronze bowl (singing bowl), which uses sound to guide me to empty myself and clear the impurities of the spiritual world of the mind.
I also watched the highest-rated movies on Douban, Oscar movies, and watched them all.
3. Body energy: yoga, meditation
以前我不知道，也搞不懂，为什么几乎方西所有成功的企业家，包括以乔布斯为代表的，定一要去做冥想。
经过这几个月，我才道知冥想的好处，因为我在现一边己自在做瑜伽，一边冥想，我自己，得觉是有很多好处的。
第一个，让己自的心安静起来。 The second, most important thing, is to empty yourself.
As you know, in the past, I emptied all my photos, all text messages, all WeChat records, all private messages, etc., every day, so that I was in a light and comfortable inner state.
4. Plant energy: plant flowers and plants, drink tea (plant energy essence)
In this year, I also developed the habit of raising flowers and grasses, absorbing energy through plants, these flowers, weeds and wild flowers, animals, or your whole environment, clean or clean, re-managing your own environment, can also allow yourself to absorb energy.
In addition, I have also developed the habit of drinking tea, because tea is actually a green plant, tea is a plant, and after we drink tea, we are also absorbing the energy of nature.
Therefore, we must consciously absorb energy.
5. Exercise energy: cycling, exercising, swimming.
For a year, I rode a bicycle every day, from Xili Harbin Institute of Technology, which is the starting point of the university town, to our Shenzhen Bay, almost 20 kilometers, more than an hour, two hours back and forth.
6. Gather energy: meditate, be alone.
7. Event energy: firefighting, fighting injustices everywhere.
When your life is at a low point, don't be depressed, but pay more attention to the changes in the environment, I just never believed in these things before, and I won't do this, it sounds very empty.
But actually, these are very practical things, including meditation, including meditation, which are mind, body and mind, and I think they are still very useful.
Therefore, I am now able to come back to entrepreneurship, to be able to make a comeback, to be able to solve my own problems, and I think it is very relevant with my strong heart.
This is the second point, our specific action.
We must not only establish the right thinking, but also have the right behavior, an idea, a practice, and the unity of knowledge and action.
Therefore, the second is physically, you must exercise, you must eat and sleep well, and you must not let yourself lose sleep.
You have to know that as long as your body collapses, you basically have nothing.
I remember that Cai Lei, the former vice president of JD.com and a fighter for ALS, I also respect him. He once said something that made me feel more emotional.
He said that if he didn't have this disease, he didn't want to earn millions of annual salaries and be the vice president of JD.com, he would rather be a beggar.
So, how important it is to be in good health. Be sure to be in good health, this is the most basic.
Otherwise, no matter how big your ideals, no matter how much love, no matter how strong your determination to make a comeback, it is useless, you must get your body right.
The first is that we call our hearts settle down and nourish our spirits a little more, and the second is to exercise our bodies well.
3. Work and career level
Third, some problems and solutions in our work.
1. In terms of business, the lowest cost is carried out.
My advice is this, if your company is losing money, if you can't make money, if you can't find your direction, my advice is to take a break and not be like a headless fly.
How did I do it, I just shut down my company, who has the courage to do this? My original clubhouse, more than 50,000 yuan a month, put a lot of pressure on me, so I just quit it.
Don't want a deposit of 100,000 yuan, you must be decisive, give yourself a call for rest, immediately force yourself to stop, don't do the trapped beast fight, that's useless.
2. In life, we must survive at the lowest cost and cut all unnecessary expenses.
As you know, I used to have five employees in the company, earning 30 million to 50 million a year, and my personal pocket money a year was 3 million to 5 million.
But now I feel that this is very wrong, after these things happened, in this year of physical and mental cultivation, I went from using 300,000 or 300,000 people a month to only 10,000 a month, eating fast food, taking the subway, and my quality of life has improved even more.
Therefore, you must keep your living costs to the minimum, and if you have a mortgage, sell the house as soon as possible, and sell it for 5 million yuan, 3 million yuan, so that there is no pressure.
Be brave, decisive, and stop losses in time, as long as you have this kind of spirit, you generally won't let yourself fall into a very passive time.
3. Make money, the road is simple
I think my solution is to keep everything simple.
Don't be entangled in internal friction, what to do with my career, what to do if I am in debt
Just put all the questions aside and simplify them to: how do I make money, how do I make my cash flow positive, money can heal everything.
So, this year, when everyone is in a difficult situation, I took 10 members, and I made millions anyway.
My experience is that you have to do vertical and accurate traffic, and you have to do what you are good at. Doing business must be from small to large, don't do those long-term plans, and don't invest big money.
Starting from a small age, you can find a project, become an agent, sell a little goods, and after making the result, gather two or three people back, rent a farmer's house, and work for half a year. If the business expands, consider moving to a larger clubhouse.
Be sure to start a business at the lowest cost, don't invest a lot, don't open a physical store, don't recruit dozens of people at once, don't go to financing, and basically start a business at zero cost.
I think that business, entrepreneurship must roll from small to large, if we find an opportunity, we will magnify it, and before we find an opportunity, we would rather slow it down a little.
So, I want to gloat and say that I experienced these things one to two years earlier than everyone else, and the so-called experience is that I have experienced it, and it is worth learning from everyone.
All of the above is my personal experience, and there are no advanced theories.
summary
Let me conclude by concluding, first of all, the first one is that we are optimistic.
However, we should be pessimistic about the market situation, and perhaps in the next five years, ten years, twenty years, and thirty years, the so-called general environment will be getting worse and worse, and we must be prepared for this.
And then under the premise of not having illusions, we have to solve the problems of our own body, mind and spirit, we have to solve the problems of making our own physical health, and we will start again at the lowest cost, the problem of financial health.