In the ancient book "Aphorisms and Sayings", there is such a sentence:
Fu was born in thrift and thrift, and fate was born in Hechang.
In just 10 words, it tells the truth of life.
True blessings come from hard work and frugality.
A good destiny lies in a peaceful and smooth state of mind.
You see that although those high-ranking officials have a lot of money, they are worried all day long, and they are not really a good blessing.
And those who married into the rich, the scenery is incomparable, but behind them endure public opinion. It's not really a good life either.
Life is short, from falling to old age and weakness, but in the blink of an eye, you need to cultivate your body and mind in a state of pampering and not being shocked, in order to exchange for perfection.
Diligent and thrifty, there is no unhappiness.
Arrogant and tired, not undefeated!
Zeng Guofan exhorted his descendants in his family letter that thriftiness can make a family prosperous, and arrogance is the source of failure.
The Tang Dynasty poet Su Shi, who entered the military at the age of 21, has been an official for 40 years, often making careful calculations and living with a pure heart.
Later, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, where his salary was reduced, but he still lived happily and cultivated his own land to grow vegetables.
In order not to spend money indiscriminately, he divided his daily living expenses into 30 parts and hung them on the beams, and took a bag every morning as the whole expense of the day, buying only what he should buy.
He set himself the rule of "diligence and thrift" and wrote down the "Diet and Diet Theory": "Since today, the Dongpo residents have only eaten one lord and one meat in the morning and evening. ”
For Su Shi, a cup of sake and a meat dish every day are enough to live, and there is a real taste in coarse tea and light rice.
In addition, if someone else invited Su Shi to dinner, he had a rule, more than three meat dishes, he would not go to the banquet.
"One is to nourish the blessings, the second is to broaden the stomach to nourish the qi, and the third is to save money to nourish the wealth."
People and things that have been seen in ancient and modern China and abroad have developed in accordance with the law of "success is caused by thrift and thrift and by luxury".
The extravagant are not rich enough, and the frugal are poor.
A family, if it is extravagant, even if it has a million family wealth, is doomed to consume its own blessings.
In work and life, there are always annoying things and difficult things, and in the face of these trivialities, maintaining a "peaceful" mentality can change their situation.
Someone asked Mak Lingling, a numerologist in Hong Kong: What kind of woman is the most prosperous?
Mai Lingling replied: "In fact, the real Wangfu refers to a woman with a cheerful mentality, no matter what setbacks she encounters in the family, she is always very positive and optimistic." Marrying such a woman, the husband will also be very confident every day, and when the murder is auspicious, the natural career is also prosperous. ”
There is a saying in the "Cai Gen Tan" called: Harmony is auspicious, and the god Dori is happy.
People's mentality is very important, keeping peace every day, naturally will produce wealth and bring good fortune. Everyone shares happy things, and everywhere they go, they are welcome; all day long, the clouds are bleak, and children want to hide when they see it.
In an interview, the host asked Xie Na what secret she most wanted to teach her daughter.
Xie Na said: "Optimistic. ”
The host asked, "Why optimism?" ”
Xie Na replied: "Because my family has been very difficult since I was a child, and there is no background, the reason why I can stick to it is because of the "optimistic" mentality. ”
It turned out that after Xie Na graduated from college, the family suffered a dilemma, the furniture and beds in the house were all robbed, and the whole family was destitute, not even a stool.
Her parents scraped together money to give Xie Na to work in Beijing, when she ran for the host of "Happy Base Camp" and could only stand in a marginal corner as a guest, with a low salary.
She worked several jobs at the same time, saving money and sending money home to her parents.
Even in the most difficult times, she is humorous and funny on the stage of "Happy Base Camp", no matter what kind of jokes she can catch.
Finally, the audience remembered Xie Na's funny, as long as there is her place, there will be joy, and Hunan Satellite TV also decided to make her the host of "Happy Base Camp".
As the saying goes, "The situation turns with the heart, and everything is done by the heart." ”
The external environment changes with the state of mind.
Wang Yangming once put forward the theory of "psychology":
"Everyone has their own fixing needle, and the root of wanhua is always in the heart." But he laughed before and saw it upside down, and the branches and leaves looked out. ”
Everything must be asked inward to be accomplished, and if you ask outward, you will be trapped in it.
Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing married Hong Kong billionaire Huo Qigang, and the two were worth billions of dollars, but they were rated by the media as the "most frugal" rich couple.
Guo Jingjing always attended the event in a simple long dress, no gold and silver jewelry jewelry, and only wore a black plastic leather band with tied hair on her hand, and the price would not exceed 10 yuan.
Later, the reporter also photographed Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang going to the supermarket to buy things together, carrying an environmentally friendly canvas bag.
Huo Qigang believes: "Diligence and thrift, the basis of governing the family; heshun, the basis of the Qi family;"
And most importantly, Guo Jingjing and his wife are not only diligent and thrifty, but also often teach their children to make money by their own hands and form a good upbringing from an early age.
For example, Huo Qigang let his seven-year-old son and daughter wash their cars in exchange for pocket money from a young age, and he would also take them to the countryside to learn how to farm.
It is better to leave wealth to future generations than to teach them to be diligent and thrifty.
Wealth can not pass through three generations, diligence and thrift can be passed on to all generations.
As the saying goes, "Three generations of wealth is not enough." That's because most wealthy families are extravagant and wasteful, and their descendants have spent all the property left by their ancestors.
And a generation of famous ministers Zeng Guofan, his descendants of the family, continued for two hundred years without decline, creating a phenomenon of "eight generations without fading", relying on the "diligent and thrifty and smooth" Zeng family style.
Lin Yutang wrote in "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds":
Blessings do not come from the outside, but from within. If a person wants to enjoy true blessings, he must have the virtue of enjoying blessings in order to hold Yingbaotai.
In the presence of the blessed, a jar of clear water will become snow-white silver; in the presence of those who should not be blessed, a jar of silver will also become a jar of clear water.
Although the Internet is developing rapidly today, the principle of dealing with people has not changed.
We are all ordinary ordinary people, perhaps all fighting for mortgages and rents, at this time we should plan our lives well and use every penny on the blade of the knife, rather than scattering the money with the flow.
Sitting quietly and thinking about the flowers, the three provinces drank clear springs.
Only by learning from the wisdom of the ancients, managing themselves, and governing their families can they put their lives in a smooth situation.