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Some time ago, a video on Weibo went viral.
A delicious and cheap duck rice shop in Guangzhou, duck meat + unlimited duck oil rice + green vegetables + duck soup only sells for 12 yuan.
The host asked, "Why are you selling so cheaply?" You must have earned very little. ”
The boss waved his hand: "Earn less, but I live happily." Because I have ten houses for rent. ”
Just when the host emphasized that the boss had ten suites to collect rent, the boss couldn't help but remind him:
"It's ten, not ten suites, one has 7 floors."
And with a sincere face, he bought a BMW car to deliver the goods, and he liked this simple and happy life.
Poverty limited my imagination, and it turned out that there were too many invisible rich people around us.
Previously, there was such a screenshot circulating in the circle of friends.
It is said that in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science and Technology Park, the capital chain of a start-up company was broken, and it was about to go out of business.
At this time, an aunt of a cleaner in the company stepped forward and took 6 million yuan to complete the financing for the company.
This aunt is a native of Pudong, Shanghai, a demolition household at the Expo, with eight houses and seventeen million cash in hand.
Life could have been leisurely, but my aunt couldn't stay at home and worked as a cleaner in a startup.
There are too many rich people, they may be hidden in the professions of cleaning aunts, community security guards, maintenance workers, taxi drivers...
The grandmother who sells jade and vegetables at the roadside stall, and the old uncle who wanders around all day wearing slippers and shorts and torn vests, may all be the invisible rich people with tens of millions of assets in the family.
They don't have to be forced to make a living, they can earn money lying down, and work is just a hobby and a pastime.
They use money to make money and then enjoy their leisure life instead of making themselves slaves to money.
In the second half of life, the fight is actually the income after bedtime.
02
I heard a friend tell a story about his colleague.
The boy in 93 has a good temper and usually wears an ordinary clean T-shirt and sneakers.
Eat without picking, at noon with the department people to eat Shaxian snacks and spicy hot, and downstairs supermarket 12 yuan box lunch.
Drinking yogurt will also lick the lid, when eating potato chips will also be hissing fingers, eating instant noodles will drink the soup without a drop.
Commuting to work is an old electric car, and on rainy days, it changes to a bus.
At one departmental dinner, two colleagues drank too much and lay on the side of the road drunk and unable to move.
The '93 boy said, "I'll send you back, I'll drive you here today." ”
I walked over and found that it was an imported Land Rover.
After inquiring again, I learned that their family had two sets of buildings in the city center, three shops...
And he himself, not relying on his family, just relying on his after-work side business, and some financial income, can be enough to moisturize.
He is usually frugal and simple, his hobby is to save money, and his goal is to retire before the age of 40 and move to Brazil for the elderly.
The friend sighed: The most terrible thing is that people who are richer than you work harder than you.
Can you imagine that when you are brushing vibrato, eating chicken, and chasing brainless variety shows every night, others have "fallen asleep" and made money?
After-bed income, that is, a person's passive income, can continue to increase even if they do not work.
It may come from rent collection, interest on investment and financial management, copyright fees, even when sleeping, there is a steady stream of income.
Buffett said: "If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you're going to work to the death." ”
A life with an income after going to bed is completely different from a life without income after bed.
03
Have seen such a true story.
A young man working in Panama received a critical illness notice from his grandmother who was far away in China.
He was brought up by his grandmother, who hoped to see him one last time.
But panama does not have direct flights to China, and it does not fly every day.
Fortunately, he was a member of a private charter company, and after 30 minutes of phone calls, he had already taken a special car to pick him up.
In the car, he completed a series of tasks such as passport control, drove directly to the airport tarmac, and boarded a private plane that flew directly to China.
Twenty hours later, he was sitting at his grandmother's bedside.
His grandmother died the next day, but left with a satisfied smile after seeing her grandson.
I have been in the hospital and met many desperate patients and their families.
Some cannot afford expensive self-funded drugs and can only choose painful conservative treatment.
Some people can't afford the cost of surgery and can only watch their loved ones die.
A photo of photographer Zhang Zhenjun, "The Only Child", once brushed up the circle of friends.
In the ward, an old man lay on each of the two separate beds, and the man sitting in the middle looked particularly lonely and helpless.
In the middle age of an only child, the most feared thing to hear is the news that their parents are sick.
Once complacent about your high salary, you don't know that a disease is enough to destroy everything.
People who don't have income after bed, once they can't rely on selling their time for money, what do you rely on to support their families without problems?
04
The first step to having an income after bedtime is to find a way to open up and reduce expenditure and accumulate your first bucket of gold.
Girlfriend Xiaoyu said that her income after sleeping is zero, and her debt after sleeping is quite a lot.
Too many young people, in uncontrolled consumption, have become invisible poor people.
In the morning, you have to drink Starbucks, and at noon, you have to eat a salad light food for forty or fifty yuan.
Avocados, salmon can not be less, on the weekend also have to go to the Internet red restaurant to pull grass.
The fitness personal training class of 600 yuan bought ten lessons in one go, and the house with floor-to-ceiling windows of 6500 yuan in January was not painful to rent.
Brand-name bags to buy, love beans concert to chase, fairy water noblewomen skin care products to use.
The circle of friends is bright and beautiful, and the pockets are empty.
The more consumer goods you buy, the less money you can accumulate principal and the less income you can generate after bedtime, which is why you can't get rich all the time.
There is a word in economics called the low-income trap. It is said that because your income cannot be accumulated, it will form a vicious circle and become poorer and poorer.
Only by quitting unreasonable consumption habits and slowly accumulating their own assets can they have the opportunity to increase their income after sleeping.
05
The second step to having an income after bedtime is to optimize your income structure and increase the way you make money.
Meet a food blogger who used to be a nine-to-six civil servant who used to tinker with food tutorials after work.
Later, she made her own short food videos, posted on the b station, Weibo, and public accounts, and received a lot of attention.
Through the opening of classes and books, she is now able to rely on royalties and course income alone every year to enough for her daily life.
This is an era when everyone can build a personal brand and become a slash youth.
An extra income will add a lot of security to us, and it will be one step closer to wealth independence and wealth freedom.
Some people earn millions a year by selling ppt templates, and some people can get rich copyright fees by taking a photo;
Some people insist on writing, books are adapted into movies, and some people make short videos to easily earn 100,000 yuan a month through commercial monetization.
Find your area of expertise and constantly improve your skill level to make your income sources more diverse.
Some people say: In this era, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem, but the biggest problem is that there is no money.
There is no income after sleeping, life has reached the half round, do not dare to get sick, do not dare to be poor, do not dare to die, how sad should it be?
We have no choice but to make more money and increase our income after bedtime.
For yourself, but also for the loved ones.
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Author: Little Coconut, life must be swag a little.