It ain't meant to be easy

[Alpha Marine]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

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[Faisal2202]

I doubt this topic belongs in this thread but you have made a point though. And i can't agree more with you. Nothing in the world is easy even crypto itself seems to be so easy and a lot of people think (All we have to sit in front of laptop/mobile to make money). But in reality a person at start can not manage to sit for 4 to 8 hours in front of devices. Then these types of persons leave the industry or that work by complaining the work is not suitable for them. Actually what you are trying to do here is motivating new comers to not to leave this platform because many people do leave this platform for many factors.

Overall, we should also support them like we were supported when we were new, my local community members really motivated me encouraged me and cared about me in many ways that i can not think of. So, whenever a newbie came in our local community or even in any board i when see there post i also try to encourage them Because nothin is easy for anybody everybody have to make efforts to achieve something and that how economy works too. So we have to be hardworking but at the same time smart worker too.

[Smartvirus]

Life! There isn't any direction to life, its multi directional and everyone has got an individual approach towards it. Depending on what side you pick or how you choose to approach it, it might be favourable our brings you to a low part of existence.

People come to the forum haven't been orientated by those who happens to have dropped by through some existing users while others might stumble on it from surfing the Web but then, has different purposes. It's important that people understand that no matter what the purpose might be, there a different means to archiving them. You might have to pursue a thing by pursuing something else. The good book says, seek first they kingdom and that entails the knowledge of thy kingdom.

Translating that to the forum, it talks about the Knowledge its got and to life, it talks about certain principles that revolved about not having things come free or just happens. Conscious efforts have to be made in other to archive.

[stomachgrowls]

Life is never been easy or something that you could really put that assurance with because everything would really be depending on how hard you do work and made out some good decisions which would really be that a

deciding factor on what fate you would really be having, but of course it would really be needing some sort of or mix of luck because there are moments or times on which this thing is really that relevant or been that applied.
This is why trial and error would really be a never ending kind of cycle in life on which there are ones who do really succeed and there are ones who do still try even up to now and there are ones who do really fail.
Its never been easy when trying out to achieve on something what others had already achieved. If we do pertain about the forum ranks then before merit system had been applied then it is really just that easy to
level up or rank up but on the time that merit was implemented then this is where those new comes or members would really be struggling on ranking their accounts which if you wont really be that
doing your best to be contributive into this forum then you wont really be getting any merits at all.

[ancafe]

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

It is not easy to form a consistent attitude in pursuing what you want because there is a level of boredom when you don't get it. Conversely, excessive expectations can cause a person to experience a level of saturation and eventually have to stop. Doing something is not easy and we need to see a way to achieve it and most importantly don't think too much about big targets and do it in a relaxed manner by continuing to gain knowledge, slowly we will arrive at the target we want.

Everyone's abilities are certainly different, but everyone can achieve their desires in their own way. Get to know your own abilities, continue to increase knowledge by reading and stay optimistic by maintaining consistency, that's how we will draw conclusions about what we want to pursue.

[HajiBagi]

You speak well, but it hasn't always been simple, especially for young men and boys these days. If you're a man and you don't have money or any other sources of income, people will think you're useless and even some of your family members will think you're lazy because you didn't go to work or find something that will put money in your pocket. As a man or person who is willing to improve his life or build something that will make him happy in the future, you must try and never give up on everything you are witnessing because to succeed in life, you will encounter many things that you could never have imagined in your life.

There are many people in the forum today who, when asked how long they were in the forum before getting to the stage or the rank they are today, are unable to explain it because they were patients for a very long time before getting there. Attending the forum is not something that you think you start getting when you come, like merit or start making it in. So, my recommendation to every new member of the forum or any member of the forum who is grumbling about how to acquire merit or he or she wants to rank is to bear in mind that everything in the forum is to be patient and even investing is to have patience, Patience is the best key for everyone in life.

[Sebas.tian]

When you discover your direction in life, it makes life easy at the moment because I have seen many people doing what will not favour them in life because they didn't know their direction in life. And for you to achieve your goal in a particular business you need to work hard to save some money, you will use to lay a good foundation for that business that will make your generation to live to remember you for in the society. Giving up in Bitcoin investment is not a good idea than to discover where the mistakes is coming from and how to find solution to it so that you will not experience losses from it again.

[DeathAngel]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

[Die_empty]

When you discover your direction in life, it makes life easy at the moment because I have seen many people doing what will not favour them in life because they didn't know their direction in life. And for you to achieve your goal in a particular business you need to work hard to save some money, you will use to lay a good foundation for that business that will make your generation to live to remember you for in the society. Giving up in Bitcoin investment is not a good idea than to discover where the mistakes is coming from and how to find solution to it so that you will not experience losses from it again.

One reason why people miss direction in life is competition. People don't understand that everyone is unique so they want to be like someone else. Some people are talented in sports but they choose to become businessmen because they want to be like another person. The same thing also happens in business when some people choose to go into areas they do not know about because they think that others are making more profit from the business area. Success requires focus and determination. To achieve success we need to be persistently diligent until we attain our goals.

[Bloodseekers]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

Everything that happens in our life is a process in living life, maybe not complaining about every process that we go through will make it easier for us to go through the stages in this life, in going through this life process there are some people whose process is very smooth and some have a process that may be unlucky for them. Doing crypto trading is not easy as people say, good knowledge is needed in this matter and we must be able to control ourselves in trading so that we don't experience losses that we don't want.

[Peanutswar]

Newbies that come here see the potential that the forum can earn through the use of the signature campaign, but upon exploring, they knew that the merit system is one of the requirements to rank up, and most like the campaign right now requires at least a minimum rank of a full member, but if they learn more and invest time in the forum how to get merit, they don't need to worry about too much to have this because being knowledgeable member that could contribute a lot of continents merit will follow. Also we have a lot of boards that they can contribute with so they don't need to settle themselves on the top merit-earned board. Theres a lot of information in the forum that they can use in their journey in the forum so earn a profit, the use of it is to help each other to gain knowledge.

[Plaguedeath]

Yesterday was easier, that's why something that old people can easily achieve but now it's become harder and almost impossible due to high competition. Don't forget about privilege too, it's not always they're lazy, but they just can't due to their tiring routinity.

Example you were born from rich parent, you have everything and you don't have to work since you're can study harder. While the unlucky child, they need to work when they're still in elementary school, they don't have any time since they're tired.

[slapper]

But think about this: Despite being genuine, life's challenges might not always be a sign that it doesn't want you to succeed. Instead, growth occurs as a result of a path of learning and earning. People don't just develop by juggling through hoops; they also grow by steadily ascending a stairway. Despite the fact that they have nothing to do with growth, people frequently ascend stairs

Yes, failure contributes to learning in terms of Bitcoin and Bitcointalk. Trees and Bitcoin both have growth rings that indicate age and periods of abundance and scarcity. So even if your cryptocurrency interactions are unsuccessful, like an unwatered plant, you must keep trying, keep learning, and keep believing in Bitcoin, lettuce, or any other produce

[dothebeats]

Life is like that. As bittersweet as it is it cannot be all success. Sometimes despite having the drive, inspiration, and motivation to work and invest things just don't always go the way we expect and want them to. There will be struggles along the way, there will be obstacles that will make us want to just drop everything and quit. However, sometimes all we can do during those hard days is grit our teeth and push forward, may it be by continuing and hoping for the best or quitting to open new opportunities. Life goes on, and so will the struggles and failures but no one succeeds sweetly without those bitter times.

[CODE200]

Not all Legendary ranks are created equal, I've seen some of them that's still active that hasn't reached 2k merits yet and they've been here even before the merit system. Don't just say that it's difficult because the circumstances says it should be, if you think of forum as a means to make money, it's going to be difficult for you because you're trying hard to make posts even though some of those posts don't make sense, you know what you lose when you're a try hard, the enthusiasm. When you're not enthusiastic, you're not ready to learn and you end up not welcoming new ideas to further the discussions which is what the forum should be used in.

[Gladitorcomeback]

Not all Legendary ranks are created equal, I've seen some of them that's still active that hasn't reached 2k merits yet and they've been here even before the merit system. Don't just say that it's difficult because the circumstances says it should be, if you think of forum as a means to make money, it's going to be difficult for you because you're trying hard to make posts even though some of those posts don't make sense, you know what you lose when you're a try hard, the enthusiasm. When you're not enthusiastic, you're not ready to learn and you end up not welcoming new ideas to further the discussions which is what the forum should be used in.

Actually Bitcointalk newbies didn't know the real usecase of this forum and they just thinking that it is place to join signature and earn weekly. If anyone has this idea in mind then Its very hard to achieve this goal as all work to be done here for getting Merit and rankup.

Bitcointalk is place to learn many things about BTC and crypto and if anyone has good posting quality, habits of helping other and at the same time warns about crypto scam and also discussion on new technology then i think newbie can become  more useful members then old members. I agree that comparing with old users whose awarded free Merit its hard for newbie to rankup but everything is possible with hardwork and i hope one has all above quality then he will rankup more quickly then old users.

[mindrust]

It ain't meant to be hard either.

There is the hard way, then there is the easy way.

Sometimes the easy way is way too obvious but we still can miss it and go with the harder way... For example, holding bitcoin is one of the most foolproof way of making money but how many of us follow this strategy? Not many. There are hundreds of thousands of people think they can get rich trading alts but we already know most of them will end up being losers don't we?

Life is pretty easy when you let it be. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[Dzwaafu11]

Example you were born from rich parent, you have everything and you don't have to work since you're can study harder. While the unlucky child, they need to work when they're still in elementary school, they don't have any time since they're tired.

You're right, mate. People who are rich already have what they need, and even their children today have the money to go anywhere in this world where they wish to study. They have enough resources to sponsor them in order to go there, and that is why even after school they use what they have to get what they want, which is a job. And the poor ones who use their lives to struggle, as if they will kill themselves, you will see them yet to be employed.

Unlike the poor ones or those with less privilege, these people are struggling every day to get what they want; some of them are even in school, and they are sponsoring themselves. As you said, it is true that it is not laziness, but what they will use to get what they want is not there.

[MFahad]

One reason why people miss direction in life is competition. People don't understand that everyone is unique so they want to be like someone else. Some people are talented in sports but they choose to become businessmen because they want to be like another person. The same thing also happens in business when some people choose to go into areas they do not know about because they think that others are making more profit from the business area. Success requires focus and determination. To achieve success we need to be persistently diligent until we attain our goals.

The life of everyone will be easy if they become thankful for what they have because its reality that there is no body who achieved every desire in life. Some people thinks that other is happy because they have lots of money but they don't know that having lots of money does not magnify your happiness.

We should not always follow others but should make our lives as everyone desires to have life like this. Same thing people do with trading as they don't know anything but follow others because they become rich due to trading but one thing is important here that success is for those who are talented in that field. May be you are not good in trading but good in business so always select that field in which you are knowledgeable and you have command on that things so you will be successful.

[Yatsan]

One reason why people miss direction in life is competition. People don't understand that everyone is unique so they want to be like someone else. Some people are talented in sports but they choose to become businessmen because they want to be like another person. The same thing also happens in business when some people choose to go into areas they do not know about because they think that others are making more profit from the business area. Success requires focus and determination. To achieve success we need to be persistently diligent until we attain our goals.

The life of everyone will be easy if they become thankful for what they have because its reality that there is no body who achieved every desire in life. Some people thinks that other is happy because they have lots of money but they don't know that having lots of money does not magnify your happiness.

We should not always follow others but should make our lives as everyone desires to have life like this. Same thing people do with trading as they don't know anything but follow others because they become rich due to trading but one thing is important here that success is for those who are talented in that field. May be you are not good in trading but good in business so always select that field in which you are knowledgeable and you have command on that things so you will be successful.

Well indeed happiness is when satisfactions are met but question is, when would you be satisfied? Therefore, it is a normal drive for use to desire more and consequently as long as we are seeking or asking for more, that is where we would feel the struggles or that life is hard. On my end, I'd prefer experiencing this feeling simply because it means I am doing something in order to earn or for situations to be better. We have to acfept the fact that struggles aand hardships are necessary. What's not is to end up struggling in an unending manner because that would simply mean you are doing something wrong which is why problems are still there.

[Frankolala]

Nothing is easy in life,especially when you can't identify which way to go in life to become successful. Life is a gradual process and you don't need to give up on it,even though he have failed. Giving up in life means that you have surrender to defeat and you will never learn from your mistake.

If you are consistent with whatever you are doing,you must be progressive some how and will grow in that you are doing. When you envy someone and feel that you can do better than that person that is when competition comes in. If you want to go into competition with life,you will miss your track and lose focus on life.

[lovesmayfamilis]

OP, try moving this topic to the newbie section.
But if we talk about business, then every business requires proper development and plans. The right investment, the right contract, and the right service will always increase profits. It's hard to compare it to being on a forum. Many take the forum very seriously, but the easier it is for you to take everything without accepting strict rules, the easier it will be for you to be here. People appreciate sincerity. Try it; it always works. You can't force yourself to be something you're not; it's very transparent. But being on the forum with simple goals and interests is always appreciated very respectfully.
Therefore, I would say that the development of your business is very serious and requires great knowledge, but here knowledge can be obtained freely and gradually, without planning any time frame for fulfilling these goals.

[yhiaali3]

Certainly it is not supposed to be easy, you cannot reach any goal in this life, no matter how small it may seem, without making effort and hardship and striving to achieve this goal.

Take, for example, I suffered a lot at the beginning of the forum, and I was wondering how to get a merit? Can my rank rise one day in the forum as these members did? But with patience, perseverance, follow-up on good work, and determination to achieve the goal, I managed to do that, thank God.

Everyone can do it, but they need patience, learning, self-development, and persistence to reach the goal.

[dothebeats]

Certainly it is not supposed to be easy, you cannot reach any goal in this life, no matter how small it may seem, without making effort and hardship and striving to achieve this goal.

Take, for example, I suffered a lot at the beginning of the forum, and I was wondering how to get a merit? Can my rank rise one day in the forum as these members did? But with patience, perseverance, follow-up on good work, and determination to achieve the goal, I managed to do that, thank God.

Everyone can do it, but they need patience, learning, self-development, and persistence to reach the goal.

Couldn't have said it any better. We all start somewhere and it is up to us if we are going to do something in order for us to make a development for ourselves and rise. We cannot control where we come from but we can control where we go from there. That is something I have always reminded myself of and here I am now doing better and making progress each day.

[Yamane_Keto]

Commitment to a specific goal is what makes you reach this goal. If you do not commit to the goal, even easy things will turn into hell. Some jobs do not require a lot of effort, but the loss of desire is what makes it difficult. If you consider this forum as a job, sometimes creating 25 posts per week is boring compared to spending Hours in the Twitter app.
it can be applied to every job whenever I feel bored will be difficult, even if it is an hour a week.

[BIT-BENDER]

Bitcointalk is definitely different from life. All this unnecessary emotional stories only make it complicated I actually don't see any reason for it.

There is no need to equate Bitcointalk to life, Bitcointalk is not the only forum, many of us are actually on or have been on other forum and ones you play by the rule I think you would be okay. Learn at your own pace.

I was curious about Bitcoin even before getting into the forum and joining in has helped me grow in my search for knowledge but I enjoyed every process .

[palle11]

The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

This is instructive enough for someone who has washed his or hand off crypto to make a turn around but to do that is not just to dive in back without a proper check on why taking the decision to leave in the moment he did. So, the person need to reevaluate the investment he or she did to understand way forward. For example if they invested in a scam project then it is there fault that he didn't do appreciate research before investment. An investor who put his effort in a low value coins should now know that they have caused themselves the harm in the past. Investment in bitcoin is the most guarantee investment in cryptocurrency.

[Lorence.xD]

Certainly it is not supposed to be easy, you cannot reach any goal in this life, no matter how small it may seem, without making effort and hardship and striving to achieve this goal.

Take, for example, I suffered a lot at the beginning of the forum, and I was wondering how to get a merit? Can my rank rise one day in the forum as these members did? But with patience, perseverance, follow-up on good work, and determination to achieve the goal, I managed to do that, thank God.

Everyone can do it, but they need patience, learning, self-development, and persistence to reach the goal.

Exactly, anything has a processed and with that process, for sure there's a lot of challenges you will face so it literally ain't meant to be easy. Because nowadays people would love to have a quick rich or easy money which is not pretty realistic. If you are really eager to reach that goal, for sure you are not scared to start with nothing. And OP actually exampled the forum merits and activity which is really hard to reach this stage. If you are genuine member in the forum, you wouldn't even focus on getting merit as long as you are contributing, people would give it to you since you deserve it. If you are wondering if you have a progress? Just take a look at your old self or even yesterday if you have any improvement. This actually helps me to become a better person everyday.

[ancafe]

Nothing is easy in life,especially when you can't identify which way to go in life to become successful. Life is a gradual process and you don't need to give up on it,even though he have failed. Giving up in life means that you have surrender to defeat and you will never learn from your mistake.

An easy life only when living a small time and at that time we don't have any responsibility to make money. The process of forming a person cannot be separated from the various problems faced and that is where we are taught how to be responsible. When we are able to go through the test process, there will be many conveniences that we can take, because we are used to going through difficult times and don't give up with circumstances.

If you are consistent with whatever you are doing,you must be progressive some how and will grow in that you are doing. When you envy someone and feel that you can do better than that person that is when competition comes in. If you want to go into competition with life,you will miss your track and lose focus on life.

Envy of other people's achievements is good, but it must be positive and where we can make a stepping stone from other people's success to make steps forward for ourselves. Consistency must also be accompanied by progressive and both can help us achieve the desired success. Believe that success must be sought and giving up on reality is a betrayal.

[lalabotax]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

Because life is not a simple as we expected.
because we as humans have a lot of wills that always feel lacking. Sometimes, we think that our plan is perfect and it will go very well. however, the performance of nature is not like that. There will definitely always be obstacles and various problems that come to us when we are trying to do something. I think, because there really is nothing easy in this world, so we have to work extra hard to be able to make it happen. not to mention that there are several factors from anywhere that make us things that might hinder us. And not everyone can be patient and able to go through all the problems and obstacles. So that sometimes it seems very difficult and finally gives up. but not all of them are like that, because many are successful when their efforts are indeed extraordinary, their consistency and their efforts.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

And this is just one example of what happens to most of us. Deciding to invest in Bitcoin alone can be a debatable decision both within us and if others find out. Moreover, this is a risky thing. But why are so many people interested? because indeed Bitcoin is something that is really worth fighting for. As long as we are able to learn and invest consistently, then this will be a good thing, even though the journey will not be as smooth as that.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

Everyone can decided that this is what they want and how they wanted to have it done because life is simple and we need to make sure that we have the positive take while living it, we shouldn't complain always that life is unfair and uneasy, we actually needs to try harder the more in what we do, the first thing to ask ourselves is that how much are we giving it and how do we need to be fast in thinking on ways out of the life challenges we may encounter.

[serjent05]

Life is never been easy or something that you could really put that assurance with because everything would really be depending on how hard you do work and made out some good decisions which would really be that a

Blame this difficulty to our ancestor the first man and woman who disobey God's command.  We could have been living in paradise if they only follow God's commands of not eating the fruit of wisdom.  Blame it to the greed of the girl of surpassing the creator even with the temptation of the wicked snake, if there is no greed to surpass the Creator, they won't heed that temptation.

Well that was in the past, if we go against the flow of life it will always difficult.  Same goes when creating innovations and discoveries there is always negative reactions and condemnation. But if we persevere, be smart enough to thinks of ways to lessen the burden or creates some ways to make learning and striving a bit fun by challenging ourselves to the limit and be accustomed to it, we might find it not difficult at all.  I believe it is a matter of acceptance, familiarity and optimistic view in life that can lessen the difficulty of life.

[odunybiz]

Commitment to a specific goal is what makes you reach this goal. If you do not commit to the goal, even easy things will turn into hell. Some jobs do not require a lot of effort, but the loss of desire is what makes it difficult. If you consider this forum as a job, sometimes creating 25 posts per week is boring compared to spending Hours in the Twitter app.
it can be applied to every job whenever I feel bored will be difficult, even if it is an hour a week.

There is nothing one can not do of you desire to do it. It is one thing to be committed and is another thing to always be ready to learn. Your great passion in learning new things as been the key for your success in the forum.

[Wimex]

I find it a very realistic and empowering perspective on life and the process of achieving goals. Indeed, achieving the titles, careers and businesses we desire can require significant effort. .. I have always said that obstacles and failures along the way are opportunities to grow and improve and having an open mind to learn from bad experiences and turn them into opportunities for growth is a very positive approach

I think what you say about a successful business is not just about making a profit, but it is essential to address multiple factors such as product/service quality, marketing, distribution and more... This applies to many aspects. of life, from studies to investing and even other aspects of life on the other hand, the analogy you make between the process of achieving achievements in the forum, in business and in life in general, is quite accurate... well, I stress that success does not come overnight and whoever has Achieved Outstanding High levels of hard work, constant improvement, and contribution to others are an important motivation for anyone looking to advance.

[AicecreaME]

I agree.

Good things in life can't be achieved overnight or even in a short period of time, because those things that you achieved easily, can also be loss easily. People want easy things in life, there's nothing wrong with that, but most of the time, that's the reason why something bad happens to them, like they've got scam by a ponzi scheme like their money will be tripled in just 3 days.

While those people who made their foundations solid by their experiences in life, are the ones who stays longer even for a lifetime.

[icalical]

I am kinda believer of the Murphy's Law, 'Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, at the worst possible time' even tho it's not always happened, but when it happened at least I am ready. I never expect life to be easy, so it is not easy it will be expected and I know what to do, and when it's surprisingly become easy I am not become unguarded.

Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

[michellee]

I agree.

Good things in life can't be achieved overnight or even in a short period of time, because those things that you achieved easily, can also be loss easily. People want easy things in life, there's nothing wrong with that, but most of the time, that's the reason why something bad happens to them, like they've got scam by a ponzi scheme like their money will be tripled in just 3 days.

While those people who made their foundations solid by their experiences in life, are the ones who stays longer even for a lifetime.

We must understand that achieving goals requires a process where everyone's process is different. We know that in achieving goals, we also use different methods so we cannot say that other people's methods are more effective than ours.

But as long as we keep doing what we believe will work and keep trying, we will surely achieve it one day. Rome wasn't built in a day.

And when we experience many deceptions before we succeed in achieving one goal out of the many goals we make, it will mature us and make us wiser in achieving one other goal. And it will teach us a lesson to make a plan that can help us achieve the next goals. Be sure and keep trying. One day, we will surely achieve our goals.

[Unbunplease]

We must understand that achieving goals requires a process where everyone's process is different. We know that in achieving goals, we also use different methods so we cannot say that other people's methods are more effective than ours.

But as long as we keep doing what we believe will work and keep trying, we will surely achieve it one day. Rome wasn't built in a day.

And when we experience many deceptions before we succeed in achieving one goal out of the many goals we make, it will mature us and make us wiser in achieving one other goal. And it will teach us a lesson to make a plan that can help us achieve the next goals. Be sure and keep trying. One day, we will surely achieve our goals.

  Goals can be quick and deceptive. Often a person strives for a goal that is better not to achieve, because it will bring him only trouble. A person may become the owner of a business he does not understand and end up in jail. Therefore, goals should be set competently, taking into account personal characteristics

[passwordnow]

Good comparison, there's more to life aside from Bitcoin and the forum and we have to be dealing with it either. And for one to be successful, there have to be a lot of experiences that include failures. Because if you're not going to experience any failure, you will not appreciate the fruit of your labor which is going to be your success. And we've got different walks of life and the way we determine success, happiness and every aspects of our lives varies. Hardship is part of the process and everything that comes out from it is always worth it.

[Cryptomultiplier]

It sure isn't easy living, mostly now when the economy, unemployment, disease breakout, tech advancement and A.i to ease burdens and jobs related stress has been developed.
 Even during the times where major civilizations relied on agriculture/farming or other conservative survival practices and means of trading which required little knowledge, it wasn't easy then, so why should it be now?

Even with the introduction of A.I trading tools to ease traders burden of trading, one still needs to keep a watchful eye out for the patterns.
We should take advantage of the moment, of our strenght, of our environment everyday inorder to make this easy enough.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

Many have acquired wealth with some of these altcoins while some have totally been discouraged by them and left cryptocurrency entirely all because they have been once disappointed, i wouldn't blame the crypto projects but the investors themselves because if they had known the risk ad required information needed on those coins they wouldn't have invested on them, the worst mistake a newbie can do is to begin his career in cryptocurrency with altcoins.

[Lanatsa]

It sure isn't easy living, mostly now when the economy, unemployment, disease breakout, tech advancement and A.i to ease burdens and jobs related stress has been developed.
 Even during the times where major civilizations relied on agriculture/farming or other conservative survival practices and means of trading which required little knowledge, it wasn't easy then, so why should it be now?

Even with the introduction of A.I trading tools to ease traders burden of trading, one still needs to keep a watchful eye out for the patterns.
We should take advantage of the moment, of our strenght, of our environment everyday inorder to make this easy enough.

Day to day living is really that always a challenge on which there's no way that you could really be able to live up life to be convenient as possible unless if you are born with a rich family then these issues or problems cant really be experienced by you but for most people who are living on middle to low class then they are basically the ones who do really experience out and struggles and this is what reality we are facing on
and its never been that easy in the first place. So what would be the solution or temporary ways for you to be able to survive? Just go with the flow and act or adjust accordingly because if you are that someone who are really that trying out to survive then it is really just that normal on having this kind of approach on things because if you wont really be making out such adjustment then you would definitely struggle.

This is the reality of living on which to those rich people are the ones who do live a life on most convenient way and the ones who would suffer are the ones who arent that financially capable or to those people
who do have limited resources and limited kind of benefits and even with that limited knowledge. For trading then it could give out that kind of probability for you to take advantage but this isnt something a
skill that you could really be able to acquire or get which its just normal that you would really be that having the challenge or something like this.

[Smartvirus]

The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

What really would it have been should the world come with the a particular ease to having things done, that would make things a lot uninteresting.

Now, it would be awful to giving up on everything because you failed with your first, second or third encounter. In fact, your more bound to fail om a first trier because, your a novice at whatever you would be trying for a first time and lack of experience is always going to play its tricks on you and should you manage to get your first triers right, you still wouldn't be having an optimum result at it. It's always going yo be a near or distance result from what would have been the best or would be considered better.

In all that, you get to try again as, trying something entirely new poses the most risk of all.

[ChiBitCTy]

Just an FYI, don't be fooled by the "Legendary" ranking around here. I remember when I was new I thought that it meant something, until I saw a good majority of them open their mouths and say stupid shit constantly.  Many are still bought accounts, or people who ranked up easily under the new system.  To your point of working hard in life, you're right, the same applies now to becoming legendary as you really have to earn it these days. 

Anyways, keep grinding everyone.

[blckhawk]

Commitment to a specific goal is what makes you reach this goal. If you do not commit to the goal, even easy things will turn into hell. Some jobs do not require a lot of effort, but the loss of desire is what makes it difficult. If you consider this forum as a job, sometimes creating 25 posts per week is boring compared to spending Hours in the Twitter app.
it can be applied to every job whenever I feel bored will be difficult, even if it is an hour a week.

Commitment depends on the motivation though, imagine saying that to someone who had to mourn the loss of a loved, I'm pretty sure any sane minded person here will not be able to operate at their 100% at that day if something devastating happens. Also, don't rely too much on desire or motivation if you want to do something, as you've said already, you lose it from time to time, what many people need to learn is to have discipline because even if you don't have a motivation to do something that day, you can still function because something in you feels incomplete because you've tricked your mind into a habit due to your discipline.

Just an FYI, don't be fooled by the "Legendary" ranking around here. I remember when I was new I thought that it meant something, until I saw a good majority of them open their mouths and say stupid shit constantly.  Many are still bought accounts, or people who ranked up easily under the new system.  To your point of working hard in life, you're right, the same applies now to becoming legendary as you really have to earn it these days. 

Anyways, keep grinding everyone.

Imagine if a rank lower than Legendary said what you said, I'm sure that it will prick up some ears but I do agree with you rank don't matter, it's what they say and what their opinion about something that matters most for this kind of stuff. With the merit system, I think it's helpful that this has this system because in a way, it filters out spammers from those that really post something of quality although it's still abused or misappropriated by some.

[gunhell16]

Surviving in the world we face today is simply not easy to survive. If we do not act we will soon die of hunger. Everything today requires hard work and effort if we want to get something. Now as you said about the legendary rank that others have here it was not acquired quickly or overnight.

That is a heavy and bloody challenge to achieve. It takes deep dedication and long patience to achieve that. It's the same with having Bitcoin, you still need to work hard to have it. Just don't give up and keep going and be strong for what we want to achieve in life.

[Mame89]

It is not easy to form a consistent attitude in pursuing what you want because there is a level of boredom when you don't get it. Conversely, excessive expectations can cause a person to experience a level of saturation and eventually have to stop. Doing something is not easy and we need to see a way to achieve it and most importantly don't think too much about big targets and do it in a relaxed manner by continuing to gain knowledge, slowly we will arrive at the target we want.

Actually the problem of consistency and building this habit is something I've just been trying to do lately. After reading several topics in this forum, I slowly started implementing the system in my life. For example: setting realistic and clear goals, both in this forum and when trading. For example, where I often buy bitcoin with the DCA strategy. Even though it's still not consistent, it's good to try a little while observing what needs to be improved in the future, such as building habits or eliminating negative habits.

Everyone's abilities are certainly different, but everyone can achieve their desires in their own way. Get to know your own abilities, continue to increase knowledge by reading and stay optimistic by maintaining consistency, that's how we will draw conclusions about what we want to pursue.

Agree with the “all or nothing” Mindset point. I used to feel that if there were circumstances that prevented the habit from being carried out, it would be better for me to just leave it, but now I am starting to try to maintain the habit, although not as much as usual. I once imagined that I would do the posting, to the point where I didn't see the end (all the stress, it happened over and over again), but the accumulation of everything we do will pay off later in this forum.

[Wakate]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

Many have acquired wealth with some of these altcoins while some have totally been discouraged by them and left cryptocurrency entirely all because they have been once disappointed, i wouldn't blame the crypto projects but the investors themselves because if they had known the risk ad required information needed on those coins they wouldn't have invested on them, the worst mistake a newbie can do is to begin his career in cryptocurrency with altcoins.

the mistake that people are making in the Crypto world is as a result of nit getting enough information about the market already. Cryptocurrency is very sensitive because it involves finance which is one thing that makes it so risky because any wrong decision can lead to lose if fund.

Cryptocurrency has both the hard part and soft part and any wrong mistake can cause total lose of fund. Many newbies are falling into the wrong projects because of lack of genuine information. It is very important as investors and traders to ensure that we make scrupulous research that can help us in making the wrong decisions.

[uneng]

Everything meaningful in life you want to achieve will demand effort, skills and knowledge from you. Just like OP said, it applies to every aspects of our personal life. Even inside a relationship with another person, those items are needed in order to make it succeed.

And I guess when things are too easy, and there isn't any challenges involved, the conquests don't have a tasty flavour. It's not rewarding, so we, human beings, tend to seek for the difficult tasks and challenges in our daily life, because they are the ones which will really make us feel proud of ourselves and of what we have done.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

They say life is not a bed of roses, nor is it a bed of serrated objects; rather, life is a mixture of both good times and challenging times. Just that some people were born with a golden spoon, and also that some people are in a country where everything is made available and possible for them through the government. Basically, some people also get favoured through their journey in every aspect of their lives. Like you mentioned in terms of merit, some members can get favour from a merit source and receive it more quickly than others. The same applies to business; one can just go into business and, for the first year, make more profit than some people who have been in the same business for years. Some people too can just go into crypto for the first time, and they are already lucky with the few Altcoins they choose. In the case of others, it's usually the opposite because they don't get such favour, but the fact is that one should keep moving forward with positive thoughts in their mind.

[Ultegra134]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

Many have acquired wealth with some of these altcoins while some have totally been discouraged by them and left cryptocurrency entirely all because they have been once disappointed, i wouldn't blame the crypto projects but the investors themselves because if they had known the risk ad required information needed on those coins they wouldn't have invested on them, the worst mistake a newbie can do is to begin his career in cryptocurrency with altcoins.

the mistake that people are making in the Crypto world is as a result of nit getting enough information about the market already. Cryptocurrency is very sensitive because it involves finance which is one thing that makes it so risky because any wrong decision can lead to lose if fund.

Cryptocurrency has both the hard part and soft part and any wrong mistake can cause total lose of fund. Many newbies are falling into the wrong projects because of lack of genuine information. It is very important as investors and traders to ensure that we make scrupulous research that can help us in making the wrong decisions.

Not exactly; the issue with a large group of people entering the cryptocurrency scene is that they think it's a get-rich-quick scheme. This statement is certainly not true; cryptocurrencies are not a panacea that yields x500 gains on a daily basis. Yes, some people got rich because they had Bitcoin stored and forgotten since 2012; some others benefited from pump and dump coins, but there are also plenty of others that lost a ton of money. Cryptocurrencies are now becoming a trend, just like the stock market. A few decades ago, people also thought they could become wealthy quickly.

As the thread suggests, life isn't that simple, and not everything goes according to plan. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the majority of us wouldn't make the same choices if we had the opportunity to alter the past, and I'm not only talking about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies here, but also important life choices such as studies, residence, occupation, and so on.

[Mauser]

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Unfortunately, you are absolutely right, the easy days of Bitcoins are over and we can't rely on them coming back. It's been a long time since the price for 1 BTC was below 1,000 USD and I don't think we are ever going to see it again. As with most things in life we need to focus on the long run now and not look for the easy short way. Bitcoins became so main stream over the last 3 years that it's just not likely anymore to make large price jumps in a short period of time. There are so many different investors from all over the world that are trading regularly their coins, seeing a price movement of a few hundred % in a few weeks is not realistic. Investors who are looking for such kind of returns need to go into the Alt coin market, but here the risk is much greater, there is no guarantee to make a profit. Having a long term goal is the best approach to life, it doesn’t matter if it’s reaching legendary rank on the forum, or building a profitable crypto portfolio. All those things require dedication and time. We need to manage our expectations accordingly, otherwise we might feel bad if we don’t achieve such high returns in a short period of time.

[Fuso.hp]

We don't do things as easily as we think and our goals are not always the same. When I was playing good cricket and football in my childhood, my dream was to become a good player but with the change of time, my dream changed, there was a time when my dream changed, I thought I would be a good engineer, when I grew up, my dream changed again and then again. It seems like doing business means from childhood till now we have grown up only to dream and every step of dreaming our dreams have changed. There comes a stage in life where a right decision is definitely needed for life and when a right decision is made then it takes a lot of effort to move life to that stage. To move forward with a certain goal requires a lot of hard work and waiting and long practice but we can reach our goal. The path to reach the goal is always bumpy and only those who walk the bumpy path to reach the end can achieve success in life.

[CageMabok]

Many have acquired wealth with some of these altcoins while some have totally been discouraged by them and left cryptocurrency entirely all because they have been once disappointed, i wouldn't blame the crypto projects but the investors themselves because if they had known the risk ad required information needed on those coins they wouldn't have invested on them, the worst mistake a newbie can do is to begin his career in cryptocurrency with altcoins.

This kind of mistake is the fault of each of them who basically might be too lazy to do research so they immediately choose an altcoin for the reason that there are more attractive profit offers. In addition, investors who quit and leave the crypto space for good as a result of their disappointment after suffering losses are investors who have no guts and do not want to see their own mistakes when making an investment.

And conversely, investors who are still surviving in the crypto space while still correcting their mistakes and continuing to invest in better crypto assets are investors who have great courage and very strong courage because they certainly have seen where they made mistakes and continue to understand the risks so they don't again experiencing a second disappointment in their future investment assets. So all these mistakes absolutely come from each of them.

[rikybrosh]

if it's easy then everyone can do that. people paid because they can do that some people can't do. a doctor paid because they can cure people, technicians also the same. there are many ability that owned by certain people and that ability take them to the certain level in economic and society life. but in my opinion, there is something wrong with merit system in this forum, i think it is not goes well, maybe if it replaced by like button will much better just like facebook, instagram, and tiktok.

[ancafe]

Actually the problem of consistency and building this habit is something I've just been trying to do lately. After reading several topics in this forum, I slowly started implementing the system in my life. For example: setting realistic and clear goals, both in this forum and when trading. For example, where I often buy bitcoin with the DCA strategy. Even though it's still not consistent, it's good to try a little while observing what needs to be improved in the future, such as building habits or eliminating negative habits.

Thus you have reached the stage of ability to see something more positive. The forums have taught us a lot especially about consistency around cryptocurrencies and especially in bitcoin and there are many ways we can go about accumulating bitcoins slowly and regularly. One of them is by using the DCA method or trying to learn how to trade properly, so that at some point we will achieve success in investing. Building habits and eliminating negative things is an effort to make us more advanced in thinking and this is where consistency is needed for us to survive.

Agree with the “all or nothing” Mindset point. I used to feel that if there were circumstances that prevented the habit from being carried out, it would be better for me to just leave it, but now I am starting to try to maintain the habit, although not as much as usual. I once imagined that I would do the posting, to the point where I didn't see the end (all the stress, it happened over and over again), but the accumulation of everything we do will pay off later in this forum.

Don't always think about results, but occasionally we need to make a study of why the process we are going through has not achieved satisfactory results. Sometimes what we hope for doesn't necessarily work out as it should and there may be a process that we go through, so the results we want are not achieved as we expect. The mindset will direct you and anyone else to achieve success because if we think positively, the results will also be positive, as long as we don't neglect the process.

[Inwestour]

They say life is not a bed of roses, nor is it a bed of serrated objects; rather, life is a mixture of both good times and challenging times. Just that some people were born with a golden spoon, and also that some people are in a country where everything is made available and possible for them through the government. Basically, some people also get favoured through their journey in every aspect of their lives. Like you mentioned in terms of merit, some members can get favour from a merit source and receive it more quickly than others. The same applies to business; one can just go into business and, for the first year, make more profit than some people who have been in the same business for years. Some people too can just go into crypto for the first time, and they are already lucky with the few Altcoins they choose. In the case of others, it's usually the opposite because they don't get such favour, but the fact is that one should keep moving forward with positive thoughts in their mind.

Yes, there will always be a few lucky ones who can get somewhere better than everyone else, but it is more important for us to find some kind of algorithm that could be accessible and understandable to everyone and could also bring good results for everyone. I'm not sure that even bitcoin can be such a tool, because as it turns out, not everyone can buy it at the right time and sell it in a bull market.

[fauzan Ichsan]

They say life is not a bed of roses, nor is it a bed of serrated objects; rather, life is a mixture of both good times and challenging times. Just that some people were born with a golden spoon, and also that some people are in a country where everything is made available and possible for them through the government. Basically, some people also get favoured through their journey in every aspect of their lives. Like you mentioned in terms of merit, some members can get favour from a merit source and receive it more quickly than others. The same applies to business; one can just go into business and, for the first year, make more profit than some people who have been in the same business for years. Some people too can just go into crypto for the first time, and they are already lucky with the few Altcoins they choose. In the case of others, it's usually the opposite because they don't get such favour, but the fact is that one should keep moving forward with positive thoughts in their mind.

Yes, there will always be a few lucky ones who can get somewhere better than everyone else, but it is more important for us to find some kind of algorithm that could be accessible and understandable to everyone and could also bring good results for everyone. I'm not sure that even bitcoin can be such a tool, because as it turns out, not everyone can buy it at the right time and sell it in a bull market.

besides luck, those who have knowledge will certainly be able to plan success in investing. and on the other hand, of course there are people who suffer from their negligence, even though actually investing in bitcoin is still wide open for profit, because from time to time the development of bitcoin in terms of adoption is always growing, and many investors are starting to look at bitcoin as an asset with satisfying returns.

[Qiubell5]

I agree OP. Life is not easy, it takes struggle and sacrifice to be successful. Failing is commonplace in life. But it is from failure that everyone learns, failure makes a person to rise again and correct mistakes. And I'm sure every effort will definitely bear fruit.

[Kakmakr]

I think the new "snow flake" generation where everyone get a medal for participation.... think that life is fair and it must be easy. The moment when they leave school.. they soon realize that you have to fight for everything in life and every day is a survival.

You do not get anything for free in life and the most rewarding things you do get.. are the ones that you fought for the hardest. I have fought for every single penny that I have made in my life and the time and blood ..sweat and tears was all part of the fun to get it. 

[wiss19]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

Destiny does play its role, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean that one should just sit back and say I will let my destiny play out since I won't get anything if I'm not destined to get it, but that isn't true, hard work and prayers can actually make one's destiny changed, so it's always about hard work and dedication.

[Noson]

What a timely post!

For a newbie like me who's still trying to settle down and make a meaningful impact here, this was highly inspiring to read!

Well, one thing I have come to understand is, consistency is a by-product of discipline. Thus, staying consistent with a goal requires strong mental affirmation of consistent commitment, otherwise nothing meaningful can be achieved.

It's not been easy for me to earn merit here and I'm not sure how it works. Sometimes I ask, do I have to make meaningful posts first to earn merits OR can I earn merits from meaningful contributions?... I don't have an answer to this yet. However, I have been patient enough to stay consistent recently while hoping that with time I will grow!

This is also an encouragement to all newbies reading this, if we stay committed, learn the process, and show up consistently, we will grow eventually.

[KingsDen]

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

This is exactly my case and why I became interested in bitcoin. I have heard about bitcoin and read about it but I didn't have that close friend that will lead me to it. I never had the guys to make move myself. Even if I did, I would have ended up in one of those exchanges that winded up.

But 2020, I was scammed. But it wasn't through bitcoin but I made the payment with bitcoin. And that was my first bitcoin transaction. After I discovered it was a scam, that was when I made up my mind to understand this bitcoin I used to make  scam payment. I didn't just give up but I studied the bitcoin and later landed in this forum.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.

I remembered when I prayed and wished to be a snr member. But see me today, just a few counts of merits I'll be a legendary member.

[tjtonmoy]

Hard work is the key to success. Those who are god-gifted people, need to work hard too in order to achieve success in life. There are no exceptions. Give it time and have patience while doing hard work. One day success will come knocking at your door. Life is a journey and the road is full of ups and downs. Those who are able to endure such things and move forward are the ones who are successful.
Once you create a good reputation, the journey will be a bit easier. But before that, you need to keep holding on to your life. One can achieve success at an early age meanwhile others will need to work till old age to become successful. That's how life works and everything around us. Life is full of opportunities if you are capable. Make yourself capable and wait for that opportunity. Never give up. That's the key. If you fail is one, there will be other ways to achieve success. All you need to do is try.

[Bloodseekers]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

Destiny does play its role, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean that one should just sit back and say I will let my destiny play out since I won't get anything if I'm not destined to get it, but that isn't true, hard work and prayers can actually make one's destiny changed, so it's always about hard work and dedication.

Yes, you are right, in achieving success, of course we have to make a persistent struggle to achieve it. On our way to success, of course we have many challenges and this will be a lesson for if we have achieved that success. As you said it is very true that destiny does play its role, but without us taking any action against ourselves it is just a very stupid action.

[Davidvictorson]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

Jim Rohn said, do not wish that it were easier wish that you were better. This is where most people including myself get it wrong. Life cannot be easier. We rather have to get better, stronger, and smarter.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

No. Life is actually indifferent. But what I would tell you is that the law of attraction works. The Universe answers to the law of attract. And just like the author of one book I read said, whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

What I know or have observed about the forum is that just as in the crypto world where we have whales and rest of them, there is a hierarchical structure in this forum. Also, there is a free entry to the top if you work hard and contribute positively to the forum's growth. Nobody is going to stop you. Rather you will be helped along the way to the top. I hope this made some sense.

[dothebeats]

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

What I know or have observed about the forum is that just as in the crypto world where we have whales and rest of them, there is a hierarchical structure in this forum. Also, there is a free entry to the top if you work hard and contribute positively to the forum's growth. Nobody is going to stop you. Rather you will be helped along the way to the top. I hope this made some sense.

There will always be a system of hierarchy everywhere. Now, it can be taken in a positive way wherein people will be able to work hard to achieve a higher position in the hierarchy or they can take it in a negative way wherein they believe there is a barrier between the different levels in the hierarchy which pushes for inequality. Personally, I take it the same way yous stated, I use it as a way for people of a higher level than I am to guide me and to learn from them. I take them as an example.

[CarnagexD]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

Destiny does play its role, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean that one should just sit back and say I will let my destiny play out since I won't get anything if I'm not destined to get it, but that isn't true, hard work and prayers can actually make one's destiny changed, so it's always about hard work and dedication.

You are the product of your past decisions. We create our own destiny and future by acting upon those. It's not about where are you at now in your life, or how many bitcoins are you currently holding. It's all about how are you working hard towards your goals. And for most of us, the end goal is to give back to people and help. However, we cannot help anyone if we don't help ourselves first.

As much as there is nothing free in this world, all of those things that we want must be worked hard first.

[eightdots]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

Destiny does play its role, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean that one should just sit back and say I will let my destiny play out since I won't get anything if I'm not destined to get it, but that isn't true, hard work and prayers can actually make one's destiny changed, so it's always about hard work and dedication.

You are the product of your past decisions. We create our own destiny and future by acting upon those. It's not about where are you at now in your life, or how many bitcoins are you currently holding. It's all about how are you working hard towards your goals. And for most of us, the end goal is to give back to people and help. However, we cannot help anyone if we don't help ourselves first.

As much as there is nothing free in this world, all of those things that we want must be worked hard first.

We cannot achieve anything without effort. If we make an effort, we must raise the quality of our effort. Every day should be better than the day before. We must first improve ourselves and then be useful to our family and environment. Nothing is easy. Seeing people around me striving to achieve some of their goals motivates me. I also try to make good things happen. Lots of people here are also trying.

We must gain our economic freedom and positively affect our environment in this sense. Of course there is destiny. We are the ones who determine the direction of our destiny. Our choices and efforts lead us to where we want to be.

[Cling18]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

Destiny does play its role, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean that one should just sit back and say I will let my destiny play out since I won't get anything if I'm not destined to get it, but that isn't true, hard work and prayers can actually make one's destiny changed, so it's always about hard work and dedication.

You are the product of your past decisions. We create our own destiny and future by acting upon those. It's not about where are you at now in your life, or how many bitcoins are you currently holding. It's all about how are you working hard towards your goals. And for most of us, the end goal is to give back to people and help. However, we cannot help anyone if we don't help ourselves first.

As much as there is nothing free in this world, all of those things that we want must be worked hard first.

We cannot achieve anything without effort. If we make an effort, we must raise the quality of our effort. Every day should be better than the day before. We must first improve ourselves and then be useful to our family and environment. Nothing is easy. Seeing people around me striving to achieve some of their goals motivates me. I also try to make good things happen. Lots of people here are also trying.

We must gain our economic freedom and positively affect our environment in this sense. Of course there is destiny. We are the ones who determine the direction of our destiny. Our choices and efforts lead us to where we want to be.

We can't get everything we want instantly without exerting an effort. Everything has to be worked hard for. We will go through a lot before achieving what we want but it will all be worth it. Hard work always pays off so we need to double our effort to achieve what we want. There's no shortcut to everything.
We might say that we were born poor or we were born without too much opportunities but it is us who could change our fate. We can always make things better no matter how hard life is.
Life is what we make it and we can't just always complain about it if we aren't doing something to make our lives better.

[mirakal]

There are no shortcuts in life. If you want to be in a better position, then work for it until you succeed. Success may not happen overnight, but once you are working on it, things will definitely fall on its right place. That’s why in every endeavor that fails, in every business that ends up being bankrupt, in every goal that has not reached, learn not to quit. Though we don’t hold the future, but if you keep setting the things right, if you stick with its basic rules, if you keep being patient all the time, then everything will be smooth sailing along the way. Just learn not to give up, and keep motivating yourself, in the end success will eventually come your way.

[letteredhub]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Generally, nothing good in life comes easy you have to pay a price for whatever kind of situation, condition or position you want to attain in life. Doing the extraordinary in your line of business, or even in the forum puts you closers to your desired expectations in life.  In the forum for instance, for you to grow in ranks you must learn and grow yourself as a person in knowledge and that knowledge would in turn reflect in your discussions in the forum determining your merit attractions by the quality of what you give out.

Same with business, some people are not growing in their line of business because they are redundant with old knowledge of what they knew before starting the business, while their counterparts in same business have gone ahead of them paying for advance courses training and learning about the new innovations and techniques that have evolved about their business, they now put in all these new acquired knowledge into their business causing it to attract more customers and growth. The simple thing about growing in life is doing what others are afraid or procrastinating to do, that's what distinguishes your levels of successes.

[uchegod-21]

There are no shortcuts in life. If you want to be in a better position, then work for it until you succeed. Success may not happen overnight, but once you are working on it, things will definitely fall on its right place. That’s why in every endeavor that fails, in every business that ends up being bankrupt, in every goal that has not reached, learn not to quit. Though we don’t hold the future, but if you keep setting the things right, if you stick with its basic rules, if you keep being patient all the time, then everything will be smooth sailing along the way. Just learn not to give up, and keep motivating yourself, in the end success will eventually come your way.

Sometimes it is advisable not to follow the rule of life so strictly. We have to be flexible and adaptive in whatever that is happening in our environment. If we decide to read the rule of life verbatim and follow it we could at a point see ourselves suffering unnecessarily, for instance, you have encouraged everyone to work hard as the only way to be successful, but then some people are not working hard, but they are smart enough to be successful.

Another advice you aid is that we should not quit no matter how tough it is, but most times it is advisable to quit and start again because if you are on the wrong lane and don't quit the end may be bad. The life does not necessarily have a hard rule to follow.

[tread93]

A lot of what you said probably resonates with a lot of the folks on here, including me. This is so true that things in this life do not come easy, hard work is the work of kings! You have to work like your life depends on it and you have to tolerate all the negative bs and mitigate it, deflect it, deny it and press on and continue striving for greatness. There is no other way. There is no shortcut, even if you wish that there was. There is only trial and error. Quitting we have all faced to some extent and we know the feeling of how shitty that is, be bullish. Manifest it! Be like Bitcoin and surprise the hell out of anyone who never believed in you.

[freedomgo]

Life is hard and tough, but you’re bound to live your life the way you make it. If you keep on working for its progress despite how many times you have fallen, you will eventually create positive results in life. But if you get scared and fearful and become less motivated each time you fall, you will never be successful with your life. Life is hard and has definitely a lot of risks to take, that’s why you need to be brave and be more motivated to keep on moving forward, no matter how rocky or shaky the path that you’re going to take.

[Gozie51]

Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

I like that part of working smart because many people are still thinking and believing in the old ways of having to live life and make ends meet. They believe for you to succeed you have to have alot of energy to do physical jobs, no , because things have changed and we also need to change and adapt to that changed environment. The COVID-19 showed alot of example on how possible the internet could be explored and from then many businesses have moved offices to online and new business opportunities are opening up daily.

Working smart is not to invest without proper research to avoid being scammed because if you are scammed then it discourages you and draws you back. So be smart to take right business decisions that can increase your financial status.

[Rockstarguy]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

In life their is  nothing good that comes easily, everything good their must be sacrifice that needs to be paid to achieve it. Sometimes in life, life gives luck that we don't really work so much on achieving things but this only happens in life once in a while.  Hardwork really pays  honestly, life has already been designed that we must strive to get  good achievements because it can't just come easily without any form of work.  I believe if we must get to the to achieve greatness work needs to be done , it is just worse without applying any work and waiting for things to be achieved without any work.

[Marvell1]

Good points. Achievements are not easy to get, that is the reason why they are called achievements because you work hard to achieve them. Your goals in life are achievements that you need to work for constantly until you finally achieve them. Some people manage to get everything without doing anything, and that raises the question that whether achieving everything you want and wish for is only dependent on hard work or whether you also need luck for that.

In life their is  nothing good that comes easily, everything good their must be sacrifice that needs to be paid to achieve it. Sometimes in life, life gives luck that we don't really work so much on achieving things but this only happens in life once in a while.  Hardwork really pays  honestly, life has already been designed that we must strive to get  good achievements because it can't just come easily without any form of work.  I believe if we must get to the to achieve greatness work needs to be done , it is just worse without applying any work and waiting for things to be achieved without any work.

Exactly, to succeed we need trade-offs, I have not seen anyone succeed without trade-offs. But one thing I have to admit, luck also plays a big part in any success. I mean, effort and trade-offs will lead to success, but without luck, no matter how hard you try, it will be very difficult to succeed. That is why we often see some people who are very talented but cannot succeed. But saying that does not mean that we will wait for luck to come and then act, because luck only comes in the process of our efforts and efforts in life, luck does not come naturally.

[CageMabok]

Yes, you are right, in achieving success, of course we have to make a persistent struggle to achieve it. On our way to success, of course we have many challenges and this will be a lesson for if we have achieved that success. As you said it is very true that destiny does play its role, but without us taking any action against ourselves it is just a very stupid action.

Destiny is not something to think about because all human beings must try to change themselves to be better and more successful so that there is no word for anyone to blame about their own destiny. Although there are people who say not everyone is destined to be rich or poor in this world, but as long as we want to try hard enough.

I think the success will always be there and the results can also be quite balanced with what we have struggled for before. So there is no reason not to act if we want to be more successful in life through the business we love. And I also quite agree with your statement that people who always expect success but don't take any action are very stupid people.

[isaac_clarke22]

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Well there are different takes from different people from this. Some would just continue to persist doing the same thing over and over again thinking that just by consistency would lead to success.

Not sure why would you link the forum to this as the rank doesn't even matter and it does not certainly tell the whole story of how much you know about Bitcoin. Some legendary members there are just plainly ranked before the merit system was implemented in the forum.

Exactly, to succeed we need trade-offs, I have not seen anyone succeed without trade-offs. But one thing I have to admit, luck also plays a big part in any success. I mean, effort and trade-offs will lead to success, but without luck, no matter how hard you try, it will be very difficult to succeed. That is why we often see some people who are very talented but cannot succeed. But saying that does not mean that we will wait for luck to come and then act, because luck only comes in the process of our efforts and efforts in life, luck does not come naturally.

People with great luck still succeed with no trade-offs. Just imagine being born inside a rich family.

[someone703]

We are often faced with unforeseen challenges and situations, and how we respond to them can determine our success or failure. Working hard and making informed decisions is important, but the reality is that sometimes luck also plays a role.

trial and error is an important part of the journey, and learning from mistakes and failures is how we grow and become stronger. The important thing is to never give up and always give your best. Life really has no perfect path, but the important thing is that we always try, learn and develop ourselves to face any situation.

[justdimin]

In life their is  nothing good that comes easily, everything good their must be sacrifice that needs to be paid to achieve it. Sometimes in life, life gives luck that we don't really work so much on achieving things but this only happens in life once in a while.  Hardwork really pays  honestly, life has already been designed that we must strive to get  good achievements because it can't just come easily without any form of work.  I believe if we must get to the to achieve greatness work needs to be done , it is just worse without applying any work and waiting for things to be achieved without any work.

Exactly, to succeed we need trade-offs, I have not seen anyone succeed without trade-offs. But one thing I have to admit, luck also plays a big part in any success. I mean, effort and trade-offs will lead to success, but without luck, no matter how hard you try, it will be very difficult to succeed. That is why we often see some people who are very talented but cannot succeed. But saying that does not mean that we will wait for luck to come and then act, because luck only comes in the process of our efforts and efforts in life, luck does not come naturally.

There are a lot of people who think that they are just going to start trading and suddenly start making money. That's not how it works and you should be aware of what you are doing. I know that losing is just a part of it, but some people are not aware of that and because of that they end up losing a lot.

I think it would be smarter to just focus on what you could do and how you could improve, otherwise you are not going to get any better at all. I realize that it is going to take some time, but if you could be better at what you are doing, then you are going to do a lot better by realizing the profits come with losses time to time. It's very crucial to make sure you are fine with both of them and can move on without trouble.

[milewilda]

In life their is  nothing good that comes easily, everything good their must be sacrifice that needs to be paid to achieve it. Sometimes in life, life gives luck that we don't really work so much on achieving things but this only happens in life once in a while.  Hardwork really pays  honestly, life has already been designed that we must strive to get  good achievements because it can't just come easily without any form of work.  I believe if we must get to the to achieve greatness work needs to be done , it is just worse without applying any work and waiting for things to be achieved without any work.

Exactly, to succeed we need trade-offs, I have not seen anyone succeed without trade-offs. But one thing I have to admit, luck also plays a big part in any success. I mean, effort and trade-offs will lead to success, but without luck, no matter how hard you try, it will be very difficult to succeed. That is why we often see some people who are very talented but cannot succeed. But saying that does not mean that we will wait for luck to come and then act, because luck only comes in the process of our efforts and efforts in life, luck does not come naturally.

There are a lot of people who think that they are just going to start trading and suddenly start making money. That's not how it works and you should be aware of what you are doing. I know that losing is just a part of it, but some people are not aware of that and because of that they end up losing a lot.

I think it would be smarter to just focus on what you could do and how you could improve, otherwise you are not going to get any better at all. I realize that it is going to take some time, but if you could be better at what you are doing, then you are going to do a lot better by realizing the profits come with losses time to time. It's very crucial to make sure you are fine with both of them and can move on without trouble.

A very misconception about trading specially into those newbies or people who do really think off that crypto trading would really be the solution for them to make money without even trying out to realize thats not how it works or its never been that so simple. On the time that they do step their foot into the market then they would definitely be able to experience that bitter-sweet thing on which its not something that you could really be able to acquire out in terms of profitability if you arent really doing something good with your trading.In overall, living on this world is never been that easy or simple, you would be needing to work for you to sustain and survive on day to day living on which this could really be acquire on having some job and if you do have plans on having that no financial problems or simply be that financially that independent then of course it would really be just that normal that you would be finding ways and methods on which  you could really be able to earn more which is really that more than with your current job. Rinse and repeat and you'll find yourself in to
a situation or condition on which you wont really be that struggling in terms of finances which does basically means that living wont really be that a challenge at all.

[dothebeats]

I think it would be smarter to just focus on what you could do and how you could improve, otherwise you are not going to get any better at all. I realize that it is going to take some time, but if you could be better at what you are doing, then you are going to do a lot better by realizing the profits come with losses time to time. It's very crucial to make sure you are fine with both of them and can move on without trouble.

A very misconception about trading specially into those newbies or people who do really think off that crypto trading would really be the solution for them to make money without even trying out to realize thats not how it works or its never been that so simple. On the time that they do step their foot into the market then they would definitely be able to experience that bitter-sweet thing on which its not something that you could really be able to acquire out in terms of profitability if you arent really doing something good with your trading.In overall, living on this world is never been that easy or simple, you would be needing to work for you to sustain and survive on day to day living on which this could really be acquire on having some job and if you do have plans on having that no financial problems or simply be that financially that independent then of course it would really be just that normal that you would be finding ways and methods on which  you could really be able to earn more which is really that more than with your current job. Rinse and repeat and you'll find yourself in to
a situation or condition on which you wont really be that struggling in terms of finances which does basically means that living wont really be that a challenge at all.

It is that simple. Even outside the context of crypto, life is not easy. You have to work hard, you have to move, and you have to do something in order to gain something. You cannot just expect the world to grant you a reward without putting any effort into it. Moreover, it should be reminded that the fruit of our labor, our efforts, is not always positive. Sometimes, even by doing our best and giving our all to something we are still presented by negative outcomes. However, that should not be a reason to stop trying, as again (stated by OP) it ain't meant to be easy.

[bayu7adi]

What a timely post!

For a newbie like me who's still trying to settle down and make a meaningful impact here, this was highly inspiring to read!

Well, one thing I have come to understand is, consistency is a by-product of discipline. Thus, staying consistent with a goal requires strong mental affirmation of consistent commitment, otherwise nothing meaningful can be achieved.

It's not been easy for me to earn merit here and I'm not sure how it works. Sometimes I ask, do I have to make meaningful posts first to earn merits OR can I earn merits from meaningful contributions?... I don't have an answer to this yet. However, I have been patient enough to stay consistent recently while hoping that with time I will grow!

This is also an encouragement to all newbies reading this, if we stay committed, learn the process, and show up consistently, we will grow eventually.

Even a newcomer will be respected as long as they hold a significant role within this forum and make exceptionally valuable contributions. We are all distinctive, equipped with diverse knowledge and backgrounds that set us apart. It is precisely these contrasting perspectives that infuse the forum with vitality and intrigue.

While embracing the process might seem monotonous, once you consistently excel in contributing to this forum, there will come a time when your reputation captures the attention of many. Personal growth finds its stride when one becomes attuned to the art of engaging in discussions on platforms like Bitcointalk.

[lousie9]

We are often faced with unforeseen challenges and situations, and how we respond to them can determine our success or failure.

I agree with your opinion that how we respond to a problem will determine our failure or success. Everyone has different conditions and everyone experiences different trials, problems and obstacles too.
But in essence, all of them have the same way even though everyone's conditions are different and the problems they face are also different, namely by not giving up easily to face the problems that are coming to us.
Most people will feel that they give up easily if they fail to overcome or go through the problems they face because they do not want to evaluate themselves or evaluate the failure factors they experience.
Even though we as humans are endowed with brains for us to think and to overcome various problems in this life, most of us tend to be lazy to think and to develop ourselves and then just give up.

[MFahad]

Well indeed happiness is when satisfactions are met but question is, when would you be satisfied? Therefore, it is a normal drive for use to desire more and consequently as long as we are seeking or asking for more, that is where we would feel the struggles or that life is hard. On my end, I'd prefer experiencing this feeling simply because it means I am doing something in order to earn or for situations to be better. We have to acfept the fact that struggles aand hardships are necessary. What's not is to end up struggling in an unending manner because that would simply mean you are doing something wrong which is why problems are still there.

Struggle and effort are a good way of satisfying life but I just want to say that no body is happy with his life because everyone is in Struggle to have more money and in such struggles they have lost their happy life with minimum amount of income.

If you are choosing any thing in which you become successful so remember that lazy people can't achieve what they want but those who struggles more will become experienced one day which describes the fact that those who worked hard and struggle more will be easily earned and every field will become profitable for him.

[Inwestour]

Struggle and effort are a good way of satisfying life but I just want to say that no body is happy with his life because everyone is in Struggle to have more money and in such struggles they have lost their happy life with minimum amount of income.

If you are choosing any thing in which you become successful so remember that lazy people can't achieve what they want but those who struggles more will become experienced one day which describes the fact that those who worked hard and struggle more will be easily earned and every field will become profitable for him.

I once read a very good idea in a book, it was that everyone wants to have a home, a family and a good job, and just like everyone would like to have a million dollars, but few are willing to sacrifice their time andmaybe even family, to reach that million.

We always have to make a choice, in order to achieve something, it will be necessary to sacrifice something, and here it is worth considering whether it is worth it. Therefore, it is so important to maintain balance in everything and maybe if you already have a house, family and prosperity, then you already own something more valuable than what we can strive for.

[Lida93]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

Life itself is a journey of different paths and each person with their pathway in which you have to workout yourself along the way to be distinguished amidst those among you all that started in the journey. Every qualitative effort you put on the way has a consequence on your growth, less effort less growth much effort more growth.

Same way life applies in the forum too, every member is focusing on giving value, and the more your value the more you're recognize and rewarded (merited) by the worthiness of the value you give. And one such way to improve on your value in the forum is for you to learn relearn and creating a mentality of continuous learning only by so can anyone improve in their value and quality leading to their growth.  Generally in life if things are gotten easily and seamlessly, need will not be to strive for improvement.

[Smartvirus]

Struggle and effort are a good way of satisfying life but I just want to say that no body is happy with his life because everyone is in Struggle to have more money and in such struggles they have lost their happy life with minimum amount of income.

Well, there are levels to struggling and with that in mind, you can say some people arrbt struggling. They just put in efforts to maintain the level they've attained and that's far from anything struggling.

When we talk about struggling, we are looking at those who are having a hard time to get daily meals, hard time to maintain there wealth, pay taxes and the rest of the expenses to a comfortable living.
I don't really consider those who have got a set up to there survival to be struggling. In most scenarios they've got people doing almost all there thinking and management for them. Although you've got people to manage and that's apparently the most difficult thing to do.

[dothebeats]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

Life itself is a journey of different paths and each person with their pathway in which you have to workout yourself along the way to be distinguished amidst those among you all that started in the journey. Every qualitative effort you put on the way has a consequence on your growth, less effort less growth much effort more growth.

Same way life applies in the forum too, every member is focusing on giving value, and the more your value the more you're recognize and rewarded (merited) by the worthiness of the value you give. And one such way to improve on your value in the forum is for you to learn relearn and creating a mentality of continuous learning only by so can anyone improve in their value and quality leading to their growth.  Generally in life if things are gotten easily and seamlessly, need will not be to strive for improvement.

Learning is equivalent to improvement. No matter what your journey of learning is, may it be full of hurdles and struggles or full of success along the way, still the endgame is you will be able to learn something. What to keep on doing and what not to do. Hence, learning is improvement in a way that you put what you learn to action.

[TheUltraElite]

Nothing in life comes easy, that happens in dreams. I agree with the OP that whenever we start the upward movement some problems will crop up, these can be managed. The problem is that some people walk away and don't want to work hard on their career, life choices and merits for that matter.

Well I think people can change though, and they may start having better work habits gradually. Hence try to encourage any person whom we across with a easy going lazy attitude.

It is a good thing to be flexible about life. You never know when a curveball gets raised.

[rachael9385]

For the business aspect sometimes it can be very difficult to make a profits that will make you feel happy because not opening a business is the major things, we can have a good products but based on the environment the business is the products won't sell and again sometime life can be hard for just one particular reasons and these reason is very difficult to know maybe I will say that's how life was programmed to be, we can't define the real tomorrow but we can predict tomorrow that's why the tomorrow we predicted might end up turning negative to us just like the way we all predicts the price of a bitcoin.
The real things is business can't be successful all the times, in some environments things are getting hard and businesses aren't going well like before but that doesn't mean that the product is not a good one sometimes you can be selling a good product in your company but based on the locality the company is the situation of the country will manipulate the company and things will no longer goes well.

[Crypt0Gore]

One reason why people miss direction in life is competition. People don't understand that everyone is unique so they want to be like someone else. Some people are talented in sports but they choose to become businessmen because they want to be like another person. The same thing also happens in business when some people choose to go into areas they do not know about because they think that others are making more profit from the business area. Success requires focus and determination. To achieve success we need to be persistently diligent until we attain our goals.

The life of everyone will be easy if they become thankful for what they have because its reality that there is no body who achieved every desire in life. Some people thinks that other is happy because they have lots of money but they don't know that having lots of money does not magnify your happiness.

We should not always follow others but should make our lives as everyone desires to have life like this. Same thing people do with trading as they don't know anything but follow others because they become rich due to trading but one thing is important here that success is for those who are talented in that field. May be you are not good in trading but good in business so always select that field in which you are knowledgeable and you have command on that things so you will be successful.

Well indeed happiness is when satisfactions are met but question is, when would you be satisfied? Therefore, it is a normal drive for use to desire more and consequently as long as we are seeking or asking for more, that is where we would feel the struggles or that life is hard. On my end, I'd prefer experiencing this feeling simply because it means I am doing something in order to earn or for situations to be better. We have to accept the fact that struggles and hardships are necessary. What's not is to end up struggling in an unending manner because that would simply mean you are doing something wrong which is why problems are still there.

I now always envy those who are always contented with what they have or what they have accomplished, I was like this years back until something changed within me, I feel like I am not trying enough and the result is not getting satisfied no matter what I do.

This is why I believe that nothing comes for free in this world we are living in, there is always something to pay for when you engage in everything, the more we seek the more we will remain unsatisfied.

Now I can't even go back to the way I used to be, my happiness was unlimited, and I hardly had a frown face, always happy, but as I grew up into a man I went cold, now that I have something going on in my life I don't want to stop and it's scary whenever I think about it.

[khiholangkang]

Nothing in life comes easy, that happens in dreams. I agree with the OP that whenever we start the upward movement some problems will crop up, these can be managed. The problem is that some people walk away and don't want to work hard on their career, life choices and merits for that matter.

Well I think people can change though, and they may start having better work habits gradually. Hence try to encourage any person whom we across with a easy going lazy attitude.

It is a good thing to be flexible about life. You never know when a curveball gets raised.

There are things that are easy to do, is to dream, fantasize and blame other parties for one's own incompetence.
We agree that when moving for the better there must be obstacles and problems that pounce on us, as if the world is not on our side which makes it a failure in the process of becoming better than our previous versions, as well as in terms of economic life, popularity, achievements and glory that we carry out the process.
People change if their minds and hearts are open, which makes them willing to move to improve themselves, evaluate and keep learning without stopping.

For the business aspect sometimes it can be very difficult to make a profits that will make you feel happy because not opening a business is the major things, we can have a good products but based on the environment the business is the products won't sell and again sometime life can be hard for just one particular reasons and these reason is very difficult to know maybe I will say that's how life was programmed to be, we can't define the real tomorrow but we can predict tomorrow that's why the tomorrow we predicted might end up turning negative to us just like the way we all predicts the price of a bitcoin.
The real things is business can't be successful all the times, in some environments things are getting hard and businesses aren't going well like before but that doesn't mean that the product is not a good one sometimes you can be selling a good product in your company but based on the locality the company is the situation of the country will manipulate the company and things will no longer goes well.

It is there that a businessman must have a dynamic soul towards market situations and conditions, which makes him more anticipatory. This is commonplace in any country, but depending on whether you play in the business world, you also have to run the political map to achieve more glory, business does not depend on the quality of goods or anything with the condition of goods, companies that will die quickly are those who do not adjustments to the times and market demand, and the side of the plan you should not depend on one strategy.

[Twentyonepaylots]

Nothing in life comes easy, that happens in dreams. I agree with the OP that whenever we start the upward movement some problems will crop up, these can be managed. The problem is that some people walk away and don't want to work hard on their career, life choices and merits for that matter.

Well I think people can change though, and they may start having better work habits gradually. Hence try to encourage any person whom we across with a easy going lazy attitude.

It is a good thing to be flexible about life. You never know when a curveball gets raised.

Life can be challenging sometimes, and some things are not meant to be easy, that's for sure. Life has a way of throwing us curveballs that sometimes seem impossible to overcome. But the key is to keep pushing forward, one step at a time. It's important to remember that our challenges are an opportunity to grow and learn. And while it may not feel like it at the moment, overcoming those challenges can be incredibly rewarding. So don't give up when things get tough, keep fighting, keep moving forward, and you'll come out stronger carrying those solid life experiences.

[serjent05]

Well indeed happiness is when satisfactions are met but question is, when would you be satisfied? Therefore, it is a normal drive for use to desire more and consequently as long as we are seeking or asking for more, that is where we would feel the struggles or that life is hard. On my end, I'd prefer experiencing this feeling simply because it means I am doing something in order to earn or for situations to be better. We have to acfept the fact that struggles aand hardships are necessary. What's not is to end up struggling in an unending manner because that would simply mean you are doing something wrong which is why problems are still there.

Struggle and effort are a good way of satisfying life but I just want to say that no body is happy with his life because everyone is in Struggle to have more money and in such struggles they have lost their happy life with minimum amount of income.

If nobody is happy with life then we could have seen suicides everywhere.  It isn't the struggle and effort that is good in satisfying life, it is the entertainment and reward after hard work and struggles that is satisfying life.  Like after a long day hardwork, coming home to see your kids and love ones with a smile on their face ease out all the burdens of the day's hardwork.  Buying something to reward oneself keep the motivation up because there is a goal why we are doing these struggles and hardworks.

If you are choosing any thing in which you become successful so remember that lazy people can't achieve what they want but those who struggles more will become experienced one day which describes the fact that those who worked hard and struggle more will be easily earned and every field will become profitable for him.

Those that do not give up halfway are the ones who are successful.  Many people struggle in life but end up giving up midway and changing focus.  Those who work smart do not struggle but instead enjoy the work with ease.  Life is not all brawn, most of the time we need to use our heads in order to lighten the load and make it easier for us to overcome hurdles to be able to achieve success in life.

[Viscore]

We are often faced with unforeseen challenges and situations, and how we respond to them can determine our success or failure. Working hard and making informed decisions is important, but the reality is that sometimes luck also plays a role.

trial and error is an important part of the journey, and learning from mistakes and failures is how we grow and become stronger. The important thing is to never give up and always give your best. Life really has no perfect path, but the important thing is that we always try, learn and develop ourselves to face any situation.

Life is definitely uncertain. Sometimes we get lucky and win some challenges, but at some point we get lost and makes life even harder. That’s the reality in life, either we don’t fight and just quit, but we know that will never be the answer. Know that in every failure and obstacle, there’s always a solution to that. Remember that if you want to change your life’s situation and instead find a successful path, you should put all your efforts and hardwork in everything you do, otherwise you’ll keep on beating around the bush and still nothing happens. Life is what you make it, it’s not a matter of chance but it’s always a matter of choice.

[Casdinyard]

Basically "it is what it is"

Problems will come and go, some problems are definitely going to be more detrimental and massively deteriorating, loss of a loved one for example. Same could be said for business, trading, and creating a name for yourself. Roadblocks will come up and it's all about weighing your decisions, sometimes between passion and practicality. It's all about getting back up after every time you fall down. I've had friends who literally came up from nothing, got everything, lost everything later on, and continued with their stuff until they regained such lost funds. It's legendary to behold. I feel like I'm getting off on a tangent here but perhaps I'm just doubling down on the fact that life isn't here to just be enjoyed. It's to be experienced.

[Natalim]

Life is just easy but we make it hard because we already overthink that success comes too fast which is why we worked hard, we wanted to make it happen right away and so we stressed our minds. But if we just let it comes to us without chasing it to happen instantly, I was sure that we're still good and healthy.

But this is really what we are, we consider life is a sort of competition like business and we need to be on top among others in order to become famous. It was too hard to change the way we see life and so we can see that everyone is aggressive to move forward and do everything just to reach their goal.

[coin-investor]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

[savetheFORUM]

For the business aspect sometimes it can be very difficult to make a profits that will make you feel happy because not opening a business is the major things, we can have a good products but based on the environment the business is the products won't sell and again sometime life can be hard for just one particular reasons and these reason is very difficult to know maybe I will say that's how life was programmed to be, we can't define the real tomorrow but we can predict tomorrow that's why the tomorrow we predicted might end up turning negative to us just like the way we all predicts the price of a bitcoin.
The real things is business can't be successful all the times, in some environments things are getting hard and businesses aren't going well like before but that doesn't mean that the product is not a good one sometimes you can be selling a good product in your company but based on the locality the company is the situation of the country will manipulate the company and things will no longer goes well.

That's a good point, as they say, when you are not valued, it doesn't mean you are worthless but it means that the place where you are doesn't deserve you. Similarly, if you are running a business and you see that your business isn't actually going well when you know what you are doing is not a bad business in itself, in that situation, you need to understand that you will certainly need to change your location if you have confidence on the product you are selling.

Sometimes, maybe the product you are trying to sell is good but it isn't suitable for that specific location, you might want to try and add some more products after doing some research and observations of the location and the locals so that you can offer them what they actually look for.

[Iroh]

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

Yes, the goal should be to learn more and grow in knowledge so we could also impact meaningful contributions to both new and existing members. But we all have our individual goals and aspirations when registering on here and that’s why we see people on here more focused on the rank on their profiles than the knowledge we all stand to gain.
About members making complaints about not getting the merits they feel they deserve. Needless to say, some members are more eager about getting merits than they are about learning anything.
Admittedly, we all seek and desire to grow in our personal lives and elsewhere but growth requires time and lots of effort. Time and effort some

[slapper]

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

Yes, the goal should be to learn more and grow in knowledge so we could also impact meaningful contributions to both new and existing members. But we all have our individual goals and aspirations when registering on here and that’s why we see people on here more focused on the rank on their profiles than the knowledge we all stand to gain.
About members making complaints about not getting the merits they feel they deserve. Needless to say, some members are more eager about getting merits than they are about learning anything.
Admittedly, we all seek and desire to grow in our personal lives and elsewhere but growth requires time and lots of effort. Time and effort some

People whining about ranks and merits? Classic. Everyone desires the reward, but few are willing to put out the effort

It's vital to keep in mind that not everyone is cut out for it, even while I welcome your comment about growth and learning; and believe me, I know about growth, especially when it comes to the advent of bitcoin. Growth does take time and work, but some individuals just want it to be quick and simple. How shall I put it? That's just how the beast is. Maybe people should concentrate on something that actually matters rather than playing merit politics. like, say, adding something truly worthwhile to the forum?

[isaac_clarke22]

People whining about ranks and merits? Classic. Everyone desires the reward, but few are willing to put out the effort

It's vital to keep in mind that not everyone is cut out for it, even while I welcome your comment about growth and learning; and believe me, I know about growth, especially when it comes to the advent of bitcoin. Growth does take time and work, but some individuals just want it to be quick and simple. How shall I put it? That's just how the beast is. Maybe people should concentrate on something that actually matters rather than playing merit politics. like, say, adding something truly worthwhile to the forum?

Kinda gives me the 2018 vibes when merit system was implemented. There were tons of merit fishing users posting and almost recycling any sorts existing quality posts that were already recycled by others gazillion times.

Everyone would just do the laziest way just to benefit the crap out from it. I don't really mind if I get stuck bounded in this rank I already have. I just wanna hangout with other chill users in here. Sure I wear sigs to earn, but that's just the side icing of the cake.

[Mpamaegbu]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

We've a local parlance for this where I come from. They say, "If it's easy, it becomes child's play." That captures the whole essence of man's continual struggle pursuing his goals and aspirations. For those who don't like taking a break to relax and chill, and then enjoy what they're labouring for, they find that break in death. It's a sad commentary but then that's the reality of life.

One reason why people miss direction in life is competition.

Actually, competition is good. That's what man lives for, whether we admit it or not. Remove competition in life, we won't have much to live for. What's not good is unnecessary competition. It's the same thing that happens with ambition. To be ambitious is okay, but to be vaulting ambitious is wrong.

[Gallar]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

Yes I agree with your opinion. In this life we ​​must fight with all our might to be able to achieve the dreams we want. Because God has bestowed life, a healthy body, and an intelligent mind.
So we should be able to take advantage of the gifts that God has given us. The trick is to work hard, whether physically or mentally. Because ease doesn't just come, surely before it comes there will be obstacles that we must be ready to face gracefully and never give up. And this is true in every aspect of life that exists.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.

It cannot be denied, that for beginners in this forum, sometimes there are also those who complain about the difficulty of getting merits and to be honest, when I was a beginner, I used to have thoughts like that. So I can't blame beginners who have problems like that, because basically having thoughts like that (it's hard to get merit) is a stage for members in this forum to be able to develop even more. Because if in someone's mind, especially for novice members in this BTT forum, if they don't have thoughts like that, in my opinion people like that don't have the desire to be able to further develop and don't want to get a higher ranking.
But still, just complaining won't change anything. So in essence the difficulties and complaints that exist must be changed so that they become easier and the complaints disappear. Then how do you do it?, namely by learning more, increasing knowledge, and always learning from experience (especially in the field of crypto currency).

~Snip

In essence, I agree with all the advice you have given, if I conclude the advice you have given in a nutshell, never give up, learn from mistakes, enjoy all the process, and always be consistent with what is being done. And it's all aimed at all aspects of life, including the crypto world and the business world.

[Bebe22]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.
If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Wow, this is some real encouragement, thanks man I really needed to hear words like these. Life gets real hard, and goals become too difficult to pursue, but we must continue to fight to the end. We sometimes, make up goals for the wrong purpose. Extrinsic purpose always makes one to fail and quit, but if you look for the real joy in whatever you're doing, you're definitely going to succeed. Always look for how to actually learn and help people....that's where true success comes from.

[Sebas.tian]

I agree with you OP, that anything you want to do in life work hard to do it well because there is a reward in everything we are doing which you can start receiving your own reward in your business, in your crypto investment, in your career and Bitcointalk forum. I know many bitcoiners that acquired potential knowledge from Bitcointalk some years ago, but today they are among the wealthy people in my environment because they took their precious time to do everything possible within their power to obey the rules and regulations of Bitcointalk in the forum that enable them to achieve their goal easily. I'm not worry about my position in the Bitcointalk forum, because I know once it is time for me to reach legendary, it will definitely happen because am working hard towards it.

[dothebeats]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.
If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Wow, this is some real encouragement, thanks man I really needed to hear words like these. Life gets real hard, and goals become too difficult to pursue, but we must continue to fight to the end. We sometimes, make up goals for the wrong purpose. Extrinsic purpose always makes one to fail and quit, but if you look for the real joy in whatever you're doing, you're definitely going to succeed. Always look for how to actually learn and help people....that's where true success comes from.

Sometimes it is the journey and not the goal. Most often than not, we find more value in what we learn from the journey of reaching the goal compared to the outcome it leads us to. The lessons we learn, the struggles, and the people we meet that is basically connection, allows us to grow and be smarter for our future self and the paths we are soon to take.

[eightdots]

We are often faced with unforeseen challenges and situations, and how we respond to them can determine our success or failure.

I agree with your opinion that how we respond to a problem will determine our failure or success. Everyone has different conditions and everyone experiences different trials, problems and obstacles too.
But in essence, all of them have the same way even though everyone's conditions are different and the problems they face are also different, namely by not giving up easily to face the problems that are coming to us.
Most people will feel that they give up easily if they fail to overcome or go through the problems they face because they do not want to evaluate themselves or evaluate the failure factors they experience.
Even though we as humans are endowed with brains for us to think and to overcome various problems in this life, most of us tend to be lazy to think and to develop ourselves and then just give up.

You made a good point. When we encounter difficulties, we must look for ways to overcome them. We must not give up. Because giving up is one of the easiest choices. Others have gone through the difficult paths we went through. If we can't find a way out, we should look at what people in the same situation are doing to get out of it.

Success comes when we dedicate ourselves to something. The important thing is to strive for knowledge and not to give up in every difficulty.

[martinex]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

In this case you are right, there are no traders who, if they enter the market, traders will always get full profits. Yes. as you said there are always ups and downs too and according to the saying why they can and are able to get some profits in trading, it's because they are used to it and understand how the market works.

[Dickiy]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

In this case you are right, there are no traders who, if they enter the market, traders will always get full profits. Yes. as you said there are always ups and downs too and according to the saying why they can and are able to get some profits in trading, it's because they are used to it and understand how the market works.

Of course, and we as traders are required to always be able to minimize various possibilities that can make us lose, such as complying with some of the rules that we have previously made. We can definitely get the profit and also besides that the losses will always follow us. We have to understand that trading always involves us mentally and psychologically, and if we get caught up in emotions once then everything will fall apart, the various self-controls that we have prepared will be useless, there is no budget limit that we use and maybe something like we will forget about stop loss and take profit because emotions have taken over. So in trading, in my opinion, what is more difficult is making peace with yourself, there is no strategy that has 100% accuracy in it, and all we can do is balance it with some self-control so that our trading goes according to plan. Profits and losses are a natural result as a trader, but there are also some of them, especially beginners, who are then consumed by their own emotions and that causes them to experience MC. Mental, psychological and calm are the main points that we must have in the process of analyzing the market because that will lead us to the right decision every time we want to open an open position.

[tygeade]

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

In this case you are right, there are no traders who, if they enter the market, traders will always get full profits. Yes. as you said there are always ups and downs too and according to the saying why they can and are able to get some profits in trading, it's because they are used to it and understand how the market works.

That is the natural part of the crypto trading world, nobody could make profit constantly and that's fine, there is nothing wrong with that. I get that people want to make as much profit as they possibly could but that doesn't mean that they will, some people will and some people will not.

You should be trying to make it work as much as possible without trying to have any wrong results on the long run. I get that it will not be simple but you should be considering it as something on the back of your mind. Just make as much profit as possible and learn from your losses and mistakes, that way you will make less mistakes because you will be unlikely the repeat same mistakes again and again, it will be very helpful.

[Obari]

Great thread I must commend but I think you're illustration   were way to out of the box for scenarios you were trying to present. I will say. There are people who make it really easy and you finding it difficult  to grow in same pace with your mates shoukd be a reason for you to work really harder to archive more results and I must also say that human desires never ends and it is also the human desire that has given more room to wanting to achieve more results and explore more things, so I think being comfortable  in one's comfort zone is absolutely  different  from being contented and it is supposed  to be human for people to want to acquire higher  things and the forum rank and merits isn't exempted in his as we have seen were reputation and number of merits have been given special privileges and that alone is enough reason why we must take our growth personal and that also helps with the forum growth and activities else here wouldn't be really interesting as it is now  😊

[Bushdark]

Sometimes it is the journey and not the goal. Most often than not, we find more value in what we learn from the journey of reaching the goal compared to the outcome it leads us to. The lessons we learn, the struggles, and the people we meet that is basically connection, allows us to grow and be smarter for our future self and the paths we are soon to take.

It is true that often on a journey to success, of course, we have to go through a long process, but it is not certain that we will get success, of course we can take experience and lessons from this process so that we can improve if we have not achieved success.

The journey to success is not as smooth like the journey to achieve a mere thing. Success often need hard work and consistency for us to cahice our aims and if we don't try our best to get to where we intend to get to, then we might be doing ourselves harm that will affect our goal and pause our success journey. Discipline is one important thing we need to put in action to get to where we want to be or else we might keep getting it all wrong and not getting closer to where we want to be at all means.

[dothebeats]

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

In this case you are right, there are no traders who, if they enter the market, traders will always get full profits. Yes. as you said there are always ups and downs too and according to the saying why they can and are able to get some profits in trading, it's because they are used to it and understand how the market works.

That is the natural part of the crypto trading world, nobody could make profit constantly and that's fine, there is nothing wrong with that. I get that people want to make as much profit as they possibly could but that doesn't mean that they will, some people will and some people will not.

You should be trying to make it work as much as possible without trying to have any wrong results on the long run. I get that it will not be simple but you should be considering it as something on the back of your mind. Just make as much profit as possible and learn from your losses and mistakes, that way you will make less mistakes because you will be unlikely the repeat same mistakes again and again, it will be very helpful.

This is true. Sometimes you make great profits, sometimes little to none at all. However, being able to still hold on to the goal of making as much profit as you can is vital, as it will indefinitely lead you to success. In times wherein you feel like you are going nowhere, having such a mindset to continue pursuing what you have set as a goal and learning from your mistake allows you to grow and reach the goal.

[justdimin]

I now always envy those who are always contented with what they have or what they have accomplished, I was like this years back until something changed within me, I feel like I am not trying enough and the result is not getting satisfied no matter what I do.

This is why I believe that nothing comes for free in this world we are living in, there is always something to pay for when you engage in everything, the more we seek the more we will remain unsatisfied.

Now I can't even go back to the way I used to be, my happiness was unlimited, and I hardly had a frown face, always happy, but as I grew up into a man I went cold, now that I have something going on in my life I don't want to stop and it's scary whenever I think about it.

You can always change the perspective anytime you want. I have changed it to duration and not the end result. If you keep thinking about life like path you need to take and when you reach your goal that's the end destination where you need to arrive, then there will be more and more paths to come in the future and you will never be happy with reaching your goal.

However, if you change your perspective to enjoy the ride, then you will realize that you will not end up being upset when the goal is there, you will be happy that another ride will come along. I work hard that's true, but I also enjoy working hard, it is not the results and the profits of working hard "eventually" gives you, it's the hardwork itself that should be joyful.

[CarnagexD]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

Even if you're good at analysis, there will be a point when you will face losses it depends on how much more you have to keep up, some will be frustrated and just give up, and some will take it slow but continue to move on, because of the very high volatility there is no such thing as a perfect investor, we all have our share of ups and downs its the achievement of others are what will aspire us to move on.
He learned our lessons from others who made it they are an example of keeping your focus on your goal.

Because sometime, even you have the best analysis, indicator, or signal, you still onna be wrong. That is a normal part of the game. It doesn't mean you are going to fail, nor if you are going to lose all yur investment. It just mean you lose. Because the market is very unpredictable. The outcome is uncertain so you have to bet and decide which side of the market are you in and when will you participate as much as timing is one of the important factor.

It very helpful to have a ournal in your trading or investn=ment because we have to evaluate our financial decisions. So that with thorough reflections, the istakes we made in the past can be corrected in the future.

[Alpha Marine]

We've a local parlance for this where I come from. They say, "If it's easy, it becomes child's play." That captures the whole essence of man's continual struggle pursuing his goals and aspirations.

Exactly!
It won't be called "work" if it was easy. It's called work because it can be tasking at times or all the time.
Most people believe some folks have it easier, as much as that can be true, it doesn't mean we should give up because others have it easier.
To you, that person's situation might be easier but you do not know what he must have gone through to get to where he is, or what he's going through at that level he is.
We have to be ready to put in the work. There's no other way, no shortcuts.

[Iroh]

Actually, competition is good. That's what man lives for, whether we admit it or not. Remove competition in life, we won't have much to live for. What's not good is unnecessary competition. It's the same thing that happens with ambition. To be ambitious is okay, but to be vaulting ambitious is wrong.

A healthy competition in the society brings about innovation and growth. We would probably be stuck with the same ancient tech and ways of doing things without having a healthy competition. Remove competition from the society, we’ll be stuck with bland products everywhere width little or no alternatives to choose from.
Unhealthy competition on the other hand brings about strife and jealousy and would mostly be disastrous to both parties involved.
Unhealthy competition is more about bringing down a perceived competitor than attempting to do better and grow.

[TelolettOm]

Because sometime, even you have the best analysis, indicator, or signal, you still onna be wrong. That is a normal part of the game. It doesn't mean you are going to fail, nor if you are going to lose all yur investment. It just mean you lose. Because the market is very unpredictable. The outcome is uncertain so you have to bet and decide which side of the market are you in and when will you participate as much as timing is one of the important factor.

You're right. There should be something that we never expect to happen. Although we already made a good analysis with a proper way, it doesn't guarantee to run smoothly. That's why we need a second plan. So, if the main plan seems not effective anymore, we can change to the alternative plan (second plan). In crypto, the market will be always unpredictable. Current news/issues can change the trend in a short, green market can turn to be red just in a single day. It is the reason why crypto business is categorized as a high risk.

Regarding the outcome, as long as you understand enough the characteristic of crypto market, you know when to exit and get profits. Crypto has a bearish and bullish season, just choose the right time for entry and exit. It is not very difficult if someone wants to invest a long time, at least for 3-4 years. But it becomes hard if someone wants to get the outcome as soon as possible.

[dothebeats]

Because sometime, even you have the best analysis, indicator, or signal, you still onna be wrong. That is a normal part of the game. It doesn't mean you are going to fail, nor if you are going to lose all yur investment. It just mean you lose. Because the market is very unpredictable. The outcome is uncertain so you have to bet and decide which side of the market are you in and when will you participate as much as timing is one of the important factor.

You're right. There should be something that we never expect to happen. Although we already made a good analysis with a proper way, it doesn't guarantee to run smoothly. That's why we need a second plan. So, if the main plan seems not effective anymore, we can change to the alternative plan (second plan).

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

[CageMabok]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Preparing a plan for something is the first part that must be considered very important for everyone who wants to achieve good results from a job, because considering a plan is very basic for carrying out every step of work that has been neatly arranged before starting. So there must always be an evaluation, both before starting and when you have got the results as you said, where mature thought is always needed when there are results that are born differently through the efforts that have been carried out.

[MFahad]

I once read a very good idea in a book, it was that everyone wants to have a home, a family and a good job, and just like everyone would like to have a million dollars, but few are willing to sacrifice their time andmaybe even family, to reach that million.

We always have to make a choice, in order to achieve something, it will be necessary to sacrifice something, and here it is worth considering whether it is worth it. Therefore, it is so important to maintain balance in everything and maybe if you already have a house, family and prosperity, then you already own something more valuable than what we can strive for.

Yes of course everyone wants such things but once a man find job then all ways becomes smooth for him like first objective of a person is always having a good job and then he try for having a home, after achieving it he can easily make a family as in our society those individuals are accepted who have their job.

Most of the people are sacrificing time for reaching such level and as you mentioned that they also sacrifices their family so it is little bit true as due to their busy life they cannot give their precious Time to their families which weaken the bond between them.

Family is much more important than money so it is important for everyone to make their bond with family stronger because if a person has stronger family bond then he can achieve everything.

One can earn and give time to family at a same time through planning because we cannot leave our family for money.

[Hypnosis00]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Preparing a plan for something is the first part that must be considered very important for everyone who wants to achieve good results from a job, because considering a plan is very basic for carrying out every step of work that has been neatly arranged before starting. So there must always be an evaluation, both before starting and when you have got the results as you said, where mature thought is always needed when there are results that are born differently through the efforts that have been carried out.

It was not just a plan but it needed doing. It is useless having it if we fail to do it in real life and I see a lot of people have this kind of attitude and they easily quit when they feel hard and face difficulties. And this will tell us that our life isn't really easy and in order ot survive and reach our goal, we must also work it hard and focus on goal. And if we wanted to succeed, we must carry positivity on our mind, not got distrubed by a single mistake and failures otherwise, we don't deserved success anyway.

[TheUltraElite]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

[slapper]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

If you think that "too much planning" is a waste of time, you don't understand how money works. Crypto and blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, have changed the way the global economy works. I'm not sure if you really understand all of the intricate details of the crypto-world

You can make a case for surprise and "getting out of your comfort zone," but does that mean you have to stop thinking strategically? When it comes to investing, putting all your money on your so-called "abilities" will make you stuck financial mess. Indicators are not just guesses; they are mathematical representations of how people feel about the market. And let's not forget that emotions should not be value. If you want to plan less and go by your gut, you might prefer gambling more

[Juse14]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

Too many plans and considerations in assessing risks will give rise to fear and doubt in yourself, which makes you a person who is afraid to take action or take risks, but I think this depends on age and condition, if someone is single, If he has'nt burdens and other things that bind him not to suffer the slightest loss, then don't think too much and plan too much. It's a different story with people who have dependents and so on, this can be applied to various aspects such as investment, study, business and so on.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

The most expensive thing about a mistake is that you know the mistake and fix it, so you will have the knowledge not to repeat the same mistake, it will make you better if you continue to correct every mistake, and keep doing it without ever giving up and you will definitely get good results. expected.

[Dickiy]

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

The most expensive thing about a mistake is that you know the mistake and fix it, so you will have the knowledge not to repeat the same mistake, it will make you better if you continue to correct every mistake, and keep doing it without ever giving up and you will definitely get good results. expected.

Yes and indeed learning will always be a good thing to achieve certain goals. You are right, because studying a mistake by doing research to find the point of error will be a great alternative to finding solutions and making progress. I think obviously once we know about it we can't fall into the same hole, I mean if you've found the bright spot of the mistake and learned from it then it's unlikely that you'll make the same mistake next time. But yes I think it depends on the person, and maybe it's only for certain people, I mean only some of them are willing to correct their mistakes, it's not uncommon for some of them to just spin around in the same conditions with the same mistakes too. So the point is if you want to be a little bit more advanced then keep learning, like you said above never give up, do research for your mistakes. If you can do it then surely the next one will be better.

[SmartCharpa]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

In this life, we came to learn, and we will always learn from our mistakes if we don't take a chance, sometimes we can't be able to achieve our goals. It was said that "no pain, no gain," and everything has a test so there's no need to give up. However, the majority of people won't give that thing a trial anymore if they get scammed for the first time. They will realize that if they try it again, they will be scam again.

We are often faced with unforeseen challenges and situations, and how we respond to them can determine our success or failure. Working hard and making informed decisions is important, but the reality is that sometimes luck also plays a role.

trial and error is an important part of the journey, and learning from mistakes and failures is how we grow and become stronger. The important thing is to never give up and always give your best. Life really has no perfect path, but the important thing is that we always try, learn and develop ourselves to face any situation.

That's just the way it is; some people never learn from their mistakes; when they make small mistakes in life, they all assume that's the end of it and begin giving up, which is not the best course of action; if we fail in this life, we should keep trying; one day, we'll succeed in achieving whatever it is that we're pursuing; whether we fail, give up, or succeed in this life, we're all responsible for it; we can't just say that we never ready to keep on pushing.

[Odohu]

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones.

I am struggling to understand when a plan is said to be too much because the last time I checked, planning is actually the absence of irrational decision and action. I think what you might be mistaken for planning might actually be fear. I know a lot of people who are too afraid of making mistakes, hence, they end up developing fear at any slightest opportunity. I have worked with few of them and they always fail their medical test due to high blood pressure.

I am yet to see what can beat planning because every great success depends on it. Even the popular DCA that  I have recently starting using in buying Bitcoin is a clear case of planning. Planning can never be too much....

[boty]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

Planning too much without doing anything is of course a very detrimental thing for everyone. If we have planned something, of course we have to carry out the plan so that we can know what the results of our planning will be. If our plan fails, of course we can fix it if we never try our plan then we will not be able to know the results of what we have planned.
There are many things that we have to control in trading. By continuing to learn from those who are experienced and continuing to correct mistakes, of course we will achieve our goal, namely getting good profits in trading.

[TheSpiral]

That's just the way it is; some people never learn from their mistakes; when they make small mistakes in life, they all assume that's the end of it and begin giving up, which is not the best course of action; if we fail in this life, we should keep trying; one day, we'll succeed in achieving whatever it is that we're pursuing; whether we fail, give up, or succeed in this life, we're all responsible for it; we can't just say that we never ready to keep on pushing. 

Either they have no brain or if have then they will not like to use it because everyone who is trying to obtain profit will definitely use all energy in order to search about the solution of their mistakes.

How one can be successful if he Don't try again and again? Do you think that you will get the reward in a single try and if you don't get then all your dreams will remain dreams? No

A baby when start walking then he fell down and again he start walking but never stop to continue walk because he know that one day his steps will become better so same is with all your efforts which should not be end up.

[Hamphser]

Having a lot of plans is actually a good thing as it prepares us for different outcomes. There are a lot of aspects to be considered in actions, hence different outcomes, negative or positive, should be well thought out. Therefore it is always a good idea to have various plans for just in case situations.

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

Planning too much without doing anything is of course a very detrimental thing for everyone. If we have planned something, of course we have to carry out the plan so that we can know what the results of our planning will be. If our plan fails, of course we can fix it if we never try our plan then we will not be able to know the results of what we have planned.
There are many things that we have to control in trading. By continuing to learn from those who are experienced and continuing to correct mistakes, of course we will achieve our goal, namely getting good profits in trading.

In this life, then it would really be a never ending kind of learning since each one of us doesnt really know about everything on which we would really be needing to adjust if its needed because life is really that full of

trials and error on which it would really be just that normal that you should really be needing to adjust if ever there would really be problems that lies ahead or you would really be able to experience.
You wont really be able to achieve something if you wont really be that trying to set your goals or targets on which you dont really have that kind of direction which i would say that its a must thing to have in life
for you to be able to make that kind of achievement and would really be that in result with your hard work.

Without hardwork then everything would really be just remaining just as a dream on which if you are really that not making any move then you wont really be able to see progress
which is something that we dont really that like.

[bhadz]

I am yet to see what can beat planning because every great success depends on it.

There are plans that can't be followed and the best result comes out with the unplanned ones. But sure being well prepared and planned is going to give you t he upperhand for the better results and greater success.

Even the popular DCA that  I have recently starting using in buying Bitcoin is a clear case of planning. Planning can never be too much....

Yes, DCA is a clear planning on how much and when you're going to buy bitcoin. Those that are not good in planning can just follow the steps of DCAing or any other strategies that they find from other successful investors. There's nothing wrong to copy the plans of others as long as it is not going to harm you or them. And basically in other ventures like in business, you can't proceed without doing such.

[asyakashi]

well, actually it will look easy if we do it even if it looks difficult. Actually what makes us difficult is only our thoughts. if we try to do it, even if it is really difficult we have tried our best. it is better than not doing it at all

[molsewid]

well, actually it will look easy if we do it even if it looks difficult. Actually what makes us difficult is only our thoughts. if we try to do it, even if it is really difficult we have tried our best. it is better than not doing it at all

I agree, but sometimes we tend to overthink more if we do that. We should learn to think of it very clearly and when we see that there is no wrong with it then we should settle and not think to it unendlessly because we will only be disappointed so for example in trading when the coin or token we invest with goes down we need to accept it , it is hard to have a regret in trading and all.

[0t3p0t]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

As a broke individual, I sometimes ask myself why they are so lucky and I am not? I realize that behind the luck or success I saw was a smart ways they've created or polished through hardships and not just wish or long for it. I have tried to be lucky way back in the last quarter of 2017 here on this forum but that luck has burst like a bubble. Bottom line is to find luck is to make a smart move.

[summonerrk]

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In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.

[ajiz138]

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones. But we should try to and face the problems and solve them. This comes in every aspect of life including bitcoin, investments and career.

In trading, indicators and all may show bad outcome, trading is difficult but trust in your abilities and continue to be in the game without being emotional. If you keep correcting your mistakes and playing it safe you will profit in the long run.

Because not everything that is planned will be a good result, at least with a lot of plans can determine which ones will work including those who choose those that are not high risk, I know most people don't want to get out of their comfort zone because it is a protection for them to cover their needs so they will continue to be defended.
Whatever plan we are talking about there is business, investment and trading that must be tried and faced with the problem of the risk of losing it.

For those who have a strong mentality and are not easily discouraged they will overcome the obstacles including the losses faced in trading at the beginning, after starting a long enough journey he will definitely find where he is wrong and will correct it in order to produce long-term results, this includes business, investment and trading.

[JayJuanGee]

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Sometimes it is the journey and not the goal. Most often than not, we find more value in what we learn from the journey of reaching the goal compared to the outcome it leads us to. The lessons we learn, the struggles, and the people we meet that is basically connection, allows us to grow and be smarter for our future self and the paths we are soon to take.

The ideas around the journey and the goal are good ones, because ultimately there are going to be a lot of points in life in which we set goals and then we change the goals and sometimes we completely fail in our working towards filling the goals, and we likely even learn along the way, that we likely need to have a bunch of intermediary goals that we need to accomplish before reaching the larger goals, and some of the goals are going to be much easier to achieve, and sometimes we will need to abandon certain paths or even tweak some of the goals along the way.

Failure is inevitable, and sometimes we might be able to frame the failure as success because of what we learned from the failure.. but then again if we are spinning too much, sometimes people will consider us as a phony and we do sometimes need to take responsibility and even talk about some of our failures in order to show parts of our character and to show what kinds of trade offs we sometimes are willing to make.

Because sometime, even you have the best analysis, indicator, or signal, you still onna be wrong. That is a normal part of the game. It doesn't mean you are going to fail, nor if you are going to lose all yur investment. It just mean you lose. Because the market is very unpredictable. The outcome is uncertain so you have to bet and decide which side of the market are you in and when will you participate as much as timing is one of the important factor.

You're right. There should be something that we never expect to happen. Although we already made a good analysis with a proper way, it doesn't guarantee to run smoothly. That's why we need a second plan. So, if the main plan seems not effective anymore, we can change to the alternative plan (second plan).

If we try to predict a kind of trajectory regarding the future, we need to prepare for a variety of possibilities, and that will truly tend to be more than just two directions that something could go.  So then we have to question ourselves about how much our preparations are allowing us to be prepared for a variety of directions.. and at what points are we going to take some kind of actions or otherwise just to continue to ride through our previous commitment.

Edit:  I had been thinking about this point over the last 12 hours or so, and it seems that some kind of an example might be helpful.

Let's say that a person makes a plan that s/he is going to walk across Europe and Asia to start out in London and going to end in Tokyo.. and that tentatively, s/he believes that it is going to take 4-6 years to accomplish.. So s/he has certain ideas regarding modes of transportation, has some budgetary ideas and has even plotted out stops along the way and has given some timelines staying in each place, so the overall goal is defined generally with some specifics, but it is also likely that there are going to be tweaks of the plans along the way that would change some of the stops, some of the timeline, some of the budgeting and perhaps even change some of the modes of transportation.

Maybe this is not the greatest of analogies, because if we go back to the idea of having a lifetime investing goal that might have objectives to build wealth and/or to become richer with the passage of time so that at some point in life there is no longer any need to work and that the wealth that was built will support the later lifestyle, and the person can live off of the fruits of his/her earlier labor, then there would be hopes and expectations that wealth is building along the way, even if there might be periods of set-backs and even mistakes that are so great that trajectories are changed (and sometimes the mistakes or the change of trajectories might not be realize until several years after the earlier incidents had occurred to realize that the path (and maybe even the expected destination might need to end up getting changed) had been changed by the earlier events).

In crypto, the market will be always unpredictable. Current news/issues can change the trend in a short, green market can turn to be red just in a single day. It is the reason why crypto business is categorized as a high risk.

Regarding the outcome, as long as you understand enough the characteristic of crypto market, you know when to exit and get profits. Crypto has a bearish and bullish season, just choose the right time for entry and exit. It is not very difficult if someone wants to invest a long time, at least for 3-4 years. But it becomes hard if someone wants to get the outcome as soon as possible.

I find your gobbledy-gook talk about crypto to be somewhat meaningless.  Now if we are talking about bitcoin, then likely we should not be fucking around too much with trading, but we can figure out various BTC accumulation strategies to just continue to build our bitcoin holdings.  

When you are talking about getting in and out and taking profits, then sure you could be taking profits in dollars or you could be taking profits in bitcoin... and anyhow it would likely be a bit better to clarify what you are talking about when you refer to general ideas about crypto because that does not make very much sense outside of distinguishing bitcoin from shitcoins, and perhaps clarifying that your strategy for bitcoin should be different from getting in and out of various shitcoins.. including that maybe you might even be attempting to analyze whether or not your shitcoin is going to go up or down relative to what bitcoin is doing.. but then hey, when members speak in vagueness in regards to throwing around the term crypto, it tends to cause me a considerable amount of confusion regarding that vague way of expressing themselves, even if they might have some decent strategies of getting in and out of various shitcoins.. but then how are you measuring progress.. in dollars (that seems lame) or in bitcoin (that is better, but why didn't you specify that as part of what you are doing?  rather than using vagueness in your description?).

Plans for how to mitigate risk and manage problems can be a good thing. But too much planning is not necessary for everyone to manage things. The reason why people don't follow difficult things is because they don't want to come out of their comfort zones.

I am struggling to understand when a plan is said to be too much because the last time I checked, planning is actually the absence of irrational decision and action. I think what you might be mistaken for planning might actually be fear. I know a lot of people who are too afraid of making mistakes, hence, they end up developing fear at any slightest opportunity. I have worked with few of them and they always fail their medical test due to high blood pressure.

I am a bit bothered when I see people placing too much emphasis on planning, and surely there needs to be some planning for any action that is taken, but some of the best ways of learning is to start to act and then to learn from the action and to tweak the plans based on what is learned from the actions.  I understand that many times the foundational plans need to be in place prior to action, but there are a lot of places where action helps to solidify the plan.

I am yet to see what can beat planning because every great success depends on it. Even the popular DCA that  I have recently starting using in buying Bitcoin is a clear case of planning. Planning can never be too much....

DCA into bitcoin is one of those places where you can start to act almost right away.. because it does not take a lot to get started.  

On the other hand getting into a romantic relation, starting a business or buying a house. those might need greater levels of planning, but one of the greatest things about DCA'ing into bitcoin is that you can get started right away with ONLY $1  per day and then figure out the details as you go.... Of course, if you want to lump sum invest into bitcoin, and to take out debt and employ sophisticated financial tools (practices), then you likely need more planning.

[Fara Chan]

well, actually it will look easy if we do it even if it looks difficult. Actually what makes us difficult is only our thoughts. if we try to do it, even if it is really difficult we have tried our best. it is better than not doing it at all

Difficulty and ease always go hand in hand in all things, so that the assessment of the ease and difficulty of a job is only known when we have done it in our own way. Because sometimes the method taken by other people can also be easier than the method we do in a job that is no different, so difficulties are not only formed from our thoughts. But it is also formed from the way we take things in order to get maximum results without shifting from the basic goals that we have previously thought about for ourselves.

However, some people actually don't want to try doing something that they consider difficult, but maybe they don't know where to start, so up to now there are still many people who prefer to look for other, easier paths because maybe they know where to start. Even though difficulties are only visible when someone has not tried it, but when they have tried it and let's say they still haven't succeeded, someone will definitely look for solutions to solve the problems they face in order to overcome the obstacles that are in front of them.

[dothebeats]

well, actually it will look easy if we do it even if it looks difficult. Actually what makes us difficult is only our thoughts. if we try to do it, even if it is really difficult we have tried our best. it is better than not doing it at all

Difficulty and ease always go hand in hand in all things, so that the assessment of the ease and difficulty of a job is only known when we have done it in our own way. Because sometimes the method taken by other people can also be easier than the method we do in a job that is no different, so difficulties are not only formed from our thoughts. But it is also formed from the way we take things in order to get maximum results without shifting from the basic goals that we have previously thought about for ourselves.

However, some people actually don't want to try doing something that they consider difficult, but maybe they don't know where to start, so up to now there are still many people who prefer to look for other, easier paths because maybe they know where to start. Even though difficulties are only visible when someone has not tried it, but when they have tried it and let's say they still haven't succeeded, someone will definitely look for solutions to solve the problems they face in order to overcome the obstacles that are in front of them.

Different people, different ways, and different perspectives. Some individuals would rather find the easiest way to perform a task that will lead them closer or directly to their goal while others will grit through the difficult task to reach the same thing. Whichever we clasify as we all share the same drive to reach a goal we have set for ourselves, we just have different takes on various things that leads to different decisions and actions.

[Mr.right85]

Sometimes it is the journey and not the goal. Most often than not, we find more value in what we learn from the journey of reaching the goal compared to the outcome it leads us to.

The ideas around the journey and the goal are good ones, because ultimately there are going to be a lot of points in life in which we set goals and then we change the goals and sometimes we completely fail in our working towards filling the goals, and we likely even learn along the way, that we likely need to have a bunch of intermediary goals that we need to accomplish before reaching the larger goals, and some of the goals are going to be much easier to achieve, and sometimes we will need to abandon certain paths or even tweak some of the goals along the way.

There is barely any lesson in one having to archive a goal. Let’s say, you had a goal of getting a $100 in a day and out of the blue, you had someone hand you a $100. You might have archived your goal in that day but, there isn’t any process yo it and as such, no lesson out of it other than, you having a thought and you archived. Arguably, one might say, the process to archiving starts with a thought but, is that all about it? Of course not.

When one gets to set a goal, you process means or steps that you could take to archive that goal, go through those steps, the huddles that would play in to thwart the process and how you handled them, there you would find life’s lesson to not just handling the process to archiving your aims and goals but, how you get to manage and build relationships with the people you meet on the way.

The lesson to arching a goal always resides on the path, the process.

I am struggling to understand when a plan is said to be too much because the last time I checked, planning is actually the absence of irrational decision and action. I think what you might be mistaken for planning might actually be fear. I know a lot of people who are too afraid of making mistakes, hence, they end up developing fear at any slightest opportunity. I have worked with few of them and they always fail their medical test due to high blood pressure.

Am trying to correlate how fear and failing yo plan really fit in. Because, I think it ought to be the other way around where, the fear of failure would motivate you to make proper plans. Don’t know if you get what am saying but, you might just help me out yo understand what your implying.

I am a bit bothered when I see people placing too much emphasis on planning, and surely there needs to be some planning for any action that is taken, but some of the best ways of learning is to start to act and then to learn from the action and to tweak the plans based on what is learned from the actions.  I understand that many times the foundational plans need to be in place prior to action, but there are a lot of places where action helps to solidify the plan.

Acting as a means of devising and solidifying a plan,
That’s in a way to agree to a notion that, there must be a plan in sight first that acting could solidify! Wouldn’t that be the right thing? Because, you can’t just have a goal and start acting with the hope of making errors and then, you start reviewing/devising a plan from that. A plan would have to be in place first I think.

[Odohu]

I am yet to see what can beat planning because every great success depends on it.

There are plans that can't be followed and the best result comes out with the unplanned ones. But sure being well prepared and planned is going to give you t he upperhand for the better results and greater success.

Ditching a plan to follow alternative course of action could as well be part of planning. Planning entails steps to follow to achieve a target and it also put into consideration,  some things that must remain a constant. When these constants are not met, there is always alternative course of action. If you have been able to know about programming, there is something called conditional statement which specify what should be done if certain conditions are met... this is how planning is done.

There are always unforseen circumstances in life, so when you plan and in the course of implementation,  you find alternative course that is better, you have to adjust... planning is not an oath so you can't be so rigid with your plans when you have find better alternatives.  We all aspires for the best so "when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part is done away with"

[JayJuanGee]

Sometimes it is the journey and not the goal. Most often than not, we find more value in what we learn from the journey of reaching the goal compared to the outcome it leads us to.

The ideas around the journey and the goal are good ones, because ultimately there are going to be a lot of points in life in which we set goals and then we change the goals and sometimes we completely fail in our working towards filling the goals, and we likely even learn along the way, that we likely need to have a bunch of intermediary goals that we need to accomplish before reaching the larger goals, and some of the goals are going to be much easier to achieve, and sometimes we will need to abandon certain paths or even tweak some of the goals along the way.

There is barely any lesson in one having to archive a goal. Let’s say, you had a goal of getting a $100 in a day and out of the blue, you had someone hand you a $100. You might have archived your goal in that day but, there isn’t any process yo it and as such, no lesson out of it other than, you having a thought and you archived. Arguably, one might say, the process to archiving starts with a thought but, is that all about it? Of course not.

When one gets to set a goal, you process means or steps that you could take to archive that goal, go through those steps, the huddles that would play in to thwart the process and how you handled them, there you would find life’s lesson to not just handling the process to archiving your aims and goals but, how you get to manage and build relationships with the people you meet on the way.

The lesson to arching a goal always resides on the path, the process.

I believe that I get your point, yet I am not sure if I agree with you completely because there can be ways in which we set up our goals in ways that are easier to achieve and some aspects might be harder to achieve, and merely because on some days we might achieve our goals easily and we will be able to take the day off or relax does not necessarily mean that we have not been sufficiently ambitious in the ways that we set our goals.

It seems by nature there are going to be more difficult aspects within our goals, and I don't necessarily disagree with you that if the rewards come for free, then we might not have had set our goals in a challenging enough way.. and sometimes if we were to go through several years of NOT having challenging goals and not having any hurdles to get over, then we might find that we lost some opportunities to really reach some of our potentials, because some opportunties or abilities to go down certain paths will close if we are not in the right place at the right time in our live's journey.... so there are some needs to prepare in advance and sometimes tradeoffs that might not be apparent at the earlier points in time.

I do actually believe that it is a better kind of practice to NOT set goals that are overly difficult to achieve, because there are some benefits in achieving goals along the way to paths of BIGGER goals.. but it could be that we are on a similar page that it is good to have some higher goals that need to be sufficiently challenging, and maybe even some realization that not all goals will be achieved.. even though surely there are some people who do proclaim that they had met all of their goals in life - which surely could be the case for some people as well.. at least in the sense that there might be some goals that are considered important and central and other goals that might be considered bonus goals that may or may not need to be achieved. 

I am a bit bothered when I see people placing too much emphasis on planning, and surely there needs to be some planning for any action that is taken, but some of the best ways of learning is to start to act and then to learn from the action and to tweak the plans based on what is learned from the actions.  I understand that many times the foundational plans need to be in place prior to action, but there are a lot of places where action helps to solidify the plan.

Acting as a means of devising and solidifying a plan,
That’s in a way to agree to a notion that, there must be a plan in sight first that acting could solidify! Wouldn’t that be the right thing? Because, you can’t just have a goal and start acting with the hope of making errors and then, you start reviewing/devising a plan from that. A plan would have to be in place first I think.

I guess I had been quibbling with some of the points that seem to emphasize too much on planning, and there are values in action...

And surely there can be levels in regards to how much anyone might be acting upon their plan.. and let's say that someone keeps saying that s/he is going to build a house that has certain qualities, and maybe s/he has been talking about that plan for years, but never taking any actual actions, and so some of the actions could merely be to earn money from work, but then also there might need to be some other actions that go into identifying more specifics about the plan in regards to how much money is needed, how much money is already available and how to fill the gap... and then there might be some questions regarding who is going to do the labor, so there could be some actions that are being taken along the way, and maybe even getting up to a certain amount of money in the bank might be needed before even going through with the next steps that involve getting into specifics about identifying location and taking the further steps... but if someone needs $100k in the bank (or some quasi-liquid form) before s/he is able to start to get into the second planning step, and if s/he ONLY has $5k to $10k saved up, and many years have passed with the amount not getting even past $10k, there might be questions regarding the extent to which actions upon his/her plans are sufficiently lined up or even prioritized enough in order to be able to get through the first step of raising the early money which has to be achieved prior to going into the next stage of the journey.

So I think that I am saying that the planning and the acting go back and forth, and there are needs for both and needs to be in a kind of complementary stage - including that sometimes planning can become extensive, but it might not make sense without starting to take some actions that allow getting to the next stages... and even the acting might perhaps inform the further planning.. we learn how to make our plans better by coupling them with ongong appropriate actions.

[Dewi Aries]

Difficulty and ease always go hand in hand in all things, so that the assessment of the ease and difficulty of a job is only known when we have done it in our own way. Because sometimes the method taken by other people can also be easier than the method we do in a job that is no different, so difficulties are not only formed from our thoughts. But it is also formed from the way we take things in order to get maximum results without shifting from the basic goals that we have previously thought about for ourselves.

However, some people actually don't want to try doing something that they consider difficult, but maybe they don't know where to start, so up to now there are still many people who prefer to look for other, easier paths because maybe they know where to start. Even though difficulties are only visible when someone has not tried it, but when they have tried it and let's say they still haven't succeeded, someone will definitely look for solutions to solve the problems they face in order to overcome the obstacles that are in front of them.

I understand what you have explained, but a little addition from me is that everyone has different thoughts, and that is why some of them were able to achieve success earlier compared to us, the strong reason is because they stuck to their guns and had determination. To continue trying to follow up on every choice they implement.

For example, if you joined the Crypto World in 2016 and someone else joined in 2017 but there is a big difference in the level of success where someone who joined in 2017 is more successful than you. So at this stage you can evaluate why he can be successful and why we can't. Maybe if you have a history of buying BTC, of ​​course you can buy at a lower price because you joined in 2016. But someone who joined in 2017 bought BTC at a higher price than the purchase you made, but for comparison now they are more successful than you. This is due to factors, because they follow up on the development of Bitcoin from year to year so they believe Bitcoin will achieve greater profits if it is held for a long time. While those of you who bought at that time were only satisfied with a small profit because you sold your BTC holdings more quickly.  (that's perhaps the level of evaluation that must be adjusted for your future) namely buy and hold.

Well, that's a little conclusion that I can explain and I think I agree with Op because all success doesn't happen overnight and there are a lot of processes that have to be gone through. So do it with determination and full confidence in what you want to achieve in the future.

[Raflesia]

However, some people actually don't want to try doing something that they consider difficult, but maybe they don't know where to start, so up to now there are still many people who prefer to look for other, easier paths because maybe they know where to start. Even though difficulties are only visible when someone has not tried it, but when they have tried it and let's say they still haven't succeeded, someone will definitely look for solutions to solve the problems they face in order to overcome the obstacles that are in front of them.

In this case I think it comes back to mindset because when we can't try to overcome and always avoid something that we think we can't do then forever we will never move from where you are currently living and you will eventually become stagnant and not add any achievements in life.

Indeed, sometimes we think that actually we can't do it we are confused about where to start but in my opinion as long as we dare to try to step into a zone that we consider difficult it is actually an important first step that must be done because it is a brave step to get out of your comfort zone and dare to try new challenges.
Put aside the results first because in the end nothing is easy to achieve maximum results but when we are serious about doing something that we have considered difficult before I think it will be considered easy when we have tried.
The point is how to habituate yourself when facing pressure because in this case if your thinking is narrowed with the assumption that you cannot then forever it will be considered difficult to pass because you close the limits that you should be able to pass.

[Salahmu]

So I think that I am saying that the planning and the acting go back and forth, and there are needs for both and needs to be in a kind of complementary stage - including that sometimes planning can become extensive, but it might not make sense without starting to take some actions that allow getting to the next stages... and even the acting might perhaps inform the further planning.. we learn how to make our plans better by coupling them with ongong appropriate actions.

A planing without action makes no meaning, let's take for instance we have three set or stages of goals we want to reach out, planning alone cannot achieve those goals onles acting upon, also boiling it down to business perspective after having structured on what your business  will look like to achieve those structures action most be implemented immediately perhaps later on through action you will realize that there are more things that needs to be adjusted on the planning so in every planning action speaks volumes.

[kingvirtus09]

We are currently living in the chapter of our lives devoted to survival as living things. Additionally, we are aware that survival is currently difficult; if we do nothing, we will undoubtedly perish from starvation. Whatever is going on in our lives, whether we like it or not, we still need to figure out how to turn a profit.

And even while we are aware that finding a way to turn a profit is challenging, God has also provided a number of answers to this problem. We simply need to put in a lot of effort. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is one that we can also source in some way, just for us to get profits. Or it could also serve as a tool to help us succeed.

[Baki202]

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In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.

They have made success look very easy neglecting the challenges to accomplish it, every success have there own story. And movies have give some kind of sweet vibe of how things are easy. To make money sometimes some will actually motivate to put more effort. Reading your comments was encouraging and some times some part are just not easy to trail on, is demanding and effort must be put in to accomplish. Aside from that, the world has grown more challenging to live in.

[dothebeats]

We are currently living in the chapter of our lives devoted to survival as living things. Additionally, we are aware that survival is currently difficult; if we do nothing, we will undoubtedly perish from starvation. Whatever is going on in our lives, whether we like it or not, we still need to figure out how to turn a profit.

And even while we are aware that finding a way to turn a profit is challenging, God has also provided a number of answers to this problem. We simply need to put in a lot of effort. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is one that we can also source in some way, just for us to get profits. Or it could also serve as a tool to help us succeed.

I agree with you. I'm sure we can all agree that we all work and act to survive. The world is already challenging as it is, with the addition of wanting to reach various, unique, and different goals as well as outside factors it will seem as if the world is against us but, as you have stated, we will to survive. Hence, it is up to us to find a way to continue to do so. Each action, decision, and plans we make will disctate the state we will surely end up in. Therefore, we need to always have the drive to grow, to find any sitiation we are as a path made for us to survive, turn each situations (good and bad) as an opportunity to learn and be a better version of ourselves. Find a way to turn our small income to a bigger, slowly but steady. That is the never endling cycle of survival.

[summonerrk]

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In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.

They have made success look very easy neglecting the challenges to accomplish it, every success have there own story. And movies have give some kind of sweet vibe of how things are easy. To make money sometimes some will actually motivate to put more effort. Reading your comments was encouraging and some times some part are just not easy to trail on, is demanding and effort must be put in to accomplish. Aside from that, the world has grown more challenging to live in.

Yes, life has definitely become more difficult now, but you need to be able to see opportunities. The rules of a person who strives for success look like this:
1) be attentive
2) see opportunities and be able to create them.
That's all.
Let it be the time of a global global crisis, but I believe that there are always opportunities. You just need to always be able to adapt, think outside the box. Such qualities have been appreciated at all times, and even when there are armed conflicts or diseases in the world, even then there are people who strive to earn money and they succeed. I am not calling for breaking moral rules. But I'll give you an example: at the time of Covid-19, my friend earned a lot by selling medical masks and gloves. Covid-19 gave an opportunity, and this man took advantage of it because he thought critically and had a commercial streak.

[bayu7adi]

The essence of this thread is an invitation for us to toil diligently, as in the journey of life, nothing can guarantee our success.

Have you ever encountered impoverished families residing in rural areas? They all exert immense effort to secure a sustainable livelihood. Yet, the cycle of poverty continues to haunt them. From my observations, there seems to be a deficiency in fundamental financial education. This is primarily because their mindset seldom revolves around cultivating their possessions; rather, they tend to focus on meeting their basic needs, with any surplus earmarked for fulfilling their desires.

Each family harbors a chain of poverty that persists unless a descendant of the lineage resolves to break it. Achieving their aspirations becomes an arduous task, given the ubiquitous need for financial resources. Furthermore, their journey is fraught with greater challenges than those of the affluent due to various constraints such as economic limitations, mindset, and environment.

Impoverished families require a more potent catalyst than those who enjoy financial sufficiency.

[Adbitco]

Yes, life has definitely become more difficult now, but you need to be able to see opportunities. The rules of a person who strives for success look like this:
1) be attentive
2) see opportunities and be able to create them.
That's all.
Let it be the time of a global global crisis, but I believe that there are always opportunities. You just need to always be able to adapt, think outside the box. Such qualities have been appreciated at all times, and even when there are armed conflicts or diseases in the world, even then there are people who strive to earn money and they succeed. I am not calling for breaking moral rules. But I'll give you an example: at the time of Covid-19, my friend earned a lot by selling medical masks and gloves. Covid-19 gave an opportunity, and this man took advantage of it because he thought critically and had a commercial streak.

Though you have a point there but sometimes do we have to also reconsider about some opportunities? That is, not all opportunities are Golden ones, there some that are merely trapped for you (us) to fall ino more victims of something we didn't have the knowledge of it.

Let's say for example, a newbie investor venturing into market at a New ATH what did you expect such person to have as a results, to me is a huge loose why because he didn't venture the market at the right time but just because he has information that market could possibly hit to an unpredictable amount made him to rush buying at a new ATH to me this is not a good entry point and he may incur significant lose within after that.

Okay another reference might be as you said during covid-19 your friend made money from it, yes this could be true but the risk behind this is very high why because you could get contracted as well and his life would had be in danger who knows if he might lost his life If not for God that sees the heart of all men and give rise to them.

[Latviand]

We are currently living in the chapter of our lives devoted to survival as living things. Additionally, we are aware that survival is currently difficult; if we do nothing, we will undoubtedly perish from starvation. Whatever is going on in our lives, whether we like it or not, we still need to figure out how to turn a profit.

Not survival, our generation/time has the highest survival rate as a species compared to the different ages in the human history, we have cures for once incurable and almost mythological sicknesses/diseases back when science wasn't yet that advance, what we're struggling right now is finding purpose and trying to make a name for ourselves, with billions of us, I think it's going to depress anyone to think that some people will never find their purpose because they have to compete for ever dwindling resources. Also worth mentioning that with capitalism, everyone is trying to make things that was once free and taken for granted into a profit making machine so yeah, life ain't easy because we let it be.

[so98nn]

I am keeping everything simple and will continue to follow the same mantra even if I become multi millionaire. You enjoy the life the way it comes to you. If you try too hard you will make mistake and if you do not try at all then it will hit hard back to you. Better keep managing the life events as they come to you. You got extra money today? Save some, invest some, and spend some for your loved ones. If you did not get any extra money still save some, invest some and spend “later” on your loved ones. They ain’t going anywhere, they also live the same life. The save and invest is the key in all of this.

I see you mentioning and correlating things with merit earning on the forum. I count it as appendix in the system. One of the organ that is in our body it has no function since ages and it’s getting rejected by the body. It’s just sitting there with no meaning.

If you are using forum for your knowledge and sharing your knowledge, you are automatically getting escalated.

Don’t make this as rat race, makes it simpler.

[Litzki1990]

Nothing in life will come easily, the things we dream of will never come to us if we sit around waiting for them, we have to strive and work hard for them only then we will be able to fulfill our dreams. 
If we have a lot of focus on our career from childhood then surely we will do well in studies and whenever we do well in studies and get a good degree but we can easily enter our dream career. But it is never possible for those who only dream but do not take any action to realize their dreams. 

Studying or doing business you must do it carefully and have enough respect and respect for work only then you can get maximum results from that work or study.

[Rabata]

Some of your points are really important. Achieving anything in life is not so easy. To get anything good one must achieve it through hard work. May it be a degree or a career field or may it be a person's biggest dream in life. In each case an individual has to devote sufficient effort and time. Almost all of us know that nothing can be achieved by sitting idly.

If I want to get good results from my business then I must have good business management skills and pay attention to the quality of my products and accessories only then I can get good results from my business.

The same should be considered for investing in cryptocurrency or Bitcoin. A person cannot easily profit from Bitcoin if he does not acquire good knowledge about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not suitable for those who cannot buy and hold Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a money scheme where we can get multiple profits just by investing. But only those who buy into bitcoin and start living a dream for a long time can succeed.

[cafter]

I invested bought bitcoin at ATH and i am terribly in loss now, but not gave up on bitcoin instead wanted to learn more and joined this forum. and learned many things, I am DCAing to get the average price now.

If you are running towards merits the merits will run away from you, instead try to learn and help forum members with sharing what you know, the merits will come automatically.
it's feels boring because some users come here specifically for earning merits, if you were here to learn something money/bitcoin then you were feeling curious to login to see who replied to my post.

[rachael9385]

I am keeping everything simple and will continue to follow the same mantra even if I become multi millionaire. You enjoy the life the way it comes to you. If you try too hard you will make mistake and if you do not try at all then it will hit hard back to you. Better keep managing the life events as they come to you. You got extra money today? Save some, invest some, and spend some for your loved ones. If you did not get any extra money still save some, invest some and spend “later” on your loved ones. They ain’t going anywhere, they also live the same life. The save and invest is the key in all of this.

I see you mentioning and correlating things with merit earning on the forum. I count it as appendix in the system. One of the organ that is in our body it has no function since ages and it’s getting rejected by the body. It’s just sitting there with no meaning.

If you are using forum for your knowledge and sharing your knowledge, you are automatically getting escalated.

Don’t make this as rat race, makes it simpler.

You have a good point. Life can be easy when we don't force ourselves to be successful. We should try our best and live the rest. Sometimes, hearing the challenges of life can also be tough when we have nobody by our side, when we are still growing and in that same situation, some people make wrong decisions and it didn't end well for them and I will say that it is part of life.
If we have a job, whether good pay or average pay, it is good to save, invest and also spend wisely.

[Iroh]

I am keeping everything simple and will continue to follow the same mantra even if I become multi millionaire. You enjoy the life the way it comes to you. If you try too hard you will make mistake and if you do not try at all then it will hit hard back to you. Better keep managing the life events as they come to you. You got extra money today? Save some, invest some, and spend some for your loved ones. If you did not get any extra money still save some, invest some and spend “later” on your loved ones. They ain’t going anywhere, they also live the same life. The save and invest is the key in all of this.

The simpler the better right? I hope you really do continue to follow the same ideology when you become a multi millionaire. It is said that money reveals someone’s true nature.
I agree with you on the need to have a positive outlook on life. Mistakes are bound to happen only when you make an effort and the lessons learnt from the mistakes makes us stronger. If you don’t try at all, there’s no chance of ever making a better life for ourselves.

Savings and investments are important as well as spending either time or/and money on your friends and loved ones as life can be very unpredictable.

[slapper]

Some of your points are really important. Achieving anything in life is not so easy. To get anything good one must achieve it through hard work. May it be a degree or a career field or may it be a person's biggest dream in life. In each case an individual has to devote sufficient effort and time. Almost all of us know that nothing can be achieved by sitting idly.

If I want to get good results from my business then I must have good business management skills and pay attention to the quality of my products and accessories only then I can get good results from my business.

The same should be considered for investing in cryptocurrency or Bitcoin. A person cannot easily profit from Bitcoin if he does not acquire good knowledge about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not suitable for those who cannot buy and hold Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a money scheme where we can get multiple profits just by investing. But only those who buy into bitcoin and start living a dream for a long time can succeed.

Truly? I thought everyone knew by now that success doesn't magically fall into our laps. Still, I appreciate you pointing out the obvious


About your business point, it goes without saying that you must strong management abilities. All prosperous business owners will tell you the same thing. For those of you who might still be beneath the rock, here's a breakdown of Bitcoin: knowledge truly is power. Clearly. You cannot enter cryptocurrency without knowledge and expect to make money right away

Now, Is anyone still considering Bitcoin as a quick way to become wealthy? lol. Planting a money tree and watching it grow over night is not a magical experience. Therefore, perhaps do a reality check before attempting to turn a rapid profit with Bitcoin for those impatient types?

[JayJuanGee]

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Truly? I thought everyone knew by now that success doesn't magically fall into our laps. Still, I appreciate you pointing out the obvious

About your business point, it goes without saying that you must strong management abilities. All prosperous business owners will tell you the same thing. For those of you who might still be beneath the rock, here's a breakdown of Bitcoin: knowledge truly is power. Clearly. You cannot enter cryptocurrency without knowledge and expect to make money right away

I understand that you are talking about bitcoin here (or at least it seems like it), but for some reason you chose to use the word "cryptocurrency" which seems to be quite misleading if you do not attempt to put your assertion into some kind of context.. So why even use the word, except you are trying to imply some kind of broader application regarding whatever you were going to say about bitcoin.. so then a question gets raised about whether you are actually talking about bitcoin or something else? 

I really am not sure.  I was going to say something else about fuck crypto when it comes to knowledge, especially if we are talking about bitcoin because some people get distracted into trying to learn about various crypto when it is merely a distraction, but it may well be helpful to have some kind of a framework, so long as we attempt to know how bitcoin fits into it and give some kind of a starting point to bitcoin in order to understand that a lot of the crypto space is either building on bitcoin or attacking bitcoin or engaged in some kind of affinity scam in regards, to bitcoin, yet at the same time, just because much if it is a waste of time in terms of focus, it does not mean that there is not any value in some of the broader space, as long as it is understood in terms of a more informed context.

Now, Is anyone still considering Bitcoin as a quick way to become wealthy? lol. Planting a money tree and watching it grow over night is not a magical experience. Therefore, perhaps do a reality check before attempting to turn a rapid profit with Bitcoin for those impatient types?

This not a bad point either in regards to a distracting angle that comes from get rich quick ideas, and surely with any gambling angle there could be ways to get rich quick scheme with some in and out strategies, so we cannot completely discount the possibilities of actually getting rich quick, or that people are reasonably motivated by get rich quick ideas, even though that get rich quick framework might end up causing them to invest into bitcoin in ways that don't end up working out so well for them. including some people who got in and out of bitcoin and thought that they were geniuses because they made 2x, 5x, 10x or some other great return in terms of dollar value, but then when they look back at their overall investment portfolio performance, they see that they would have been way better off to have played a longer bitcoin game, even if their average cost of BTC might have ended up going up when they end up buying BTC at higher prices that drop in price for extended periods of time.

One more point about knowledge when it comes to bitcoin.  There likely are going to be a variety of reasons that people come into bitcoin and get interested in bitcoin, and the point in which bitcoin sufficiently resonates for them is likely going to be different for different people in terms at which point they might be considering bitcoin to be more of a long term play rather than expecting positive results in the short-term, and some people take way longer than others in terms of even being able to understand bitcoin in a way that they have confidence in its longer term investment thesis, versus maybe considering bitcoin in terms of market sentiment or momentum or its connection to other macro asset (such as having ideas about how bitcoin is correlated, when it likely is not as correlated as they believe.. but that still goes to how bitcoin is understood and whether bitcoin is understood).

Surely, I am not suggesting that wide knowledge of bitcoin is needed prior to investing into it, even though surely it is helpful to have some kind of a meaningful basis that motivates an investment thesis or how to invest into bitcoin in a way that is suitable to the person. so having knowledge about bitcoin is only one of the components apart from having knowledge about ones own financial and psychological circumstances, and perhaps it bears repeating what kinds of knowledge is helpful, but it is surely not necessarily that anyone perfects each of the areas of knowledge even if s/he has more information that is relevant to certain areas of knowledge..... and so here it is:

When you invest into bitcoin, at minimum you should be attempting to develop knowledge about:

1)   your cashflow,

2)   how much bitcoin you have already accumulated,

3)   your other investments (including cash reserves),

4)   your view of bitcoin as compared with other investments,

5)   your timeline,

6)   your risk tolerance,

7)   your time, skills, goals (investment/lifestyle targets, which includes figuring out the extent that you are in BTC accumulation, maintenance or liquidation stage),

8 )   your abilities to strategize, plan, research and learn along the way including tweaking strategies from time to time,

9)   your considering your time, your abilities and whether to trade, reallocate from time to time, to use of leverage and/or to use financial instruments.

These are ongoing areas in which anyone should be working upon without necessarily concluding that they need to perfect all of them or even to perfect any one category prior to being ready to start investing into bitcoin.. whether that is investing with their time, their energies and/or their finances.

[Odohu]

I understand that you are talking about bitcoin here (or at least it seems like it), but for some reason you chose to use the word "cryptocurrency" which seems to be quite misleading if you do not attempt to put your assertion into some kind of context

A lot of people, even the experienced guys, are still stuck in that conjecture and its rather unfortunate.  Like you explained in one of the threads, using the term cryptocurrency to represent all digital assets including Bitcoin without adding some clarifications/distinction could send a terrible signal to the uniformed.

Someone could be swayed to buy into a shitcoin, only to loose his money and blame cryptocurrency for his loss and someone might take note of this, only to resist and criticise any discussion of Bitcoin siting that cryptocurrency is scam as many feel comfortable saying.

I am yet to see someone who bought Bitcoin that is regretting but there are countless number of terrible stories about losses in shitcoins and I posted about mine yesterday when I checked coinmarketcap only to realise that a token that raised over $8 million in sales died and left us with a bag of shit.

So, I feel it is very important we make that clarification when using the word "cryptocurrency"

When you invest into bitcoin, at minimum you should be attempting to develop knowledge about:

1)   your cashflow,

2)   how much bitcoin you have already accumulated,

3)   your other investments (including cash reserves),

4)   your view of bitcoin as compared with other investments,

5)   your timeline,

6)   your risk tolerance,

7)   your time, skills, goals (investment/lifestyle targets, which includes figuring out the extent that you are in BTC accumulation, maintenance or liquidation stage),

8 )   your abilities to strategize, plan, research and learn along the way including tweaking strategies from time to time,

9)   your considering your time, your abilities and whether to trade, reallocate from time to time, to use of leverage and/or to use financial instruments.

These are ongoing areas in which anyone should be working upon without necessarily concluding that they need to perfect all of them or even to perfect any one category prior to being ready to start investing into bitcoin.. whether that is investing with their time, their energies and/or their finances.

This is a helpful information I must admit. My views Actually align with yours in no mean way and I guess you just gave a good perspective that give clarity and direction to explore.

[red4slash]

I invested bought bitcoin at ATH and i am terribly in loss now, but not gave up on bitcoin instead wanted to learn more and joined this forum. and learned many things, I am DCAing to get the average price now.

If you are running towards merits the merits will run away from you, instead try to learn and help forum members with sharing what you know, the merits will come automatically.
it's feels boring because some users come here specifically for earning merits, if you were here to learn something money/bitcoin then you were feeling curious to login to see who replied to my post.

Previously I wanted to ask, have you sold the bitcoin you bought at the time of ATH or not? if yes then it is true that you have lost, and if you have not sold it then it cannot be said to be a loss because the possibility of bitcoin touching the previous ATH or even exceeding the previous ATH is very large.
You have done something right, because when you experience something undesirable (buying bitcoin, then the price drops far from the price when you entered) you continue to try to learn or deepen your knowledge about bitcoin in particular. Because sometimes not a few when they experience something unwanted they immediately stop and even say this is a scam.

[SmartGold01]

I understand that you are talking about bitcoin here (or at least it seems like it), but for some reason you chose to use the word "cryptocurrency" which seems to be quite misleading if you do not attempt to put your assertion into some kind of context

A lot of people, even the experienced guys, are still stuck in that conjecture and its rather unfortunate.  Like you explained in one of the threads, using the term cryptocurrency to represent all digital assets including Bitcoin without adding some clarifications/distinction could send a terrible signal to the uniformed.

Someone could be swayed to buy into a shitcoin, only to loose his money and blame cryptocurrency for his loss and someone might take note of this, only to resist and criticise any discussion of Bitcoin siting that cryptocurrency is scam as many feel comfortable saying.

I am yet to see someone who bought Bitcoin that is regretting but there are countless number of terrible stories about losses in shitcoins and I posted about mine yesterday when I checked coinmarketcap only to realise that a token that raised over $8 million in sales died and left us with a bag of shit.

So, I feel it is very important we make that clarification when using the word "cryptocurrency"

Sometimes I feels so pettied go those who are yet to understand the difference between this whole concepts of investment, well from the time I understood the language bitcoin and altcoin I knew there are something phishy and this often happened to those who are engulfed with greed and profits making. I began to understand that altcoin is more riskier to venture or told for a longer period of time because as you keep holding the more the owners keeps money and when they successful sold out their holding then they have no options than to leave an empty token that is cheaply called coins to the hands of investment, that is why you fell among those with worthless tokens trying to hold for long to make a huge profit.

But believe me if that your funds which you used to invest in that project was channelled to bitcoin investment I bet you wouldn't have been this emptied with your tokens or with your investment, so maybe next you can at least learned from your mistakes and I believe you can also makes some corrections and that could enable you to gear yourself up should you have any one related or wanting to know about altcoin you would give them a good counseling concerning the theorems of altcoin and it modifications. That is why whenever JayJuanGee speaks he talks with experience and from his comments you will learn the truth.

[cafter]

Previously I wanted to ask, have you sold the bitcoin you bought at the time of ATH or not? if yes then it is true that you have lost, and if you have not sold it then it cannot be said to be a loss because the possibility of bitcoin touching the previous ATH or even exceeding the previous ATH is very large.
You have done something right, because when you experience something undesirable (buying bitcoin, then the price drops far from the price when you entered) you continue to try to learn or deepen your knowledge about bitcoin in particular. Because sometimes not a few when they experience something unwanted they immediately stop and even say this is a scam.

I bought bitcoin at ATH and now i am "in loss" not "lost" means i am still holding them for almost two years.
there is no need to say this is scam, it's a cycle which repeats each time and repeated this time also, but i was unlucky that i invested, and my first try was a loss(considering if i sold).

I don't know whether i feel lucky about it or unlucky and sad about it.
In terms of being lucky: I am facing loss for almost 2 years in which i experienced what the bear market look like so next time i can get prepared for this type of dips.
In terms of being unlucky: My money was not working for me for almost 2 years, instead i might invested that money in my countries stock market (which performed very well making new ATHs) then i was in profit for now.

[Fatunad]

I understand that you are talking about bitcoin here (or at least it seems like it), but for some reason you chose to use the word "cryptocurrency" which seems to be quite misleading if you do not attempt to put your assertion into some kind of context

A lot of people, even the experienced guys, are still stuck in that conjecture and its rather unfortunate.  Like you explained in one of the threads, using the term cryptocurrency to represent all digital assets including Bitcoin without adding some clarifications/distinction could send a terrible signal to the uniformed.

Someone could be swayed to buy into a shitcoin, only to loose his money and blame cryptocurrency for his loss and someone might take note of this, only to resist and criticise any discussion of Bitcoin siting that cryptocurrency is scam as many feel comfortable saying.

I am yet to see someone who bought Bitcoin that is regretting but there are countless number of terrible stories about losses in shitcoins and I posted about mine yesterday when I checked coinmarketcap only to realise that a token that raised over $8 million in sales died and left us with a bag of shit.

So, I feel it is very important we make that clarification when using the word "cryptocurrency"

Sometimes I feels so pettied go those who are yet to understand the difference between this whole concepts of investment, well from the time I understood the language bitcoin and altcoin I knew there are something phishy and this often happened to those who are engulfed with greed and profits making. I began to understand that altcoin is more riskier to venture or told for a longer period of time because as you keep holding the more the owners keeps money and when they successful sold out their holding then they have no options than to leave an empty token that is cheaply called coins to the hands of investment, that is why you fell among those with worthless tokens trying to hold for long to make a huge profit.

But believe me if that your funds which you used to invest in that project was channelled to bitcoin investment I bet you wouldn't have been this emptied with your tokens or with your investment, so maybe next you can at least learned from your mistakes and I believe you can also makes some corrections and that could enable you to gear yourself up should you have any one related or wanting to know about altcoin you would give them a good counseling concerning the theorems of altcoin and it modifications. That is why whenever JayJuanGee speaks he talks with experience and from his comments you will learn the truth.

Nice pointing out those wrong words that had been used because if we do speak about "cryptocurrencies" then it would really be including all things as a whole on which it would really be just that normal that those newbies who might be able to read up will really be mislead and would really definitely be considering on putting their money into shit coins or something that it isnt known instead on going through BTC.
We are all started on being a noob and this is why its not really that shocking that mistakes and errors are something that common whether because of those wrong information been read up or really just that simply blindly following on something which it is really just that too good to be true.We are really that easily getting hooked into something specially when we are just starting up.  Sooner or later once you do have that sufficient experience in the market then you would really be definitely be able to gradually understand on how this market works and behaves and with that then you do already have the idea on what you should gonna do.
Investing or dealing up with this market is risky and something not that easy and this is why dealing with caution and making use of your own common sense would be the key on surviving yourself into this one.

[SmartGold01]

I understand that you are talking about bitcoin here (or at least it seems like it), but for some reason you chose to use the word "cryptocurrency" which seems to be quite misleading if you do not attempt to put your assertion into some kind of context

A lot of people, even the experienced guys, are still stuck in that conjecture and its rather unfortunate.  Like you explained in one of the threads, using the term cryptocurrency to represent all digital assets including Bitcoin without adding some clarifications/distinction could send a terrible signal to the uniformed.

Someone could be swayed to buy into a shitcoin, only to loose his money and blame cryptocurrency for his loss and someone might take note of this, only to resist and criticise any discussion of Bitcoin siting that cryptocurrency is scam as many feel comfortable saying.

I am yet to see someone who bought Bitcoin that is regretting but there are countless number of terrible stories about losses in shitcoins and I posted about mine yesterday when I checked coinmarketcap only to realise that a token that raised over $8 million in sales died and left us with a bag of shit.

So, I feel it is very important we make that clarification when using the word "cryptocurrency"

Sometimes I feels so pettied go those who are yet to understand the difference between this whole concepts of investment, well from the time I understood the language bitcoin and altcoin I knew there are something phishy and this often happened to those who are engulfed with greed and profits making. I began to understand that altcoin is more riskier to venture or told for a longer period of time because as you keep holding the more the owners keeps money and when they successful sold out their holding then they have no options than to leave an empty token that is cheaply called coins to the hands of investment, that is why you fell among those with worthless tokens trying to hold for long to make a huge profit.

But believe me if that your funds which you used to invest in that project was channelled to bitcoin investment I bet you wouldn't have been this emptied with your tokens or with your investment, so maybe next you can at least learned from your mistakes and I believe you can also makes some corrections and that could enable you to gear yourself up should you have any one related or wanting to know about altcoin you would give them a good counseling concerning the theorems of altcoin and it modifications. That is why whenever JayJuanGee speaks he talks with experience and from his comments you will learn the truth.

Nice pointing out those wrong words that had been used because if we do speak about "cryptocurrencies" then it would really be including all things as a whole on which it would really be just that normal that those newbies who might be able to read up will really be mislead and would really definitely be considering on putting their money into shit coins or something that it isnt known instead on going through BTC.
We are all started on being a noob and this is why its not really that shocking that mistakes and errors are something that common whether because of those wrong information been read up or really just that simply blindly following on something which it is really just that too good to be true.We are really that easily getting hooked into something specially when we are just starting up.  Sooner or later once you do have that sufficient experience in the market then you would really be definitely be able to gradually understand on how this market works and behaves and with that then you do already have the idea on what you should gonna do.
Investing or dealing up with this market is risky and something not that easy and this is why dealing with caution and making use of your own common sense would be the key on surviving yourself into this one.

From experience achieved so far I think I might be the least person to be easily convinced about undiluted project or do I say shitcoin to hold, then when I never fully got into routed here I was actually being washed by some projects that promised to list at some prices which we never see that as a sweet and cooked organized and romanced lie to lure investor into holding bigger portion of their shitcoin (token) per say. But was blindfolded by greed maybe I think was equating a token to carry same symmetric load as ethereum maybe bnb, that was the concepts that over shadowed me but at some point I began to understand the team weren't active the price began to declined at then was very smart to have sold before a bit above my bought point so my funds was actually recovered since then i really back off from shitcoin that is organized to steal your real funds from you. The bottom line is bitcoin is the best because when it gets down you only need patients for it to bounce back again but to other altcoin hardly bounce back and some of them dies from there.

[Inwestour]

I really am not sure.  I was going to say something else about fuck crypto when it comes to knowledge, especially if we are talking about bitcoin because some people get distracted into trying to learn about various crypto when it is merely a distraction, but it may well be helpful to have some kind of a framework, so long as we attempt to know how bitcoin fits into it and give some kind of a starting point to bitcoin in order to understand that a lot of the crypto space is either building on bitcoin or attacking bitcoin or engaged in some kind of affinity scam in regards, to bitcoin, yet at the same time, just because much if it is a waste of time in terms of focus, it does not mean that there is not any value in some of the broader space, as long as it is understood in terms of a more informed context.

I agree that only Bitcoin deserves attention when we talk about investing our money, since all other tokens significantly increase the risk for our investments and I do not understand why we need to increase the risks.

If we look at the entire market, what I see is how the entire market is moving behind Bitcoin, in rare cases some token can pump without being tied to Bitcoin, but this is the exception rather than the rule and in the end it will still fall. Many shitcoins are created with only one purpose, to take money from gullible people, so when buying these tokens it becomes a game of luck, or you will be lucky to sell with a profit, if not, then there is a chance to lose everything.

When I buy Bitcoin I don't worry about all this, I'm confident in my investment and I'm realistic about my goals. And those who buy altcoins often expect some unrealistic goals and end up not selling when they should.

[red4slash]

Previously I wanted to ask, have you sold the bitcoin you bought at the time of ATH or not? if yes then it is true that you have lost, and if you have not sold it then it cannot be said to be a loss because the possibility of bitcoin touching the previous ATH or even exceeding the previous ATH is very large.
You have done something right, because when you experience something undesirable (buying bitcoin, then the price drops far from the price when you entered) you continue to try to learn or deepen your knowledge about bitcoin in particular. Because sometimes not a few when they experience something unwanted they immediately stop and even say this is a scam.

I bought bitcoin at ATH and now i am "in loss" not "lost" means i am still holding them for almost two years.
there is no need to say this is scam, it's a cycle which repeats each time and repeated this time also, but i was unlucky that i invested, and my first try was a loss(considering if i sold).

I don't know whether i feel lucky about it or unlucky and sad about it.
In terms of being lucky: I am facing loss for almost 2 years in which i experienced what the bear market look like so next time i can get prepared for this type of dips.
In terms of being unlucky: My money was not working for me for almost 2 years, instead i might invested that money in my countries stock market (which performed very well making new ATHs) then i was in profit for now.

In this case I prefer to say depreciation because in the end the loss is when they buy high but sell when the price drops because of panic and don't want to get the worst condition with the value continuing to weaken but when you hold it I think at this time it still cannot be said to be a loss because you still keep the same amount (in bitcoin) but the value is shrinking.
When something like this happens then I think there is no problem because this is not a short-term investment and if you want more profit then at least it takes longer than imagined. On the other hand, precisely the moment of decline like this must be maximised properly because this is a condition for us to increase the load for the portopolio that we have so that when an increase occurs in terms of value for bitcoin we get more profit while waiting for the price we bought before at a high enough price again.

[JayJuanGee]

Previously I wanted to ask, have you sold the bitcoin you bought at the time of ATH or not? if yes then it is true that you have lost, and if you have not sold it then it cannot be said to be a loss because the possibility of bitcoin touching the previous ATH or even exceeding the previous ATH is very large.
You have done something right, because when you experience something undesirable (buying bitcoin, then the price drops far from the price when you entered) you continue to try to learn or deepen your knowledge about bitcoin in particular. Because sometimes not a few when they experience something unwanted they immediately stop and even say this is a scam.

I bought bitcoin at ATH and now i am "in loss" not "lost" means i am still holding them for almost two years.
there is no need to say this is scam, it's a cycle which repeats each time and repeated this time also, but i was unlucky that i invested, and my first try was a loss(considering if i sold).

I don't know whether i feel lucky about it or unlucky and sad about it.
In terms of being lucky: I am facing loss for almost 2 years in which i experienced what the bear market look like so next time i can get prepared for this type of dips.
In terms of being unlucky: My money was not working for me for almost 2 years, instead i might invested that money in my countries stock market (which performed very well making new ATHs) then i was in profit for now.

Maybe there is some necessity for forum members to take you seriously, to presume that you are not failing to tell the whole story and/or to consider your own responsibilities in the matter.

Surely, I will praise you if you had held through the whole time, and your story it not so far out there that it could not be true, because I do recognize and appreciate that there are people who go too far into bitcoin by investing too much without having a plan for either price direction, including the extremes, which frequently it seems that the extremes come when not expected, but there are still needs to prepare for them, and it is problematic to go all in to any asset whether bitcoin or anything else if you could have looked at the chart and you could have seen that it had already gone up around 17x from its $4k-ish bottom from either March 2020 or from April 2019.. and going up to $69k-ish in November 2021.

I frequently describe the lump sum buyer at the top as a kind of fantasy situation in which no one would really do.. even though people do those kinds of thing...   

The smarter thing to do, even if you make a lump sum buy at the top, is to continue to buy all the way down and just continue buying, but part of the problem of the lump sum buyer at the top may well be that they don't have any money left for buying... so then the logic may well to be to just sit on the investment, which seems to be your story...

Maybe you will get back to profits, and maybe you never will, and the fact that you sit on your investment rather than continuing to buy, you have a higher price that you have to pray that the BTC price gets back to in order to get back in profits, as compared to the person who continued to buy might well be in the neighborhood of break even or at least way less under water than you, even though maybe the person who continued to buy may well have had ended up investing more into bitcoin.. so instead of buying 1 BTC at $69k (or whatever price and amount you bought), the one who continued to buy may well have ended up buying 2 BTC for a total amount invested of around $95k (see the DCA of $250 per week for the last two years to have had resulted in $26k invested and about 1 BTC accumulated).

So yeah having 1 BTC for $69k versus having 2 BTC for $95k might not feel like it makes too much of a difference, even though there are ways to bring down your average cost per BTC and there are ways to consider that it is fucking less than smart to go all in when the price is rising like that.. even though surely a decent number of people are lured into that kind of FOMO.. and also many of them end up selling - and cutting their losses way sooner rather than riding it out, so there is a bit of smarts to just let the investment ride out when a guy (or gal) realizes that s/he had made such a mistake in the event that s/he is not able to continue to invest to bring down his/her average cost per BTC.

Don't get me wrong.  I did something similar in late 2013 when I first got into bitcoin, and so I continued to buy bitcoin through 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (even though I did not really inject very much new money starting in about late 2016), and so my very first coin was in the negative all the way from late 2013 until about March 2017, but my average cost per BTC was only in the negative until about late 2015..... so I can understand the experience of how long it might take to build a BTC portfolio in the beginning and to get the BTC holdings into solid profits.. while at the same time realizing and appreciating that there are no guarantees regarding BTC's price direction or that it might end up going to zero, so there are needs to figure out position size in accordance with how much you want to put into such a bet.

Regarding your whinny comment about stocks out performing bitcoin in the period in which you invested, and even if true, you remain a dumb-ass if you believe that stocks are a better investment than bitcoin, even if you can figure out ways to spin facts or to selectively look at the bitcoin versus stocks situation in such a way to whine about it and to presume stocks to be a better investment... That kind of comment and dig at bitcoin, sounds quite disingenuine to me... or maybe you are just whining?  In any event, good luck with your investment into stocks and into other non-bitcoin assets, if you believe that is the direction to go..you are likely going to need a wee bit of good luck on your side.

[BABY SHOES]

I agree that only Bitcoin deserves attention when we talk about investing our money, since all other tokens significantly increase the risk for our investments and I do not understand why we need to increase the risks.

If we look at the entire market, what I see is how the entire market is moving behind Bitcoin, in rare cases some token can pump without being tied to Bitcoin, but this is the exception rather than the rule and in the end it will still fall. Many shitcoins are created with only one purpose, to take money from gullible people, so when buying these tokens it becomes a game of luck, or you will be lucky to sell with a profit, if not, then there is a chance to lose everything.

When I buy Bitcoin I don't worry about all this, I'm confident in my investment and I'm realistic about my goals. And those who buy altcoins often expect some unrealistic goals and end up not selling when they should.

Yeah bitcoin deserves more defense than shitcoin, now that I understand everything about investing I will focus on bitcoin no more than that, maybe some of them increase the risk of shitcoin it doesn't matter I understand it, although there are similarities about the risk in bitcoin but at least bitcoin is much safer than shitcoin.

Continue to observe the market, especially with the emergence of shitcoin, which is endless, indeed, from that goal it is only ONE to drain investors' money as long as it makes shitcoin hype after all the hype has been successfully raided, then they will come out as fraud, this is not once or twice but so much has happened, so I don't really believe in shitcoin.

When you buy bitcoin without worrying what about some other large institutions that buy bitcoin with millions of dollars? They will definitely never worry but behind all that big companies will try to buy at low prices then HODL...
I have seen so much history in various media about bitcoin that I believe it.

[ChuckBuck]

Previously I wanted to ask, have you sold the bitcoin you bought at the time of ATH or not? if yes then it is true that you have lost, and if you have not sold it then it cannot be said to be a loss because the possibility of bitcoin touching the previous ATH or even exceeding the previous ATH is very large.
You have done something right, because when you experience something undesirable (buying bitcoin, then the price drops far from the price when you entered) you continue to try to learn or deepen your knowledge about bitcoin in particular. Because sometimes not a few when they experience something unwanted they immediately stop and even say this is a scam.

I bought bitcoin at ATH and now i am "in loss" not "lost" means i am still holding them for almost two years.
there is no need to say this is scam, it's a cycle which repeats each time and repeated this time also, but i was unlucky that i invested, and my first try was a loss(considering if i sold).

I don't know whether i feel lucky about it or unlucky and sad about it.
In terms of being lucky: I am facing loss for almost 2 years in which i experienced what the bear market look like so next time i can get prepared for this type of dips.
In terms of being unlucky: My money was not working for me for almost 2 years, instead i might invested that money in my countries stock market (which performed very well making new ATHs) then i was in profit for now.

Maybe there is some necessity for forum members to take you seriously, to presume that you are not failing to tell the whole story and/or to consider your own responsibilities in the matter.

Surely, I will praise you if you had held through the whole time, and your story it not so far out there that it could not be true, because I do recognize and appreciate that there are people who go too far into bitcoin by investing too much without having a plan for either price direction, including the extremes, which frequently it seems that the extremes come when not expected, but there are still needs to prepare for them, and it is problematic to go all in to any asset whether bitcoin or anything else if you could have looked at the chart and you could have seen that it had already gone up around 17x from its $4k-ish bottom from either March 2020 or from April 2019.. and going up to $69k-ish in November 2021.

I frequently describe the lump sum buyer at the top as a kind of fantasy situation in which no one would really do.. even though people do those kinds of thing...   

The smarter thing to do, even if you make a lump sum buy at the top, is to continue to buy all the way down and just continue buying, but part of the problem of the lump sum buyer at the top may well be that they don't have any money left for buying... so then the logic may well to be to just sit on the investment, which seems to be your story...

Maybe you will get back to profits, and maybe you never will, and the fact that you sit on your investment rather than continuing to buy, you have a higher price that you have to pray that the BTC price gets back to in order to get back in profits, as compared to the person who continued to buy might well be in the neighborhood of break even or at least way less under water than you, even though maybe the person who continued to buy may well have had ended up investing more into bitcoin.. so instead of buying 1 BTC at $69k (or whatever price and amount you bought), the one who continued to buy may well have ended up buying 2 BTC for a total amount invested of around $95k (see the DCA of $250 per week for the last two years to have had resulted in $26k invested and about 1 BTC accumulated).

So yeah having 1 BTC for $69k versus having 2 BTC for $95k might not feel like it makes too much of a difference, even though there are ways to bring down your average cost per BTC and there are ways to consider that it is fucking less than smart to go all in when the price is rising like that.. even though surely a decent number of people are lured into that kind of FOMO.. and also many of them end up selling - and cutting their losses way sooner rather than riding it out, so there is a bit of smarts to just let the investment ride out when a guy (or gal) realizes that s/he had made such a mistake in the event that s/he is not able to continue to invest to bring down his/her average cost per BTC.

Don't get me wrong.  I did something similar in late 2013 when I first got into bitcoin, and so I continued to buy bitcoin through 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (even though I did not really inject very much new money starting in about late 2016), and so my very first coin was in the negative all the way from late 2013 until about March 2017, but my average cost per BTC was only in the negative until about late 2015..... so I can understand the experience of how long it might take to build a BTC portfolio in the beginning and to get the BTC holdings into solid profits.. while at the same time realizing and appreciating that there are no guarantees regarding BTC's price direction or that it might end up going to zero, so there are needs to figure out position size in accordance with how much you want to put into such a bet.

Regarding your whinny comment about stocks out performing bitcoin in the period in which you invested, and even if true, you remain a dumb-ass if you believe that stocks are a better investment than bitcoin, even if you can figure out ways to spin facts or to selectively look at the bitcoin versus stocks situation in such a way to whine about it and to presume stocks to be a better investment... That kind of comment and dig at bitcoin, sounds quite disingenuine to me... or maybe you are just whining?  In any event, good luck with your investment into stocks and into other non-bitcoin assets, if you believe that is the direction to go..you are likely going to need a wee bit of good luck on your side.

Well, I have to admit, you wrote a really good essay there. You are correct about one thing: there are many success and failure stories in the Bitcoin community. A lot of us recall the swift rises and ensuing falls. Allow me to make a few observations, though:

1. The whole concept of "buying the dip" is easier said than done. When the price skyrockets, FOMO kicks in, and when it plummets, fear takes over. Emotions aren't the best financial advisors.

2. "Continuing to buy all the way down" assumes you've got an endless flow of capital, and it also assumes you can time the market, which, let's face it, most people can't.

3. About your comment on stocks: It's not about whether stocks or BTC are better investments. It's about diversifying and understanding risk. If all you do is chase the next big thing without a strategy, you're playing with fire.
I really like your aggressive style by throwing around terms like "dumb-ass" in a serious discussion. It makes us fell more engaged and closed. We're all here to learn and share, after all. Best of luck with your investments, and I genuinely hope you've learned from your past mistakes.

[lixer]

In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.

That's very well explained. Achieving things in life is not as easy as some might portray it to be. The books and movies that we read and watch don't show real stories and they are just imaginative fairy tales where a person wishes for something and achieves it pretty easily without facing a lot of difficulties and hardships, while the reality is totally different. You need to lose a lot of things only to achieve one goal and achieving that goal wouldn't give you enough satisfaction that would justify the hardships you've gone through for it.

So, no matter what it is, whether it's rank in a forum, achieving a certain degree, mastering an art or skill, or anything else, it can all be achieved with hard work and dedication, but as always said by everyone, it won't be easy all the time, but you will achieve it if you don't give up on it and keep going.

[JayJuanGee]

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3. About your comment on stocks: It's not about whether stocks or BTC are better investments. It's about diversifying and understanding risk. If all you do is chase the next big thing without a strategy, you're playing with fire.

I think that my response to @cafter's comment on stocks mostly speaks for itself, and largely was intended to point out that there are going to be problems to conclude that stocks are either a better long-term investment than bitcoin, or that anyone would have necessarily been able to figure out how to time getting in and out of bitcoin in such a way that they actually did end up performing better with stocks than they would have by just staying with bitcoin, and sure some people may well could have been able to get in and out (and probably did).... including that it is a lot easier to look at performance after the fact and then figure out how "you should have been allocated" and then how you should have switched and then how you should have switched back....blah blah blah .. rather than just sticking with a longer term plan.. such as building your BTC portfolio over a long time, and sure if you just got into bitcoin in the last 2-3 years, then it is likely to have had been more difficult to build a profitable portfolio in terms of its current dollar value at this time (as compared with stocks), but surely those kinds of selective readings do not mean that stocks are a better investment than bitcoin and likely are not going to be and are not a better investment over a longer time horizon (you can choose for yourself).. especially in the longer term historically and likely not even better in the upcoming future.. though its up to you regarding how you allocate into various assets whether stocks, bitcoin or otherwise...

Again, good luck if you are getting off of bitcoin and into stocks or switching back and forth or if you cannot make up your mind how to allocate, like I already mentioned, you are likely going to need it if you are fucking around and failing/refusing to allocate to bitcoin..or you are getting too enamored with stocks relative to bitcoin.

Perhaps another unstated assumption is regarding trading.. which is getting in and out of assets rather than sticking to them in the long term, so bitcoin has already proven to have had been a better investment than many stocks (if not most and if not when referring to general index stocks) over several kinds of time frames, especially the longer that you zoom out beyond 2 years... and so it becomes a BIG SO FUCKING WHAT.. when trying to whine about bitcoin not sufficiently performing in some kind of a recent framework in which you select the period that you want to show based on gobbledy-gook "reasons"... so a lot of bitcoin naysaying (and even stock correlation) nonsense can be shown and argued in various short-term periods.. which you seem to be supporting those kinds of framings if you feel that you need to come to @cafter's defense.  

Maybe zoom out a bit, and then come back and discuss, if there is any point that you might have been wanting to make that is more than just arguing for the mere sake of it.

I really like your aggressive style by throwing around terms like "dumb-ass" in a serious discussion. It makes us fell more engaged and closed. We're all here to learn and share, after all.

I had meant some of those kinds of "terms of endearment" as emphasis.. Do I need to read back through my earlier post and try to figure out if I might have gone too far (and hurt some feelings) with some of my "terms of endearment/emphasis" in a few places?

Also, do you believe that I should have been more welcoming to @cafter's comments, even if to me they were coming off as questionable in terms of their genuineness?  

What would Jesus do?  

Is there a forum interaction (posting) standard that you would like for me to have had followed?
 

Best of luck with your investments, and I genuinely hope you've learned from your past mistakes.

This is a bit of a mish-mash of questions with a mixed message.  

My Bitcoin is doing quite well... probably ever since about 2016/2017 depending on how it is calculated.. but it was not necessarily even a bad thing to be underwater for a period of time, either..I surely built more bitcoin during times in which the BTC price was down.

I have other non-bitcoin investments too, but so far, I had not been talking about them in this thread.. and I try to mostly focus on bitcoin anyhow, since this forum is somewhat bitcoin focused, even though we have various shitcoiners here too.. and surely sometimes other kinds of investment ideas (and even personal development ideas) can be compared and contrasted (and therefore relevant to) with bitcoin.

Regarding my past mistakes of investing into BTC at the top of the 2013 cycle and then keeping on investing into BTC on the way down through 2014 and beyond.. I don't have any regrets about that, and sure I try to learn how to do things better, even though I don't even consider that I made any major mistakes in my earlier years in bitcoin in light of my own then circumstances... ..

Do you believe that there would have been better ways for me to get into bitcoin, based on what was my own situation at that time, from your Monday morning quarter-backing perspective?

From your forum registration date (which is late 2013), it appears that maybe we could have had gotten into bitcoin at around the same time, perhaps?  (even though the trust feedback on your account appears that maybe you sold your account somewhere between 2015-2017.. so maybe you don't even have bitcoin experiences dating back to late 2013 beyond maybe some kinds of fictional representations that you would like to make, after the fact.)

Do you have a bitcoin related story?

Would you like to say that whatever you did in regards to your bitcoin journey and your other ways of "diversifying" was better than what I did?  

Did you start investing in bitcoin in late 2013 or at some other time (or maybe you haven't even yet started?)?  

Have you ever said what it was that you did in regards to bitcoin and/or how your other investments (bitcoin related or otherwise) might have related to your bitcoin investing and your current state of knowledge on the topic?...

Over the years of my forum registration and in the forum, I have discussed in quite a bit of detail regarding what I did in regards to bitcoin, but surely sometimes I like to use hypothetical numbers so I am not really trying to compete with anyone in regards to some of the personal specifics, except maybe in the ideas arena or maybe when some members try to act like they know it all or are able to beat a DCA approach or some other kind of proclamations that may or may not be applicable to what other forum members might want to do (or consider doing)..

Do you have some ideas in regards to some of these better kinds of investment approaches into BTC?

Maybe you should provide some kind of a framework for how you might have had considered investing (whether BTC or otherwise), to maybe show you might have a lot of these bitcoin and investment matters figured out and how you might have had been able to outperform my own approach to BTC (which I largely consider variations of DCA investing) or to have been able to outperform a regular DCA investing into BTC approach over the past 10-ish years?  

Go ahead.  I am all ears.

[Woodie]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

Life was never meant to be easy agreed, especially if we go by the theory of Natural Selection that says only the strong shall survive which is unfortunate for many...but then again the rules of survival when it comes to us humans seems to have changed as you can easily inherent wealth from family that can put you in a better position than you were..but if this isn't available to you work hard to give yourself a serving chance.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.

I don't get the connection between merit and life tbh because the merit system is quite complex as it goes to show which users are technical,  informative,  entertaining,  belong to a clique etcetera unlike life which has a blueprint of what one needs to do to succeed...

[JunaidAzizi]

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.

When I came first here I saw the hero and legendary members and their merits. I was thinking that it was very easy just to write a post and get merits on it. But when I started I came to know that it a very difficult and needs a lot of work and knowledge. A time when I got only 3 pr 5 merits in a month and it discouraged me several times but I did not give up and started working now I am a full member but I am not stopping here and I am going to move ahead and my next goal is Hero member which I will achieve one day.

The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.

I totally agree with you, you make it very clear that the goals did not come very easily. We saw a millionaire who has a huge bank balance, expensive cars, etc. but we did not know his effort for that,  If a person fails on the first attempt then he needs to do it again again.

[SmartGold01]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

Life was never meant to be easy agreed, especially if we go by the theory of Natural Selection that says only the strong shall survive which is unfortunate for many...but then again the rules of survival when it comes to us humans seems to have changed as you can easily inherent wealth from family that can put you in a better position than you were..but if this isn't available to you work hard to give yourself a serving chance.

Life is so complex depending on the angle you views it and seems to understand it from and we must understand something very crucial as a necessity that life must not meet you rather you meet up life to get whatever you desired and wanted so far otherwise you wouldn't meet your life expectancy. And I would love to draw this to our noticed that no matter any country we are coming from we still have that free access and opportunities to meet up with plans in life but this depends on individual reasoning and quest to become successful in life because there were others who were damn poor or not having any sufficient from generational wealth management or handover to you as predecessors.

Yet there are people who buckled up their shoes and making sure they did that before they passed on having seen that they've gone through stress and hard time. That is why we need to survive no matter any circumstances we found ourselves and being independently wealthy and self sufficient in everything we do helps us along way even though there are people who lived their life's through acquisition or their parents wealth doesn't show yours will be so.

So in summary, be positive and think straight as to whatever thing people's thinks is impossible are always possible with faith and hope, you can start to leave example @alpha marine as things of life are too complex the more you look and think the more you gets weaker hence I encourage you to be more better in action" words" and also in doing words, as action comes with doing words.

[Stedsm]

Merits on this forum are not less than a degree that takes a specific time for anyone to achieve. A lot of necessary contribution, a small help could help generate you merits for what you did. It is a reward for your timely and factual comment which really helped the questioner with his query. Nothing comes so easy, but there are some brave and knowledgeable users here who post to the best of their knowledge to achieve this degree of being called a true Bitcoiner, and also gain lots of merits for the same. I love the nature of current signature campaigns too that need a big number of merits from users to provide them competitive rewards in the industry according to their ranks here.

[JoyMarsha]

Life itself is not an easy one. Everything in this life happens one step at a time. Take for instance, when a child is born, the child starts by crawling and being helped to stand feet by themselves before they start walking in their direction on their own.

The child in question in the explanation given is related to newbies in the forum. They will start by learning and understanding the forum rules(crawling) and being helped in the sense of meriting them to be able to stand feet on their own based on the contribution they make to the forum. Their diligence and hunger for more will take them to the height they want. There is no shortcut to success if they want to grow in the forum

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

We simply need to put in a lot of effort. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is one that we can also source in some way, just for us to get profits.

Speaking of putting effort into something, do you agree with me that there are some people who are putting effort or putting a lot of energy into the wrong thing? It could be the wrong investment or another thing, be it business, etc. So, it's not just about putting in an effort or putting in positive energy; it's also about putting in those efforts and energy in the right place and at the right time. Apart from bitcoin, you also said "cryptocurrency." So, for example, imagine someone who has been investing in Tera Luna and has not taken any profit until it crashed.

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

[knowngunman]

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

Truly, the degree and weigh of luck can not be underestimate but little did we know. Being hardworking doesn't guarantee success. You can be putting effort and energy but if luck has not yet find you, you'll labour without having result. However, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be hard working or struggle but when you are doing so, you should also pray for luck and grace to locate you. The story can not always be the same. Things might be easy and smoothly for some even without putting much effort while to some even after putting the necessary effort, it might be difficult for them. Giving hope is what kills the dream. If you are consistent and not giving hope, you'll actually achieve your goals some days but how many of us are patient enough to keep positive energy from beginning to end when we feel like we are not getting the desire result at first?

[barisbilgili]

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

Truly, the degree and weigh of luck can not be underestimate but little did we know. Being hardworking doesn't guarantee success. You can be putting effort and energy but if luck has not yet find you, you'll labour without having result. However, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be hard working or struggle but when you are doing so, you should also pray for luck and grace to locate you. The story can not always be the same. Things might be easy and smoothly for some even without putting much effort while to some even after putting the necessary effort, it might be difficult for them. Giving hope is what kills the dream. If you are consistent and not giving hope, you'll actually achieve your goals some days but how many of us are patient enough to keep positive energy from beginning to end when we feel like we are not getting the desire result at first?

Doing hard work may not necessarily be able to achieve what we want, but it is through hard work that our desires can be achieved and we must do it based on what we already know, don't do work that we don't fully understand, of course in this case we won't be able to achieve what we want. Doing work based on the knowledge we have consistently and asking for luck will certainly achieve the success we want.
You are right that everyone goes through a different process in achieving their success and there are those who are able to get back up after they experience failure and correct their mistakes so as to achieve success and there are also those who are unable to get back up after they fail.

[Sayeds56]

The life of everyone will be easy if they become thankful for what they have because its reality that there is no body who achieved every desire in life. Some people thinks that other is happy because they have lots of money but they don't know that having lots of money does not magnify your happiness.

We should not always follow others but should make our lives as everyone desires to have life like this. Same thing people do with trading as they don't know anything but follow others because they become rich due to trading but one thing is important here that success is for those who are talented in that field. May be you are not good in trading but good in business so always select that field in which you are knowledgeable and you have command on that things so you will be successful.

You have made some very interesting points about gratitude, individual paths and choosing the right path according to your strengths and knowledge. It is true that gratitude can significantly improve out our perspective of life. Being thankful and feeling happy to what we have achieved in life can help us to mitigate desire for more. It is important to acknowledge that we can never achieve all our desire in life and happiness is not tied to material wealth. Happiness is an emotion that originates from within us, often sparked by the act of providing support to those who are in dire need of our assistance.

[Inwestour]

Speaking of putting effort into something, do you agree with me that there are some people who are putting effort or putting a lot of energy into the wrong thing? It could be the wrong investment or another thing, be it business, etc. So, it's not just about putting in an effort or putting in positive energy; it's also about putting in those efforts and energy in the right place and at the right time. Apart from bitcoin, you also said "cryptocurrency." So, for example, imagine someone who has been investing in Tera Luna and has not taken any profit until it crashed.

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

Most often this can happen when a person wants to make his hobby the main source of income, and especially when it does not bring the expected profit. It is commendable when a person tries to do what he likes, but the point is that we should always have a main source of income that will provide him with a decent standard of living and allow him to create capital for further investments.

If a person does not have this, and he is trying to provide for his family with his hobby, then it very often happens that he will have financial problems, but he will feel more free, I mean that he will not have a boss who will tell him what do.

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

[Questat]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

[Sayeds56]

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal
Life was never meant to be easy agreed, especially if we go by the theory of Natural Selection that says only the strong shall survive which is unfortunate for many...but then again the rules of survival when it comes to us humans seems to have changed as you can easily inherent wealth from family that can put you in a better position than you were..but if this isn't available to you work hard to give yourself a serving chance.

While, It is fundamental concept of biology that only the fittest survives and reproduces, however, when it comes to human society, we have developed systems and structures that mitigate harshness of natural selection. A large number of societies developed safety nets, social programs, and opportunities are provided for unprivileged individuals.

Inheritance of wealth is a good example of how wealth is unevenly distributed, but it is not the only factor at play. I believe that hard work, access to education, and resources can also significantly impact one's chances of success.

[Dickiy]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

Yes of course, I agree that nothing is instant in any case especially in business or investment. Well I understand that all market participants come to make a profit by investing and they are required to bring their best plan to always be able to make a profit and minimize any chance of loss. And it is very clear to repeat that there is no instant profit in investment, there are always new things that we have to learn there so that we stay on a balanced development with our abilities. And I think it is very necessary for them to put aside some of their selfish feelings when investing, because obviously usually things that are not wanted always come from feelings that always want more than what we can or have gotten, they need to keep everything including their planning and personality stable.

True, investment does look very profitable but you can't just rely or depend on bitcoin alone, because obviously as we know that not only profits, but losses are also very possible there. So I think investment is a pretty good place or alternative for you to develop the money you have because there are always surprising positive things in the next few years as has happened, it will benefit you. And yes as I said above this is a good alternative, and it doesn't mean that you have to leave your main job there and then completely depend on the profits from the investment, honestly this is not a good way, because as we know the name of the investment must have advantages and disadvantages. So this place is only for your part-time job and to minimize it then you should also still have a main job as an income to continue living.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

Truly, the degree and weigh of luck can not be underestimate but little did we know. Being hardworking doesn't guarantee success. You can be putting effort and energy but if luck has not yet find you, you'll labour without having result. However, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be hard working or struggle but when you are doing so, you should also pray for luck and grace to locate you.

Yeah, although while listening to one podcast, there was this new statement I heard that said, "Any time you get lucky or favored at something, there is always someone who has already sacrificed their time, effort, and energy on that thing. Someone has already made it work before you."

Which is to say that some people get lucky for something that others have sacrificed their hard work on. It's just like after engineers have worked so hard to tile a road, we peacefully and comfortably enjoy driving our cars on that road.

But whatever it is, luck is just luck, and some people become lucky for work for which the hard parts have already been overcome.

Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

To invest in bitcoin, the individual must have the goal to do so and also work towards archiving it by putting in all the resources and quality that are required to make them earn some money that will enable them to invest in bitcoin. Whoever is determined that they want to invest in bitcoin will not archive it by doing nothing.

[Dewi Aries]

I think we need the right information, the right knowledge, effort, positive energy, passion, luck, etc. Like in the OP's topic, "it ain't meant to be easy," but at least someone needs those above-listed qualities to surf through. Definitely, it will not be easy, but some times and in some cases, you can diversify a little and try something different, but instead, some people will just keep putting effort into something that can just be fruitless at the end of the day.

Truly, the degree and weigh of luck can not be underestimate but little did we know. Being hardworking doesn't guarantee success. You can be putting effort and energy but if luck has not yet find you, you'll labour without having result. However, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be hard working or struggle but when you are doing so, you should also pray for luck and grace to locate you. The story can not always be the same. Things might be easy and smoothly for some even without putting much effort while to some even after putting the necessary effort, it might be difficult for them. Giving hope is what kills the dream. If you are consistent and not giving hope, you'll actually achieve your goals some days but how many of us are patient enough to keep positive energy from beginning to end when we feel like we are not getting the desire result at first?

Doing hard work may not necessarily be able to achieve what we want, but it is through hard work that our desires can be achieved and we must do it based on what we already know, don't do work that we don't fully understand, of course in this case we won't be able to achieve what we want. Doing work based on the knowledge we have consistently and asking for luck will certainly achieve the success we want.
You are right that everyone goes through a different process in achieving their success and there are those who are able to get back up after they experience failure and correct their mistakes so as to achieve success and there are also those who are unable to get back up after they fail.

If you often read the history of someone's journey to become a millionaire, of course a process is needed, not just the aspect of becoming a millionaire, in fact all fields will require a process to achieve success. Maybe one of them is the dream of having 1 BTC in the portfolio, then the level of process required may take a year or more in the process of accumulating Bitcoin at each stage. However, the duration of time is not a problem because if you can increase your aggressiveness in accumulating Bitcoin, of course you can reach the level of ownership of 1 Bitcoin, it will not take one year.

Well, on the other hand, in terms of your efforts to increase your rank, of course it also requires a process and as we have seen, those who are able to reach legendary rank, of course they go through many stages to reach legendary rank. Many people may need a long time and it all depends on their level of will because if they are serious then their dreams will be achieved thanks to their hard work. The point is that nothing will be achieved if you are lazy to change your attitude to continue learning in order to improve the quality of posts that are easier to digest and can also be useful for other people.

[Quidat]

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal
Life was never meant to be easy agreed, especially if we go by the theory of Natural Selection that says only the strong shall survive which is unfortunate for many...but then again the rules of survival when it comes to us humans seems to have changed as you can easily inherent wealth from family that can put you in a better position than you were..but if this isn't available to you work hard to give yourself a serving chance.

While, It is fundamental concept of biology that only the fittest survives and reproduces, however, when it comes to human society, we have developed systems and structures that mitigate harshness of natural selection. A large number of societies developed safety nets, social programs, and opportunities are provided for unprivileged individuals.

Inheritance of wealth is a good example of how wealth is unevenly distributed, but it is not the only factor at play. I believe that hard work, access to education, and resources can also significantly impact one's chances of success.

And this is where it would really depends if we do speak about success which to those people who had get their richness via inheritance then it would really be automatically excluded but for those people who do start from the bottom but did really made out that hard work and perseverance on reaching up their goals via wise decisions and engagement into those common methods like investment and businesses or building up while moving up then it is really that possible to achieve that particular state. It is really just that a matter of hard work and dedication if you do really have that plans for the better because not all would really be able to progress and of course it would really be needing some mix of luck i would say in speaking about success because we know that there are really moments
or conditions on which this kind of little thing is really that required or needed for you to be at least putting up into that condition or simply plays a significant role.

[Fara Chan]

Doing hard work may not necessarily be able to achieve what we want, but it is through hard work that our desires can be achieved and we must do it based on what we already know, don't do work that we don't fully understand, of course in this case we won't be able to achieve what we want. Doing work based on the knowledge we have consistently and asking for luck will certainly achieve the success we want.

Hard work is a necessary part of business and is very important for everyone who wants success, even though after working fairly consistently there is no guarantee of immediate success because it is still hampered by the level of luck that each person obtains. But basically everyone doesn't have to stop working and learning about what they don't know and what they already know, because that is a basic effort that must be done by everyone who wants success.

You are right that everyone goes through a different process in achieving their success and there are those who are able to get back up after they experience failure and correct their mistakes so as to achieve success and there are also those who are unable to get back up after they fail.

This is also caused by the different levels of ability of each person when it comes to rising from the adversity they have experienced. Because if you see someone who is unable to rise from adversity, in fact someone who is down is not unable to rise again from his failure, but he also needs time to enable himself to continue to rise from that failure. Meanwhile, some people who are immediately able to get up immediately after failure are people who basically may have more support from other parties so that there is some kind of help that they immediately receive in the near future. So you should also be able to see a little difference in someone's rise from failure.

[silpersurfer]

If you often read the history of someone's journey to become a millionaire, of course a process is needed, not just the aspect of becoming a millionaire, in fact all fields will require a process to achieve success. Maybe one of them is the dream of having 1 BTC in the portfolio, then the level of process required may take a year or more in the process of accumulating Bitcoin at each stage. However, the duration of time is not a problem because if you can increase your aggressiveness in accumulating Bitcoin, of course you can reach the level of ownership of 1 Bitcoin, it will not take one year.

Well, on the other hand, in terms of your efforts to increase your rank, of course it also requires a process and as we have seen, those who are able to reach legendary rank, of course they go through many stages to reach legendary rank. Many people may need a long time and it all depends on their level of will because if they are serious then their dreams will be achieved thanks to their hard work. The point is that nothing will be achieved if you are lazy to change your attitude to continue learning in order to improve the quality of posts that are easier to digest and can also be useful for other people.

I have done various things in the real world but have not had the opportunity to get them, if you ask about my efforts of course I have done everything I can but still luck is needed and now I'm trying to increase my portion from the other side one of them is through crypto. I started it again hoping to get something from 2 different sides of real life and crypto let's see what we can get in the next 1 to 2 years.

[Sayeds56]

I have done various things in the real world but have not had the opportunity to get them, if you ask about my efforts of course I have done everything I can but still luck is needed and now I'm trying to increase my portion from the other side one of them is through crypto. I started it again hoping to get something from 2 different sides of real life and crypto let's see what we can get in the next 1 to 2 years.

I am delighted to learn that you have been consistently exploring different avenues to improve your Finanancial situation and appreciate your approach to combining efforts both in real world and world of crypto currencies. I am optimistic that one day fortune will eventually knock at your door. Luck tends to favors those who never give up and continue their struggle until they achieve their goals.

[awik p]

I have done various things in the real world but have not had the opportunity to get them, if you ask about my efforts of course I have done everything I can but still luck is needed and now I'm trying to increase my portion from the other side one of them is through crypto. I started it again hoping to get something from 2 different sides of real life and crypto let's see what we can get in the next 1 to 2 years.

I am delighted to learn that you have been consistently exploring different avenues to improve your Finanancial situation and appreciate your approach to combining efforts both in real world and world of crypto currencies. I am optimistic that one day fortune will eventually knock at your door. Luck tends to favors those who never give up and continue their struggle until they achieve their goals.

a thought that suits the current situation where the crypto market is experiencing a bearish season, so it is very good to collect it now and wait for the next 1 to 2 years, I think there will be developments that can be enjoyed later, because now it is a good price for invest. On the other hand, we have to strengthen our intentions, like those of you who are full of confidence, but we also have to think about the risks

[summonerrk]

In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.

That's very well explained. Achieving things in life is not as easy as some might portray it to be. The books and movies that we read and watch don't show real stories and they are just imaginative fairy tales where a person wishes for something and achieves it pretty easily without facing a lot of difficulties and hardships, while the reality is totally different. You need to lose a lot of things only to achieve one goal and achieving that goal wouldn't give you enough satisfaction that would justify the hardships you've gone through for it.

So, no matter what it is, whether it's rank in a forum, achieving a certain degree, mastering an art or skill, or anything else, it can all be achieved with hard work and dedication, but as always said by everyone, it won't be easy all the time, but you will achieve it if you don't give up on it and keep going.

In cinema, it is customary to show everything in rainbow colors, and there is nothing surprising in this, because the directors get money for it. Who would be interested in watching the main character read a book for an hour and a half, or communicate with a like-minded person.

But often the communication here on the forum is not very pleasant, people come here in different moods and often the answers of experienced guys can be meaningful, but toxic. And if you are balanced, then endure it. This is also a bitter, inescapable part of knowledge.

[Negotiation]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

It is true that no business investment is possible without sufficient capital. Investing in crypto is good but we have to wait for a long time in investing, if there is no source of income then no one can live a normal life. Income is one of the most important aspect of our life money is needed to carry on other activities to meet basic needs overall development. If you have enough money to keep investing in a currency like bitcoin and have a source of income it will be easy to back up as the price of bitcoin increases and you will get good profits.

[xSkylarx]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

It is true that no business investment is possible without sufficient capital. Investing in crypto is good but we have to wait for a long time in investing, if there is no source of income then no one can live a normal life. Income is one of the most important aspect of our life money is needed to carry on other activities to meet basic needs overall development. If you have enough money to keep investing in a currency like bitcoin and have a source of income it will be easy to back up as the price of bitcoin increases and you will get good profits.

Ive seen in a lot of documentaries that they are living in the forest so that they can escape the city but still they are needing to sell some products so that they can buy food like rice for their daily needs. In today's generation income is crucial to living no matter how big or small. Without a source of income it is close to impossible to live or if we can we will struggle on a daily basis.

If you are planning an investment and are still short on money to invest in it is better to not push it through because it is not enoug  so probably it will fail. As long as you've already accumulated enough money that you can afford to lose and is also enough for an investment that is the time that you'll need to push through as long as you've already gained knowledge on what you are investing in.

[|MINER|]

Nothing in life comes easy.  Hard work is behind every success.  It is not possible to achieve success in anything quickly, be it business or anything else.  Must stick with hard work.  Don't be disappointed in the slightest.  Success requires patience.  People without patience do not succeed.  Suppose you are running a business where you unfortunately lose, then you don't leave the business!  Learn to keep up.  And new ways have to be found.  If you face a loss by investing in bitcoin, do you turn your face away from bitcoin!  Of course not, you have to explore. Learn more. Follow the previous successful people.  'Life is not a bed of roses' should be remembered.

[Dunamisx]

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision

But unfortunately, not everyone that want to become rich could understand this process that making an investment takes risk ad you may failed from the first attempt but when you realized the cause to that mistake you made, you could possibly avoid any further reoccurrence of it, many were afraid of try again because they made a wrong step on their first approach, this also is part of the reason we always encourage that we keep learning each day about bitcoin and try as much as possible to avoid making mistakes from our end, it's more better learning from other's experience than ours.

[emulsifryer]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

Imagine your life when you're still young you have time to enjoy things like hanging out with friends and everything but when you become an adult things will change instantly cause you have to be matured and start building yourself finishing your school and get a good job to earn money in order to survive it's good if you're rich already since you have no problem in financing your needs and wants but for those who can't afford easily to provide their own you need to double your hard work.

[Bitcoin_people]

Of course it takes a lot of effort to implement the plan we have in life but it is possible to succeed. If we want to get a degree, build a career, then we must spend knowledge and thereby fulfill our dreams in life. Many kinds of obstacles can come in building your career. If you run away from them, you will never be successful. This is a beautiful example of why we spend our time here on this forum mainly to advise others from our own knowledge to gain knowledge. Moreover, many people advise us, if we follow these advices, then it is possible to fulfill our life goals. Also if we gain knowledge and advise people from our experience and expertise to get some good education then surely we can earn merit from here. Of course we have to put in a lot of effort to qualify, only qualifying is nice and the Rank can be changed. So we must spend enough effort and time to fulfill the dreams that are left to be fulfilled in life accordingly only then we can reach our life goals.

[HONDACD125]

Imagine your life when you're still young you have time to enjoy things like hanging out with friends and everything but when you become an adult things will change instantly cause you have to be matured and start building yourself finishing your school and get a good job to earn money in order to survive it's good if you're rich already since you have no problem in financing your needs and wants but for those who can't afford easily to provide their own you need to double your hard work.

I think that when we are young before responsibilities, we have a lot of opportunity to hang out with our friends and enjoy everything. The main reason for this is that we have no responsibility and whenever one has no responsibility on his shoulders, he can enjoy life. Their lives are lived in abundance, because they do not know how their household expenses are managed and how money is earned. Of course, after completing education, everyone starts working hard for the rest of their life in peace and looking for a job or business,because we were living our lives easily before completing our education.

Now, instead of being a burden on others, we have to be a support to others.Now we have to earn money ourselves to meet all our needs and wants. Surely those who inherit a lot of wealth do not face much problem.People who don't have wealth need a lot of hard work. Hard work is a prerequisite for living your life easily. Therefore, every person can become rich due to his hard work, and certainly many rich people have become rich after seeing poverty, because they have earned wealth through hard work in their lives.So I think we should always believe in ourselves and our hard work.

[FinneysTrueVision]

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

For those that place a lot of importance in forum rank it can be frustratingly slow to rank up if you're not purposely hunting for merit by spamming a bunch of threads and jumping on bandwagons to support opinions held by prominent high ranking members. I can see how newbies might become discouraged. For me I've noticed that I tend to receive merit on topics where I've gone out of my way to do some research and gain a better understanding.

If you want to have success then it is worth putting in the effort necessary to achieve it.

[uswa56]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

Imagine your life when you're still young you have time to enjoy things like hanging out with friends and everything but when you become an adult things will change instantly cause you have to be matured and start building yourself finishing your school and get a good job to earn money in order to survive it's good if you're rich already since you have no problem in financing your needs and wants but for those who can't afford easily to provide their own you need to double your hard work.

When we are young we can spend our time on things like you mentioned, but it would be better if we spent the time we have hanging out with people who can make us develop in a better direction than before because if we only spend time to hang out with people who don't make us better will be very detrimental to the time we have. Getting a good job is everyone's dream to be able to fulfill their needs because without doing work that provides income, this will be very detrimental to us even though we have a lot of wealth because without being able to manage it well, it will all be gone.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Nothing in life comes easy.  Hard work is behind every success.  It is not possible to achieve success in anything quickly, be it business or anything else.  Must stick with hard work. 

Not everything in life is hard to get, Hard work isn't behind all success some success came from working smart and not hard. If hard work was really the path to success then all the handymen, construction workers and others that do hard jobs would had been successful in life but they aren't. Also you can achieved success in somethings quickly depending on how lucky you're. Yes the majority sees life as not been fair and hard but that doesn't mean the whole world sees it that way too. We have people that are loving it here on earth without sweating. Some people inherited wealth by just been born in a wealthy family. Life was meant to be easy but we complicated things and now we're suffering for it.

Let use the forum as an example, while you struggle to rank up due to the merit system, we have people that didn't struggle since they were here before the merit system was introduced, this set of people got to their different ranks by just been active and probably what they were writing weren't making sense but it counts for activities. We shouldn't over stress ourselves, life can be taken from us just as it was given. The most importantly thing to do is to enjoy yourself and make sure you're happy where ever you're.

[ginsan]

Not everything in life is hard to get, Hard work isn't behind all success some success came from working smart and not hard. If hard work was really the path to success then all the handymen, construction workers and others that do hard jobs would had been successful in life but they aren't. Also you can achieved success in somethings quickly depending on how lucky you're. Yes the majority sees life as not been fair and hard but that doesn't mean the whole world sees it that way too. We have people that are loving it here on earth without sweating. Some people inherited wealth by just been born in a wealthy family. Life was meant to be easy but we complicated things and now we're suffering for it.

Let use the forum as an example, while you struggle to rank up due to the merit system, we have people that didn't struggle since they were here before the merit system was introduced, this set of people got to their different ranks by just been active and probably what they were writing weren't making sense but it counts for activities. We shouldn't over stress ourselves, life can be taken from us just as it was given. The most importantly thing to do is to enjoy yourself and make sure you're happy where ever you're.

Everything you have explained is true, however the life cycle between one person and another is different in various forms because both are traders but their income is still different because of their cleverness in arranging ways to gain lots of profits. Yes, in this side of life, there are many things that can change someone to become successful more quickly without requiring a long time and also for some of them, they have to try for decades to achieve this level of success.

Well, at certain points we can take several wise things to make changes in our performance to achieve success. Indeed, nothing can be achieved easily, but everything can be done in a short time if we already know the best way to get a process in building ourselves to become more successful people with the various businesses we do.

[dothebeats]

Not everything in life is hard to get, Hard work isn't behind all success some success came from working smart and not hard. If hard work was really the path to success then all the handymen, construction workers and others that do hard jobs would had been successful in life but they aren't. Also you can achieved success in somethings quickly depending on how lucky you're. Yes the majority sees life as not been fair and hard but that doesn't mean the whole world sees it that way too. We have people that are loving it here on earth without sweating. Some people inherited wealth by just been born in a wealthy family. Life was meant to be easy but we complicated things and now we're suffering for it.

Let use the forum as an example, while you struggle to rank up due to the merit system, we have people that didn't struggle since they were here before the merit system was introduced, this set of people got to their different ranks by just been active and probably what they were writing weren't making sense but it counts for activities. We shouldn't over stress ourselves, life can be taken from us just as it was given. The most importantly thing to do is to enjoy yourself and make sure you're happy where ever you're.

Everything you have explained is true, however the life cycle between one person and another is different in various forms because both are traders but their income is still different because of their cleverness in arranging ways to gain lots of profits. Yes, in this side of life, there are many things that can change someone to become successful more quickly without requiring a long time and also for some of them, they have to try for decades to achieve this level of success.

Well, at certain points we can take several wise things to make changes in our performance to achieve success. Indeed, nothing can be achieved easily, but everything can be done in a short time if we already know the best way to get a process in building ourselves to become more successful people with the various businesses we do.

I agree with you, where we start from varies and it surely affects our journey towards our goal. Moreover, there are also a bunch of other factors that is like this. It is best to remember that we have differences that sets us apart from each other and draws a different path and time line for us.

[JayJuanGee]

Not everything in life is hard to get, Hard work isn't behind all success some success came from working smart and not hard. If hard work was really the path to success then all the handymen, construction workers and others that do hard jobs would had been successful in life but they aren't. Also you can achieved success in somethings quickly depending on how lucky you're. Yes the majority sees life as not been fair and hard but that doesn't mean the whole world sees it that way too. We have people that are loving it here on earth without sweating. Some people inherited wealth by just been born in a wealthy family. Life was meant to be easy but we complicated things and now we're suffering for it.

Let use the forum as an example, while you struggle to rank up due to the merit system, we have people that didn't struggle since they were here before the merit system was introduced, this set of people got to their different ranks by just been active and probably what they were writing weren't making sense but it counts for activities. We shouldn't over stress ourselves, life can be taken from us just as it was given. The most importantly thing to do is to enjoy yourself and make sure you're happy where ever you're.

Everything you have explained is true, however the life cycle between one person and another is different in various forms because both are traders but their income is still different because of their cleverness in arranging ways to gain lots of profits. Yes, in this side of life, there are many things that can change someone to become successful more quickly without requiring a long time and also for some of them, they have to try for decades to achieve this level of success.

There is likely an error and even some dangers in thinking if you think that there are any kinds of solid ways to become rich and/or successful more quickly.. so surely having persistence is good and working towards making progress is good, and many times the true value of richness and success takes a long time to play out, including experiencing the value of compounding.

Frequently getting rich and having success is being able to lessen the impacts of mistakes - even though it is likely true that some people will end up experiencing great streaks of high levels of progress by being in the right place at the right time due to some of their preparations.. and perhaps some luck as well.

Well, at certain points we can take several wise things to make changes in our performance to achieve success. Indeed, nothing can be achieved easily, but everything can be done in a short time if we already know the best way to get a process in building ourselves to become more successful people with the various businesses we do.

I doubt that success if even guaranteed either.  There are a lot of examples of people doing the right thing but still not being successful.. so it is hard to guarantee short-cuts in terms of success and richness, even though there are quite a few practices that can likely increase odds for success and/or the making of progress towards greater success and richness.

[BigBos]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

Imagine your life when you're still young you have time to enjoy things like hanging out with friends and everything but when you become an adult things will change instantly cause you have to be matured and start building yourself finishing your school and get a good job to earn money in order to survive it's good if you're rich already since you have no problem in financing your needs and wants but for those who can't afford easily to provide their own you need to double your hard work.

In this case, I think there is a wrong thinking when we think that youth is free to do anything and often try to hang out with peers but do not get something that we can take as our capital in the future. On the other hand, it does not mean that when we are old we cannot gather because something like that can still be done, it's just that when from the beginning when we were young we did gatherings that were not very useful so that until we grow up we gather with peers also only do things that are not important but when the right upbringing and having friends of the same frequency when they are young and can be something positive then I think it will be much better and more able to bring us towards a better course.
So the mindset from the beginning when school or at university needs to be changed because most of us now think that the period at university is only to spend youth but we never realize that after that we have to be required to survive in the rigors of life.

[Dickiy]

Well, at certain points we can take several wise things to make changes in our performance to achieve success. Indeed, nothing can be achieved easily, but everything can be done in a short time if we already know the best way to get a process in building ourselves to become more successful people with the various businesses we do.

I doubt that success if even guaranteed either.  There are a lot of examples of people doing the right thing but still not being successful.. so it is hard to guarantee short-cuts in terms of success and richness, even though there are quite a few practices that can likely increase odds for success and/or the making of progress towards greater success and richness.

Right I agree with you, honestly I also never thought like that, I mean I absolutely do not think that there is something or anything that can guarantee success, yes it's true as you say sometimes people who have processed very correctly are not uncommon some of them are still failing, but I will not fully say that they have failed because it will all come back to each individual. if they are hardworking and always struggle on the way to success then some of the failures they might experience I think will not make them retreat, even if they are a fighter soul then they will be more eager to move forward and make failure a lesson, if indeed they are hardworking and always struggle on the way to their success then some of the failures they might experience I think will not make them retreat, even if they are a fighter soul then they will be more eager to move forward and make failure a lesson that will always be a very good assumption. So I think in this context there will never be a real failure if indeed they are strong fighters in various conditions. I believe that the process will not betray the results (for hard workers).

I honestly don't believe that there are shortcuts that can lead us to real success but not with a process that is so draining and mental. If there really is such a way, maybe now there are many of those who have succeeded instantly, but in fact there is always a hard sacrifice first to achieve it. In my opinion, getting success in an instant way is never separated from the strong luck they have.

[dothebeats]

I doubt that success if even guaranteed either.  There are a lot of examples of people doing the right thing but still not being successful.. so it is hard to guarantee short-cuts in terms of success and richness, even though there are quite a few practices that can likely increase odds for success and/or the making of progress towards greater success and richness.

Right I agree with you, honestly I also never thought like that, I mean I absolutely do not think that there is something or anything that can guarantee success, yes it's true as you say sometimes people who have processed very correctly are not uncommon some of them are still failing, but I will not fully say that they have failed because it will all come back to each individual. if they are hardworking and always struggle on the way to success then some of the failures they might experience I think will not make them retreat, even if they are a fighter soul then they will be more eager to move forward and make failure a lesson, if indeed they are hardworking and always struggle on the way to their success then some of the failures they might experience I think will not make them retreat, even if they are a fighter soul then they will be more eager to move forward and make failure a lesson that will always be a very good assumption. So I think in this context there will never be a real failure if indeed they are strong fighters in various conditions. I believe that the process will not betray the results (for hard workers).

I honestly don't believe that there are shortcuts that can lead us to real success but not with a process that is so draining and mental. If there really is such a way, maybe now there are many of those who have succeeded instantly, but in fact there is always a hard sacrifice first to achieve it. In my opinion, getting success in an instant way is never separated from the strong luck they have.

Success will always require sacrifices, in our case it is mostly mental and emotional sacrifices. It is truly an exhausting path to achieve success. We will face countless of rejections, loss, hurdles, and problems that puts our plan down and completely change the way we want our path to go. Hence, in our decision we have to make sacrifices if we do tend to continue forward. Moreover, after achieving a bit of that success, we will have a sense of feeling like it was not even worth it with everything we had to go through just to get there, the exhaustion and defeats. Hence, it brings up the question of whether or not it was really a win. Life is just like that, in one perspective you'll feel and believe that everything was worth feeling and going through, while there's the perspective that shows how exhausting things are and questions if our wins are worth losing a lot of things.

[red4slash]

Life is tough for most people, many times during a lifetime. Not many people have an easy life, some think having money makes life easy. Being rich gives you opportunities & you can buy material things but it won’t buy you happiness. Regarding crypto, making money is not easy, unless you get very lucky day trading then you are probably going to have to be very patient & HODL for many years. You will go through character testing dips where your net worth plummets. Patience will reward those of you who are of strong mind/will.

Imagine your life when you're still young you have time to enjoy things like hanging out with friends and everything but when you become an adult things will change instantly cause you have to be matured and start building yourself finishing your school and get a good job to earn money in order to survive it's good if you're rich already since you have no problem in financing your needs and wants but for those who can't afford easily to provide their own you need to double your hard work.

In this case, I think there is a wrong thinking when we think that youth is free to do anything and often try to hang out with peers but do not get something that we can take as our capital in the future. On the other hand, it does not mean that when we are old we cannot gather because something like that can still be done, it's just that when from the beginning when we were young we did gatherings that were not very useful so that until we grow up we gather with peers also only do things that are not important but when the right upbringing and having friends of the same frequency when they are young and can be something positive then I think it will be much better and more able to bring us towards a better course.
So the mindset from the beginning when school or at university needs to be changed because most of us now think that the period at university is only to spend youth but we never realize that after that we have to be required to survive in the rigors of life.

Perhaps what is being discussed here is the issue of time and indeed we must be able to manage time very well. We need to be able to manage when we should play and enjoy life, when we should be serious, when we should work hard and so on. It must be balanced, because maybe we will feel bored too when we only have time to work. And the difference may be when we are still hipup alone and when we already have a small family, because the responsibility will also be greater, not only thinking about yourself but the family, especially if we are the head of the household.
If we are accustomed to such things when we are young, I think it won't be difficult to adjust when we are older and have more responsibilities.

[Blowon]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

[Luxana]

Certainly some important points you have brought up through your post, the main purpose of education is not to get degree or get a job and the only purpose of posting in forum is not to get merit. ‌Don't just post to earn merit, post to learn something and keep reading other's posts only then you will learn about Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. If you don't have a complete understanding of cryptocurrency then what will you do to increase your id rank. 

If a member makes an informative post then I don't think he needs to worry about his merit, if it is an informative post and if some other member learns something new through that post then that member must give him merit. 

If earning only merit is the main objective then no we will not earn merit we will not know about anything our post quality will be good. So spend time on the forum to learn something yourself and try to inform others about something new.

[Xcode7]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

In fact, anything can be used as a crime depending on how the person uses it, not just Crypto, but whatever it is, there will be opportunities and spaces that can be exploited by bad people and we are back to our initial goal in Crypto, whether it is to facilitate transactions or make a profit. in trade and investment.
And it all comes back to ourselves to simplify what we want and what we meant from the start.

[Davian144]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

People who have evil intentions will always commit crimes wherever they are and I don't think that needs to be denied because not everyone likes doing that by using something like crypto. We just need to use crypto wisely or as something that can make our work easier so that crypto can continue to run and develop over time with a wider range of users.

Now the crypto space can be used as a way of helping to achieve better goals for each of our lives. Because everyone can choose better jobs in the crypto space such as trading and investing with long-term targets so that there is a better income for each of us in the future, so there is no need to think about those who commit crimes through crypto. Because this is not a good thing and does not need to be an example for everyone.

[Spaceman1000$]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

This is more like a life coaching pep talk. Sincerely I agree with the OP, for every level you wish to attain in this life, you have to work hard for it. Life they say is not bed of roses 🌹, it comes with a little sacrifice, the sacrifice is more of a refining stage. Because most times, when you get some things too cheap, you won't really appreciate or give too much regards to the thing you've succeeded on.  Growth doesn't just happen suddenly, it takes time, because the reason they say we have time, is because everything shouldn't happen in one moment.
Even here in the forum, you will see a hierarchy of growth stages, and that growth requires you to make some sacrifice before attaining it.

[Y3shot]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Life they say is not easy. Nothing good in life comes easy, everything that's worth having is worthing working hard for. There will definitely be challenges but that's the whole point of the journey. The issue these days is that most person are not ready to do the work needed to get the glory, they want the crown without the labour. But what makes the crown worth having is the process to get the throne. The greater the challenge the the bigger the throne.

[Lantind]

Life they say is not easy. Nothing good in life comes easy, everything that's worth having is worthing working hard for. There will definitely be challenges but that's the whole point of the journey. The issue these days is that most person are not ready to do the work needed to get the glory, they want the crown without the labour. But what makes the crown worth having is the process to get the throne. The greater the challenge the the bigger the throne.

Achieving greatness really requires hard work and many obstacles and obstacles that must be overcome so that they reach the peak of their glory. You are right that everyone wants glory without having to go through the process, I don't think that will ever happen unless they get an inheritance from their parents and they can manage it well and we rarely get things like this. I agree with you that the greater the challenges we go through, the greater the success we will get and this is very different from those who have success as a result of their parents' inheritance which only requires a little struggle.

[slapper]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

People who have evil intentions will always commit crimes wherever they are and I don't think that needs to be denied because not everyone likes doing that by using something like crypto. We just need to use crypto wisely or as something that can make our work easier so that crypto can continue to run and develop over time with a wider range of users.

Now the crypto space can be used as a way of helping to achieve better goals for each of our lives. Because everyone can choose better jobs in the crypto space such as trading and investing with long-term targets so that there is a better income for each of us in the future, so there is no need to think about those who commit crimes through crypto. Because this is not a good thing and does not need to be an example for everyone.

I agree that bad things will happen no matter the platform or currency. Also, no, not everyone who uses crypto is trying to do harm. Without a doubt, we should be in charge of the crypto we own. I keep talking about how the crypto world is full of huge opportunities that go beyond illegal actions. Learn it. If crypto is used wisely in the future, I see it bringing about a new opporutnity of wealth, ease, and efficiency. We must ignore negativity and focus on how crypto can improve our lives. It's not about the people who abuse it; it's about how we, the majority, use it for better, for growth, and to improve our finances

[MFahad]

You have made some very interesting points about gratitude, individual paths and choosing the right path according to your strengths and knowledge. It is true that gratitude can significantly improve out our perspective of life. Being thankful and feeling happy to what we have achieved in life can help us to mitigate desire for more. It is important to acknowledge that we can never achieve all our desire in life and happiness is not tied to material wealth. Happiness is an emotion that originates from within us, often sparked by the act of providing support to those who are in dire need of our assistance.

People should forget those things which they cannot achieve because if they think about it more and more then this will make them sad so for a happy life don't focus on those elements which is difficult to achieve.

Always remember that if present time is hard then definitely there will comes a time when the situations will heals you and you will forget about all your hazards. One cannot get all the things immediately so if we rushes towards the completion of our dreams in a day then we will be mentally disturbed all the time.

Don't remember those things which you don't have but remember that how blessed you are as Compared to others because you will have something that your fellows will have not.

[Promocodeudo]

OP, life was not meant to be very easy, everyone has to earn whatever they desire, it is a natural phenomenon, just look at the life of people who inherited wealth from their parents or whoever, most time handling this wealth becomes a problem for them, because may they were not given the proper orientation to handle such huge position as they see it, this is a different thing when you suffer to build a company or firm, you won't joke with it, you will also try as much as possible to teach your heir the do and donts in the company so that if you are no more he or she can perfect things the way they were before you left.
I have always known that life is not easy, I work hard every day to make sure that it becomes easy not only for me but for my children.

[KiaKia]

The less you worry the more happier you become, have anyone noticed this? It's like a curse on those that want to become a great icon in life, they are cursed with worries here and there, they do this and do that to get to the level they want, this is why some people are cool been less rich, some even like to be in between of been rich and been not so poor.

I choose to be rich and this comes with some burden and I am fine with it, I don't want to be tasked by not trying to be rich, that will make me even more unhappy, whatever you choose to become, always remember that you will pay something for it, as nothing is actually for free in this world.

Those who want to become great are exposed to more burden than those who just want a happy life and food on their table, I have seen happiness in people that have so less than those who have it all, happiness is of different levels, and I have to say that the poor do have the best happiness in them.

[DVlog]

I have always known that life is not easy, I work hard every day to make sure that it becomes easy not only for me but for my children.

If only working hard makes a man successful then a day laborer would have been the wealthiest person. You need to work hard but without knowledge you will not be able to amplify your true potential by using your abilities. Knowledge can help you identify the right path and take smart initiative to get things done in a unique way that an average person cannot. That's why we don't see multiple elon Masks and Bill gates at the same time. Their knowledge opened their eyes to opportunities and led them to success.

[coupable]

I have always known that life is not easy, I work hard every day to make sure that it becomes easy not only for me but for my children.

I am sorry to inform you that working hard every day is not enough to provide yourself and your family with a good life. One of the basic conditions for a happy life is to work in a field that you love and have enough opportunities to feel comfortable. If working hard was enough, the proletariat would be the class of the rich.
When we observe the conditions of people in general, it is clear that not everyone is capable of being Zuckerberg or Al-Waleed bin Talal, but it is also clear that these wealthy people relied more on their mental efforts than their physical efforts. Their real capital was their ability to create opportunities for themselves to be successful investors.
Investment is not always about muscle effort or money. Successful people are those who can invest all their skills in adapting to the market.

[carlfebz2]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Life they say is not easy. Nothing good in life comes easy, everything that's worth having is worthing working hard for. There will definitely be challenges but that's the whole point of the journey. The issue these days is that most person are not ready to do the work needed to get the glory, they want the crown without the labour. But what makes the crown worth having is the process to get the throne. The greater the challenge the the bigger the throne.

Its true that people want to reach out a certain condition of their life on which they are really that imagining or liking to have a financially free kind of life on which it is really that they are wanting to have that state but really that not making any steps or doing hard work on which it do make things that shit and ending up on crying or still remaining on the situation that they are in or simply having no progress.
You would really be that staying up on where you are if you dont really make hard work. Not everything in life would really be taken for granted not unless if you are born with a golden spoon or a family on which
it is rich or having that lots of properties and money then it wont really be such a problem for you but we know that only a few % of those individuals who are in such condition and most of us are really that being born with average to poor type of family.

So this means that if you are really that having plans on making yourself better in terms of finances then we should really be grinding up hard. Be wise on making decisions and be sensible
on what you are doing. Passion and dedication would really be the key and also having that patience because if you dont have these kind of qualities
then it would really be surely be resulting into failure but somewhat if you dont quit up easily and thrive even harder then chances would be always there.

[Xampeuu]

I have always known that life is not easy, I work hard every day to make sure that it becomes easy not only for me but for my children.

If only working hard makes a man successful then a day laborer would have been the wealthiest person. You need to work hard but without knowledge you will not be able to amplify your true potential by using your abilities. Knowledge can help you identify the right path and take smart initiative to get things done in a unique way that an average person cannot. That's why we don't see multiple elon Masks and Bill gates at the same time. Their knowledge opened their eyes to opportunities and led them to success.

Knowledge is a mandatory thing that must be known before we implement that knowledge. If we walk without a goal, or knowing the way to reach the goal, then the results will not be good. Therefore, many people are disappointed after investing in the crypto world, because all they have in mind are expectations, and they don't have sufficient knowledge. therefore they fall into it because of their own mistakes

[Youngkhngdiddy]

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Knowledge is a mandatory thing that must be known before we implement that knowledge. If we walk without a goal, or knowing the way to reach the goal, then the results will not be good. Therefore, many people are disappointed after investing in the crypto world, because all they have in mind are expectations, and they don't have sufficient knowledge. therefore they fall into it because of their own mistakes

    Hardwork pays doesn't really work at all times, a lot of sacrifices to be made no doubt and at the same time, deep thinking helps too. It doesn't necessarily mean success comes from unending struggles to work. Sometimes one has to think of innovations to begin that'd cause a change in the world.
    As we see today, the richest men didn't get rich from unending labour, they say down, discovered issues that man may face, brainstormed on possible measures to solve them, even new methods, they put these methods to test and settle for the ones that work.  There's a process to being successful and truthfully no matter how hard we labor, we have to put in other factors essential to growth.

[Ben Barubal]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

People who have evil intentions will always commit crimes wherever they are and I don't think that needs to be denied because not everyone likes doing that by using something like crypto. We just need to use crypto wisely or as something that can make our work easier so that crypto can continue to run and develop over time with a wider range of users.

Now the crypto space can be used as a way of helping to achieve better goals for each of our lives. Because everyone can choose better jobs in the crypto space such as trading and investing with long-term targets so that there is a better income for each of us in the future, so there is no need to think about those who commit crimes through crypto. Because this is not a good thing and does not need to be an example for everyone.

  Even if other people have a good job, others still neglect it because they are irresponsible people. Actually, in this age, whether an opportunity is simple or not, it is up to us how we consider it beautiful or ugly. Because maybe for others, what is ugly in our eyes is beautiful to them, and what is beautiful in our eyes is ugly to others.

  That means it depends on us whether the cryptocurrency is really good or not. If it is good, for sure we will find a way to find out and study it for sure so that we can make a profit from it. Because if it is not good, we will also find a way to avoid it and not believe it either. Right?

[btc78]

crypto does make it easier for us but it doesn't make it specifically easy. This means it also makes it easier for criminals to carry out their actions. we can't control that. the best thing is that we don't become evil because of it. and we still use this to make our work or daily needs easier.

People who have evil intentions will always commit crimes wherever they are and I don't think that needs to be denied because not everyone likes doing that by using something like crypto. We just need to use crypto wisely or as something that can make our work easier so that crypto can continue to run and develop over time with a wider range of users.

Now the crypto space can be used as a way of helping to achieve better goals for each of our lives. Because everyone can choose better jobs in the crypto space such as trading and investing with long-term targets so that there is a better income for each of us in the future, so there is no need to think about those who commit crimes through crypto. Because this is not a good thing and does not need to be an example for everyone.

  Even if other people have a good job, others still neglect it because they are irresponsible people. Actually, in this age, whether an opportunity is simple or not, it is up to us how we consider it beautiful or ugly. Because maybe for others, what is ugly in our eyes is beautiful to them, and what is beautiful in our eyes is ugly to others.

  That means it depends on us whether the cryptocurrency is really good or not. If it is good, for sure we will find a way to find out and study it for sure so that we can make a profit from it. Because if it is not good, we will also find a way to avoid it and not believe it either. Right?

i believe that everything is dependent on our decisions

for example with social media it is neither good or bad because it depends on the person who’s going to use it anything can be used differently depending on one’s intentions even in the government whoever is in position, it depends on their intentions if they’re going to use government resources for the better or for the worse


same goes with cryptocurrency i have no plans to gain profit from doing any sort of illegal activities especially on the expense of others however we can’t do anything about other people who have plans on doing so it’s just in their nature

[Freddie Boyer]

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

My experience in the world of trading is not that, but always losing in trading...he, he, and it cannot be denied that I am sure everyone also experiences the same thing, especially if they are still new. But, now it's pretty good. To get a scam project is what I avoid the most. Before buying, I try to do a review regarding the coin I want to buy.

[Samlucky O]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

To achieve ones goal you should be able to face your fear, because fear is the most deadly thing that makes a man not to succeed in life. If you can scale through fear you are good to go.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

In this aspect, it is always common amongs us when we join forum we start thinking of meeting up like other higher ranked members but that isn't easy because no good thing come so easy, but the more we study what dey do and try to contribute meaningfuly we start growing. Success is Achieved by hardwork, consistency, resilience and meaningful conversation and contribution.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.

Yes profit is the motive of every business man or woman. But when you focus only on profit without outlining the risk assessment or analysis that would help you, you'll definitely fall. Like (1) lack of business orientation (2) lack of feasibility study (3) mismanagement of funds and taking everything common, Can lead to business collapse.

If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

Packaging of product is another business criteria which enhance more sales and productivity. Like when others are selling offline you can be selling both online and offline. When they sell the product without label you add labels to your product with your phone number and name Crest on it. It will give people more confident of buying your product.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

Yeah bad experience is not a genuine reason to quit. Winners don quite. Bad experience are good teachers that shovels you to greater hight. There is a saying that " Downfall of a man is not the end of his life but when he refused to stand it becomes a failure" so bad experience on cryto shouldn't be an excuse because more opportunities are ahead.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

Sure so far so good bitcoin still remains a legit and a trusted investment platform to invest in your future. We all have our different experiences and that wouldn't make us not to continue. Morover before you succeed in life you must encounter hoddles that will multivate you to be careful and assemble yourself.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Success is Achieved by hardwork and not a Plata of gold

[slapper]

~snip~

Its true that people want to reach out a certain condition of their life on which they are really that imagining or liking to have a financially free kind of life on which it is really that they are wanting to have that state but really that not making any steps or doing hard work on which it do make things that shit and ending up on crying or still remaining on the situation that they are in or simply having no progress.
You would really be that staying up on where you are if you dont really make hard work. Not everything in life would really be taken for granted not unless if you are born with a golden spoon or a family on which
it is rich or having that lots of properties and money then it wont really be such a problem for you but we know that only a few % of those individuals who are in such condition and most of us are really that being born with average to poor type of family.

So this means that if you are really that having plans on making yourself better in terms of finances then we should really be grinding up hard. Be wise on making decisions and be sensible
on what you are doing. Passion and dedication would really be the key and also having that patience because if you dont have these kind of qualities
then it would really be surely be resulting into failure but somewhat if you dont quit up easily and thrive even harder then chances would be always there.

While hard work is necessary, it must be directed carefully. Without a compass, unrelenting labor can steer a ship off course. How do we make our hard work strategic and not just a show? It's about informed choice, right? Financial literacy, emotional intelligence, and our chosen fields must all be learned. Don't these two approaches - improving our professional skills and mindset and financial knowledge - change the game? Success depends on perseverance, which you've touched on. However, shouldn't enthusiasm and patience be balanced with reality? Our road may not lead us to our goal. Isn't adaptation as important as dedication? It's about strategy evaluation and course correction. Success becomes a dynamic process of learning, modifying, and progressing. Isn't this a broader approach to financial freedom?

[SmartCharpa]

We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.

The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.

I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.

If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.

If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

You are correct, that in order to get what we want in life, we must keep trying and patient, giving up won't help us achieve our goals in a single day. Many people have tried unsuccessfully investing in bitcoin in their past, but they lost, which they think they didn't make the right decisions and refuse to try again, which some people are now regretting it. However, just because we have lost money on altcoins doesn't mean we should be afraid to invest in bitcoin, we can't always live the past in our minds. It's not easy to get the future we've been craving, but some of us are leaving a life we didn't expect or dream of because we have no other option. We should keep trying and try to learn from our mistakes because nothing useful ever comes easy, and we usually have to lose something in order to gain something in life. Good things never come easily; everything just takes time.

[Baki202]

OP, life was not meant to be very easy, everyone has to earn whatever they desire, it is a natural phenomenon, just look at the life of people who inherited wealth from their parents or whoever, most time handling this wealth becomes a problem for them, because may they were not given the proper orientation to handle such huge position as they see it, this is a different thing when you suffer to build a company or firm, you won't joke with it, you will also try as much as possible to teach your heir the do and donts in the company so that if you are no more he or she can perfect things the way they were before you left.
I have always known that life is not easy, I work hard every day to make sure that it becomes easy not only for me but for my children.

Life isn't meant to be easy actually nothing is because once it's easy it won't be valued.

If earning money was easy, you can spend more than five million naira in less than an hour because you feel and think I'll just make more money since it's very simple.

When things are given to you it isn't always valued mostly because you feel entitled to it.

Besides if life was easy what would be your success story?. We all want to have an epic story to tell our children but if the road was just a stroll in the garden for you it's just A story not THE story. It's won't be the story your children would draw strength from, it won't be the story tells them the reality of what life is instead it will just tell them that anything they want they WILL have and give them this sense of entitlement that will push them to the eager when things don't go their way.

We all want to make life easy for our children, we want them to leave a life better than ours but if you make life too easy for them, they won't learn how to stand and grow because they are waiting for their success to be served to them on a platter of gold and if that happens they will end up living a life worst than ours.

[Hewlet]

That's the reality every young person should be made to know at the point of rising. Nothing was designed to be too easy otherwise people will crowd it to much. The reason why it sometimes gets lonely at the too is because many persons don't always have the mind to keep pushing themselves up the ladder of success. Some just try at the initial and with time the journey get them to becoming weak and they loose sight of where de are going to. 

Nothing good in life comes at a plater of gold and you can't achieve success only by mete wishing. You will have to out in the needed effort in ensuring that you get things done at the right time, and I in the right way even when you're tired or not.

[oktana]

Regarding the merit talk, the issue is that these forum members who complain about merit are not even putting in the work. This platform is an open space and actively contributing valuable information to it will definitely yield. The legendary members didn’t get to the top posting crap. So, if there’s any newbie reading this, just actively contribute valuable information that is actually yours and not stolen or spun. You’ll eventually get noticed and will be merited accordingly.

Generally, nothing is easy. There’s no aspect of life that doesn’t require work and patience. OP speaks about degree, career, etc, and we can see that these things we want in life is not gotten by wanting them or trying to claim that they are ours; we have to endure.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Regarding the merit talk, the issue is that these forum members who complain about merit are not even putting in the work. This platform is an open space and actively contributing valuable information to it will definitely yield. The legendary members didn’t get to the top posting crap. So, if there’s any newbie reading this, just actively contribute valuable information that is actually yours and not stolen or spun. You’ll eventually get noticed and will be merited accordingly.

Generally, nothing is easy. There’s no aspect of life that doesn’t require work and patience. OP speaks about degree, career, etc, and we can see that these things we want in life is not gotten by wanting them or trying to claim that they are ours; we have to endure.

Success cannot be achieved on a platter of gold as it requires hard work and determination in other to get to the top or achieve positive results, most of us that are newbie just want to get merits with our low quality post which is not possible. Basically as a new be what we need do is to monitor the activities on the forum and sort for help on how to grow our accounts rather than sorting for merits. Most of this newbie that sort for merits most are just doing so that they can rank up and join a campaign and start earning that's all that matters to them, they don't want to contribute new ideas to the forum but rather they actually want to reap with little or no contribution to the forum

[umbara ardian]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

You cannot invest in business if you do not have enough capital. Investing in cryptocurrency is the same, you need a certain amount of money to buy cryptocurrency. However, it is important to consider investing in cryptocurrency and maintaining your lifestyle.

If you do not have a steady source of income, then you should not invest all your money in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a highly volatile asset whose value can change very quickly. If you invest all your money in cryptocurrency and its value drops, you could lose all of it.

[arimamib]

This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.

Yes profit is the motive of every business man or woman. But when you focus only on profit without outlining the risk assessment or analysis that would help you, you'll definitely fall. Like (1) lack of business orientation (2) lack of feasibility study (3) mismanagement of funds and taking everything common, Can lead to business collapse.

Profit is undoubtedly a driving force for businesses, but it should never be the sole focus. Entrepreneurs should be careful consideration of potential risks and a thorough understanding of the business landscape, the pursuit of profit can lead to disastrous consequences. Entrepreneurs should be able to increase their chances of achieving sustainable success and avoiding the pitfalls that lead to business collapse.

A basic understanding of business principles and practices is an advanced key of success. Without this knowledge, entrepreneurs may make uninformed decisions that jeopardize their venture. They may fail to identify market opportunities, mismanage finances, or overlook critical legal and regulatory requirements.

[wajik-tempe]

Life's journey is definitely fraught with stumbling blocks, and the quest for success, whether in forums, jobs, or enterprises, need a robust attitude. Whether you're trying to recoup from a terrible crypto investment or aspire to a legendary rank on a forum, the key is endurance, learning from mistakes, and continually working hard and intelligently towards your objectives.

[Lanatsa]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

You cannot invest in business if you do not have enough capital. Investing in cryptocurrency is the same, you need a certain amount of money to buy cryptocurrency. However, it is important to consider investing in cryptocurrency and maintaining your lifestyle.

If you do not have a steady source of income, then you should not invest all your money in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a highly volatile asset whose value can change very quickly. If you invest all your money in cryptocurrency and its value drops, you could lose all of it.

This is why its never been that recommended that you would really be going all in because it would really be just that a disaster on doing so. This is why its always better that you should really be investing on the money which you can afford to lose and never ever make yourself having that kind of impulsive investment or simply making use your life savings just because you are hoping that you could really be able to make profits or money easy on crypto space on which it is really that something a very wrong mindset or belief to have in mind.

Life is never been easy whether we are talking physical or online world on which we do really that aiming for the same thing which is to make money or income because we do know that
if we dont make money then how we would be living into this world which everything is really that rising from commodities to services and other stuffs?
This is why it would really be that just normal that you will be finding methods and ways to make things better.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Everything will not be obtained easily because if all we can get very easily then life will become monotonous and the current order such as about the classification of one's desires to be achieved in life or the strata of life that now exists even though we do not say explicitly about this but must have thought that in the world there are strata of life that distinguish about one's social status in life.
If all desires can be achieved easily then the world will become chaotic and we will become soft so in this case we are required as in competition where the strong will survive.
Taking an example in the investment that we do is also quite the same actually where the strong survive because we will not be able to get whatever we need easily so we have to be strong in everything.

[JayJuanGee]

I believe that we can develop our hobby in parallel with our main job and quit work only when we have managed to develop our hobby well enough. Bitcoin is a good investment, but it will be meaningless if we do not have the funds to buy Bitcoin.

The same thing to running a business without enough capital to sustain. Because investment doesn't give us instant return we can fully rely on it, maybe months after. That is how important to have a least another source of income to back it up while waiting for our business or investment to grow. We can just quit working on other people if we are really ready and when our investment/business can already support our living. In order to have a good living, we also have to make multiple sources of income which is somewhat hard for poor people and I feel how hard it was.

You cannot invest in business if you do not have enough capital. Investing in cryptocurrency is the same, you need a certain amount of money to buy cryptocurrency. However, it is important to consider investing in cryptocurrency and maintaining your lifestyle.

If you do not have a steady source of income, then you should not invest all your money in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a highly volatile asset whose value can change very quickly. If you invest all your money in cryptocurrency and its value drops, you could lose all of it.

If you don't even know what you are investing in - especially if you are referring to some dumb and vague term, then surely you better be careful in terms of investing.  Now if you want to gamble and to trade, then yeah go ahead and fuck around with shitcoins.

Now if you are trying to talk about bitcoin, then maybe you should have had used the word bitcoin in order any of us might need to figure out what our accumulation strategy might be in terms of stacking some sats (bitcoin)... so surely, you have to know what it is that you are investing into and what is going to be your approach, and you likely need to consider other aspects of your own personal financial and psychological situation too.. at least when it comes to bitcoin..  and another one of my posts, I did list 9 areas of consideration when investing and building a position into bitcoin.

I would suggest to completely stay away from shitcoins until you learn what bitcoin is first and learn how to use the word bitcoin properly in a sentence.  That would probably be helpful to clarify what it is that you are referring to when you refer to some vague, amorphous and misleading word like crypto, as if anyone would actually invest in such a thing in which it is not even clear what it is.

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This is why its never been that recommended that you would really be going all in because it would really be just that a disaster on doing so. This is why its always better that you should really be investing on the money which you can afford to lose and never ever make yourself having that kind of impulsive investment or simply making use your life savings just because you are hoping that you could really be able to make profits or money easy on crypto space on which it is really that something a very wrong mindset or belief to have in mind.

Life is never been easy whether we are talking physical or online world on which we do really that aiming for the same thing which is to make money or income because we do know that
if we dont make money then how we would be living into this world which everything is really that rising from commodities to services and other stuffs?
This is why it would really be that just normal that you will be finding methods and ways to make things better.

You see.  Dumb and meaningless language is repeated.  Hopefully if you learn what bitcoin is, then you might be able to learn how to use it in a sentence in order that we know that the fuck you are talking about.  It would be really dumb to invest into crypto.. It is likely one of the dumbest things to do, and if you might have meant something else, then maybe you should specify, especially in regards to how bitcoin might fit into your way of thinking about what things to invest into, why and what kinds of strategies that you might employ in such process.

[itorai]

I doubt this topic belongs in this thread but you have made a point though. And i can't agree more with you. Nothing in the world is easy even crypto itself seems to be so easy and a lot of people think (All we have to sit in front of laptop/mobile to make money). But in reality a person at start can not manage to sit for 4 to 8 hours in front of devices. Then these types of persons leave the industry or that work by complaining the work is not suitable for them. Actually what you are trying to do here is motivating new comers to not to leave this platform because many people do leave this platform for many factors.

Overall, we should also support them like we were supported when we were new, my local community members really motivated me encouraged me and cared about me in many ways that i can not think of. So, whenever a newbie came in our local community or even in any board i when see there post i also try to encourage them Because nothin is easy for anybody everybody have to make efforts to achieve something and that how economy works too. So we have to be hardworking but at the same time smart worker too.

What you say is very true, I am still learning and developing my knowledge here, but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

[Dunamisx]

Regarding the merit talk, the issue is that these forum members who complain about merit are not even putting in the work. This platform is an open space and actively contributing valuable information to it will definitely yield. The legendary members didn’t get to the top posting crap. So, if there’s any newbie reading this, just actively contribute valuable information that is actually yours and not stolen or spun. You’ll eventually get noticed and will be merited accordingly.

If someone is here only because they think they can easily physh for merits and get away with doing all manners of dirty tricks scot-free, then they might just have missed it all because your real purpose for joining here will later be shown no matter how smart you have acted to ensure you cover up for that.

Generally, nothing is easy. There’s no aspect of life that doesn’t require work and patience. OP speaks about degree, career, etc, and we can see that these things we want in life is not gotten by wanting them or trying to claim that they are ours; we have to endure.

If we know how it is to be celebrated or to celebrate someone, we will know the criterias required to have value in what such person creates that drawn our attention, if you're being yourself and just, merits flows because others sees your quality efforts, but if you're chasing after merits or recognitions, that you won't get.

[terrific]

Everything is gonna need to have the difficulty for someone to enjoy the results of it. Someone will never learn a lesson whether from the forum or from the market if there's no failure at first try.
Those that are wise and starting that gather information from the experienced ones to avoid mistakes is also a good strategy for them to stay longer on this market.
But, success is partnered with failure. And while most success as said by OP don't go overnight, it takes time.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

Speaking out your opinion has nothing to do with the rules of the forum; as long as the forum is concerned, you can air out your opinion, and it's not going to cause any harm to you. One of the offenses that the forum doesn't seem to handle very well is when you are using an AI bot to write comments or when you are committing plagiarism. If you air out your opinion and others feel you are not right with what you are saying, they might criticize you, but at least you will learn from it since you are very conscious. Feel free to speak out your view; we learn every day. You never know who is always reading your comments and when they have learned anything from them or not.

[TakeItEasy]

Life's journey is definitely fraught with stumbling blocks, and the quest for success, whether in forums, jobs, or enterprises, need a robust attitude. Whether you're trying to recoup from a terrible crypto investment or aspire to a legendary rank on a forum, the key is endurance, learning from mistakes, and continually working hard and intelligently towards your objectives.

From the first day and from the very start of each thing no one in this world have full knowledge of each and everything. There are very less people in this world those are multi talented and those who have clear thinking on more things in different fields. But I can say that there are more people who works hard and they can make themselves multi talented. And same thing happens many times when I see the people who started from Zero and now they have their own home and also they have their cars and a good life style they have now.

All these things came to their way due to their struggle and the way they work, so always one should work consistently as consistency is the main thing and for success we can say it is the only thing.

[Youngkhngdiddy]

Everything is gonna need to have the difficulty for someone to enjoy the results of it. Someone will never learn a lesson whether from the forum or from the market if there's no failure at first try.
Those that are wise and starting that gather information from the experienced ones to avoid mistakes is also a good strategy for them to stay longer on this market.
But, success is partnered with failure. And while most success as said by OP don't go overnight, it takes time.

  Hardwork pays doesn't really work at all times, a lot of sacrifices to be made no doubt and at the same time, deep thinking helps too having time to reflect sometimes helps refresh the mind . It doesn't necessarily mean success comes from unending struggles to work. Sometimes one has to think of innovations to begin that can help improve the world and bring solutions to problems for the society.
   As we see today, the richest men didn't get rich from unending labour, they sat down, discovered issues that man may face, brainstormed on possible measures to solve them, even new methods, they put these methods to test and settle for the ones that work. There's a process to being successful and truthfully no matter how hard we labor, we have to put in other factors essential to growth. Success never came easy to any of the elites. Looking at their story you will get some struggles and sacrifices they made while in the building process. Stay consistent and keep working on your self this is what we need to uphold to.

[Faisal2202]

What you say is very true, I am still learning and developing my knowledge here, but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

I am glad you found my words convincing, we all are in the learning phase even if we become legendary too and the funny thing is, as a Senior member of this forum I lack a lot in terms of technical knowledge and sometimes I make statements on which I have to feel regret because when OGz found that mistake they do not guide you without roasting hehe.

But I try not to mind it because one of my teachers used to say, that in learning we should not mind anything at all coming from teachers.

If you don't fully understand this forum then try to spend more time here and try to learn new things, and be legit and natural here, don't try to pretend a character that in reality you are not. That way you will remain safe as this is not some article publishing site its a BTC and crypto discussion platform so use it that way.

[Negotiation]

Life's journey is definitely fraught with stumbling blocks, and the quest for success, whether in forums, jobs, or enterprises, need a robust attitude. Whether you're trying to recoup from a terrible crypto investment or aspire to a legendary rank on a forum, the key is endurance, learning from mistakes, and continually working hard and intelligently towards your objectives.

The journey of life is really difficult if you don't walk wisely no one can achieve success without persevering in every task. Making mistakes in life is not uncommon but not learning from mistakes is a big mistake. The successful people of the world have become successful by learning from mistakes. So it is foolish to try to put the blame on someone else if they make a mistake rather it is wiser to admit fault and learn from it.

[itorai]

but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

Speaking out your opinion has nothing to do with the rules of the forum; as long as the forum is concerned, you can air out your opinion, and it's not going to cause any harm to you. One of the offenses that the forum doesn't seem to handle very well is when you are using an AI bot to write comments or when you are committing plagiarism. If you air out your opinion and others feel you are not right with what you are saying, they might criticize you, but at least you will learn from it since you are very conscious. Feel free to speak out your view; we learn every day. You never know who is always reading your comments and when they have learned anything from them or not.

Oh I just found out if there are people who pay attention to me in the comments I make, why does that happen and why is it done?

[libert19]

Nothing good in life comes at a plater of gold and you can't achieve success only by mete wishing. You will have to out in the needed effort in ensuring that you get things done at the right time, and I in the right way even when you're tired or not.

I'd say it does come on gold platter, but if one is undeserving they throw away the plate without realizing it.

Everyone is given opportunity, some take it and taste success while others don't take it and later regret for not taking it. If you ask any aged person, they'll tell you the story of their decisions they should have taken rightly.

[JayJuanGee]

What you say is very true, I am still learning and developing my knowledge here, but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

I am glad you found my words convincing, we all are in the learning phase even if we become legendary too and the funny thing is, as a Senior member of this forum I lack a lot in terms of technical knowledge and sometimes I make statements on which I have to feel regret because when OGz found that mistake they do not guide you without roasting hehe.

That's part of the funzies of the forum, and also part of the reason that humble and thick-skinned newer members will likely grow in rank faster.. as long as they are learning along the way, attempting to grapple with topics, and trying to post interesting points from their own experiences.

But I try not to mind it because one of my teachers used to say, that in learning we should not mind anything at all coming from teachers.

For sure sometimes the teacher is wrong.. and even the teacher might sometimes be guising himself/herself as a teacher when s/he is just faking it and hiding behind the quasi-anonymity of this kind of a forum.

It is good not to argue for the mere sake of it, but sometimes you can argue, and/or present facts, logic and even variations on the conclusions that might cause for some discussion points, to the extent the newly provided facts, logic and conclusions are not totally stupid.

If you don't fully understand this forum then try to spend more time here and try to learn new things, and be legit and natural here, don't try to pretend a character that in reality you are not. That way you will remain safe as this is not some article publishing site its a BTC and crypto discussion platform so use it that way.

You can sometimes also get away with some kinds of discussions that you could never have in real life because sometimes you might not want to present certain ideas to people in the real world or you might not even have any audience for your ideas within 2 hours commute.. and even then, I find that sometimes bitcoin related discussion in the real world can sometimes either become quite exhausting and/or too confrontational with stubborn folks on both sides and kind of not really a productive use of time after getting to some log-jams in the discussion.. so maybe in the real world, the discussions might be going great, but after a while there may be needs to take a break so each of the sides can either recover or to think about the contents of the discussion, and on the forum, you can choose your topics and the extent to which you want to present information.. even though sometimes it can be difficult for some folks to type out their responses (well we have dictation tools too), or they might have some troubles in English, that would likely improve with practice.

[itorai]

What you say is very true, I am still learning and developing my knowledge here, but sometimes I hesitate to express my opinion because I don't fully understand the rules in this forum.

I am glad you found my words convincing, we all are in the learning phase even if we become legendary too and the funny thing is, as a Senior member of this forum I lack a lot in terms of technical knowledge and sometimes I make statements on which I have to feel regret because when OGz found that mistake they do not guide you without roasting hehe.

That's part of the funzies of the forum, and also part of the reason that humble and thick-skinned newer members will likely grow in rank faster.. as long as they are learning along the way, attempting to grapple with topics, and trying to post interesting points from their own experiences.

You really helped me friend. I'm happy to take the time to learn and continue to learn better here and it's true that I have to be thick-skinned because I feel that's the reality.
I'm sure I can be a great person like you @JJG.

[G_Besar]

You really helped me friend. I'm happy to take the time to learn and continue to learn better here and it's true that I have to be thick-skinned because I feel that's the reality.
I'm sure I can be a great person like you @JJG.

As long as you are still willing to learn and continue to be motivated with lots of guidance, especially guidance from @JJG who has been proven to be able to provide more of his best contributions in this forum, you will also gain more knowledge with the determination you currently have. So don't be embarrassed to keep asking questions and trying things that you know so far, either through this forum or through other places, but I think you will find it easier to get a lot of direction through this forum as long as you are still willing to keep asking more questions.

[southerngentuk]

The path to greatness is not for the faint of heart. It demands unwavering commitment, unwavering determination, and the willingness to embrace challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth. It is a journey that requires us to push beyond our comfort zones, to confront our fears, and to persevere in the face of adversity.

While the road to greatness may be arduous, the rewards are immeasurable. The satisfaction of achieving our full potential, of making a meaningful contribution to society, and of leaving a lasting legacy far outweighs the hardships endured along the way.

Therefore, let us embrace the challenges that come our way, for they are the stepping stones that lead us towards greatness. Let us not succumb to the allure of fleeting glory, but instead, let us dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of true greatness, a legacy that will transcend time and inspire generations to come.

[slapper]

The path to greatness is not for the faint of heart. It demands unwavering commitment, unwavering determination, and the willingness to embrace challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth. It is a journey that requires us to push beyond our comfort zones, to confront our fears, and to persevere in the face of adversity.

While the road to greatness may be arduous, the rewards are immeasurable. The satisfaction of achieving our full potential, of making a meaningful contribution to society, and of leaving a lasting legacy far outweighs the hardships endured along the way.

Therefore, let us embrace the challenges that come our way, for they are the stepping stones that lead us towards greatness. Let us not succumb to the allure of fleeting glory, but instead, let us dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of true greatness, a legacy that will transcend time and inspire generations to come.

The traditional path to greatness - is it always noble? We crave significance, but greatness is as subjective as human experience. Understanding what greatness means to each of us is the task, not just conquering outward difficulties. Does it have to be about grand accomplishments or quieter moments of honesty, kindness, and personal victory?

Legacy does attractive. It's a tremendous incentive yet potentially harmful. We must focus on the now while pursuing a legacy. After all, our path is about the now, not a distant, idealized future. Are we overlooking little successes in our pursuit of greatness?? Are we too fixated on the forest to appreciate the individual trees? We may succeed best by balancing these goals with a conscientious enjoyment of life's simpler pleasures.

[Faisal2202]

That's part of the funzies of the forum, and also part of the reason that humble and thick-skinned newer members will likely grow in rank faster.. as long as they are learning along the way, attempting to grapple with topics, and trying to post interesting points from their own experiences.

You are right, I have seen a few thick-skinned newbies who ranked so fast in less time just due to their general or technical skills. I have seen members registered on BTT after me, and they have become legendary due to there technical knowledge and the services they provide. That's why learning on the way is necessary if you want to grow.

For sure sometimes the teacher is wrong.. and even the teacher might sometimes be guising himself/herself as a teacher when s/he is just faking it and hiding behind the quasi-anonymity of this kind of a forum.

It is good not to argue for the mere sake of it, but sometimes you can argue, and/or present facts, logic and even variations on the conclusions that might cause for some discussion points, to the extent the newly provided facts, logic and conclusions are not totally stupid.

Yeah, teachers can't be right every time and we should not hesitate to ask questions and that's exactly what I meant to say, that we should not feel embarrassed when roasted by teachers because if we want to learn something then we should not care about what will come from their mouths for you all we as students should care about useful answers to our questions that are confusing.

You can sometimes also get away with some kinds of discussions that you could never have in real life because sometimes you might not want to present certain ideas to people in the real world or you might not even have any audience for your ideas within 2 hours commute..

It means BTT allows us to showcase our ideas that might be of no worth to the outside world, and that's true. The reason behind it might be, that those who have found BTT are somehow familiar with BTC and what is blockchain because some are referred by any other BTTian or some have found it on news sites etc. The source would be any, the point is they have some idea about it but most of the outside world people, have no or lesser idea about it and once you start lecturing them their nature makes them to convert the discussion into an argumentative one.

Maybe that's why I like BTT, people value other's opinions and point out mistakes too. Be legit 

[Miles2006]

Nothing in life comes easy.  Hard work is behind every success.  It is not possible to achieve success in anything quickly, be it business or anything else.  Must stick with hard work.  Don't be disappointed in the slightest.  Success requires patience.  People without patience do not succeed.  Suppose you are running a business where you unfortunately lose, then you don't leave the business!  Learn to keep up.  And new ways have to be found.  If you face a loss by investing in bitcoin, do you turn your face away from bitcoin!  Of course not, you have to explore. Learn more. Follow the previous successful people.  'Life is not a bed of roses' should be remembered.

You're right, investors who lack the habit of patient might likely not make it in their investment, but there are a lot of people out there who exhibit the habit of patient but yet they have refuse to learn from their mistakes, I think this is where the problem lies, making mistakes is normal everyone makes mistake but the ability to take correction and learn from your previous mistakes makes you a successful investor. Aside from bitcoin investment even in our daily life where everyone works hard to survive and become successful we need to learn from our mistakes, some will say work smartly, work in your comfort zone, don't settle for less, but all these features doesn't make everyone successful.

[Dunamisx]

Life itself is not easy but it takes every of our human efforts to make things around us get easy, this also depends on how we have made the rightful application of our knowledge and wisdom in every situation of life we found ourselves in, there are level we go in life to discover that some risk are worth taking while some aren't because they made is realized the real identity of what they constitute at the end, we must be wise in every investment or risk taking we go for in other not to experience a wasted efforts in them.

[Faisal2202]

That's part of the funzies of the forum, and also part of the reason that humble and thick-skinned newer members will likely grow in rank faster.. as long as they are learning along the way, attempting to grapple with topics, and trying to post interesting points from their own experiences.

You really helped me friend. I'm happy to take the time to learn and continue to learn better here and it's true that I have to be thick-skinned because I feel that's the reality.
I'm sure I can be a great person like you @JJG.

HEHE no offense to both but itorai if you want to become a great person like JJG then first stop writing 3 or 4 lines messages and start writing 30 or 40 lines hehe, yeah add a zero because JJG writes in a way we talk, which means while talking we use more words but while writing we use lesser words I assume the system is opposite for JJG.

But I hope you can become like him one day, I don't know how much time you will become one but best of luck.

[idarasun]

You really helped me friend. I'm happy to take the time to learn and continue to learn better here and it's true that I have to be thick-skinned because I feel that's the reality.
I'm sure I can be a great person like you @JJG.

As long as you are still willing to learn and continue to be motivated with lots of guidance, especially guidance from @JJG who has been proven to be able to provide more of his best contributions in this forum, you will also gain more knowledge with the determination you currently have. So don't be embarrassed to keep asking questions and trying things that you know so far, either through this forum or through other places, but I think you will find it easier to get a lot of direction through this forum as long as you are still willing to keep asking more questions.

Ok so, I want to ask those of you in the forum (no exception).
How can I quickly be successful on this forum? And is there anything easy according to the experience of the seniors here?

[Charmekkd]

So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.

Very constructive motivation, bro.

I also agree with all the opinions you provide. Because all the opinions you give are a reality that must be implemented by everyone who wants to achieve success. And this is no exception in any field.

But in my personal opinion, the most difficult thing is after all the motivation and opinions are properly absorbed by our brain. Namely its direct application. Because I have seen several friends, who always repeatedly read or watch motivational things, but still their enthusiasm is not built well. For some reason, I'm also a little confused about this. Does anyone know the solution?

[siniminomorocomunisakito]

But in my personal opinion, the most difficult thing is after all the motivation and opinions are properly absorbed by our brain. Namely its direct application. Because I have seen several friends, who always repeatedly read or watch motivational things, but still their enthusiasm is not built well. For some reason, I'm also a little confused about this. Does anyone know the solution?

Regarding implementation, you will not progress if you practice as much as possible, eliminating the fear of losing when investing in crypto. Friends, BTC is not a coin meme and why people still want to buy BTC today is because BTC is potential and valuable. DCA or whatever you want to wear is fine, but don't miss the party early next year. Ready?