Waiting For Things To Get Better Is Not A Strategy

[slapper]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well. Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

[EL MOHA]

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well. Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

The new slogan is everything you want to do simply to do it now because tomorrow or later might be just too late for that to happen. There is government policies that we actually see today and people think some of these policies might be reverse back but sincerely I don’t think we should be expecting anything like that, rather it is how to live with such reality.

For me I think first thing is to identify or look for a solution to be your own self employed person because as the government policies are ever changing I don’t see it translating in the salaries and wages they actually pay, if you are running your own business then it is best to actually look for extra incomes, I once said that this is not the period of even looking for one extra income but to look for two or more source of income

Waiting for things to change is looking like waiting for the government to actually accept privacy

[Stepstowealth]

Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn?

There are people that have been able to identify what they need to learn, but they have just been plagued by some factors of laziness, then there are others lacking resources to pursue what they need to learn because it is cost demanding. The reality is not easy for many people at times, but the thing remains that for things to get better, you need to make an effort, and then the effort you are trying to face will face obstacles. So prepare for obstacles as you make plans to be better, and prepare to always find a way through to make it, challenge yourself.

[Fortify]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well. Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

It's true that the cost of things is always heading up, which can happen in stutters and spurts. I personally like to live by the philosophy of taking every opportunity as it presents itself, because you never know if it will be around tomorrow, but understand that such a viewpoint comes only with age and experience - missed plenty of chances for good deals when I was younger. There are still plenty of possibilities out there and easy money on show, but you have to be prepared to seek it out and hustle relentlessly, otherwise you'll miss out. You should definitely try to balance it with a healthy lifestyle - keep fit, see the world, eat well, but be prepared to jump in when good things present themselves or you might end up regretting a lot of missed chances otherwise.

[Iroh]

Change would surely come and when it does, you've got to adapt and evolve so as to not get left behind. The way of life and prices of goods and services are not the same as when you were a child. Hoping things would get better and for prices to revert back to how it was in the 1990s is simply delusional and a bit sad.
We've got to adapt to the times as it's necessary for us to survive and thrive in the ever changing earth we live in. Waiting for things to get better while whining about how good it used to be shows you're still living in the past and unwilling to face the current reality of the present. The need to arm ourselves with relevant skills snd training added to academic qualifications is again, being reiterated here.

[Smartvirus]

Everything has more steps now, more fees,

On the part of fees, the amount of fees we need to pay to process a Bitcoin transaction these days are far less than a couple of years ago. Even with the increase in Bitcoin price, the fee rate is low and it doesn’t mean there are no congestions but, it got better lately.

Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important.

Having various income streams is definitely a way to go but savings doesn’t help very much for an economy that is constantly on the rise with inflation ravaging every aspect of our very existence. Saved money can easily come without worth but, when you invest it, make a stream of income out of it, you keep getting values off it.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything.

Blaming others is just an excuse for failure and the only place waiting can prove to be of advantage is in hodling, if you aren’t hodling then you shouldn’t wait.

[abhiseshakana]

From your explanation, I can conclude that we all need survival skill training to face this VUCA world. The differences each individual only on what provision they already have, prepare or collect during their life, such as (resiliance, good habit,can determine priority, know and can distinguishing which good and bad, independent, noble character,etc). The first crucial thing to conquer this challange to keep our body healthy and our soul sane, try to flink the way you think from focus on problem to be focusing on upgrading your self for better future (afirmation).

The lower rate of dependency to other human the more your survival rate increase, I dont suggest to be selfish but think wisely, we need to be strong enough to help other. So start to be independence and build your system by your self and minimalize other people role. You can make plan to upgrade your family survival rate. I don't know where you live, in my country where rice is primary food, off course its hard to have ricefield but I make food rotation with alternative carbo that can be plant in our small back yard such as cassava, sweet potato, potato and othe vegetable. I also raising livestock such as chicken and has small pond for fish (cat fish and tilapia).  Family food security is very important to keep us calm in hard situation and can reduce our cost of life so we can alocate extra money for other post.

In this world of technology and perception bias, our story, our experience even our failed experiment can be sell, with little effort we can make money. Learning about how to speak, to be heard, to be seen also a mandatory to build our self branding and then jump to our product branding. Just try to build productive house where time, effort, experience return back positive value to your family. 

Off course cashflow management and also budgeting is important but assuming everybody has learned and practice financial literacy with full awareness of forced by situation.

[d5000]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers.

I doubt this is really the case. What makes people think that "everything is becoming more expensive" is mainly the housing cost. But this cost is mainly rising in large cities. In rural areas, in many countries, the housing prices are stable or only rise with inflation. There may be countries with high population increase rate where almost everywhere properties and rents seems to rise. But even in the US you have phenomenons like urban blight, which are caused by the supply exceeding demand in certain areas so much that the market collapses.

So the housing crisis is mostly the result of people concentrating in large cities (and in some countries like the US, in addition, bad urban planning).

"More fees, more requirements" - here I would also like to see examples. In most areas I don't see that many changes. Besides of housing, the only example I can really think of is health, particular retirement homes.

Regarding Bitcoin and crypto, what changed in the last years is mainly the maturing of the market. This means there are less "fast and good opportunities" to make money, like airdrops or easy to exploit business niches. In 2015 you could still have become rich if you catched a single good airdrop or started a single crypto service business. Arbitrage, trading, lending ... everything has been professionalized. But that happens in all mature markets. So if someone makes their living with Bitcoin, it has definitely become harder, but that always has to be expected.

[capokmerah]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well. Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

It's true that the cost of things is always heading up, which can happen in stutters and spurts. I personally like to live by the philosophy of taking every opportunity as it presents itself, because you never know if it will be around tomorrow, but understand that such a viewpoint comes only with age and experience - missed plenty of chances for good deals when I was younger. There are still plenty of possibilities out there and easy money on show, but you have to be prepared to seek it out and hustle relentlessly, otherwise you'll miss out. You should definitely try to balance it with a healthy lifestyle - keep fit, see the world, eat well, but be prepared to jump in when good things present themselves or you might end up regretting a lot of missed chances otherwise.

Taking advantage of real opportunities that are right in front of us isn't a bad thing. A predetermined path in life may not be possible unless we ourselves want to. It sounds a bit philosophical, but sometimes things like this have to be considered and require quick and accurate decisions. Haste can often backfire, but there are times when decisions must be made quickly.
This is the reality of life, each individual is responsible for themselves and the family they must support. We must do everything we can to avoid endless hardship.

[IjawMan]

It's just different from the way it used to be.

It will be worse, years from now. The world is chronic sick with everybody just managing the conditions.

 

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

What you need to learn is not what you want to learn but should be what the times requires in other that you can stay relevant and invaluable spotted in the midst of the crowd for your survival in this present world depends on what value you can offer as service or goods.

Seating back blaming the government, your community chiefs for how bad things are becoming will not change a thing for the better.

[Fiatless]

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

Each new government comes with the messages of hope and change. Things keep getting worse for the common man. To survive, one needs to be hardworking, creative and financially prudent. Maximise any legal avenue to make extra money and seek creative means to reduce your expenses so that you can have extra to invest.

I doubt this is really the case. What makes people think that "everything is becoming more expensive" is mainly the housing cost. But this cost is mainly rising in large cities. In rural areas, in many countries, the housing prices are stable or only rise with inflation. There may be countries with high population increase rate where almost everywhere properties and rents seems to rise. But even in the US you have phenomenons like urban blight, which are caused by the supply exceeding demand in certain areas so much that the market collapses.

So the housing crisis is mostly the result of people concentrating in large cities (and in some countries like the US, in addition, bad urban planning).

A high rate of rural-urban migration is also experienced in my country. But you wouldn't blame people for leaving the rural areas because there are fewer opportunities there. People tend to move closer to areas that have better facilities and employment opportunities. I have tried to relocate to the rural area, but the cost of transportation to where I work in the city was too high, so I had to return to expensive accommodation in the urban area.

[rat03gopoh]

what do I need to learn? What do I need to build?

This is about adapting to rapid and extreme change. I think the high costs can be mitigated, including by simply waiting. I've said in other discussions that the world quickly becomes bored by platform algorithms. I mean, whatever's expensive today might not be tomorrow. I feel the increasing complexity isn't due to circumstances, but rather a self-inflicted desire to maintain social prestige.

[ColdLava40]

How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

If we take a look at the life of some early men, the ones who paid the prices for us to have a lot of useful economic tools, technology and so on, we will see that they were basically the type that didn't give up on their dreams.

Just because something seems difficult to archive, doesn'tesn it can't.. have you given it a try? Have you tried it and failed a countless number of time? These kind of questions should motivate you to try better.

As the world ages, things might not seem easy like it used to. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't put our brains to work. The goal is to survive and to do that you must be ready to go to any length.

[whiteblue]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well. Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

The current situation is indeed much more difficult than before. I'm also considering finding a new job that could better support my survival in this day and age, where income doesn't even cover monthly expenses. It's difficult to save with the minimum wage workers currently earn. I've tried being a content creator, but I failed on many platforms. Perhaps due to a lack of consistency and a half-hearted approach to this industry, I'm honest: building a business is incredibly difficult these days, amidst the onslaught of large companies directly entering the market to capture consumers.

We need to create new innovations that meet the needs of modern people.

[Strongkored]

These questions can help people who struggle in their lives because they live in areas where everything is very limited, but they still need help from outside parties, even though there are those who can finally live better without outside help but the percentage is smaller than those who continue to struggle.
However, humans must continue to strive because expecting outside help will only make us lazy and use it as an excuse not to develop ourselves.

[Versatile_choice]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

Obviously alot of things has changed, the cost of living is very expensive  of which that's not how it used to be before. That is the reason why we need to double our hustle, the more the cost of living keep increasing that's the more we should keep working hard in order to meet up because if we don't work hard there's no way we can be able to meet up with our expenses.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

Me personally would blame those who are hoping for things to change back, because this is more like giving themselves false hope. Instead of things to change it will get more worst so i don't usually think about such thing rather i only hope for price of goods and services to reduce in a way that everybody can afford it but if it is hoping for things to change unlike as it was in early stage it is not going to happen, so if it's  a dream that we are hoping for such, i think it's high time for us to wake up from such dream and start struggling.

[TypoTonic]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

Can't help but feel the same. Back then you can start a family, and just grow into the responsibilities. It felt like mistakes were much more forgiving. Now it feels like doing the same thing is no longer possible, and that you must have everything prepared beforehand. The same goes for career, it feels significantly harder to land a stable job nowadays (at least from my experience).

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

I think the most important thing to build is knowledge. As the elderly always say in my country, it's the only thing that can't be truly taken away from us by anyone else. If I can go back, I would invest more time learning valuable skills, and trying to improve my understanding of finance.

[Jatiluhung]

To put it more simply, I would say that we should do what we can do right now to the best of our ability. Whether it's gaining knowledge, experience, or even conducting research.

At the very least, gaining knowledge and skills is a priority. Because having something that is considered more valuable than others will make us superior. And there will be many who will need our services or even our knowledge.

Don't just wait, but keep moving forward with what we are capable of doing right now. And don't just sit around lost in thought. Because sometimes thinking too much without taking action can lower our mood and sometimes we feel tired for no reason.

[tottong]

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

Blaming others is a form of failure for someone who can't get out of a problem, and these people are usually more likely to blame others.
I prefer to prepare one step and carry it out thoroughly rather than talking about lots of money-making strategies without seriously implementing them which often limits someone's success.
When talking about opportunities, people might say, "Let's invest or build a business." That's not wrong, because every potential success is inseparable from thorough preparation.
Unfortunately, we fail to think about doing something simple and easy to understand, so the focus is no longer on the process but on the results that isn't executed.

The reason wealthy people are willing to take big risks is because they understand that achieving success requires sacrifice.
When speaking with people who prefer comfort zone, the sacrifices are often considered disproportionate, even though they are actually sacrificing time, capital, and a commitment to doing things the right way.

[Emjay24]

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

Things are more expensive now, and you spend more for doing actually less. The systems changed and the much we should do is adapt and adapting quickly. It's not a new thing that we work harder now compared to our parents but struggle to do even up to half of what they could do comfortably back then.

Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

Saving money is important but we cannot deny that the saved money depreciates overtime, so what is more important is investing.
Instead of just keeping your money dormant, you put it to work.

Many streams of income are important and it's also good that passive income streams are considered so we don't have to subject ourselves under extreme stress and pressure to make money, but when we invest wisely, our investment becomes our stream of income while we put in minimal efforts to maintain them