You Can Turn Your Desire for a Better Life to an Asset

Desiring better things is an expression of the basic human desire for growth. We all want better things. The main challenge is that we often look for a shortcut to get it to satisfy our urge for instant gratification. This often leads us to fall into the trap of consuming our seed and expecting a harvest.

With the right focus and discipline, we can turn our desire for a better life into a drive to increase our income to be able to afford what we truly desire rather than console ourselves that we cannot afford it and resign to making do with less.

When we ask ourselves the right questions, we ultimately work toward the right answers. When you ask yourself ‘How can I afford it’, your brain goes into brainstorming mode and we ultimately come up with the answers. The fact is that the answers have always been there. It is only that we were not aware of them because we were not seeking them. It is said that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Again, the teacher has always been there, only that the student had not become aware of it prior to now.

When you make up your mind you want to buy a certain dream car for example, and you will buy it with your profit, not your wages, you start to find a way. The beauty of this is that in the process of generating the cash flow required to buy the car, you would have created an asset. By the time you make enough to buy the car, you would have owned a valuable asset.

This means that the desire to buy the car drove you to create or acquire the asset. This means is you had not made up your mind to buy that car, you would not have ended up with that asset. Consequently, buying the car made you richer rather than poorer. As for the guy that simply dips his hands into his savings or takes a loan to buy the car, buying the car weakens his financial position as the car does not generate any cash flow.