How would your life be different if.........

All that positive thinking and anthony Robbins type stuff makes me sick too - not my thing at all.

Not judging others however is not associated with positive thinking hippy type stuff which is just meaningless drivel. It's about focusing your energy towards what you want in life, staying on track to your own goals and what you want in life.

Judging others requires energy and requires you to believe your own lies you make up about the world and other people - it's not even about the other person, it's self sabotage, taking your focus away from what is important in your life.

When you look at it from a different perspective, from above, it's boring. Why would you want to make up an entire story about someone you don't even know - it's just entertaining yourself and adds no value to your life.

It's not about liking everyone, you can quickly make a descision that a particular personality, person is not going to work for you and cut ties. I do this often, there are a lot of people I don't like, but there is no more energy apart from that.

But here is the other thing, nothing wrong with it if you want to do it, this thread is about questioning if you should and whether you can get further if you don't and focus your energy I stead on what's important.

 

The answer to that would be, I'd be ripped off a lot. My negative judgement is geared more towards attitude than appearances though.

 

Xenia
pop psychology not my thing either, all to their own

What you have posted resonates is fascinating once you get your head around it, took a while

 

I guess we'll never be friends...

 

If its all over... I guess not.

 

Agreed...but it is also important to maintain perspective...focus is ok...but so is not being focused. Sometimes...I am slow to come to a conclusion but once made..it is hard to move me.

The world is made up of followers and leaders....there is very little of the latter....

 

I strongly disagree with this too.... "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" is attributed to Keynes.

That 98% get lumped into a neutral basket (not a negative basket) , the other 2% gets put into the positive basket. It's v. easy for anyone in that 98% to switch baskets - those false negatives just need to demonstrate some positive qualities. Even those with tatts can make the switch, as demonstrated by @Kinnon Bell .
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And that ratio varies depending on the environment - SS & PC have a lower proportion of ********s than the general population, some of the 'other' forums out there higher.

Again as @Player mentioned, many would lump a lot less than 98% in the not immediately positive basket. However, I've recently discovered that a few others here (@Biz @Bayview, @Leo2413 to name but a few) are also afflicted with LDT (Low ******** Tolerance) Syndrome - maybe we do need an exclusive sub-forum to ourselves ?

 

Strongly agree. And i have seen it more than a few times. After talking on multiple occasions to some people re retirement, future finances, wealth creation etc... suddenly one day they themselves snapped. Some ***** clicked in their minds and they instantly left the 98% to join the 2%. And 4 of 5 of them i know strongly followed though. Did budgets, got educated via books/networking and all have multimillion dollar portfolios today. I know this for a fact because they are all ex-colleageus at the last place i used to work. One of them the other day told me shes never put in so much effort on anything as she has this but shes the happiest she's been in her life now.

 

Lets see how happy she is when she is struggling on the pension....

 

why would she struggle on the pension now that shes building some wealth.. Or am i
misunderstanding your post?

 

Might have misunderstood the post...looks like she is now building wealth.

I thought she is the happiest she has been...as she is happy not to try.

Looks like she has taken personal accountability.

 

Absolutely going to be a lot harder to make money in property following years because times are a changing, but I am sure some will continue to do well.

As far as all this positive stuff, is it all positive?? getting lots of feedback, many do not agree with what I posted and have a totally different perspective, all to their own.

MTR

 

No not all positive ...therein lies opportunity.

 

The low hanging fruit may have been picked but there'll always be opportunities for those who seek them out. Markets change, prices stagnate & fall, zonings change, interest rates vary, appetite for risk may wane etc.

It may not be residential or property at all could be in arbitrage, hybrids, new technologies or whatever.

 

I agree, different market/strategies.
I will still be developing property and looking for sites that work.

MTR

 

@sash np, yup she is mate. Dont know why i dont get alerts sometimes when someone mentions my name. But yea she and 3 others have gone hard. Especially her. Sold the boat. Cut the credit cards. She stop playing the blame game. Took absolute personal responsibility. All that with 3 kids and husband on lower income i think. Full respect to her.

 

All good then...

 

Positive thinking is actually negative. It keeps you deluded, its just a movement that was created for a bunch of people that couldn't accept that life has its ups and downs.

Choose presence over positivity....

 

Perfect in every way Kate.

 

yes times are changing, lots of change ahead of us. Those who don't evolve will go extinct...