The beauty of an ‘opt in’ system, is that it’s voluntary (in theory).
All the best things in life are voluntary.
The voluntary actions that people do, say a lot about someone.
This includes ‘opting in’ to reading my posts, btw – or not, as the case may be.
That’s not my choice, that’s the readers choice.
Your option.
Now, contrary to popular belief, the people who hate me on this platform also ‘opt in’ to reading my posts.
Funny that.
Masochism? Possibly.
Envy - very possibly ( losers hate winners).
I care not of the motivations, it's enough to know that they love me....lol.
No one forces them to read my posts.
Anything that I say in regards to people who have ‘muted me’ or for those that publicly say that they ignore me, means that my posts will go unread by them - and as such, it makes no difference what I say – or do not say.
There is great freedom in that reality, even though it isn't, in actual fact, a reality at all.
Why is good to frame it like this ?
It's a framing based entirely on their own words and actions
It's good that they will not need a safe space to recover in - because they don't read my posts, right?
But it's very bad for them, as it shows up their hypocrisy and lies, as they respond to my points....
....Ones they do not read, apparently ...ermmm...how does this work exactly ?...lol
Haters stating that they do not read my posts is provably untrue - if , by using forensics statement analysis techniques, and basic linguistic recognition patterns, are anything to go by.
These methods are taken as viable supporting evidence in courts of law, so would seem to have some degree of validity.
Their lack of authenticity not my fault.
I’m not responsible for the liars lies. ...But they are.
Now that's out of the way....
Opportunity knocks and hodlers fear to do anything....
When you play by the rules that are given to you - by the very people who make the rules - do you really think that you’re ever gonna beat them in the long term ?
The casino always wins for a reason.
The rules to work in their favor.
Do you ever think that by playing by their rules, you will somehow ‘come out on top'?... Beat the casinos?
Some say 'yes', while others - sane people - say 'no'.
The reason that I’m writing this post is to come back to a post that I wrote a long time ago, as events now seem to prompt it. (I can’t link it, I have no idea when I posted it – back in the steem days , I think).
It was all about not being able see opportunities - or rather , how fear blinds you to seeing opportunities.
From everything I see, many hodlers fall into this 'fear blinds' category.
Let me use myself as being at the opposite end of that spectrum.
The last time I calculated my STEEM earnings – based on the rewards, and taking the tokens and then doing real world things with the profits – each steem I earned carries a value of $12, or just over.
I stopped looking at the 'value per steem' a long time ago - it’s not an ego masturbation exercise to see ‘how smart’- or stupid - I was).
My figures tell me it was a smart move.
The reason that I was able to do so - to act, was because I was not stuck in rut ( a place based in fear).
I do not buy into the communist dogma of steem and hive.
('rewards commons'? Lol – I call bullshit – but much more about that later….much, much, more).
I have 100% faith in my own wherewithal to profit from my endeavors.
I have zero faith (for that is all it is, nothing more) in a commie, ‘woke mob mentality’ ecosystem ever being successful .
*Apart from those at the top of a non meritocratically based grift. ...You know, the sociopath predators presenting as a friendly face for the gullible to accept - they will do very nicely - they are the casino... (history, psychology, and my own personal experiences, would agree with this perspective).
I remember writing at the time - in the old post - a one liner that has stood the test of time for me personally, and seems quite self evident when looking at other peoples chosen strategies.
‘TAKE WHAT YOU CAN, WHEN YOU CAN’.
That’s it.
Simple uh?
The answer to personal success.
My STEEM earnings are valued at $12(+) - probably a lot more now, if I could be arsed calculating them.
I took the opportunity and went with it.
I took what I could, when I could, and I profited by doing something with it.
I was reading a post from one of my haters earlier, about how woeful life is, how skint they are, how things in life never seem to 'go right’.
I know for fact that this account has – three times now – had a high enough token price and stake size to sell off the hive account, and live a debt free life.
This option was not taken.
Three times. Not one missed opportunity - or even two.
Three...times...
Opportunity came a knocking – good fortune came a calling shouting out ' I can set you free' - and the door was firmly slammed in it’s face.
(pro tip: living debt free is the only way to go if you want to be, if you want to live like an adult).
Having a mindset of ‘take what you can, when you can’, changes all of this.
It opens the door to opportunity, and it invites good fortune into your house....
(other pro tip: If you keep slamming the door on 'sexy miss good opportunity' - she will stop knocking at some point).
Hodlers are steeped in fear.
Think about it.
If the price of a token is going down, and you have faith in your hodl strategy – then why wouldn’t you sell, to buy back more, at a cheaper price?
It is not logical – even as hodler – to not sell, and then buy back later at a cheaper price.
If it is not logic, then what is it?
Fear.
Fear of doing.
Fear of taking action.
Taking action requires taking responsibility for your action. For good or bad, either way – but it DOES require taking responsibility for a movement of position.
Hodling – doing nothing – abdicates that responsibility – it abdicates your own future to the whims of others.
Not taking personal responsibility is a childlike mentality.
There is no logical argument to hodling , while prices are dropping.
The ‘scared rabbits caught in the headlight’ paradigm applies, because, like I’ve just said, the logical choice is to sell ‘on the way down’, and buy back later.
Thought experiment:
You have $100.
In one day, can you turn that $100 into $110 ?....(If you cannot, you need to educate yourself).
Making money is not difficult.
For example, Luce started the bread making, and pie making business. From $7. She makes around 50% net profit.
She now has a steady – thriving - business.
All from a $7 startup money that she allocated to it.
If you could make your $100 into $110 dollars, each day – in 10 days you would have doubled your money.
In twenty days, you would have doubled that now $200, into $400 (still making the 10% per day).
If money and riches are your aim, it really can be that simple.
Wash and repeat… All from 10% profit,per day.
Using just $100 start up money - and following that method - can make you richer than you’d ever dreamed...
Now of course, I know it is not that simple - but we are talking principles here, not process.
Which brings me back to playing against the casino and expecting to win.
‘Looking long’ is the rules of the casino.
It’s their rules for success, not yours.
By buying into their ideology- a paradigm fed to you since school - you're trying to ‘beat them at their own game’. A game they have been playing for decades.
And you will lose, mostly.
Your rules - making 10% per day - wash and repeat.
Now , you are playing by your own rules.
Now, you are master of your own destiny, not reliant on others who may have very different motives than yourself.
KISS – keep it simple, stupid.
Imagine if you could just kept it so simple, and made your 10% per day.
No stress, no sleepless nights, no endless hours ‘studying markets’.
No stress.
Just 10%, every single day, and that is your sole aim.
'You look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves...'
Stress is the biggest silent killer that there is .
Any action that you can take to mitigate stress in your life, is an act of you loving yourself.
Putting unnecessary stress into your life, by contrast , is the opposite.
Being a debt slave is 'stress max', for example - hence my point earlier, about getting out of debt is THE number 1 objective for anyone that loves themselves.
I’m not talking narcissistic self adoration , but self respecting love - and love is always the law.
This means, by extension, that if you refuse good fortune in your life , when it appears - you are refusing to allow good things to happen to yourself.
It's form of self loathing.
As is greed. (keep hodling and we'll be even richer!)
Heart attacks, poor sleep, diabetes, strokes, digestion issues, and auto immune issues, have all been attributed, to some degree or other, to stress and it playing a big part in negative events.
Making 10% a day from your investment of $100, with no other focus - really isn’t that stressful.
The longer the time line (the future is always unknown), the more stress that you give yourself.
K.I.S.S.
I mention it so many times ...‘I’m trying to help’.
It mostly falls on deaf ears mostly - hubris and intellectual insecurity are the number one cause of deafness to hearing K.I.S.S principles – that, and Marxist indoctrinated degree’s - which insist that complexity is required where there is non actually needed.
Imagine if the principle of 'take what you can, when you can', had been used by people in debt slavery to become debt free! (rather than hodling)
No debt = a majorly reduced chance of any health issues caused by stress - and more joy, and more laughter… ie – A better quality of life.
But hey, what would I know ?
I’m just guy with virtually nothing , including no debt - and life is a joy… every… single… day.
And no stress.
Caveat: Apart from the shitshow that is Hive.
My stress - minimal as it is - will soon evaporate - and laughter will most certainly follow closely behind.
My rules, my game.
The funniest thing about the hodlers scared mentality, and the 'take what you can, when you can' - a real 'go for it', mentality, is this....
...The hodler can win big - or most likely - lose big.
BUT....
The 'take what you can, when you can' mentality , has already won - whatever actually happens !
This perspective on life is the gold fucking medal ! - life becomes fun, and not stress killing, gray, drudgery...... money is just money. Nothing more.
But hey, what would I know, right.....?
hubris + insecurity = Unable to ask the right questions.