For long I've been a lazy person, though I've managed to learn a more active approach to life. More out of necessity though, because inactive life only results with suffering, dumb suffering. The simple reason behind this is probably that positive emotions strive from moving towards a goal. No movement, no positive emotion. That's what psychologists say at least. Being somewhat lazy, I'd like to get both. That isn't reality though, so gotta figure stuff to aim for.
Right now the most important goal personally is reaching financial freedom. Or let's say security to be more realistic - flexibility, to have room to not having to live hand to mouth. I've taken steps towards that by investing money into stuff I'm assuming will increase in value. To my own good, I've been to this crypto thing for several years now so I've done the work and have built my positions for the lurking bullmarket. I had a gut feeling that I should've bought more Bitcoin when it was at $10,000, but decided not to because my position on Bitcoin is already the strongest, especially because of the recent rally to almost 20k. Though the deciding factor is really that I'm about to open my own business, and I need some cash to operate it even though its expenditures will be small when operating at home, and it's hard to predict how much buffer I need when starting a new business.
Running the becoming massage business myself instead of working for someone other comes with the drawback of having to deal with all the bureaucracy, though we've covered all the entrepreneurial stuff at school and I now have a pretty good understanding of all the ins and outs of running a business as a health care practitioner. The good thing with employing myself though is that I can be more creative with my work and approach and do it on my own terms.
I don't come from a wealthy family, way below average actually on Finnish standards, so I've not gotten any kind of kick start, and I've had to start building some wealth pretty much by myself. My father has always been very sparing, but other than that, there was little talk on money and how to handle it. Though it could be that some of my father's attitude I have inherited in that when I have some buffer money on my bank account, I'm not tempted to throw it out at stuff. On the other hand, my father is quite lazy, or maybe a bit inactive or quite slack with his approach to life, so that might've passed unto me too, although now that I'm no longer living under his influence, I've managed to shift my own approach a little.
Somehow I have managed to save and invest a decent amount from the money I earned working as a mailman just in under a year which is almost confusing even, because it makes me think how even in decades my parents haven't managed this. Maybe I ate all their money. Or maybe it just never wasn't a priority to them. Well I was often throwing them letters even 12 hours into the day, which gave a nice overtime pay, so there's that. Really it was just that I didn't like to leave work unfinished, I got well payed for the extra hours, so why not, I didn't have much else productive to do. Lazy as I was, for some reason I still had an obsession to finish everything if it was possible during one day.
