As a child being groomed to be an adult, one of the things that is being said a lot is how you need to make money and take care of your family and bills. But they don’t talk about the mental gymnastics that comes with that. As an adult, some of us are either complacent or aver ambitious, complacent in the sense that, they are contented with what they have. But we have the over ambitious ones that always want to elevate and go above because they always love to progress, it’s like a challenge for them. Then we have the people that are constantly in the state of fear, fear of the unknown.
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They have a job, they have a means of income, but still, they get scared of the fear of the unknown. But this fear of the unknown is usually gravitated to the negative part, thinking that something bad might happen, so this keeps them on their toes. This was a conversation that came up between my friend and I, how we are usually always working consistently to make sure we don’t lack, no matter how much money we have made or how much money we are making. We always feel like it’s not enough just incase something bad unexpectedly happens. Sometimes we get ourselves stuck in a guilty rollercoaster when we decide to have fun.
The good part of this is that, it is this fear that most times lead to consistency. As adults scared of the fear of the unknown, we have to constantly wake up everyday and keep putting the work and making sure the grind is up and running. No matter how comfortable you think you are financially, you know that at some point it will finish if you don’t do anything, like investing and putting that money to use. Even when you finally invest and put that money to use, you still get scared and have the fear of the unknown, this time you start getting scared of probable failures that might affect your source of income, this will trigger you to start looking for other means of income.
This leads to consistency, this consistency helps expand your creativity and helps you stay on your toes. Because you don’t know what the future holds, you don’t want to gamble your financial life doing nothing, this makes you put in the work. If you knew what the future holds, this might lead to laziness, because, there is no element of surprise, since you already know what the outcome is.