I try to have long term goals but it's very discouraging when you can't have any savings since it goes to pay basic needs, so you cannot start any sort of meaningful life proyect. I've already given up on owning my own place and bringing girls there and generally living like a normal healthy human being. Im stuck in my parents house for life until I inherit it or some shit.
When I was 12 I realized I need to get to Helsinki or I would be stuck in a village where the distance to the nearest elementary school is 25 km and employment was about 30%. (My brother currently runs the farm and both parents are working outside in addition, to make the ends meet.) So I needed to undergo the following, among others:
- Working on farms (several employers), potatoes, picking strawberries, manufacturing & selling products, general farmwork, to raise money
- Buying and playing every title of the Sid Meier's Civilization series to enhance strategic thinking
- Saving money whenever possible, especially never buying a drink (even at my own sophomore party), always drinking from the toilet tap, going a whole day without drinking if tap water wasn't available, walking up to 8 km habitually just to save money, never buying clothes or food until 18
- Investing in stocks in the age of 16, in Russian market when 18, it went down 75% in 2 weeks since I bought
- Biking 22 km/day instead of taking a subsidized bus, to save money; hopping off bus 1 km early because the fare was cheaper
- Delivering spam to ppl's mailbox, twice per week, up to 830 mailboxes at a time, while trying to study
- Scavenging the trashbins for food, living up to 6 weeks without even once buying groceries, during uni
- Falling victim to multiple scams and money-making schemes
- First company went bankrupt and due to good luck, I did not end up losing all
- Second company was still making loss after 5 years, so essentially I subsidized it with my time and lived off wife's salary
- An arm of the government of Finland confiscated all my assets once for 7 months, no charges, no compensation
- Only occasionally had a car or two (or up to 8 when we had a car rental agency)
- Never owned real estate before buying the castle
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- Making my first million at the age of 29, a mere 17 years after making the commitment to do so.
=> Make a target and stick to it. The unalterable laws of statistics favor the determined, if you just roll the ball enough many times
17 years sounds like much, but really if you are now 23, you'll then be 40. Not everyone who is 40 has a million euros! Also you are older in the beginning, so it's possible you can do it ~4 years sooner just for that reason. Then the general speed of things has increased a lot, shave off an additional 2 years. So at 34, you'll be a millionaire!
Interesting unfolding of your life, the part I don't get is, how did you from there to making 1 million exactly? And how im going to be a millonaire at 34 specifically? Also im 25 soon. Im also an autist, I need specific step by step instructions to function. I didn't chose to be born like this, is just the way I percieve the world. Ironically, im really bad at programing, which should be a benefit of being autist. Not even that, lol.
The only way I see being a millonaire at 34 is if BTC goes to like 50K per coin, otherwise unless something else lucky happens, it's not gonna happen, realistically speaking and given the current situation.
I agree with your thoughts about things do NOT just happen. And, in this regard, when rpetila is providing you a vision of being a millionaire at 34 years old, then that is just pie in the sky. Surely, each of us have our limitations - therefore, you gotta strive to develop visions and plans to stress you positive attributes and to work off of your strengths and attempting to overcome or at least to minimize some of your weaknesses. No one plan is gonna work the same for all people, and therefore, you need to strive to identify areas in which you can meaningfully contribute and/or to add value and/or to receive compensation. You can also strive to get a hold of self-help books or to get some of these resources off the internet or go to libraries in order to develop your skills and your thinking and your plan and your direction and your follow through and your keeping track of your progress and your inspiring yourself and others to be inspired by you.
EDIT: BTW... I am also bothered frequently by this positive thinking mumbo jumbo; however, you still need to develop steps to improve your likelihood for success, and even then, there are NO guarantees that you will be successful.. except in your own mind about having had striven and having had overcome some of the obstacles in your path.