Even a daily 1% effort put toward your financial goals will compoun...

These days, the universe keeps titling me to the same thought pattern and I am beginning to feel as though she is trying to buttress a point and make sure that it sticks to my head. I have told you a couple of times how re-reading the Psychology of Money and starting, Good to Great is making me feel the two authors must have sat together throughout the course of their writing because even though the former talks about money on a more personal level and the latter caters to money in the business environment, the whole ideology is the same.

Now, today, while browsing through my YouTube feed, I found a video title that stopped me in my tracks. The title said, "How to find a career you genuinely love", and this called out to me because I have said time and time again to people who asked about schooling that I simply do not know what I want to study. I get easily bored and there is no guarantee that I'll stick to a certain course in the next four years and not wake up one morning, and say, "Fuk this, I am done!"*, and outrightly work away.

In the psychology of money, Morgan did say, we should save money even though not for anything reason but for the mere fact that we can change. Change is a constant thing, and that chapter touched me because I know how much I have changed since I was born and how the mere fact that I had a real stash here and there gave me the courage to always change course regardless of how the rest of the people around me would be panicking at my decision.

And Collins also mentioned these businesses that utilized the paranoid method of thinking to keep resources away in preparation for the uncertainty that they could face in the future. They may not be able to place a finger on what such uncertainty will be but they allow themselves to prepare by creating buffers just in case.

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The craziest part is that in this YouTube video, Ali Adbul mentioned these changes too. He got the lesson from the book he was reading where a professor was actually nailing the hammer on these points too. How much we are going to change going forward and why we should include that when we are making plans for a career path

I was happy to be reminded about the, "life is full of uncertainty" part. But the part of this video that gladdens my heart more was when he mentioned we should stay away from looking at the names of the professions and look at the tasks. That is what we will be doing when we finally acquire that degree. Morgan also mentions this part in his book when he told a story about a doctor friend who put in a lot of effort to become one, and many years after the emotional drains and stress of the job took away all of the excitement he had when he was going through medical school and preparing to be a doctor.

I must confess. Although I still haven't put myself through thinking about what career path I should do, I am doing exactly what Ali said I should be doing to get there.

It's applying the law of compounding to my dream career, this time, we are not talking about money, but they do say, time is money so that's okay.

He mentioned the professor advised that we put 90 minutes of our time in a week to work toward our future selves. Whatever we thought we would be enjoying in the future, not the title, but the task, we should use 90 minutes a week to work on it. Ali, calculated that to mean 13 minutes per day, which is something everyone can do no matter how choked up their current lifestyle is.

And this is something I know I am doing intentionally even without Ali asking, doing the tasks that I love every day. Ali did promise it will compound, and I can testify that mine already has. For instance, I am freely writing this post with all the referenced authors and ideas they shared without touching those books. Which means spending an hour a day reading each chapter every day like I started this year worked.

The reason I did one chapter every day was that the job I recently left didn't give me enough time to read an entire book in a day, and I had to cater to my Hive account too. So, taking a chapter every day did not feel like a hurdle, some days, when the chapters were too long, I took one sub-topic, and you can see how much I could refer to the information and lessons I gained, which clearly proves, my 1 hour daily readings compounded.

For you, it doesn't matter what you want, all you must do is tackle it, even if it's 1% per day, and watch how you will end up with 365% results by the end of one year.