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Using Auto-Manual Mix Towards Peace of Mind

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Create…

… an asset.

Move on.

Create…

… next asset.

Move on.

Loop to the nth and decide what your magic n is.

Retire.

Ha!

Formula for financial independence in 22 words?

You decide.

How?

By treading the path.

The act of creation is manual.

One can use many tools while putting the asset together manually. That’s absolutely fine.

Let the asset loose.

From this point on, it’s on auto.

It’ll remain on auto, hopefully, till its logical conclusion is reached.

If the asset misbehaves in between, it will attract your attention.

If your attention is attracted beyond your critical mass, you will stop what you’re doing and attend to the asset.

You will either tweak and repair and let it loose once more.

If the asset is beyond repair, you will terminate it, i.e. sell it off, even at a loss. After all, it is misbehaving. You don’t wish to hold something that bothers you.

Peace of mind is the most valuable asset in your portfolio.

Auto Strategies Befit This Age

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Create an asset. 
 
Move on.
 
Create next asset. 
 
Move on.
 
So on and so forth. 
 
Very soon, you are sorted for life. 
 
What is an asset?
 
An asset puts money in your pocket.
 
As opposed to a liability…
 
…which takes money out of your pocket. 
 
Therefore, we are in the business of creating assets. Period. 
 
Once an asset is created, it becomes a strategy on auto…
 
…till it needs handling for a bit. 
 
You handle for a bit, make it go on auto again, and then you move on. 
 
When it needs handling, it will tell you. It will scream. 
 
When it doesn’t need handling, it won’t bother you. 
 
At these times, it will silently put the money in your pocket, even if you’re too busy looking elsewhere. 
 
The idea is to get as many such assets in place as possible, in a balanced and no-nonsense fashion. 
 
This is the age of short attention-spans.
 
Creation of an asset requires short attention-span focus, mostly. 
 
Auto strategies befit this age. 
 
Go for it. 

Anyone up for a Quereinstieg?

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Yeah, another German word.

And it’s loaded. 

I love the German language for it’s ability to combine words so that they can deliver a fistful!

So, what does it mean?

Quer means at an angle. 

Einstieg means entry. 

If you bang with something head-on, you’re likely to rebound. 

If you chisel into something at an angle with great force, you are likely to enter that something. 

That’s the logic. 

And it works. 

Albert Schweitzer, was it?

The multiply famous nobel-laureate who proposed and demonstrated Quereinstieg into fluency with a foreign language?

The formula was, for weeks in a row, to read texts, delve into media, the whole works, all in the foreign language, without really understanding what’s happening at first, and then getting a hold of the language’s structure through Sprachgefuehl, or feeling for language. 

Within a month or so, one would be speaking the language. One’s skills would be enough to get by on the streets. Works. 

Sprachgefuehl in action is a prime example of Quereinstieg. 

These are fast times. 

Almost the whole day, one is multitasking. 

And then, something new comes along. 

A new problem. 

One has to find a solution fast. 

There is no time to start from scratch. 

All other matters must be pulled along. Many people’s daily lives and routines hang upon you pulling your load. 

So, where does that leave you?

Cut to Quereinstieg.

You delve into the new matter, fast, at an angle, without bothering how you’ll fare.

You keep all your faculties open.

Your senses are on high alert.

You use your common-sense.

You learn from the play.

As you keep playing, on and on, you master technique.

The matter is not a problem anymore.

You incorporate the new asset into your repertoire as you attack your daily routine with renewed vigour and an arsenal boasting your latest Quereinstieg conquest. 

What to do with a racing mind? 

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Harness it. 

Or, it’ll get you. 

How? 

It won’t stop racing till it finds something of interest. 

Then, it’ll hook on… 

… without caring too much… 

… whether that something’s good or bad.

At that stage, you might not be able to control your mind. 

Control it when it’s controllable. 

Before it’s latched on. 

Before the flow has started. 

Define for yourself the area of flow. 

Actively make your mind connect. 

Regulate your flow. 

Enjoy the harnessed potential of your mind. 

Let’s observe a practical example in motion. 

I’ve actively latched on my mind, among other things, to the stock market. 

The market has many aspects.

I need to take into account most of these, if not all, while picking a stock. 

Sure. 

However, some aspects stand out for me. 

To these aspects I latch on my mind very thoroughly. 

I like it to get a feel for honesty. 

While I’m screening a stock, my racing mind either picks honesty or it doesn’t. 

If it hasn’t smelt and felt honesty after two days of studying the stock, I just let the stock go. 

Some are big on numbers. Some are big on charts. Sure, I look at both. Honesty delivers the final decision for me, though, as in, the crucial blow. 

Instead of resorting to all kinds of nonsense, the racing mind can be taught to become one’s greatest asset.